ANGARA PRIVACY POLICY

Effective Date: September 23 , 2024

Angara values the trust you have placed in us. As part of our relationship, we recognize and respect your privacy. We are committed to protecting your privacy and using the information you share responsibly. Our Privacy Policy describes the information we collect about you, why and how we use it, and your choices regarding such information.

This Website www.angara.com (the “Site”) is owned and operated by Angara Inc. with its principal place of business in Los Angeles. By visiting the Site, you confirm your agreement to the policies described here. If you do not agree or consent, please discontinue using our services. Angara encourages you to periodically review our Privacy Policy to understand our privacy practices.

COLLECTION OF INFORMATION

We obtain, store, use and transfer different kinds of personal information you provide via various channels and other automated means (such as cookies, web beacons, pixels, tags, web server logs and other technologies). These get captured when you visit our website, update your profile, access our content, place an order, interact with our emails or chatbot, participate in a contest, promotion or survey, contact customer support via chat etc and interact with other Angara-related ads, content, tools, widgets or plug-ins. We may also receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources.

Information Provided By You

Identity Data: Entails information such as your first name, maiden name, last name, username, gender, date of birth, marital status and similar identifiers.
Contact Data: Includes your name, e-mail address, billing address, contact number and other similar details via chat, customer support etc.
Demographic Information: Details such as your age, gender and country.
Login Credentials: Information related to your password, authentication and account access.
Financial Details: Includes the necessary information required to process your payment such as your bank details, card number, expiration date, etc.
Profile Data: Includes your professional interests, wish lists, ring size preferences and other profile-related information.
Content: Includes all the content you have shared with us, such as feedback, product reviews, shopping history, photographs, purchase and transaction information or questions.
Contacts: Includes information about other people that you provide to us.
Career Prospects: Information related to Human Resource practices such as career opportunities, recruitment, employee onboarding, etc.

Information Collected Automatically

Angara automatically collects information about your device and how it interacts with us. Some examples include:

User Behavior Data: Includes information about the products purchased, pages visited, features used, e-mails and ads viewed, the time of day you browse and other similar information.
Device Data: Includes information regarding the type of device or browser you use, your device’s operating software, your internet service provider, your device’s regional and language settings and other similar information. It also includes details regarding your device’s location and IP address.
Marketing and Communication Data: Comprises your preferences in receiving marketing content from us and our third parties.

Information Collected Through Tracking Technologies

Web Logs: We automatically collect information, such as your IP address, browser type and language and the date and time of your visit, which helps us track your movements around our site.
Device Fingerprinting and Pixels: Device fingerprinting is the process of analyzing and combining information from your device’s browser in order to create a “fingerprint” of your device and uniquely identify it. Angara may use electronic images known as pixels or web beacons. When you access a website, email or an advertisement that contains a pixel, it may permit us or a third party to drop or read cookies on your browser.
Cookies: Cookies are bits of information that are automatically stored on your computer's hard drive to recognize your preferences in order to make shopping easier. We also capture information about your online activities and click stream data. These include information about your browsing actions and usage patterns across online channels and third-party websites, obtained through the use of web beacons, cookies and similar technologies. Please refer to our Cookie Policy to know more about cookies, how we use cookies and how you can manage them.

Information From Other Services

To respect your privacy, Angara will not sell or rent the personal information you provide to us online to any third party. However, we may gather information about you from third-party sources such as social networks, public databases, partners, affiliates and data brokers.

USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Angara may use the information we collect about you for the following purposes:

Manage your orders and provide requested services
Confirm your order and track the process
Respond to your comments and queries
Review your information for accuracy
Prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, including suspected fraud
Facilitate your warranty or other services such as cleaning, repair or resizing of your products
Improve our services and product offerings, and develop new ones
Improve marketing and promotional efforts and overall customer experience
Identify your products and service preferences
Offer you personalized content
Understand customer demographics and behavior
Administer and fulfill our contests and other promotions
Contact you regarding products and services that we believe may be of interest to you
Fulfill any other purpose disclosed to you and with your consent

CONSEQUENCES OF FAILURE TO PROVIDE PERSONAL DATA

We need to collect some of your personal data, either by law or under the terms of a contract we have with you. If you fail to provide this data upon request, we may be unable to fulfill the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example; providing you goods and/or services). In this case, we may have to cancel the order you have placed with us. However, we will notify you of such cancellations.

