Privacy Policy

Effective Date: July 22, 2020

This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for VREF Aircraft Value Reference Appraisal & Litigation Services (VREF) and our websites; VREF.com and VREFOnline.com . This privacy notice applies solely to information collected by this website, except where stated otherwise. It will notify you of the following:

• What information we collect;
• With whom it is shared;
• How it is secured;
• How policy changes will be communicated; and
• How to address concerns over the misuse of personal data.

Information Collection, Use, and Sharing

As you navigate through and interact with our site, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

• Details of your visits to our site, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the website;
• Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type;
• Information about your mobile device and network, including the hardware model, operating system and version, unique device identifiers, and information about your use of our site. To facilitate your use of certain Site features, we may request your permission to collect information about the location of your device and access information from specific native applications on your device, such as the camera or photo album.

The information we collect automatically may include personal data, or we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our site and to deliver better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns;
• Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our site according to your interests;
• Speed up your searches; and
  Recognize you when you return to our site.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

• Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer or mobile device. You may refuse to accept browser Cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our website.
• Flash Cookies. Certain features of our site may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies.
• Web Beacons. Pages of our Site (and our emails) may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that help deliver cookies and permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages (or opened an email) and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

How We Use Your Information

We may use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us:

• To present or improve our site and its contents to you;
• To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you;
• To respond to your comment or questions, and provide you with customer service;
• To monitor Site trends and activities;
• To provide you notices about your account or your subscription;
• To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection;
• To notify you about changes to our site, or any products or services we offer or provide through it; and
• Towards any other purpose for which the information is collected.

Your Access to and Control Over Information

VREF strives to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

• Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website . If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

You can contact us via the email address or phone number provided on our website to:

• See what data we have about you if any.
• Change/correct any data we have about you.
• Have us delete any data we have about you.
• Express any concern you have about our use of your data

Registration

To use this website, a user must first complete the registration form. During registration, a user is required to give certain information (such as name and email address). This information is used to contact you about the products/services on our site in which you have expressed interest. At your option, you may also provide demographic information (such as gender or age) about yourself, but it is not required.

Orders

We request information from you on our order form. To buy from us, you must provide contact information (like name and shipping address) and financial information (like credit card number, expiration date). This information is used for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing a request, we’ll use this information to contact you.

Sharing

We share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any person.

And:

We use an outside credit card processing company to bill users for goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store, or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes beyond filling your order.

Security

We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.

Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and securely transmitted to us. You can verify this by looking for a closed lock icon at the bottom of your web browser or looking for “https” at the beginning of the address of the web page.

While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (e.g., billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers on which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

Links

This web site contains links to other websites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

Surveys & Emails

From time-to-time, our site requests information via surveys or emails. Participation in these surveys or emails is entirely voluntary, and you may choose whether or not to participate and therefore disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address) and demographic information (such as zip code, age level). Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.

Notification of Changes

VREF reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time, at our sole discretion. Any changes we make to our Privacy Policy will be reflected on this page, with the date of the latest revision identified at the top of the page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by email to the email address specified in your account. Your continued use of our site after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes. You are responsible for ensuring that we have an up-to-date, active, and deliverable email address for you. You must periodically by visiting this page to check for any changes to our Privacy Policy.

If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via telephone at 844-303-VREF or via email at [email protected].