PLEASE REVIEW THIS PRIVACY POLICY STATEMENT BEFORE USING THIS SITE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH OUR PRIVACY POLICY STATEMENT, DO NOT USE THE SITE. BY SUBMITTING ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION TO THE SITE, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY STATEMENT.

Your use of this site is also subject to the Terms of Use. Please review those Terms of Use for additional details regarding your use of this site.

GENERAL INFORMATION

IP Addresses and Cookies

Generally speaking, you may visit the site while remaining anonymous.

Our websites automatically log your IP address and domain name, and non-personal information such as the type of web browser you use, to help us administer the sites and to compile statistics such as the number of visitors.

Our websites use cookies to identify you over multiple visits to the site, for example to remember your country and provide country-specific content. Cookies are optional, and you can block or delete them. However, some parts of our websites (e.g. chat pages, Online Store) will not work without cookies. Cookies may also be used to track visitor behavior on the website, which allows visitors to be retargeted with digital advertising that reflects their past behavior on the site.

The Types of Cookies Avid Uses

Session cookies: These cookies are temporary and expire once you leave the site. Session cookies are mainly used by online stores to hold your items in the basket while you are shopping online.

Persistent cookies: Persistent cookies may stay on your disk for a long time after the session is ended. These cookies may hold data such as login details, contact information and account numbers, so that you don’t have to type them in every time you use the site. When using the Avid Online Store, persistent cookies may use data to hold items in your shopping cart or send you reminders about items you have left in your shopping cart but have not yet purchased.

Avid also permits third-party advertising partners to use cookies and other technology to collect information about your browsing activities over time and across different websites when you use our site. Through a process called “retargeting,” each service places a cookie on your browser when you visit our site so that they can identify you and serve you ads on other sites around the web based on your browsing activity.

For information on how to disable cookies on your computer, visit the Managing cookies page.

Submission of Personal Information

Certain portions of the site may require that you submit some personal information, such as your name and email address, before using those portions of the site. At minimum, you are typically required to register with the site and provide your name or email address before using any of the members only areas of the site. For some services, such as forums, Avid Link, customer support features, registering for events or contests, downloading software or uploading content, you may have to create an account, and submit additional personal information such as your mailing address.

Use of Personal Information

Avid uses information it collects to provide the services and information you select, to better understand its customers, to provide better products and services, and to assist with site administration, such as with troubleshooting any problems, detecting fraud, resolving disputes, and for any purposes deemed necessary or required by Avid to enforce the Terms of Use and other terms or conditions applicable to any portion of the site.

We also use this information to send you information about Avid, or other topics Avid thinks may be of interest to you, such as product information or updates. As part of its business, Avid works with authorized partners, such as authorized resellers, to provide you with the services and information. As part of those activities, Avid may share your information with those authorized entities so that they can directly provide the information or services to you.

The processing of your data is either based on your consent or in case the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party, or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.

If the processing is based on your consent, you may at any time withdraw your consent by contacting us at privacy@avid.com or the address listed below. This email address is for privacy related inquiries only. All other requests, such as for product support, will not be replied to. For product support and troubleshooting, please contact Avid Customer Care by clicking here.

In order to enter into a contract regarding the purchase of Avid’s products or services, you must provide us with the required personal data. If you do not to provide us with all the required information, it will not be possible to deliver the product or service.

Avid keeps the information you provide for as long as you remain an active user of the site and recipient of our information.

Aggregation and Use of Anonymous Data

Avid aggregates information provided by you to create anonymous statistical and demographic data. This anonymous data helps Avid to understand and know its customer base better. That anonymous data may be provided to third parties but never in such a fashion as to identify you personally.  Some Avid products and websites use Google Analytics for the collection of anonymous data. Learn more about how Google uses data collected using Google Analytics.

The Google Analytics features that Avid employs are as follows:

• General Features related to browsing behavior such as: browser type/version and language, operating system type/version, device type/version, domains, page views, referring/exit pages, location data such as country, information about how you interact with our Site’s webpages and with third-party links, traffic and usage trends.
• Demographics and Interest Reports: Age, Gender, Interest Data.
• Advertising and Remarketing: This includes data from Google’s signed-in users who have chosen to enable Google to associate their web and app browsing history with their Google account, and to use such information from their Google account to personalize ads.
• User ID Tracking: To combine sessions across multiple devices and interactions for logged-in users.
• Site Search Tracking: What a user typed into the sites search feature.
• eCommerce Tracking: Information related to product purchased, price, date and time of purchase, order #, etc.
• Enhanced eCommerce Tracking: Information related to products viewed, products added/removed to cart, onsite promotions clicked, currency, refunds, etc.

You can opt out of Google Analytics by using this tool:
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/