Website Privacy Policy

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Introduction:

INVAR INTERNATIONAL INC.  (“Invar”, “We”, “Us” or “Our”) manages the Invar International Investments Group family office that invests in and develops infrastructure projects in emerging markets and engages in international structured finance and trade deals across multiple sectors including energy, real estate, healthcare and agriculture. The company is registered in and operates in the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States and is also located in the State of New York.

In terms of data protection, unless stated otherwise, INVAR INTERNATIONAL INC. is the data controller of any data or information we collect when individuals visit and use our website https://invarinternational.com and all its pages (collectively, “Website“).

We at INVAR INTERNATIONAL INC. respect the privacy of any individual who visits our website either in personal capacity or as a representative of a company or legal entity (“You”, “Individual”, “Individuals”, “Website visitor”, or “Website Visitors”) and we are committed to protecting the privacy of our website visitors through the compliance with our Website Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) as defined herein.

Although our approach to data protection at INVAR INTERNATIONAL INC. is intended to be as consistent as possible and to be in accordance with all Applicable Laws, the specific requirements, rights and obligations relating to personal data and/or our data processing activities can be different across various locations from which our website is accessed. This website is hosted in the United States of America and our Website Privacy Policy detailed here describing the data processing, rights and obligations, and in particular the limitations to data processing apply within the scope of the Applicable Laws of the United States of America.

We sometimes operate in and have website visitors and clients from jurisdictions with substantially different Data Protection Legislation that that of the United States (such as GDPR), where these descriptions, rights and obligations, and limitations to processing do not necessarily apply and nothing in this Website Privacy Policy may be interpreted to establish rights or obligations that go beyond what is mandated by the respectively applicable Data Protection Legislation. 

This Website Privacy Policy is in addition to, and does not relieve, remove or replace, our rights and responsibilities under Applicable Laws. In case of a conflict between a provision or requirement of Applicable Laws and a provision of this Website Policy, the former shall take precedence.

Website Privacy Policy of INVAR INTERNATIONAL INC.

AS A VISITOR TO OUR WEBSITE, PLEASE READ THIS POLICY CAREFULLY TO UNDERSTAND OUR POLICIES AND PRACTICES IN COLLECTING OR PROCESSING PERSONAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU, SO THAT YOU HAVE A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF WHY AND HOW WE ARE USING YOUR INFORMATION.

By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this Website Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Website Privacy Policy as described herein, it is your choice not to use our Website. We may occasionally change or update this Privacy Policy as described below in Section “Changes to Our Website Privacy Policy”.

Please check this Privacy Policy periodically as your continued use of our Website after we update or make any changes to this Privacy Policy means that you accept this any updates or changes made to this Website Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy is intended to disclose and describe the types of information we may collect about you or that you may provide to us when you visit our website at http://invarinternational.com and its pages, and how we at INVAR INTERNATIONAL INC. collect, use, manage, maintain, protect, and disclose personal information about our Website visitors as well as explain the choices and rights individuals visiting our website have regarding their disclosed personal information.

This Privacy Policy applies to information we collect through the usage of our Website and is not meant to be a substitute or replacement of any other privacy policies or notices we may provide to you under certain circumstances.  This Privacy Policy does not cover information you provide to us outside of the usage of this website such as:

• offline, in person, by phone or through any other means of communication outside of this website or through any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries); or
• from any other individuals or businesses including but not limited to clients, vendors, employees, business partners or independent contractors outside of this Website.

Disclaimer:

The use of this Website is for general information purposes only and does not create any contractual relationship between you as the website visitor and INVAR INTERNATIONAL INC. beyond your consent to this Privacy Policy, nor should it be considered as business management or any other professional advice.

Privacy Policy Concerning Children/Minors:

Our Website is not intended to be used by children, who are individuals under the age of thirteen (13) and no individual under the age of thirteen (13) may provide any information to or on the Website without obtaining verifiable parental consent and without contacting us first and informing us at INVAR INTERNATIONAL INC. of the intent to visit and use our website as a an individual under the age of thirteen (13). If you are under the age of thirteen (13), DO NOT PROVIDE ANY INFORMATION on this Website or through any of its features without contacting us first and obtaining verifiable permission from your parent(s) or legal guardian(s).

