This privacy statement sets out how Vanderplaats R&D Inc collects, protects and uses personal information that is provided by you.

Vanderplaats R&D, Inc is committed to ensuring your privacy and protecting your personal information. Information is considered personal if it can be associated exclusively to a specific natural person. The provisions below serve to provide information as to the manner, extent and purpose for collecting, using and processing this personal information.

Please be aware that the transfer of data via the internet is subject to security risks and, therefore, complete protection against third party access to transferred data cannot be ensured

Who is collecting the data?

Vanderplaats R&D, Inc
1767 S 8th Street
Colorado Springs, CO 80905

What data is collected?

We may collect the following personal information:

  • Name, username, organization affiliation and job title
  • Contact Information including email address and phone number
  • Demographic information such as address, postal code,
  • Usage information about how you use our website, products and services
  • Marketing information such as your preferences to receive marketing communications

How is the data collected?

We may collect data:

  • When you complete forms that are available on our website
  • When you communicate with us using either post, email and/or phone calls
  • When you do business with us including any product licensing and consulting services
  • When you subscribe to our newsletters
  • When you register and attend our workshops, webinars or other marketing events
  • When you provide information at conferences/ other events either at our booth or to one of our employees
  • When you request for software evaluation or resources or marketing information

What is the data used for?

We use the data collected to send you information about our software products and services.  We will use your personal data when it is necessary for our legitimate business interests only when your fundamental rights and interests are not overridden, or we need to comply with legal/regulatory obligations.

Your data is used to send marketing communications via email. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time by sending an email to bounce@vrand.com or by clicking on the Unsubscribe link in the bottom of every one of our marketing communications.

Use of Google Analytics

Our website uses the Google Analytics service provided by Google, Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, hereby referred to as “Google”, to facilitate or track usage of our site. The information collected by this service, such as time, place, frequency of your visits, including IP address and browser information is transmitted to Google directly. This information is not available directly to us. Google uses this information to evaluate the usage of our site, to compile reports on site activity for us. Google offers a disabling option for the most common browsers, thus providing you with greater control over the data collected by them. More information about terms of use for Google Analytics and Google privacy policy is available at https://policies.google.com/

Use of reCAPTCHA

In order to protect input forms on our site, we use the “reCAPTCHA” service provided by Google, Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, hereby referred to as “Google”. This is a service that is used to distinguish between input of human origin and input from automated machine processing. To our knowledge, information about the referrer URL, IP address, operating system, browser information, cookies, user input behavior etc are conveyed to Google. Google uses this information to enhance their services. The IP address provided as part of reCAPTCHA is not merged with other data from Google unless you are logged into your google account at the time the reCAPTCHA plugin was used. If you want to prevent transmission and storage of data by Google about you and your behavior on our website, we recommend you to logout of your google account before visiting our website or using the reCAPTCHA plugin. More information about terms of use of the reCAPTCHA plugin and Google privacy policy is available at https://policies.google.com/

Use of External Links

Our website contains links that enable you to visit other websites easily. Note that we do not have control over the other websites. Once you have used an external link to navigate to other websites, we cannot be held responsible for the protection and privacy of your information provided while visiting these sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should look at the respective websites for their privacy statements.

Data Disclosure and Security

Your personal information collected is stored in our Customer Relationship Management (CRM) database. Access to this personal information is restricted to our employees on a need-to-access basis.

We do not disclose your information to any other external persons with the exception of our channel partners or if we are obligated to do so by law/regulations. While sharing information with our channel partners, only the information that is needed to accomplish our business relationship with you would be shared.

We are committed to ensuring that your personal information is protected and safeguarded. In order to prevent unauthorized usage of your information, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures.

Controlling your Personal Data

You may contact us at no cost if you have any questions related to the collection, processing or usage of your personal information. You also have the right to request for correction of incorrect data, deletion/blocking of information or denial/modification of granted consent.  We may request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity, so as to prevent wrongful disclosure of information.

Changes in Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to change this privacy policy from time to time. We update this page (http://www.vrand.com/privacy-policy/) with the changes as and when they happen. This policy was updated on June 20th, 2018.

Contact Information

You can contact us via email using info@vrand.com or complete our “Contact Us” form (http://www.vrand.com/contact-us/).

Our office addresses are

Colorado Office

Vanderplaats R&D, Inc.
1767 S. 8th St., Suite 200
Colorado Springs, CO 80905
Phone: (719) 473-4611
Fax: (719) 473-4638

Michigan Office

Vanderplaats R&D, Inc.
41700 Gardenbrook, Suite 115
Novi, MI 48375
Phone: (248) 596-1611
Fax: (248) 596-1911