Privacy Policy
FOR CUSTOMERS:
CCAvenue a brand operating under AVENUES WORLD FZ LLC, a company incorporated under the provisions of the Dubai Technology and Media Free Zone Private Companies Regulations 2003, takes privacy and data protection issues seriously. We have designed this Privacy Policy to explain how we handle personally identifiable information collected from Customers/Users (you/ your) who use services of CCAvenue directly or through any third party, submit information to CCAvenue through the Internet. As CCAvenue services evolve, we may revise this policy, so please check back frequently. If you have questions about CCAvenue privacy practices, please contact us at service@ccavenue.ae
CCAvenue being a responsible organisation acknowledge the Importance of right to privacy. Customers all across the globe place their trust on us by transacting though CCAvenue and we at CCAvenue values that trust. And we are committed to protect and safeguard your personal data.

This Policy also covers the treatment of personally identifiable information that CCAvenue back end technology providers/partners may share with it. This document describes the usage of your personal data acquired by CCAvenue.

We collect information about you only if we need the information for some legitimate purpose. CCAvenue will have information about you only if (a) you have provided the information yourself, (b) CCAvenue has automatically collected the information, or (c) CCAvenue has obtained the information from a third party.

If you are in the European Economic Area and you believe that someone has entrusted your information to us for processing (for instance, your employer or a company whose services you use), you can request certain actions from us regarding your data. To exercise those data rights, please contact the person or company that entrusted the data to us and we will work with them on your request.

This Policy sets out how we will use and protect your information. We will use your personal information only for the purposes and in the manner allowed by the applicable data protection laws. We recommend that you read this Privacy Policy carefully.

1. Kind of Personal Data collected by CCAvenue
CCAvenue asks Customers to supply various personal data when placing an online order, such as name and address, telephone number, and E-mail address. We collect Customers name, contact details, and customers Debit/Credit Card Details and other details as per several payment options. (We collect the Debit/Credit Card details and other payment details, as per the applicable rules and regulation, established by the Central Bank of UAE and Card Companies). In addition to curb down the chance of risk and fraud we also collect information from Customer's computer, phone, tablet or other device Customers are using to access our services. This includes the IP address, the browser, and Customer's language settings. There are also situations in which we receive information about Customer from others or automatically collect other information. This is the basic overview of the information we collect.

We may also receive information about you from other sources. These include business partners, such as affiliate partners, and other independent third parties, and anything we get from them may be combined with information provided by you.

2. Reason for Collecting and Processing the Data
We collect the personal information to render our services efficiently. To curb down the chance and risk of online/ offline frauds. In process to provide our service we, are required to have the personal information of the Customer to authorise and complete the transactions or requests of the Customers. We process and collect your information mainly for the following purposes:

  • To help you purchase/ acquire the Products/Services that you have requested and to process any payment connected with that Products/Services as requested.
  • To contact you if required in relation to the Product/Services that you have purchased/requested to any communications that you might have sent us.
  • To provide you with customer care
  • For security and fraud prevention purposes
  • To help improve our Applications and our Services
  • The use of this information is necessary for the purpose of our legitimate interests.

3. Sharing of Data
We currently share your personal data, where necessary, with the following recipients:

  • You and, where you request, any third party you ask us to share it with.
  • Acquiring Banks, CCAvenue Merchants and Facility providers.
  • Governmental, legal, regulatory, or similar authorities, on request or where required, including for the purposes of reporting any actual or suspected breach of applicable law or regulation;
  • Third party service providers used for the delivery of some aspects of the Services (e.g. SMS delivery, email delivery, web notifications, app notifications and phone number lookup);

Our Applications may, interface with third party services that you have previously interacted with (e.g. Facebook), or contain links to third party content. Please note that CCAvenue is not responsible for such services or content, or the privacy policies associated with those services or content. We recommend that you review any third party's privacy policy before accessing such services or content.

