1. How do we collect your information?
From your signing up on our site to the actual use of our diverse online services, we collect the information about your use our services. We collect the information...
- When you sign-up
- When you write, post, view and engage
- When you share information with others
- When you navigate and browse our site
- When other members write about you
- Your participation in surveys & competitions
In short, our cutting-edged software that run a FashionAvenue.com website collects the information about you every time you write, publish, view and share the information on our site. It also collect the information about how you navigate our website. The information shared by you is constantly saved on our servers that are secured by 128 bit encryption and prevent others to see and download them.
We collect the information about your use of our website using cookies once you sign-up and become a registered member. This help us to provide better and customized services to you. Cookies are small packets of program files that collect the information that you share with other members. They reside on your hard drives and collect the information.
2. What information do we collect?
We collect the information that make your experience on our site even more exhilarating and help you connect with right members for the right reasons. We collect the following information...
- Name and Contact information
- The information that you post voluntarily
- The information that you share with others
- The information that others post about you
- The information that others share with you
- Your browsing activities and its duration
- Your engagement with others
- Photos and Comments posted by you and others
- Friends and Fans particiapting in discussions
- Your Networks and Connections
- The Devices in use
- The Websites and Apps
- Third Party Partners
- Within Our Companies
We collect your information when you sign up and start using our website services. Once the information is made public by you while signing up or sharing with other members on our site, this information is available for the entire world to see on our site. The information that we collect about you help us to run day-to-day operations such as informing you through e-mail about the new features, offers, notifications, messages from friends, messages to friends, interacting with members, security issues that are tailored to your actual needs.
The information that we collect includes your first and last name, gender, birth date, e-mail address, profession, city, state, zip code, country, schools, colleges, education and web-address in general. We ask for your business name and other business contact information (business members). You are not anonymous to us on our website once you sign-up on FashionAvenue.com.
We collect the information that includes the URL of the website from where you come from and URL where you go from our website. We collect the information about the browsing history and pages most visited by you when you make the use of our services. The information is collected is collected as soon as you sign-in and your presence is detected, validated and verified on our website.
We collect the information about messages, comments, news, photos, blogs, interviews, reviews, etc. posted by you on our website. We access this information for security and operational purposes as well as for running the smooth operations to protect members like you from unwanted interferences. We also collect the information about your opinions, surveys and competition results. Our server log saves information about your use of our website every time you login and engage with interactive activities. We do not collect the sensitive information such as data about race, sexual orientation, or religion of members. The collection of information from your activities help us to enforce the User Agreement and Privacy Policy.
3. How do we use your information?
The information that we collect from your use of our services is used in the following ways to improve our services. We use your information in the following ways...
- To promote your interests
- To make your pages to look more presentable
- To help you connect with other users
- To customize content, offers and advertisements
- To make connections between you and recruiters
- To make connections between you and your potential customers
- To market and promote products and services
- To resolve disputes among users
- To create safety and trust among users
- To generate statistical information
- To keep the track of transactions between sellers and buyers
- To enforce the User Agreement and Privacy Policy
We maintain the file of information on your use of FashionAvenue.com services with your full knowledge and consent. We use your information to customize your needs – such as connecting you with new friends who share the same values in like you do. We collect your information so that we can communicate with you to learn about your cocerns and issues. This process helps you to communicate with new friends easily.
We collect your information with your full knowledge and consent to customize pages, content, products, layout of web pages and advertisements when you use our services. Our licensed service providers, who are licensed by FashionAvenue.com to design and develop new software, use your limited information to create a personalized experience for you and other members. Other third party service providers such as marketing and research companies use your limited information for the market research and promotion purposes that is provided to them in a purely statistical form and does not include your personal information. It helps FashionAvenue.com to enforce the User Agreement and Privacy Policy.
As a seller (Future Project), you expect the best services from FashionAvenue.com. We make deposits that is received from your customers on our site directly to your bank accounts using your bank names, routing numbers and checking account numbers. We also use your limited information to resolve disputes with your trading partners. You allow us to provide your contact information to buyers who purchase your merchandise which in turn allow them to communicate with you after you sell your merchandise.
As a buyer (Future Project), you expect the best services from FashionAvenue.com. We charge your credit cards for the merchandise you purchase from sellers on FashionAvenue.com and share your contact information with sellers so that they can ship the merchandise to your shipping addresses. You agree to authorize FashionAvenue.com to use your credit card information and authorize us to charge your credit cards when you make any purchases on our site. You allow us to provide your contact information to sellers from whom you purchase the merchandise to complete each transaction.
4. How do we share your information?
We share your information that is not personally identifiable (only statistical information) with the following entities to run our day to day operations and make you to go through even more personalized experience. We share your your information with...
