Privacy Policy
Who we are
Vali Cyber, Inc. was founded in 2020 with the mission of addressing the specific security needs of Linux. Our vision is to secure Linux everywhere, and as such, we’re committed to working with our customers to find their path to proper security.
About This Privacy Notice
Vali Cyber cares about you and your privacy. This Notice provides you information on how we collect your information, how we use it, how we store it, and how and when we delete it.
Our website address is: https://valicyber.com.
Information is provided below on third parties we use as service providers. Any links from downloads or other documents that take you to websites other than valicyber.com may have their own independent privacy policy.
This policy applies to any Personal Information collected about you by Vali Cyber, either electronic, written, or oral. Please note that Vali Cyber is a business-to-business entity and anticipates that information provided by you will be business contact information. Vali Cyber’s services are meant for adults, and Vali Cyber should not receive Personal Information of any individual under the age of 18.
Residents of California or countries outside the United States may have different privacy rights. California residents can find their specific rights not otherwise covered in the Notice below. Residents of the EEA can find information on their specific rights not otherwise covered in the Notice below.
Type of Information
This Notice applies to Personal Information collected by us. Personal Information is any information that can be used to identify you directly or indirectly. This includes but is not limited to your name, address, phone number, email address, payment card information, and/or certain additional categories of information that identify you personally.
Collection and Use of Your Personal Information
We collect the information you provide directly to us, such as when you create or modify your account or user preferences, sign up for a newsletter, contact us, respond to a survey, use online content, or otherwise communicate with us. This information may include your name, email address, phone number, postal address, company, title or role, survey responses, user content stored or entered into the forms found in our online platforms and other information you choose to provide. We use this data to provide you services, products, and support. We also use your Personal Information to contact you about our news and updates as well as pertinent information regarding any certification you may have with us. For some data collection, we use customer management software provided by service providers and/or processors. We also allow our analytics provider or providers to collect usage information over the Internet to determine website traffic.
We and most of the third parties with which we may share your data are located in the United States. If you are visiting our website or otherwise communicating with us from outside the United States, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored or processed in the United States and maintained on computers or servers located outside your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your jurisdiction. By providing us your Personal Information, you understand that you are choosing to transfer that information to the United States.
Means to Manage Your Personal Information and Communication Preferences
If you do not want to receive information about our products or services, please update your account preferences and/or utilize the “unsubscribe” mechanism within the communications that you receive from us.
If you need to change any of your information or wish to have it deleted, please contact us at [email protected].
Storage of Your Personal Information by Vali Cyber
We may store and process your Personal Information in systems located outside of your home country. However, regardless of where storage and processing may occur, we take appropriate steps to ensure that your information is protected, consistent with the principles set forth under this Notice.
Sharing of Your Personal Information by Vali Cyber
We will not sell, rent, or lease mailing lists of customer names or email addresses to others, and we will not make your Personal Information available to any unaffiliated parties, except our approved agents and contractors, or as otherwise described in this Privacy Notice. We may share your information as needed among our affiliates and subsidiaries, who are subject to this Notice.
We will share your information as required by law, in a matter of public safety or policy, as needed in connection with the transfer of our business assets (for example, if we are acquired by another company), or if we believe in good faith that sharing the data is necessary to protect our rights or property.
Without your consent, we will not further disclose any Personal Information except as necessary to service the account, to enforce the terms of use, to meet our obligations to content and technology providers, or as required by law.
Protection and Security of Your Personal Information
The security of your information is important to us. We take precautions to protect your information by implementing safeguards to protect the information we collect. However, you should keep in mind that no website, internet transmission, or software product is ever completely secure or error-free.
PLEASE NOTE: The safety and security of your information also depends on you. We urge you to take steps to keep your Personal Information safe, such as choosing strong passwords and never sharing your password with anyone else. If you create or receive a password in connection with our services or website, please notify us promptly if you believe your password security has been breached and remember to log off the service before you leave your computer or mobile device.
You may communicate with us through email. However, because normal email is not encrypted, the possibility exists that unauthorized individuals may intercept email messages. We and our subsidiaries and affiliates are not responsible for the privacy of email messages except those stored in our system.
Use of Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit its site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another. Cookies also help us understand which sections of our websites are the most popular as they help show which pages are being visited and for how long. This helps us adapt our websites to provide more relevant and accessible information. Cookies can be deleted or blocked by changing browser settings.
Advantages of cookies are:
- Remembering the details as provided by the user
- Remembering user preferences
- Helping improve the site
If you submit a form to access gated resources, we set a cookie to remember you, so that you do not have to complete the form again.
Blocking/Restricting Cookies
You can manage or delete cookies using our Cookie Preference Center or manage them directly on your browser or on a mobile device, please visit the official webpage of the browser or device manufacturer and the documentation provided by them and follow their instructions. Please note, however, that disabling cookies might affect your online experience and/or prevent you from taking full advantage of our site and some of its functionality.