We at INVAR INTERNATIONAL INC. do not knowingly collect personal information from minors or individuals under the age of thirteen (13). If we learn we have collected or obtained personal information from an individual under the age of thirteen (13), without verification of parental or legal guardian consent, we will promptly take all necessary steps to remove and permanently delete that information from our servers.

If you are under the age of thirteen (13) and believe we might have collected any information from or about you on this Website, please ask your parent(s) or legal guardian(s) contact us  immediately and if you are a parent or legal guardian of an individual under the age of thirteen (13) and believe we might have collected any information from or about your child on this Website, please contact us immediately.

How We May Collect And Use Your Data:

When you access our website, we may collect personal data about you using Automated Data Collection Technologies and should you choose to contact us through our Website, we will also collect personal data about you, that you choose to disclose to us by completing the contact form on our Website.

 Below are more details on the types of personal data we collect and how we use such data:

 Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies:

When visiting our website, the browser you use to access our website will connect to our webserver to retrieve the sites you wish to visit. As you navigate through and interact with our Website, our webserver will use automatic data collection technologies such as Statcounter and Google Analytics to create ‘logfiles’ or ‘session records’ that would contain certain information about your equipment, location, browsing actions, and browsing patterns.  In this context, your browser will transfer to us certain personal data such as:

• your IP address (i.e. by HTTP/S requests) and its location,
• if your IP address is registered to your company’s name, the name of the company from which you access the website,
• type of browser you are using to access our website (i.e. Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, etc.)
• the type of device you are using to access our website (i.e. mobile phone, computer, etc.) and the - operating system of your device.
• Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.

The connection data that is collected automatically is processed by our webserver to enable access to and optimized display of our website. For example, if you are accessing our website from a mobile phone, our webserver may display a mobile version of our website based on the device and browser data our webserver receives from you.

These automated data collection results cannot be linked to you as an individual and we analyze such session records to optimize our website in order to provide you with the most comfortable website browsing experience. We collect this information based on our legitimate interest in evaluating the use of our Website and to improve user experiences on our Website and our services.

We may also use these data records to ensure the security of our website, in particular to prevent unauthorized interference with it, and to enable us to exercise our legal rights and obligations in regard to any such unauthorized interference.

The data collected by data analytics providers may be combined with other information they may have collected for their own purposes. This Privacy Policy does not cover such uses of data by third parties.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate settings on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. For more information about our use of cookies read our Cookies Policy.

Information We May Collect From You:

If you choose to contact us through our website, we at INVAR INTERNATIONAL INC. will receive an email notification, which would display information by which you may be personally identified, such as your full name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, company name and title/position or business affiliation when you provide it to us via the Website; and/or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information“) as well as any information you choose to type into the Subject line and Message line of the contact form in the  body text of an e-mail through a link on our Website. We will use this data to contact you in order to respond to your message and your message and personal data you shared through the contact form may remain on our email server.

The following is the type of information we may collect about you:

• E-mail address, text, and other electronic messages provided by you through our Website;
• Records and copies of your correspondence if you contact us via the Website.
• When you interact with applications and links of third-party websites and services, if those applications or third-party services include links to this Website and this Privacy Policy;
• Through requests for proposals you submit to us through an email or “contact us” link on our Website;
• When you submit an employment application through an email or “contact us” link on our Website;
• When you subscribe to our newsletter on our Website and you are placed on our email list; and
• When you contact us through our Website from the “Contact Us” page.
• When you register for an event through our third-party vendor for event registrations when you access the link on our Website.

Purpose and Legal Bases For How We Use Your Information:

To the extent that they apply to you, the purpose and legal bases for processing your personal information include:

To present our Website and its contents in the best possible way to you based on our legitimate interests to keep our Website updated and relevant to its target market and to develop our outreach, marketing, and business operations; provide you with information, products, or services or information that you request from us based on your consent;

• To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it based on your consent;
• To fulfill our contractual obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection;
• To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it based on our legitimate interests to develop and grow our business, improve our services, and promote the reputation of our company;
• If we believe it is necessary or appropriate based on our legitimate interests to protect the rights, property, or safety of us, our clients, or other third-parties, and to comply with any legal obligations to which we are subject.
• To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website based on your consent and based on our legitimate interests to develop our outreach and marketing strategy;
• In any other way we may describe when you provide the information with your consent.

