
Privacy Policy
Visional Systems owns and operates this website. Visional Systems respects and protects the privacy of our website visitors as well as the privacy of our customers. We respect and value our client’s privacy and have created this Privacy Policy to demonstrate our commitment to protecting it. This Privacy Policy applies to and describes our information handling practices when you access our services, which include our content on this website, as well as any other websites, pages, features, or content we own or operate (collectively, the “Site(s)”), or third-party applications relying on API, and related services (collectively, the “Services”).
These Sites are intended for a broad audience, and we do not knowingly collect personal information or other information from children under the age of 18. Please do not use our site if you are under the age of 18. If we suspect that the information provided to us is the personal information of a person under the age of 18, we will delete, aggregate, or anonymize it as soon as possible. Please notify us if you become aware of anyone under the age of 18 using our services so that we can take appropriate action to prevent access to our services.
1. Acceptance Of Terms Of The Privacy Policy
Visional Systems is a small business marketplace designed to help small businesses access and manage capital. Everyone who uses our Sites is subject to our Privacy Policy.
By accepting Visional Systems’s Terms of Service and accessing, browsing, or using our Sites, you agree to this Privacy Policy. If we need your permission to process your personal information, we will ask for your permission to collect, use, and disclose your personal information as described further below. We may provide additional “just-in-time” disclosures or information about specific Services’ data processing practices. These notices may supplement or clarify our privacy practices, or they may give you additional options regarding how we process your data. If you do not agree with or you are not comfortable with any aspect of this Privacy Policy, you should immediately discontinue access or use of our Services.
2. Types Of Information That Are Collected
When you visit our Sites, we collect a variety of information about you and your company.
Our Sites collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, refers to, or is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, to a specific consumer, household, or device (“Personal Information”). Personal information does not include the following:
Information from government records that are freely available to the public.
Consumer data that has been de-identified or aggregated.
To create an account and use our Services, we’ll need you to provide us with some personal information. This information is either required by law (for example, to verify your identity), required to provide the requested services (for example, three (3) months of bank statements), or is relevant for certain specified purposes, which are described in greater detail below. You may be asked to provide additional information as we add new features and Services.
Please keep in mind that if you choose not to share certain information with us, we may be unable to serve you at all, or our Services may be degraded.
2.1 Information We Collect Directly From You:
We collect information about you directly from you.
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Full name, date of birth, demographic information (e.g., nationality, gender), signature, utility bills, photographs, phone number, home address, IP address, social security number, and/or email are examples of personal identification information.
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Formal Identification Information: Any government-issued identity document, such as a passport, driver’s license, national identity card, state identification card, tax ID number, passport number, driver’s license details, national identity card details, visa information, and/or any other information deemed necessary to comply with our legal obligations under financial, consumer protection, and commercial lending laws.
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Employer Identification Number (or comparable number issued by a government), proof of legal formation (e.g. Articles of Incorporation), and personal identification information for all material beneficial owners are all examples of institutional information.
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Financial Information: Bank account information, Tax return information, Federal and State Tax identification numbers, profit and loss statements, income statements, credit scores, business invoices, and wire instructions are all required.
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Transaction Information: Information about the transactions you conduct on our Services, such as the recipient’s name, your name, the amount, and/or the timestamp.
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Employment information includes office location, job title, and/or role description.
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Correspondence includes survey responses and information provided to our customer service or user research teams.
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Type of business, list of officers, members, or managers, articles of incorporation, certificates of good standing, and ownership structure are all examples of business information. The collected documents and information are securely stored and protected. To fulfill our service obligations to you, you grant Visional Systems permission to share any and all information provided to or obtained by Visional Systems on your behalf with lenders, with other businesses who may require this information to fulfill Visional Systems’s services, for Visional Systems’s business purposes, or to meet regulatory or other legal requirements. We will not, under any circumstances, disclose, transmit, or share these documents without your permission, unless required to do so by law or regulation.
2.2 Information We Collect From You Automatically
For a variety of reasons, we collect information about your computer’s interactions with our Sites.
We automatically receive and store certain types of information, such as when you interact with the Sites or use the Services. This information assists us in resolving customer service issues, improving the performance of our Sites and applications, providing you with a more streamlined and personalized experience, and protecting your account from fraud by detecting unauthorized access. The following data is automatically collected:
Geolocation/tracking information, browser fingerprint, operating system, browser name, version, and/or device IP addresses are all examples of online identifiers.
Authentication data, security questions, click-stream data, public social networking posts, and other data collected via cookies and similar technologies are examples of usage data.
