Privacy Policy

V&C Valence is committed to maintaining the confidentiality of our respondents and our research clients.

Our Commitment to Our Clients:

V&C Valence (“us,” “we”), is committed to protecting the confidentiality of our client’s business activities. All V&C Valence employees are required to sign a confidentiality and nondisclosure agreement and are trained to honor this commitment.

Our Commitment to Respondents:

V&C Valence will observe the confidentiality of respondents participating in research studies.

  • Respondent information will only be used for legitimate research purposes.
  • Respondent information collected during research studies is never sold to outside parties.
  • We will not use the answers provided by respondents to sell them anything or to ask for money.
  • Respondents are free to choose whether or not to participate in a survey, free to choose not to answer any specific questions and free to discontinue participation at any time. 

Web Site Privacy Policy

V&C Valence maintains this site for your information, education, and communication. We understand the importance that Internet users place on privacy and have designed our website with this in mind. We have created this Privacy Policy in order to disclose our information gathering and dissemination practices. You agree to this Privacy Policy, in its entirety, when you: 1) access or use vc-valence.com (the “Website”); and/or 2) sign up for an offer(s) on the Website.

We are committed to protecting your privacy at V&C Valence. We will not collect any personal information from you that you do not volunteer and we are the sole owner of all information collected on this site. From time to time, we may share your information with a relevant partner organization which is co-offering information, education or an event in collaboration with V&C Valence.

We reserve the right to amend this policy by posting a revised statement at any time. Any changes to our Privacy Policy are effective immediately upon posting. The user’s continued use of the Website and/or continued receipt of emails from V&C Valence constitutes an affirmative acknowledgement and acceptance by the user to the terms of the modified Privacy Policy.

All collected information is stored in a technically and physically secure environment. Our employees are dedicated to ensuring the security and privacy of all V&C Valence user information. We use appropriate industry standard procedures to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal information to prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy and ensure the correct use of information.

We may use third party companies to provide the delivery of email newsletters and other messages over email. Any information provided to a third party for the purposes of marketing, advertising or analysis of web site usage will remain the sole property of V&C Valence.

By using our website, you give us permission to collect information about the pages served to you as an anonymous user for the purpose of calculating aggregate site statistics.

Everything you see or read on the Site is protected by the Copyright laws of the United States of America, and may not be used in any manner without the written permission of V&C Valence.

What are cookies?

Cookies are very small text files that are stored on your computer when you visit some websites.

We use a combination of session cookies and persistent cookies in order to track how you use and experience our website, build anonymous statistical data about how our website is performing, and to power the personalisation of website content to you.

You can find more information about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu

Access to your personal information

You have the right to view, amend, or delete the personal information that we hold about you. To request access please email [email protected] We will provide the information free of charge and within one month, except in the event that the request is unfounded, excessive or repetitive, in which case we reserve the right to charge a proportionate administration fee or refuse.

Rectification of personal information

If any of the information we hold on you is inaccurate or incomplete, you ask us to correct or complete it at any time.

Your right of erasure, or to be forgotten

You may request the deletion of any email we hold on you at any time.

Be aware that requesting deletion, unlike unsubscribing from specific emails, is total and irreversible. This means that we will also lose record of you having ever been on our systems, including any previous instructions you have given us opting out of specific emails types. If you re-join our systems, by voluntarily providing your personal information, you will appear to us as a completely new data subject. This does not affect your other rights in any way.

To request deletion of your personal information, contact [email protected] using the email address we hold for you or otherwise proving your identity.

Links to Other Websites

This privacy notice does not cover the links within this site linking to other websites. Those sites are not governed by this Privacy Policy, and if you have questions about how a site uses your information, you’ll need to check that site’s privacy statement.

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement.

V&C Valence will not sell, rent or otherwise make available to outside organizations any information provided to us. Your IP Address will be logged by a third-party analytics program, which records your IP address, browser type, city, search terms, and other analytical types of information. Outside of the IP address, no personally identifiable information is collected by the third-party analytics program. The third-party analytics program will share that information with us.

When you fill out a form, comment or reply, your IP address and email may be logged and kept in our records indefinitely.

V&C Valence will turn over any information that is subpoenaed by law enforcement officials.

All comments posted on the site are public.

If you are not comfortable sharing information, please do not share it. Remember that all posts are public.