Artivest Privacy Policy

LAST UPDATED: October 24, 2012

Artivest Holdings, Inc. and its affiliates ("Company" or "we") is concerned about privacy issues and wants you to be familiar with how we collect, use and disclose information. This Privacy Policy describes our practices in connection with information that we collect through our website, currently located at www.artivest.com (the "Site"). By downloading, accessing or using the Site, or providing information to us in connection with the Site, you acknowledge that we may use and disclose such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you object or do not consent to our use and disclosure of such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy, please do not provide such information on or through the Site (which may mean that you will be unable to use the Site).

We may change this Privacy Policy at any time. Please take a look at the "Last Updated" legend at the top of this page to see when this Privacy Policy was last revised. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will become effective when we make the revised Privacy Policy available on or through the Site. Your use of the Site or the submission of any information through the Site following such changes means that you accept the revised Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information or other practices of any third party, including any third-party service providers, business partners, and any other third party operating any software application or website to which the Site contains a link. The inclusion of a link on the Site does not imply endorsement by us of the linked software application or website.

JURISDICTIONAL ISSUES

The Site is controlled by us from the United States; accordingly, this Privacy Policy, and our collection, use and disclosure of your information, is governed by U.S. law, and not by the laws of any country, territory or jurisdiction other than the United States. We do not represent or warrant that the Site, or any functionality or feature thereof, is appropriate or available for use in any particular jurisdiction. Those who choose to download, access or use the Site do so on their own initiative and at their own risk, and are responsible for complying with all local laws, rules and regulations. By downloading, accessing, using or submitting any information to the Site, users from outside the United States acknowledge that the Site is subject to U.S. law, and consent to the transfer of their information to the United States and any other jurisdiction, which may provide a different level of data security than in their country of residence, and waive any claims that may arise under their own national laws.

Personal Information

Personal Information We May Collect

"Personal Information" is information that identifies someone as an individual. In addition to Personal Information, Other Information (as defined below) may be collected in connection with the Site; the collection, use and disclosure of Other Information is addressed separately below, under the heading "OTHER INFORMATION".

We and our third-party service providers may collect the following Personal Information:

  • Name.
  • Physical and mailing addresses.
  • Telephone number.
  • E-mail address.
  • Identification card numbers (including driver license and passport numbers)
  • Bank account, credit card and debit card numbers.
  • Social Security numbers.
  • Other personally identifiable information about you and third parties that you may choose to disclose (including by authorizing third parties to disclose) to Company and/or its third-party service providers and business partners, including by completing profile forms, completing applications, questionnaires or similar documents, communicating with customer service personnel, and otherwise interacting with Company and its third-party service providers and business partners.

Certain Personal Information is voluntary and not required to access or use the Site; other Personal Information may be mandatory and required to access or use the Site or certain portions of the Site.

IF YOU SUBMIT ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION OF OR RELATING TO A THIRD PARTY TO US OR OUR THIRD-PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS OR BUSINESS PARTNERS IN CONNECTION WITH THE SITE, YOU REPRESENT THAT YOU HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO DO SO AND TO PERMIT US TO USE AND DISCLOSUE SUCH INFORMATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY.

How We May Use Personal Information

We and our third-party service providers may use Personal Information:

  • To respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests, such as to send newsletters to you, process your applications, complete your commercial transactions and otherwise operate the Site.
  • To send administrative information to you, including information regarding the Site and changes to our terms, conditions and policies.
  • To allow you to send and receive messages and invitations to and from other individuals, through or in connection with the Site, and to send and receive such messages and invitations on your behalf.
  • To administer and fulfill any contests, sweepstakes and other promotions (please note that certain contests, sweepstakes or other promotions may have additional rules or policies, which could contain different or additional information about how we use and disclose your Personal Information; we suggest that you read any such rules or policies carefully . in the event of a conflict between such rules or policies and this Privacy Policy, such rules or policies will govern).
  • To help us improve the customer experience, including by learning more about your preferences to help personalize your experience with us.
  • To send marketing communications to you that we believe may be of interest to you, unless you opt-out in accordance with the "CHOICES AND ACCESS" section below.
  • For our business purposes, such as quality assessment, data analysis, audits, developing new products and services, improving the Site, identifying usage trends and determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns.
  • To protect the security or integrity of our businesses and Internet properties, including the Site.
  • As we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public or government authorities, including public or government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, or that of our affiliates, service providers, members, you or others, including through credit-fraud protection and risk reduction; (g) at our discretion under emergency circumstances, to notify emergency services or your family members, personal representative or other individuals involved in your care of your location and condition; or (h) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

