Privacy policy

Welcome to Avantis Direct!

Who we are

At Avantis Direct, we specialize in providing reliable and innovative payment solutions for businesses of all sizes. Our mission is to empower merchants with seamless payment processing and exceptional customer support. Whether you’re just starting or expanding your business, we’re here to help you succeed.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on our site, we collect the information shown in the comments form along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent. This helps us detect and prevent spam.

If you use Gravatar, an anonymized string of your email (a hash) may be shared with the Gravatar service to see if you’re using it. You can find the Gravatar privacy policy here: https://avantisdirect.com/partners/ Once your comment is approved, your profile picture will be visible to the public along with your comment.

Media

If you upload images to our website, please avoid including location data (EXIF GPS) in the files. Visitors can download and view any location data embedded in the images.

Cookies

• Comments: When you leave a comment, you can choose to save your name, email, and website in cookies for convenience. These cookies last for one year.

• Login: When you visit our login page, we set a temporary cookie to check if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie does not contain personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. If you log in, we set cookies to save your login details and screen preferences. Login cookies last two days, and screen option cookies last a year. Choosing “Remember Me” extends your login for two weeks. Logging out removes the login cookies.

• Article Editing: If you edit or publish an article, a cookie will be stored in your browser. This cookie contains no personal data and expires after one day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on our site may include embedded content like videos or articles from other websites. This content behaves as if you visited the external site directly. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, and track your interactions with the embedded content, especially if you have an account and are logged into their site.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

• Comments: Comments and their metadata are stored indefinitely. This helps us recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them for moderation.

• Registered Users: For users who register on our website, we store the personal information provided in their profile. Users can view, edit, or delete their personal information anytime (except usernames). Website administrators can also access and update this information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on our site or have left comments, you can request a copy of the personal data we hold about you. You can also ask us to delete any personal data we hold. However, this does not include data we are required to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.