Privacy Policy

Effective Date: February 1, 2024
Updated: January 23, 2024

Thank you for using ownvia!

At ownvia, we respect your privacy and are committed to securely storing all information we receive from or about you. This Privacy Policy describes our practices regarding personal data that we collect from or about you when you use our website, applications, and services (collectively, “Services”).

1. Personal Data We Collect

We collect personal data about you (“Personal Data”) as follows:
Personal Data Provided by You: We collect personal data when you create an account to use our services or communicate with us as follows:

Account Information: When you create an account with us, we collect information associated with your account, including your name, contact information, account login details, payment card information, and transaction history (collectively, “Account Information”).
User Content: When you use our services, we collect personal data contained in the inputs, file uploads, or feedback you provide to our services (“Content”).
Communication Information: When you communicate with us, we collect your name, contact information, and the content of any messages you send (“Communication Information”).
Other Information Provided by You: We collect other information you may provide to us, such as when you participate in our events or surveys or provide us with information to verify your identity (collectively, “Other Information Provided by You”).
Personal Information We Automatically Receive Through Your Use of the Services: When you visit, use, or interact with the Services, we receive the following information about your visit, use, or interactions (“Technical Information”):
Log Data: Information that your browser or device automatically sends when you use our services. Log data includes your Internet Protocol address, browser type and settings, date and time of your request, and how you interact with our services.
Usage Data: We may automatically collect information about your use of the services, such as the types of content you view or interact with, the features you use, actions you perform, your time zone, country, access times and dates, user agent and version, type of computer or mobile device, and your computer connection.
Device Information: This includes the name of the device, operating system, device identifiers, and the browser you use. The collected information may depend on the type of device you use and its settings.
Cookies: We use cookies to operate and manage our services and to enhance your experience. A “cookie” is information sent by a website you visit to your browser. You can set your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is offered, allowing you to decide whether to accept it each time. However, rejecting a cookie may sometimes prevent you from using a website or certain areas or features of a website or affect the display or function of a website. For more information about cookies, see “All About Cookies.”
Analytics: We may use various online analytics products that use cookies to help us analyze how users use our services and to improve your experience when using the services.

2. How We Use Personal Data

We may use personal data for the following purposes:

To provide, administer, maintain and/or analyze the Services;
To improve our Services and conduct research;
To communicate with you, including sending information about our services and events;
To develop new programs and services;
To prevent fraud, criminal activities or misuse of our Services and to protect the security of our IT systems, architecture, and networks;
To carry out business transfers; and
To comply with legal obligations and legal processes and to protect our rights, privacy, security, or property and/or that of our affiliated companies, you, or other third parties.

Aggregated or Anonymized Information: We may aggregate or anonymize personal data so that it can no longer be used to identify you, and use this information to analyze the effectiveness of our Services, to improve and supplement our Services, to conduct research, and for other similar purposes. In addition, we may from time to time analyze the general behavior and characteristics of users of our Services and share aggregated information such as general user statistics with third parties, publish such aggregated information, or make such aggregated information generally available. We may collect aggregated information about the Services, through cookies, and through other means described in this Privacy Policy. We will retain unidentified information in anonymized or unidentifiable form, and we will not attempt to re-identify the information unless required by law.

3. Disclosure of Personal Data

Under certain circumstances, we may disclose your personal data to third parties without further notice to you, unless required by law:

Vendors and Service Providers: To assist us in meeting business requirements and performing certain services and functions, we may share personal data with vendors and service providers, including providers of hosting services, customer service providers, cloud services, email communication software, web analytics services, and other information technology providers. Under our instructions, these parties will only access, process, or store personal data in the course of performing their duties to us.
Business Transfers: If we are involved in strategic transactions, restructurings, bankruptcies, receiverships, or the transfer of services to another provider (collectively, a “Transaction”), your personal data and other information may be disclosed to counterparties and others assisting with the Transaction and transferred as part of the Transaction along with other assets to a successor or affiliate.
Legal Requirements: We may disclose your personal data, including information about your interaction with our services, to government agencies, industry peers, or other third parties, (i) if required by law or if we believe in good faith that it is necessary to comply with a legal obligation, (ii) to protect and defend our rights or property, (iii) if we determine in our sole discretion that there is a violation of our terms, policies, or the law; (iv) to detect or prevent fraud or other illegal activities; (v) to protect the safety and integrity of our products, employees, or users or the public; or (vi) to protect against legal liability.
Affiliated Companies: We may share personal data with our affiliated companies, i.e., companies that are controlled by ownvia, control ownvia, or are under common control with ownvia. Our affiliates may use the personal data we share with them in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Other Users and Third Parties with Whom You Share Information: Certain features allow you to display information to or share it with other users or third parties. For example, you may share ownvia conversations via shared links with other users or send information about custom actions to third-party applications. Make sure you trust each user or third party with whom you share information.

