October 3, 2024

YOU ARE HEREBY ADVISED THAT THE CONTINUED USE OF THIS WEBSITE CONSTITUTES YOUR ACCEPTANCE AND AGREEMENT TO THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY.

Javan Wellness LLC (also referred to hereinafter as “Javan,” “our,” or “we”) respects and values your privacy. This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) describes and applies to the information we collect from you when you visit any Javan website or application (collectively, “Website”).

This Policy is an extension of Javan’s commitment to combining quality products and services with integrity, when you provide Personal Information (as defined below) to us through our Website. This Policy does not apply to information we have obtained or may obtain offline or through other traditional means and only applies to any information, including Personal Information, provided in connection with your use and navigation of our Website or through the submission of such information at one of our physical locations.

Personal Information and How We Collect It

When you visit and interact with the Website, we receive and collect certain information. Additionally, some information that identifies you as an individual (“Personal Information“) is gathered when you register with our Website, participate in in-store activities, focus groups, interviews, sweepstakes, and other promotions (which may or may not be included in one of our incentive programs that contain and are subject to their own official rules). We also collect Personal Information about you to the extent that you provide it to us online (including, but not limited to, filling out forms on a Website or by submitting such information in an e-mail message) and offline (including by way of illustration, filling out a comment card at one of our physical locations). In no event do we require that you submit any personally identifiable information and it is inherent in this Policy that you provide your Personal Information voluntarily through any means we collect it, including by use of this Website.  Personal Information specifically excludes protected health information, also referred to as personal health information, which generally refers to medical histories, test and laboratory results, mental health conditions, insurance information, and other date that a healthcare professional collects to identify an individual and determine appropriate care (“PHI”).  Javan never discloses your PHI and stores and protects all such information as required by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) of 1996, as amended, and other applicable law.

Personal Information requested may include your name, street mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number and other information. In addition, we may ask you to enter an ID, password or similar data when you access this Website, so we can verify your right to access certain portions of the Website. If you voluntarily provide, or have provided, information to us in other contexts, such as while visiting one of our physical locations, or to one of our marketing or technology vendors, such as by scheduling a showing or responding to a survey, we may obtain and associate that information with the information you provide to us through a Website. We may also obtain Personal Information you provided to us by your friends, associates, co-workers, or anyone endeavoring to provide your information through our Website which may or may not include your name and email address. This Website may allow visitors to send information about our service and product offerings to others via email. If you choose to tell a friend about Javan, we will ask you for your friend’s name and email address. We endeavor to send to your friend such emails. We may elect not to send the email in certain circumstances in our discretion (e.g., if the email contains inappropriate or inaccurate information or content). We store your friends’ Personal Information for the purposes of sending these emails, tracking statistics regarding our referral program and promoting our products and services. Your friend may contact us at info@javanwellness.com to request that we remove your friend’s Personal Information from our database.

We are committed to complying fully with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. Accordingly, the contents of this Website are not intended to be directed to or collect information from children under the age of thirteen (13) and is actually intended only for individuals aged eighteen (18) year or older.  If it is determined that such information has been inadvertently collected on anyone under the age of thirteen (13), we shall immediately take the necessary steps to ensure that such information is deleted from our system’s database.

How do we use the Personal Information we collect

Our goals in collecting Personal Information from you include identifying service and product offerings which may be targeted to your interests as well as determining what periodic marketing, promotional and other notices to provide to you. You may, at any time, choose to not receive communications from us by “opting out” of specific mailing lists and services by sending an email requesting removal to our Marketing Department at: info@javanwellness.com, or by writing us at the mailing address listed below.

Information, such as the date and time of your visit, is automatically collected through the use of “cookies” and similar technologies when you visit this Website. As Cookies are small text files that are placed in your internet browser by a web server. Cookies can be read by the web server in the domain that placed them and serve to distinguish between internet browsers. The use of cookies is a standard practice among websites for authentication and to collect or tract information about your activities while using the Website. Most internet browsers automatically accept cookies. However, it is also possible to modify your browser settings to block cookies.  You may also delete cookies through a setting on most modern web browsers. Our services are provided in such a way that the use of cookies is not mandatory.

Javan uses Google Analytics to analyze this Website. Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your computer that identifies you as a unique user of this Website. We use the information obtained from Google Analytics to improve our Websites and understand how our visitors use the Website and identifying system performance or problem areas. Google Analytics collects your computer or mobile device’s Internet Protocol (IP) address. You may prevent Google Analytics from recognizing you on return visits to this Website by disabling cookies on your browser. Google’s Ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to the Website is governed by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. If you do not want your visit data reported by Google Analytics you may install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. Please see the Google Analytics Op-out Browser Add-on page at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout for additional information.

“Do Not Track” Signals

At times, we may use third-party vendors to serve online advertisements. These vendors may use information about your visits to this Website in order to provide advertisements to you about goods and services of interest to you. In doing so, we, or these third-party vendors, may use cookies or other technologies to track and collect data about you and your internet browsing habits. We use this information for our own marketing purposes, including but not limited to, creating online advertisements tailored to you. All third-party vendors have their own tracking technologies and policies for handling Do Not Track signals and methods for opting out of the collection of Personal Information.  We do not control these third-parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. Such policies should be reviewed to the extent you receive any unwanted advertisements.

