Privacy Policy
1. GENERAL
Simsy Ventures LLC (“Simsy Ventures LLC” or “we” or “us” or “our”) respects the privacy of everyone (“Sites’ visitor” “user” or “you”) that uses our website at https://simsyventures.com/, as well as other device or online applications related or connected thereto (collectively, the “Sites”).
Introduction and applicability of the Privacy Policy
We are strongly committed to respecting your online privacy and recognize the need for appropriate protection and management of any personal information collected and/or collated by us. The following Simsy Ventures LLC Privacy Policy (“Privacy Notice”) is designed to inform you, as a user of the Sites, about the types of personal information that Simsy Ventures LLC may gather about or collect from you in connection with your use of the Sites. The purpose of this Privacy Notice is to ensure that there is an intact charter to collect, use and protect any personal and/or sensitive data collected by us in the course of our business, including on Website”, web applications, forums, blogs and other online or offline offerings. This Privacy Notice defines our procedure for collection, usage, processing, disclosure and protection of any information obtained by us through the Website, and how you can opt-out of a use or correct or change such information.
It also is intended to explain the conditions under which Simsy Ventures LLC uses and discloses that personal information, and your rights in relation to that personal information.
The Sites are hosted in the United States and is subject to U.S. state and federal law. If you are accessing our Sites from other jurisdictions, please be advised that you are transferring your personal information to us in the United States, and by using our Sites, you are agreeing to that transfer and use of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Notice. You also agree to abide to the applicable laws of the State of Wyoming and U.S. federal law concerning your use of the Sites and your agreements with us. If your use of the Sites would be unlawful in your jurisdiction, please do not use the Sites.
Any reference made to Privacy Notice in this document shall mean and refer to the latest version of the Privacy Notice.
During the course of your association with us, you may be required to execute certain other agreements and such agreements and this Privacy Notice shall, together with the ‘Terms of Service’ which is explicitly specified to the contrary, govern your relationship with us.
Company Information
Simsy Ventures LLC
447 Broadway, 2nd Floor, Suite# 38, New York, NY 10013, USA
Email: info@simsyventures.com
Disclaimer
Please be advised that any Information (as defined herein below) procured by us, shall be:
a. processed fairly and lawfully for rendering the Services (as defined in Terms of Service);
b. obtained only for specified and lawful purposes, and not be used in any manner which is against the law or policy in force in State of Wyoming, United States of America (“Applicable Law”);
c. adequate, relevant and not excessive in relation to the purpose for which it is required;
d. able to be reviewed by the User, from time to time and updated-if need arises; and
e. not kept longer than for the time which it is required or the purpose for which it is required or as required by the Applicable Law.
WE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE SUSTAINED BY REASON OF ANY DISCLOSURE (INADVERTENT OR OTHERWISE) OF ANY DATA, IF THE SAME IS EITHER (A) REQUIRED FOR SHARING YOUR INFORMATION FOR LEGITIMATE PURPOSES; OR (B) WAS AFFECTED THROUGH NO FAULT, ACT, OR OMISSION OF THE COMPANY.
BY USING THE WEBSITE, YOU EXPLICITLY ACCEPT, WITHOUT LIMITATION OR QUALIFICATION, THE COLLECTION, USE AND TRANSFER OF THE DATA IN THE MANNER DESCRIBED HEREIN.
PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY NOTICE CAREFULLY AS IT AFFECTS YOUR RIGHTS AND LIABILITIES UNDER LAW.
