Your privacy is valued by Afterglow Innovations Inc. (“Afterglow,” “we,” and “us”). We provide services that people launch, manage, and safely combine their own enterprises.

The many categories of Personal Data we gather via our website during the application and payment processes are described in this Global Privacy Policy. This policy also outlines your rights and options, how we use and distribute your Personal Data, and how to get in touch with us if you have any questions about how we handle your data. Even if third parties link to our Services or our Website, this policy does not apply to third party websites, products, or services; as a result, you should carefully review their privacy policies.

The User certifies that they had read, comprehended, and agreed to the contents of this privacy statement by accepting this Privacy Policy.

1. GENERAL

For the purpose of managing our Website and offering our Services, Afterglow collects Personal Data about you from a variety of sources. “You” may be a user of one or more of our Services or a visitor (“User” or ” Afterglow user”).

• Visitors

We might obtain your Personal Data if you visit or use our website. We gather personal information from you when you complete online forms and surveys or email us. If you have inquiries about the gathering and use of Personal Data, you should contact Afterglow.

• Activities to avoid fraud and provide a secure and compliant platform

In order for us to maintain the safety, security, and compliance of our platform and services, the collection and processing of Personal Data is essential. To lower the risk of fraud, money laundering, and other harmful activities for ourselves, our users, and their customers, we may analyze insights and patterns of payment transactions and other online signals in the context of fraud monitoring, prevention, and detection services.

• Services for processing payments

Processing payments and related services may be provided by third party services, according to Afterglow (Such as PayPal, Payoneer). Users of Afterglow may be asked to provide various payment details by third party payment systems (such as name, surname, and credit card information).

The use and privacy policies of third party payment systems must be followed, and Afterglow cannot be held liable for actions that breach these policies or the personal data of third party payment systems. Any third-party service must be used at the user’s own risk and discretion.

1. PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Personal information we obtain from you

All information that can be used to identify an individual is considered personal data. Your Personal Data that you voluntarily submit to us through our website will be readily identifiable in the context of your submission. More specifically your full name, email address, and account log-in information are collected when you use our services. We obtain the following categories of Personal Data from you when you begin using our services and begin the process of forming your business. We collect personal data such as; your name and surname, your partners, your bank account number, email addresses, your identity details, your company name, and other details about your business. Also, we obtain your full name, business email, country, and any further information you provide about your company, needs, and timetable when you fill out our online form to contact us.

We save your email address and phone number accompanied with your name to get in touch with you when necessary. We collect and save your email address, name, and any other information you choose to put in the body of your email or comments are collected when you respond to Afterglow emails or surveys. We will record the phone number you used to call Afterglow if you get in touch with us over the phone. If an Afterglow user calls us on the phone, we might ask for more information to confirm your identification.

You will submit your contact information, including your name, postal address, phone number, and email address, if you are an Afterglow user. We may also obtain financial and personal information about you as part of our commercial relationship, such as your date of birth and government identifiers linked to you and your company (such as your ID number, Social Security Number, Employer Identification Number, Tax Number, or Taxpayer ID).

In order to confirm your identity and prevent fraud, we may also obtain Personal Data about you when conducting fraud monitoring, prevention, and detection activities from our business partners, financial service providers, identity verification services, and publicly accessible sources (such as name, phone number, address and country).

Our fraud monitoring, detection, and prevention services may make use of technological tools that assist us in determining the risk involved with an attempted transaction that is enabled on the website or information-gathering application used by an Afterglow user.

Information that our website and services automatically acquire

For optimal functionality, our website makes use of cookies and other technologies. These technologies capture information about how you use our website, such as:

• Browser and device data, including IP address, device type, Internet browser type, screen resolution, operating system name and version, device manufacturer and model, language, plug-ins, add-ons, and the language version of the website you are visiting;

• Usage data, including time spent on the website, pages viewed, links clicked, preferred language, and the pages that referred or led you there.

We may also gather data on your online activity across third party websites, devices, apps, and other online features and services, as well as on the website and any connected devices over time to monitor your usage of our website and identify technical problems (such as Google Analytics).

Visit our Cookie Policy section to find out more about the cookies that might be served through our website and how you can manage how we use them and third party analytics.

III. USE OF PERSONAL DATA BY US

Our goods and services to start working

To make sure that our use of your Personal Data complies with applicable legislation, we depend on a number of legal justifications. In order to support our commercial interactions with our Users, to comply with financial regulatory requirements and other legal duties, and to further our legitimate business interests, we use personal data. In order to execute payments and offer our Users payment-related services, we also use personal data.