- Members: When you socialize with members
- Visitors: When they visit your pages
- Security Professionals: To prevent hacking of the data
- Software Developers: Who writes the software for us
- Apps Developers: Who develope apps
- Networking Administrators: Who operate our server farm
- Advertisers: Who advertise their products and services
- Joint Ventures: When we jointly offer new services
- Market Research Firms: In promoting new services
- Sweepstake Firms: While running sweepstakes
- External Service Providers: Merchant services
- Internal Service Providers: Hosting services
- Third Party Vendors: Authenticating Services
- Law Enforcement Agencies: While enforcing the law
We share your information with our advertisers, business partners, subsidiaries, research dservices, alalytics services, measurement services and joint ventures that is not personally identifiable (Strictly Statistical Information) under our strict confidentiality agreement and also under the direct supervision of our legal department.
Creative users, who may be visitors or registered members on FashionAvenue.com, have direct access to your limited personal information (such as your first and last name). The limited personal information is voluntarily submitted by you on FashionAvenue.com and published by you on our website to be seen by other creative users. Any information that you submit and publish on your member’s pages becomes public right away for all users on FashionAvenue.com to see. Once made public by you – its available to everyone to use. You risk if you published information that is not intended for the common public. Your personal information is collected with your full knowledge. FashionAvenue.com share your information as per our privacy policy.
Community section is a place where your identity is easily exposed to other community members since you make your information available to all users. This is a place where creative users openly exchange their new creative ideas, thoughts and imaginations. This is a place where your identity is revealed to users who are interested in reading your messages, blogs, reviews, interviews, videos, audios, etc. posted by you. First names, last names, locations, education qualifications and interests available to all users by default as soon as they are made public by you.
Advertisers bring the revenue that helps FashionAvenue.com to run our day-to-day operations. We share your statistical information not including any personally identifiable information about you with our advertisers. Most of the information that we share with our advertisers about you is of the statistical in nature – the graphical and numberical presentation. Since this information is in statistical in nature, you are not identified as individuals. Your information is used for the marketing and promotion of FashionAvenue.com website products and services.
Outside firms such as sweepstake firms may conduct sweepstakes on FashionAvenue.com persuant to state and federal laws. Users, who participate in such sweepstakes, need to provide their personally identifiable information to receive awards or prizes. Your personally identifiable information is disclosed to the sweepstakes organizers in order to help them to reach you with the results of the sweepstakes. You are free to decline to participate in such sweepstakes and competitions to protect your personal information.
In case of acquisition of FashionAvenue.com by other companies in the future, we will transfer the rights of ownership of the FashionAvenue.com as well as a complete database of your personally identifiable information to the acquirer. The transfer of your personally identifiable information to an acquirer will happen with your consent. You, as the sole -owner of your own personal information, are free to decline to share information with the acquirer of FashionAvenue.com and delete all your personal information at your discretion using tools that are provided to you. Thus, you will prevent the acquirer to obtain and use your personal information and at the same time you will protect your personal information.
5. What are your privacy choices?
You have very sophisticated privacy setting options on our site to control and manage your privacy. You are free to use our privacy settings and reset your privacy settings to protect your privacy for the content that you publish on our website. Once you sign-up and become the user on our website, you have options to update your personal information. You are free to make any changes to your personal profile. You are always free to delete or change any information on your personal profile page in order to protect your privacy.
We save and store your data on our servers protected by most advance firewall, that would enhance your experience of using our services everytime you interact with other members. The stored data will help you to communicate with other members and would also help other members to communicate with you. In absence of your data, your presence on our site will be null and no communication will happen with like minded members you are seeking on our site. The data can be deleted by you at your discretion or they will be deleted if they are too old to provide any services and of no use to anyone our site. The data posted by other members about you on our site will always stay and would not be deleted when you delete your account or data. Our services will cease to exist as soon as your account is deleted and closed completely by you.
You are free to unsubscribe your e-mail notification by clicking on UNSUBSCRIBE in an e-mail that you receive. You will find UNSUBSCRIBE link at the bottom of your e-mail. You may reactivate your e-mail in your Privacy Choices in My Account.
You are free to choose options under PRIVACY link in My Account to show your blogs, Reviews and Interviews to all members on FashionAvenue.com or show them to your closest friends in your Friends’ List or keep all information for your private use. These features will help you to protect the information that you posted under your account.