LEGAL BASES AND PURPOSE OF COLLECTED INFORMATION

Legal Bases: In order to comply with applicable laws in some jurisdictions, we must specify the "legal basis" for collecting and using your personal data. The following legal bases, where applicable, support our collection and use of your personal information:

Execution of a contract with you
Our legitimate business interests
Adherence to a legal obligation, court order or to exercise or defend legal claims; or your agreement to the processing, which you may withdraw at any time

Purpose of Collected Information: We use the personal information for the following purposes in compliance with legal bases as mentioned above:

The information obtained is used to execute a contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contact, which includes:

Transacting and providing you with various products and services
Processing and fulfilling orders related to our products and services, and keeping you updated about the status of your order
Managing career opportunities, including recruitment, employee onboarding and other Human Resources-related purposes
Offering customer support, along with the creation and management of your Angara account

The information collected is used on the basis of our legitimate interests to:

Verify your identity
Review your information for accuracy
Operate, evaluate and improve our business, including developing new products/services; enhance and improve our services
Confirm and manage your orders, track the ongoing processes, provide services such as cleaning, repair and resizing of the products and respond to your queries
Interact with you via email, postal mail, phone and other means to improve the overall customer experience
Manage our communications; analyze our products and customer base for demographic and behavioral features
Perform data analytics, accounting, auditing and other internal functions
Reduce credit risk and manage collections
Send you promotional materials and other communications (including thank-you notes, special occasion reminders and other communication from sales professionals you have engaged with)
Manage your participation in special events, contests, sweepstakes, programs, offers, surveys and market research
Identify and prevent fraud and other unlawful, illegal activities, claims and other liabilities
Abide by and enforce relevant industry standards, contractual obligations and our policies

In addition to the above, we process your personal information for the following:

To comply with and enforce applicable legal requirements
For the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in administrative or out-of-court procedures

SHARING OF INFORMATION COLLECTED

We may share your information as follows:

Angara Entities: We may share your personal information with our affiliated entities, including any corporate subsidiaries and affiliates.

Service Providers: We may use third-party service providers to perform certain services, including shipping, payment processing, billing and collections, marketing and data enhancement. This excludes text messaging originator opt-in data and consent.

Feedback and Testimonials: We may post feedback or testimonials provided by you, including your information, on the service or in marketing and promotional materials. We may, by our sole discretion, edit feedback or testimonials for length and content.

Third Parties: For marketing, analytics, and advertising purposes, we share customer data with third-party platforms, including but not limited to Google Analytics (GA4), Google Ads, and social media platforms. To ensure your privacy, personal information is pseudonymized before it is transmitted to any third parties. This ensures that your data cannot be directly identified or accessed from the browser, adding an additional layer of protection. This also ensures that communications and other information reaches you as per your requests and preferences.

We make sure that all third-party service providers meet our stringent privacy and security standards to protect your personal data.

Compliance With Law and Fraud Protection: We may disclose your information as we deem necessary, in our sole discretion, to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request. We also may share your information in order to investigate illegal activities, including suspected fraud, or as otherwise required by law.

Business Transfer: We also reserve the right to transfer personal information we have about you, if we decide to sell or transfer (or contemplate the sale or transfer of) all or a portion of our business or assets (including in the event of a merger, acquisition, joint venture, reorganization, divestiture, dissolution or liquidation).

Consent: In case we have to share your information for any other purpose apart from the ones already disclosed to you, we will only do so after receiving your consent.

DISCLOSURE FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS

The California Privacy Rights Act ("CPRA") mandates that businesses that collect or disclose personal information give notice to individuals and provide them with ways to exercise their rights. It also gives additional rights to know, delete and opt out.

