Privacy
Last Updated: 01/01/2025
Your privacy is important to us. We created
this Privacy Notice to explain how we collect, use, and share the information
that we collect from and about you.
Data Collected
Automatically Collected Information: We
collect data that your device provides when you interact with the Site or sites
owned by third-parties with whom we have contractual relationships (“Media
Partners”). In most cases, when you come to the Site, we will automatically
gather or receive technical data which may include browser type, referrer URL,
date and time of your visit, IP address, MAC address, device type, screen
resolution, and OS version (“Technical Data”). Technical Data also
includes “Cookie and Similar Data” described below.
Other Data You Provide: We collect additional
data if you choose to engage with the Site or certain sites owned by our Media
Partners. We refer to the information you choose to provide as “Provided
Attributes.” This includes contact information that you choose to provide
to us or our Media Partners (e.g., name, address, email address, telephone
number) about yourself or others. For example, if you click on our
advertisement located on a Media Partner’s site, that Media Partner may pass
your contact information to us. Or, if you inquire about insurance
opportunities, products and services, the Provided Attributes you may choose to
disclose may also include age, gender, number of vehicles owned and homeowner
status.
Third Party Data: In some cases, we may
combine Technical Data and any Provided Attributes with Third Party Data. “Third
Party Data” includes information that we receive from third parties such as
credit reporting agencies and Partners (defined below). Third Party Data may
also include information we use to confirm or supplement validate the data you
provide (e.g., phone number, Vehicle Identification Number, outstanding loan
amount). Finally, our Advertising Partners may also provide us with information
about your interaction with their advertised products and services (e.g.,
whether you purchase their products or services). We may combine the Technical
Data, Provided Attributes and Third Party Data. Please note, we will only
obtain credit reporting information with your consent.
Cookie and Similar Data: When you use this Site, we may use a
“cookie” or other tracking technology to recognize you or your device. These
technologies act as unique identifiers and allow us to tailor this Site to your
specific interests and track your activity on this Site and across devices that
you use. We may use this information to deliver offers and advertisements that
we believe are relevant to your interests.
We have contractual relationships with
advertisers, advertising agencies and other intermediaries that have
advertisers as clients (collectively, “Advertising Partners”). Our Media
Partners and Advertising Partners (collectively, “Partners”) may also
utilize third-party cookies and other tracking technologies like clear pixel
GIFs (i.e., web beacons) to identify you. We and our Partners may use these
technologies to measure responses to emails, interactions with advertisements,
page views on this Site and our Partners’ websites and other similar metrics.
Among other things, we use these technologies to enhance this Site, to make
this Site more relevant to you, and to measure the effectiveness of our email
and other advertising campaigns and those of our Partners. You can opt out of
some of our and our Partners’ use of cookies and other technologies at: Google, the Network
Advertising Initiative, Invite
Media, and Clicktale.
Tracking Options and California Do Not Track
Disclosures: Certain Sites
require cookies to function efficiently. We may use cookies to deliver
advertising we believe is relevant to you and to link data collected across
other devices you use. You can adjust your settings to limit tracking or
decline cookies, but, as a result, you may not be able to use certain features
of this Site or take full advantage of all of our offerings. Please refer to your
device or browser settings for more information on how to delete or decline
cookies and control your tracking preferences. This Site does not respond to Do
Not Track signals from most browsers.
Data Use
We use the data we collect from and about you
through this Site primarily to connect you with Advertising Partners who can
provide you with information about the products and services you are seeking.
We generally do this using Technical Data and Provided Attributes, but in
certain cases (e.g., lending products) we may also use Third Party Data.
For example, we may have an auto insurance
Partner who is only licensed in certain states. We may use Technical Data or
Provided Attributes to determine if you are a resident of one of those states.
We refer to Advertising Partner requirements generally as “segmentation” and
the alignment of consumer data and segments as “matching.”
We may also use the data we collect from and
about you: (i) to respond to your requests (e.g., to
receive white papers, email, phone calls or texts); (ii) to keep you informed
of our products and services (and those of our Partners); (iii) to allow you to
send messages through this Site; (iv) to improve our Sites and business; (v) to
fulfill any purchase you make; and (vi) to use your data in an aggregated,
non-specific format for analytic and demographic purposes. We use Technical
Data to monitor this Site’s performance, analyze traffic patterns and usage,
ensure that this Site and any transactions function properly, and gather demographic
information about our user base as a whole. We may use automated
decision-making in segmentation and matching.
Data Sharing
In addition to the primary uses described in
the “Data Use” section above (i.e., sharing your data with Advertising
Partners and third parties for the purpose of providing you with information
about the products and services you are seeking), we may share your data as
follows: (i) with other VentiMarketResearch.com businesses; (ii) with service providers who assist us in
compliance and verification activities (e.g., credit agencies), or provide
services such as payment processing, IT, and data analysis; (iii) if you choose
to send a message through, or to contribute to public areas of, this Site
(e.g., message boards, blogs); and (iv) with a third party in the event of a
sale or transfer of all or part of our business.
