Who We Are and What This Policy Covers

Hello! NS Ventures is a tech company based in Stockholm, and with offices internationally. We are focused on new technology and creating businesses from the ground up. Our daughter company AppCasa, with its offices in Stockholm, is an application development company, focused on creating innovative applications for mobile and web. 

This Privacy Policy applies to information that we collect about you when you use:

 

- Our websites (including nsventures.co, appcasa.se);

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- Our mobile applications (including the Wix mobile app for Android and iOS);

 

- Our other NS Ventures/AppCasa products, services, and features that are available on or through our websites; and

 

- Other users’ websites that use our Services, while you are logged in to your account with us.

 

This Privacy Policy also applies to information we collect when you apply for a job at NS Ventures/AppCasa or one of our subsidiaries.

 

Throughout this Privacy Policy we’ll refer to our websites, mobile applications, and other products and services collectively as “Services.” And if you’d like to learn more about which NS Ventures/AppCasa company is the controller of information about you, take a look at the section below on Controllers and Responsible Companies.

 

Below we explain how we collect, use, and share information about you, along with the choices that you have with respect to that information.

Information We Collect

We only collect information about you if we have a reason to do so — for example, to provide our Services, to communicate with you, or to make our Services better.

We collect this information from three sources: if and when you provide information to us, automatically through operating our Services, and from outside sources. Let’s go over the information that we collect.

Information You Provide to Us

It’s probably no surprise that we collect information that you provide to us directly. Here are some examples:

 

- Communications with us (hi there!): You may also provide us with information when you respond to surveys, communicate with our staff about a support question, or sign up for one of our newsletters. When you communicate with us via form, email, phone, social media, or otherwise, we store a copy of our communications (including any call recordings as permitted by applicable law).

 

- Job applicant information: If you apply for a job with us — awesome! You may provide us with information like your name, contact information, resume or CV, and work authorization verification as part of the application process.

Information We Collect Automatically

We also collect some information automatically:

 

- Log information: Like most online service providers, we collect information that web browsers, mobile devices, and servers typically make available, including the browser type, IP address, unique device identifiers, language preference, referring site, the date and time of access, operating system, and mobile network information. We collect log information when you use our Services.

 

- Usage information: We collect information about your usage of our Services. We track information like your email address, account settings, and PHP settings. We also collect information about what happens when you use our Services (e.g., page views, support document searches, interactions with other parts of our Services) along with information about your device (e.g., screen size, name of cellular network, and mobile device manufacturer). We use this information to, for example, provide our Services to you, get insights on how people use our Services so we can make our Services better, and understand and make predictions about user retention.

 

- Location information: We may determine the approximate location of your device from your IP address. We collect and use this information to, for example, calculate how many people visit our Services from certain geographic regions. We may also collect information about your precise location via our mobile apps (like when you post a photograph with location information) if you allow us to do so through your mobile device operating system’s permissions.

 

- Stored information: We may access information stored on your mobile device via our mobile apps. We access this stored information through your device operating system’s permissions. For example, if you give us permission to access the photographs on your mobile device’s camera roll, our Services may access the photos stored on your device when you upload a really amazing photograph of the sunrise to your website.
 

Information We Collect from Other Sources

We may also get information about you from other sources. For example:

 

- Social Sharing Services: If you share our website(s) or its content to a social media service (like Twitter) by link or share functionality we’ll receive information from that service (e.g., your username, basic profile information, friends list) via the authorization procedures for that service.

 

- The information we receive depends on which services you use or authorize and what options are available.

 

- Third-party services may also give us information, like mailing addresses for individuals who are not yet our users (but we hope will be!). We use this information for marketing purposes like postcards and other mailers advertising our Services.

How and Why We Use Information

Purposes for Using Information

We use information about you for the purposes listed below:

 

- To provide our Services. For example, to provide customer service, process job applications and verify user information.

 

- To ensure quality, maintain safety, and improve our Services. For example, by monitoring and analyzing how users interact with our Services so we can create new features that we think our users will enjoy and that will help them create and manage websites more efficiently or make our Services easier to use.

 

- To place and manage ads in our advertising program. For example, to place ads on our own site, and understand ad performance.

 

- To market our Services and measure, gauge, and improve the effectiveness of our marketing. For example, advertising our Services, analyzing the results of our marketing campaigns, and understanding and forecasting user retention.

