Avahan (”Avahan”, “We” or “Us”) respects your privacy and is dedicated to protecting the privacy of those persons using (“User(s)” or “You”) the Avahan webpages and other services and applications provided by Avahan (“Services”).
This Privacy Policy helps You to understand what personal information/data (“Personal Information”) and non-personal information We collect, and how We use it. This Privacy Policy shall apply to Your use of the Services and You should read this document before using the Services. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and is subject to the Avahan Terms of Service. If You do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Services.
1. Information that We may process about You
“Personal Information” refers to information, which allows Users to be specifically identified as individual persons. We may also collect “non-personal information” meaning it can’t be used to specifically identify any persons. Non-personal information may also be the result of removing the personally identifiable parts from the information. We collect and use both types of information and use combinations of both types.
We collect several categories of Personal Information including, information You provide to us directly, technically gathered information when You use our Services and information from third parties (including social networking sites without being limited to those) in relation to our Services.
We will collect information that You provide to us, for example when You sign up for or use our Services, which includes your name and e- mail address. We will also collect information on your purchase history and your subscriptions.
The Service may be able to connect to your social networking sites and profiles to obtain information about You when You consent to allow your social networking site to make that information available to Avahan and, consequently Avahan may be able to collect certain information from your social networking profile when your social networking site permits to make that information available to Us.
We will also collect information that is technically gathered when You use our Services. This information may include your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, time of your requests or actions while using our Services, your location based on your IP address, mobile device unique ID, hardware type and operating system version, operating system, access times, browser type and language, media access control (“MAC”) address, international mobile equipment identity (“IMEI”), your email address (if You have connected e.g. to Facebook or Google+) and referring website addresses.
Avahan may feature advertising within the Services, and may employ third party technologies to collect information in the Services. In order to enhance our Services, Avahan may also use tools from third party service providers, such as Google Analytics to collect information. For example, Google Analytics collects and stores data such as time of visit, pages visited, time spent on each page of the Site, the Internet Protocol (IP) address, and the type of operating system used in the devices used to access the Services.
2. Why We process Your information
Avahan will only collect such Personal Information that is relevant for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. Personal information may be processed for the purposes of: creating Services accounts; facilitating transactions; providing, using, maintaining, customizing and developing the Services; personalizing the Services to suit your preferences; contacting Users; providing personalized advertisements and sending customer and marketing information to Users; enabling communications in the Services; and conducting research and creating reports.
Avahan will use collected information to create a user profile. We may use collected information to create a user profile link, or combine it with other information we obtain from third parties, to help Us understand your preferences and provide You with better Services. Avahan commits to adhere to the provisions of applicable laws and regulations pertaining to processing of Personal Information, as well as process Personal Information in compliance with good processing practice. All personnel involved in processing Personal Information are obliged to keep such information strictly confidential.
Your Personal Information might be used for targeted in-service marketing and other similar purposes, and with your consent, for email marketing by Avahan. Advertising may be based on your user profile in order to provide You with personalized advertisements, and advertising in the Service may come from affiliate advertising networks.
3. Disclosure of your information
By using the Services You disclose information about yourself to Avahan. In connection with your use of the Services, including communication features in the Services, You may disclose data about yourself to other users, and any such data is public information, and there is no expectation of privacy. Avahan is not responsible for any personal data You choose to make public in the Services.
Avahan will not disclose your stored Personal Information to third parties for direct marketing, market research, polls or public registers without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which You will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out.
We may use external service providers to provide technical solutions or services for processing or storing Personal Information. They may access your Personal Information by using a technical interface, or We may share your Personal Information with third party service providers to the extent that it is reasonably necessary to perform, improve or maintain the Services.
Avahan may use third party service providers, such as e-mail service providers, credit card processors, information analyzers, cloud services and business intelligence providers. Avahan has the right to share Personal Information as necessary for the aforementioned service providers to provide their services to Avahan. Avahan is not liable for the acts and omissions of these third parties.
We may share non-personal information (such as anonymous User usage data, referring / exit pages and URLs, platform types, asset views, number of clicks, etc.) with interested third-parties to assist them in understanding the usage patterns for certain content, services, advertisements, promotions, and/or functionality of the Services. Aggregate or anonymous information may be shared with advertisers, publishers, business partners, and other third parties.
Avahan shall not be responsible for the actions of third parties (including people, companies or services), the content of third-party websites, the usage of the information provided by Users to such third parties, or any products or services that they may offer.
In exceptional circumstances, Personal Information may be disclosed to third parties if required under any applicable law or regulation or order by competent authorities, or in order to enforce the Terms of Service and to investigate possible infringing use of the Services as well as to guarantee safety of the Services.
Avahan may share your information in connection with any merger, sale of our assets, or a financing or acquisition of all or a portion of our business.
4. Protecting your Information
Avahan implements physical, technical and administrative safeguards to protect your Personal Information consistent with industry practices. Personal Information that We hold about You will be accessible only to those persons expressly authorized by Avahan.
Your Personal Information will be maintained in external service providers’ servers with appropriate safeguards, such as password protection, encryption, and access controls granting access to the information only to Avahan, persons working at Avahan. Personal Information that we hold about You will be accessible only to those persons expressly authorized by Avahan.
Although We make good faith efforts to store the information collected on the Services in a secure operating environment as is the case with all websites, applications, products and services, We cannot guarantee the absolute security of that information during its transmission or its storage on our systems. Avahan will endeavor to notify Users via the Avahan website or through the Services in the case of a material security breach that endangers your privacy or Personal Information. Avahan may also temporarily shut down a service to protect Personal Information.
5. Cookies & Tracking Technologies
A cookie is a string of information or a small text file that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns.
Avahan uses cookies to help it identify and track visitors, their usage of the Services, and their access preferences, improving quality, tailoring recommendations, and developing the Services. Users who do not wish to have cookies placed should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using the Services, with the drawback that certain features of the Service may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
In addition to cookies, We may use other tracking technologies. Tracking technologies may set, change, alter or modify settings or configurations on your device. Cookies and other tracking technologies will not enable Avahan to access and review information stored on a User’s device.
The Services are currently free from ads served by third parties. In the future, We may have third party ads and related to that such advertisers or advertising networks may deliver cookies or use other tracking tools. These third party services shall be governed by separate privacy policies and this Privacy Policy does not apply and Avahan shall not be responsible for such third party data collection.
6. Your Rights regarding your Personal Information
You have the right to access, update, rectify or delete the Personal Information that We hold about You. If You would like to make a request to access, update, rectify or delete your Personal Information please contact support@avahan.app
We will, at our own initiative, or upon your request, update, correct or delete any incomplete, inaccurate or outdated Personal Information. You can also update certain Personal Information from within your account settings at any time.
You may opt-out of receiving promotional or marketing emails by clicking on the unsubscribe link within those emails. If You opt-out to receiving marketing communications, Avahan may still need to send You non-promotional communications for example, emails about your account, or changes to the Services.
7. Changes of the privacy policy
Avahan may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. All changes will be made available on this website. Avahan encourages Users to frequently check this page to learn of any changes to this Privacy Policy.
8. Contact Us
If You have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or how your Personal Information is processed, please contact the Avahan team at support@avahan.app