HostedVoip4u Privacy Statement

This Privacy Statement explains our practices, including your choices, regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of certain information, including your personal information, by the Smartvisual Ltd ("HostedVoip4u").

Contacting Us

If you have general questions about your account please contact our support team at https://talk.hostedvoip4business.com/contact/. For questions specifically about this Privacy Statement, or our use of your personal information, cookies or similar technologies, please contact us by email at sales@hostedvoip4u.com.

The data controller of your personal information is Smartvisual Ltd which also provides the service to you. Please note that if you contact us to assist you, for your safety and ours we may need to record calls between us and authenticate your identity before fulfilling your request.

Collection of Information

We receive and store information about you such as:

Information you provide to us: We collect information you provide to us which includes:
- your name, email address, address or postal code, payment method and telephone number. We collect this information in a number of ways, including when you enter it while using our service, interact with our Customer Support Team, or participate in surveys or marketing promotions;
- information when you choose to provide reviews or ratings, account settings, set preferences in “Your Account”, or otherwise provide information to us through our service or elsewhere.
Information we collect automatically: We collect information about you and your use of our service, your interactions with us and our advertising, as well as information regarding your computer or other device used to access our service (such as mobile devices, hardware such as VoIP Phones or desktop applications). This information includes:
- your activity on the HostedVoip4u service, such as call history data, device and/or application authentication
- details of your interactions with our Customer Support team, such as the date, time and reason for contacting us, transcripts of any chat conversations, and if you call us, your phone number and call recordings;
- device IDs or other unique identifiers; device and software characteristics (such as type and configuration), connection information, statistics on page views, referral URLs, IP address (which may tell us your general location), browser and standard web server log information;
- information collected via the use of cookies, web beacons and other technologies, including ad data (such as information on the availability and delivery of ads, the site URL, as well as the date and time).
Information from other sources: We might supplement the information described above with information we obtain from other sources, including from both online and offline data providers. Such supplemental information could include demographic data, interest based data, and Internet browsing behaviour.

Use of Information

We use information to provide, analyse, administer, enhance and personalize our services and marketing efforts, to process your account creation, your orders and your payments, and to communicate with you on these and other topics. For example, we use information to:

determine your general geographic location, provide localized content, provide you with customized and personalized recommendations for movies, determine your Internet service provider, and help us quickly and efficiently respond to inquiries and requests;
prevent, detect and investigate potentially prohibited or illegal activities, including fraud, and enforcing our terms (such as determining free trial eligibility);
analyse and understand our customers, improve our service (including our user interface experiences) and optimize our product and its standard of quality;
communicate with you concerning our service (for example by email, push notifications text messaging, and online messaging channels), so that we can send you news about HostedVoip4u, details about new features and content available on HostedVoip4u, and special offers, promotional announcements and consumer surveys, and to assist you with operational requests such as password reset requests. You can change your communications preferences in “Your Account”

Disclosure of Information

We disclose your information for certain purposes and to third parties, as described below:

Service Providers: We use other companies, agents or contractors ("Service Providers") to perform services on our behalf or to assist us with the provision of services to you. For example, we engage Service Providers to provide marketing, advertising, communications, infrastructure and IT services, to personalize and optimize our service, to process credit card transactions or other payment methods, to provide customer support, to collect debts, to analyze and enhance data (including data about users' interactions with our service), and to process and administer consumer surveys. In the course of providing such services, these Service Providers may have access to your personal or other information. We do not authorize them to use or disclose your personal information except in connection with providing their services.
Promotional offers: We may offer joint promotions or programs that, in order for your participation, will require us to share your information with third parties. In fulfilling these types of promotions, we may share your name and other information in connection with fulfilling the incentive. Please note that these third parties are responsible for their own privacy practices.
Protection of HostedVoip4u and others: HostedVoip4u and its Service Providers may disclose and otherwise use your personal and other information where we or they reasonably believe such disclosure is needed to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request, (b) enforce applicable terms of use, including investigation of potential violations thereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address illegal or suspected illegal activities (including payment fraud), security or technical issues, or (d) protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of HostedVoip4u, its employees, users or the public, as required or permitted by law.
Business transfers: In connection with any reorganization, restructuring, merger or sale, or other transfer of assets, we will transfer information, including personal information, provided that the receiving party agrees to respect your personal information in a manner that is consistent with our Privacy Statement.