 

- To protect our Services, our users, and the public. For example, by detecting security incidents; detecting and protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; fighting spam; complying with our legal obligations; and protecting the rights and property of NS Ventures/AppCasa and others, which may result in us, for example, terminating Services.

 

- To fix problems with our Services. For example, by monitoring, debugging, repairing, and preventing issues.

 

- To customize the user experience. For example, to personalize your experience by serving you relevant notifications and advertisements for our Services, such as recommending related content to you.

 

- To communicate with you. For example, by emailing you to ask for your feedback, share tips for getting the most out of our products, or keep you up to date on NS Ventures/AppCasa; or calling you to share offers and promotions that we think will be of interest to you. If you don’t want to hear from us, you can opt out of marketing communications at any time. 

 

- To recruit and hire new people for NS Ventures/AppCasa. For example, by evaluating job applicants and communicating with them.

Legal Bases for Collecting and Using Information

A note here for those in the European Union about our legal grounds for processing information about you under EU data protection laws, which is that our use of your information is based on the grounds that:

 

(1) The use is necessary in order to fulfill our commitments to you under the applicable terms of service or other agreements with you or is necessary to administer your account — for example, in order to enable access to our website on your device; or

 

(2) The use is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation; or

 

(3) The use is necessary in order to protect your vital interests or those of another person; or

 

(4) We have a legitimate interest in using your information — for example, to provide and update our Services; to improve our Services so that we can offer you an even better user experience; to safeguard our Services; to communicate with you; to measure, gauge, and improve the effectiveness of our advertising; and to understand our user retention and attrition; to monitor and prevent any problems with our Services; and to personalize your experience; or

 

(5) You have given us your consent — for example before we place certain cookies on your device and access and analyze them later on, as described in our Cookie Policy.

Sharing Information

How We Share Information

We share information about you in limited circumstances, and with appropriate safeguards on your privacy. These are spelled out below, as well as in the section called Ads and Analytics Services Provided by Others:

 

- Subsidiaries and independent contractors: We may disclose information about you to our subsidiaries and independent contractors who need the information to help us provide our Services or process the information on our behalf. We require our subsidiaries and independent contractors to follow this Privacy Policy for any personal information that we share with them.

 

- Third-party vendors: We may share information about you with third-party vendors who need the information in order to provide their services to us, or to provide their services to you. This includes vendors that help us provide our Services to you (like Stripe, a payment provider that processes your credit and debit card information, fraud prevention services that allow us to analyze fraudulent payment transactions, cloud storage services, email delivery services that help us stay in touch with you, customer chat and email support services that help us communicate with you); those that help us understand and enhance our Services (like analytics providers); those that make tools to help us run our operations (like programs that help us with task management, scheduling, word processing, email and other communications, and collaboration among our teams); and other third-party tools that help us manage operations. We require vendors to agree to privacy commitments in order to share information with them. 

 

- Legal and regulatory requirements: We may disclose information about you in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental request. 

 

- To protect rights, property, and others: We may disclose information about you when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of NS Ventures/AppCasa, third parties, or the public at large. For example, if we have a good faith belief that there is an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury, we may disclose information related to the emergency without delay.

 

- Business transfers: In connection with any merger, sale of company assets, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company, or in the unlikely event that NS Ventures/AppCasa goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would likely be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. If any of these events were to happen, this Privacy Policy would continue to apply to your information and the party receiving your information may continue to use your information, but only consistent with this Privacy Policy.

 

- With your consent: We may share and disclose information with third parties with your consent or at your direction. 

 

- Aggregated or de-identified information: We may share information that has been aggregated or de-identified, so that it can no longer reasonably be used to identify you. For instance, we may publish aggregate statistics about the use of our Services.

 

- Published support requests: If you send us a request for assistance (for example, via a support email or one of our other feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish that request in order to clarify or respond to your request, or to help us support other users.

 

We have a long-standing policy that we do not sell our users’ data. We aren’t a data broker, we don’t sell your personal information to data brokers, and we don’t sell your information to other companies that want to spam you with marketing emails.

How Long We Keep Information

We generally discard information about you when it’s no longer needed for the purposes for which we collect and use it — described in the section above on How and Why We Use Information — and we’re not legally required to keep it.

 

For example, we keep web server logs that record information about a visitor to one of NS Ventures/AppCasa’s websites, like the visitor’s IP address, browser type, and operating system, for approximately 30 days. We retain the logs for this period of time in order to, among other things, analyze traffic to NS Ventures/AppCasa’s websites and investigate issues if something goes wrong on one of our websites.

