Privacy Policy

Effective Date:  June 15, 2021

VTM recognizes that when you choose to provide us with personal information about yourself, you trust us to treat it responsibly.

This Privacy Policy explains the types of personal information that VTM collect about you, how we use, share, and protect this personal information, and the choices you can make about how we use and share this personal information.  This Privacy Policy governs personal information collected by any means, including, but not limited to, websites, mobile applications, and other online services that refer or link to this Privacy Policy, as well as information collected by other business functions of VTM.

It is important that you read this Privacy Policy carefully, because anytime you use our Services you consent to the practices we describe in this Privacy Policy.

1.Introduction

Who we are and what we do

This Privacy Policy covers Virtual Training Manual, VTMapp.com, VTM, Inc. We provide virtual training manual for the dental industry that is comprised of video demonstrations of pertinent procedures, policies and pertinent office….

We host the application to allow for individual dental practices to have a private training manual and also have the ability to share and view designated videos to all VTM users.

Acceptance and Changes

By registering for, downloading, or using our services, you accept this Privacy Policy, which is part of our Terms of Service. We may modify this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post any modified version of our Privacy Policy at www.VTMapp.com. If we change the Privacy Policy in any way, we will provide notice to registered users by email or other methods.

2.Children's Privacy

We do not knowingly collect personal information from individuals who are under the minimum required ages specified herein. You must be at least 18 years old or the age of majority in your jurisdiction, whichever is greater, to use our services.

3.Data We Collect About You

We collect information about you when you use our services. In addition, third parties may collect information about you when you use our services. Collected information may include or reflect personal information that could identify you, as well as non-personal information. We refer to your information as "your data" for short.

Account Information

To create an account, you must provide a valid email address and password. If you choose to sign-up and/or authenticate using a third-party account (e.g., Facebook, Google), you authorize us to obtain account information from the third-party platform.

Financial Information

To make a purchase, you may need to provide a valid payment method (e.g., credit card or PayPal account). Your payment information will be collected and processed by our authorized payment vendors. We do not directly collect or store credit or debit card numbers ourselves in the ordinary course of processing transactions. If we allow purchase through a third-party platform (i.e. in-app purchase), the payment method stored with the third-party platform will be charged.

If you wish to sell items or earn money from advertising through our services, you must provide an account to receive funds and tax information, which may include your name, address, and taxpayer identification number.

Content

Accountholders may create an account and upload and create content such as videos, text, photographs, and artwork. Your profile may display information about you and your activities. This information may be accessed by others in your group, or if personally elected to share the content, then can be accessed by anyone within the VTM network. Those videos may be viewed and otherwise accessed by others, and associated metadata (e.g., titles, descriptions, tags, etc.) are viewable by others. Your interactions with other users (e.g., comments, "likes," private messages) may be seen by others. You may choose to limit the availability of your profile and videos.

Information Collected by Third Parties

Some third parties may collect data about you when you use our services. This may include data you submit (such as payment information) or automatically-collected information (in the case of third-party analytics providers and advertising partners).

We may obtain data from third parties about you. We may combine that data with information that we have collected. For example, some advertisers or advertising platforms may allow us to determine what other online services you might use so that we may place relevant ads on those services.

4.How We Use Your Data

We may use your data for the following purposes:

  • Identification and authentication: We use your data to verify you when you access your account.
  • Operating our services: We use your data to provide our services, provide customer support, and to otherwise comply with our contractual obligations to you. We (and/or our third-party vendors) use your financial information to process purchases made by you and to pay you amounts you have earned.
  • Communicating with you: We use your data when we communicate with you (e.g., when we respond to a customer support or other inquiry).
  • Improving our services: We use your data to understand how our services are being used and how we can improve them. In general, we analyze aggregated data, rather than specific user data. We may, however, need to analyze a specific case to address a specific problem (e.g., a bug that affects only a few accounts).
  • Customizing your experience: We use your data to personalize the service to you. This may include remembering your preferences for language or volume or displaying videos that you might enjoy, based upon your viewing choices.
  • Marketing and advertising: We use your data to show you ads on third-party sites. We may also use your data in delivering third-party advertisements to you. This may include "targeted ads" based upon your activities.
  • Exercising our rights: Where reasonably necessary, we use your data to exercise our legal rights and prevent abuse of our service. For example, we may use your data to detect and prevent fraud, spam, or content that violates our Terms of Service.
  • Legal compliance: We use your data where we are legally required to do so. For example, we may need to gather your data to respond to a subpoena or court order.
  • Protecting your information: Where appropriate, we may anonymize, backup, and delete certain data.

We may use algorithms and other automated means to implement any of the above.