How We Share Personal Information

The limited information collected by this Website, including any Personal Information, may be utilized by us in any manner we deem reasonable and consistent with fair business practices, including but not limited to, the promotion of our products and services. We may disclose your Personal Information to our affiliates i.e., companies that we own, we are owned by, or we are under common ownership with), to consultants and to other third parties with whom we have a business relationship. Your Personal Information may also be disclosed to third parties on an aggregate basis and in a manner that does not reveal your personal identity.  We may also disclose your Personal Information as we believe is reasonably necessary to comply with law, regulation or other governmental authority. Finally, we may disclose your information to our affiliates, Javan Wellness Downtown DC LLC and Javan Wellness Ballston LLC.

Retention and Protection of Personal Information

Generally, we retain the Personal Information that we collect electronically on our server(s) or in our archives for as long as we reasonably need it. We may alter this practice according to legal and business requirements. For example, we may shorten the retention period for certain Personal Information if needed to free up storage space, and we may lengthen the retention period for other Personal Information if needed to comply with privacy standards or applicable law.

We establish and maintain certain practices to help protect the confidentiality, security and integrity of electronic Personal Information stored on our systems. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no computer system is completely secure, and while the measures we implement are intended to reduce the likelihood of security problems, there is no warranty or guarantee that our standard security measures will prevent access to your Personal Information.  While we endeavor to maintain appropriate physical and electronic procedures and safeguards to protect information collected on the Website, we cannot guarantee the confidentiality of any information that you disclose online and transmit to us, and you understand that you do so at your own risk. It is not our intention to collect any banking, credit card, financial or similar information on any visitors to our Website, nor will we ask for social security numbers, taxpayer identification numbers or any similar such information.  If you are ever asked to provide such information, it will not be from Javan and you are cautioned that such information should not be provided online under any circumstances other than using credit cards to purchase goods from secure websites which also can be subject to compromise.

How to modify your Personal Information

You may modify or update your Personal Information by sending an e-mail to our Marketing Department at: info@javanwellness.com. Data management requests are administered in an orderly manner to the extent feasible and within our direct control and response times will vary depending on our workload and the number of requests.

Access and Use of Site Provided “As Is”

We operate this Website (including, without limitation, its registration system) and provide our services in good faith, but on an AS-IS, AS-AVAILABLE basis. ANY WARRANTIES OF ACCURACY, QUALITY, TITLE, FITNESS, MERCHANTABILITY OR NON-INFRINGEMENT ARE DISCLAIMED. WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL WE BE LIABLE FOR EVENTS BEYOND OUR DIRECT CONTROL. Excluding conflict of law principles, jurisdiction and venue shall be proper in Washington, D.C.  Any provision of this Policy that is illegal or unenforceable shall be deemed automatically conformed to the minimum requirements of law. Any legal actions against us arising out of this Policy must be commenced in Washington, D.C. within one (1) year after the claim arose, or be barred.

Consent and Revisions

By using or accessing our services or this Website, by participating in the activities or programs outlined above, or similar activities or programs, or by providing Personal Information, you agree to this Policy. This document supersedes any prior communication on this topic and reflects the entire and exclusive Policy. We reserve the right to revise this Policy from time to time, without notice, and will post any revisions on this Website. Such revisions will thereafter be applicable to you unless you utilize the opt-out provisions available and described herein.  Additionally, if you provide an e-mail address as part of your registration, we may, but shall be under no obligation to, send an e-mail to such address to inform you of changes to this Policy. Upon publication, the updated Policy will be deemed to replace the prior version of this Policy. We encourage you to review our Website regularly for changes. If at any time, you do not agree with the terms in the updated Policy or if you want to be removed from our database, please let us know using the contact information provided herein and we will remove your name and other Personal Information from the database.

Compliance with Federal and State Privacy Rights

We are committed to upholding our obligations under applicable Federal and state law to protect your online privacy rights. As such, this Policy and all storage of Personal Information and the marketing materials that may result from the use of that Personal Information shall comply with the requirements of Federal law, including, the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 and similar such Federal and state Laws.  These laws change frequently and we will comply as changes occur. The collection, storage, disposal and destruction of Personal Information, if and when collected, shall comply with the legal requirements of the District of Columbia or where our stores are located. Similarly, our internal guidelines for handling the unauthorized access of any Virginia residents is subject to Code of Virginia §18.2-186.6  and the disclosure and procedural requirements contained therein or in any other applicable law.  Personal information belonging to any Texas residents will be maintained in accordance with the requirements of Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 521.052(a).

Questions and Contacts

If you have questions regarding this Policy or would like to be removed from our database, please send an e-mail to: info@javanwellness.com or contact us by mail at:

Javan Wellness
Attn: Marketing Department
1626 U Street NW
Washington, DC 20009