De Vitae may collect Personal Information and/or Anonymized Information (collectively, “Information”) in the following ways:
- Publicly Available Personal Information: De Vitae collects Personal Information that is publicly available on the Internet by scanning the web for such publicly available Personal Information on you.
- Personal Information We Purchase or License from Third Parties: De Vitae may also license or purchase your Personal Information from third-party vendors that has the right to provide us with such information.
- Information You Provide to Us: De Vitae collects Information that you provide directly to us, including when you visit our Website (through your online brewing activities), when you set up your account while you register to the De Vitae Services or when you use the Service. For example, we collect Information when you create your account or modify your profile details on your online account, or when you upload, download or share files or other information through our Service’s platform, participate in any interactive features of the De Vitae Services, participate in a survey, contest, promotion, sweepstakes, activity or event, make a transaction, apply for a job, request customer support, or communicate with us.
In addition, De Vitae collects Information of third parties using the Service on your behalf to enable the functionality and features of the Service. This usually applies to full name, email address, etc. For example, if you invite a user to De Vitae’s Service platform, we will require that such third-party provide us with their email address in order to grant them access to any user content the Service. To the maximum extent permitted by law, please note that it is your responsibility to ensure that you have the right to provide us with Information regarding any third party to which you want us to send an invitation to access the Service. Information We collect Automatically When You Use the De Vitae Services. When you access or use the De Vitae Services, we may automatically collect information about you, including:
- Usage Information. We monitor user activity in connection with the De Vitae Services and may collect log information about the applications and features you use, the websites you visit, the names of the service providers you use, your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, access times, browser type and language, Internet Service Provider (“ISP”).
- Device Information. If you access the De Vitae Services from a mobile device, we collect information about the device, including the hardware model, operating system and version, unique device identifiers, mobile network information (as allowed by the mobile network) or platform information (as allowed by the specific platform type). We do not ask for, access, or track any location-based information from your mobile device at any time (except as defined in this Privacy Notice).
- Cookies
What are Cookies? Cookies are small data files which are sent to your device (e.g., computer or mobile device) by a website or other online application, to enable the storing of information which uniquely identifies you (e.g., remembering web pages that you have viewed). De Vitae uses cookies to monitor your browsing behavior.
How do you disable cookies? If you want to disable cookies, you will have to change your browser’s settings to reject cookies. Please note that if you disable all cookies, some (or all) of the features and functionality of our Service may not be available to you.
Below are links to commonly used web browsers. Information about cookies is usually found in the “Help” section of the web browser.
For other browsers, please consult the documentation that your browser manufacturer provides.
Mobile Devices – You can-opt out of certain types of interest-based advertising (or “cross-app” advertising), by accessing the “settings” on your device: If you’re using an Apple device you can configure your device to limit ad tracking to by clicking on “settings” > “privacy” > “advertising” and toggling “limit ad tracking” to ‘on.’ If you’re using an Android device you can opt out of most app-based tracking for advertising by opening the “Google Settings” app on your device, selecting “Ads”, and then selecting the option to opt-out of interest-based ads.
Please note that the above information may change when the above manufacturers update their systems. Also note, that your device may use another platform, not described above. In that case, please consult the manufacturer documentation for further instructions. You can also learn more and turn off certain third party targeting and advertising cookies by visiting the following third-party webpages:
- Network Advertising Initiative
- European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EU)
- Internet Advertising Bureau (US)
- Internet Advertising Bureau (EU)
- Information Collected by Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies. We use various technologies to collect information, which may include saving cookies to your computer or mobile device. Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive or in device memory that help us to improve the De Vitae Services and your experience, customize your experience and preferences, allow you to access and use the De Vitae Services without re-entering your username and/or password, understand which areas and features of the De Vitae Services are most popular and count visits. We may also collect information using web beacons (also known as “tracking pixels”). Web beacons are electronic images (also called “gifs”) that may be used in the De Vitae Services or in emails that help us to deliver cookies, count visits, understand usage and campaign effectiveness and determine whether an email has been opened and acted upon. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, please see “Your Choices” below.
- Third party cookies. The use of cookies by third parties you may sign-in from into the De Vitae Services and/or third-party applications, is not covered by our Privacy Notice. We do not have access or control over such cookies.
- Third Party clear gifs. Our third-party partners employ clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons/Web Bugs), images, and scripts that help them better manage content on our website.
- Local Shared Objects (“LSO”). We use LSOs such as HTML 5 to collect and store information to provide certain features on our website. Third parties with whom we partner may also use LSOs in order to provide certain features on our website or to display advertising based upon your Web browsing activity. Various browsers may offer their own management tools for removing HTML5 LSOs.
- Advertising Cookies. We partner with third parties to manage our advertising on other websites. Such third parties use tracking technologies such as cookies to gather information about your activities on this website and other websites you visit in order to provide you advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests.
You may opt out of behaviorally targeted ads anytime by deleting your browser’s cookies. In addition, you may opt-out of interest-based advertising from some third-party partners by visiting:
Please note that opting-out will only prevent targeted ads so you may continue to see generic (non-targeted ads) after you opt-out.
- Do Not Track. Some browsers offer a “do not track” (“DNT”) option. Because no common industry or legal standard for DNT has been adopted by industry groups, technology companies or regulators, we do not respond to DNT signals. We will make efforts to continue to monitor developments around DNT browser technology and the implementation of a standard.
- Information We Collect from Other Sources. We may also obtain information from third parties and combine that with information we collect through the De Vitae Services. For example, we may have access to certain information from a third-party Application Tracking Systems (“ATS”) service if you create or log into your online account through the service or otherwise provide us with access to information from the service. Any access that we may have to such information from a third-party ATS service is in accordance with the Privacy Notice and authorization procedures determined by the ATS service. We protect data obtained from third parties according to the practices described in this policy, plus any additional restrictions imposed by the source of the data.