There will be occasions where it will be necessary for VBV or our partners to disclose your personal information to third parties. We may be required by law to disclose the information, or we may be required to disclose your personal information to third parties to provide a service you have requested from the Site. However, the disclosure will only be made where it is necessary to fulfill the purpose for which you disclose your personal information. Otherwise than stated herein, we do not sell or rent customer list(s) to third parties, nor will we disclose personal information that you may give us, such as your name, address, email address or telephone number, to any organization or person outside VBV or our partners unless you have authorized us to do so.

As stated in our Terms of Use, our website and services are offered and available only to you if are 14 years of age or older. If you do not meet this eligibility requirement, you may not use our website or services. VBV does not knowingly collect or store any personal information from or about children under the age of 13. We will delete such information if we become aware that it has been submitted through our website. Parents or legal guardians who believe that VBV might have any information from or about a child under the age of 13 may submit a request tobrilliant@lesliepaton.com and request that such information is removed.

You may unsubscribe from receiving certain emails from us. If you wish to do so, simply follow the instructions found at the end of the email. Even if you unsubscribe, we may still contact you for transactional, account-related, informational, archival or similar purposes.

Many browsers have an option for disabling cookies, which may prevent your browser from accepting new cookies or enable selective use of cookies. Please note that, if you choose not to accept cookies, some features and the personalization of our Site may no longer work for you.

You may access other third-party services through the Site, for example by clicking on links to those third-party services from within the Site. We are not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices of these third-party services, and we encourage you to carefully review their privacy policies.

To better understand how prospective customers are locating and learning about us, we use cookies and tracking tags including Google Analytics and conversion tracking.  For more information on how Google uses information, see the site “How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services”, currently located at www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners (and may be relocated by Google from time to time).  If you do not consent to this tracking, please do not click on our ads, and refrain from using the Site. 

As a professional voice over performer, Phil Paton voices intellectual property created by others.  While he takes every reasonable effort to ensure that he is dealing with the legal rights holder or a duly authorized agent for every project, and to properly cite these contributions, Phil Paton has neither the information nor the command of resources to guarantee the accuracy or authenticity of dealings or citations. 

Thus no representation is made to the accuracy of any attribution or citation on the Site, including but not limited to permission for use of voice recordings on the Site. 

We retain personal information we collect from you where we have an ongoing legitimate business need to do so (for example, to provide you with a service you have requested or to comply with applicable legal, tax, or accounting requirements).

Information You Provide

Account Registration. When you register for an Account, we may ask for your contact information, including items such as name, company or agency name, title, email address,  and telephone number.

Communications. If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide. We may also receive a confirmation when you open an email from us.

The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.

Information We Collect When You Use Our Solution

Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies. As is true of most websites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. In addition, when you use our Services, we may collect certain information automatically from your device. This information may include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, clickstream data, landing page, and referring URL. To collect this information, a cookie may be set on your computer or device when you visit our Services. Cookies contain a small amount of information that allows our web servers to recognize you. We store information that we collect through cookies, log files, and/or clear gifs to record your preferences. We may also automatically collect information about your use of features of our Services, about the functionality of our Services, frequency of visits, and other information related to your interactions with the Services. We may track your use across different websites and services. In some countries, including countries in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), the information referenced above in this paragraph may be considered personal information under applicable data protection laws.

Usage of our Solution. When you use our Site, we may collect information about your engagement with and utilization of our Site, such as processor and memory usage, storage capacity, navigation of our Site, and system-level metrics. We use this data to operate the Site, maintain and improve the performance and utilization of the Site, develop new features, protect the security and safety of our Site and our users, and provide usersupport. We also use this data to develop aggregate analysis and business intelligence that enable us to operate, protect, make informed decisions, and report on the performance of the Site.

Information We Receive from Third Parties

Information is collected from you only if your consent is given. For example, if you sign up for free email updates on a certain development, you will be required to give us your email address. This email address will be used for the sole purpose of sending your free updates and nothing else. Any information you provide us with will not be sold or distributed to any third party and will not be used by VBV for anything other than the original purpose intended.

We may share the information we collect in various ways, including the following:

Vendors and Service Providers. We may share information with third-party vendors and service providers that provide services on our behalf, such as helping to provide our Solution, for promotional and/or marketing purposes, and to provide you with information relevant to you such as curriculum revision announcements, platform updates, special offers, or other information.

Aggregate Information. Where legally permissible, we may use and share information about users with our partners in aggregated or de-identified forms that cannot reasonably be used to identify you.

Third-Party Partners. We also share information about users with third-party partners in order to receive additional publicly available information about you.