Business ties that are contractual and pre-contractual

We utilize personal data to establish and maintain business connections with current and potential Afterglow users as well as to carry out our obligations under the contracts we have with them. In this framework, we engage in the following activities:

• Establishing and maintaining Afterglow accounts and Afterglow account credentials, as well as assessing requests to begin or increase the use of our services;
• Engaging in accounting, auditing, and billing activities;
• Establishing and maintaining Afterglow checkout accounts; and
• Processing payments through Afterglow checkout, as well as communicating with customers regarding those payments and providing related customer service.

Compliance with laws and regulations

In order to comply with regulations pertaining to the identification and reporting of illegal and criminal behavior, such as AML (Anti-Money Laundering) and KYC (Know-Your-Customer) responsibilities, and financial reporting obligations, we use Personal Data to confirm the identity of our Users. For instance, in order to comply with laws aimed at preventing financial crimes and money laundering, we might be compelled to document and confirm a User’s identification. These obligations, which may require us to declare our compliance to third parties and submit to third party verification audits, are imposed on us by the operation of legislation, industry standards, and by our financial partners.

Valid commercial interests

In order to process Personal Data about you, we rely on our legitimate business interests. The business goals that have been approved by us are listed in the list below. We weighed our interests against the rights and legitimate interests of the people whose personal data we process to come up with this list’s contents. We manage financial loss, claims, obligations, or other harm to Users and Afterglow; respond to questions, issue service notices, and offer customer assistance; monitor, prevent, and identify fraud and unlawful payment transactions;

• Promote, examine, tweak, and enhance our tools, systems, and products; create new goods and services;
• Evaluate and promote our goods and services; Manage, administer, and enhance the performance of our website and services by knowing their efficacy and maximizing our digital assets;
• Assemble data and create business intelligence that helps us run, safeguard, make wise decisions, and track the performance of our company;
• Share personal information with business partners who assist us in running and improving our company as well as with outside service providers who do tasks on our behalf;
• Make sure Afterglow and our services are network and data secure; and provide personal data to our affiliates for internal administrative uses.

Payment exchanges and associated services

We use third-party payment services for payment transactions. The data you supply is collected and processed by third party payment processing service providers to complete the payment process. To understand how these third party payment services utilize your payment information, we advise you to examine their privacy policies and terms of service. If we need to use your Personal Data in any other way, we will notify you specifically at the time of collection, and if the relevant laws permit it, we will also acquire your consent.

Advertising based on interests

When you use our Website or online services, certain third parties and we may jointly collect data about your online activities over time and across different websites in order to show you advertisements for goods and services that are more relevant to your personal interests (“interest-based advertising”). These third parties might identify or add a special cookie or other piece of technology to your browser (including the use of pixel tags). If applicable law requires it, we will ask for your permission before processing your information for interest-based advertising.

Due to our participation in ad networks, you might see our advertisements on other websites or mobile apps. We can target users with our messaging through ad networks based on a variety of information, such as demographic information, user inferred interests, and browsing context (for example, the time and date of your visit to our Website, the pages that you viewed, and the links that you clicked on). This technology also enables us to determine whether you have seen one of our commercials and track the success of our marketing initiatives.

We collaborate with ad networks (Such as Google Ads). Please visit the Network Advertising Initiative and Digital Advertising Alliance to find out how to refuse to receive behavioral advertising from Network Advertising Initiative member businesses. You might encounter advertisements that are not pertinent to you if you want to opt out of interest-based advertising.

Marketing and communications for events

1. HOW WE ARE SHARING PERSONAL INFORMATION

Personal Data is never rented or sold by Afterglow to advertisers or unrelated parties. These are some examples of trustworthy parties with whom we share your personal data.

(i)To comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request;

(ii) Enforce this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service, including looking into potential violations hereof;

(iii) Provide for your needs;

(iv) Prevent, detect, or otherwise address security, fraud, or technical issues; or

(v) Protect our rights, property, or the safety of ourselves, our users, or the public. We may also share your Personal Data with third parties for any of the aforementioned reasons to combat fraud and spam/malware, this entails exchanging information with other businesses and organizations.

