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Purpose and Scope
This Privacy Notice (the “Notice”) applies to the websites, applications, and electronic communications on which it appears (the “Platform”). The Notice describes how Avkar Armory uses the Personal Information (defined below) that we collect, receive, and maintain, that is collected by us in connection with the products and services we offer (our “Services”). Please read this Notice carefully.
We may modify this Notice at any time. All changes will be effective immediately upon posting to the Platform.
1. Types of Personal Information Collected
We do collect your personal Information. “Personal Information” is information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is reasonably capable of being associated with or linked to an individual. When we combine Personal Information with other information (i.e., information that does not, on its own, identify you), we treat the combined information as Personal Information.
The types of Personal Information we collect may include:
CONTACT AND DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
If you register for an account, submit an inquiry, make a purchase, or make a return request, we may collect your contact and mailing information. This may include your email, name, address, and phone number. We may also collect your age to verify your ability to purchase our products.
PAYMENT INFORMATION
If you make a purchase through the Platform, we will collect your payment information including your credit card information and billing address. We will also collect your purchase details or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies. We DO NOT share any of this information for 3rd party sellers, it is purely for gauging consumer interest in various products or what we are legally required to retain for the ATF, FBI, Department of Justice, or any other government body that has authority over the process of purchasing firearms and accessories.
EMPLOYMENT INFORMATION
If you apply for employment with Avkar Armory, we will collect your employment and work history, as well as Personal Information related to your potential employment. This may include your education and employment history, address and contact information, demographic information, and any other information included in your resume or application.
ACCOUNT INFORMATION
If you create an account with us, you will create and provide us with a username and password and may upload other Personal Information through our customer portal. We may also collect your purchase information.
LOCATION DATA
While navigating our Platform your mobile device or browser may share your location data through Wi-Fi, GPS, RFID, and cellular technologies. Avkar Armory will collect this information based on the settings of your phone and browser.
USAGE INFORMATION
We may collect usage and device information when you visit our Platform. This may include information about the browser, operating system, and/or device identifier for the device you are using, your ISP and IP information, your navigation activity on the Platform, as well as the websites that you came from and the website you visit when you leave and other such information.
COMMUNICATION INFORMATION
We may collect audio, electronic, or visual information, which includes screen sharing views, product reviews, any data in any files uploaded, emailed, or otherwise provided by customers, the contents of your communications with us, whether via email, text messaging, social media, telephone or otherwise, and inferences we may make from other Personal Information we collect.
2. Method of Information Collection
We collect Personal Information in a variety of ways. We collect information directly from you; for example, when you register an account on the Platform, make a purchase, submit a job application or inquiry, or otherwise correspond with us through the Platform.
We also collect Personal Information from third parties. For example, we work with business partners, technical and delivery services, advertising networks, analytics providers, and search information providers.
We also collect Personal Information from you when visiting and using our Platform. Our Platform uses tracking tools like cookies, pixels, and web beacons. We do this both on our Platform and in emails that we send to you. Through these tools we collect Personal Information about users over time when you use our Platform. This collection includes usage and browser information. Additionally, if you enable location data on your device, this data will be collected passively based on the location settings on your device.
3. Combining Information
We may combine Personal Information we obtain. For example, we may combine information that we have collected online with Personal Information that we have collected offline, for instance during calls between you and our support team. Finally, we may combine Personal Information across devices.
4. How We Use Personal Information
We will use your Personal Information to fulfill your purchases and offer our services, respond to your requests and inquiries, provide customer support, employment opportunity inquiries, as well as to send you communications. We may also use your Personal Information to communicate with you for transactional purposes. For example, we might contact you about this Notice or our Terms of Use.
We may also use your Personal Information to improve our Platform, products, and services, conduct research, analysis, studies, or surveys, to identify usage trends, as well as for other analytic purposes. This may include using your Personal Information to customize your experience with us. We may also use your Personal Information for the security of the Platform and our company, our customers, and other third parties. We may also use your Personal Information to protect against fraud, claims and other liabilities, criminal activity, and other malicious activity.
