PRIVACY POLICY 

Introduction

Welcome to Avionics Source, Inc. We sell aircraft electronics, aircraft parts, aircraft instruments, and pilot supplies worldwide through our website at the following URL: www.AvionicsSource.com (the “Website”). The Terms of Service and Privacy Policy described below govern your use of any of portion of the Website and the purchase of any products or services from the Company. You should carefully read and understand the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy described in this document, and you should read the entire document.

Acceptance of Terms of Service

By using, visiting, browsing, or purchasing the products described, listed and identified on the Website, you accept and agree to be irrevocably bound by these Terms. If you do not agree to these Terms, you should not use, visit or browse the Website or purchase any products or services from the Company. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy established by the Company and posted on the Website, constitute the entire agreement between you and Company and supersede any and all previous agreements, written or oral, between you and Company, including previous versions of the Terms.

Any failure or delay in the enforcing or exercising of a right by the Company is not a waiver of that right.

Terms of Service of Website

The Company’s Limitation of Liability for Use of Website

The Company makes no representations or warranties about the accuracy, reliability, completeness, or timeliness of the content displayed on or available from the Website or about the results to be obtained from using the Website and any content thereon. Any use of the Website is at your own risk. Changes are periodically made to the Website and may be made at any time, without prior notice to you. Some content on the Website may be provided by third parties and the Company will not be held responsible for any such content provided by third parties.

THE COMPANY DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE WEBSITE WILL OPERATE ERROR-FREE OR THAT THE WEBSITE OR THE SERVER IT IS HOSTED ON IS FREE OF COMPUTER VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL GOODS. IF YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE RESULTS IN THE NEED FOR SERVICING OR REPLACING EQUIPMENT OR LOSS OF PROFITS OR DATA, THE COMPANY WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THOSE COSTS.

THE WEBSITE AND CONTENT THEREON ARE PROVIDED ON AN ‘AS IS’ BASIS WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. COMPANY, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF PROPRIETARY OR THIRD PARTY RIGHTS, AND THE WARRANTY OF FITNESS FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Your use of the Website is at your own risk. If you are dissatisfied with any of the content at the Website or with these Terms, or any portion of these Terms, your sole remedy is to discontinue use of the Website. IN NO EVENT WILL THE COMPANY BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, INCIDENTAL, EXEMPLARY, AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, LOST PROFITS, OR DAMAGES RESULTING FROM LOST DATA OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) RESULTING FROM THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE WEBSITE AND THE CONTENT DISPLAYED OR AVAILABLE THEREON, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT THE COMPANY IS ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU, IN WHICH CASE SUCH EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION APPLIES TO THE FULLEST EXTENT ALLOWABLE UNDER THE APPLICABLE LAW.

Links to Other Sites

The Website may contain links to third party web sites that are maintained by others. Any such links are provided solely as a convenience to you and not as an endorsement by the Company of the contents on such third-party web sites. The Company is not responsible for the content of linked third-party sites and does not make any representations or warranties regarding the content or accuracy of materials on such third-party Web sites or the privacy practices of such third parties and hereby disclaims any and all liability for your use of such third-party sites. If you decide to access linked third-party web sites, you do so at your own risk.

Third Party Applications

On the Website you might have an opportunity to download applications that were developed by third parties. The Company is not responsible for and makes no representations or warranties regarding the content or functionality of these third-party applications or the privacy practices of such third party developers. If you decide to download and use any of these third party applications, then you do so at your own risk.

Orders

We request information from you on our order form. To buy from us, you must provide contact information (like name and shipping 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, we’ll use this information to contact you.

Security

We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.

Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. To protect your information, we use an industry leading web security protocol called SSL. A Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a computer networking protocol that manages server authentication, client authentication and encrypted communication between servers and clients. You can verify this by looking for a closed lock icon/green address bar seal at the top of your web browser, or looking for “https” at the beginning of the address of the web page.

While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

Information Sharing

We use a third party shipping company to ship orders, and a credit card processing company to bill users for goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes beyond shipping/transacting your order.

