ABOUT US
Privacy Policy
1. YOUR PRIVACY
This Privacy Notice (“Notice”) covers the collection, storage, use, handling, transfer, and other operations of / on your Personal Data (as defined under the section “What Personal Data we collect”) through our website, www.avfourthdimension.com. References in this Notice to “you”, “your”, or “user” are references to individuals who use the Website. References in this notice to “we”, “us” or “our” are references to Ms. Amee Vora the sole proprietor of AV Fourth Dimension.
We understand that the use and disclosure of Personal Data has important implications for the individuals whose Personal Data we collect or process. This Notice aims to give you information about how we collect, store, use, handle, and transfer your Personal Data.
2. WHAT PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT
Personal Data refers to data about an individual through or in relation to which that individual can be identified. Personal Data does not include any information that does not, or cannot be used to, identify an individual. We collect, store, use, handle, or transfer certain kinds of data related to you, which may qualify as Personal Data, as follows:
• “Contact Data” includes your email address and telephone numbers.
• “Identity Data” includes your first name, last name, title, username, or similar identifier.
• “Profile Data” includes information collected progressively when you visit our website, pages you visit, actions you take, patterns of page visits and information from forms you fill in;
• “Technical Data” includes information collected when you access our Website, your internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, and operating system, platform, and other technology on the devices you are using; and
• “Usage Data” refers to information about how you use our Website.
We may collect, use, and share aggregated data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated data may be derived from your Personal Data but is not considered personal data in law as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your usage data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect aggregated data with your Personal Data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as Personal Data which will be used in accordance with this Notice.
3. HOW WE COLLECT PERSONAL DATA
We collect Personal Data in the following ways:
• When it is provided through the contact form on our website, www.avfourthdimension.com (“Website”) or in your interactions with us via email or other means;
• When you use or view our Website, via your browser’s cookies; and
• Indirectly when it is provided to us by a third party.
4. HOW WE USE PERSONAL DATA
We collect, store, use, handle, and transfer your Personal Data in connection with or related to our service offerings and/or our business purposes, including but not limited to, the following:
• Enhancing your experience in using our Website and services;
• Providing services to you;
• Responding to your enquiries and requests;
• Sending you communications that you may opt-in to receive;
• Fulfilling our obligations or exercising our rights under your contract with us in your individual capacity or under a contract with the organization that you represent; and
• Obtaining analytical or statistical information that helps us make decisions concerning our services and operations.
5. LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING PERSONAL DATA
We collect, store, use, handle, and transfer your Personal Data on one or more of the following legal bases as applicable:
• Where you have given clear consent for us to process your personal data. (e.g. when you provide your email address and phone number when registering on the Website)
• Where processing is necessary for compliance with our legal obligations. (e.g. records to be maintained for tax purposes)
• Where necessary for our legitimate business interests. (e.g. (a) ensuring the security and integrity of our Website, (b) preventing fraud and maintaining user-safety, or (c) improving and optimizing our services and user experience.)
We do not use your Personal Data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact of these activities on you unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law.
6. SHARING OR DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL DATA
We may share your Personal Data with or disclose it to:
• any person or entity to whom we are required or directed to make such disclosure by any court of competent jurisdiction or by any governmental, taxation or other regulatory authority, law enforcement agency or similar body;
• our professional advisers or consultants, including lawyers, bankers, auditors, accountants and insurers providing consultancy, legal, banking, audit, accounting or other services to us;
• service providers who provide information technology or system administration services; and
• any entity or individual who may acquire our organization or assets or with whom we enter into an alliance to provide our products or services.
7. THIRD-PARTY SIGN-IN AND DATA SHARING
When you sign in to our platform using third-party authentication services such as Google, Microsoft, Instagram, Facebook, or other service providers, we receive certain information from these providers as permitted by your account settings and their respective privacy policies. This may include your name, email address, profile picture, and other necessary authentication details. We use this information to verify your identity, create and manage your account, and enhance your user experience. We do not share this data with third parties except as required to provide our services, comply with legal obligations, or with your explicit consent.
By signing in through a third-party provider, you acknowledge and agree that the handling of your Personal Data is also subject to the privacy policies of the respective service provider, and those service providers / social networking services may be able to collect information and data about you, including about your use of the Website. We encourage you to review their policies to understand how your information is processed and shared in this context.
8. DATA RETENTION
We only retain your Personal Data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected. This includes the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, accounting, and reporting requirements, and to carry out services you avail of from us. To determine the appropriate retention period for Personal Data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the Personal Data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your Personal Data, the purposes for which we process your Personal Data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements. Once this retention period is over, we will erase your Personal Data from our systems without notice to you.
In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
9. YOUR DATA PROTECTION RIGHTS
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your Personal Data. We respect your rights and will act to protect your rights in accordance with any applicable law, rule, or regulation relating to the processing of your Personal Data. Your rights with regard to your Personal Data are set out below:
• Right to access – You have the right to request us to provide copies of your Personal Data in our possession.
• Right to rectification – You have the right to request any inaccurate or incomplete Personal Data be rectified or completed respectively;
• Right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your Personal Data, under certain conditions;
• Right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your Personal Data, under certain conditions;
• Right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data under certain conditions;
• Right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer your Personal Data that we have collected to another organization or to you directly, under certain conditions.
You may exercise any of the above rights at any time using the contact details as it appears on the website.. However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive, or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in such circumstances. If you make a request, we have 1 (one) month to respond to you.
We may need certain specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your Personal Data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that your Personal Data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
10. COOKIES
What are cookies?
Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information. When you visit our Website, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology.
How do we use cookies?
We use cookies in a range of ways to improve your experience on our website, including:
• Keeping you signed in;
• Letting you navigate between pages efficiently;
• Letting us analyse how well our website is performing, and improving your experience; and
• Understanding how you use our Website.
What types of cookies do we use?
There are a number of different types of cookies, however, our Website uses:
• Necessary cookies – these cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website may not function properly without these cookies.
• Preference cookies – these cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.
• Statistic cookies – these cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
How To Manage Cookies?
You can set your browser not to accept cookies and you can also remove cookies from your browser. However, in a few cases, some of our Website features may not function as a result.
Our Website may use an analytics tool to monitor and analyze data such as how many visitors come to the Website, the pages that generate interest, and the links that visitors most often click on (among other things). This means we may also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising, and analytics partners. The analytics tool may use cookies which will only be used for website analytics purposes will not enable any website visitor to be individually identified.
11. THIRD PARTY WEBSITES
This Website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our Website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.
12. DATA SECURITY
The security of your Personal Data is important. We adopt reasonable security practices and procedures to ensure that your Personal Data that we collect is secure. Access to your information is limited to our employees, agents, advisors, and third-party associates, to the extent necessary. While we shall take all reasonable and appropriate measures to secure your Personal Data, this is not an absolute guarantee of the security of your Personal Data. To the widest extent permissible by applicable law, we disclaim all liability in relation to any possible breach of security or unintended loss or disclosure of your Personal Data.
13. MISCELLANEOUS
Where we need to collect Personal Data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you or the organization that you represent (for example, to provide our products or services). In such case, we will not be deemed to be in breach of our obligations under such contract.
This Notice is to be read along with and as part of the Website Terms of Use. Any undefined term in this Privacy Notice shall have the same meaning assigned to it under the Terms of Use.