Annoying icon on the side of my Pixel phone

Hello Dave. 
Thank you for contacting AVG Community Support.
We apologize for the inconvenience caused to you.
We certainly check and help you.
Please help us with a screenshot of the icon you refer to check and help you further.
Here is the link which has the steps to take a screenshot :
| AVG (https://support.avg.com/SupportArticleView?l=en&urlName=AVG-Create-screenshot&q=How+to+create+a+screenshot&supportType=home)
Thank you.

Got a new Pixel phone recently, installed AVG Ultimate and put in my key, blah, blah. AVG installed successfully and all the features work, however I have this annoying AVG icon that lives in the side screen and I have to keep moving it as it gets in the way of answering text messages, operating apps, etc. My question is 'How can I get rid of this annoying icon?' 

If someone from AVG tells me it can not be removed then I will be uninstalling AVG for good!

Hello Dave. 
Thank you for contacting AVG Community Support.
We apologize for the inconvenience caused to you.
We certainly check and help you.
Please help us with a screenshot of the icon you refer to check and help you further.
Here is the link which has the steps to take a screenshot :
| AVG (https://support.avg.com/SupportArticleView?l=en&urlName=AVG-Create-screenshot&q=How+to+create+a+screenshot&supportType=home)
Thank you.

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Thank you for sharing us the screenshot, Dave. 
It seems that you've replied to the follow up notification/email of your post (automated email system).
You can try the steps mentioned below the corresponding Android version in this article to manage sticky notification & let us know the outcome.