How Personal Information May Be Disclosed

Personal Information may be disclosed:

  • To our third-party service providers that may provide services such as hosting of the Site, data analysis, IT services and infrastructure, customer service, e-mail delivery, auditing, information and identity verification, background checks, credit checks, payment processing and other similar services.
  • To identify you to anyone to whom you send messages or invitations through or in connection with the Site, including messages and invitations that we may send on your behalf.
  • To third-party sponsors of contests, sweepstakes and similar promotions.
  • To our affiliates, for all uses permitted under this Privacy Policy (including for such affiliates to send marketing communications to you), unless you opt-out in accordance with the "CHOICES AND ACCESS" section below.
  • To unaffiliated third parties, for all uses permitted under this Privacy Policy (including for such affiliates to send marketing communications to you), unless you opt-out in accordance with the "CHOICES AND ACCESS" section below.
  • By you, through messages, chats, message boards, forums, public profile pages, user directories and blogs and other functionality with which you are able to share or post information and materials. Please note that any information and materials that you post or disclose using such functionality will become public information, and may be available for other users of the Site and the general public to access, use, alter, manipulate or disclose. We are not responsible for such access, use, alteration, manipulation or disclosure. We urge you to be very careful when deciding to disclose your Personal Information, or any other information, in connection with the Site.
  • To a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceeding).
  • As we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public or government authorities, including public or government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, or that of our affiliates, service providers, members, you or others, including through credit-fraud protection and risk reduction; (g) at our discretion under emergency circumstances, to notify emergency services or your family members, personal representative or other individuals involved in your care of your location and condition; or (h) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

OTHER Information

Other Information We May Collect

"Other Information" is any information that does not reveal a person.s specific identity, such as:

  • Browser information.
  • Server log files.
  • Statistics concerning messages (including files, video and audio calls and text messages) sent or received through the Site, such as the length of such calls or messages, the IP Addresses involved and other technical parameters.
  • Information collected through cookies, pixel tags and other technologies.
  • Demographic information.
  • Aggregated information.

How We May Collect Other Information

We and our third-party service providers may collect Other Information in a variety of ways, including:

  • Through your device: Certain information is collected automatically through your device, such as your operating system name and version, device manufacturer and model, language, and the name and version of the software application you are using.
  • Through server log files:Your "IP Address" is a number that is automatically assigned to the device that you are using by your Internet Service Provider (ISP). An IP Address is identified and logged automatically in our server log files whenever a user uses the Site, along with the time of the use and the pages or areas visited within the Site. Collecting IP Addresses is standard practice on the Internet and is done automatically by many websites. We and our third-party service providers use IP Addresses for purposes such as helping to calculate usage levels of the Site, diagnose server problems and administer the Site.
  • Using cookies: Cookies allow a server to transfer data to a device for recordkeeping and other purposes. We and our third-party service providers use cookies and other technologies to, among other things, better serve you with more tailored information and facilitate your ongoing access to and use of the Site, as well as for online tracking purposes. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most devices that allows you to decline the use of cookies. To learn more about cookies, please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/. If you choose to decline cookies, some or all of the features, functionality and promotions available through the Site may not be available to you.
  • Using pixel tags and other similar technologies: Pixel tags (also known as web beacons and clear GIFs) and other similar technologies may be used in connection with some pages and areas of the Site and HTML-formatted e-mail messages to, among other things, track the actions of users of the Site and e-mail recipients, measure the success of our marketing campaigns and compile statistics about usage and response rates of the Site.
  • From you: We may collect demographic information such as, for example, your age, occupation and family status, as well as other information when you voluntarily provide such information to us. We may also collect such information about you from third parties. Unless combined with Personal Information, this information does not personally identify you or any other user of the Site.
  • By aggregating information: Aggregated Personal Information does not personally identify you or any other user of the Site. For example, we may aggregate Personal Information to calculate the percentage of our users who have a particular telephone area code.