We may also use your Personal Information for marketing purposes. For example, we may send you information about new features on the Platform, new services we offer, and special offers. When legally permitted, this may also include using your Personal Information to serve you ads and to tell you about products or offers available through third parties we think you might find interesting. These might be our own offers, or third party offers, or products we think you might find interesting.
We may use your Personal Information to protect the security and integrity of our Platform, meet our contractual requirements, comply with applicable legal or regulatory requirements and our policies.
When making purchases over the telephone or whenever you request any military, first responder, nurse, or government employee discount be applied to your orders, we may use your Personal Information to verify your identity.
Finally, we may use your Personal Information for other purposes, as permitted by law and in good faith.
5. Sharing Personal Information
We may share your Personal Information in the following circumstances:
- Within Avkar Armory – We may share your Personal Information within Avkar Armory.
- Service providers – When we hire a service provider to help operate the Platform or our business, we may give access to Personal Information as necessary to perform the service for Avkar Armory. This may include service providers that operate our Platform, send our communications, run our promotions, verify your identity when making certain phone orders, or verify your identity when you request certain discounts (that are offered to military personnel, first responders, nurses, or government employees) be applied to your order.
- Legal obligation or protection from harm – When we have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of the Personal Information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy or comply with any requirement of law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce or investigate a potential violation of the Terms of Use, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise respond to fraud, security or technical concerns, (d) support auditing and compliance functions, or (e) protect the rights, property, or safety of Avkar Armory, its users, or the public against harm.
- Merger or sale – If and when Avkar Armory is involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of transfer or sale of some or all its business, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding. Personal Information may be transferred along with the business. Where legally required we will give you prior notice and if you have a legal right to do so, you will be given an opportunity to object to this transfer.
- Other Purposes described to you – We may share your Personal Information for other purposes, as we describe to you.
6. Cookies and Other Technologies
We collect Personal Information on the Platform by using several common types of cookies and other tracking technologies including web beacons, pixels, and flash cookies. Cookies are small files that download when you access certain websites. For more information about cookies visit: https://www.allaboutcookies.org. Web beacons, pixels, and other tracking technologies operate independent of cookies.
To assist us with analyzing our website traffic through cookies and similar technologies, we use analytics services such as Google Analytics. For more information on Google Analytics’ processing of your information, please see “How Google uses data when you use our partners’ Platforms or apps.” You can opt out of Google Analytics by installing Google’s opt-out browser add-on.
7. Your Choices
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to exercise certain controls and choices regarding our collection, use, and sharing of your Personal Information.
- Right to Know – You may have the right to be notified of what categories of Personal Information will be collected at or before the point of collection and the purposes for which they will be used and shared.
- Right of Access – You may have the right to be informed of and request access to the Personal Information we process about the applicant.
- Right to Rectification (Correct) – Under certain circumstances, you may have the right to request that we amend or update inaccurate or incomplete Personal Information about them.
- Right to Erasure (Deletion) – Under certain circumstances, you may have the right to request deletion of their Personal Information.
- Right to Data Portability – Under certain circumstances, you may have the right to request a copy of their Personal Information in an electronic format and further request that we send such Personal Information to another party.
- Communication Preferences and Opt-Outs – You may have the right to stop receiving marketing communications from us at any time. To opt-out of marketing communications, please email Support@AvkarArmory.com with a written request to do so or call us at 833-892-8527 and leave a discernible message. Please note that, even if you unsubscribe from certain correspondences, we may still need to contact you with important transactional or administrative information, as permitted by law.
8. Children Under the Age of 18
We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from any person under the age of 18 without permission from a parent of guardian. The Platform is not designed to attract the attention of or target persons under the age of 18. If you are a parent or legal guardian and think your child has given us Person Information, you can email us at Support@AvkarArmory.com.
9. Storage, Security and Retention of Information
Avkar Armory has taken reasonable steps to protect the Personal Information users share with us, including, but not limited to, setup of processes, equipment, and software to avoid unauthorized access or disclosure of this Personal Information. No transmission of Personal Information via the Internet can be entirely secure, however, so please always use caution when submitting Personal Information. We will retain your Personal Information in compliance with the uses described in this Notice, as well as to comply with our legal, financial reporting, or compliance obligations.