California Notice of Collection

The following categories of personal information listed in the CPRA are the ones that we may collect, and may have gathered in the last 12 months:

Identity Data: Entails information such as your first name, maiden name, last name, username, gender, date of birth, marital status and similar identifiers.
Contact Data: Includes your name, e-mail address, billing address, contact number and other similar details.
Demographic Information: Details such as your age, gender and country.
Login Credentials: Information related to your password, authentication and account access.
Financial Details: Includes the necessary information required to process your payment such as your bank details, card number, expiration date, etc.
Profile Data: Includes your professional interests, wish lists, ring size preferences, and other profile-related information.
Content: Includes all the content you have shared with us, such as feedback, product reviews, shopping history, photographs, purchase and transaction information, or questions.
Contacts: Includes information about other people that you provide to us.
Career Prospects: Comprise information related to Human Resource practices such as career opportunities, recruitment, employee onboarding, etc.

Review our Privacy Policy's "Collection of Information" section for more details on the data we gather, including the sources from which we get it. For the business purposes outlined in the "Use of Personal Information" section, we gather and utilize the categories of Personal Information listed above.

To help us with day-to-day operations and service management, we collaborate and use a variety of entities. For further information about the parties to whom we disclose or "share" (as defined by the CPRA) information, please refer to the "Sharing of Information" section.

Right to Know, Correct and Delete

Residents of California have specific rights, which are outlined below, to access certain information about our data practices, have certain personal information about you deleted, and have some personal information corrected. You may specifically request the following from us:

The categories of personal information we collected about you.
The sources from which we collected this information.
The categories of personal information disclosed for business purposes, sold or shared, along with the categories of third parties to whom this information was disclosed, sold or shared.
The categories of third parties to whom the personal information was disclosed for business purposes, sold or shared.
The business or commercial reasons for collecting, selling, or sharing information.
The specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.

You can request the deletion of or correction of inaccurate personal information by contacting us and giving the necessary verification information and other details we need in order to handle the request. Where a CPRA or other exception applies, we may, to the extent allowed by applicable law and regulations, retain, reject to correct and continue processing data. If such an exception occurs, we will let you know.

If the deletion of the information will not negatively affect you or if you agree to it being removed, we might decide to do so rather than correct it.

Right to Non-Discrimination and Non-Retaliation

You have the right to exercise any of your rights without fear of discrimination or retaliation from us. Please get in touch with us if you think Angara has treated you unfairly or retaliatorily for exercising your CPRA rights.

Right to Opt Out of “Sale” or “Sharing”

We do not “sell’ personal information. However, you have the option to opt out of having personal information about you that is gathered by third parties on our services for interest-based advertising purposes, as this may be deemed "sharing" under the CPRA. To exercise your opt-out right visit the “Do Not Share My Personal Information (California residents)” section of our website and follow the steps provided.

California “Shine the Light” Law

Customers in California have the right to inquire about how Angara shares specific categories of personal information with affiliates and/or third parties for their own direct marketing purposes, as specified by the state's "Shine the Light" law. To obtain this data, please submit a request to us. In addition to your name, street address, city, state and ZIP code, requests must mention in the first line of the description, "California Shine the Light Privacy Request." Please be aware that Angara is not obligated to reply to requests sent to any address other than the one specified via email or letter, and that Angara may give this information in a standard format that is not unique to you.

DISCLOSURES FOR NEVADA RESIDENTS

According to Nevada law (NRS 603A.340), every company must set up a designated request address where customers in Nevada may send requests instructing the company not to sell specific types of personal information that the company has or will gather about them.

