Algonquin & Beyond

Last Updated: February, 2024

The following privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”, “Privacy”) apply to your use of this website (“Website”) and/or purchase of products (“Product”) and/or services (“Service”) from 1000124058 ONTARIO INC. (“Company”, “Algonquin & Beyond”).

This Privacy Policy explains what Personal Data (defined below) we collect, how we use and share that data, and your choices concerning our data practices. This Privacy Policy constitutes an integral part of our Terms & Conditions. Please read this Privacy Policy before using our Service or submitting any Personal Data to Algonquin & Beyond and contact us if you have any questions.

OVERVIEW

Algonquin & Beyond owns and operates this website. This Privacy Statement applies to the information we collect when you access the Algonquin & Beyond website, purchase or use an Algonquin & Beyond product, and/or when you provide any non-public information to us. This Notice describes our commitment to your privacy and reflects the importance we place on earning and keeping your trust. If you have any questions about this Notice, or our privacy practices, please go to our Contact Us page to get in touch.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We collect certain categories of information about you and the device that you are using. Generally, this happens when you visit our website, use or purchase our products, or provide us with your contact information for marketing and communication purposes. This includes:

Personal Data You Provide to Us: We may collect Personal Data when you sign up for our Service. The Personal Data collected may vary based on what you choose to share with us, but it may include any of the following:

  • Contact Information: Contact information is information or data that can be used to identify or contact a specific individual. When you access our website to purchase a product and/or service, you may be asked to provide contact information such as your name, phone number, e-mail address and contact preferences. If you do not wish to provide the information requested, you may not be able to proceed with the given activity.
  • Account Data: Such as your name, username, email address, and mailing address.
  • Payment Data: If you choose to purchase a Membership or a physical product from our Website via credit card, debit card or other payment method, our third-party payments processor (Stripe, Inc. or “Stripe”) will process certain payment and billing information, such as billing address, payment card details, and authentication features. That information is collected by Stripe directly, and we do not collect or store it. If you have questions about how Stripe protects such information, please read Stripe’s services agreements and privacy policy.
  • Social Media Data: We have pages (“Social Media Pages”) on social media sites including but not limited to Facebook, Instagram, and (each a “Social Media Site”). The platforms that host our Social Media Pages or Social Media Features may provide us with aggregate information and analytics regarding the use of our Social Media Pages and Social Media Features.
  • User Generated Content: User-generated content, such as profile pictures, photos, images, videos, posts, comments, questions, messages, user interactions, and other content or information that you generate, transmit, or otherwise make available on the Service, as well as associated metadata. Metadata includes information on how, when, where and by whom a piece of content was collected and how that content has been formatted or edited. Metadata also includes information that users can add or can have added to their content, such as keywords, geographical or location information, and other similar data.


Information We Generate From Your Use of Our Service:
 When you visit, use, interact and register with the Service, we may automatically generate certain information about your visit, use, interactions or registration. For example, we may monitor the number of people that visit the Algonquin & Beyond Website, which page(s) are visited on our Website, the domains our visitors come from (e.g., google.com, yahoo.com, etc.), and which browsers people use to access and visit our Site (e.g., Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, etc.), and broad geographical information. Examples of information that may be collected includes:

  • Log Data: Information that your browser automatically sends whenever you visit the Website. Log data may include your IP address, browser type and settings, the date and time of your request, and how you interacted with the Website.
  • Cookies Data: We may log information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by the Website. We may use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalized experience on the Website.
  • Device Data: Includes the model of the device, operating system, and browser you are using. Information collected may depend on the type of device you use and its settings.
  • Usage and Activity Data: We collect information about how you use our Website, such as the types of content that you view or engage with, the features you use, and the actions you take.

HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We may use the information collected in the following ways:

  • To operate and maintain the Website;
  • To send you promotional information, such as newsletters.
  • Each email promotion will provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings;
  • To send you administrative communications, such as administrative emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts;
  • To respond to your comments or inquiries;
  • To provide you with user support;
  • To track and measure advertising on the Website;
  • To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.


Marketing.
 We may contact you to provide information we believe will be of interest to you. For instance, if you elect to provide your email address, we may use that information to send you promotional information about our products and services. You may opt out of receiving emails at any time by following the instructions contained in each email we send you. If you unsubscribe from our marketing lists, you will no longer receive marketing communications but we may continue to contact you regarding non-marketing communications (eg. account changes and billing information).