For example, we may receive and record the following information on our server logs automatically:
Device type and unique device identification numbers; Device event information (such as crashes, system activity and hardware settings, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request, and the referral URL);
How your device interacts with our Sites and Services, including the pages you visit and the links you click;
as well as geographical location
Other technical information is gathered via cookies, pixel tags, and other similar technologies that uniquely identify your browser.
We may also use identifiers to recognize you when you access our Sites through an external link, such as one on a third-party website.
2.3 Information Collected From Third Parties
Third-party sources may provide us with the following types of information about you.
As required or permitted by applicable law, we may obtain information about you from third-party sources from time to time. Among these sources are:
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Public Databases and ID Verification Partners: In accordance with applicable law, we obtain information about you from public databases and ID verification partners in order to verify your identity.
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Credit Bureaus: We obtain information from credit bureaus, including your credit report, with your permission. We will not release your credit report unless you give us explicit permission. We collect your credit information in order to better serve you, match you with appropriate lenders, verify your identity, and prevent fraud.
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Financial Institution: We obtain information directly from your financial institution, including copies of your account statements, with your permission. We collect this information to help us provide you with Services, including the underwriting process.
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Advertising Networks and Analytics Service Providers: We collaborate with these providers to obtain de-identified information about how you found our Sites and how you interact with them. This information may be gathered prior to the creation of an account.
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Providers of Third-Party Services: Customers of Visional Systems who use certain of our products are subject to third-party privacy policies.
2.4 Data Anonymization and Data Aggregation
We may use anonymized and aggregated data for any business purpose.
Anonymization is a data processing technique that removes or modifies personal information so that it can no longer be linked to a specific person. Except for this section, none of this Privacy Policy’s other provisions apply to anonymized or aggregated customer data (i.e. information about our customers that we combine together so that it no longer identifies or references an individual customer).
Visional Systems may use anonymized or aggregate customer data for any business purpose, including improving our products and services, conducting business intelligence and marketing, and detecting security threats. We may conduct our own analytics on anonymized data or enable third-party analytics.
We can anonymize transaction data, click-stream data, performance metrics, and fraud indicators. Furthermore, if you request that your information be deleted in accordance with the policies outlined further below, your information will be anonymized or aggregated, in accordance with applicable law governing the deletion of personal information.
3. How Information Is Collected
We learn about you during the application process as well as through your interactions with our Sites.
If we need your permission to process your personal information, we will ask for your permission to collect, use, and disclose your personal information as described further below. We may provide additional “just-in-time” disclosures or information about specific Services’ data processing practices. These notices may supplement or clarify our privacy practices, or they may give you additional options regarding how we process your data. If you disagree with or are uncomfortable with any aspect of this Privacy Policy, you should stop using or accessing our Services immediately.
We obtain the following categories of personal information from the following sources:
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Directly from you: For example, by completing forms or using our Products and Services.
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Indirectly from you, such as by observing your actions on our Sites.
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Third parties include: For example, third-party services that you connect to while using our Services.
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Throughout the Application Process: We may need your name, address, phone number, email address, and other personal information to process your initial funding application. We may also require your company’s name, address, federal and state tax ID, type of business, business location, average monthly sales, state of incorporation, and landlord’s name. Such information is primarily used to process your order or as otherwise described in this document. This is information that you provide to us via our Sites.
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Emails and phone calls: When you register for our services, we ask for your email address. We use your email for both transactional and promotional purposes (e.g., newsletters, new product offerings, event notifications, and special third-party offers). Our e-mail messages may contain code that allows our database to track your usage of the e-mails, such as whether the email was opened and what links (if any) were clicked. We reserve the right to send you Visional Systems-related communications, such as service announcements and administrative messages, without offering any compensation. We may also contact you by phone or text message (including any wireless number you provide to us) solely to provide Visional Systems’s services. If you do not want to receive phone calls or text messages from us, you can change or delete your phone number from your account preferences page(s), or ask to be removed from our contact list if you receive one.
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Log files: When you visit one of our Sites, our servers automatically collect information from your browser (such as your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and a number of clicks) in order to analyze trends, administer the site, prevent fraud, track visitor movement in aggregate, and gather broad demographic information. IP addresses are recorded in order to track a user’s session. This helps us understand which parts of our website users are visiting. We do not share the log files with anyone else.