Information We Share When You Sign Up Through a Referral. If you sign up for our Services through a referral from a friend, we may share information with your referrer to let them know that you used their referral to sign up for our Services.

Analytics. We use analytics providers such as Google Analytics. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect non-identifying information. Google provides some additional privacy options regarding its Analytics cookies at http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.

Business Transfers. Information may be disclosed and otherwise transferred to any potential acquirer, successor, or assignee as part of any proposed merger, acquisition, debt financing, sale of assets, or similar transaction, or in the event of insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership in which information is transferred to one or more third parties as one of our business assets.

There will be occasions where it will be necessary for VBV to disclose your personal information to third parties. We may be required by law to disclose the information, or we may be required to disclose your personal information to third parties to provide the service you have requested. However, the disclosure will only be made where it is necessary to fulfill the purpose for which you disclose your personal informationOtherwise than stated here we do not disclose personal information that you may give us, such as your name, title, agency or company name, email address or telephone number, to any organization or person outside VBV unless you have authorized us to do so.

As Required by Law and Similar Disclosures. We may also share information to

• satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request;
• (ii) enforce this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations hereof;
• (iii) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security, or technical issues;
• respond to your requests; or
• protect our rights, property or safety, our users and the public.

This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and spam/malware prevention.

With your consent, we may share your information. Under no circumstances will VBV sell or receive payment for licensing or disclosing your personal information on the Site.

We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:

• Provide, operate, and maintain our Site
• Improve, personalize, and expand our Site
• Understand and analyze how you use our Site
• Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
• Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for userservice, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the Site, and for marketing and promotional purposes
• For compliance purposes, including enforcing our Terms and Conditions, Terms of Service, or other legal rights, or as may be required by applicable laws and regulations or requested by any judicial process or governmental agency.

VBV will only use the personal information you have chosen to provide us for the purpose for which you provided it. We will not use it for any other purpose without your consent. We do not provide information on organizations and individuals using the Solution, with the exception being if the users permit us to highlight/showcase their use, for example with a featured company logo or in the context of a course review.

VBVis committed to protecting your information. To do so, we employ a variety of security technologies and measures designed to protect information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. The measures we use are designed to provide a level of security appropriate to the risk of processing your personal information.

RTS operates secure data networks that are designed to protect your privacy and security.  However, please bear in mind that the Internet cannot be guaranteed to be 100% secure. You are responsible for creating strong password(s), protecting password(s) at all times, and for not sharing password(s) or allowing another to use administrator nor student accounts.  Weaker passwords may be targeted by hackers which is not within VBV’s control. 

We will normally collect personal information from you only:

• where we need the personal information to perform a service you requested;
• where the processing is in our legitimate interests and not overridden by your rights; or
• where we have your consent to do so.

We have a legitimate interest in operating our Site and communicating with you as necessary to provide Site-related services, for example when responding to your queries, improving our platform, undertaking marketing, or for the purposes of detecting or preventing illegal activities.

In some cases, we may also have a legal obligation to collect personal information from you or may otherwise need personal information to protect your vital interests or those of another person.

If we ask you to provide personal information to comply with a legal requirement or to perform a contract with you, we will make this clear at the relevant time and advise you whether the provision of your personal information is mandatory or not (as well as of the possible consequences if you do not provide your personal information).

Should VBV or our partners transfer personal information to countries other than the country in which the data was originally collected, these countries may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided the information. If we transfer your personal information to other countries, we will protect that information as described in this Privacy Policy.

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have the following data protection rights:

If you wish to access, correct, update, or request deletion of your personal information, you can do so at any time by emailing brilliant@lesliepaton.com.

In addition, you can object to the processing of your personal information, ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information, or request portability of your personal information. Again, you can exercise these rights by emailing brilliant@lesliepaton.com.

You have the right to opt-out of marketing communications we send you at any time. You can exercise this right by clicking on the “unsubscribe” or “opt-out” link in the marketing emails we send you. To opt-out of other forms of marketing, please contact us by emailing brilliant@lesliepaton.com.

Similarly, if we have collected and processed your personal information with your consent, then you can withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect the processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.

You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your personal information. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority.

We respond to all requests we receive from individuals wishing to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

This Privacy Policy may be modified from time to time, so please review it frequently. Changes to this Privacy Policy will be posted on our Site. If we materially change the ways in which we use or share personal information previously collected from you through our Site, we will notify you through our Site, by email, or other communication.

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please email us at brilliant@lesliepaton.com.

The data controller of your personal information is InteServ Solutions, a dba of Cogent Investments Inc.