Privacy Policy

Updated: January 1, 2020

Vivera Pharmaceuticals recognizes and respects the importance of maintaining your privacy and keeping your information secure.

This Privacy Policy describes how Vivera Pharmaceuticals, Inc., its employees, officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, and affiliates (collectively “Vivera Pharmaceuticals”, “we”, “us”, or “our”), collect, use and share information we collect when you interact with us on: tviagel.com or websites that link to this policy, social media platforms, email or postal mail, in our stores, or when you call our customer service center.

It’s our intent to ensure that this Privacy Policy and our practices are honest, complete, clear, and current. To do so, we reserve the right to update and revise this policy without prior notice. Revisions will be noted with a new date at the top of this policy.

Please read the Privacy Policy carefully before you start to use our Website. This Privacy Policy is part of our Terms of Use which governs your use of the Website. By using the Website, you agree to be bound and abide by the Terms of Use and this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the Terms of Use and this Privacy Policy, or if you violate them in any way, your right to access or use the Website is terminated.

 

How we collect information

In order to provide a comprehensive service, we may record information from your interactions with us online and when you interact with us via email, social media, postal mail, or phone. The types of information we may collect and methods used to collect them fall under one or more of the following categories:

  • Information you provide to us
  • Basic contact information

Vivera Pharmaceuticals collects information that you voluntarily provide when you interact with our website, create an account, register for notifications, participate in a survey or promotional giveaway, or sign up for our emails or catalogue mailing lists. Examples of this information include but are not limited to: your name, email address, postal address, and phone number.

Account information

When you create an account through our website, customer service team, or at our retail store, we collect information you create through using these services. Examples include your username, password, or customer information. Vivera Pharmaceuticals does not store ‘plain text’ passwords for online accounts.

Payment information

Purchase and Payment Information: When you make a purchase or receive a credit, you will need to provide the information required to process and ship your orders or respond to your customer service requests. This may include your credit card number, card type, expiration date, as well as your billing address and shipping address. Vivera Pharmaceuticals does not store, archive, or otherwise retain credit card numbers.

Applicant information

When you submit an application for employment or provide information to a recruiting service, we collect your “basic contact information” as described above from your inquiry, along with any education and/or profession information included in other application materials such as a cover letter. We may collect other information as required during the interview or hiring process.

 

Information we collect as you use our services

Activity & device information

When you use the Vivera Pharmaceuticals website we collect information on the actions you take such as search history, products you browse and/or purchase, along with certain device, browser, and location information (such as IP address) from how you accessed it. When you use our live chat tool or call our Customer Service center, we collect information such as the date and time of the call, your device/browser version, IP address, and a record of the conversation. When you post a comment, question, or review we collect information to verify your identity.

Public information (the content you share)

All content and information (personal or otherwise) that you add to the Website or social media platforms associated with Vivera Pharmaceuticals, including but not limited to photos and comments on our blog, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter etc. will be considered public information for the purposes of this policy. Please be careful when posting and sharing your information online. In addition, we collect technical data associated with both public and private information that you upload to the Website, such as when the information was uploaded and how that content is formatted.

Information you post may be retained and made publicly available on the Website indefinitely, consistent with our Terms of Use.

Pseudonymized Browsing Information

We may from time to time use third party analytics tools such as Google Analytics to help us measure the performance of our Website. These tools collect pseudonymized browsing information that may include how often people visit our website, which pages they visit, which products are purchased and the source of the visit. This information is not sufficient to be attributed to you as an identified or identifiable person.

To process analytics data when you visit the Website, third party analytics tools use various technologies, including cookies or similar technologies to identify your browser or computer device. Third parties providing these tools do not receive your Vivera Pharmaceuticals user account information, your email address, or other Personal Information through the use of cookies.

To opt out of Google Analytics on the Website go to https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Information from third parties

In addition to the information you provide to us voluntarily, and that which we collect from your use of our website and services, we may combine this information with additional data from other third-party sources to complete your user profile and measure the effectiveness of our marketing initiatives beyond our Website.

Social networks

If you use social media logins (like Twitter and Facebook) to post reviews, ratings, questions, photos or other content on our website, we may be able to view the information you have made public on the social network. You can always limit this sharing using your social media service settings.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Like many websites, Vivera Pharmaceuticals and our third-party partners, vendors and business affiliates use cookies and other tracking technologies on our Website to collect, process, and store Personal and Pseudonymized Browsing Information.

We use cookies for a variety of purposes to make it easier for you to navigate the site, and enhance your web browsing and shopping experience.