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Cookies: We use “cookies” to store certain types of information while you visit our Sites or use our services. Cookies are very small files that are stored on your computer and allow us to count the number of visitors to our Sites as well as distinguish repeat visitors from new visitors. We can also save user preferences and track user trends with them. Because our Sites rely on cookies for proper operation, if your browser is set to reject all cookies, the Sites will not function properly. Users who refuse cookies accept full responsibility for any loss of functionality that results. Cookies are not linked to any personally identifiable information.
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Other sources and third parties: Third parties may provide us with information about you. We combine third-party data with information we already have about you to create targeted advertising and product recommendations. If you give us information about others, or if others give us information about you, we will only use that information for the purpose for which it was given to us. Any third-party information obtained will be used to assist in matching your company with various lenders.
The websites contain links to other websites managed by third parties. These third parties are solely responsible for their own websites, and we encourage you to contact them for copies of their security policies and information. We have no control over, and are not liable for, the privacy and security practices of third parties.
4. How Your Information Is Used
We use your information for a number of purposes, all of which benefit Visional Systems’s Sites and Services.
We process your personal information in order to provide you with Visional Systems services. For example, if you want to seek business financing from one of our financing partners, we’ll need information like your identification, contact information, and income. We cannot provide you with services unless you provide us with this information.
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To provide Service communications: We send you administrative or account-related information to keep you up to date on our Services, to notify you of relevant security issues or updates, or to provide other transaction-related information. Without such communications, you may be unaware of important account developments that may affect how you use our Services. You cannot choose not to receive critical service communications, such as emails or mobile notifications sent for legal or security reasons.
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To provide customer service: When you contact us to resolve any questions, or disputes, collect fees, or troubleshoot problems, we process your personal information. We cannot respond to your requests and ensure your uninterrupted use of the Services unless we process your personal information for such purposes.
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We process your personal information for research and development purposes in order to better understand how you use and interact with Visional Systems’s Services. Furthermore, we use such information to customize, measure and improve Visional Systems’s Services as well as the content and layout of our applications, as well as to develop new services. We cannot guarantee your continued enjoyment of our Services without such processing.
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To improve your experience: We use your personal information to provide a personalized experience and to carry out the preferences you specify. You may, for example, choose to grant us access to certain personal information stored by third parties. Without such processing, we may be unable to continue to provide you with some or all of our Services.
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To facilitate corporate acquisitions, mergers, or transactions: We reserve the right to process any information about your account and use of our Services that is required in the context of corporate acquisitions, mergers, or other corporate transactions. If you do not want your personal information processed for such purposes, you can close your account
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To ensure legal and regulatory compliance: The majority of our core Services are subject to laws and regulations that require us to collect, use, and store your personal information in specific ways.
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To enforce our user agreement and other agreements’ terms: Visional Systems handles sensitive information, such as your identification and financial data, so it is critical that we actively monitor, investigate, prevent, and mitigate any potentially prohibited or illegal activities, enforce our agreements with third parties, and/or prevent and detect violations of our posted user agreement or agreements for other Services.
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To detect and prevent fraud: We use your personal information to detect, prevent, and mitigate fraud and abuse of our services, as well as to protect you from account compromise or data loss.
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To ensure quality control, follow these steps: To ensure that we continue to provide you with accurate information, we process your personal information for quality control and staff training. You may encounter problems with the Services if we do not process personal information for quality control purposes.
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To ensure network and information security, take the following steps: We process your personal information to improve security, monitor and verify identity or service access, combat spam or other malware or security risks, and ensure compliance with applicable security laws and regulations. The internet threat landscape is constantly changing, making it more important than ever that we have accurate and up-to-date information about your use of our Services. We may be unable to ensure compliance without processing your personal information.
5. Disclosure Of Consumer Information To Third Parties
We may disclose your personal information to comply with the law, provide the Services, and for legitimate business purposes.
We may share your personal information with a third party for business purposes. We only make these business purpose disclosures under written contracts that describe the purposes, require the recipient to keep the personal information confidential and prohibit the recipient from using the disclosed information for any purpose other than contract performance. We never sell your personal information.
Disclosure By Law:
You acknowledge and agree that we may disclose information you provide if required by law, at the request of a third party, or if we believe, in our sole discretion, that disclosure is reasonable too (1) comply with the law, requests, or orders from law enforcement, or any legal process (whether or not such disclosure is required by applicable law), and (2) protect or defend Visional Systems’s or a third party’s rights or property.
Lenders and/or brokers.