4. Security of Your Personal Data
As stated above we are heavily regulated body and our operation are monitored by the Dubai Technology and Media Free Zone Private companies Regulations 2003 including standards of Central Bank of UAE, Acquiring Banks in UAE and Card Companies. We also have the certification of PCIDSS (a set of rules and regulation by the Card Companies), CCAvenue is ISO27001 compliant. CCAvenue protects, processes and uses all the data collected in accordance with the applicable Data Protection Laws prevalent in U.A.E.

CCAvenue observe reasonable procedures to prevent unauthorized access to, and the misuse of, personal data collected by CCAvenue.

We use appropriate business systems and procedures to protect and safeguard the personal data you give us. We also use security procedures and technical and physical restrictions for accessing and using the personal data on our servers. Only authorized personnel are permitted to access personal data in the course of their work.

5. Control of Data
Customer has all the right and control over their personal data provided to us. Customer can request us for an overview of their data by putting up a mail to us. In certain situations, you can ask us to modify, erase, or block or restrict the processing of, the personal data we hold about you, or object to particular ways in which we are using your personal data; and

We rely on you to ensure that your personal data is complete, accurate and current. Please do inform us promptly of any changes to or inaccuracies of to your personal data by contacting us.

CCAvenue want customers to be in control of how personal data is used by us. Customer can do this in the following ways:

  • You can ask us for a copy of the personal data we hold about that particular individual;
  • You can inform us of any changes to their personal data, or can ask us to correct any of the personal data we hold about them
  • An individual can ask us to erase, or block or restrict the processing of, the personal data we hold about them, or object to particular ways in which we are using your personal data; and
  • In certain situations, individual can also ask us to send the personal data, we have given to a third party.

Where we are using personal data on the basis of individual's consent, He/she is entitled to withdraw that consent at any time subject to applicable law. Moreover, where we process personal data based on legitimate interest or the public interest, individual have the right to object at any time to that use of personal data subject to applicable law.

If you wish to object to the processing of your personal data on the basis of legitimate interest and no opt-out mechanism is available, please contact us at service@ccavenue.ae.

6. Personal Data of Children
CCAvenue services are only allowed to be use by people over 16 years of age. We only process information about children with the consent of the parents or legal guardians or when the information is provided to us by the parents or legal guardian.

7. Personal Data received from other Sources
We may also receive information about you from other sources. These include business partners, such as affiliate partners, and other independent third parties, and anything we get from them may be combined with information provided by you.

8. What if CCAvenue is bought by another company?
We reserve the right to transfer information (including your personal data) to a third party in the event of a sale, merger, liquidation, receivership or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of our company. The third party must only use your personal data for the purposes that you provided it to us in the first place and as set out in this privacy notice. You will be notified in the event of any such transfer.

9. Retention of information
We retain your personal information for as long as it is required for the purposes stated in this Privacy Policy. Sometimes, we may retain your information for longer periods as permitted or required by law, such as to maintain suppression lists, prevent abuse, if required in connection with a legal claim or proceeding, to enforce our agreements, for tax, accounting, or to comply with other legal obligations. When we no longer have a legitimate need to process your information, we will delete or anonymize your information from our active databases. We will also securely store the information and isolate it from further processing on backup discs until deletion is possible.

10. Cookies
What is a Cookie?
A cookie is a small text file of letters and numbers that is stored by the browser on your computer when you visit certain websites. A cookie allows a website to distinguish your computer from other users' computers. Cookies do not contain Personal Data unless you have already given this information to the Website. You may delete or block the cookies, if that is what you choose to do. Note that this may make it less convenient for you to use our websites.

If you would like to view the information that we have collected from you or you want to correct your information or the billing/shipping details, you can mail us at service@ccavenue.ae or write to us at:

Avenues World FZ LLC,
Dubai Internet City Building # 17
Level 2, Office # 253 Opp. DIC Metro Station,
(Seaside), Dubai, United Arab Emirates

We respond to subpoenas, warrants, or other court orders regarding information that is contained within our access logs concerning any Merchant, customer or visitor. We reserve the right to release that information concerning any -Merchant/customer who we believe is in violation of our content guidelines, even without a subpoena, warrant, or other court order. We cooperate with law enforcement agencies in identifying those who use our services for illegal activities.
We also reserve the right to report any illegal activity by any customers to law enforcement for prosecution.

