Privacy Policy

Preamble

This Master Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) explains the collection, use, and disclosure of “personal information” by Avatar PR (“AvPR”), a State of Missouri DBA Corporation, with its principal place of business in St. Louis, USA. This Privacy Policy includes products and services provided through websites that AvPR operates. Furthermore, this Privacy Policy does not apply to any of the websites operated by affiliates of AvPR.

This Privacy Policy also explains our commitment to you with respect to our use and disclosure of non-personal browsing and site usage data that AvPR collects as the provider of the Websites and as a Gravatar service provider. That commitment is contained in a “Data Usage Policy,” below.

As used in this policy, “personal information” means information that would allow a party to identify you such as, for example, your name, address or location, telephone number, or email address.

By accessing the Websites or using AvPR as your Gravatar service provider, you are accepting and agreeing to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

Our Principles

AvPR is committed to handling responsibly the information and data we collect about you through our Websites, whether personal information or non-personal browsing and site usage data. We have designed our Privacy Policy and our Data Usage Policy consistent with the following principles (the “Principles”):

  1. Privacy policies and data collection and use policies should be human readable, comprehensive, and easy to locate;

Only the minimum amount of information reasonably necessary to provide you with services should be collected and maintained, and only for so long as reasonably needed or required;

  1. Information you provide through our Websites, or that we gather as a result of your use of our Websites or Gravatar services, should not be used for marketing or advertising purposes, nor should it be provided voluntarily (without your permission) to anyone else unless required; and
  2. If AvPR is required to provide a third party with your personal information (whether by subpoena or otherwise), then provided we have collected and retained an email address for you, AvPR will use reasonable means to notify you promptly of that event, unless prohibited by law or AvPR is otherwise advised not to notify you on the advice of legal counsel.

Personal Information AvPR Collects

We may collect personal information at several places on the Websites, including without limitation:

  • in connection with your selection of one of our licenses or legal tools including, without limitation, AvPR, or the Public Domain Mark;
  • when you provide us with your personal information such as by sending an email to us or signing up to receive updates from AvPR;
  • when you subscribe to one of our email discussion lists or register to establish a user account on any of our Websites;
  • when you purchase merchandise;
  • when you join the AvPR network through our Clubbing Connection (CCN) Community, and when you thereafter create/edit your profile page, identify your content, share your story, and/or establish a AvPR Gravatar; and
  • when you provide personal information in connection with your participation in any of the forums we make available to that community.

What AvPR does with Personal Information

License/Tool Selection. We use the personal information you provide to us as part of your selection of one of our licenses/tools to provide you the RDF, html, and the Uniform Resource Locator that correspond to the license/tool you selected. Some older versions of the license chooser enable AvPR to send you this information via email. In those cases, your email address is expunged after this email has been successfully sent. We may use all of this information to maintain license usage data.

Emails and Newsletters. We use the personal information you provide to us when you send us emails or sign up to receive updates from AvPR in order to respond to your request – for example, to reply to your email or to send you communications about AvPR news and campaigns.

When you subscribe to updates from us, your email address is sent to and stored in a database hosted on AvPRs’ servers that can only be accessed by AvPR staff and contractors. When you subscribe to one of our email discussion lists, your name and email address is sent to and stored by (1) AvPR, or (2) another service with which AvPR has engaged to provide email support (such as Constant Contact). Personal information submitted as part of our email discussion lists is used for the purpose of managing the discussion lists. Your name and email address will typically be visible to other list participants when you correspond on the list and to the general public in the discussion archives. All emails sent to the discussions lists are publicly archived.

Purchases. When you purchase merchandise via our shopping cart system, your personal information will be handled depending on which option you choose.

  1. If you purchase merchandise from the AvPR store, your personal information will be used for the purpose of sending you the items you purchased. If you sign up to receive updates from AvPR when you check out from the store, we will use your personal information to send you communications about AvPR news and campaigns.

The CCN Community. When you join our network you provide personal information to create your account and establish a password and profile, and to create a Gravatar. We use that personal information to establish and maintain your accounts, provide you with the features we provide for account holders, to interact with your Gravatar account, and for the purpose of contacting you about upcoming news and events relevant to AvPR.

By joining the AvPR network, you are also given a public profile page where you can voluntarily post personal information for public viewing. The information that you submit on your public profile page, including but not limited to information you provide in the field “Your Story” and any photograph or image of yourself you upload, is posted by you at your discretion (although subject to AvPR’s Master Terms of Use). The information you publish on your public profile page, including your personal information, may be used by anyone who views that information for any lawful purpose, with the exception of the text you insert in the “Your Story” field and any photograph or image of yourself that you upload, which if you choose to provide in either case must be licensed under and becomes subject to the terms and conditions as defined on the Edit Profile Page. AvPR may use the personal and non-personal browsing information you provide in your public profile, including the text in the “Your Story” field (subject to the terms of that license), to promote the mission of AvPR and the CCN Website.

