Effective date: January 1, 2024
The AvaSci mobile application (hereinafter referred to as the “Service”). This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data.

We use your data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, the terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions.

Definitions
Service
Service means AvaSci.com website and AvaSci mobile application.
Personal Data
Personal Data means data and images about a living individual who can be identified from those data (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession).
Usage Data
Usage Data is data collected automatically either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit). AvaSci does not collect the names of any user.
Cookies
Cookies are small files stored on your device (computer or mobile device).
Data Controller
Data Controller means the natural or legal person who (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons) determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal information are, or are to be, processed. For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, we are a Data Controller of your Personal Data.
Data Processors (or Service Providers)
Data Processor (or Service Provider) means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller.
We may use the services of various Service Providers in order to process your data more effectively.
Data Subject (or User)
Data Subject is any living individual who is using our Service and is the subject of
Personal Data. Information Collection and Use
We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.
Types of Data Collected
Personal Data
While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

• Email address
•  Images
•  Cookies and Usage Data

We may use your Personal Data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send or by contacting us.
Usage Data
We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Service or when you access the Service by or through a mobile device (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
When you access the Service with a mobile device, this Usage Data may include information such as the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser you use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
Location Data
We may use and store information about your location if you give us permission to do so (“Location Data”). We use this data to provide features of our Service, to improve and customize our Service.
You can enable or disable location services when you use our Service at any time by way of your device settings.
Tracking Cookies Data
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and we hold certain information.
Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device.
Other tracking technologies are also used such as beacons, tags and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service.
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.
Examples of Cookies we use: 

• Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.
• Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
• Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.

Use of Data
AvaSci uses the collected data for various purposes: 

•  To provide and maintain our Service
• To notify you about changes to our Service
• To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose
  to do so
• To provide customer support
• To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Service
• To monitor the usage of our Service
• To detect, prevent and address technical issues
• To provide you with news, special offers and general information about other
  goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have
  already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such
  information

Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data under the General Data Protection
Regulation (GDPR)
If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), AvaSci legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Data we collect and the specific context in which we collect it.
AvaSci may process your Personal Data because:

• We need to perform a contract with you.
•  You have given us permission to do so.
• The processing is in our legitimate interests and it is not overridden by your rights.
• For payment processing purposes.
• To comply with the law.

  Retention of Data
  AvaSci will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
  AvaSci will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer periods.

  Transfer of Data
  Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to – and maintained on – computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction. If you are located outside United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we may transfer the data, including Personal Data, to United States and process it there.
  Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
  AvaSci will take all the steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.
  Disclosure of Data
  Business Transaction
  If AvaSci is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy. 

  Request to know more details about the categories or specific pieces of personal information we collect (including how we use and disclose this information), to delete their personal information, to opt out of any “sales” that may be occurring, and to not be discriminated against for exercising these rights. 

  California consumers may make a request pursuant to their rights under the CCPA by contacting us at info@AvaSci.com. We will verify your request using the information associated with your account, including email address. Government identification may be required. Consumers can also designate an authorized agent to exercise these rights on their behalf.
  Your Data Protection Rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
  If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. AvaSci aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete or limit the use of your Personal Data. If you wish to be informed about what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us. In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:
  The right to access, update or delete the information we have on you. Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of your Personal Data directly within your account settings section. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact us to assist you.
  The right of rectification. You have the right to have your information rectified if that information is inaccurate or incomplete.
  The right to object. You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data.
  The right of restriction. You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.
  The right to data portability. You have the right to be provided with a copy of the information we have on you in a structured, machine-readable and commonly used format.
  The right to withdraw consent. You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where AvaSci relied on your consent to process your personal information. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to suchrequests.
  You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA).
  Information Commissioner’s Office
  You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.
  Service Providers
  We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), provide the Service on our behalf, perform Service-related services or assist us in analysing how our Service is used. These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
  Analytics
  We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyse the use of our
  Service.
  Google Analytics
  Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
  For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy
  Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
  Behavioral Remarketing
  AvaSci uses remarketing services to advertise on third party websites to you after you
  visited our Service. We and our third-party vendors use cookies to inform, optimise and
  serve ads based on your past visits to our Service.
  Google Ads (AdWords)
  Google Ads (AdWords) remarketing service is provided by Google Inc. You can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize the Google Display Network ads by visiting the Google Ads Settings page: http://www.google.com/settings/ads
  Google also recommends installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on – https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout – for your web browser. Google Analytics Optout Browser Add-on provides visitors with the ability to prevent their data from being
  collected and used by Google Analytics.
  For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy
  Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
  Bing Ads Remarketing
  Bing Ads remarketing service is provided by Microsoft Inc.
  You can opt-out of Bing Ads interest-based ads by following their instructions:
  https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized-adsYou can learn more about the privacy practices and policies of Microsoft by visiting their
  Privacy Policy page: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/PrivacyStatement
  PayPal / Braintree
  Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full
  Shopify Payments
  Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy
  Sezzle
  Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://legal.sezzle.com/privacy
  Amazon Pay
  Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://pay.amazon.com/help/201751600
  Alexa
  Before using any of our Alexa Skills (“our skills”), please read this policy here https://AvaSci.com/pages/terms-of-service and our Alexa Skills Terms of Use here https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201809740, as well as the Alexa Terms of Use and the Privacy Policies by the Amazon Digital Services LLC (with its affiliates, “Amazon”) here https://www.amazon.com/privacy.
  Regarding Amazon, “Alexa” means their Alexa Voice Service which includes third party services (like our skills) and other related Software. If you use one of our skills you fully agree to this privacy policy. When you use our skills you have to talk to Alexa. This
  voice input is sent to Amazon and us where we use it to understand what our skill should do for you. This is absolutely necessary for our service to give you an
  appropriate answer.
  Children’s Privacy
  Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
  Changes to This Privacy Policy
  We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy
  Policy.
  You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to
  this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
  Contact Us
  If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or your data, please contact our
  Data Protection Officer:

• By mail: P Box 401, Sparta, NJ 07871 USA
• By email: Info@AvaSci.com