Hey there! This overview contains important information from our Privacy policy, but you can find out more details about any of these topics by clicking the link following each key point or by using our Table of contents below to find the section you are looking for. What personal information do we process? When you visit, use, or navigate our Services, we may process personal information depending on how you interact with us and the Services, the choices you make, and the products and features you use. Learn more about the personal information you disclose to us.

Do we process sensitive personal information? We do not process any sensitive personal information. Do we collect information from third parties? We do not collect any information from third parties. How do we process your information? We process your information to provide and improve our services, communicate with you, ensure security, prevent fraud, and comply with the law. We may also process your information for other purposes with your consent, and only when legally justified. Learn more about how we process your information.

We share personal information with certain third parties in specific situations. Your rights regarding this information vary by location due to privacy laws. You can exercise these rights through a data subject access request or by contacting us, and we’ll address your requests per the relevant data protection laws. Want to know more about our information handling? Information we collect?

Review the Privacy Policy in full.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

2. HOW DO WE PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?

3. WHAT LEGAL BASES DO WE RELY ON TO PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

4. WHEN AND WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

5. DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?

6. HOW DO WE HANDLE YOUR SOCIAL LOGINS?

7. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?

8. DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM MINORS?

9. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?

10. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES

11. DO UNITED STATES RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?

12. DO OTHER REGIONS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?

13. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY?

14. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS PRIVACY POLICY?

15. HOW CAN YOU REVIEW, UPDATE, OR DELETE THE DATA WE COLLECT FROM YOU?

1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

Personal information you disclose to usIn short we collect personal information that you provide to us. We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you register on the Services, express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and Services when you participate in activities on the Services, or otherwise when you contact us. Personal Information Provided by You. The personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the Services, the choices you make, and the products and features you use. The personal information we collect may include the following:

• names
• phone numbers
• email addresses
• Mailing addresses
• usernames

Sensitive Information. We do not process sensitive information. Social Media Login Data. We may provide you with the option to register with us using your existing social media account details, like your Facebook, X, or other social media accounts. If you choose to register in this way, we will collect certain profile information about you from the social media provider, as described in the section called “How Do We Handle Your Social Logins?” below. Application Data. If you use our application(s), we also may collect the following information if you choose to provide us with access or permission:

• Push Notifications. We may request to send you push notifications regarding your account or certain features of the application(s). If you wish to opt-out from receiving these types of communications, you may turn them off in your device’s settings.

This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our application(s), for troubleshooting, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes. All personal information that you provide to us must be true, complete, and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such personal information.

Information is collected when you use our Facebook application(s). We by default access your Facebook basic account information, including your name, email, gender, birthday, current city, and profile picture URL, as well as other information that you choose to make public. We may also request access to other permissions related to your account, such as friends, check-ins, and likes, and you may choose to grant or deny us access to each permission. For more information regarding Facebook permissions,

2. HOW DO WE PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?

In short: We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our services, communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law. We may also process your information for other purposes with your consent. We process your personal information for a variety of reasons, depending on how you interact with our Services, including:

• To facilitate account creation, authentication, and otherwise manage user accounts. We may process your information so you can create and log in to your account, as well as keep your account in working order.
• To save or protect an individual’s vital interests. We may process your information when necessary to save or protect an individual’s vital interests, such as to prevent harm.

3. WHAT LEGAL BASES DO WE RELY ON TO PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?

In Short: We only process your personal information when we believe it is necessary and we have a valid legal reason (i.e., legal basis) to do so under applicable law, like with your consent, to comply with laws, to provide you with services to enter into or fulfill our contractual obligations, to protect your rights, or to fulfill our legitimate business interests.

If you are located in the EU or UK, this section applies to you. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK GDPR require us to explain the valid legal bases we rely on to process your personal information. As such, we may rely on the following legal bases to process your personal information:

• Consent. We may process your information if you have permitted us (i.e., consent) to use your personal information for a specific purpose. You can withdraw your consent at any time. Learn more about withdrawing your consent.
• Legal Obligations. We may process your information where we believe it is necessary for compliance with our legal obligations, such as to cooperate with a law enforcement body or regulatory agency, exercise or defend our legal rights, or disclose your information as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
• Vital Interests. We may process your information where we believe it is necessary to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of a third party, such as in situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person.