DISCLOSURES FOR DATA SUBJECTS IN EUROPE

If you are a data subject in Europe, you have rights under GDPR and other relevant data protection laws in relation to your personal information. You can exercise your rights as mentioned below, to the extent provided by the applicable laws:

Right to access your personal data i.e., the right to access, update, review or delete any of your personal data through our service by logging in to your Angara account or by contacting us.
Right to have personal data to be rectified/corrected, if it is inaccurate and personal data to be completed, if it is incomplete.
Right to erasure (“the right to be forgotten”) of your personal data i.e., you have the right to ask us to delete or remove personal data if you believe that it is no longer of use to us.
Right to restrict/object processing of your data i.e., you have the right to object on legitimate grounds where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes or purposes materially different from what it was originally collected for or subsequently authorized by you.
Right to data portability i.e., the right to receive selected personal data stored with us about you in a commonly used and structured format, or to provide consent for the transmission to another person.
Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in your country if you are not satisfied with our responses.
Right to withdraw your consent i.e., you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time for any data processing we do based on the consent you have previously provided to us.

To exercise any of these rights, contact us as set forth in the section entitled “Contact Us” below and specify which right you intend to exercise. We will respond to your request within 30 days. To unsubscribe from our promotional emails, use the “Unsubscribe” link displayed at the bottom of the emails or contact our Customer Service Team.

We may require additional information from you to confirm your identity. Please note that we store information as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, and may continue to retain and use the information even after a data subject request for purposes of our legitimate interests, including as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, prevent fraud and enforce our agreements.

DURATION OF INFORMATION RETENTION

We retain your information for as long as it takes to accomplish the goals for which we gathered it, such as to give you services and support for services you receive, to meet legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, to prove or refute legal claims, to prevent fraud and for other purposes allowed by law.

We take into account several factors, including the quantity, type and sensitivity of the information, the possibility of harm from improper use or disclosure, the reasons we process your information and whether we can accomplish those reasons in another way and the relevant legal requirements, when determining the appropriate retention period.

When we no longer need your personal information, we will either securely store it in line with this Privacy Policy, delete it, anonymize it or take other steps to de-identify it. If deletion is not possible, we will stop using the information until it can be deleted. Should we choose to anonymize your data (thereby removing any connection to you), we might retain it longer.

DATA SECURITY

We use a combination of administrative, physical and electronic security technologies, procedures and organizational measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. While we strive to safeguard your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you disclose to us.

We have implemented an array of internal ethical rules for the processing of personal data. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to only those who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

The security of your personal data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee its complete protection against all threats.

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

This website is not intended for use by children. We are committed to protecting the privacy of children and do not knowingly collect any personal information from children below the age of 13.

If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 years of age, we will promptly delete the information.

TEXT MESSAGING AND WHATSAPP POLICY

The Angara text messaging program is operated by Angara Inc. By enrolling in our text messaging program, you provide prior express written consent to receive recurring automated promotional and personalized marketing text (e.g., SMS, MMS or WhatsApp) messages from us. This includes messages that may be sent using an automatic telephone dialing system to the mobile number you provide or any other number you designate, even if your mobile number is registered on any state or federal ‘Do Not Call’ list. Program-related messages may include updates, alerts and information (e.g. order updates, account alerts, etc.). Promotional messages may include promotions, specials and other marketing offers (e.g. cart reminders). Participation in our text messaging program is completely voluntary, and your consent to receive automated marketing text messages is not a condition of any purchase with Angara. You confirm that you are at least 18 years old and have the account holder's consent to sign up for text messages and pay any related fees.

Message and data charges may apply. Check your mobile carrier plan for applicable charges and other fees for sending and receiving text messages. Angara Inc. and its affiliates are not responsible for any plan or other charges incurred due to your enrollment in our text messaging program.

Message frequency will vary. Angara Inc. reserves the right to alter the frequency of messages sent at any time, increasing or decreasing the total number of messages sent. We also reserve the right to change the short code and phone number from which messages are sent and notify you about the same. Not all mobile devices or handsets may be supported, and our messages may not be deliverable in all areas. Angara Inc., its service providers, and mobile carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. Delivery is subject to effective transmission from your network operator. You are responsible for updating your number with us and ensuring your account information is correct. Your carrier may restrict or prohibit certain mobile features, and some features may be incompatible with your carrier or mobile device.

