This Privacy Policy describes how 1080 Virtual Media Consulting Ltd. and its affiliates (collectively “1080 VMC”) collect, use and disclose certain information, including your Personal Information, both online and offline, and the choices you can make about that information.

The Privacy Policy applies to all information about you that we collect in connection with the services throughout the world.

There may be additional notices about our information practices and choices for certain 1080 VMC offerings. By using any of our products and services (collectively, the “Products & Services”), you acknowledge the data collection practices and purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy.

We are an information technology consultancy specialising in and assisting experts, and in creating software solutions, virtual knowledge sharing content and experiences for audiences worldwide. When you use our Products and Services, mobile and online applications or visit our websites, attend our virtual or live events, view our content or advertisements, or contact our customer service, we may collect information from or about you.

Trust and respect are cornerstones at 1080 VMC and we are committed to gaining and maintaining your trust and respect by following a core set of privacy principles:

Transparency

We will tell you what information we collect about you and how we use it. 

Choice

When possible, we will give you choices about how your information is collected and used.

1080 VMC allows you to enjoy content and features on 1080 VMC websites providing you directly with contact information.

• If you choose to share contact information with us, 1080 VMC will identify any options you have for controlling the use of this information at the time it is collected.

• You are also given the opportunity to opt in and out of commercial email or text messages from a particular 1080 VMC website or service by following the instructions contained in any such message.

• You have choices about the collection and use of your data by third parties to deliver relevant advertising, as described in our overview.

Access

When possible, and when required by law, we will provide you with access to the information that we collect about you.

1080 VMC has adopted commercially reasonable information security policies and practices to help protect your information.

Accountability

We will take responsibility for the secure processing of your information and do our best to address any concerns or questions that you have about how we process your information.

Comments and Media

When visitors leave comments on our owned site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

If you upload images with your comments, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

After approval of your comment, your profile picture may be visible to the public in the context of your comment.

 1080 VMC provides its Products & Services to you by means of website, software, media downloads, and other applications. We collect your information only for the purpose of providing products and services to you (functions designed for each product differs from one another; you should familiarize yourselves with these differences and make your own privacy settings based on your needs and the circumstance), improving your experience of using our Products & Services, facilitating your use of our Products & Services more conveniently, obtaining the information that you need in a faster and more accurate way, and conducting the commercial exploration of big data application, on condition of ensuring legal compliance and protection of privacy.

How We Classify Information

The information we collect may be categorised into the following two types by whether the information subject is identifiable or not with the information:

• Identifiable personal information: mainly including the information you submit, which may be used to directly identify, trace, discern, and determine your true identity, such as a phone number for e.g.

• Unidentifiable personal information: mainly including the information generated during using our Products & Services, and it may be related to you but cannot be used to directly identify, trace, discern and determine your true identity, such as the records of your use of our products and services.

While you visit our site, we’ll track:

• Products you’ve viewed: we’ll use this to, for example, show you products you’ve recently viewed

• Location, IP address and browser type: we’ll use this for purposes like estimating taxes and shipping

• Shipping address: we’ll ask you to enter this so we can, for instance, estimate shipping before you place an order, and send you the order!

• We’ll also use cookies to keep track of basket contents while you’re browsing our site.

You can find further detail of your cookie policy here: https://funnel.searchingforskylab.com/cookies

When you purchase from us, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, credit card/payment details and optional account information like username and password. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to:

• Send you information about your account and order

• Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints

• Process payments and prevent fraud

• Set up your account for our store

• Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes

• Improve our store offerings

• Send you marketing messages if you choose to receive them

If you create an account, we will store your name, address, email and phone number, which will be used to populate the checkout for future orders.

1080 VMC typically processes the following personal data:

• First name and surname

• Company name

• Address details

• Telephone number, including the mobile phone number(s) you provide

• E-mail address

• IP-address

• Other personal data that you actively provide, for example by sending an e-mail to 1080VMC or any of its subsidiaries, in correspondence and by telephone.

• Data about your surfing behaviour across multiple websites of 1080VMC.

• Internet browser and type of device.

We do not store credit/debit card details. However, if you make a purchase of a product from one of the 1080 VMC websites, your details may be stored by one of the third parties used to process your payment, such as PayPal or Stripe for example.