Cookies are small files that are stored on the device you use to access the Website. You can adjust the settings on your device to remove or refuse cookies by following the instructions provided by your web browser. If you adjust your settings to refuse cookies, or if you delete cookies, you may not be able to access or use some portions of our website and some features may not work as we have designed them to.

Our website uses first party cookies (set by Vivera Pharmaceuticals) and third-party Cookies (set by digital marketing partners). The cookies used on our website may be persistent or session based.

The Vivera Pharmaceuticals website may also use other technologies including but not limited to JavaScript tags or tracking pixels to collect, process, and store Personal and Pseudonymized Browsing Information as described above. Tracking pixels and tags assist in delivering cookies and allow us to collect Browsing Information about website users. Tracking pixels or tags may also be included in the emails we send you in order to determine whether the emails have been opened and if you have clicked on links with the email.

The tracking technologies used on our Website may be used by Vivera Pharmaceuticals, or our third-party partners, vendors and business affiliates for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use. Our third party partners, vendors, and business affiliates may use these tracking technologies to measure advertising effectiveness (such as which web pages are visited or what products are purchased) to understand shopping patterns, to determine whether you have seen particular ads and for their own business purposes that are not described in this Privacy Policy.

 

How we use information

In addition to utilizing personal and payment information to complete transactions, issue refunds, communicate with you, and fulfill your requests, Vivera Pharmaceuticals may use information collected to analyze and improve our products and services, and to conduct targeted marketing and advertising activities.

If you provide us with your email address when you make a purchase or sign up to receive marketing communications, we may use your information to contact you with content about Vivera Pharmaceuticals. We may use personal information collected from your use of our website (including your email address even if not expressly provided) and match that information with postal address records to send you our catalog or other marketing materials.

Interest-Based Advertising

We may work with third party advertising companies that collect and use information about your online activities across sites over time, in order to deliver more relevant advertising elsewhere on the Internet. This practice is known as interest-based advertising. You may visit http://www.aboutads.info to learn more and to opt out of this type of advertising by third-party advertising companies participating in the Digital Advertising Alliance self-regulatory program.

We do not operate or control www.aboutads.info and are not responsible for the opt-out choices available there. Electing to opt out will not stop ads from appearing in your browser or applications and may make the ads you see less relevant to you. If you delete, block or otherwise restrict cookies or use a different computer or Internet browser, you may need to renew your opt-out choice.

Vivera Pharmaceuticals does not respond to Do Not Track (DNT) signals and handles all user information consistent with its Terms of Use and this Privacy Policy.

Personalizing your experience

We use the information we collect about you and your activity on our website and through our services (including purchase and browsing history) to provide you relevant and personalized product and content recommendations on our website and within our email marketing campaigns.

How we share information

We’re committed to sharing information only when needed for a legitimate business or legal purpose, and then only with recipients who will protect it.

On our website & marketing materials

We may use information collected from customers and site visitors for the purpose of informing other prospective customers, such as sharing a product review or testimonial about our services in an email campaign, catalog or other marketing materials.

With service providers and business partners

We may share your personal information with third parties who perform services on our behalf. For example, we share certain email activity data with vendors to help measure campaign performance, target advertisements and promotions, and personalize the user experience. We may also share information with data aggregators, advertising partners, and business consultants that are carefully selected and agree to terms pursuant to this Privacy Policy.

Vivera Pharmaceuticals will never sell, trade, or rent your email address.

 

For legal requests

We use personal information to comply with legal obligations pursuant to the legal protections afforded to you in your country. Where required to obey the law, such as in response to a subpoena or legal process we will disclose your personal information. We also reserve the right to use your personal information to exercise or defend legal claims.

Your rights and control

Communication preferences

Email subscriptions

You may adjust your email marketing preferences via the user account menu at www.tviagel.com visiting the by clicking the “preferences” or “unsubscribe” link in the footer of any marketing email.

If you choose to opt-out of receiving marketing emails, we may still send you important transactional emails including order confirmation, shipping confirmation, item availability alerts you request, account-based notifications, or in response to other inquiries you make.

Data retention

We will only retain your information for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this policy or as needed to provide services to you or to advertise or market services to you. For example, we may not delete your personal information insofar as it is needed to uphold our legal obligations, resolve disputes, or enforce our agreements, or as needed to continue to inform our marketing efforts.

Links to Third Parties, Social Media, and Social Sharing

Our website may contain links to other websites that are outside of our control. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of any other website or service linked to or from the Website, including the information or content contained within them. If you visit any third-party website, or provide any personal information to such site, you are not submitting that information to us, and we have no control over the website’s privacy practices. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site, and to familiarize themselves with the privacy statements of all websites that they visit and interact with.