Please be aware that CCAvenue does not warrant the acts of its Merchants or customers or visitors. All customers and visitors should be aware that, when they disclose personal information such as their actual name, stores' name, e-mail address, etc. to third parties, the information may be collected and used by others to send that person unsolicited e-mail from other parties, outside of CCAvenue. In the event that you encounter any CCAvenue Merchant who is improperly collecting or using information about users or customers, please contact us by emailing at service@ccavenue.ae.

FOR MERCHANTS:
CCAvenue takes privacy and data protection issues seriously. We have designed this Privacy Policy to explain how we handle personally identifiable information collected from Sub-Merchants who register for services and submit information to CCAvenue through the Internet. As the CCAvenue services evolve, we may revise this policy, so please check back frequently. If you have questions about CCAvenue.com privacy practices, please contact us at contact@ccavenue.ae.

Scope of this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy covers CCAvenue's treatment of personally identifiable information collected from Sub-Merchants who use the CCAvenue payment gateway services, as well as consumer information that we acquire in the course of our business. This Policy also covers the treatment of personally identifiable information that CCAvenue's back end technology providers / partners may share with it.

This Policy does not apply to the practices of companies that CCAvenue does not own or control, or to people that CCAvenue does not employ or manage.

Objectives
  • Provide consumers notice of our information practices
  • Offer consumers choices as to how their information is used beyond the purpose for which the information was provided.
  • Offer consumers reasonable access to their information and an opportunity to correct inaccuracies.
  • Take reasonable steps to protect the security and integrity of personal information.

We collect information about you only if we need the information for some legitimate purpose. CCAvenue will have information about you only if (a) you have provided the information yourself, (b) CCAvenue has automatically collected the information, or (c) CCAvenue has obtained the information from a third party.

CCAvenue respects your privacy and wants to promote trust and confidence on the internet. As such, CCAvenue feels it is necessary to disclose to you what information this site collects and tracks and what we do with the information that we collect.

Information security is critical to our business. We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input. We store information gathered on secure computers. The number of employees involved in the management of the data center that have physical access to these computers is limited. We use advanced security technology to prevent our computers from being accessed by unauthorized persons. It is important for you (Merchant/Sub-Merchant) to protect against unauthorized access to your Login ID/password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer and otherwise protect the password used to access the CCAvenue's services.

Currently, CCAvenue collects personal information on our Merchant/Sub-Merchants, through the Merchant/Sub-Merchant registration process, the service agreement that they execute and various submitted documents of the Merchant/Sub-Merchant's creditability as required by CCAvenue from time to time. CCAvenue asks customers to supply various personal data when placing an order, such as name and address, telephone number, and E-mail address. CCAvenue uses this data only for the purpose of filling an order, or communicating with the customer or Merchant/Sub-Merchant about the status of an order. The Merchant/Sub-Merchants however, are able to collect personal information on their customers via the purchases that are made. The data CCAvenue collects is used in the aggregate to give us demographic information about the entire CCAvenue audience in order to improve the service to you and to our Merchant/Sub-Merchants, to perform statistical analysis of the collective characteristics and behaviour of our Merchant/Sub-Merchants and visitors, to measure overall patron demographics and interests regarding specific areas of the CCAvenue domain and to analyse how and where to use our resources. We use cookies to help us determine which sites users' link to, and which services Merchant/Sub-Merchants and visitors use.

We also track information like the domain name from which you contact us, the pages you request, the products you buy, the referring site, and the time that you spend on the site. For everyone who visits CCAvenue Merchant/Sub-Merchant purchase page, we log IP addresses, the type of operating system that the your computer uses, and the type of browser software used by you. From the IP address, we can determine the Internet Service Provider and the geographic location of your point of connectivity.