Where the processing of your personal information takes place based solely on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time by communicating so to INVAR INTERNATIONAL INC. and by stopping visiting and using our Website.

Marketing:

You may receive marketing communications from us if you are an existing client, if you register for any of INVAR INTERNATIONAL INC.-hosted events or if you provided us with your consent by contacting us through this Website or where we are pursuing a legitimate interest and have a lawful right to do so and, in each case, you have not opted out of receiving that marketing. If you do not wish to have your contact information used by us to promote our services, you can opt out by checking the relevant unsubscribe link located on the communication which we send or at any other time by submitting your request at http://www.invarinternational.com/contact-us.html. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may reply to that email asking to be omitted from future email distributions.

Disclosing Your Information/Transfers:

We may disclose aggregated information without restriction, including to third-parties for research, analytics, and marketing or other purposes, provided it does not personally identify a particular individual.

This website is hosted in the United States. Please be aware that personal information that is voluntarily provided by you when you contact us via this website will be received and maintained or accessed in servers or files located in the United States.

When necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, we may transfer your personal information internally within INVAR INTERNATIONAL INC., to our providers as necessary, or to public and regulatory bodies in the event we are legally required to do so. To the extent permitted by law, such submission constitutes your consent.

We may share personal information that we collect as described in this Privacy Policy as necessary:

• To third-party service providers that provide services to us or to whom we outsource certain services;
• To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of INVAR INTERNATIONAL INC.’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by INVAR INTERNATIONAL INC. about our Website users is among the assets transferred;
• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it;
• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including responding to any government or regulatory request;
• To enforce or apply our Website Terms of Use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes, for fraud prevention, risk assessment, investigation, and to protect our rights, the rights of our clients, or other third-parties.

Retention of Your Personal Information:

In general, we will retain personal information collected from the Website only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected and to satisfy any legal, administrative, or professional indemnity obligations or to protect our legal interests or those of others.

Any email correspondence sent to us through the Website either by email link or “Contact Us” form, may be stored on our secure email archive server for prolonged period of time.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information/Your Rights:

Depending on the circumstances related to the personal information we collect and where you are located or reside, you may have certain rights regarding the personal information we collect about you. For example, under certain European data privacy laws and under certain conditions, you have the following rights:

• Your right of access – you may ask us to confirm whether we are processing your personal information.
• Your right to correction (rectification) – you may ask us to correct information about you that is inaccurate.
• Your right to erasure – you may ask us to delete or remove your personal information under certain circumstances, such as when we no longer need it, unless we are required to retain it in order to comply with a legal obligation or to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
• Your right to restrict – you may ask us to restrict or stop the processing of your personal information based on your consent and, under certain circumstances, to not be subject to a decision based on automatic processing, including profiling.
• Your right to withdraw consent – To the extent your personal information is processed based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time, although this will not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out prior to your withdrawal of consent.
• Your right to portability – under certain circumstances you may ask for a copy of your personal information in a commonly used machine- readable format.
• Your right to lodge a complaint – you have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant supervisory authority if you believe the processing of your personal information infringes applicable European data protection laws.

Tracking Technologies and Advertising:

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly. Learn more about your rights by reviewing our Cookies Policy.
 

California Privacy Rights:

The California Civil Code permits users of our Website who are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please complete the “Contact Us” form on our Website at: http://www.invarinternational.com/contact-us.html​

Data Security:

We at INVAR INTERNATIONAL INC. strive to safely secure and protect your personal information retained in our systems from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. We do not control the privacy or data security practices of our third-party providers accessed via our Website.  For questions about the privacy and security practices of our third-party providers, you may contact them directly.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure and cannot be guaranteed. Although we at INVAR INTERNATIONAL INC. strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted via our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on our Website.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy:

We may from time to time update this Privacy Policy based on any changes or updates to our privacy practices or to comply with applicable laws. If we make any material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you via an updated Privacy Policy on this Website. The last revision date of this Privacy Policy is at the top of the page. You are responsible for periodically visiting our Website and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes and your continued usage of our Website and any of its issues after updates or changes to our Privacy Policy indicates your consent to all the changes.

Contact Information:

Should you have any questions or concerns regarding this Website Privacy Policy and our privacy practices, you may contact us at: http://www.invarinternational.com/contact-us.html