Social media provides tools that many of our customers use and enjoy, and we include links to various social media platforms on our website. If you interact with these social media networks through our website, your experience on those social media sites will be governed by the privacy and other policies of those sites. So, the privacy settings you have chosen on those sites will determine the degree to which your information is made public. We encourage you to choose your privacy settings on those sites accordingly.

Our website offers social sharing features, which let users “like” or otherwise share our content on social media platforms. Other users of the social media platform or the general public may see the content you have shared or liked based on the privacy preferences you have defined on the platform.

Government, Courts, and Law Enforcement

We will access, preserve, and share any information about you, without your consent, to government or law enforcement officials or private parties as we in good faith believe necessary or appropriate to respond to claims and legal process (including, but not limited to, subpoenas), to comply with applicable laws, to protect the property and rights of Vivera Pharmaceuticals, you or a third party, to protect the safety of the public or any person, or to prevent or stop activity we may consider to pose a risk of being, or is illegal, unethical or legally actionable.

We may also access, preserve and share information when we have a good faith belief it is necessary to: detect, prevent and address fraud and other illegal activity; to protect ourselves, you and others, including as part of investigations; and to prevent death or imminent bodily harm. Information we receive about you may be accessed, processed and retained for an extended period of time when it is the subject of a legal request or obligation, governmental investigation, or investigations concerning possible violations of our terms or policies, or otherwise to prevent harm.

Security

We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect the confidentiality and security of information transmitted to us. To guard your information delivered to us electronically, our Website uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). SSL encrypts information submitted via website forms so only we are able to decode the information submitted. Vivera Pharmaceuticals also complies with Payment Card industry (PCI) requirements and our site is regularly scanned to confirm compliance with these standards.

Unfortunately, however, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your contact information, to the extent permitted by law, we do not guarantee or warrant the security of any information you transmit to or from our website, and you do so at your own risk.

We urge you to keep any password that you establish with us in a safe place and not to divulge it to anyone. Also remember to log off your account and close your browser window when you have finished your visit. This is to ensure that others cannot access your account, especially if you are sharing a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place.

Children

Vivera Pharmaceuticals online services are not intended for the use of individuals under the age of 18, and we do not knowingly collect or solicit information online from individuals under the age of 18. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 18 without parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under the age of 18, please contact Vivera Pharmaceuticals at [email protected].

Policy Changes

If we decide to change our privacy policy in whole or in part, we will inform you by updating the date at the top of this policy. We encourage you to check regularly to see if our Privacy Policy has changed.

Governing Law

This Privacy Policy and the privacy practices of our website and Vivera Pharmaceuticals are governed solely under the laws of the State of California (in the United States of America), without regard to its conflict of law principles..

Privacy Questions

If you have any questions, concerns, or comments about this privacy policy, please email us at [email protected], or you can write to us at:

Vivera Pharmaceuticals
Attn: Privacy Coordinator
4533 MacArthur Blvd #5049
Newport Beach, CA 92660

 

CALIFORNIA SPECIFIC DISCLOSURES

This Notice supplements the information contained in our Privacy Policy and applies solely to individual residents of the State of California (“consumers” or “you”).

This Notice describes how we collect, use, disclose and otherwise process personal information of individual residents of the State of California, either online or offline, within the scope of the California Consumer Privacy Act, CCPA.

The term “personal information” in this Notice, relates to information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household.

 

Collection, Use, and Disclosure of Personal Information

For the purposes of this Notice, personal information does not include:

  • Deidentified, aggregated or anonymized information that is maintained in a form that is not capable of being associated with or linked to you.
  • Publicly available information from government records.
  • Information about job applicants, employees and other of our personnel.
  • Information about employees and other representatives of third-party entities we may interact with.

The information we collect, have collected within the past twelve months, and may sell and disclose or have sold or disclosed in the past twelve months is:

  • Identifiers
    • Example: Name, email address and IP address
    • Collected from: Information you provide; information we collect when you use our services
    • Business use: To enable the use of our website, communicate directly with you, and understand how customers interact with our website and offerings
    • Shared with: We share this data with our service providers and with business partners
  • Personal information (California Civil Code § 1798.80(e))
    • Examples: Birthdate, contact information, and payment information
    • Collected from: Information you provide; information we collect when you use our services
    • Business use: To communicate directly with you, process your requests and transactions; and aid in fraud prevention
    • Shared with: We share this data with our service providers and with business partners
  • Protected Classifications
    • Examples: Age, gender
    • Collected from: Information provided by you as well as third-party vendors
    • Business use: To understand how customers interact with our website and offerings
    • Shared with: We do not share this information
  • Commercial Information
    • Examples: Purchase history; other information relating to your hobbies, interests, and shopping behavior
    • Collected from: Information you provide; information we collect when you use our services; and information collected from our business partners
    • Business use: To personalize your experience, improve our website and product offerings, and understand market trends
    • Shared with: We share this data with our service providers and with business partners
  • Biometric Information
    • N/A
  • Internet/Network Information
    • Examples: Device/browser information, analytics data, and user logs
    • Collected from: Information we collect when you use our services
    • Business use: To enable the use of our website, monitor and troubleshoot website performance, and assist with your requests
    • Shared with: We share this data with our service providers and with business partners
  • Geolocation Data
    • Examples: Contact or activity location approximated by your IP
    • Collected from: Information we collect when you use our services
    • Business use: To enable the use of our website, and to personalize your experience
    • Shared with: We share this data with our service providers and with business partners
  • Sensory Information
    • Examples: Audio recordings of conversations with customer service
    • Collected from: Information we collect when you use our services
    • Business use: To fulfill your requests, and improve our services and offerings
    • Shared with: We do not share this information
  • Profession/Employment Information
    • Collected from: Information you provided and collected from recruitment providers
    • Business use: To inform our hiring process
    • Shared with: We do not share this information
  • Other Personal Information
    • Examples: Content you share in reviews, comments, or questions posted on our website, social media pages, etc.
    • Collected from: Information provided by you as well as third-party vendors
    • Business use: To understand how customers interact with our website and services, and to improve our offerings
    • Shared with: We share this data internally, with our service providers, and with business partners
  • Inferences
    • Examples: System-generated predictions about your interests and preferences
    • Collected from: We create these internally and with the help of our business partners
    • Business use: To personalize your experience and improve our offerings
    • Shared with: We share this data with our service providers and with business partners

For additional details and examples of how your information is collected, used, and shared, please review our Privacy Policy.

Your privacy rights

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act, CCPA, California residents have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months. Once we receive and verify your request, we will disclose to you:

  • The categories of personal information we collected about you.
  • The categories of sources from which the personal information is collected.
  • The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you.
  • Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling any personal information.
  • The categories of personal information about you that was sold or disclosed for a business purpose.
  • The categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold or disclosed for a business purpose, by category or categories of personal information for each category of third parties to whom the personal information was sold.

You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and verify your request, we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies.

We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service providers to:

  • Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform our agreement with you.
  • Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
  • Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
  • Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
  • Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act.
  • Enable internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.
  • Comply with a legal obligation.
  • Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.

To exercise the rights described above, please submit a verifiable request to us by emailing us at [email protected] or by calling us at (844) 484-8372 and requesting to speak with our privacy coordinator.

Only you or a person that you authorize to act on your behalf may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. If you wish to authorize another to act on your behalf, please be advised that Vivera Pharmaceuticals may require that you provide the authorized agent with written permission to submit a request and verify your own identity directly with us, unless the authorized agent has a power of attorney. However, you may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child.

Our verification process works as follows. Before we may process a request, in order to protect your privacy, we will ask you to confirm a few pieces of information that we have on our records about you, for example:

  • Your address
  • Your zip code
  • Your customer number or recent order number
  • Your email address

If your request is for deletion of personal information, we will need to re-verify you before we delete your information.

You may make a verifiable consumer request up to two times within a 12-month period, without charge. Unfortunately, we cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm that the personal information relates to you. Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us. We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.

We try to respond to a verifiable consumer request within 45 days of its receipt. If we require more time, we will inform you of the reason and extension time period (up to 90 days). If you have an account with us, we will deliver our response to that account. If you do not have an account with us, we will deliver our response by mail or electronically, at your option. Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding receipt of your request. The response we provide will also explain any reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable.

Vivera Pharmaceuticals will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights.

Do Not Sell My Personal Information

You have the right to direct us not to sell any personal information we collect. To exercise your right to opt-out, please send an email to [email protected].

You do not need to create an account with us to exercise your opt-out rights. We will only use personal information provided in an opt-out request to review and comply with the request.

Changes in Notice

If we decide to change our Notice in whole or in part, we will notify you of any material changes to our Notice as required by law. We encourage you to check regularly to see if our Privacy Policy or Notice has changed.

Privacy Questions

If you have any questions, concerns, or comments about this privacy policy, please email us at [email protected], or you can write to us at:

Vivera Pharmaceuticals
Attn: Privacy Coordinator
4533 MacArthur Blvd #5049
Newport Beach, CA 92660