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Avvtar Inc. Privacy Policy

Avvtar Inc. (DBA: FoneTrip)) understands the importance of personal privacy.

Avvtar Inc. (DBA: FoneTrip) is committed to protect your Personal Information; therefore, Avvtar Inc. (DBA: FoneTrip) has created this Privacy Policy so that you know how we use and may disclose your information when you make it available to us.

This Privacy Policy defines the types of Personal Information we collect from our website, the related mobile website, mobile application on any platform, i.e., Windows, iOS, Android, Linux (singly, the “Website”, and collectively, the “Websites”), but not limited to the service provided thereon (the “Service” or “Services”).

This Privacy Policy defines the practices for using, maintaining, sharing, and protecting of collected information.

This Privacy Policy also describes the rights and choices you may have with respect to your Personal Information and how you may contact us about our privacy practices.

Our Privacy Policy may vary among the countries in which we operate to reflect local practices, legal requirements, and further, specific privacy practices may apply to some of our Products and Services.

By using or accessing our Website and the Services, you agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy.

If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, you may not access, or otherwise, use our Services or participate in our Services.

When using our Website and Services, you have the option to interact with features provided by third parties that operate independently from Avvtar Inc. (DBA: FoneTrip), such as social media logins, Video API, Credit / Debit Card Gateway, other widgets and links to another website.

Avvtar Inc. (DBA: FoneTrip) has no control over and is not responsible for the privacy practices of such third parties.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to the extent Avvtar Inc. (DBA: FoneTrip) does not own or control any linked websites or features you visit or use.

We recommend that you familiarize with the privacy practices of these third parties.

Table of Contents

1) Types of Personal Information We May Collect
2) Non-Personal or Aggregate Information We collect
3) How We Use That Information
4) Personal Information Security
5) Third Parties Logins
6) Children Protection
7) Retention of Personal Information
8) Cookie and Similar Technologies
9) Automatically Collected Information
10) Privacy Policy Changes
11) Opt-Out Process
12) Communications with Avvtar Inc. (DBA: FoneTrip)
13) No Rights of Third Parties
14) Site Terms of Use
15) Servers and Hosting
16) Governing Law
17) Contact

1.Types of Personal information We May Collect

Personal Information, also known as personal identifiable Information or Personal data, means any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual. We may ask you for, or you may voluntarily submit, personally identifiable information when you are using Avvtar Inc. (DBA: FoneTrip)’s Services. The personally identifiable information which you may provide to us could include, but shall not be limited to your:

    • Personal contact information such as name, social media accounts, gender, pictures;
    • Payment information such as credit card or other forms of payments;
    • Contact Information such as email address, phone number;
  • System details such as device location, device IP address, geolocation information, cookie/session IDs, browser type/version, operating system/platform, authentication information such as Username and Password;
    • Your participation in surveys and promotions, and
    • Your participation in Avvtar Inc. (DBA: FoneTrip)’s related Services

2. Non-Personal or Aggregate Information We May Collect

When you access our Services, we may automatically collect non-personally identifiable information from you. This information may include, but shall not be limited to:
    • IP host address;
    • Web pages viewed;
    • Browser type;
    • Operating system;
    • Referring Services, search information, device type, device location, page views and usage, and
    • Browsing habits on the Services and similar data.

We may aggregate demographic and other information collected from our users (such as, the number of users in a particular geographical location) in a manner which does not identify any one individual.

We may also aggregate information collected offline in connection with the Services, obtain non-personally identifiable information from third party sources and develop aggregate information by anonymizing previously collected personally identifiable information.

It is possible at times when collecting non-personally identifiable information through automatic means that we may unintentionally collect or receive personally identifiable information that is mixed in with the non-personally identifiable information.