If you are located in Canada, this section applies to you. We may process your information if you have given us specific permission (i.e., express consent) to use your personal information for a specific purpose, or in situations where your permission can be inferred (i.e., implied consent). You can 

Withdraw your consent at any time. In some exceptional cases, we may be legally permitted under applicable law to process your information without your consent, including, for example:

• If collection is clearly in the interests of an individual and consent cannot be obtained in a timely way
• For investigations fraud detection, and prevention
• For business transactions, provided certain conditions are met
• If it is contained in a witness statement and the collection is necessary to assess, process, or settle an insurance claim.
• For identifying injured, ill, or deceased persons and communicating with next of kin
• If we have reasonable grounds to believe an individual has been, is, or may be a victim of financial abuse
• If it is reasonable to expect collection and use with consent would compromise the availability or the accuracy of the information, and the collection is reasonable for purposes related to investigating a breach of an agreement or a contravention of the laws of Canada or a province.
• If disclosure is required to comply with a subpoena, warrant, court order, or rules of the court relating to the production of records
• If it was produced by an individual in the course of their employment, business, or profession, and the collection is consistent with the purposes for which the information was produced
• If the collection is solely for journalistic, artistic, or literary purposes
• If the information is publicly available and is specified by the regulations

4. WHEN AND WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

In short: We may share information in specific situations described in this section and/or with the following third parties. We may need to share your personal information in the following situations:

• Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your information in connection with or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
• Affiliates. We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.

5. DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?

In short: We may use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect and store your information. We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to gather information when you interact with our Services. Some online tracking technologies help us maintain the security of our Services and your account, prevent crashes, fix bugs, save your preferences, and assist with basic site functions.

We also permit third parties and service providers to use online tracking technologies on our Services for analytics and advertising, including to help manage and display advertisements, to tailor advertisements to your interests, or to send abandoned shopping cart reminders (depending on your communication preferences).

The third parties and service providers use their technology to provide advertising about products and services tailored to your interests, which may appear either on our Services or on other websites.
To the extent these online tracking technologies are deemed to be a “sale”/”sharing” (which includes targeted advertising, as defined under the applicable laws) under applicable U.S. State laws, you can opt out of these online tracking technologies by submitting a request as described below under the section “DO UNITED STATES RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?”Specific information about how we use such technologies and how you can refuse certain cookies is set out in our Cookie Privacy Policy.

Google Analytics. We may share your information with Google Analytics to track and analyze the use of the services. The Google Analytics Advertising Features that we may use include: Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting, Re-marketing with Google Analytics, and Google Display Network Impression Reporting. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across the Services. You can opt out of Google Analytics Advertising Features through Ads Settings and ad settings for mobile apps.  For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms page.

6. HOW DO WE HANDLE YOUR SOCIAL LOGINS?

In short: If you choose to register or log in to our Services using a social media account, we may have access to certain information about you. Our services offer you the ability to register and log in using your third-party social media account details (like your Facebook or X logins). Where you choose to do this, we will receive certain profile information about you from your social media provider. The profile information we receive may vary depending on the social media provider concerned, but will often include your name, email address, friends list, and profile picture, as well as other information you choose to make public on such a social media platform. 

If you log in using Facebook, we may request access to additional permissions related to your account, such as friends, check-ins, and likes. You can choose to grant or deny us access to these permissions. We will use the information only for the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy or made clear in the relevant services. Please note that we do not control how your third-party social media provider uses your personal information. We recommend reviewing their privacy policy for details on how they collect, use, and share your data and how to manage your privacy preferences.

7. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?

In short: We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise required by law. We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements). No purpose in this Privacy Policy will require us to keep your personal information for longer than the time in which users have an account with us.

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize such information, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

8. DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM MINORS?

In short: We do not knowingly collect data from or market to children under 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect, solicit data from, or market to children under 18 years of age, nor do we knowingly sell such personal information. By using the Services, you represent that you are at least 18 or that you are the parent or guardian of such a minor and consent to such minor use of the Services.

If we learn that personal information from users less than 18 years of age has been collected, we will deactivate the account and take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from our records. If you become aware of any data we may have collected from children under the age of 18, please contact us at contact@vacuumi.com.

9. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?

In short: Depending on your state of residence in the U.S, or in some regions, such as the European Economic Area (EEA), United Kingdom (UK), Switzerland, and Canada, you have rights that allow you greater access to and control over your personal information. You may review, change, or terminate your account at any time, depending on your country, province, or state of residence. In some regions (like the EEA, UK, Switzerland, and Canada), you have certain rights under applicable data protection laws. These may include the right to.

(i) to request access and obtain a copy of your personal information;

(ii) to request rectification or erasure;

(iii) to restrict the processing of your personal information;

(iv) if applicable, to data portability; and

(v) not to be subject to automated decision-making. In certain circumstances, you may also have the right to object to the processing of your personal information. You can make such a request by contacting us by using the contact details provided in the section “

HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS Privacy Policy? below. We will consider and act upon any request under applicable data protection laws. If you are located in the EEA or UK and you believe we are unlawfully processing your personal information, you also have the right to complain to your member state’s data protection authority.

UK data protection authority. If you are located in Switzerland, you may contact the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner. Withdrawing your consent: If we are relying on your consent to process your personal information, which may be express and/or implied depending on the applicable law, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us using the contact details provided in the section “

HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS PRIVACY POLICY?” below or update your preferences. However, please note that this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before its withdrawal, nor when applicable law allows, will it affect the processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent. Opting out of marketing and promotional communications: You can unsubscribe from our marketing and promotional communications at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the emails that we send, or by contacting us using the details provided in the section “

HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS? Privacy Policy?” below. You will then be removed from the marketing lists. However, we may still communicate with you—for example, to send you service-related messages that are necessary for the administration and use of your account, to respond to service requests, or for other non-marketing purposes. Account Information If you would at any time like to review or change the information in your account or terminate your account, you can:

• Log in to your account settings and update your user account.
• Contact us using the contact information provided.

Upon your request to terminate your account, we will deactivate or delete your account and information from our active databases. However, we may retain some information in our files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our legal terms, and/or comply with applicable legal requirements. If you have questions or comments about your privacy rights, you may email us at contact@vacuumi.com.

10. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK

FEATURES Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. At this stage, no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized.

As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this Privacy Policy.
California law requires us to let you know how we respond to web browser DNT signals. Because there currently is no industry or legal standard for recognizing or honoring DNT signals, we do not respond to them at this time.

11. DO UNITED STATES RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?

In Short: If you are a resident of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, or Virginia, you may have the right to request access to and receive details about the personal information we maintain about you and how we have processed it, correct inaccuracies, get a copy of, or delete your personal information.

You may also have the right to withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal information. These rights may be limited in some circumstances by applicable law. More information is provided below. Categories of Personal Information We CollectWe have collected the following categories of personal information in the past twelve (12) months:

L. Sensitive Personal Information

No We may also collect other personal information outside of these categories through instances where you interact with us in person, online, or by phone or mail in the context of:

• Receiving help through our customer support channels;
• Participation in customer surveys or contests; and
• Facilitation in the delivery of our Services and to respond to your inquiries.

We will use and retain the collected personal information as needed to provide the Services or for:

• Category B – As long as the user has an account with us
• Category H – NA

Sources of Personal Information

Learn more about the sources of personal information we collect in “WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?”How We Use and Share Personal Information Learn more about how we use your personal information in the section, “

HOW DO WE PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?”Will your information be shared with anyone else? We may disclose your personal information with our service providers according to a written contract between us and each service provider. Learn more about how we disclose personal information in the section, “

WHEN AND WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?” We may use your personal information for our own business purposes, such as for undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration. This is not considered to be “selling” of your personal information. We have not disclosed, sold, or shared any personal information to third parties for a business or commercial purpose in the preceding twelve (12) months.

