Privacy Notice & Privacy Policy

Introduction

VES Contracts cares about your privacy and compliance with applicable laws. Many jurisdictions require privacy notice by law. This Privacy Notice (the "Privacy Notice") explains the type of information we may obtain from individuals who visit www.vescontracts.com (the "Site"). This Privacy Notice describes our privacy practices and policies with respect to individuals use of the Site and information provided to VES Contracts for legal services.

Information and Personal Information Collected

Information you provide to VES Contracts: We collect and maintain information that you provide to us through your use of the Site and for any legal services provided by VES Contracts. Such information may include the following type of Personal Information: your name, billing address, telephone number(s), IP addresses, texts, email address(es) and contents, any reviews and comments you provide, and demographic information.

Information we obtain by automated technical means: We may use various methods to automatically obtain other information about you and your devices when you visit the Site or view any advertisements of VES Contracts online. This information helps VES Contracts to maintain the Site and any marketing and analytics efforts. This information includes, but is not limited to, device type; device settings; internet browser information; device operating system information; IP address; mobile device identifiers; software version; phone model; geolocation data; any referring websites or sources; and the date, time, length of your stay on the Site, and specific pages accessed and other actions you take on the Site. For more information, see the "Cookies and How We Use Automated Technologies" section of this Privacy Notice, below. We may obtain other information from you from time to time by providing appropriate notice.

Third-Party Web Analytics Services: We use third-party web analytics services on the Site. The service providers that administer these services use automated technologies to collect data (such as IP addresses, cookies, and other device identifiers) to evaluate the use of the Site.

How We Use Information and Personal Information Collected

VES Contracts may use, process, and disclose the information and/or personal information we collect about you for our business and commercial purposes, including:

• • Responding to any questions and/or legal service requests
• • Providing legal services
• • Processing payments, and as further set forth below

Communication purposes: We may use personal information you provided to contact you about (1) updates to this Privacy Notice; (2) changes to our Services; and (3) reviews or other feedback you provide about our Services.

Sending marketing communications: We may send you communications about our legal services via regular mail, email, and/or other electronic channels for marketing purposes.

Promoting our Services: If you provide a service review and/or feedback (including photos or videos) we may use your submission for commercial purposes, to promote our legal services.

Detecting and preventing fraud: We may use your information to protect against, identify and prevent fraud and other criminal activity, claims and other liabilities.

Complying with law: We may use your information to comply with and enforce applicable legal requirements, relevant industry standards and our policies, including this Privacy Notice.

Other uses: We may use your information to evaluate, develop, manage and improve our business operations (including aggregating and anonymizing data; performing data analytics; facilitating the provision of services; and performing accounting, auditing, and other internal functions). We also may use your information in other ways for which we provide specific notice at the time of collection or otherwise with your consent.

Cookies and How We Use Automated Technologies

Tracking tools we use: We and third-parties (certain vendors of VES Contracts and web analytic service providers) may collect information about you and/or your devices over time and across different websites and online services through the use of tracking tools such as cookies, web beacons, clear GIFs, pixels, device identifiers, precision device and browser trackers and other online information-gathering tools. We may use these automated technologies to collect information about your device, browsing actions, and usage patterns. The information we may obtain through these automated technologies is described in the "Information and Personal Information Collected" section of this Privacy Notice, above.

We may use these automated technologies to:

• • Monitor the performance of the Site
• • Learn more about the way visitors interact with the Site and its content
• • Optimize and tailor the Site
• • Perform data analytics and conduct data research of the Site to improve Site content
• • Better understand our Site visitors

Information We Disclose

We may share information and/or personal information about you with third parties to (1) conduct our business, (2) when legally required, (3) or with your consent. The below information indicates further examples of subpoints 1 and 2.

Service Providers: We may disclose the information and/or personal information we collect to service providers who perform services on our behalf (e.g., send postal mail, communication tools, analyze data, process credit card and other payments, detect and prevent fraud, and website hosting etc.). Our service providers are not permitted to use personal information in any way other than to provide services for us.

Business Transfer: We may disclose, transfer, or assign to a third party, the information collected about you in the event that we sell or transfer (or contemplate the sale or transfer of) all or a portion of the assets or business, including as part of an actual or contemplated merger, acquisition or joint venture. In the unlikely event of our bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, liquidation, divestiture, dissolution or assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the application of laws or equitable principles affecting creditors' rights generally, we may transfer your personal information to a successor or to a third party that purchases our assets arising from such circumstances. In such transactions, customer information generally is one of the transferred business assets but remains subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Notice.