We may also disclose the data we collect from
and about you to (i) comply with legal processes;
(ii) to respond to lawful requests from authorities (including public and
government authorities outside your country of residence, and including to meet
national security or law enforcement requirements); (iii) to enforce our Terms
of Service and this Privacy Notice; (iv) to protect our business, rights,
privacy, safety, or property or that of others; and (v) as necessary under
applicable law (including laws outside your country of residence).
Other Websites
This Site may contain links to websites that
we do not own or operate. We are not responsible for the content or practices
of such websites, including their practices with respect to your data. We have
no responsibility or liability for such practices, and the website owner’s
privacy policy governs your use of those websites. If this Site includes any
mapping features, those mapping features are powered by Google, Inc. and
governed by Google’s privacy policy, as amended from time to time.
Security
We have taken certain physical, technical, and
administrative steps to protect the data we collect from and about Site users.
We use certain reasonable security measures to help protect your personal
information from accidental loss, unauthorized use, alteration, or disclosure.
However, no electronic data transmission or storage of information can be
guaranteed to be 100% secure. Please note that we cannot ensure or warrant the
security of any information you transmit to us. We are not responsible if you
circumvent any privacy settings or security measures on our Websites. You use
the Site and provide us with your data at your own risk. If we share data as
detailed in this Privacy Notice with a third party we will use all reasonable
efforts to ensure that they keep the information secure and that they only use
the information consistent with the terms of this Privacy Notice.
Children
We do not knowingly collect, use, share, or
sell the personal information of individuals under the age of 18 and this Site
is not directed to individuals under 18. If we are made aware that we have
collected personal information from an individual under age 18, we will delete
this information as soon as possible.
Choices and Access
Residents of certain states (e.g., California)
may have additional rights (e.g., see “Information for California Consumers”
below).
Marketing Emails: To stop receiving marketing emails from us
please contact us and follow the instructions to unsubscribe. Even if you
unsubscribe, we may still send administrative (i.e., non-marketing) messages. To
unsubscribe from a third party’s communications, contact that third party
directly or follow the instructions to unsubscribe in the applicable marketing
email.
Phone Calls and Texts: To opt out of receiving telephone calls or
texts from us, please contact us here, and follow the instructions to be placed on
our Do Not Call list.
Please note that we will not be able to remove
your data from third parties’ databases, and you will need to contact them
directly and/or use any available opt-out mechanisms.
Retention Period
In general, we will retain your data for as
long as is needed to connect you with Advertising Partners who can provide you
with information about the products and services you are seeking, which is
typically 30-180 days. We will typically retain an archived copy of your data
for six years as required or permitted by law for legal and compliance
purposes.
Information for California Consumers
The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”)
affords certain rights and protections to California residents with respect to
their Personal Information. The CCPA defines “Personal Information” as
“information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of
being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly,
with a particular consumer or household.” This section describes (i) the categories and sources of Personal Information that VentiMarketResearch.com
collects, sells or shares; (ii) the purpose for
collection; (iii) the types of third parties to whom VentiMarketResearch.com discloses that information; and (iv) details
about how California residents can exercise their rights under the CCPA.
Categories of Data VentiMarketResearch.com Collects in the Preceding 12 Months. VentiMarketResearch.com collects the following CCPA categories of data: (i) identifiers, such as a name, email address,
telephone number, postal address, unique personal identifier, online
identifier, IP address, account name, Social Security number, driver’s license
number; (ii) personal identifiers under Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e),
such as insurance policy number, education, employment status, bank account
information, credit card or debit card number, financial information, medical
information, health insurance information; (iii) protected classification
characteristics under California law, such as age, marital status, medical
condition, gender, veteran or military status; (iv) commercial information,
such as products or services obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or
consuming histories or tendencies; (v) internet activity, such as
browsing history and search history information; (vi) geolocation
data; (vii) professional or employment information, such as
consumer-reported current or past job history; and (viii) inferences
drawn from some of the information above (e.g., email open rates and time).
VentiMarketResearch.com generally collects the above data as Technical
Data or Provided Attributes. For example, VentiMarketResearch.com does not create
user profiles to determine the gender, marital status or employment status of
consumers. VentiMarketResearch.com may store aggregated data as segments based upon
Technical Data and Provided Attributes. VentiMarketResearch.com receives each of those categories of data only as self-reported
data from the consumer.
Sources of Data VentiMarketResearch.com Collects.
VentiMarketResearch.com: VentiMarketResearch.com collects Technical Data and Provided Attributes from consumers
who visit or engage with our Sites, our call centers or other VentiMarketResearch.com owned-properties (e.g., in response to emails
from or on behalf of VentiMarketResearch.com ).
Partners and Third Parties: Consumers who visit websites our Media
Partners own may be redirected to our Sites. In some cases, we may gather data
directly from Media Partner websites, or Media Partners or other third parties
may post data to our Sites or otherwise transfer data to us. This may occur via
display ads, click listings, inquiry forms or telephonic transfers from Media
Partner call centers. Our Advertising Partners may also provide us with data.
Service Providers: VentiMarketResearch.com engages service providers to perform a variety of
functions (e.g., verifying consumer consent, validating email addresses or
phone numbers).