HOW WE COLLECT AND USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Simsy Ventures LLC gathers personal information from users of the Sites. When you browse our Sites, subscribe to our services or contact us through various social or web forms you are voluntarily sharing personal information with us. This personal information also includes various data that we collect automatically. This may be the user’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, operating system, browser type and the locations of the Sites the user views right before arriving at, while navigating and immediately after leaving the Sites. It may also include various technical aspects of user’s computer or browser and users browsing habits that are collected through cookies. Please read our Notice on cookies here: https://simsyventures.com/cookie-policy/. Simsy Ventures LLC may analyze various mentioned personal information gathered from or about users to help Simsy Ventures LLC better understand how the Sites are used and how to make them better. By identifying patterns and trends in usage, Simsy Ventures LLC is able to better design the Sites to improve users’ experiences, both in terms of content and ease of use. From time to time, Simsy Ventures LLC may also release the anonymized information gathered from the users in the aggregate, such as by publishing a report on trends in the usage of the Sites.
When we believe disclosure is appropriate, we may disclose your information to help investigate, prevent or take other action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud or other wrongdoing; to protect and defend the rights, property or safety of Simsy Ventures LLC, our users,
our employees or others; to comply with applicable law or cooperate with law enforcement; to enforce our Terms of Use or other agreements or policies, in response to a subpoena or similar investigative demand, a court order or a request for cooperation from a law enforcement or other government agency; to establish or exercise our legal rights; to defend against legal claims; or as otherwise required by law. In such cases, we may raise or waive any legal objection or right available to us. We will notify you if permitted before undertaking such disclosures.
Simsy Ventures LLC reserves the right to transfer all information in its possession to a successor organization in the event of a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy or other sale of all or a portion of Simsy Ventures LLC’s assets. Other than to the extent ordered by a bankruptcy or other court, the use and disclosure of all transferred information will be subject to this Privacy Notice, or to a new privacy notice if you are given notice of that new privacy notice and are given an opportunity to affirmatively opt-out of it.
DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
General Provisions
1.1 Simsy Ventures LLC contractually prohibits its contractors, affiliates, vendors and suppliers from disclosing any personal information received from Simsy Ventures LLC, other than in accordance with this Privacy Notice. These third parties may include advertisers, providers of games, utilities, widgets and a variety of other third-party applications accessible through the Sites. We do not rent, sell or disclose or share any Information that we collect from you, with third parties, save and except in order to provide you with the Services or for the Legitimate Purposes as specified above. Any such disclosure, if made, shall be in accordance with this Privacy Notice and as per the procedure prescribed by law and in compliance with our legal obligations. Simsy Ventures LLC neither owns nor controls the third-party websites and applications accessible through the Sites. Thus, this Privacy Notice does not apply to personal information provided to or gathered by the third parties that operate them. Before visiting a third party, or using a third-party application, whether by means of a link on the Sites, directly through the Sites or otherwise, and before providing any personal information to any such third party, users should inform themselves of the privacy policies and practices (if any) of the third party responsible for those Sites or applications, and should take those steps necessary to, in those users’ discretion, protect their privacy. Additionally, we may share your Information in circumstances and for the purposes as specified hereunder:
a. We shall share the Information to the third-party service providers/ vendors, to provide you with the Services and to effectuate any activities that fall under the Legitimate Purpose for which such Information has been collected.
b. When compelled by law: We may disclose any Information provided by you on the Website as may be deemed to be necessary or appropriate:
i. under Applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence;
ii. to comply with legal process;
iii. to respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside your country of residence;
iv. to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates;
v. to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/that of our affiliates, you or others;
vi. to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain;
vii. to protect against legal liability;
viii. to protect the personal safety of Users of the Website;
ix. to prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Website.
Merger and Acquisition
We may share Information upon merger or acquisition of Company with another company. We shall transmit and transfer the Information upon acquisition or merger of Company with another company;
Company’s Employees /Agents
We follow a strict confidentiality policy with regard to disclosure of confidential information to our employees or other personnel. There may be situations, where we may disclose the confidential information only to those of our employees and other personnel on a need-to-know basis. Any breach of confidential information by the employees, personnel within the Company is dealt with stringently by us.
