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Last Edited on 2022-10-05
1. Overview. This Privacy Policy (this “Privacy Policy”) describes how Aera (“Aera”, the “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, and shares information gathered through our website aera.finance (the “Site”), all associated sites and interfaces linked thereto by Aera or its affiliates, and any other site that links to this Privacy Policy, (collectively, including related services, the “Services”). It also describes your rights and choices with respect to your information, and how you can contact us if you have any questions or concerns.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, you can choose not to use our Services. By accessing or using our Services, you agree to this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy may change from time-to-time and the Company reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time consistent with the applicable privacy laws. Your continued use of our Services after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check this Privacy Policy periodically for updates.
2.Information We Collect. We may collect Personal Information about you directly from you and automatically through your use of the Site and/or Services, as well as from third-parties. In this Policy, “Personal Information” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual.
2.1.Personal Information You Provide. When you use the Services or contact us, as applicable, you may provide us with:
- identifiers collected through your use of the Services, such as unique online or device identifiers, geo location/tracking details, IP address, and device or session IDs;
- usage Data, such as user preferences and other data collected via Cookies (defined below) and similar technologies;
2.2.Personal Information We Collect Automatically. When you use our Services, we may automatically collect information about your use of the Services, including via cookies and similar technologies (collectively “Cookies”) in your browser and on emails sent to you. This information may include Personal Information, such as your IP address, as well as information about your interactions with the Services, such as the date and time of your visit.
3.Use of Personal Information.
How We Use Personal information. We use Personal Information we collect through the Services as necessary for the following purposes:
- Providing the Services. We use Personal Information to operate, maintain, and provide features of the Services.
- Communicating with you. We use Personal Information to contact you for administrative and informational purposes, such as to respond to your inquiries, or to inform you about changes to our terms, conditions, and policies, or invitations to join the Services.
- Marketing and Promotions. We may use Personal Information to send marketing communications, including promotional and advertising materials that may be useful, relevant, valuable, or otherwise of interest relating to products and services offered by us. We also may use Personal Information to contact you to answer feedback and surveys, and to improve our marketing and promotional efforts. Generally, you have the ability to opt out of receiving any promotional communications as described below under Your Rights and Choices. Where required under applicable law, we will only send you promotional emails with your opt-in consent.
- Understanding and Improving the Services. We use Personal Information to understand and analyze the usage trends and preferences of our users in order to improve the Services, and to develop new products, services, features, and functionalities.
- Safety and Security. We may use your information to help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of you and our Services, including to protect, investigate and deter against fraudulent, unauthorized, or illegal activity; monitor and verify identity or service access, and combat malware and security risks; perform internal operations necessary to provide our Services, including to troubleshoot software bugs and operational problems; and enforce our agreements with third-parties, and address violations of our Terms of Use or agreements for other Services.
- Other Business Purposes. We may use Personal Information for compliance, risk management, and other business purposes, such as audits, security, compliance with applicable laws and regulations, fraud monitoring, and prevention.
4.Sharing of Information. We do not sell Personal Information but may share it for business and commercial purposes, including the following.
- Disclosure to Our Service Providers. We may share Personal Information as necessary with our third-party service providers (which may include Company affiliates) who perform various business operations, solely for our benefit or on our behalf, under our instructions and in compliance with appropriate contractual, technical, and organizational security measures to protect your data from unauthorized use, retention, or disclosure. For example, we may partner with other companies who provide services such as website hosting, data analysis, information technology, and other services.
- Disclosure for Legal Purposes. We may share Personal Information, to the extent permitted by applicable law, (i) in response to subpoenas or other legal processes or if, in our good faith opinion such disclosure is required or permitted by law without a specific disclosure; (ii) at the request of governmental authorities conducting an investigation; (iii) to enforce our terms and conditions or other policies applicable to our Services; and (iv) to protect the rights, property, life, health, security and safety of the Company or any third-party.
- Disclosure for Other Business Purposes. We may share Personal Information as necessary to a potential or actual acquirer, successor, or assignee as part 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 bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
- Disclosure of De-identified Information. We may use and disclose aggregated or otherwise de-identified information for any purpose, unless we are prohibited from doing so under applicable law.
5.Third-Party Data. This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information or other practices of any third-parties, or any third-party operating any site or service to which the Services link. The inclusion of a link on the Services does not imply endorsement of the linked site or service by us or by our affiliates. We encourage you to learn about third-parties’ privacy and security policies before providing them with information.
6.Data Security. We take reasonable measures to protect information about you from loss, theft, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. Although the Company uses reasonable efforts to help protect your information, transmission via the internet is not completely secure and the Company cannot guarantee the security of your information collected through our Services. Except as otherwise set forth under applicable law, we assume no liability or responsibility for disclosure of your information due to errors in transmission, unauthorized third-party access, or other causes beyond our control.
7. You have several rights and choices with regard to our use of your Personal Information. You may in some cases have the option to decline providing us information. However, your choice to not provide information may impact your use of certain features or services. If you wish to access, amend, or delete any other Personal Information we hold about you, you may contact us in accordance with the “Contact Us” Section below.
From time to time, we send marketing email messages to our users. If you no longer want to receive such emails from us on a going forward basis, you may opt-out via the “unsubscribe” link provided in each such email or by contacting us in accordance with the “Contact Us” Section below.
We use services provided by Google and other companies that use tracking technology. These services rely on tracking technologies—such as Cookies—to collect directly from your device information about your browsing activities, your interactions with websites, and the device you are using to connect to the Internet. There are a number of ways to opt out of having your online activity and device data collected through these services, such as:
- Blocking cookies in your browser. Most browsers let you remove or reject cookies, including cookies used for interest-based advertising. To do this, follow the instructions in your browser settings.
- Blocking advertising ID use in your mobile settings. Your mobile device settings may provide functionality to limit use of the advertising ID associated with your mobile device for interest-based advertising purposes.
- Using privacy plug-ins. You can install browser plugins and configure them to block third-party cookies/trackers.
8. California Residents. If you are a California resident, you may (i) obtain certain information regarding our disclosure of your Personal Information to third-parties for their direct marketing purposes, and/or (ii) at any time opt-out of receiving marketing communications from us and/or request that we discontinue providing any of your Personal Information to unaffiliated third-parties, in each case by contacting us in accordance with the “Contact Us” section below. Please note that if you decide to opt-out of receiving marketing information or request that we discontinue providing your personal information, your change in preference will only affect future contacts; if the information already has been provided to third-parties, they may continue to use it.
9.Use of Services by Minors. Our Services are not intended for Users under the age of 18, and no one under the age of 18 may provide any information to the Services. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 18. If you are under the age of 18, do not use or provide any information to the Services, use, or interact with the Services in any way. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under age 18, please contact us in accordance with the “Contact Us” Section below.
10.Retention. We may retain information about you for as long as it is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we process it. Some of your information may be retained in our systems even after you request your information to be deleted in order to comply with our obligations under applicable law, prevention of fraud and abuse, analytics, collect fees owed, resolve disputes, enforce our legal rights, or where we otherwise reasonably believe that we have a legitimate reason to do so, as permitted under applicable data protection law.
Contact Us If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices in general, please contact us via email at aera.gauntlet.network