By registering for our services or submitting a request for a business loan product or service as described on the sites, you indicate your willingness to proceed and that you consent, acknowledge, and agree to the disclosure of your information to lenders and/or brokers in our network. We will not run a credit check without your permission. Please be aware that the lenders, brokers, and/or other service providers with whom you are matched and who receive your information may keep your information even if you do not enter into an agreement for their products or services. Please contact each of these parties directly to inquire about their privacy and information policies. In addition, if you enter into an agreement with a lender, broker, or another service provider through the Visional Systems service and change the information you provided to us, we may share the updated information with such lenders, brokers, and/or service providers.
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Disclosure to Trusted Third Parties By Us:
We will share your information with third-party service providers with whom you are matched after you complete a profile on the site and fill out the entirety of the application. Our partner’s page contains a list of those companies. By accepting the Terms of Service, you agree to receive marketing materials from third parties we trust, such as potential lenders and service providers. We are not liable for the content or actions of third-party websites. Your information may also be shared with third-party contractors who provide Visional Systems with services and are subject to this privacy policy. Such third parties will treat your information as private and confidential, and it will not be used for any purpose other than what you authorize. Furthermore, from time to time, we may share personal information (such as e-mail or mailing address) about our user base with carefully selected third parties in order for them to offer goods and services that we believe our users may be interested in.
Service Providers
With contracted service providers who assist with various aspects of our business operations. Our contracts require these service providers to use your information only in connection with the services they provide for us, and they are not permitted to sell your information to anyone else. Other than those mentioned above, examples of service providers with whom we may share personal information include:
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Network Infrastructure
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Cloud storage
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Payment processing
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Transaction monitoring
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Security
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Document repository services
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Customer support
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Internet (e.g. ISPs)
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Data Analytics
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Information Technology
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Marketing
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Other Companies
With companies or other entities with whom we intend to merge or be acquired. Any changes to applicable policies will be communicated to you in advance.
Professionals
Our professional advisors provide banking, legal, compliance, insurance, accounting, or other consulting services to help us complete third-party financial, technical, compliance, and legal audits of our operations or otherwise meet our legal obligations.
Miscellaneous
We may disclose your personal information for any reason you authorize.
6. Updating, Accessing, Retaining, And Deleting Your Information
You have the option to update, access, or delete your data; however, we may be required by law to retain your information in order to comply with the law.
You can change or update your contact information at any time by logging into your account and making the necessary changes. Any changes will be reflected immediately.
You can deactivate your account if you no longer want to use it. When you deactivate an account, your information is not sent to any additional lenders, brokers, or other third parties, but it is not deleted. By deactivating your account, you will be able to restore the entire account.
In certain circumstances, you may delete your Visional Systems account by submitting a deletion request to Visional Systems. Visional Systems is legally required to keep the information in your account in certain circumstances. Visional Systems will deactivate your account, opt you out of all communications, and disable your access to the account in these circumstances.
If Visional Systems is able to comply with your request to delete your account, the data you provide to Visional Systems will be retained in a commercially reasonable manner and in accordance with applicable lending laws. Visional Systems will not share your information after your account is deleted, and will only use your data for internal research and Visional Systems marketing. Visional Systems will keep data for a commercially reasonable period of time, as determined by Visional Systems in accordance with applicable law.
We securely store your personal information for the duration of your Visional Systems Account. We will only keep your personal information for as long as is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, such as meeting any legal, accounting, or reporting obligations or resolving disputes. While retention requirements vary by jurisdiction, we have provided information about our typical retention periods for various aspects of your personal information below.
Personal information collected to meet our legal obligations under financial, consumer protection, and commercial credit laws may be retained after account closure for as long as such laws require.
Contact For marketing purposes, information such as your name, email address, and phone number are kept on file until you unsubscribe. Following that, we will add your information to our suppression list to ensure that we do not market to you inadvertently.
The content you post on our website, such as support desk comments, photographs, videos, blog posts, and other content, may be retained after you close your account for audit and crime prevention purposes (e.g. to prevent a known fraudulent actor from opening a new account).
Our phone conversations with you may be recorded and kept for up to six years.
Information collected through technical means such as cookies, web page counters, and other analytics tools are kept for up to one year after the cookie expires.
7. Security
We have taken commercially reasonable steps to protect your information.
We have extensive security measures in place to protect the information stored in our database from loss, misuse, and alteration. These safeguards include the use of industry-standard encryption methods and administrative access to site data, as well as other proprietary security safeguards applied to all user information repositories and transfers. We will take reasonable precautions to ensure secure information transmission between your computer and our servers, but because no information transmitted over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information transmitted to us over the Internet and thus accept no liability for any unintentional disclosure.