Protection of Us and Others: We may disclose information about you to the government or to other third parties to comply with applicable law and regulations, governmental and quasi-governmental requests, court orders, subpoenas and other legal processes. We may also disclose information to third parties if necessary to (i) enforce any of the terms of Privacy Notice or any investigation of potential violations thereof, (ii) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, (iii) protect against harm to our legal services and (iv) protect our rights, property or safety, or the rights, property or safety of others.

We do not share personal information with third parties for third party marketing purposes.

Your Privacy Rights

You have certain choices in connection with the personal information we obtain about you, as described further below. Depending on the applicable law, you may have the right to: access, know, disclosure, restrict, update, correct, delete, portability, and/or opt-out any personal information we hold about you. To exercise these rights, please contact us directly through the contact details provided below. We will take all reasonable steps to respond to your request in a timely manner.

If you are resident of a region that has an effective privacy law and such law is applicable to VES Contracts, then VES Contracts will comply with the specifics of that privacy law as applicable.

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of the rights that are provided to you.

Verifying Requests: We will use our procedures to verify that you are authorized to exercise your rights under the applicable law and we will provide this information at the time you make the request. You also can designate an authorized agent to make these requests on your behalf, though we will need to verify the authority of such agent pursuant to our procedures.

Additional Information: We may deny certain requests, or fulfill a request only in part, based on our legal rights and obligations. For example, we may retain personal information as permitted by law, such as for tax or other record keeping purposes and to process transactions and facilitate client requests. If you choose to exercise any of your rights, you have the right to not receive discriminatory treatment by us, though we may not be able to provide legal services to you without such information.

Cookies: The "Help" feature on most Internet browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. If you set your browser to limit or remove cookies or otherwise block our use of cookies, some Site features may be unavailable or unable to function properly. Your device may not give you the ability to control cookies.

Email marketing opt-out: If you wish to opt out of any of our marketing email communications you may follow the "unsubscribe" instructions included in our promotional emails. If you unsubscribe from marketing communications, you may continue to receive transactional communications and other administrative information for any legal services we are providing or legal notices we are required to comply with legal professional responsibility rules. Your information will remain in our database, but will be marked as inactive so you do not receive marketing materials from us.

Do-Not-Track: Some internet browsers have a "do not track" feature that lets you tell websites that you do not want to have your online activities tracked that you may enable on your browser.

Data Retention

We retain your information for the time period reasonably necessary to achieve the purposes described in this Privacy Notice, or any other notice provided at the time of collection, taking into account applicable statutes of limitation and records retention requirements under applicable law.

Data Security

VES Contracts implements reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect the information collected.

Information from Children

VES Contracts legal services are not directed to children 17 years and younger or another age defined as "children" under applicable law. VES Contracts legal services are directed towards adults who are 18 years or older. We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from children under the age of 17 through the Site.

If we learn we have collected or received personal information (as defined by applicable law) from a child under the age of 13, without verification of parental or guardian consent, we will delete that information immediately upon discovery.

Third Party Links

As a convenience to visitors of the Site, the Site contains links to certain third-party websites. This Privacy Notice does not apply to such third-party websites. VES Contracts has no control over the nature, content, and availability of any third-party websites and such websites have their own privacy policies. VES Contracts encourages visitors of this Site to review the privacy notices and/or policies of such third parties or contact them directly for more information on their privacy practices. VES Contracts is not responsible for the privacy practices or services of third-party websites, regardless of whether they are linked to or otherwise connected to the Site.

Changes to this Notice

Our privacy practices and this Privacy Notice are regularly reviewed and updated for compliance with applicable privacy laws.

VES Contracts reserves the right, at our discretion, to modify our privacy practices and update and make changes to this Privacy Notice at any time and without prior notice. Such modifications and updates may occur to reflect changes in our legal obligations, business practices, or the services offered. If we make any changes, we will change the "Last Updated" date above and post the new Privacy Notice on the Site. You should consult this Privacy Notice regularly for any changes. If we make material changes, we will notify you by means of posting a notice on this website prior to the effective date of the change or by email.

Contact Us

If there are any questions regarding the Site's Use Disclaimer, Privacy Notice or our privacy practices, please reach out using the information below.