Indemnity

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Company, its officers, directors, members, employees and agents, from and against any claims, actions or demands, including without limitation legal and accounting fees, alleging or resulting from your breach of these Terms of Service.

Changes to Terms of Service

The Company reserves the right, from time to time, with or without notice to you, to change these Terms, in our sole and absolute discretion. The Company may also freely assign or transfer these Terms or any portion thereof. The most current version of these Terms can be reviewed by visiting our website and clicking on “Terms of Service” located at the bottom of the pages displayed on the Website.

If any provision of this Agreement is declared void or unenforceable by any judicial authority, the remaining provisions of this Agreement not declared void or unenforceable shall remain in full force and effect.

Privacy Policy

Introduction

The Company takes your privacy and the security of your personal information very seriously. This Privacy and Security Policy (“Policy”) applies to the website located at www.avionicssource.com (the “Website”), and we encourage you to review it to learn about the Company’s privacy and information security policies. This Policy does not apply to any other websites which may be operated or owned by the Company if separate Privacy Polices have been established for such other websites

By using the Website or submitting your Personal Information to us (as defined below), you agree that we may use your Personal Information in accordance with this Policy, as it may be amended from time to time by the Company. Please do not send us any Personal Information if you do not want it to be treated in accordance with this Policy.

Contents

  • What Is Considered to be Personal Information?
  • Information Collected by the Company
  • How We Use Your Personal Information
  • Location of Processing and Data Transfer
  • Disclosure to Third Parties
  • Cookies
  • IP Addresses
  • Links to Other Web sites
  • Information from Children
  • Ownership of Materials
  • Access and Rectification
  • Security
  • Modification of Policy
  • How to Contact Us

What is considered “Personal Information”?

In general, your personal information means information by which you, as an individual, can be identified, as well as information that is provided by you directly to the Company or through a third party or parties which identified products that you might be interested in purchasing from the Company’s website. It includes information such as your name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address. It also includes information regarding the identification of aircraft, including the model, year, tail number and serial number, and standard and optional avionics equipment installed on such aircraft; your home and/or business address; your preferred avionics service facility; and your account number issued to you by an Affiliate (as defined below), as well as information concerning your existing and intended or anticipated use of aircraft and aviation services.

Information Collected by the Company
The Company does not presently collect Personal Information with the exception of the following information:

  • Information that your Internet service provider automatically provides to our web server, such as its web site address and possibly your email address;
  • Information that you send to us in an email message using the email program that is part of this Website’s functionality;
  • Information you send us when you sign up on this Website for newsletters, white papers, events or similar products or features;
  • Information that is sent to us by third parties with whom we have marketing, service or other agreement that allows us to collect and receive such information (these parties are referred to in this Privacy Policy as “Affiliates”), which is submitted or provided to Websites owned or controlled by Affiliates over which the Company has no control (and any information provided to these Affiliates may be subject to and governed by their own separate privacy policies and terms of use). Such information may include but is not limited to: i) your home and/or business address; ii) your preferred avionics service facility; iii) your account number issued to you by an Affiliate; and iv) the model, year, tail number and serial number for aircraft as well as standard and optional avionics equipment installed on such aircraft.
  • You submit to us in a CGI form (for example, when you submit a search request on this Website); or
  • Information submitted in connection with your request for or the ordering of a product or service through the Website, through an Affiliate’s website, or information submitted in connection with the processing of the purchase or inquiry concerning a product or service sold or administered by the Company.

How We Use Your Personal Information.
The Company may use Personal Information for the following purposes:

  • Respond to and process or review your requests and applications, including a request for the purchase of a product or service and requests for additional information;
  • Improve and monitor the content and performance of this Website and websites owned or controlled by Affiliates, which may include analyzing Website usage and creating reports; and
  • Contacting you and delivering information, which may include marketing materials, to you which you may have requested or which we believe may be of interest to you, such as information concerning the services offered by the Company, by Affiliates and other communications which may be of use to you with regard to your use of the Company’s Website.

We will treat your Personal Information in accordance with this Policy and applicable law.