We reserve the right to modify or discontinue the program or any of its features without prior notice. Subject to applicable law, we may also revise these terms at our discretion, and your continued use of the Service after such changes constitutes your acceptance of the changes. Our text message program applies only to mobile devices registered in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Australia with U.S., Canadian, UK and Australian carriers. Review your wireless carrier’s policies and contact them with any questions.

You can opt out of receiving SMS from us at any time by texting "STOP," "STOPALL," "END," "CANCEL," "UNSUBSCRIBE" or "QUIT" to any promotional message. Additionally, you may withdraw your consent to receive WhatsApp messages at any time by replying “STOP” to any promotional message. You will receive one additional message confirming your request has been processed. Our platform may not recognize unsubscribe requests that do not include these keywords, and Angara Inc. and its service providers will not be liable for failing to honor such requests. You acknowledge that any messages, including any "STOP," "STOPALL," "END," "CANCEL," "UNSUBSCRIBE," or "QUIT" requests you send to a short code or telephone number we have changed may not be received and we will not be responsible for honoring requests made in such messages.

Angara will never request, nor should you ever provide any personally identifiable information, passwords or any other confidential or sensitive information through SMS/WhatsApp messages.

If you change or deactivate your mobile number, contact Angara Inc. so we can update our records and discontinue sending messages to your previously opted-in number.

If you need help or forget which keywords are supported, text "HELP" or "INFO" to our short code, long code or phone number. Additionally, you can email us at customer.service@angara.com or call 1-844-527-4367 for assistance.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree that we are not liable for failed, delayed or misdirected message delivery, errors in information or actions taken relying on the program.

We engage third-party service providers, like Attentive Mobile Inc., to send marketing text messages. Read their terms and conditions and privacy policy for details on data collection and usage.

COOKIE POLICY

Our website uses so-called “Cookies” and similar tracking technologies (such as web beacons, pixels, tags, web server logs) to track the activity on our service and store certain information. We use these technologies in order to make our website user-friendly and to enable the use of certain functions, to improve and analyze our service, to display suitable products or for market research.

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files. They do not cause any damage to your computer or device. When you visit our website, our web server sends cookies to your device. It allows us to recognize your device when you come back and obtain insights about your usage of our website. This helps us improve the performance and functionality of our services.

In some cases, cookies from third-party companies can also be stored on your device when you enter our website (third-party cookies). These enable us or you to use certain services of the third-party service provider (such as social media “like” and “share” buttons, processing payment services, interest-based advertising, etc.).

We do not store sensitive personal information, such as mailing addresses, contact numbers, account passwords, etc. in the cookies we use.

Cookies are stored on your device either temporarily for the duration of a session (Session Cookies) or for a certain period of time (Persistent Cookies). Session cookies are automatically deleted after your visit. Persistent cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them yourself or until they are automatically deleted by your web browser.

Type of Cookies Angara Uses and Their Purposes

Essential: The essential cookies are functional requisites to help us keep our website services operational and cater to your requirements. These operational features help you access secure areas, which include the My Account section, shopping cart, etc.

Marketing: These types of cookies help us customize, regulate and deliver advertising that is better suited to the customer’s needs and interests. For example, the customization relates to the capping frequency of the times the customer gets to see an advertising campaign. Further, how and when Angara can “retarget” its visitors. For more details, please refer to Interest-Based Advertising.

Personalization: These types of cookies allow the Angara website to remember the customer’s choices such as user name, specific language, geographical region, etc. and help Angara to render better services in terms of enhanced, more personalized and interest-based user experience.

Analytics: These types of cookies help Angara to understand and improve its website’s performance. These cookies capture information related to the visitor’s interaction with the website including reporting of technical issues. These types of cookies usually do not collect information pertaining to the visitor’s identity. Further, the analytics cookies help Angara gather information related to the popularity of its marketing campaigns.

Consent

When you visit our website for the first time and at any time thereafter, you can use the Consent Manager to accept or reject individual or all cookies separately by choosing your preferences and saving the settings. These settings are stored on your computer or device in local storage. Therefore, these must be made and saved again if the local storage of the device is deleted or another device or browser is used.