4. Your Rights

Depending on your location, individuals may have certain legal rights regarding their personal data.
To the extent required by law and subject to applicable exceptions, individuals may have the following privacy rights regarding their personal data:

The right to receive information about our processing of your personal data, including the specific personal data we have collected from you;
The right to request the deletion of your personal data;
The right to correct your personal data; and
The right to be free from discrimination in exercising your privacy rights.

We do not “sell” personal data and do not “share” personal data for cross-context behavioral advertising (as these terms are defined in applicable local law). We also do not process sensitive personal data to draw inferences about the characteristics of a consumer.

Verification: To protect your personal data from unauthorized access, unauthorized alteration, or deletion, we may ask you to verify your login credentials before you can request access, correction, or deletion of personal data. If you do not have an account with us or if we suspect fraudulent or malicious activity, we may ask you to provide additional personal information and proof of residence for verification. If we cannot verify your identity, we may not be able to comply with your request.

6. Children

Our Service is not intended for children under the age of 13 or for individuals who are still considered minors. Ownvia does not knowingly collect personal data from children under the age of 13. If you become aware that a child under the age of 13 has provided us with personal data, we ask for immediate notification. We will investigate this report and, if necessary, remove the relevant data from our systems. Individuals who are 13 years or older but have not yet reached the age of majority (typically 18 years, depending on local legislation) require the consent of their parents or legal guardians to use our services.

7. Links to Other Websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated or controlled by ownvia, including social media services (“Third-Party Websites”). The information you disclose to Third-Party Websites is subject to the specific privacy policies and terms of use of the Third-Party Websites and not this Privacy Policy. Providing these links does not mean that we endorse the mentioned websites or have reviewed their content. We recommend that you contact the relevant Third-Party Websites directly to obtain information about their privacy practices and policies.

8. Security and Retention

We take economically reasonable technical, administrative, and organizational measures to protect personal data both online and offline from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no Internet or email transmission is ever completely secure or error-free. In particular, emails sent to or from us may not be secure. Therefore, you should take special care when deciding what information to send us via the Service or email. In addition, we are not responsible for circumventing privacy settings or security measures in the Service or on Third-Party Websites.

We retain your personal data only as long as we need it to provide you with our service or for other legitimate business purposes, such as resolving disputes, for security reasons, or to comply with our legal obligations. How long we retain personal data depends on a number of factors, such as the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the information, the potential.

9. International Users

By using our service, you understand and acknowledge that your personal data will be stored in our facilities and servers and may be shared with our service providers and affiliated companies in other jurisdictions.

Legal Basis for Processing: Our legal bases for processing your personal data include:

Fulfilling a contract with you when we provide and maintain our services. When we process account information, content, and technical information solely to provide our services to you, these information are necessary to be able to provide our services. If you do not provide this information, we may not be able to offer our services to you.
Our legitimate interest lies in protecting our services from abuse, fraud, or security risks, or in further developing, improving, or promoting our services, including the training of our models. This may involve processing account information, content, social information, and technical information. Read our instructions on how you can object to the use of your data for training our models.
Your consent, when we ask for your consent to process your personal data for a specific purpose that we communicate to you. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
Compliance with our legal obligations, when we use your personal data to comply with applicable laws or when we protect the rights, safety, and property of us or our affiliates, users, or third parties.

Data Transfers: When necessary, we will take appropriate security measures for the transfer of personal data outside of certain countries. We transfer personal data only as part of a legally valid transfer mechanism.

10. Changes to the Privacy Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. When we do, we will post an updated version on this page, unless applicable law requires a different type of notification.

Use of cookies
In order to facilitate the use of our website, we use “Cookies” that enable the identification of registered users. Cookies are small pieces of data that are temporarily stored on the hard disk. Cookies do not contain personal data, so your privacy is protected. At each subsequent access to the Internet page, our system will search your cookie for previously recorded data. Cookies can be classified as:

Temporary cookies (Session cookies) – are stored on the computer and are automatically deleted after closing the web browser. They allow the website to obtain temporary data, such as comments or shopping cart status.
Persistent cookies – They remain in your web browser even after closing and usually have an expiration date. Our site uses persistent cookies to facilitate access for registered users. They store information such as username and password, which allows you to use the “remember me” functionality when logging in, so that you do not have to enter your username and password every time you visit our website.
First-party cookie – these come from the website you have visited and can be temporary or permanent. They allow websites to save data that is used when the user visits the website again.
Third-party cookies – there are several external services that store limited cookies for the user (Facebook, Instagram, Google Analytics and AdWords)

What options are available to you? In the settings of browsers such as Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox or Chrome, you can specify which cookies you want to accept and which you will reject. The place where you can find the settings depends on the type of your browser. Use the “help” option in your browser to find the settings you need. If you choose the option not to accept certain cookies, you may not be able to use certain functions on our website.