Revised: 12/30/2019
Your privacy is important to us and our goal at Avanti Markets Inc. “Company” is to provide you with a personalized online experience that provides you with the information, resources, and services that are most relevant and helpful to you. This Privacy Policy has been written to describe the conditions under which this web site is being made available to you. We strongly recommend that you read the Privacy Policy carefully. By using this web site, you agree to be bound by the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not accept the terms of the Privacy Policy, you are directed to discontinue accessing or otherwise using the web site or any materials obtained from it. If you are dissatisfied with the web site, by all means contact us; otherwise, your only recourse is to disconnect from this site and refrain from visiting the site in the future. The process of maintaining a web site is an evolving one, and the Company may decide at some point in the future, without advance notice, to modify the terms of this Privacy Policy. Your use of the web site, or materials obtained from the web site, indicates your assent to the Privacy Policy at the time of such use. The effective Privacy Policy will be posted on the web site, and you should check upon every visit for any changes.
Sites Covered by this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy applies to all the Company-maintained web sites, domains, information portals, and registries.
How We Use Information
The Company may use non-personal data that is aggregated for reporting about the Company’s web site usability, performance, and effectiveness. It may be used to improve the experience, usability and content of the site.
Information Sharing
The Company does not share any information. If you have questions regarding this privacy policy, please contact us. For residents in the state of California, click here to read our compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
Children’s Privacy
The Company is committed to protecting the privacy needs of children, and we encourage parents and guardians to take an active role in their children’s online activities and interests.
Links to Non-Company Web Sites
The Company’s web site may provide links to third-party web sites for the convenience of our users. If you access those links, you will leave the Company’s web site. the Company does not control these third-party websites and cannot represent that their policies and practices will be consistent with this Privacy Policy. For example, other web sites may collect or use personal information about you in a manner different from that described in this document. Therefore, you should use other web sites with caution, and you do so at your own risk. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any web site before submitting personal information.
Types of Information
Non-Personal Information
Non-personal information is data about usage and service operation that is not directly associated with a specific personal identity. The Company may collect and analyze non-personal information to evaluate how visitors use the Company’s web site.
Aggregate Information
The Company may gather aggregate information, which refers to information your computer automatically provides to us and that cannot be tied back to you as a specific individual. Examples include referral data (the web sites you visited just before and just after our site), the pages viewed, time spent at our Web site, and Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you access the Internet. For example, when you request a page from one of our sites, our servers log your IP address to create aggregate reports on traffic patterns and for purposes of system administration.
Log Files
Every time you request or download a file from the web site, the Company may store data about these events and your IP address in a log file. The Company may use this information to analyze trends, administer the web site, track users’ movements, and aggregate use for other business purposes.
Cookies
Our site may use a feature of your browser to set a “cookie” on your computer. Cookies are small packets of information that a web site’s computer stores on your computer. The Company’s web sites can then read the cookies whenever you visit our site. We may use cookies in a number of ways, such as to save your password so you don’t have to re-enter it each time you visit our site, to deliver content specific to your interests and to track the pages you’ve visited. These cookies allow us to use the information we collect to customize your experience so that your visit to our site is as relevant and as valuable to you as possible. Most browser software can be set up to deal with cookies. You may modify your browser preference to provide you with choices relating to cookies. You have the choice to accept all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is set or to reject all cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, certain of the functions and conveniences of our web site may not work properly, and you may be unable to use those of the Company’s services that require registration in order to participate, or you will have to re-register each time you visit our site. Most browsers offer instructions on how to reset the browser to reject cookies in the “Help” section of the toolbar. We do not link non-personal information from cookies to personally identifiable information without your permission.
Web Beacons
The Company’s web site also may use web beacons to collect non-personal information about your use of our web site and the web sites of selected sponsors or members, your use of special promotions or newsletters, and other activities. The information collected by web beacons allows us to statistically monitor how many people are using our web site and selected sponsors’ sites; how many people open our emails; and for what purposes these actions are being taken. Our web beacons are not used to track your activity outside of our web site or those of our sponsors.
Personal Information
The only personal information we collect is a name and email address for specific aspects related to market card reloads on member only portions of the website. This information is not shared, sold, or otherwise passed on to others.
Biometric Information
At some of our locations, customers may choose the added convenience of making payments using their fingerprints. You do not need to provide your fingerprint or any other biometric data to Avanti Markets to use our product--registering your fingerprint with us is entirely optional. Avanti Markets provides this feature for your convenience, and we only use fingerprint data for the purpose of authorizing payment at our kiosk.
We do not sell or share your biometric data with third parties. If you choose to register your fingerprints at a kiosk, know that we take the privacy of your biometric information very seriously. Your fingerprints are protected using the same security measures that we use to protect passwords and credit card information. Additionally, if you register your fingerprint and end up not using one of our kiosks for over a twelve-month period, Avanti Markets will automatically delete your fingerprint data. Alternatively, you can contact our Support team at any time to have your fingerprint data removed from the Avanti Markets system.
Members-Only Web Sites
Information you provide on Company’s membership applications is used to create a member profile, and some information may be shared with other of the Company’s individual member representatives and organizations. Member contact information may be provided to other members on a secure web site to encourage and facilitate collaboration, research, and the free exchange of information among the Company’s members, but we expressly prohibit members from using member contact information to send unsolicited commercial correspondence. The Company’s members may be automatically added to the Company’s mailing lists. From time to time, member information may be shared with event organizers and/or other organizations that provide additional benefits to the Company’s members. By providing us with your personal information on the membership application, you expressly consent to our storing, processing, and distributing your information for these purposes.