If Visional Systems suffers a data breach, we will notify you as soon as reasonably possible. We will notify you of a breach and provide any additional information required to comply with breach notification laws and regulations.
Do not give your account login and/or password to anyone else. Your account login and/or password are sensitive, and sharing them may result in additional exposure to your account.
8. Choice/Opt Out Of Marketing
You have the option to stop using our services.
You may choose to stop receiving our newsletter or marketing emails by following the unsubscribe instruction included in these emails or you can contact us at info@visionalsystems.com.
You may choose not to provide us with certain information, but doing so will most likely prevent you from using certain features of the site and obtaining the services and products you seek. In general, avoid posting personal information in public forums. You are solely responsible for any personal information you post in public forums.
If, after signing up for our services, you decide you no longer want to receive our services or future contact from lenders, brokers, or other third parties to whom your information has been forwarded, you may cancel your account as described below. Your information will no longer be sent to lenders, brokers, or other third parties after you cancel your account. This does not mean that these lenders, brokers, or other third parties will no longer contact you or use your information. Please contact all lenders, brokers, and/or other third parties to request that they stop contacting you.
Certain federal and state regulations require us to keep a record of your information for specific time periods. We may be unable to completely delete your information from our database due to these regulations until the time requirements of these regulations have expired.
9. Privacy Rights
Depending on state and federal laws, you may be able to exercise certain rights regarding your personal information.
Depending on the applicable law in your jurisdiction, you may be able to assert the following rights regarding your personal information. If any of the following rights are not provided by law for your operating entity or jurisdiction, Visional Systems has complete discretion in granting you those rights.
Your personal information rights are not absolute. Access may be denied for the following reasons, depending on the applicable law: (a) when denial of access is required or authorized by law; (b) if you are a resident of a state that does not provide for this right; (c) when granting access would have a negative impact on another’s privacy; (d) to protect our rights and properties; or (e) if the request is frivolous or vexatious, or for other reasons.
Access and portability
You may request a copy of the personal information that we have on file for you. This information will be provided without undue delay, subject to a potential fee for gathering the information (as permitted by law) unless such provision infringes on the rights and freedoms of others. In certain circumstances, you may request that we transfer your personal information directly to another data controller in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.
Correction of insufficient or incorrect personal information
You may request that any inaccurate personal information held by Visional Systems be corrected or updated. This can be done at any time by logging into your account and clicking the Profile or My Account tab, and updating your information in our portal.
Erasure
Subject to applicable law, you may request that your personal information be erased. If you close your Visional Systems Account, we will mark your account as “Closed” in our database, but we will retain certain account information, including your request to erase it, in our database for the time period described above. This is necessary to deter fraud by ensuring that individuals attempting to commit fraud cannot avoid detection simply by closing their account and opening a new account, as well as to comply with Visional Systems’s legal obligations. However, if you close your account, your personal information will not be used or shared by us for any other purpose, except to prevent fraud and assist law enforcement, as required by law, or in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Withdraw consent
You may withdraw your consent at any time if the processing of your personal information is based on it. Your withdrawal has no bearing on the legality of Visional Systems’s processing based on consent prior to your withdrawal.
Restriction of processing
Under certain circumstances, applicable law may give you the right to restrict or object to us processing your personal information in some jurisdictions. We may continue to process your personal information if it is required for the defense of legal claims or for any other exceptions permitted by law.
How to make a privacy request
You can make privacy rights requests relating to your personal information by contacting us at info@visionalsystems.com or by contacting customer service at (917) 409-7706. When we receive an individual rights request via other intake methods, we may take steps to verify your identity before complying with the request to protect your privacy and security.
How to lodge a complaint
If you believe that we have infringed on your rights, we encourage you to contact us at info@visionalsystems.com.
10. Notification Of Privacy Policy Changes
We reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy and will notify you if we do; however, we encourage you to review this policy on a regular basis for the most up-to-date information.
This privacy statement may be updated to reflect changes in our information practices. If we make any significant changes, we will notify you via email (sent to the email address specified in your account) or through a notice on this Site. We encourage you to return to this page on a regular basis to get the most up-to-date information on our privacy policies. When we make changes to this Privacy Policy, we will update the revision date at the top.
11. Contact Information
200 Rogers Ave. Apt 1
Brooklyn NY 11225
Phone: (718) 475-9060
Toll Free: (844) 773-7774
Email: info@visionalsystems.com