Authorization: We require all parties from whom we receive
Personal Information, whether they are Partners, service providers or other
third parties, to represent and warrant to us that they have appropriately
obtained the Personal Information provided to us and have the authority to
share the Personal Information with us.
Purpose for Personal Information Collection. As described above in “Data Use,”
VentiMarketResearch.com primarily uses the Personal Information it
collects to connect consumers with Advertising Partners who can provide
information about the products and services those consumers are seeking.
Categories of Third Parties with Whom VentiMarketResearch.com Has Disclosed Personal Information in the Preceding 12 Months. In addition to sharing data for the primary
use described in “Data Sharing,” we may share identifiers and internet
activity (e.g., name, email address, telephone number, browsing history) with other VentiMarketResearch.com businesses, service providers, and third party websites.
VentiMarketResearch.com may also disclose or sell Technical Data,
Provided Attributes and Third Party Data to other VentiMarketResearch.com businesses or with a third party in the event of a sale or
transfer of all or part of our business.
Additionally, VentiMarketResearch.com may disclose or sell Technical Data, Provided Attributes, and
Third Party Data (e.g., identifiers, personal identifiers, protected classification
information, geolocation data, and inferences) with
service providers who assist us in compliance and verification activities
(e.g., credit agencies), or provide services such as payment processing, IT,
and data analysis information.
Categories of Personal Information Disclosed
or Sold. As described above
in “Data Use” and “Data Sharing,” VentiMarketResearch.com
may disclose or sell
Technical Data, Provided Attributes and Third Party Data, including
identifiers, internet activity, personal identifiers, and protected
classification characteristics (e.g., name, email address, telephone number,
browsing history, education, credit information, veteran or military status,
browsing history, geolocation data) to Advertising
Partners who can provide the consumer with information about the products and
services they are seeking. We may receive a fee for the transfer of that data
or when the consumer purchases a product or service. VentiMarketResearch.com does not knowingly collect, disclose, or sell
personal information from individuals under the age of 18.
CCPA Rights. The CCPA affords certain rights and
protections to California residents including: (i)
the right to request that we delete any “Personal Information” that we have
collected from you (“Right to Delete”); (ii) the right to request that
we disclose the categories and/or specific pieces of “Personal Information”
collected, used, disclosed, and sold (“Right to Know”); and (iii) the
right to direct us not to sell your “Personal Information” (“Right to
Opt-Out”).
California residents who would like to submit
a Request to Know, Delete, or Opt-Out should follow the links below.
Request to Opt-Out (“Do Not Sell My Personal
Information”)
Upon submission of a request, you will be
asked to validate your email address and create an account with
VentiMarketResearch.com’s privacy vendor. VentiMarketResearch.com will respond within 45 days of your
submission (or such additional time period as the law allows).
Verifying Your Identity. Because of the nature of our Sites, VentiMarketResearch.com
is not able to definitively verify your identity prior to responding to your
Request to Know or Delete. Consumers who interact with our Sites are not
required to set up an account, to register, or to validate their Personal
Information and VentiMarketResearch.com does not maintain an ongoing relationship with consumers who
provide their Personal Information. Because of these factors, VentiMarketResearch.com is not able to reasonably verify the identity
of any consumer based on the information provided through our Sites and through
a submitted request. Therefore, VentiMarketResearch.com cannot honor Requests to Know. Instead, VentiMarketResearch.com can provide in response to such requests a
description of VentiMarketResearch.com business
practices regarding its handling of Personal Information, including a
description of the categories of Personal Information collected, maintained,
and sold.
As a California consumer, you have the right
not to receive discriminatory treatment by VentiMarketResearch.com for the exercise of your privacy rights under the CCPA.
If you provide authority to another person to
submit a request on your behalf, or are a person submitting a request on behalf
of another person, please select “on behalf of another person” on the form
linked above. VentiMarketResearch.com will review the request and may contact you for additional
information to validate your identity, to show proper authorization to make a
request on behalf of another, and/or to confirm that the authorized agent is
properly registered with the Secretary of State to do business in California.
Changes to this Privacy Notice
We may amend this Privacy Notice from time to
time. When we do, we will post an updated version of the Privacy Notice and
revise the “LAST UPDATED” date at the top. We will provide appropriate
notice to you if we change the Privacy Notice in any material way. Using this
Site after we make any changes means you accept those changes and the revised
Privacy Notice.
VentiMarketResearch.com Businesses
For purposes of this Privacy Notice, “you”
or “your” means the person(s) using this Site or the products or
services offered through this Site. “
VentiMarketResearch.com,” “us,” or “we” includes
(but is not limited to) VentiMarketResearch.com, VentiMarketResearch.com is the party responsible for this Privacy Notice and compliance
with it.
Dispute Resolution
You have the right to submit feedback about
this Privacy Notice, or the practices described in it, to the applicable
supervisory authority in your jurisdiction of residence. For U.S. residents
this includes the Federal Trade Commission and your state Attorney General.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy
Notice you may: email at customerservice@VentiMarketResearch.com