Business Partners
We may share your Information with our business partners, and affiliates for our and our affiliates’ internal business purposes or to provide you with a product or service that you may have requested. Company may also provide personal information to business partners with whom we may jointly offer products or services, or whose products or services we believe may be of interest to you. In such cases, our business partner’s name will appear, along with ours. We will require our affiliates and business partners to agree in writing to maintain the confidentiality and security of your Information and require them to maintain the same on our behalf and not to use it for any purpose other than the purpose for which it was provided.
Third-Party Advertisers
We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit the Sites. These companies may use information about your visits to the Sites that are contained in Cookies in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. Using a tool created by the Network Advertising Initiative, you can opt out of several third-party ad servers’ and networks’ Cookies simultaneously. If you would like more personal information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this personal information used by these companies, please follow the following links: http://networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp, http://preferences-mgr.truste.com/, or http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.
Analytics
We may use third-party vendors, including Google, who use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) together to inform, optimize and serve ads based on your past activity on the Sites, including Google Analytics for Display Advertising. The personal information collected may be used to, among other things, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content and better understand online activity. If you do not want any personal information to be collected and used by Google Analytics, you can install an opt-out in your web browser (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/) and/or opt out from Google Analytics for Display Advertising or the Google Display Network by using Google’s Ads Settings (www.google.com/settings/ads).
Social Media
We may provide you the option to connect your account on the Sites to your account on some social networking sites for the purpose of logging in, uploading personal information or enabling certain features on the Sites. When logging in using your social network credentials, we may collect the personal information you have made publicly available on the social networking site, such as your name, profile picture, cover photo, username, gender, friends network, age range, locale, friend list and any other personal information you have made public. Once connected, other users may also be able to see information about your social network, such as the size of your network and your friends, including common friends. By connecting your account on the Sites to your account on any social networking site. We will not send any of your account personal information to the connected social networking site without first disclosing that to you. Each social network may further allow you to set privacy controls around your personal information on their system, and our collection of personal information will always follow such controls and permissions. This feature is subject to continuous change and improvement by us and each social networking site involved, and therefore the available features and shared personal information are subject to change. Please visit our Privacy Notice for any updates.
We may use hyperlinks on the Sites which will redirect you to a social network if you click on the respective link. However, when you click on a social plug-in, such as Facebook’s “Like” button or Twitter’s “tweet” button that particular social network’s plugin will be activated and your browser will directly connect to that provider’s servers. If you do not use these buttons none of your data will be sent to the respective social network’s plugin providers. To illustrate this further, imagine the scenario where you click on the Facebook’s “Like” button on the Sites. Facebook will receive your IP address, the browser version and screen resolution, and the operating system of the device you have used to access the Sites. Settings regarding privacy protection can be found on the websites of these social networks and are not within our control.
Third-Party Service Providers
We may share your personal information, which may include your name and contact information (including email address) with our authorized service providers that perform certain services on our behalf. These services may include fulfilling orders, providing customer service and marketing assistance, performing business and sales analysis, supporting the Sites’ functionality and supporting contests, sweepstakes, surveys and other features offered through the Sites. We may also share your name, contact personal information and credit card personal information with our authorized service providers who process credit card payments. These service providers may have access to personal information needed to perform their functions but are not permitted to share or use such personal information for any other purpose. The following are the third-party service providers we use on the Sites: Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Analytics, WordPress & Other Service Providers.
If you have opted in to receiving marketing communication from us then Simsy Ventures LLC may provide your personal information to third parties, with your consent, so that those third parties may directly contact you about additional products and services. To cease having your personal information used for marketing communication purposes, you can:
- Email us at unsubscribe@simsyventures.com
- opt out by clicking on the unsubscribe button found in the footer of our emails
MOBILE DEVICE ADDITIONAL TERMS
- Mobile Device. If you use a mobile device to access the Sites or download any of our applications, we may collect device personal information (such as your mobile device ID, model and manufacturer), operating system, version personal information and IP address.