While we will try to use reasonable efforts to prevent such incidental data collection, the possibility still exists. If you believe, at any time, that we may have inadvertently collected your personal information, please notify us at info@fonetrip.com

3. How We Use That Information

We may use your personally identifiable information (the “PII”) in the following manner as described hereinbelow, unless you have specifically consented to another type of use, either at the time the personally identifiable information is collected from you or through some other form of consent from you or notification to you:

    • We may use your PII to respond to your queries or requests;
    • We may use your PII in developing and improving the Services;
    • We may use your PII to create and maintain customer relationship management software;
    • We may use your PII to enforce our rights, including, but not limited to, payment processing and collection bills;
    • We may use the PII to communicate with you for sending promotion contents;
    • We may use your PII for advertisement, marketing and selling the Services;
    • We may share your PII collected in connection with providing the Services;
    • We may use your PII for training and quality improvement purposes;
    • We may use your PII to send you emails from time to time about our Services;
  • We may share your PII with third parties (collectively, the “Third Party Vendors”) to further the purpose for which you provided such information to us. For example, we may share your PII with Elastic Email, for the purpose of sending emails. We urge you to read the privacy practices of all of our Third-Party Vendors before submitting any PII through the Services;
    • We may disclose PII as required by law or legal process;
    • We may disclose the PII to investigate suspected fraud, harassment or other violations of any law, rule or regulation, or the terms or policies for our Services or our sponsors;
    • We may transfer your PII in connection with the sale or merger or change of control of www.fonetrip.com or the division responsible for the Services with which your PII is associated;
    • Non-PII or aggregate information may be used by us for any purposes permitted by law and may be shared with any number of parties, provided that such information shall not specifically identify you;
    • We may disclose your PII with other Avvtar Inc. (DBA: FoneTrip) entities
    • Nevada Residents
        ▪ Nevada Resident shall have the right to opt-out of the sale of the PII Avvtar Inc. (DBA: FoneTrip) may have collected. Please contact us at info@fonetrip.com
    • California Residents
            ▪ California Residents may request that Avvtar Inc. (DBA: FoneTrip) disclose what PII we collect, use, disclose, and sell;
            ▪ Request to delete your PII;
            ▪ Opt-out of the sale of your PII
        o Please contact us at info@fonetrip.com to make any such request(s);

    • European Economic Area (EEA) Residents
        o Avvtar Inc. (DBA: FoneTrip) is responsible to process your PII.
        o In order to respond to your request(s) or queries about our Services, please email us at info@fonetrip.com

4. Personal Information Security

The security of your PII is very important to us.

When we collect your PII online, we use reasonable efforts to protect it from unauthorized access.

However, due to the inherent open nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee that your PII will be completely free from unauthorized access by third parties, such as, but not limited to, hackers or others.

We have put in place reasonable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard the information we collect from you. Only those employees who need access to your information in order to perform their duties are authorized to have access to your PII.

5. Third Parties Logins

If you login to the Websites and/or Services through connected login plugin, such as, but not limited to, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Apple, Google or other online platforms through an icon or link on the Services or otherwise link your FoneTrip account with a third party service, we may share or receive the contents of your profile and associated information such as, but not limited to your username, first and last name, location, age and other details, the fact that your connection originated from Services, and other relevant usage and diagnostic information with such third parties. Once such information is shared, the use of your information will be subject to that third party’s Privacy Policy and this Privacy Policy will cease to apply.

6. Children Protection

If you want to create a FoneTrip account, you must be at least an 18-year-old or have permission from your parents or guardians to create such an account. We do not collect PII from children under the age of 13. Moreover, Avvtar Inc. (DBA: FoneTrip) is not responsible for any unsupervised act or use by minors of our Website and/or Services.

7. Retention of Personal Information

We apply several criteriums, i.e., understanding the nature and sensitivity of PII, risk of harm and unauthorized access of information when deciding the appropriate retention time period of your PII. Avvtar Inc. (DBA: FoneTrip) retains your information only as long as necessary and as required for business operations, archival purposes, and/or to satisfy legal requirements.

8. Cookie and Similar Technologies

“Cookies” are pieces of information that may be placed on your computer or mobile device on any platform by a service for the purpose of facilitating and enhancing your communication and interaction with those services. Many services use cookies for these purposes. We may use cookies (and similar items such as clear gifs, web beacons, tags, and others) on our Services to customize your visit and for other purposes to make your visit more convenient or to enable us to enhance our Services. We may also use and place cookies (and similar items) on your computer, iPad, tablet, or mobile device from our third-party service providers in connection with the Services, such as, but not limited to, an analytics provider that helps us manage and analyze Service usage, as described more fully below. In addition, our advertisers and business partners may set cookies and similar items on your computer, iPad, tablet, or mobile device when you use our services. You may stop or restrict the placement of cookies on your computer, iPad, tablet, or mobile device or flush them from your browser by adjusting your web browser preferences, in which case you may still use our Services, but it may interfere with some of its functionality. Cookies and similar items are not used by us to automatically retrieve PII from your computer without your knowledge.

