Privacy Policy

This policy is valid since August, 2022

Privacy Policy - Vianews

Vianews, a legal entity governed by private law, takes your privacy seriously and cares for the security and data protection of all its customers, partners, suppliers, and users of the domain website https://www.vianews.com.br/.

This Privacy Policy is intended to inform you how we use and disclose information collected from your visits to our website and in the communications, we send you.

This Privacy Policy only applies to information collected by this website.

BY ACCESSING OUR SITE, SENDING COMMUNICATIONS OR PROVIDING ANY KIND OF PERSONAL DATA, YOU ARE AWARE OF THE TERMS SET FORTH HEREIN AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRIVACY POLICY, WHICH DESCRIBES THE PURPOSES AND WAYS OF PROCESSING YOUR PERSONAL DATA THAT YOU PROVIDE TO OUR WEBSITE.

This Privacy Policy provides an overview of our privacy practices and the choices you can make, as well as the rights you can exercise in relation to Personal Data processed by us. If you have any questions about the use of Personal Data, please contact [email protected].

If you send us Personal Data concerning other individuals, you declare that you have the competence to do so and declare that you have obtained the necessary consent to authorize the use of such information under the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Section 1 - Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

"Personal Data": means any information that, directly or indirectly, identifies or can identify a physical person, such as name, social security, date of birth, IP address, among others.

"Sensitive Personal Data": means any information that reveals, in relation to a physical person´s racial or ethnic origin, religious conviction, political opinion, membership of a trade union or organization of a religious, philosophical, or political nature, data relating to health or sex life, genetic or biometric data.

"Processing of Personal Data": means any operation carried out within the scope of Personal Data, through automatic means or not, such as the collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or, alternatively, making available, harmonization or association, restriction, elimination, or destruction of data. Any other operation provided for under the terms of applicable legislation is also considered Processing of Personal Data.

"Data Protection Laws": means all legal provisions that regulate the Processing of Personal Data, including, but not limited to, Law No. 13.709/18, General Law for the Protection of Personal Data ("LGPD").

Section2 - Use of Personal Data

We collect and use Personal Data to manage your relationship with us, and better serve you when you have an interest in our services and personalizing and improving your experience. Examples of how we use data include:

▪ Make it possible for you to know all the services offered by our agency;
▪ To confirm or correct the information we have about you;
▪ To submit information that we believe may be of interest to you;
▪ To personalize your experience in relation to the content and news we produce;
▪ To contact you by phone and/or email address provided.

We may contact you in person, by voice message, by text message (SMS), by email, or by any other means of communication that your device can receive notification, as required by law and for reasonable business purposes.

In addition, the Personal Data provided may also be used in any way we deem necessary or appropriate: (a) pursuant to the Data Protection Laws; (b) to meet legal process requirements; (c) to comply with a court decision, regulatory decision or decision of competent authorities, including authorities outside the country of residence; (d) to enforce our Terms and Conditions of Use; (e) to protect our operations; (f) to protect  our rights, privacy, safety and the rights of clients and others; (g) to detect and prevent fraud; (h) allow us to use available tools or limit damages we may suffer; and (i) in other ways permitted by law.

Section 3 - Failure to provide Personal Data

There is no obligation to share the Personal Data we request. However, if you choose not to share them, in some cases we may not be able to provide you with full access to content produced by our agency, some specialized resources or be able to provide you with the assistance you need.

Section 4 - Collected Data

The general public will be able to browse our website without any registration and submission of Personal Data. However, some of the site's features may depend on registering and sending Personal Data, such as receiving communications produced by our agency and/or downloading some material available on our site.

Upon contacting our website, we may collect:

Contact details: first name, last name, phone number, address, city, state, job title, company you work for and email address;

Information sent: information you send via form (questions, complaints, suggestions, criticisms, compliments, etc.).

In general navigation of our website, we may collect:

Location data: geolocation data when you access the website;

Preferences: information about your preferences and interests in relation to products/services (when you tell us what they are or when we deduce them from what we know about you);

Website browsing data: information about your visits and activities, including the content (and any advertisements) you view and interact with, information about the browser and device you are using, your IP address, your location, the address of the site from which you arrived. Some of this information is collected using our Automatic Data Collection Tools, which include cookies and embedded web links. To learn more, read how we use Automatic Data Collection Tools in section 7 below;

Other Information We May Collect: Information that does not specifically reveal your identity or is not directly related to an individual, such as browser and device information; our website usage data; and information collected through cookies, pixel tags and other technologies.

We do not collect Sensitive Personal Data.

Section 5 - Sharing Personal Data with Third Parties

Nós poderemos compartilhar seus Dados Pessoais:

Com a(s) empresa(s) parceira(s) que você selecionar ou optar em enviar os seus dados, dúvidas, perguntas etc., bem como com provedores de serviços ou parceiros para gerenciar ou suportar certos aspectos de nossas operações comerciais em nosso nome. Esses provedores de serviços ou parceiros podem estar localizados nos Estados Unidos, na Argentina, no Brasil ou em outros locais globais, incluindo prestadores de serviços de hospedagem e armazenamento de dados, gerenciamento de fraudes, personalização de conteúdo, atividades de publicidade e marketing (incluindo publicidade digital e personalizada) e serviços de TI, por exemplo;

Com terceiros, caso ocorra qualquer reorganização, fusão, venda, cessão, transmissão ou transferência de toda ou parte da nossa empresa, ativo ou capital (incluindo os relativos à falência ou processos semelhantes).