- Geo-Location Personal Information. Unless we have received your prior consent, we do not access or track any location-based personal information from your mobile device at any time while downloading or using our mobile application or our services, except that it may be possible for Simsy Ventures LLC to determine from an IP address the geographic location of your point of connectivity, in which case we may gather and use such general location data.
- Push Notifications. We send you push notifications if you choose to receive them, letting you know when someone has sent you a message or for other service-related matters. If you wish to opt-out from receiving these types of communications, you may turn them off in your device’s settings.
- Mobile Analytics. We use mobile analytics software to allow us to better understand the functionality of our mobile software on your phone. This software may record personal information, such as how often you use the application, the events that occur within the application, aggregated usage, performance data and where the application was downloaded from. We do not link the personal information we store within the analytics software to any personal information you submit within the mobile application.
RETENTION OF INFORMATION
All Information provided by you, save and except upon withdrawal or termination, shall be retained in locations outside the direct control of the Company (for instance, on servers or databases co-locates with hosting providers). We will delete Information based on a request received from you within a reasonable period and latest within thirty (30) days of receiving a deletion request. However, we may retain such portions of Information and for such periods as may be required under Applicable Law. Notwithstanding anything contained herein, Company may retain data after account deletion for reasons including but limited to the following purposes: If there is an unresolved issue relating to your account, or an unresolved claim or dispute; If we are required to by Applicable Law, and/or in aggregated and/or anonymized form, or Company may also retain certain information if necessary, for its legitimate business interests, such as fraud prevention and enhancing Users’ safety and security.
SECURITY
We take the security of your personal information seriously and have adopted reasonable security practices and procedures including role-based access, password protection, encryption and use reasonable electronic, personnel and physical measures to protect it from loss, theft, alteration or misuse. You agree that such measures are secured and adequate. You agree and accept that your Information may be stored in third-party cloud service infrastructure providers. While all reasonable attempts have been taken from our end to ensure the safe and secure storage of your data, we shall not be liable for any data breach on the part of the third-party cloud service infrastructure provider that was beyond our control. In addition to the security measures put in place by the third-party cloud service infrastructure provider for safe and secure storage of your Information, we use certain physical, managerial, technical or operational safeguards as per industry standards and established best practices to protect the Information we collect. We use reasonable security practices and procedures and use secure servers as mandated under Applicable Laws for the protection of your Information. We review our Information collection, storage, and processing practices, including physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems. However, please be advised that even the best security measures cannot fully eliminate all risks. We cannot guarantee that only authorized persons will view your personal information. We are not responsible for third-party circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures. You accept the inherent security implications of data transmission over the internet and the internet cannot always be guaranteed as completely secure.
We are dedicated to protecting all personal information on the Sites as is necessary. However, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your personal information by keeping your password and computer/mobile device access confidential. If you have an account with Simsy Ventures LLC and believe someone has gained unauthorized access to it or your account please change your password as soon as possible. If you lose control of your account, you should notify us immediately.
PRIVACY RIGHTS – EU USERS
If you reside in the European Union (EU), United Kingdom (UK), Switzerland, Norway, Lichtenstein, or Iceland, you have certain data protection rights under your local applicable laws.
These rights may include subject to the applicable laws:
- The right to request access and obtain a copy of your personal information
- The right to request edits or erasure of your personal information
- The right to limit the processing of your personal information
- Data portability right (if applicable)
- The right to object to the processing of your personal information
If Simsy Ventures LLC relies on your consent to process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. However, please note that this will not alter the validity of the processing before its withdrawal.
If you wish to exercise any of the mentioned rights please contact us by email at privacy@simsyventures.com, or by referring to the contact details at the bottom of this Privacy Notice. Simsy Ventures LLC has 30 days to respond to your request.
If you are not satisfied with Simsy Ventures LLC’s handling of your privacy concerns please note that you have the right to complain to your local data protection supervisory authority.
If you have any questions or comments about your privacy rights, you may email us at privacy@simsyventures.com.