Participating in Our Community: Registered Users. When you register to obtain a user account on any of the Websites (any such person, a “Registered User”), including but not limited to the AvPR Clubbing Connection service, you may be asked to provide personal information to create your account and establish a password and profile. Though the first and last name fields are required, providing your legal name and/or email address is optional. If you do provide your email address, it will allow us to send you your password if you should forget it. We encourage you to use an alias or nickname if you are not comfortable providing your legal name. If you voluntarily provide your legal name in connection with any content you submit to any Website, your name may be associated with the content you contributed. We will also use that personal information to establish and maintain your membership and provide you with the features we provide for Registered Users.

Any other personal information that we may collect which is not described specifically in this Privacy Policy will only be collected and used in accordance with the Principles.

Disclosures of Personal Information

In general, it is not AvPR’s practice to disclose personal information to third parties. We may share personal information in two instances:

First, AvPR may share personal information with our contractors and service providers in order to maintain, enhance, or add to the functionality of the Websites or the Gravatar service.

Second, we may disclose your personal information to third parties in a good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to (a) take action regarding suspected illegal activities; (b) enforce or apply our Master Terms of Use and Privacy Policy; (c) comply with legal process, such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute, or court order; or (d) protect our rights, reputation, and property, or that of our users, affiliates, or the public.

If AvPR is required to provide a third party with your personal information (whether by subpoena or otherwise), then provided we have collected and retained an email address for you, AvPR will use reasonable means to notify you promptly of that event, unless prohibited by law or AvPR is otherwise advised not to notify you on the advice of legal counsel.

Security of Personal Information Collected via the Websites; Gravatar

AvPR has implemented reasonable measures to protect against unauthorized access to and unlawful interception or processing of personal information that AvPR stores and controls. However, no website can fully eliminate security risks. Third parties may circumvent our security measures to unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications. We will post a reasonably prominent notice to the Websites if any such security breach occurs.

Data Usage Policy: Non Personal Browsing and Site Usage Information

Our Data Usage Policy covers how we maintain and use information about you that is collected by our Websites and server logs, including when you log into a website using your AvPR Gravatar.

Non Personal Browsing Information We Collect. When you use the Websites, our servers (which may be hosted by a third party service provider) may collect information indirectly and automatically (through, for example, the use of your “IP address”) about your activities while visiting the Websites and information about the browser you are using. In addition, whenever you use your AvPR Gravatar to log into a website, our servers (which, again, may be hosted by a third party service provider) keep a log of the websites you visit and when you visit them.

No Linking. We do not intentionally link browsing information or information from the Gravatar server logs to the personal information you submit to us. We use this information for internal purposes only, such as to help understand how the Websites are being used, to improve our Websites and the features we provide, and for systems administration purposes. AvPR may use a third party analytics provider to help us collect and analyze non personal browsing information through operation of our Websites for those same purposes.

No Selling or Sharing. Except in the unique situations identified in this Privacy Policy, AvPR does not sell or otherwise voluntarily provide the non-personal browsing information we collect about you or your website usage to third parties.

No Access. As a provider of the Gravatar avatar service, AvPR cannot access your web-based account tied to our Gravatar service, and cannot log in on behalf of any of its Gravatar users to any of the accounts they have accessed using their AvPR Gravatar.

No Retention. AvPR discards non-personal browsing information from our server logs once we have used the information for the limited purposes noted above, under “No Linking.”

Notice. If AvPR is required to provide a third party with your non personal browsing information, then AvPR will use reasonable means to notify you promptly of that event, unless AvPR is prohibited by law from doing so or is otherwise advised not to notify you on the advice of legal counsel.

Any other non-personal information that we collect which is not described specifically in this Privacy Policy will only be collected and used in accordance with the Principles.

Reorganization or Spin-Offs

AvPR may transfer some or all of your personal and/or non-personal browsing information to a third party as a result of a reorganization, spin-off or similar transaction. Upon such transfer, the acquirer’s privacy policy will apply. In such event, AvPR will use reasonable efforts to notify you and to ensure that at the time of the transaction the acquirer’s privacy policy complies with the Principles.

Children

The Websites are not directed at children under the age of 18. Consistent with the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personal information from anyone under the age of 18 without requiring parental consent. Our Master Terms of Use specifically prohibit anyone using our Websites from submitting any personally identifiable information about persons under 18 years of age. Any person who provides their personal information to AvPR through the Websites represents that they are 18 years of age or older.

Third-Party Sites

The Websites may include links to other websites. You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party sites. This Privacy Policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other websites.

Special Note to International Users

The Websites are hosted in the United State. Please note that your personal data may be located on servers in the United States. By providing your personal data you consent to the use of your personal data for the uses identified above in accordance with the Privacy Policy.

Changes and Updates to this Privacy Policy

We may occasionally update this Privacy Policy. When we do, we will also revise the Effective Date below. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to stay informed about how we are protecting the personal information we collect. Your continued use of the Websites constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Policy and any updates.

Questions?

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at
[4nfent @ gmail . com].

Effective Date: 23 August 2015