Privacy Policy
At Association of Virtual Worlds LLC (hereby referred to as AssociationOfVirtualWorlds.com) we protect your privacy as if it were our own. We use the information you provide to us for the following purposes: to process your order(s), to reply to your questions, provide our newsletter via email, to facilitate a transaction you chose to enter into with our third party partner(s) and to incorporate your feedback into improvements to our Website. We will not give, sell, or rent your personal information, including email address, or specific account activity to anyone for any reason without your prior consent except as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Website or in the event of the sale and/or acquisition of AssociationOfVirtualWorlds.com and its assets.
Our Secure Ordering.
At associationofvirtualworlds.com we use an industry standard technology known as Secured Socket Layer (SSL) to protect confidential information. SSL is an advanced encryption technology that makes personal information unreadable as it travels over the Internet.
To make sure you are accessing our secure server before you submit personal financial information, look at the lower left corner of your browser. If you see an unbroken key or a closed lock (depending upon your browser), the SSL is active. It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished if you are using a shared computer. Please refer to our Terms of Use and our Membership agreements for more information regarding ordering products and subscriptions from Associationofvirtualworlds.com.
Credit Card Fraud Protection.
All major credit card companies protect cardholders against fraud, subject to a $50 deductible. Associationofvirtualworlds.com may protect you for this $50 portion in the highly unlikely situation that you ever encounter an inappropriate charge involving our company. Please refer to our Terms of Use and our Membership agreements for more information regarding ordering products and subscriptions from Associationofvirtualworlds.com.
Contact Us
SNAIL MAIL OR Email
dave@Associationofvirtualworlds.com or Association of Virtual Worlds 2201 Sawgrass Village Drive Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32082
Information We Collect.In designing our website, we started with the simple belief that member service is our number one priority. Therefore the member information we collect is used to enhance our services to you, our member.
When you visit our website, we collect non-personal information about your visit. We collect your IP address, browser type, domain name, and we log the length of time of your visit and the number of times you visit and purchase from us. We assign you a unique internal identifier to help keep track of your future visits. We use this information to gather aggregate demographic information about our visitors, and we use it to personalize the information you see on our website and the emails you receive from us (should you grant us permission to send to you). We keep this information for our internal use; we do not share it with others. This information is in no way tied to your personal information, including your email address. This information is a corporate asset of The Wave Group, Inc. and may be sold or transferred to another entity as part of the assets should the company be sold or merged or acquired.
Our website uses cookies to store information between users' visits to our site and for the duration of the visit, also known as a session. Cookies are a mechanism to remember information about a visitor when he or she navigates from one Web page to another. Our Website uses cookies to hold users' unique session identifiers, allowing our Web server to serve correct information back to the user. Such information includes the user's shopping cart items, or whether he or she is logged in when requesting to view or modify personal information, including your email address, which may have been stored in our database in the past. Our Website cookies do not hold any personal identifiable information. Disabling or rejecting cookies will prevent users from adding items to the cart and checking out; however, standard browsing on our Website does not require cookies.
Associationofvirtualworlds.com uses tracking technologies that collects anonymous information about your browsing habits. Links in our email communications to recipients are tracked once you land on our website. We collect information such as your operating system, browser, resolution, geographical location, products ordered, and order total. This information is used to help associationofvirtualworlds.com web and marketing teams understand the behavior of visitors to our website and understand the effectiveness of online and email messages. Your information is submitted anonymously, and no sensitive or personally identifiable information is transmitted.
When you subscribe to our emails, newsletters or submit a question to us, associationofvirtualworlds.com asks you for contact information (your name and email address). When you sign up for our site we use your name and email address to send you our downloadable products and to inform you of sales and special offers or events. Your first name, city, and state will be displayed. However, no information that would allow others to contact you will be disclosed by associationofvirtualworlds.com. We will use your email address to send you the answer to your question and for no other purpose unless you opt in for our newsletter when you asked the question.