PRIVACY RIGHTS – CALIFORNIA USERS
Do Not Sell My Personal Information Notice – California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
Simsy Ventures LLC has not disclosed or sold any personal information to third parties for a business or commercial purpose in the preceding twelve (12) months. Simsy Ventures LLC will not sell personal information in the future belonging to Sites’ visitors, users and other consumers.
If you are under 18 years of age
If you have a registered account with Simsy Ventures LLC, you have the right to request the removal of unwanted personal information that you publicly post on our Sites. To request the removal of such information, please contact us using the contact information provided below. Make sure to include your account’s email address and a statement that you reside in California.
CHILDREN
The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) protects the online privacy of children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect or maintain personal information from anyone under the age of 13, unless or except as permitted by law. Any person who provides personal information through the Sites represents to us that he or she is 13 years of age or older. If we learn that personal information has been collected from a user under 13 years of age on or through the Sites, then we will take the appropriate steps to cause this personal information to be deleted. If you are the parent or legal guardian of a child under 13 who has become a member of the Sites or has otherwise transferred personal information to the Sites, please contact Simsy Ventures LLC using our contact personal information below to have that child’s account terminated and personal information deleted.
DO-NOT-TRACK NOTICE
Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. Because there is not yet a common understanding of how to interpret the DNT signal, the Sites currently do not respond to DNT browser signals or mechanisms.
MISCELLANEOUS
THE INVALIDITY OR UNENFORCEABILITY OF ANY PART OF THIS PRIVACY NOTICE SHALL NOT PREJUDICE OR AFFECT THE VALIDITY OR ENFORCEABILITY OF THE REMAINDER OF THIS PRIVACY NOTICE. THIS PRIVACY NOTICE DOES NOT APPLY TO ANY INFORMATION OTHER THAN THE INFORMATION COLLECTED BY US THROUGH THE WEBSITE. THIS PRIVACY NOTICE SHALL BE INAPPLICABLE TO ANY UNSOLICITED INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE US THROUGH THE WEBSITE OR THROUGH ANY OTHER MEANS. ALL UNSOLICITED INFORMATION SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE NON-CONFIDENTIAL AND WE SHALL BE FREE TO USE AND/ OR DISCLOSE SUCH UNSOLICITED INFORMATION WITHOUT ANY LIMITATIONS. THE RIGHTS AND REMEDIES AVAILABLE UNDER THIS NOTICE MAY BE EXERCISED AS OFTEN AS NECESSARY AND ARE CUMULATIVE AND NOT EXCLUSIVE OF RIGHTS OR REMEDIES PROVIDED BY LAW. RIGHTS UNDER THIS NOTICE MAY BE WAIVED ONLY IN WRITING. DELAY IN EXERCISING OR NON-EXERCISE OF ANY SUCH RIGHT OR REMEDY DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A WAIVER OF THAT RIGHT OR REMEDY, OR ANY OTHER RIGHT OR REMEDY. THE PRIVACY NOTICE IS TO BE READ IN LINE WITH THE TERMS OF SERVICES.
INCOMPLETE PERSONAL INFORMATION
Where indicated (for example in registration/application forms), it is obligatory to provide your personal information to us to enable us to process your application for our Products and/or Services. Should you decline to provide such obligatory personal information, we may not be able to process your application or provide you with our Products and/or Services.
CONSENT
- By clicking on the “I accept’ button at the end of the page containing the Privacy Notice, Terms of Use or by providing us your Information or by making use of the facilities or content provided by the website, you hereby consent to the collection, storage, processing, disclosure and transfer of your Information in accordance with the provisions of this Privacy Notice.
- You acknowledge that you are providing your Information out of your free will.
- You acknowledge that documents & data uploaded by you to get access our Website & results from us is considered to be legally owned or permitted to you. The Company should not be held responsible for damages arising out of such data provided by you.