Section 6 - International Data Transfers

Personal Data and other information collected by us may be transferred or accessed by entities belonging to the corporate group of partner companies worldwide in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Section 7 - Automatic Collection of Personal Data

When you visit our website, it may store or retrieve information in your browser, mainly in the form of cookies, which are text files containing small amounts of information. This information may be about you, your preferences or your device and is primarily used to make our website work as you expect. The information usually does not directly identify you, but it can provide a more personalized web experience.

In accordance with this Privacy Policy, we, and our third-party service providers, with your consent, may collect your Personal Data in a variety of ways, including but not limited to:

Through browser or device: Some information is collected by most browsers or automatically through internet access devices, such as computer type, screen resolution, operating system name and version, device model and manufacturer, language, type, and version of the Internet browser you are using. We may use this information to ensure that our website functions properly.

Use of Cookies: Information about your browsing on our website may be collected by third parties from cookies. Cookies are information stored directly on the computer you are using. Cookies allow the collection of information such as browser type, time spent on the site, pages visited, language preferences, and other anonymous traffic data. We and our service providers use information to protect security, to facilitate navigation, to display information more efficiently, and to personalize your experience when using our site, as well as for online tracking. We also collect statistical information about the use of our website to continually improve our design and functionality, to understand how it is used and to help you resolve issues related to it.

If you do not want your information collected through cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows cookies to be automatically rejected or gives you the option to accept or reject the transfer of a specific cookie (or cookies) (s) from a given website to your computer. However, this can cause inconvenience in site navigation.

The settings you choose may affect your browsing experience and the operation that requires the use of cookies. In this regard, we reject any responsibility for the consequences resulting from the limited functioning of our website caused by the deactivation of cookies on your device (inability to set or read a cookie).

Use of Pixel Tags and Other Similar Technologies: Pixel tags (also known as web beacons and invisible GIFs) may be used to track the actions of website users (including email recipients), measure the success of our marketing campaigns and collect statistical data about the use of our website and response rates, and for other unspecified purposes. We may engage behavioral advertising companies to obtain reports on website advertisements across the internet. To this end, these companies use cookies, pixel tags and other technologies to collect information about your use, or the use of other users, of our website and third-party websites. We are not responsible for pixel tags, cookies and other similar technologies used by third parties.

Section 8 - Categories of Cookies

The cookies used on our website comply with legal requirements and fall under the following categories:

Strictly Necessary: These cookies allow you to browse the site and enjoy essential features safely. An example is security cookies, which authenticate users, protect their data and prevent the creation of fraudulent logins.

Performance: Cookies in this category collect information in an encrypted and anonymous form related to our website, such as, for example, the number of visitors to a specific page, the origin of visits/views to the website and which pages the user has accessed. All data collected is used only for eventual improvements to the website and to measure the effectiveness of our communication.

Functionality: these cookies are used to remember user preference settings to improve your visit to our website, such as, for example, settings applied to the website layout or your responses to promotions and registration pop-ups -; that way, you won't have to ask repeatedly.

Advertising: we use cookies to create targeted campaigns and deliver ads according to your consumption profile on our website.

Section 9 - User Rights

You may, at any time, request: (i) confirmation that your Personal Data is being processed; (ii) access to your Personal Data; (iii) corrections to incomplete, inaccurate or outdated data; (iv) anonymization, blocking or elimination of unnecessary, excessive or treated data in violation of the law; (v) portability of Personal Data to another service provider, as long as this does not affect our industrial and trade secrets; (vi) deletion of Personal Data processed with your consent, to the extent permitted by law; (vii) information about the entities to which your Personal Data has been shared; (viii) information about the possibility of not providing consent and the consequences of not providing consent; and (ix) revocation of consent. Your requests will be treated with special care so that we can ensure the effectiveness of your rights. You may be asked to prove your identity to ensure that Personal Data is only shared with the holder.

You should keep in mind that in certain cases (for example, due to legal requirements), your order may not be immediately fulfilled, and we may not be able to fulfill it due to legal obligations.

Section 10 - Security of Personal Data

We seek to adopt the technical and organizational measures provided by the Data Protection Laws appropriate for the protection of Personal Data in our organization. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system is guaranteed 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you believe that the security of any of your accounts has been compromised), please notify us immediately.

Section 11 - Hypertext links to other websites and social networks

The Vianews website may, from time to time, contain hypertext links that will redirect you to the websites of our partners' networks, advertisers, suppliers, etc. If you click on one of these links to any of these sites, please remember that each site has its own privacy practices and that we are not responsible for those policies. Please consult those policies before submitting any Personal Data to these sites.

We are not responsible for the collection, use and disclosure policies and practices (including data protection practices) of other organizations, such as Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, or any other software developer or application provider, media store social media, operating system, wireless internet service provider or device manufacturer, including all Personal Data that you disclose to other organizations through the apps, in connection with such apps, or posted on our social media pages. We recommend that you inform yourself about the privacy policy of each website you visit or each service provider you use.

Section 12 - Updates to this Privacy Policy

If we modify our Privacy Policy, we will post the new text on the website, with the updated revision date. We may change this Privacy Policy at any time. If there is a material change to the terms of this Privacy Policy, we may inform you through the contact information we have in our database or through a notification on our website.

We remind you that we are committed not to process your Personal Data in a way that is incompatible with the purposes described above, unless otherwise required by law or court order.

Your use of our website using the explained changes means that you accept the revised Privacy Policies. If, after reading the revised version, you do not agree with its terms, please terminate access to our website.

Section 13 - Person in charge of processing Personal Data

If you wish to review or act on any of the rights provided, including withdrawing your consent to this Privacy Policy and/or in the Data Protection Laws, or to ask questions related to the Processing of your Personal Data, please contact us at [email protected].

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