Withdrawal of Cookies Consent

If you wish to withdraw or modify your consent, you can do this using the Consent Manager Tool. You can access the tool by clicking here . However, if cookies are not accepted, the functionality of our website may be restricted.

You can also change your browser settings to restrict cookies from your device. For additional information on how to manage all cookies, please visit the following websites:

US Customers: http://www.aboutads.info/choices

European customers: http://www.aboutcookies.org; http://www.youronlinechoices.eu

If you withdraw your consent or restrict cookies, you may have to manually delete cookies that have already been set in your device.

Please note that this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing that has happened based on your consent prior to the withdrawal.

Do Not Track

When you use our online channels, both we and certain third parties (such as our advertising networks, digital advertising partners and social media platforms) may collect personal information about your online activities, over time and across third-party websites. Your browser settings may allow you to automatically transmit a “Do Not Track” (DNT) signal to the online services you visit. For more information on “Do Not Track,” please visit allaboutdnt.com . As there is no accepted standard on responding to browser DNT signals yet, we currently do not respond or take any action with respect to such DNT signals.

LINKS TO NON-ANGARA SITES AND SERVICES

Our online channels may contain links to non-Angara websites, apps and services that may be operated by other companies that are not associated with us. These companies may have their own privacy policies and we recommend that you review these policies. Furthermore, some third-party platforms may also offer you our products and services. We are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of non-Angara websites, apps or services.

The data gathered and saved by third-party service providers, even if directed through this website, will remain subject to their own privacy policies and practices, including the data they share with us, your rights to their products and services and how they process your data.

THIRD-PARTY FEATURES

We may provide links to third-party sites or services via our website. If you access and use a third-party feature, both we and the applicable third party may have access to and use the information gathered through these features. Some examples of such features include:

Brand Pages: We may feature our content on social networks, including Facebook, X (formerly known as Twitter) and Instagram. Any information you provide to us when interacting with such content on our brand page on social media will be treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Also, if you publicly mention our service or product on a third-party site; for example, use a hashtag associated with Angara in a post, we may also feature them on our service.
Liking and Sharing: We may embed a pixel that allows you to “like” or “share” content on your Angara account through social networks such as Facebook, Instagram and X (formerly known as Twitter). We may also collect any data you have allowed the third party to share with us such as your user ID, public profile information, e-mail ID, date of birth, friends list, and other data.

When you engage with third-party features and services, the providers may use automated means to access data related to your interactions with these features. This practice is subject to the privacy policies of the respective third-party providers; and to the extent permitted by applicable laws.

GOOGLE ANALYTICS, GOOGLE ADS AND CONVERSION TRACKING

Our website uses “Google Analytics”, a web analysis service offered by Google Inc. (“Google”). This service uses cookies to collect and access your data when you visit our website. Google uses this data to evaluate your use of our website on our behalf, create reports on website activity and provide other services related to website activity and internet usage. This information is also shared with other Google services. Google may use this information to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

Google summarizes the data it collects into pseudonymous user profiles and transfers it to a Google server in the USA. Your IP address will remain anonymous. Therefore, we will be unable to determine which user profile belongs to a particular user. We cannot identify you on the basis of the data collected by Google, nor can we know how you use our website.

Our website also uses “Google Ads,” an online advertising program by Google Inc. Within the framework of Google Ads, we use conversion tracking. When you click on an ad placed by Google, a cookie is set for conversion tracking. If you visit certain pages of this website and the cookies have not yet expired, Google and we can recognize that you clicked on the ad and were redirected to this page. Google Ads customers will get information about the total number of users who clicked on their ads and were directed to the page with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not get information that allows them to personally identify such users.