Form Submissions
When visitors submit forms on the Vali Cyber website we collect the data shown in the form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. Visitor submissions may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Tracking User Behavior
Vali Cyber may keep track of the pages our users visit within valicyber.com, in order to determine what Vali Cyber content is the most popular. These data are used to improve the Vali Cyber website and user experience.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles and demos on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behave in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Do Not Track
California and Delaware law require us to indicate whether we honor “Do Not Track” settings in your browser concerning targeted advertising. At this time, there is no worldwide uniform or consistent industry standard or definition for responding to, processing, or communicating Do Not Track signals. Thus, like many other websites and online services, we do not currently respond to any Do Not Track browser requests.
If you have an account on this site, or have filled out one of our forms you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
How long we retain your data
If you fill out a form on our website, the entry and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can better respond to customer inquiries and service requests.
Our Analytics account is set to retain event data for 14 months.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
We periodically appoint digital marketing agents to conduct marketing activity on our behalf, such activity may result in the compliant processing of personal information. Our appointed data processors include Prospect Global Ltd (trading as Sopro) Reg. UK Co. 09648733. You can contact Sopro and view their privacy policy here: http://sopro.io. Sopro are registered with the ICO Reg: ZA346877 their Data Protection Officer can be emailed at: [email protected].
Specific Rights for California Residents
Under California law, California residents have the right to request in writing from businesses with whom they have an established business relationship certain information about the business’s collection and use of their data, the right to request deletion of their personal information, and information about whether the business sells their Personal Information.
As stated above, ValiCyber does not sell any Personal Information. We disclose it to our service providers, including Hubspot, and to our analytics provider Google Analytics.
We collect name, email and mailing address, company affiliations, your title or role with your company, your phone number, or any other contact information. This information is used to reply to any requests or inquiries you make to Vali Cyber, to track any such requests. The information is collected when you enter it into any website forms or contact Vali Cyber directly.
Vali Cyber does not, to its knowledge, collect information from anyone 16 years of age or younger and requests that no one 16 years of age or younger enter their Personal Information into our systems. If you are in this age group and would like access to certain Vali Cyber information, please email us at [email protected].
Additionally, you have the right to request what Personal Information Vali Cyber collected, used, or sold about you. To request more specific information regarding your data than that provided herein, please contact us through the means mentioned below and reference to California Disclosure Information. Please note that we are required to verify that the request is from you and are only required to respond to each customer twice per calendar year. Your information may be verified by asking your name, phone number, email address, other information previously provided to Vali Cyber or what services or products you requested from Vali Cyber.
You also have the right to request that we delete your data. If Vali Cyber needs the data to comply with applicable law, perform contracted for services for you and/or your company, or if other limited circumstances reply, we will inform you that it will not be deleting the data and on what basis that decision was made.
You have the right to opt-out of any communications from Vali Cyber using the methods described above. You also have the right to not face discrimination should you chose not to provide us personal information. Failure to do so, however, may prohibit Vali Cyber from responding to a request from you or otherwise doing business with you.
If you have/are an authorized agent requesting to exercise such rights, please contact Vali Cyber by the methods discussed below and provide documentation regarding the agent’s right to make such requests.
Specific Rights for EEA and UK Residents
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), data subjects have certain rights.
Vali Cyber collects your information in order to provide products and services, inform you of products, services, and other offerings, and to respond to any specific queries from you.
Information is processed based on the legitimate interests of Vali Cyber, which include responding to customer or potential customer inquiries, informing such individuals of our services and offerings, and tracking responses to customer requests. Given the limited information collected – typically professional contact information – Vali Cyber has found that these legitimate interests are not overridden the fundamental rights and freedoms of data subjects. You may opt-out of such communications at any time pursuant to the means discussed above. If you choose not to provide your personal information, Vali Cyber will not be able to respond to any queries or requests sent by you.
Your information is shared with our service providers or processors in order to collect and coordinate our communications with you as well as with our website analytics providers.
You have the right to have access to your information and to delete or rectify any of your information. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority regarding this Notice or any of your related rights.
For more information, please contact Vali Cyber through the means listed below.
As of the time of this update, UK residents have the same privacy rights as residents of EEA countries.
Specific Rights for Residents of Other Countries
If you reside in a country outside the EEA other than the US, please contact Vali Cyber through the means listed below with any questions regarding this Notice or your privacy rights.
Changes to This Notice
Because we are committed to your privacy and laws and technologies change, this Notice may change from time to time. Updates will be posted here. This Notice was last updated on September 11, 2023.
Our Contact Information
We hope that this information is useful to you and reflects our commitment to your privacy. Please contact us via email at [email protected].
We thank you for your trust in us.