Whenever we process your data for one of these purposes, we have determined that one or more of the following lawful bases apply:

  • Performance of a contract;
  • Legitimate commercial interest;
  • Compliance with a legal obligation; or
  • Consent

5.With Whom We Share Your Data

We share data with third parties as follows:

  • As you instruct: We may make your profile and videos available to others as you instruct in using our services. We may share your data with persons to whom you have granted account-level access.
  • With your consent: We may share your data with third parties where we have obtained your express consent to do so.
  • Authorized vendors: We may share your data with third-party vendors that help us operate our services and comply with your instructions and our contractual obligations. This includes payment processors, content delivery networks (CDNs), cloud-based hosting services, monitoring services, email service providers, quality assurance and testing vendors, fraud and abuse prevention vendors, customer relations management (CRM) vendors, and shipment vendors.
  • Advertising: We may share your data with advertising companies to display relevant ads to you.
  • Analytics: We may share your data with analytics providers which help us understand how customers are using our services.
  • Aggregated or anonymized information: We may publicly disclose non-personal aggregated or anonymized information such as our number of visitors and registered users.

We use reasonable efforts to vet vendors for their privacy and data security practices. We require that such vendors agree to protect the data we share.

Enterprise-Administered Accounts

Where the services are provided to you through your employer or another organization that administers access, that organization may be able to:

  • Access information about your account activity;
  • Delete or limit access to your account or its content; and/or
  • Change the email address associated with your account.

If you sign up for a VTM account using an email address belonging to an organization (i.e. your employer), we may disclose information about your account (such as the primary email address and the account type) to the corresponding organization. Please contact your organization’s administrator for further details.

6.Legal and Safety-Related Disclosures

We have built in proper filters, where the content will be approved by an administrator of each group, and if the content is shared, it will be approved by the superadmin. However the content is interpreted and modeled, VTM is not accountable or responsible for any adverse outcomes.

We may disclose your data in response to official requests (e.g., court orders, subpoenas, search warrants, national security requests, etc.) ("requests") that we receive from government authorities or parties to legal proceedings.

We may share your data with potential transaction partners, advisors, and others in the event our company is, in whole or part, acquired by a third party. In such case, we will use reasonable efforts to require the acquiring entity to comply with this Privacy Policy.

7.Data Retention

We retain your data for as long as you have an account. When you close an account, we will keep the videos that have been approved by your administrator.

Once we delete a video, we may not be able to recover it. If you have previously made a video public, the video or its thumbnail may be discoverable in a search engine's cache for a time.

If we receive legal process pertaining to your account, we will retain your data for as long as we in good faith believe is necessary to comply with the legal process. Similarly, if we believe that your account has been involved in wrongdoing, we may preserve your data to defend or assert our rights.

8.Your Privacy Choices

We enable you to make numerous choices about your data:

  • You may choose not to provide us with certain information. For example, you may choose not to create an account or not to provide optional account information.
  • You may change your account and video privacy settings.
  • You may change or correct information voluntarily submitted to us. We encourage you to keep your data current by viewing your settings page.
  • You may backup your videos.
  • You may close your account (which will delete all videos) or delete certain videos.
  • You may upload content only to the group.
  • Only with your consent will content be shared to the VTM community.

9.Account and Video Privacy Settings

As part of our services we offer you the ability to limit the distribution of your content, including your videos. This section explains some of your choices.

Videos

We enable you to manage the privacy settings of your videos.

  • You may chose to upload content to just your group, and only members of your group will have access to that content.
  • You may choose to upload content to the VTM community or shared platform, then all VTM users will have access to that content

10.Communications from Us

Emails

If you create an account, you may receive commercial emails from us. This includes newsletters and offers.

Mobile Device Communications

We may, with your consent, send push notifications in our apps. You may disable these by declining them or changing the app's settings.

11.Protecting Your Information

We use physical, technical, and organizational security measures to safeguard your data from unauthorized or accidental disclosure. Despite these efforts, no information system can be 100% secure, so we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your information. Users also have a role to play in keeping their data safe. We encourage you to use a unique and hard-to-guess password for your account and to not share it with others. You should only grant access rights to people who you know and trust, and, even then, you should be careful in granting all access rights. You should monitor your account regularly. If you believe that someone has gained access to your account without your permission, please contact us immediately so that we can investigate.

12.Your Responsibilities

You may receive other people's data in using our service. If you receive information from other users, you must comply with all laws, including those concerning privacy, data security, and online marketing.

13.Third-Party Services

We may provide links to online services that we do not own or operate. These services fall outside of this Privacy Policy and we have no control over the data they collect. For example, if you click on an advertisement, you may be taken to the advertiser's website. Once on a third-party site, your data may be collected by others. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of such services before using them.

You may use our service through third-party sites and to send you offers. For example, you may watch a video that is embedded on a third-party site or use one of our apps on a third-party platform. This Privacy Policy covers our apps and video players, but does not cover any third-party site or any third-party video player.