Location of Processing and Data Transfer.
Your Personal Information may be controlled and processed by the Company’s offices and locations where employees and agents of the Company work from time-to-time, as well as by the locations where the computer servers that host the Website and Affiliates’ websites or provide functionality to or with respect to the Website are located.

Disclosure to Third Parties.
We may use third parties to provide a service you request and to provide data processing, hosting, storage, emergency recovery services, and similar services to us. It may be necessary for these third parties to have access to Personal Information you have provided on this Website. These third parties will be required to enter into agreements with the Company that provide adequate protections for the safety and security of your Personal Information. If you provide Personal Information directly to any of our third party service providers, then their use of your Personal Information is subject to their privacy and security policies.

We reserve the right to transfer any Personal Information we have about you in the event we transfer all or a portion of our business or assets without your prior consent. We also reserve the right to transfer Personal Information to any entity controlled or owned in whole or in part by the Company or in which the Company maintains an ownership interest. Should such a transfer occur, we will use reasonable efforts to try to require that the transferee use Personal Information you have provided through this Website in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy.

We will not otherwise disclose your Personal Information to third parties without your consent, unless required or permitted to do so by law, including the exercise or defense of the Company’s legal rights. We have no obligation to monitor the use of this Website or to retain the content of any user session. However, we reserve the right at all times to monitor, review, retain, and/or disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request or to cooperate with law enforcement and other authorities in investigating a claim of illegal activity, or to assert a defense of the Company’s legal rights.

Cookies.
In order to better enable us to provide you with customized services and a Website that is easier to use (for example, by allowing you to enter your user name and password less frequently), this Website will place a small data file, known as a “cookie,” on your hard drive. You can choose to not receive a cookie file by enabling your web browser to refuse cookies or to prompt you before you accept a cookie. If you do that, the full functionality of this Website may not be available to you and you may be required to enter your user name and password more frequently.

IP Addresses.
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the Website, track users’ movements, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. We do not link IP addresses to personal information.

Links to Other Websites.
For your convenience, this Website may provide links to other websites. Please be aware that this Policy applies only to the Website and not to any other site. Before visiting any website, we recommend you review the privacy and security policies of each website before providing any personal information.

Information From Children.
We do not direct this Website to children under thirteen (13) years of age and we do not knowingly collect personal information submitted by such children. Individuals under eighteen (18) should consult with a parent or guardian about the use of this Website.

Ownership of Materials.
Avionics Source, Inc D.B.A “Aircraft Source” owns the information sent to us by means of this Website. If you choose to send us an email message (including submission of your résumé), we may retain the content of the e-mail, any attachments, your e-mail address and our response.

Access and Rectification.
You have the right to access and to rectify your Personal Information submitted to us. In some circumstances, a fee may be payable to do so. You may do so by sending an email to info@avionicssource.com.

Security. 
We use physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect your Personal Information, including firewalls and scanning software to detect and block malicious code and certain unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE or “spam”). Internally, we may employ encryption technologies, user authentication systems (e.g., passwords) and access control mechanisms to secure access to our computer systems and files. We do not guarantee that our safeguards will always work. Please be aware that our information security software may cause some e-mail messages sent via this Website not to be received.

You should be aware that information sent to us using this Website may not be secure in transmission. However, if you access a credit card payment extranet from this Website, such extranets are maintained on secure servers, using secured sockets layer (“SSL”) encryption. No other areas of the Website are secure, unless otherwise specifically indicated. Please be aware of this when sending any communications.

Modification of Policy. 
We may modify this Policy at any time to ensure that it accurately reflects the regulatory environment in which we operate and our data collection and disclosure practices. Your continuing use of this Website constitutes your acceptance of any modification to this Policy in effect at the time of your access. No modification or attempted modification of this Policy by you shall be binding on Avionics Source, Inc its officers, directors or members.

All changes to this Policy will be posted on this Website and we encourage you to check back from time to time to review any updates that have been made.

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Policy or our use of your personal information, please email us at info@avionicssource.com