How We May Use and Disclose Other Information

Because Other Information does not personally identify you, we may use and disclose Other Information for any purpose. In some instances, we may combine Other Information with Personal Information (such as combining your zip code with your name). If we combine any Other Information with Personal Information, the combined information will be treated by us as Personal Information as long as it is so combined.

THIRD-PARTY ADVERTISERS

We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit the Site. Please note that these companies may use information about your use of the Site to provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you. In the course of serving advertisements to the Site, these companies may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser. If you would like more information about this practice, and to know your choices with respect to it, please visit http://networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp or http://www.aboutads.info.

SECURITY

We seek to use within our Company reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect Personal Information under our control. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or data storage system is guaranteed to be 100% secure. Please also be aware that we may use third-party cloud service providers that provide hosting, data storage and other services pursuant to standard terms and conditions that are generally non-negotiable; accordingly, although we seek to conduct reasonable due diligence on such service providers, we may be unable to impose contractual obligations on them with respect to the measures they use to protect Personal Information. We are not responsible for the data security measures of any third parties.

If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you feel that the security of any account you might have with us has been compromised), please immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us in accordance with the "CONTACTING US" section below.

CHOICES AND ACCESS

Your choices regarding our use and disclosure of your Personal Information for marketing purposes:

We give you many choices regarding our use and disclosure of your Personal Information for marketing purposes. You may opt-out from:

  • Receiving marketing-related e-mails from us based upon your Personal Information: If you no longer want to receive marketing-related e-mails from us on a going-forward basis based upon Personal Information collected pursuant to this Privacy Policy, you may opt-out of receiving such marketing-related e-mails by contacting us in accordance with the "CONTACTING US" section below, or by clicking the .unsubscribe. link that is included at the end of such marketing-related e-mails.
  • Our sharing of your Personal Information with affiliates for their marketing purposes: If you would prefer that we do not share, on a going-forward basis, your Personal Information collected pursuant to this Privacy Policy with our affiliates for their marketing purposes, you may opt-out of such sharing by contacting us in accordance with the "CONTACTING US" section below.
  • Our sharing of your Personal Information with unaffiliated third parties for their marketing purposes: If you would prefer that we do not share, on a going-forward basis, your Personal Information collected pursuant to this Privacy Policy with unaffiliated third parties for their marketing purposes, you may opt-out of such sharing by contacting us in accordance with the "CONTACTING US" section below.

We will try to comply with your request(s) as soon as reasonably practicable. Please note that if you opt-out as described above, we will not be able to remove your Personal Information from the databases of our affiliates and unaffiliated third parties with which we have already shared your Personal Information (i.e., to which we have already provided your Personal Information as of the date that we implement your opt-out request). Please also note that if you do opt-out of receiving marketing-related e-mails from us, we may still send administrative messages to you; you cannot opt-out from receiving administrative messages.

How you can access your Personal Information

If you would like to review or update your Personal Information that has been previously provided to us, you may do so by logging into your account within the Site, or, for certain Personal Information that is not reviewable through the Site, you may contact us in accordance with the "CONTACTING US" section below.

We will try to comply with your request to update your Personal Information as soon as reasonably practicable. We are not responsible for changing information from the databases of third parties with whom we have already shared your Personal Information.

USE OF THE SITE BY MINORS

The Site is not directed to individuals under the age of eighteen (18), nor are such individuals permitted to use the Site; accordingly, we request that such individuals do not provide Personal Information in connection with the Site. If you are the parent or guardian of such an individual who has disclosed Personal Information to us in connection with the Site, please contact us in accordance with the "CONTACTING US" section below, and we will exercise commercially reasonable efforts to remove such information from our databases and storage systems; we are not liable, however, for any consequences of such information, including any delay or failure to remove such information.

RETENTION PERIOD

We will retain your Personal Information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or allowed by law.

CONTACTING US

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by sending us an e-mail to [email protected]. Please note that information you submit through e-mail may not be secure; so please do not include financial information or other sensitive information in your messages to us.