For more information on Google’s privacy practices, please visit https://policies.google.com/privacy

To know more about how Google uses the data from your activities when you visit and use Google’s partner sites or apps, please visit https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites

You can also prevent the collection of data by Google, generated by cookies and related to your use of the website (including your IP address), and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

You can adjust your Google Ads settings here https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated

CUSTOMER MATCH AND CUSTOM AUDIENCES

In order to advertise our products and services, we engage with certain third parties such as Google Ads and Facebook, etc. We may share your email address or mobile number with these third parties. They may link your name, mobile number or email address to other data they collect and create custom audiences or offer targeted advertisements.

We may use Google Ads Customer Match to provide you with personalized ads based on the data we share with Google, such as your email address. Please note, Google doesn’t receive actual email addresses. Google’s system automatically transforms contact information such as email addresses and phone numbers into hashed codes using a secure hashing algorithm, a one-way hashing mechanism not unencrypted by Google. Customer Match allows us to use your email address to reach you via Google’s ad network. Google users can control the ads they see on the Google network, including Customer Match ads, in their Google Ads Settings.

We may use Facebook Custom Audiences to show you personalized ads on Facebook, using your email address or mobile number. This tool allows us to personalize our ads based on your engagement with us. It also enables us to convert your email address into a unique number. Facebook then matches this unique number to other unique numbers that it creates from email addresses of its users. As a Facebook user, you can control the ads you see in your Facebook account, including Custom Audience ads, in your ad preferences.

Please refer to the Interest-based Advertising section below, to learn how to opt out of receiving personalized ads.

INTEREST-BASED ADVERTISING

When you use our Online Channels, we and certain third parties (our digital advertising partners, advertising networks and social media platforms) will collect your data. These third parties include but are not limited to Google Ads, Facebook, Bing Ads and Criteo. The data collected may include information about your online activities, which we may use to show you personalized ads about our products and services. This data may also be used for remarketing, which displays advertisements relevant to pages or products you have previously viewed on our website. We may receive this data through third-party websites that display our ads. Some of our ads may be viewable on other platforms such as Facebook, Magnite and X (formerly known as Twitter) because we engage with third-party ad buying networks. These buying networks help us target our messaging based on user interest, demographic and contextual means. Further, the ad network may collect data on our behalf about your visits to websites that show Angara ads, your interactions on these websites and the pages or advertisements you viewed.

This data is collected on our website as well as on third-party sites that are part of these ad networks and help in tracking the effectiveness of our marketing efforts. The data collected by ad networks and other third-party sites through their tracking pixels, cookies and scripts is stored and processed by them and is subject to their own privacy policies and terms of use. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with their terms and policies.

While you visit our website, log in, register or open an email, cookies, ad beacons, and similar technologies may be used by our online data partners or vendors to associate these activities with information they or others have about you, including your email address. We (or service providers on our behalf) may then send communications and marketing to these email addresses. You may opt out of receiving this advertising by visiting- https://www.smartrecognition.com/database-opt-out/.

If you wish to opt-out of email marketing from a specific brand that we work with, such as a customer of ours, you can click on the “opt-out” or “unsubscribe” link in the footer (located at the bottom) of any marketing email you receive.

Some of the third-party advertisers and ad networks you receive personalized ads from, may be members of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) or may be following the Digital Advertising Alliance’s Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising. You can remove yourself from their advertising programs by visiting the respective opt-out pages on the NAI and DAA websites.

In addition, you may also deactivate personalized ads from many providers that are part of the self-regulatory campaign, Your Online Choices by EDAA.

After you opt out, you may still receive some ads from us that are not customized based on your service or user information, or ads from other third parties if they are not part of the DAA,EDAA or NAI. Further, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of a product/service purchase, product/service experience or any other engagement.

UPDATION OF THE PRIVACY POLICY

We will revise and update this Privacy Policy whenever deemed necessary and the changes will be posted on the website along with an “Effective Date” at the beginning, and we reserve the right to do so at any time. For any significant updates, we will take appropriate measures to inform our website visitors and buyers.

CONTACT US

If you would like us to update the information, we have about you or your preferences, please contact us via the following:

By Email: customer.service@angara.com

By Phone: +1 844 527 4367

By Mail: Angara Inc., 550 South Hill St, Suite 1015, Los Angeles, CA 90013