We will not sell or share personal information in the future belonging to website visitors, users, and other consumers. Your Rights-you have rights under certain US state data protection laws. However, these rights are not absolute, and in certain cases, we may decline your request as permitted by law. These rights include:

• Right to know whether or not we are processing your data
• Right to access your data
• Right to correct inaccuracies in your data
• Right to request the deletion of your data
• Right to obtain a copy of the personal data you previously shared with us
• Right to non-discrimination for exercising your rights
• Right to opt out of the processing of your data if it is used for targeted advertising (or sharing as defined under California’s privacy law), the sale of personal data, or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects (“profiling”)

Depending upon the state where you live, you may also have the following rights:

• Right to access the categories of personal data being processed (as permitted by applicable law, including Minnesota’s privacy law)
• Right to obtain a list of the categories of third parties to which we have disclosed personal data (as permitted by applicable law, including California’s and Delaware’s privacy law)
• Right to obtain a list of specific third parties to which we have disclosed personal data (as permitted by applicable law, including Minnesota’s and Oregon’s privacy law)
• Right to review, understand, question, and correct how personal data has been profiled (as permitted by applicable law, including Minnesota’s privacy law)
• Right to limit use and disclosure of sensitive personal data (as permitted by applicable law, including California’s privacy law)
• Right to opt out of the collection of sensitive data and personal data collected through the operation of a voice or facial recognition feature (as permitted by applicable law, including Florida’s privacy law)

How to Exercise Your Rights

To exercise these rights, you can contact us by submitting a 

To make a data subject access request, you can visit this contact page or refer to the contact details at the bottom of this document. Under certain U.S. state data protection laws, you can designate an authorized agent to request on your behalf. We may deny a request from an authorized agent who does not provide proof of valid authorization.

Request Verification: Upon receiving your request, we will need to verify your identity to confirm that you are the same person with whom we have information in our system. We will only use the personal information provided in your request for verification purposes. If we cannot verify your identity with our existing records, we may ask for additional information for security or fraud prevention.

If you submit the request through an authorized agent, we may need to collect further information to verify both your and the agent’s identities before processing the request; the agent must also provide written and signed permission from you.

Appeals: Under certain U.S. state data protection laws, if we decline to take action regarding your request, you may appeal our decision by emailing us at contact@vacuumi.com. We will inform you in writing about any actions taken or not taken in response to the appeal and provide a written explanation for our decisions. If your appeal is denied, you may submit a complaint to your state attorney general.

California “Shine The Light” California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law, permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us by using the contact details provided in the section “HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS Privacy Policy?”

12. DO OTHER REGIONS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?

In Short: You may have additional rights based on the country you reside in.

Australia and New Zealand

We collect and process your personal information under the obligations and conditions set by Australia’s Privacy Act 1988 and New Zealand’s Privacy Act 2020 (Privacy Act).
This Privacy PRIVACY POLICY satisfies the PRIVACY POLICY requirements defined in both Privacy Acts, in particular: what personal information we collect from you, from which sources, for which purposes, and other recipients of your personal information.
If you do not wish to provide the personal information necessary to fulfill their applicable purpose, it may affect our ability to provide our services, in particular:

• offer you the products or services that you want
• respond to or help with your requests
• manage your account with us
• confirm your identity and protect your account

You can request access to or correction of your personal information by contacting us as noted in the section “HOW CAN YOU REVIEW, UPDATE, OR DELETE THE DATA WE COLLECT FROM YOU?” If you believe your data is unlawfully processed, you can file a complaint with the relevant privacy commissions in Australia, New Zealand, or South Africa. If dissatisfied with our response, you may contact the regulator’s office.

13. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY?

In Short: Yes, we will update this PRIVACY POLICY as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws. We may update this Privacy PRIVACY POLICY from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Revised” date at the top of this Privacy PRIVACY POLICY. If we make material changes to this Privacy PRIVACY POLICY, we may notify you either by prominently posting a PRIVACY POLICY of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this Privacy PRIVACY POLICY frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.’

14. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS PRIVACY POLICY? If you have questions or comments about this PRIVACY POLICY, you may email us at contact@vacuumi.com or contact us by post at: the vacuumi contact page.

15. HOW CAN YOU REVIEW, UPDATE, OR DELETE THE DATA WE COLLECT FROM YOU?

Based on the applicable laws of your country or state of residence in the US, you may have the right to request access to the personal information we collect from you, details about how we have processed it, correct inaccuracies, or delete your personal information. You may also have the right to withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal information. These rights may be limited in some circumstances by applicable law. To request to review, update, or delete your personal information, please fill out and submit a vacuumi contact form.