Just a small number of our service providers have access to your personal information. On our behalf, service providers perform tasks like identification verification, website hosting, data analysis, information technology and related infrastructure, customer care, email delivery, and auditing. To deliver their services, these service providers could require access to personal data. We give these service providers permission to use and disclose Personal Data only as required to carry out our instructions or adhere to legal obligations. We demand that these service providers sign contracts guaranteeing the security and privacy of the Personal Data we process through them. The majority of our service suppliers are based in the United States and the European Union.

In line with an existing or potential business relationship with those third parties, such as advertising and content distributors, we may provide aggregate information about user behavior to them. For instance, we might reveal how many people were exposed to or clicked on advertising ads.

When you visit the Afterglow Services, we might employ third party advertising businesses to show adverts. In order to target you with advertisements for products and services that interest you, these businesses may use information about Your Public Content (but not your name, address, email address, or phone number) and Activity linked to your use of the Afterglow Services.

We shall promote the adoption and posting of privacy policies by our service providers. However, the way in which our service providers use your personal data is determined by their privacy rules and is outside of our control. You agree that we are not liable for any violations brought about by our service providers.

When it’s necessary to deliver our services to users, we divulge personal data to third-party business partners. When we offer payment processing services, for instance, we may reveal Personal Data to banks and online payment service providers. We may also share Personal Data with the professional services companies we work with to deliver Afterglow.

In order to keep a User account active and to deliver the Services, we occasionally share Personal Data with Users. We divulge information to parties who have been specifically given permission by a User to obtain Personal Data, such as when a User grants Afterglow may share Personal Data with third parties for the purpose of facilitating and completing the transaction if we enter into, or intend to enter into, a transaction that modifies the structure of our business, such as a reorganization, sale, joint venture, merger, transfer, change of control, or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets, or stock. Connect access to a third party application provider. An authorized third party’s use of Personal Data is governed by the third party’s privacy policy.

We disclose Personal Data when we deem it necessary to: (i) comply with applicable law or payment method rules; (ii) protect the rights, privacy, safety, and property of Afterglow, you, or others (iii) enforce our contractual rights; (iv) in order to: respond to requests from courts, law enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies, and other public and governmental authorities, including authorities outside of your country of residence.

1. YOUR CHOICES AND RIGHTS

Regarding how we use and disclose your personal data, you have the following rights:

Legal Access: You have the right to ask us to confirm whether or not we are processing any of your personal information, and if we are, you have the right to request and receive access to that information.

Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any personal information that is incorrect, and you have the right to supply further information to complete any personal information that is missing.

Right to Processing Restriction: You have the right to request a processing restriction from us, which may be valid for a predetermined amount of time or in specific circumstances.

Right to Erasure (also known as the “Right to be Forgotten“): In some circumstances, you have the right to request that we erase your personal data.

Right to Object: You have the right to object in some circumstances to the processing of your personal data, particularly where it involves profiling. If your personal information was acquired with the intention of using it for direct marketing, you have the right to object to its continued processing.

Right to Data Portability: You have the right to request personal information from us in a structured manner and the right to request that information be transmitted to another controller.

Right to Refuse Automatic Individual Decision-Making: You are not required to accept a decision that is exclusively the result of automated processing.

Right to Damages Compensation: You have the right to hold us accountable for any harm we may have caused you if we process your personal data in violation of any laws that are in effect.

Right to Complaint: You have the option to complain about how we handled your personal information to the relevant data protection authority.

1. COOKIE POLICY

Cookies are little text files that are kept in the web browser memory of a computer. They support website owners by aiding with tasks like remembering a User’s login information and maintaining website preferences. In accordance with our Privacy Policy, this article explains how we use cookies and other similar technologies to guarantee that our Services work properly, stop fraud and other harm, and evaluate and improve the Services.

How Cookies Are Used

Cookies are crucial to our ability to deliver individualized, efficient, and secure services. Therefore, we are using cookies. As we enhance or add to our services, we update the cookies. You can check the last update date right below the title. For the time being, we use them for the following purposes:

Better Advertising: Cookies can assist us in making our website’s advertising more efficient. We may use cookies, for instance, to ensure that You don’t see the same advertisement more than once or to count the number of times an advertisement is viewed or clicked.

To Research and Enhance Our Services: Cookies assist us in figuring out how to improve the functionality of our website and services for you. Cookies help us understand how users find our website and what changes or improvements we need to make to it or our services.