Security

While no online service is 100% secure, we work very hard to protect information about you against unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction, and take reasonable measures to do so. We monitor our Services for potential vulnerabilities and attacks.

Choices

You have several choices available when it comes to information about you:

 

- Limit access to information on your mobile device: Your mobile device operating system should provide you with the option to discontinue our ability to collect stored information or location information via our mobile apps. If you choose to limit this, you may not be able to use certain features, like geotagging for photographs.

 

- Opt out of marketing communications: You may opt out of receiving promotional communications from us. Just follow the instructions in those communications or let us know. If you opt out of promotional communications, we may still send you other communications, such as legal notices.

 

- Set your browser to reject cookies: You can usually choose to set your browser to remove or reject browser cookies before using NS Ventures/AppCasa’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of NS Ventures/AppCasa’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Your Rights

If you are located in certain parts of the world, including California and countries that fall under the scope of the European General Data Protection Regulation (aka the “GDPR”), you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, like the right to request access to or deletion of your data.

 

European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

If you are located in a country that falls under the scope of the GDPR, data protection laws give you certain rights with respect to your personal data, subject to any exemptions provided by the law, including the rights to:

 

- Request access to your personal data;

 

- Request correction or deletion of your personal data;

 

- Object to our use and processing of your personal data;

 

- Request that we limit our use and processing of your personal data; and

 

- Request portability of your personal data.

 

You also have the right to make a complaint to a government supervisory authority.

California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) requires us to provide California residents with some additional information about the categories of personal information we collect and share, where we get that personal information, and how and why we use it.

 

The CCPA also requires us to provide a list of the “categories” of personal information we collect, as that term is defined in the law, so, here it is. In the last 12 months, we collected the following categories of personal information from California residents, depending on the Services used:

 

- Identifiers (like your name, contact information, and device and online identifiers);

 

- Characteristics protected by law (for example, you might provide your gender as part of a research survey for us);

 

- Internet or other electronic network activity information (such as your usage of our Services);

 

- Geolocation data (such as your location based on your IP address);

 

- Inferences we make (such as likelihood of retention or attrition).

 

You can find more information about what we collect and sources of that information in the Information We Collect section above.

 

We collect personal information for the business and commercial purposes described in the How and Why We Use Information section. And we share this information with the categories of third parties described in the Sharing Information section.

 

If you are a California resident, you have additional rights under the CCPA, subject to any exemptions provided by the law, including the right to:

 

- Request to know the categories of personal information we collect, the categories of business or commercial purpose for collecting and using it, the categories of sources from which the information came, the categories of third parties we share it with, and the specific pieces of information we collect about you;

 

- Request deletion of personal information we collect or maintain;

 

- Opt out of any sale of personal information; and

 

- Not receive discriminatory treatment for exercising your rights under the CCPA.

Contacting Us About These Rights

If you would like to contact us about your rights, scroll down to the “How to Reach Us” section to, well, find out how to reach us.

Controllers and Responsible Companies

NS Ventures AB/AppCasa AB are the controllers (or co-controllers) of personal information, which means that they are the company responsible for processing that information, based on the particular service and the location of the individual using our Services.
 

How to Reach Us

If you have a question about this Privacy Policy, or you would like to contact us about any of the rights mentioned in the Your Rights section above, please contact us through either our web chat on our website or via email (info@nsventures.se). These are the fastest ways to get a response to your inquiry.

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Transferring Information

Because NS Ventures/AppCasa’s Services are offered worldwide, the information about you that we process when you use the Services in the EU may be used, stored, and/or accessed by individuals operating outside the European Economic Area (EEA) who work for us, other members of our group of companies, or third-party data processors. This is required for the purposes listed in the How and Why We Use Information section above.

 

When providing information about you to entities outside the EEA, we will take appropriate measures to ensure that the recipient protects your personal information adequately in accordance with this Privacy Policy as required by applicable law. These measures include entering into European Commission approved standard contractual arrangements with entities based in countries outside the EEA.

 

You can ask us for more information about the steps we take to protect your personal information when transferring it from the EU.
 

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, NS Ventures/AppCasa may change its Privacy Policy from time to time. NS Ventures/AppCasa encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the change log below, and, in some cases, we may provide additional notice (like adding a statement to our homepage or sending you a notification through email or your dashboard). Your further use of the Services after a change to our Privacy Policy will be subject to the updated policy.

Privacy Policy Change Log

 
2/12/2022 - Privacy Policy Posted 

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