- You acknowledge that the Company has no obligation to monitor the documents, data, links or other materials that you provide. You are responsible for evaluating all your data including for accuracy, completeness and reliability, and you bear all risk of using such data. The Company will not be responsible for any damages that you may incur as a result of the submission or use of any such data.
- You acknowledge that links, data, documents or other materials provided by you does not contain illegal or pornographic activities.
- You acknowledge that our Website is an automated tool, therefore the results will depend on the quality of input given by you. Thus, the Company shall not be held liable for the end result or of the utility of the code/software that is autogenerated from our Website.
- If you are providing Information on behalf of a third party, then you hereby undertake and confirm that you have the legal authority to do so and to agree to this Privacy Notice on behalf of such third party. If you are providing Information on behalf of a minor, you hereby confirm that you are the parent or legal guardian of such minor.
- You hereby consent that the collection, storage, processing, disclosure and transfer of any Information shall not cause any wrongful loss to you if it is done in accordance with the provisions of this Privacy Notice.
- You have the option not to provide us the Information sought to be collected. You will also have an option to withdraw your consent at any point, provided such withdrawal of the consent is intimated to us in writing. (If you wish to withdraw your consent, please click here). If you do not provide us your Information or if you withdraw the consent to provide us Information at any point in time, we shall have the option not to fulfill the purposes for which the said Information was sought, and we may restrict you from using the website or Services.
GOVERNING LAW
Disputes over privacy issues contained in this Privacy Notice will be governed by the laws of United States of America and the courts of the State of Wyoming shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any disputed connected to our Website. You also agree to abide by any limitation on damages contained in our Terms of Use, or other agreements that we have with you.
PRIVACY NOTICE CHANGES
We may modify or revise the Privacy Notice from time to time and shall accordingly notify you of any changes to the Privacy Pol Notice by posting the revised Privacy Notice on the Website with an updated date of revision. We shall endeavor to review, revise, update, modify, amend or correct the Privacy Notice on a regular and routine basis, especially whenever a significant update is made to the technology employed by us. You must periodically review the Privacy Notice for the latest information on our privacy practices. In the event you continue to use the Website and our Services after any update in the Privacy Notice, your use of the Website shall be subject to such updated privacy Notice. Your continued usage of Services, post any amendment would deem to mean that you accept and understand the revised Privacy Notice. Further, we retain the right at any time to deny or suspend access to all, or any part of, the Service and/or access to the Website to anyone who we reasonably believe has violated any provision of this Privacy Notice.
Simsy Ventures LLC may, in its sole discretion, change this Privacy Notice from time to time and shall accordingly all changes to Simsy Ventures LLC’s Privacy Notice will be reflected on this page and the date of the new version will be stated at the top of this Privacy Notice. We shall endeavor to review, revise, update, modify, amend or correct the Privacy Notice on a regular and routine basis, especially whenever a significant update is made to the technology employed by us. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Notice applies to all personal information that we have about you and your account. Users should regularly check this page for any changes to this Privacy Notice. Simsy Ventures LLC will always post new versions of the Privacy Notice on the Sites. Accordingly, it is important that users always maintain and update their contact personal information Your continued usage of Services, post any amendment would deem to mean that you accept and understand the revised Privacy Notice. Further, we retain the right at any time to deny or suspend access to all, or any part of, the Service and/or access to the Website to anyone who we reasonably believe has violated any provision of this Privacy Notice.
CONTACT
If you have any questions regarding our Privacy Notice, please contact our Data Protection Officer at:
Simsy Ventures LLC
Attn: Data Protection Officer
Address: 447 Broadway, 2nd Floor, Suite# 38, New York, NY 10013, USA
Email: privacy@simsyventures.com
If you have any questions about this Agreement, the Site or the Services, please contact Simsy Ventures LLC in the United States at privacy@simsyventures.com.
Effective May 15, 2022. Simsy Ventures LLC may make changes to this Agreement in the future.
Last updated February 28, 2023.