Certain cookies are necessary for the proper operation of our website and services. We employ those cookies in a variety of ways, such as:

• Site Features and Services
• Fraud Prevention and Detection
• Authentication

How We Employ Different Technology

Pixel tags: Pixel tags, also referred to as web beacons and clear GIFs, may be used in connection with some Services to, among other things, track the actions of Users (such as email recipients), evaluate the effectiveness of our marketing initiatives, and compile data on how often the Services are used and how many responses they receive.

Flash Cookies: Among other things, we may gather and store data about how You use the Services using some technologies. You can modify your settings to block or manage flash cookies.

Third Party Analytics: To gather data about how the Services are used and to report on trends and activities, we make use of Google Analytics, which employs cookies and similar technologies. This service may also gather data on how users interact with other websites, apps, and other resources. On the Google website, you may read more about Google’s policies. For further information on how we employ third party analytics, please see the table below.

Management of Cookies

You may be able to modify your cookie choices in your web browser, including the ability to delete and disable Afterglow cookies. To learn more about your options, please go to the help section of your web browser but be aware that if you choose to disable cookies, some parts of our website or Services might not function properly.

VII. RETENTION AND SECURITY

At the risk associated with processing your personal data, we are doing our best to offer you a level of security that is adequate. We implement administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards to guard your Personal Data from misuse, loss, modification, and unauthorized access. Only a small group of employees who require access to information in order to carry out their tasks may have access to your personal information. Sadly, there is no way to guarantee that a data transit or storage system is completely safe. Please get in touch with us right once if you have any reason to fear that your interactions with us are no longer secure (for instance, if you think your account has been compromised).

If you use Afterglow, we save your personal information as long as we are providing you with services. Even if you shut your Afterglow account, we continue to save Personal Data as long as it’s necessary to meet our legal and regulatory duties and for the purposes of monitoring, detecting, and preventing fraud. Additionally, we keep personal data as needed to fulfill our legal, accounting, and financial reporting duties, as well as when our contractual obligations to our financial partners or the payment methods we accept need it. Where we are required by relevant law to keep data, we do so in line with any applicable restriction periods and records keeping requirements.

VIII. USE BY MINORS

Users represent and guarantee that they are of age to use our services and submit the required personal data. Those under the age of eighteen (18) should not use the Services, and we ask that they do not submit any Personal Data through the Services. If they did so, they must reach out to our team to delete any personal data that is accidentally collected.

1. TRANSFERS OF DATA ACROSS NATIONS

We operate on a global scale. Every nation where we conduct business or where we hire service providers may store and process personal data. We reserve the right to transfer Personal Data we have on file about you to receivers in nations other than the one in which it was first obtained, including the United States. It’s possible that such nations have different data protection laws than yours. However, we will take the necessary steps to guarantee that any such transfers adhere to the relevant data protection laws and continue to protect your Personal Data in accordance with the guidelines outlined in this Privacy Policy. Your Personal Data may occasionally be accessed by courts, law enforcement officers, regulatory bodies, or security authorities in those other nations.

1. NOTIFICATIONS AND UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We could update this privacy statement sometimes to reflect new services, adjustments to how we handle personal data, or modifications to applicable laws. This privacy statement’s “Last updated” legend at the top indicates when it was last updated. When we publish the updated Privacy Policy on the Services, any changes become effective. If you are a User, we may contact you via your Afterglow email address, and/or the physical address given in your Afterglow account. We may also post disclosures and alerts regarding the Privacy Policy or Personal Data gathered on our website.

1. OTHER WEBSITES’ LINKS

The possibility to connect to other websites may be offered by the Services. We highly advise you to examine the privacy statements or policies for these sites, which may operate independently from us. We are not liable for the content of any connected websites that are not under our control or ownership, for how those websites are used, or for the operator’s privacy policies.

XII. JURISDICTION-PARTICULAR DISCLAIMERS

Citizens of California: You have the right to request a list of Personal Data that we have disclosed to third parties for their direct marketing purposes during the just-concluded calendar year if you reside in California, subject to certain limitations set forth by California law.

Nedava: We would like to inform you that we do not carry out anything that would trigger the Nevada-opt out as we do not sell or perform anything that would be equivalent to sale of your personal data.

XIII. FEEDBACK/ CONTACT US

We understand that you may have questions or concerns regarding this privacy policy, and we encourage you to contact our customer support team to address any issues.

You can contact us at: support@afterglowinc.com

Thank you for your consideration to work with Afterglow Innovations Inc. We appreciate your understanding and support.