Privacy Policy

Introduction

Faced with the development of advanced communications tools, it is necessary to pay particular attention to the protection of privacy. We are therefore committed to respecting the privacy of the personal information we collect.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments: When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

Media: If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms: Your personal information is acquired by means of various forms, namely: • Website registration form • Order form • Contests We use the acquired information for the following purposes:

  • Order Tracking
  • Information / Promotional Offers
  • Contact Information

Your information is also acquired through the interactivity that may be established between you and our website, as follows:

  • Reply to a blog post. We use the acquired information for the following purposes: Help improve our online services.
  • Comments
  • Reply to a blog post. We use the acquired information for the following purposes: Help improve our online services.
  • Comments

Cookies: We collect certain information through log files and cookies. This is mainly the following information:

  • IP address
  • Operating system
  • Visited pages and queries
  • Time and day of connection

The use of such files allows us to:

  • Improve service and personalize welcome
  • Customize consumption profile
  • Tracking control
  • Statistics

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year. If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed. If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Cooky Policy

Embedded content from other websites: IArticles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics: Our website use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc (“Google”) to store “analytics cookies” on your device. This means that information about users and their use of our websites is transmitted to Google and processed on our behalf in order to compile reports on website activity, to measure visits and visitors to the websites and to provide similar services to us. This includes the transmission of your IP address, but will not be combined with other Google data. In addition, your IP address will be shortened, usually within the European Union, and stored by Google only in an abbreviated form. Where data is stored in the United States, Google’s self-certification in accordance with the Privacy Shield provides an adequate level of data protection.

You can object to the processing of your data for these purposes by installing a browser plug-in (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout). For more information on the terms and conditions of use and data privacy, please visit http://www.google.com/analytics/terms.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

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

More Information

Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren’t sure whether you need or not it’s usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site. For more information then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods:

Additional information

We are committed to offering you the right to oppose and opt out with respect to your personal information. The right of opposition is understood as the possibility offered to Internet users to refuse that their personal information be used for certain purposes mentioned during the compilation. The right of withdrawal is understood as the possibility offered to Internet users to request that their personal information no longer appear, for example, in a mailing list. To exercise these rights, you can:

Permission of Access: We are committed to recognizing a right of access and rectification to data subjects wishing to consult, modify or delete information concerning them. The exercise of this right will be done:

Security: The personal information we collect is kept in a secure environment. Our staff is required to respect the confidentiality of your information. To ensure the security of your personal information, we use the following measures:

  • Secure Sockets Layer (SSL Protocol)
  • Access Management – Authorized Person
  • Access management – Person Concerned
  • Computer information backup
  • Login Password
  • Firewalls

We are committed to maintaining a high degree of confidentiality by incorporating the latest technological innovations in order to ensure the confidentiality of your transactions. However, since no mechanism offers maximum security, there is always a risk involved when using the Internet to transmit personal information.

Legislation: We are committed to respecting the legislative provisions set out in the:
Digital Privacy Act, respecting the protection of digital personal information (S.C. 2015, c.32)