If you are our Merchant/Sub-Merchant then the personal information you provide - name, address, etc.-allows us to inform you about updates, or changes to the service and to notify you of products and services of CCAvenue, its backend service providers and affiliates that we believe may be of interest to you.

CCAvenue uses reasonable precautions to keep the personal information disclosed to us secure and will not disclose this information to other individuals or organizations unless required by law. However, CCAvenue will exchange information with other companies and organizations for the sole purposes of fraud protection and risk reduction. However, in the case of abuse or breach of security, we are not responsible for any breach of security or for any actions of any third parties which receive the information illegally. CCAvenue will not distribute customer information to be used in mailing lists, surveys, or any other purpose other than what is required to perform our services. However CCAvenue will send personally identifiable information about you (Merchant/Sub-Merchants) to other companies or people when: 1. we have your consent to share the information; 2. we need to share your information to provide the product or service you have requested; 3. we need to send the information to companies who work on behalf of CCAvenue to provide a product or service to you (unless we tell you differently these companies do not have any right to use the personally identifiable information we provide them beyond what is necessary to assist us).

Personally identifiable consumer information is also shared with third parties (such as our Acquiring banks and credit card processors) to the extent necessary for CCAvenue to deliver payment processing services. CCAvenue is committed to safeguarding the privacy of our customers' personal data. CCAvenue may also link to a wide variety of other sites. We are not responsible for their privacy policies or how they treat information about their users.

Cross- Border transfer of your Information: It may sometimes be necessary for us to share your personal information with our Parent and Sister Company offices around the Middle East and Asia region, (India) or for such Avenues Worlds' Company offices to share your information within UAE. It may also be necessary for us to share your personal information with associated professional services firms around the world, who provide services to us or on our behalf (including data storage facilities or online storage located within or outside the United Arab Emirates, which may be operated by independent service contractors). This will entail a transfer of personal information from within the Dubai to recipients outside the Dubai, and vice versa. The level of personal information protection in the various jurisdictions in which we operate varies, and in some instances may not provide an adequate level of protection from an international perspective. To address this, we have procedures and safeguards in place to ensure the protection of personal information. These procedures include contractual obligations to ensure that all such entities safeguard your personal information and use it only for the purposes that we have specified and communicated to you. When we transfer your information to other countries, we will use, share and safeguard that information as described in this Privacy Policy.

If you (i.e. our Merchant/Sub-Merchant) would like to view the information we have collected from you and your customers or you want to correct your information or the billing/shipping details of your customers or their IP addresses, Please go to Merchant Login page and log into your account to view the above details and to review your personal information. If you have questions or suggestions, we can be reached by email at service@ccavenue.ae or by writing to us at:

Avenues World FZ LLC,
Dubai Internet City Building # 17
Level 2, Office # 253 Opp. DIC Metro Station,
(Seaside), Dubai, United Arab Emirates

We respond to subpoenas, warrants, or other court orders regarding information that is contained within our access logs concerning any Sub-Merchant, customer or visitor. We reserve the right to release that information concerning any Sub-Merchant who we believe is in violation of our content guidelines, even without a subpoena, warrant, or other court order. We cooperate with law enforcement agencies in identifying those who use our servers and services for illegal activities.
We also reserve the right to report any illegal activity by our Merchants/Sub-Merchants or their customers to law enforcement for prosecution.

Please be aware that CCAvenue does not control the acts of its Merchants/Sub-Merchants or visitors. All Merchants/Sub-Merchants, customers and visitors should be aware that, when they disclose personal information such as their actual name, store's name, e-mail address, etc. to third parties, the information may be collected and used by others to send that person unsolicited e-mail from other parties, outside of CCAvenue. In the event that you encounter any CCAvenue Merchants/Sub-Merchant who is improperly collecting or using information about users, please contact us by emailing at contact@ccavenue.ae

If you feel that CCAvenue has violated this Statement on Privacy in any way, please contact us at contact@ccavenue.ae that we may address this issue.