ANONYMOUS DATA

From time to time, we may use anonymous data, which does not identify you alone, or when combined with data from other parties. This type of anonymous data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Examples of this anonymous data may include analytics or information collected from cookies.

PUBLICLY VISIBLE INFORMATION

If you leave a comment, certain information may be publicly visible.

COOKIES

Cookies are files with small amounts of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your computer’s hard drive.

Like many sites, we use “cookies” to collect information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our website.

You can choose to opt out and turn off cookies in the preferences settings in your web browser. Instructions on how to disable cookies will vary according to what browser you are using.

As a third-party vendor, Google uses cookies to serve ads on our Site. Google’s use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our Site or other sites on the Internet. You may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick Cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting the Google Ads Settings page.

DATA RETENTION

We keep your Personal Data for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, while we have a legitimate business need to do so, or as required by law (e.g. for tax, legal, accounting or other purposes), whichever is the longer.

If you have elected to receive marketing communications from us, we retain information about your marketing preferences until you opt out of receiving these communications and in accordance with our policies.

To determine the appropriate retention period for your Personal Data, we will consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the Personal Data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your Personal Data, the purposes for which we use your Personal Data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

GOOGLE & META

This website uses Google Services like Google Ads and Google Analytics, as well as Meta services like Meta Pixel and Meta Business Manager. These services collect non-identifiable user information, which can then be used by Algonquin & Beyond for data analysis, marketing, and other purposes. For example, this could mean that we advertise to visitors who haven’t necessarily completed a purchase or activity on our site but have visited our website or engaged with one of our social media channels. A visitor might see this remarketing service in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, a site in the Google Display Network, on Facebook, Instagram, or one of Google’s or Facebook’s partner or affiliated websites. Third-party vendors, including Google and Facebook, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to websites – including ours. Any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s and Facebook’s privacy policy.

You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page, and can also opt out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.

GOOGLE ANALYTICS

We use “Google Analytics” to collect information about the use of our site. Google Analytics collects and then shares with us specific information to help inform our business, improve our services and tailor our website to our customers’ preferences. This information might include, but is not limited to, how often users visit our site, what pages of our site are visited and for how long, as well as what other sites are used prior to coming to our site. Please note that Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit this site, rather than your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit this site, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google.  Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing you on return visits to this site by disabling cookies on your browser.

Google Analytics employs cookies to define user sessions, which allows for the collection of data about how visitors are using the websites. Google Analytics uses only first-party cookies for data analysis. This means that the cookies are linked to a specific website domain, and Google Analytics will only use that cookie data for statistical analysis related to your browsing behaviour on that specific website. According to Google, the data collected cannot be altered or retrieved by services from other domains.

RIGHTS RELATED TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Opt-out – You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails.

Access – You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request.

Amend – You may contact us to amend or update your personal information.

Forget – In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request. Please note that we may need to retain certain information for record-keeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.

SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION

At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the Website.

UPDATE YOUR INFORMATION

If you need to change or correct your Personal Data, please contact us at info@algonquinbeyond.ca.

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

Our Service is not directed to children who are under the age of 16. Algonquin & Beyond does not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under the age of 16. If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 16 has provided Personal Data to Algonquin & Beyond through the Service, please contact us and we will endeavour to delete that information from our databases.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

Algonquin & Beyond may contain advertisements for or links to other websites, products, or services not operated or controlled by Algonquin & Beyond, including Social Media Sites (“Third Party Sites”). The information that you share with Third Party Sites will be governed by the specific privacy policies and terms of service of the Third Party Sites and not by this Privacy Policy. By providing these links we do not imply that we endorse or have reviewed these sites. Please contact the Third Party Sites directly for information on their privacy practices and policies.

EMBEDDED CONTENT FROM OTHER WEBSITES

Articles 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.

POLICY CHANGES

Algonquin & Beyond reserves the right to make changes to our Privacy Policy. We will not notify you directly of any changes made to our Privacy Policy; it is your responsibility to view the most updated version of our Privacy Policy on our website. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

GENERAL

Our Privacy Policy has been designed to inform clients and third parties of Algonquin & Beyond of our commitment and recognition to meet the terms of the Personal Information Protection & Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA, January 1, 2004).

By providing Algonquin & Beyond with your personal information you consent to the collection and use of such information in accordance with this privacy statement.

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