1080 VMC may share your personal data with various third parties if this is necessary to perform the agreement, to support our Products and Service provisions and activities and/or to comply with any statutory obligation. Third parties are suppliers of tools for efficient communications and business operations. The selected third parties help us provide your orders and store services to you; This includes, but may not be limited to, analytics, marketing, payment gateways, shipping providers, and third party embeds.

Where appropriate, we will conclude a processing agreement with organizations that process your data on our instructions and 1080 VMC will review whether the organization offers adequate privacy guarantees. Organizations within the EEA (the whole of the European Union plus Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland) shall comply with the GDPR of 25 May 2018. 1080 VMC also works together with organizations outside the EEA if these follow the GDPR.

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this policy to our team members, agents, subsidiaries and affiliates who have a business need to know; to contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business; to a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of the Company’s assets; to fulfil the purpose for which you provide it; for any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information; and/or with your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information: to comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request; and/or to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.

If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, our customers, or others.

When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to Stripe or PayPal, depending on your choice. The information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information will be included as part of the payment process. To better understand how our provider uses and stores the data shared with them, check their privacy policies directly here: 

For Stripe: https://stripe.com/gb/privacy

For PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/us/legalhub/privacy-full

Really Simple SSL and Really Simple SSL add-ons do not process any personal, identifiable information, so the GDPR does not apply to these plugins or usage of these plugins on your website. 

You can find their detailed privacy policy here: 

For Stripe: 

https://really-simple-ssl.com/legal/privacy-statement/

For PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/us/legalhub/privacy-full

We use Stripe or PayPal for payments, analytics, and other business services. Stripe or PayPal may collect personal data including via cookies and similar technologies. The personal data that is collected may include transactional data and identifying information about devices that connect to each of the services.

Both, Stripe and PayPal use this information to operate and improve the services they provide to us, including for fraud detection, loss prevention, authentication, and analytics related to the performance of their respective services. You can learn more about Stripe and PayPal from their privacy policies as per the links cited above.

How long we retain your data 

We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it. This includes your name, email address and billing and shipping addresses.

We will also store comments or reviews if you choose to leave them. Because the purposes may vary for different types of data in the context of different Products and/or Services, the actual retention periods can fluctuate significantly.

If the processing is based on permission and you withdraw your permission or indicate in any other way that you no longer want to be informed about promotions, sales and deliveries or no longer want to receive newsletters, we will delete your information as quickly as possible.

A cookie is a small text file that is saved in the browser on your computer, tablet or smartphone when you first visit this website. Cookies can be used to collect data about the website visit or the user and his/her device.

1080 VMC may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns and does not identify any individual.

For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of the Site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to the Site.

Only the webserver that sets the cookie can read it again and the file itself is given an expiry date so that they will automatically be deleted at the specified time in the future. A cookie is not software or a program and hence cannot "run" on your computer. Cookies are not a way by which viruses or spyware spread.

You can find more details about our use of cookies in our “Cookies Policy”.

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, made a purchase, received a gift from us or registered for an event, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

We use Google analytics and Pixels to track user data. Both tracking tools will use cookies to remember your behaviour on the 1080 VMC websites and partnered websites and share these insights with us.

Google developers explain this process here, on their reference platform. In simple terms, Google Analytics mainly uses first-party cookies to generate reports on who visits our websites and what they do once they get there.

The collected data shows 1080 VMC where in the world our traffic is coming from, and whether our content, Products & Services are appealing to our audience:

It also allows us to better target our ads based on:

• Geographical location

• Online Behavior

• Interests

We collect information about your activity in our services, which we use to do things like recommend a YouTube video you might like. The activity information we collect may include:

• Terms you search for when using our Products & Services

• Videos you watch when visiting our websites

• Your purchase activity

You can find out more about Pixels here: https://pixels.com/termsofuse.html?document=privacypolicy

Members of our team have access to the information you provide us. For example, both Administrators and Shop Managers can access:

• Order information like what was purchased, when it was purchased and where it should be sent, and

• Customer information like your name, email address, and billing and shipping information.

Our team members have access to this information to help fulfil orders, process refunds and support you.

Automated decision making

We use automated decision-making technologies, including profiling, to support our data processing activities. These include services designed to develop and provide advertising tailored to your interests, as described above and allow us to customize the content you see about a 1080 VMC Product or Service or when you visit a 1080 VMC website.

You can request more information about the sharing of your personal data with third parties from our contact for privacy issues: info@1080VMC.com