This Privacy Policy (this “Privacy Policy”) applies to www.advention.com (the “Site”) owned and operated by Advention, LLC, an Illinois limited liability company (“Advention”).

Protecting your private information is Advention’s priority. This Privacy Policy describes the types of information Advention may collect or that you may provide when you register for, access or use the Site, as well as, Advention’s practices for collecting, using maintaining, protecting and disclosing that information.

This Privacy Policy applies only to information Advention collects on the Site and in email, text, and other electronic communications sent through or in connection with the Site. This Privacy Policy DOES NOT apply to information that you provide to or is collected by any third party.

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Advention include the Site. The Site is an ecommerce site. By using the Site, you consent to the data practices described in this Privacy Policy.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand Advention’s policies and practices regarding your information and how Advention will treat it. If you do not agree with Advention’s policies and practices, do not register for, access or use the Site. By registering for, accessing or using the Site, you agree to this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of the Site after Advention revises this Privacy Policy means you accept those changes, so please check the Privacy Policy periodically for updates.

 

Children Under the Age of 13 .

The Site is not intended for children under 13 years of age, and Advention does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If Advention learns of any collection or receipt of personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, Advention will delete that information. If you believe Advention might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact Advention at contactus@Advention.com.

Collection of your Personal Information .

In order to better provide you with products and services offered on the Site, Advention may collect certain personally identifiable information.

The following information is REQUIRED for account creation:

• E-mail Address

The following is OPTIONAL but encouraged for the enhancement of the experience for participants on a user’s specific trip:

• First and Last Name

• Phone Number

• Nicknames, Group Names, photos, videos

In addition, Advention may collect:

• Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses and phone numbers), if you contact Advention;

• Your responses to surveys that Advention might ask you to complete for research purposes;

• Details of transactions you carry out through the Site and of the fulfillment of your orders; and

• Your search queries on the Site.

If you purchase Advention's products and services, Advention collects billing and credit card information, but Advention DOES NOT store/save it on any of its servers. This information is only used to complete the purchase transaction which is conducted by a third-party payment processor.

 

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Advention's public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others.

 

Advention does not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to Advention when you elect to use certain products or services available on the Site. These may include: (a) registering for an account on the Site; (b) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by Advention or one of Advention’s partners; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending Advention an email message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services on the Site. To wit, Advention will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from Advention.

Advention may gather additional personal or non-personal information from you in the future and will notify you of any changes to this Privacy Policy that are applicable to such additional personal or non-personal information.

Advention will store information about you for a period of five years.

Use of your Personal Information .

Advention collects and uses your personal information to operate its website(s) and deliver the services you have requested. Advention may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Advention and its affiliates. More specifically, Advention may use information collected about you or that you provide, including any personal information, to:

• Provide you with the Site and its contents, and any other information, products or services that you request from Advention.

• Fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.

• Give you notices about your account, including expiration and renewal notices.

• Carry out Advention’s obligations and enforce Advention’s rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and Advention, including for billing and collection.

• Notify you when updates to the Site are available, and of changes to any products or services offered or provides though it.

The usage information collected by Advention is intended to improve the Site and to deliver a better and more personalized experience by enabling Advention to:

• Estimate Advention’s audience size and usage patterns.

• Store information about your preferences, allowing Advention to customize the Site according to your individual interests.

• Speed up your searches.

• Recognize you when you use the Site.

 

Sharing Information with Third Parties .

Advention does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Advention may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. Advention may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Advention, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information. Even though Advention does not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an third party or advertisement, such third party or advertiser may individually collect certain information about you.

   

Tracking User Behavior .

Advention may keep track of the pages Advention’s users visit within the Site, in order to determine what Advention services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Advention to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

 

Automatically Collected Information .

Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by Advention. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the Site, to maintain quality of the Site and its services, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Site. Such information will be collected by a third-party service provider such as Google Analytics, and as such shall be subject to and governed by the terms, conditions and/or privacy policy published by such third party, agreement to which is hereby acknowledged by your use of the Site. If you need assistance in accessing any third-party terms, conditions and/or privacy policy please contact Advention at contactus@Advention.com.

 

Disclosure of Your Information.

Advention may disclose aggregated information about Advention’s users, and information that does not identify any individual or device, without restriction. In addition, Advention may disclose personal information collected or provided by you:

• To Advention’s subsidiaries and affiliates.

• To contractors, service providers, and other third parties Advention uses to support the Site and its business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which Advention discloses it to them.

• To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Advention’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Advention about the Site users is among the assets transferred.

• To third parties to market their products or services to you if you have consented to these disclosures.

• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it. For example, if you provide Advention with an email address to use the "invite/email a friend" feature of the Site, Advention will transmit the contents of that email and your email address to the recipients.

• For any other purpose disclosed by Advention when you provide the information.

• With your consent.

• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.

• To enforce Advention’s rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and Advention, and for billing and collection.

• If Advention believes disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Advention, Advention’s customers or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Advention does not allow third parties' collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising.

Your Choices About Advention’s Collection, Use, and Disclosure of Your Information .

Advention strives to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to Advention. This section describes mechanisms Advention provides for you to control certain uses and disclosures of your information.

• Tracking Technologies . You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies or block the use of other tracking technologies, some parts of the Site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

• Location Information . You can choose whether or not to allow the Site to collect and use real-time information about your device's location through the device's privacy settings or internet browser’s privacy settings. If you block the use of location information, some parts of the Site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

• Promotion by Advention . If you do not want Advention to use your email address to promote Advention or third parties' products or services, you can opt-out by check or uncheck the relevant boxes on the first email announcement when it arrives, or by sending Advention an email stating your request to contactus@Advention.com. You may opt back in by joining the mailing list.

Accessing and Correcting Your Personal Information .

You can review and change your personal information by logging into the Site and visiting your account profile page. You may also send Advention an email at contactus@Advention.com to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to Advention. Advention may not be able to delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. Advention may not accommodate a request to change information if Advention believes the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

Links.

This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that Advention is not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. Advention encourages Advention’s users to be aware when they leave the Site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

 

Security of your Personal Information .

Advention secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Advention uses SSL Protocol for this purpose with regard to European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.

 

We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while Advention strives to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond Advention’s control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and Advention through this Site cannot be guaranteed.

   

E-mail Communications .

From time to time, Advention may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication.

 

If you would like to stop receiving certain communications via email from Advention, you may opt out of such communications by managing your notifications in your user profile or by contacting Advention at contactus@Advention.com.

 

External Data Storage Sites .

We may store your data on servers provided by third party hosting vendors with whom Advention has contracted.

 

Changes to this Statement .

Advention reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. Advention will notify you about significant changes in the way Advention treats personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on the Site, and/or by updating any privacy information on this page. Your continued use of the Site and/or the products and services available through the Site after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.

 

Contact Information .

Advention welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Privacy Policy. If you believe that Advention has not adhered to this Privacy Policy, please contact Advention at:

 

Advention, LLC

332 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 1160

Chicago, Illinois 60604

Email: contactus@Advention.com

 

 

Effective as of January 01, 2019