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PRIVACY POLICY
INTRODUCTION
Aiya America, Inc., a California corporation ("us", "we", or "Company") is committed to respecting the privacy rights of its customers, visitors, and other users of the Company website located at www.aiya-america.com ("the Site"). We created this Website Privacy Policy ("Privacy Policy") to give you confidence as you visit and use the Site, and to demonstrate our commitment to fair information practices and the protection of privacy. This Privacy Policy is only applicable to the Site, and not to any other websites that you may be able to access from the Site, each of which may have data collection, storage, and use practices and policies that differ materially from this Privacy Policy.
SECTION I: TYPES OF INFORMATION COLLECTED
TRAFFIC DATA COLLECTED. We automatically track and collect the
following categories of information when you visit our Site:
i) IP addresses;
ii) domain
servers;
iii) types of computers and devices accessing the Site; and
iV) types of web browsers used to
access the Site (collectively "Traffic Data").
Traffic Data is anonymous information that does
not personally identify you but is helpful for marketing purposes or for improving your experience
on the Site. We also use cookies to customize content specific to your interests, to ensure that
you do not see the same advertisement repeatedly, and to store your password so you do not have to
re-enter it each time you visit the Site (see Section 5 below).
PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED. In order for you to access certain
premium services and to purchase products that we offer via the Site, we require you to provide us
with certain information that personally identifies you ("Personal Information"). Personal
Information includes the following categories of information:
i) Contact Data (such as your
name, mailing address, e-mail address, username and password); and
ii) Financial Data (such as
your credit card number and billing address).
If you communicate with us by e-mail, post
messages to any of our chat groups, bulletin boards, or forums, or otherwise complete online forms
or surveys, any information provided in such communication may be collected as Personal Information.
SECTION II: USES OF INFORMATION COLLECTED
COMPANY USE OF INFORMATION. We use your Contact Data to send you information about the Company or our products or services, or to create and manage your account, provide customer service, perform research, or contact you when necessary. We use your Financial Data to bill you for products ordered.
SHARING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION. Except as set out in this Privacy Policy, the Company does not disclose or sell your personal information to any third parties.
We may, however, disclose your personal information to third party service
providers who perform services on our behalf. For example, we may hire other companies to handle the
processing of payments, provide data storage, host websites, fulfill orders, assist in
marketing, conduct audits, etc. Those third-party service providers
(i) shall be permitted
to obtain only the personal information they need to provide the service;
(ii) must protect
personal information to the same extent as the Company; and
(iii) shall be prohibited from
using it for any other purpose.
SECTION III: ACCESSING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
If you would like to review or revise information that you previously provided to us, you may access and change your personal information in the Account Information section by logging in. You may also contact Customer Service at (310) 212-1395 or email info@aiya-america.com for assistance.
SECTION IV: PERSONAL INFORMATION PREFERENCES
The Company respects your right to make choices about the use and disclosure of your personal information. If at any time you decide that you do not want to receive marketing communications from us, please let us know by contacting us at info@aiya-america.com.
If you choose not to receive marketing communications, please be advised that you will continue to receive transactional or account communications (e.g., confirmation emails and invoices).
SECTION V: USE OF COOKIES AND OTHER TECHNOLOGIES
The Company uses cookies to enable you to sign in to our services and to help personalize your online experience. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard drive. Cookies contain information, including personal information, that can later be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. The information that cookies collect includes the date and time of your visit, registration information, session identification number, and navigational history and preferences.
Cookies offer you many conveniences. They allow us to identify registered users when they return to the Site, so that they can retrieve previous image search results and view their previous account balances. Cookies also save you time by eliminating the need to repeatedly enter the same information.
In some cases, our third-party service providers may use cookies on our sites. We have no access to or control over these cookies. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by the Company only, and does not cover the use of cookies by third parties.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to sign in or use other interactive features of our sites and services that depend on cookies but you will be able to perform basic navigation through the site.
In addition to cookies, we may use other technologies, including single-pixel gifs (also known as web beacons), on our websites and in promotional e-mail messages or newsletters. These tiny electronic images assist us in determining how many users have visited certain pages or opened messages or newsletters. We do not use these images to collect personal information.
SECTION VI: SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
The security of your personal information is important to us. We follow generally accepted industry standards to help protect your personal information, including without limitation:
- limiting access to your personal information to those of our employees who require it to provide services to you;
- requiring employees to sign confidentiality agreements to protect customer and other confidential information;
- ensuring that third-party service providers sign confidentiality agreements to maintain the confidentiality of your personal information and not to use it for any unauthorized purposes;
- encrypting credit card information on our order forms using secure socket layer (SSL) technology; and
- storing your personal information in secure computer systems which protect it from unauthorized access or use.
No method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
If a password is used to protect your account and personal information, it is your responsibility to keep your password confidential.
Except as otherwise provided in this Privacy Policy, we will keep your personal
information private and will not share it with third parties, unless such disclosure is necessary
to:
(a) comply with a court order or other legal process;
(b) protect our rights or
property; or
(c) enforce our Terms of Use.
LOST OR STOLEN INFORMATION. You must promptly notify us if your credit card, username, or password is lost, stolen, or used without permission. In such an event, we will remove that credit card number, user name, or password from your account and update our records accordingly.
PUBLIC INFORMATION. The Site may contain links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. We also make chat rooms, forums, message boards, and news groups available to you. Please understand that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information. We have no control over its use, and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your Personal Information.
SECTION VII: LINKS
We may link to websites, including those of our subsidiaries and third-party content providers, that have different privacy policies and practices from those disclosed here. We assume no responsibility for the policies or practices of such linked sites and encourage you to become acquainted with them prior to use.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right to change the terms of the Privacy Policy at any time. When we make changes, we will revise the last updated date at the top of the policy. If there are material changes to this statement or in how we will use your personal information, we will notify you by prominently posting a notice of such changes here or on our home page, or by sending you an email. We encourage you to review this policy whenever you visit one of our sites.