9. Automatically Collected Information

When you access our Services via browser, mobile application or open one of our HTML emails, we may automatically record certain information from your system by using cookies and other types of tracking technologies. This "automatically collected" information may include Internet Protocol address ("IP Address"), a unique user ID, device type, device identifiers, browser types and language, referring and exit pages, platform type, version of software installed, system type, the content and pages that you access on the Services, the number of clicks, the amount of time spent on pages, the dates and times that you visit the Services, and other similar information. Depending on the law of your country of residence, your IP address may legally be considered PII.

10. Privacy Policy Changes

We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change, amend, modify, add, or remove portions from this Privacy Policy at any time. However, if at any time in the future we plan to use the PII in a way that materially differs from the Global Privacy Notice, including, sharing such information with more third parties, we will post such changes here and provide you the opportunity to opt-out of such differing uses. Your continued use of the Services following the posting of any changes to this Privacy Policy Notice means you unequivocally accept such changes. We will update this page and identify the date the Privacy Policy Notice was last updated at the top of the page.

11. Opt-Out Process

All unsubscribe or opt-out requests may be made by clicking the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of the relevant email. We will process your request within a reasonable time after receipt. However, we are not responsible for, and in some cases, we are incapable of, removing your PII from the lists of any third party who has previously been provided your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy or your consent. You should contact such third parties directly. If you would like to update or correct any PII that you have provided to us, please email us at info@fonetrip.com and once we confirm your information, we will update such information within a reasonable period of time.

12. Communications with Avvtar Inc. (DBA: FoneTrip)

By providing your contact information to us, including, without limitation, your email address, physical address, and phone number (collectively, the “Channels”) to us, you expressly consent to receive communications from us. We may use the Channels to communicate with you, to send information that you have requested or to send information about other products or Services developed or provided by us or our business partners, provided that, we will not give your contact information to another party to promote their products or services directly to you without your consent or as set forth in this Privacy Policy.

By using the Services, you expressly consent to receive in-product communications from us (including, without limitation, push notifications on the computer, iPad, tablet, or mobile device).

By providing your phone number to us, you expressly consent to receive phone calls and/or text messages from us. We will not give your phone number to another party to promote their products or services directly to you without your consent or as set forth in this Privacy Policy.

Any phone calls and/or text messages delivered to your phone or device may cause you to incur extra data, text messaging, or other charges from your wireless carrier. Message and Data rates may apply. You are solely responsible for any carrier charges incurred as a result of phone and/or text communications from Avvtar Inc. (DBA: FoneTrip).

Any communication or material you transmit to us by email or otherwise, including any data, questions, comments, suggestions, or the like is, and will be treated as, non-confidential and nonproprietary. Except to the extent expressly covered by this Privacy Policy, anything you transmit, or post may be used by us for any purpose, including but not limited to, reproduction, disclosure, transmission, publication, broadcast and posting. Furthermore, you expressly agree that we are free to use any ideas, concepts, know-hows, or techniques contained in any communication you send to us, as well as, any data developed using the content of such communication, without compensation and for any purpose whatsoever, including, but not limited to, developing, manufacturing and marketing products and Services using such information.

13. No Rights of Third Parties

This Privacy Policy does not create rights enforceable by third parties, nor does it require disclosure of any PII relating to users of the Services.

14. Site Terms of Use

Use of this Service is governed by, and subject to, the Terms of Use located at www.fonetrip.com (the “Terms”). This Privacy Policy is incorporated into the Terms and Conditions. Your use, or access, of the Services constitutes your agreement to be bound by these provisions. If you do not agree to the Terms of this Privacy Policy, you may not access or otherwise use the Services of this Website.

15. Servers and Hosting

Our servers are hosted by in the United States. By using the Services, you freely and specifically give us your consent to export your PII to the United States and to store and use it in the United States as specified in this Privacy Policy. You understand that data stored in the United States may be subject to lawful requests by the Courts or law and enforcement authorities in the United States.

16. Governing Law

This Privacy Policy and our legal obligations hereunder are subject to the laws of the State of Texas regardless of your location. You hereby consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of and venue in the Courts located in the State of Texas, County of Tarrant, in all disputes arising out of or relating to the Services.

17. Contact

For questions or concerns relating to privacy, we can be contacted at info@fonetrip.com