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Avilar Privacy Policy

This privacy statement discloses the privacy practices for https://www.avilar.com .

Avilar Technologies, Inc. is the sole owner of the information collected at various points on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement.

In order to use portions of this website, you may need first to complete a registration form. During registration you may be required to give your contact information (such as name and email address). This information is only used to contact you about the services on our site for which you have expressed interest.

When you enroll for a course, we request information from you on our course order form. Here you must provide contact information (like name and billing address) and financial information (like credit card number, expiration date). This information is used for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, this contact information is used to get in touch with you.

A cookie is a piece of data stored on your hard drive containing information about you. Use of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. Once you close your browser, the cookie simply terminates. For instance, by setting a cookie on our site, you may only have to log in with a password once, thereby saving time during visits to our site. If you reject the cookie, you may still use our site.

Some of our business partners may use cookies on our site. However, we have no access to or control over these cookies.

We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track users’ movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.

We will share aggregated demographic information with our partners. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.

We use an outside credit card processing company to bill you for goods and services. This company does not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.

We may partner with other parties to provide specific services. When you sign up for these services, we will share names, or other contact information that is necessary for the third party to provide these services.

These parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except for the purpose of providing these services.

This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that Avilar Technologies Inc. is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.

If you wish to subscribe to our newsletter, we ask for contact information such as name and email address.

From time to time, our site may request information from you via surveys. Participation in these surveys is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and address), and demographic information (such as zip code, age level). Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.

This website takes every precaution to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and off-line.
Positive SSL Wildcard When our registration/order form asks you to enter sensitive information (such as credit card number), that information is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry - SSL. While on a secure page, such as our order form, the lock icon in Web browsers such as Firefox and Chrome becomes locked, as opposed to un-locked, or open, when you are just ‘surfing’. Learn more about SSL

If you have any questions about the security at our website, you can send email to

Our users are given the opportunity to ‘opt-out’ of having their information used for purposes not directly related to our site at the point where we ask for the information.

Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter or promotional materials from our partners may opt-out of receiving these communications by following instructions provided in each newsletter issue, or email us at

Users of our site are always notified when their information is being collected by any outside parties. We do this so our users can make an informed choice as to whether they should proceed with services that require an outside party, or not.

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our Homepage so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify you by email. You will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.