Advanced Appliances Privacy Policy
What we do with your information
- The term “Personal Information” as used herein is defined as any information that identifies or can be used to identify, contact or locate the person to whom such information pertains. The Personal Information that we collect will be subject to this Privacy Policy, as amended from time to time.
- When you register for Advanced Appliances we ask for your email address.
- Advanced Appliances uses the information we collect for the following general purposes: products and services provision, billing, identification and authentication, services improvement, contact, and research.
- As part of the buying and selling process on Advanced Appliances, you will obtain the email address and/or shipping address of your customers. By entering into our User Agreement, you agree that, with respect to other users’ Personal Information that you obtain through Advanced Appliances or through a Advanced Appliances-related communication or Advanced Appliances-facilitated transaction, Advanced Appliances hereby grants to you a license to use such information only for Advanced Appliances-related communications that are not unsolicited commercial messages. Advanced Appliances does not tolerate spam. Therefore, without limiting the foregoing, you are not licensed to add the name of someone who has purchased an item from you, to your mail list (email or physical mail) without their express consent.
WHICH MEANS
When you sign up you provide personal information which we collect and use. For the check-out process we also collect your credit card information. Only use your Advanced Appliances customers’ information for Advanced Appliances-related communications, unless they give you permission otherwise. Don’t spam anyone!
Security
The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information, such as credit card number on our registration form, we encrypt the transmission of that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). Credit card details are stored encrypted using AES-256 encryption. As a level 1 PCI-DSS compliant service provider we follow all PCI-DSS requirements and implement additional generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can email us at info [at] advancedvancouver.ca.
WHICH MEANS
We will encrypt your credit card and sensitive information at industry standards. Because stuff happens, we can’t guarantee 100% security of your data. If you have questions email info [at] advancedvancouver.ca
Disclosure
- Advanced Appliances may use third party service providers to provide certain services to you and we may share Personal Information with such service providers. We require any company with which we may share Personal Information to protect that data in a manner consistent with this policy and to limit the use of such Personal Information to the performance of services for Advanced Appliances.
- Advanced Appliances may disclose Personal Information under special circumstances, such as to comply with court orders requiring us to do so or when your actions violate the Terms of Service.
- We do not sell or otherwise provide Personal Information to other companies for the marketing of their own products or services.
WHICH MEANS
In certain circumstances, we may disclose your personal information, like court orders.
Client Data Storage
Advanced Appliances owns the data storage, databases and all rights to the Advanced Appliances application however we make no claim to the rights of your data. You retain all rights to your data and we will never contact your clients directly, or use your data for our own business advantage or to compete with you or market to your clients.
WHICH MEANS
You own your data and we will respect that. We won’t try and compete with you or write to your customers.
Cookies
A cookie is a small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a web site and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Every computer that accesses our website is assigned a different cookie by us.
Google Analytics and Remarketing
We use a service provided by Google called Google Analytics (GA). GA permits us to reach people who have previously visited our site, and show them relevant advertisements when they visit other sites across the Internet in the Google Display Network. This is often called ‘remarketing’.
Cookies can be used to track your session on our website, to serve customized ads from Google and other third party vendors. When you visit this website, you may view advertisements posted on the site by Google or other third parties. Through first-party and third party cookies, these third parties may collect information about you while you are visiting this website and other websites. They may use this data to show you advertisements on this website and across the Internet based on your prior visits to this website and elsewhere on the Internet. We do not collect this information or control the content of the advertisements that you will see.
Opting Out
You may be able to opt out of customized Google Display Network ads by visiting the Ads Preferences Manager ([http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/](http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/)), and the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on ([http://www.google.ca/ads/preferences/plugin/](http://www.google.ca/ads/preferences/plugin/)).
Your use of this website without opting out means that you understand and agree to data collection to provide you with remarketing ads using GA and cookies from other third party vendors based on your prior visits to this website and elsewhere on the Internet.
WHICH MEANS
To identify you electronically, a cookie will be stored on your computer. We have a “remarketing” tool running that allows us to take note of your visits to our site and show you relevant ads on our website and across the Internet. You can always opt out.
PCI-DSS
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) is a set of security requirements managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, a joint effort of the payment brands, including Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by merchants and service providers.
WHICH MEANS
We will use industry standards in security, the same ones used by the big credit card companies, to help you keep a secure Advanced Appliances account.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here or by means of a notice on our homepage so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
WHICH MEANS
We may change this Privacy Statement. If it’s a big change, we will inform you, right here.
Questions
Any questions about this Privacy Policy should be addressed to info [at] advancedvancouver.ca or by mail to:
Victoria BC
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Last Updated on May 25, 2018