Privacy Policy
Last Updated: 5 September 2024
Avalon Holographics Inc., is based in St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada. At Avalon Holographics Inc. (“Company”) we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.
This policy describes the types of personal information we may collect from you or that you may provide to us and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting and disclosing that personal information.
This policy applies to personal information we collect:
● on this Website, AvalonHolographics.com (our “Website”);
● in email, text and other electronic messages between you and this Website, including our info@AvalonHolographics.com request form;
● through mobile and desktop applications which may be made available for download from this Website and which provide dedicated non-browser-based interaction between you and this Website;
● At trade shows, conferences, and events; and
● when you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this policy or this Website.
It does not apply to information collected by any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including another website or advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website.
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it.
If you do not agree with our policies and practices, do not use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree and consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this privacy policy, and acknowledge that it may be amended from time to time in Company’s sole discretion.
Personal Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
In this policy “personal information” means any information that identifies you or could be reasonably associated with you. We may collect several types of personal information from and about users of our Website, including information:
● by which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, and related (“personal data”);
● that is about you, but does not, on its own identify you, such as company name, title, etc.; and/or
● about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website (such as a unique device identifier) and usage details.
We collect this information:
● directly from you when you provide it to us;
● automatically as you navigate through the site (automatically collected information may include usage details, IP addresses and information collected through cookies, web beacons and other tracking technologies); and
● from third parties, for example, our business partners.
2. Information You Provide to Us
The personal information you provide to us on or through our Website may include:
● information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website (this includes information provided at the time of submitting information requests, or using our “Contact Us” forms);
● information you provide when you report a problem with our Website;
● records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us via our Website;
● your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes;
● details of transactions you carry out through our Website and of the fulfillment of your orders, including financial information provided as part of placing an order through our Website; and
● your search queries on the Website.
3. Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies
As you navigate through and interact with our Website, 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 Website, including traffic data, location data, logs and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website, and
● information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, computer type and browser type.
We may maintain this data and may associate it with other personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. This data helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a 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 Website according to your individual interests
● speed up your searches; and
● recognize you when you return to our Website.
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. 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 Website. 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 Website 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 Website and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs pixel tags and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an e-mail and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
4. How We Use Your Information
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:
● to present our Website and its contents to you and to allow you to participate in its interactive features;
● to provide you with information, products or services that you request from us;
● to fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it;
● to notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it;
● in any other way we may describe when you provide the information; and
● for any other purpose with your consent.
With your consent, we may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers’ target audiences. If you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may receive your personal information, including your IP address and device identifier.
5. Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose aggregated information about our users and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:
● to our subsidiaries and affiliates;
● to contractors, service providers and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them;
● to a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of the Company’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding, in which personal data held by the Company about our Website users is among the assets transferred;
● to fulfill the purpose for which you provide it (for example to contact you about a problem);
● for any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information; and
● with your consent.
We may also disclose your personal information:
● as required or authorized by law or by order or requirement of a court, administrative agency, or other governmental tribunal;
● to enforce or apply our Terms of Use;
● Where we believe, upon reasonable grounds, that it is necessary to protect the rights, privacy, safety, or property of an identifiable person or group, including exchanging information with organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction;
● Where it is necessary to permit us to pursue available remedies or limit any damages that we may sustain;
● Where the information being disclosed or used is publicly available;
6. Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We strive 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.
● Targeted Advertising. If you do not want us to use information that we collect or that you provide to us to deliver advertisements according to our advertisers’ target-audience preferences, you can opt-out by checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data (the order form/registration form). You can also always adjust your user advertising preferences in your account profile by checking or unchecking the relevant boxes or by sending us an email at info@AvalonHolographics.com.
● Third-Party Service Providers. We use third-party service providers, such as Microsoft, Salesforce, SquareSpace, and SiteGround to host data in Canada and the United States; track and prevent errors in our Website and software; and send, receive, and track emails and user activity on our Website. These third-party service providers may have access to personal information as a result of the services they provide to us. While we take reasonable precautions while engaging our service providers (including implementing appropriate terms) please note that when we engage a service provider that operates outside of Canada, personal information may be stored, processed, accessed or used in another country. In that case, the personal information may be subject to the law of the jurisdiction in which it is used or stored, including any law permitting or requiring disclosure of the information to the government, government agencies, courts and law enforcement in that jurisdiction.
7. How We Protect Your Personal Information
The safety and security of your personal information is very important to us. While we cannot guarantee complete protection of your personal information, we use commercially reasonable physical, technical, and administrative safeguards to protect it against accidental loss, and unauthorized access, use, alteration, disclosure, and destruction.
Because the transmission of data via the Internet is not completely secure, any transmission of personal information is done at your own risk. Although we use appropriate safeguards to maintain the integrity of data in our care, we are not responsible for the circumvention of any of our privacy settings or security measures.
Access to personal information, or other private or confidential information, is restricted to authorized personnel of the Company who are required to abide by our privacy standards.
8. Retention of Your Personal Information
Except as otherwise permitted or required by applicable law or regulation, we will only retain your personal information for as long as is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements or to protect us from liability in the event of a dispute.
We reserve the right to use and to publish aggregated, anonymized, and de-identified data that we have collected from you for any legitimate business purposes, including performing analytical procedures to improve, extend, and promote our Website and services, without further notice to you and without your consent.
9. Correcting or Updating Your Personal Information and Withdrawing Consent and Additional Privacy Rights
It is important that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and current. Please inform us of any changes to the personal information you provided to us.
You have the right to request access to and to correct the personal information that we hold about you.
Individuals in Québec also have:
● The right to received an explanation of a decision based exclusively on an automated processing of the individual’s personal information (where applicable);
● The right to require that we cease disseminating your personal information, and de-index or re-index any hyperlink that provides access to your personal information (where applicable); and
● The right to obtain the communication of the individual computerized personal information in a structured, commonly used technological format.
You may contact us if you would like to review, verify, correct, or withdraw consent to the use of your personal information, or exercise any of the rights listed above. Please note that should you request access to or correction of your personal information, we may request certain personal information for the purposes of verifying your identity.
10. Changes to Our Privacy Policy
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you through a notice on the Website. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
11. Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, please email us at info@AvalonHolographics.com using the subject line “Re Privacy Policy”.
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