Whenever in the course of sharing information we transfer personal information to countries outside of the European Economic Area and other regions with comprehensive data protection laws, we will ensure that the information is transferred in accordance with this Privacy Statement and as permitted by the applicable laws on data protection.

You may also choose to disclose your information in the following ways:

While using the HostedVoip4u service you will have opportunities to post reviews or other information publicly, and third parties could use the information you disclose;
Certain portions of our service may contain a tool which gives you the option to share information by email, text message and social or other sharing applications, using the clients and applications on your smart device;
Social plugins (including those offered by Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Google) allow you to share information on those platforms.
Social plugins and social applications are operated by the social network themselves, and are subject to their terms of use and privacy policies.

Access to Your Account and Profiles

In order to provide you with ease of access to your account and to help administer the HostedVoip4u service, we may use technology that enables us to recognize you as the account holder and provide you with direct access to your account without requiring you to retype any password or other user identification when you revisit the HostedVoip4u service. You can choose not to take advantage of this feature on your computer by unchecking the box "Keep me logged in" when you log in to the website. We only show this when we are enabling this technology.

To remove access to your HostedVoip4u account from devices you have allowed to stay logged in: (a) visit "Your Account", choose "Log out of all devices," and follow the instructions to deactivate your devices (note, deactivation may not occur immediately) or (b) delete your HostedVoip4u settings from your device (steps vary by device and the option is not available on all devices). Where possible, users of public or shared devices should log out at the completion of each visit. If you sell or return a computer or HostedVoip4u ready device, you should log out and deactivate the device before doing so. If you do not maintain the security of your password or device, or fail to log out or deactivate your device, subsequent users may be able to access your account, including your personal information.

If you share or otherwise allow others to have access to your account, they will be able to see your information (including in some cases personal information) such as your call history, ratings, reviews and account information (including your email address or other information in Your Account). This remains true even if you use our Members feature. Members allow different users of HostedVoip4u to be granted access to your HostedVoip4u service.

Your Choices

If you no longer want to receive certain communications from us via email or text message, simply access the “Preferences” settings page in the "Your Account" section of our website and uncheck those items to unsubscribe. Alternatively, click the "unsubscribe" link in the email or reply STOP (or as otherwise instructed) to the text message. Please note that you cannot unsubscribe from certain email correspondence from us, such as messages relating to your account transactions.

To exercise choices regarding cookies set through our website, as well as other types of online tracking and Internet advertising, see the Cookies and Internet Advertising section.

Your Information and Rights

You can request access to your personal information, or correct or update out-of-date or inaccurate personal information we hold about you.

You can most easily do this by visiting the "Your Account" portion of our website, where you have the ability to access and update a broad range of information about your account, including your contact information, your HostedVoip4u payment information, and various related information about your account (such as Call History and Call Recordings). You must be signed in to access "Your Account". You may also request that we delete personal information that we hold about you.

To make requests, or if you have any other question regarding our privacy practices, please contact us at sales@hostedvoip4u.com.

We may reject requests that are unreasonable or not required by law, including those that would be extremely impractical, could require disproportionate technical effort, or could expose us to operational risks such as free trial fraud. We may retain information as required or permitted by applicable laws and regulations, including to honour your choices, for our billing or records purposes and to fulfil the purposes described in this Privacy Statement.

Security

We use reasonable administrative, logical, physical and managerial measures to safeguard your personal information against loss, theft and unauthorized access, use and modification. Unfortunately, no measures can be guaranteed to provide 100% security. Accordingly, we cannot guarantee the security of your information.