6. How do we safeguard your information?
FashionAvenue.com automatically encrypt your personal information in transit from your computer to our using the Secure Socket Layer protocols (SSL) with an encryption length of 128- bits. Your information resides on our secured servers protected by a firewall. Your personal information is available to authorized personnel of FashionAvenue.com only. All authorized personnel of FashionAvenue.com are trained on how to handle your valuable personal information and subject to strict limitations in handling that information to protect your privacy. The security of your information is important to FashionAvenue.com, and we have implemented administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information against theft or misuse. Unfortunately, no system in the world can guarantee complete security of your personal information. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information using the latest firewall technologies and software system from unauthorized third parties, FashionAvenue.com cannot 100% ensure or warrant the security of your personal information. Thus, your use of our online services and your communications with us is at your own risk. You are fully responsible for protecting your username(s) and password(s) or any personal information that you submit on our site and transmit to us over the internet. Please note that we do not collect sensitive information from you such as race, religion, sexual orientation and ethnicity unless you submit and publish it yourself and make it public on our site for others to see.
7. How do we help you to your legal request?
We request you to contact our legal department at Legal, FashionAvenue.com, Inc. 163, South Street, Danbury, CT 06810 USA. Our legal department will respond to your legal requests pertaining to a Privacy Policy.
8. How our global services works?
We collect the information from members from over 200 countries worldwide. Every country and zones have their own interpretations of their laws about the privacy of their citizens. We respect them fully and protect their citizens' personally identifiable information from other members on FashionAvenue.com. You are free to contact us on a below address about your concerns and questions pertaining to our privacy policy. Our Privacy Department would be more than happy to answer all your questions and resolve privacy related issues that concerns you. We do not collect the sensitive information such as data about race, sexual orientation, or religion of members. The information collected from members within European Economic Area (EEA) is shared by or tranfferred to group of our own companies in USA and other parts of the world on the basis of consent, or European Commission-approved standard contractual clauses, and may be further transferred to our advertisers, market reserach firms and to third party service providers located in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, which do not have the same level of protection for personal data as the EEA or Switzerland, for the purposes described in this Policy. This information may be transferred to countries outside European Economic Area to study statistics and improve our services for the members residing in similar zones around the world. We maintains a database containing personal information on EEA members, and such individuals can have such information removed from our database. FashionAvenue.com acts as a data controller of the personal information of EEA members and processes it as described in this Privacy Policy in the USA, which does not have the same level of information protection for personal data as the EEA or Switzerland. Please note that FashionAvenue.com does not own or control any of the personal information it processes on behalf of its EEA members. EEA members have total control over their information either to keep or delete at their discretion from our database. Such personal information of EEA members that is tranferred to USA is processed by us on behalf of our members and not necessarily required by FashionAvenue.com.
9. How do we inform you about changes?
We will inform you 30 days in advance, every time we make changes to our Privacy Policy. You will be notified by an e-mail address that you confirmed and verified during your signing up or registration process. Your free to review our renewed privacy policy and take control of your privacy.
10. How to contact FashionAvenue.com?
You are free to contact us with inquiries pertaining to your privacy policy at FashionAvenue.com, Inc., 163 South Street, Danbury, CT 06810 USA
Tips on your Privacy Policy
Password Protection:
Your password is intended to help you to sign in and use all unique features available on FashionAvenue.com. Your password must remain confidential and secured by you. You are not supposed to share your password with others. Once you lose your password to others, you are more likely to lose your personal as well as other data from your account. If your password would go into the hands of strangers, they may misuse your personal information under your identity. You are personally responsible for losing your password. Do not share your password with any of your friends or relatives. A password is your personal asset to manage your personal information on FashionAvenue.com. In order to get your password again, you require an e-mail address that you used at the time of your sign up/registration process. Please use a FORGOT PASSWORD link at the bottom of sign in page to access your password in your INBOX again.
Your Membership:
You are always free to cancel your membership for any reasons on FashionAvenue.com.
Newsletter:
Our welcome e-mail will give you an overview of FashionAvenue.com and happenings on our site. It will be automatically mailed to you when you become a new member for the first time. Occasionally, FashionAvenue.com would send you newsletters that will reflect new products, services and offers. You are free to unsubscribe to these e-mails at your discretion by clicking on UNSUBSCRIBE link at the bottom of e-mails that you receive.
Changes to the Privacy Policy:
We reserve the rights to make changes to our privacy policy at certain interval of time. An e-mail notification will be sent to you 30 days before a new privacy policy goes into effect. The revised privacy will be automatically in effect 30 days after you receive an e-mail notification. The notice of such changes in privacy policy will also be posted on our announcement board. You may choose to continue or discontinue your membership after reviewing new changes in our privacy policy.
Privacy Policy Terms:
Our privacy policy is designed in order to protect your information using the most sophisticated technologies. You are free to agree or disagree to our privacy policy and take your own decision at your discretion to accept or not accept our privacy policy terms.
Any Questions?
You can direct any privacy policy related questions to our mailing address in United States of America.
FashionAvenue.com, Inc.
Privacy Policy Management
Legal Department
163 South Street # 52
Danbury, CT 6810 USA