If you place an online order, our secure order form requests contact, billing, and financial information (such as your credit card numbers for purchases). Contact information from the order form (email address, name, billing and shipping address, and phone number) is used to send orders and information about our company to you. Your contact information, including email address, is also used to get in touch with you should we have questions regarding your order or should we need to notify you of the status of your order. And yes, you can opt not to get email from us, as described in the opt-out section below. The credit card information we collect is used to bill you for products you purchase, and if you provide prior consent, this information may also be shared with a third party partner. For your convenience, your information including credit card and order history is stored on a secure server that allows you to reorder by entering your email address and password. You may also place an auto-ship order that will allow you to receive products on a regular basis without the need to reenter that order every time. You may cancel this order at anytime by sending an email to info@Associationofvirtualworlds.com. You will automatically be registered to receive our materials unless you opt-out at the time of purchase. You may opt-out at any later time by following the unsubscribe instructions in the newsletter. Please review our membership agreement.
Third-party relationships:
- We may have an affiliate program that allows other websites to earn money by directing people (through links) to our website. If you sign up as an affiliate, your contact information (website address and related information, email address, mailing and payment addresses, and contact information) is sent to a third party who activates your affiliate status and pays you based on the sales you generate for associationofvirtualworlds.com. The third-party affiliate manager has its own privacy policy. Please be aware that when signing up as an affiliate you are entering information on a third party's website (not our website) even though our logo frames the Web page you are visiting.
- We use third-party intermediaries. When you purchase from us, we send your credit card information, name, and billing address to credit card companies for verification and to authorize your purchase.
- We may use outside shipping companies to fulfill orders. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information, including email address, for any other purposes.
- We may provide certain third party offers for your consideration. Should you choose to place an order with one of these partners, in some cases we will share certain information, including email address, necessary to facilitate your transaction with them. We will always ask for your consent prior to sharing your information with anyone.
- Associationofvirtualworlds.com may use a third party email service provider to send its advertising related emails. Associationofvirtualworlds.com may handle the sending of order related and member service related messages internally or may outsource this function. associationofvirtualworlds.com service providers do not retain nor use your personal information, including your email address for any other purpose except to provide the service on our behalf.
We occasionally run online surveys and we ask visitors for contact information (such as email address) and demographic information (such as zip code, age, or income level). We use contact data from our surveys to send users information about our company. You may opt-out of the survey and also opt-out of any future mailings at the time of the survey. The demographic information is used to learn more about the types of people who visit our site. This information is not shared with any other parties currently. We reserve the right to share this information with other parties in the future.
Opt-Out.
If you decide to opt out of our communications, our emails provide you the opportunity to opt out of receiving communications from us. You will receive a courtesy email after you have clicked that link letting you know that you have been successfully unsubscribed.
Links.
This site contains links to other sites. associationofvirtualworlds.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Websites.
Delete/Deactivate.
This site gives you the following options for removing your information, including email address, from our database, to not receive future communications, or to no longer receive our service.
- You can send email to dave@Associationofvirtualworlds.com
- You can send mail to the following postal address:
Association of Virtual Worlds
2201 Sawgrass Village Drive
Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32082
Change/Modify.
Our site may provide you the opportunity to correct or update your account information, including email address.
When You Send Email to our Member Service Department.
We provide email links on our "Contact" page that allow you to contact us directly with any questions or comments you may have. We read every message sent in and try to reply promptly to everyone. The information you send us is used to respond directly to your questions and comments. We also keep your email correspondence on file so that we may better serve you should you have additional questions in the future. Your personal information may be shared with third parties (such as manufacturers or others).
How We Notify You of Changes to our Privacy Policy.
Whenever we change our privacy policy, we will post a notice on our website.
Contacting the Website.
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Website, you can contact: dave@Associationofvirtualworlds.com
Sale of Business.
We reserve the right to transfer information to a third party in the event of a sale, merger or other transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of associationofvirtualworlds.com, which is owned by Association of Virtual Worlds LLC whose mailing address is 2201 Sawgrass Village Drive Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32082.
BY USING OUR WEBSITE, YOU SIGNIFY YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY, YOU SHOULD NOT USE OUR WEBSITE. YOUR CONTINUED USE OF OUR WEBSITE FOLLOWING THE POSTING OF CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY WILL MEAN THAT YOU ACCEPT THOSE CHANGES.
