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Privacy Policy

Your privacy is critically important to us  

At Avenish Innovations we have some fundamental principles around data privacy:

    • We’re thoughtful about the information we ask you to provide and the information that we collect.  We only collect information about you if we have a reason to do so — for example, to provide our services, communicate with you, or to improve our services.
    • We store personal information for only as long as we have a business reason to keep it.

What This Policy Applies To

This privacy policy applies to content on our website, which is where you’re reading this:  https://www.avenishinnovations.com.  Specifics of how we protect your data in a consulting engagement depends heavily on the platforms you use and the work we’re doing, and is set out in our statement of work.

Information We Collect

  • Usage Information:  We collect information about your usage of our website, such as page views and how long pages took to load, and what device you used to visit the website.
  • Device Information:  We collect information that web browsers typically make available, including the browser type, IP address, date and time of access, and operating system.
  • Location Information:  We may use your IP address to determine your rough location, so that we can determine what geographic region our website visitors come from.
  • Email Address Information:  You may provide us with your email address to obtain some content, or for us to contact you.
  • Comment User Information: If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
  • Login Information:  If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.  When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
  • Social Sharing Information:  If you engage with social media through our site, such as sharing or liking a post, we may see the public portion of your user information.
  • Comments:  When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, the visitor’s IP address, and browser user agent string to help spam detection.  An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it.
  • Embedded Content from Other Websites:  Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.  These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

 

How and Why We Use Information

  • To Provide Our Services:  To operate this website and to communicate with you.
  • To Ensure Quality and Improve Our Services:  We evaluate how our website is used to make it easier to find information and to provide new content we think you may appreciate.
  • To Place and Manage Ads:  Our content may present embedded advertisements that we manage through a third party.
  • To Market Our Services and Measure Marketing Effectiveness:  If you provide us with your email address for marketing purposes, we may provide you with additional content and opportunities.  We will use information contained in those emails to determine our marketing effectiveness.  You may opt out of marketing communications at any time.
  • To Protect Our Services:  We may utilize log information to help detect security incidents, protect against malicious activity, fight spam, and comply with our legal obligations.

 

How We Share Information

  • Third-Party Vendors:  We may share information about you with third-party vendors who need the information to provide their services to us.  That includes payment vendors, fraud prevention services, email delivery services, analytics providers, and other third-party tools that help us manage operations.
  • Legal and Regulatory Requirements:  We may disclose information about you in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental request.
  • At Your Direction:  With your consent, we may share information you have provided us with third parties, such as social media services.
  • In Public Comments:  Information you share publicly is disclosed publicly.  If you leave comments on the site, the information you provided is visible to the public in the context of your comment.  

How long we retain your data

  • We generally discard information about you when its no longer needed for the business purposes for which we collected and used it, providing we’re not legally required to retain the information.
  • Website Logs:  We retain log information about website visitors for 30 days.
  • Comments:  If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
  • Opt-In Marketing:  We retain the information you have provided us when opting-in for marketing communications until you opt out.

What rights you have over your data

If you have left comments on this site, you can request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

You may opt out of receiving marketing communications from us at any time by utilizing the unsubscribe link in the email.

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