Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) explains how Altano North America Equine Veterinary Partners, LLC (“Altano North America”), uses and discloses your personal information. This Policy applies to information we collect when you use our website, mobile applications and other online products and services (the “Services”).  We do not knowingly attempt to solicit or receive information from children.

Altano North America may collect information that you provide when you use the Services, such as when you: 1) subscribe to our e-newsletter, 2) or when you submit an inquiry through our “Contact Us” form. The types of personal information that you provide may include your name, e-mail address, telephone number, postal address, and other contact or identifying information that you choose to provide. The information collected via the website is securely stored and is never sold.

Information We Collect From You
When you access or use our Services, we may also automatically collect information about you. For example, when you visit our websites, we collect information about your computer’s operating system, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, access times, browser type and language and the URL of the website you visited before navigating to our Services. If you access our Services via a mobile device, we may also collect your unique device ID, device make and model, device IP address, mobile carrier, mobile web browser type and version and the location of your device.

To collect this information, we use the technologies identified below:

Cookies
Cookies are small data files stored on your computer or mobile device by a website. Among other things, cookies help us improve our Services and your experience, see which areas and features of our Services are popular and count visits. 

Log Files
Log files record website activity on our Services and enable us to gather statistics about our users’ browsing habits. These entries help Altano North America determine (among other things) how many and how often users have accessed or used our Services, which pages of our Services they’ve visited, and other similar data.

We may associate the information we collect from these technologies with other personal information that you provide for the purposes described in this Policy.

Analytics
We use analytics services and software provided by third parties to help us understand how users access and use the Services. These tools and services place cookies, and other devices or technologies on our Services to enable them to track traffic data. The data collected typically includes information such as your IP address, your Internet Service Provider, your web browser, the time spent on webpages, the links clicked and the advertisements viewed on those pages. We use this information to improve our Services and your experience, to see which areas and features of our Services are popular and to count visits.

Use of Information
We use personal information collected through our Services for purposes described in this Policy or otherwise disclosed to you on or in connection with our Services. For example, we may use your information to:

• Operate and improve our Services
• Respond to your comments, questions and requests and provide customer service
• Personalize and improve the Services and content, communications or features that match user profiles or interests
• Link or combine with other information we get from third parties to help understand your needs and provide you with better service

Altano North America does not otherwise reveal your personal data to other persons or businesses for their independent use unless: (1) you request or authorize it; (2) the information is provided to comply with the law, enforce an agreement we have with you, or to protect our rights, property or safety, or the rights, property or safety of our employees or others; (3) the information is provided to our agents, vendors or service providers who perform functions on our behalf; or (4) to address emergencies.  We may also gather aggregated data about our members and website visitors and disclose the results of such aggregated (but not personally identifiable) information to our partners, service providers, advertisers, and/or other third parties for marketing or promotional purposes.

Data Security Policy
All personal data transmitted through the internet going to and from the site contact and registration forms, etc. are protected using industry-standard, 128 bit encryption over the Secure Sockets Layer protocol. Altano North America has its headquarters in the United States. Information we collect about you will be processed in the United States. By using Altano North America’s services, you acknowledge that your personal information will be processed in the United States.  Your personal data is stored by Altano North America on its servers, and on the servers of the cloud-based database management services Altano North America engages, located in the United States. Altano North America retains data for the duration of your business relationship with Altano North America and for a period of time thereafter to analyze the data for Altano North America’s own operations, and for historical and archiving purposes. 

Data Subject Rights
Various jurisdictions have privacy laws providing certain rights for data subjects. If you wish to confirm that Altano North America is processing your personal data, or to have access to the personal data Altano North America may have about you, please contact us at info@avantiequine.com.  You may also request information about: the purpose of the processing; the categories of personal data concerned; who else outside Altano North America might have received the data from Altano North America; what the source of the information was (if you didn’t provide it directly to Altano North America); and how long it will be stored. You have a right to correct the record of your personal data maintained by Altano North America if it is inaccurate. You may request that Altano North America erase that data or cease processing it, subject to certain exceptions. You may also request that Altano North America cease using your data for direct marketing purposes. In many countries, you have a right to lodge a complaint with the appropriate data protection authority if you have concerns about how Altano North America processes your personal data. When technically feasible, Altano North America will—at your request—provide your personal data to you or transmit it directly to another controller. 

Links
This website contains links to other websites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you are moving to another website. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of these linked sites as their privacy policies may differ from ours.

Privacy Contact
If you have any questions, complaints or concerns about Altano North America’s personal data policies or practices, or if you would like to exercise your privacy rights, please direct your query to the following: info@avantiequine.com.