Other Websites, Platforms and Applications

The HostedVoip4u service may be provided through and/or utilize features (such as VoIP Hardware and Software) operated by third party platforms, or contain links to sites operated by third parties whose policies regarding the handling of information may differ from ours. For example, you may be able to access the HostedVoip4u service through mobile devices, hardware such as VoIP Phones, desktop applications and a number of other Internet connected devices. These websites and platforms have separate and independent privacy or data policies, privacy statements, notices and terms of use, which we recommend you read carefully. In addition, you may encounter third party applications that interact with the HostedVoip4u service.

Children

You must be 18 years of age or older to subscribe to HostedVoip4u. In certain jurisdictions, the age of majority may be older than 18, in which case, you must satisfy that age in order to use our service. While individuals under the age of 18 may use the service, they may do so only with the involvement, supervision, and approval of a parent or legal guardian.

Changes to This Privacy Statement

We will update this Privacy Statement from time to time in response to changing legal, regulatory or operational requirements. We will provide notice of any such changes (including when they will take effect) in accordance with law. Your continued use of the HostedVoip4u service after any such updates take effect will constitute acceptance of those changes. If you do not accept any updates to this Privacy Statement, you may cancel your use of the HostedVoip4u service. To see when this Privacy Statement was last updated, please see the "Last Updated" section below.

Cookies and Internet Advertising

We and our Service Providers use cookies and other technologies (such as web beacons) for various reasons. For example, we use cookies and other technologies to make it easy to access our services by remembering you when you return, to provide and analyse our services, to learn more about our users and their likely interests, and to deliver and tailor marketing or advertising. We want you to be informed about our use of these technologies, so this notice explains the types of technologies we use, what they do and your choices regarding their use.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files that are commonly stored on your device when you browse and use websites and online services. They are widely used to make websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information and assist with service or advertising personalization.

Cookies are not the only types of technology that enable this functionality; we also use other, similar types of technologies. See below for more information and examples.
Why does HostedVoip4u use cookies?

We and our Service Providers may use the following types of cookies:
- Essential cookies: These cookies are strictly necessary to provide our website or online service. For example, we or our Service Providers may use these cookies to authenticate and identify our members when they use our websites and applications so we can provide our service to them. They also help us to enforce our Terms & Conditions, prevent fraud and maintain the security of our service.
- Performance and functionality cookies: These cookies are not essential but help us to personalize and enhance your experience with HostedVoip4u. For example, they help us to remember your preferences and prevent you from needing to re-enter information you previously provided (for example, during sign up). We also use these cookies to collect information (such as popular pages, conversion rates, viewing patterns, click-through and other information) about our visitors' use of the HostedVoip4u service so that we can enhance and personalize our website and service and conduct market research. Deletion of these types of cookies will result in limited functionality of our service.
- Advertising cookies: These cookies use information about your visit to this and other websites, such as the pages you visit, your use of our service or your response to ads and emails, to deliver ads that are more relevant to you. These types of ads are called "Interest-Based Advertising." Many of the advertising cookies associated with our service belong to our Service Providers.
How Does HostedVoip4u use Web Beacons and other Technologies?

Web beacons (also known as clear gifs or pixel tags) often work in conjunction with cookies. We and our Service Providers may use them for similar purposes as cookies, such as to understand and enhance the use of our service, improve site performance, monitor visitor traffic and actions on our site, and understand interactions with our marketing (including email and online ads on third party sites). Because web beacons often work in conjunction with cookies, in many cases, declining cookies will impair the effectiveness of web beacons.

We use other technologies that are similar to cookies, such as browser storage and plugins. Like cookies, some of these technologies may store small amounts of data on your device. We may use these and various other technologies for similar purposes as cookies, such as to enforce our terms, prevent fraud, and analyse the use of our service. There are a number of ways to exercise choice regarding these technologies. For example, many popular browsers provide the ability to clear browser storage, commonly in the settings or preferences area; see your browser’s help function or support area to learn more.

Last updated: 25th April 2018