This privacy policy ("Policy") explains how o-cap.ca in Canada ("Company", "we" and "our") procedures, collects, uses and shares personal data when using this website (the "Site"). Please read the following information carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data and the way we'll process data.
We collect information about you in a range of forms, such as personal information. As used in this Policy," personal data" is as defined in the General Data Protection Regulation, this includes any information that, either alone or in conjunction with other information we process about you, identifies you as an individual, including, as an example, your name, postal address, email address and phone number.
We will only process your personal data in accordance with applicable data protection and privacy laws. We need certain personal data in order to provide you with access to the Site. If you registered with us, you'd have been asked to tick to agree to offer this information in order to access our services, purchase our products, or view our content. This approval provides us with the legal basis we require under applicable law to process your data. You maintain the right to withdraw such consent at any time. If you do not consent to our use of your personal data in line with this Policy, please do not use our Site.
We collect information about you in the following ways:
Our Site includes interfaces that permit you to get in touch with social networking sites (each a"SNS"). If you connect to an SNS via our Site, you authorize us to access, use and store the information that you agreed the SNS could provide to us based on your preferences on this SNS. We'll access, use and store that information in accordance with this Policy. You can revoke our access to the information you provide in this manner at any time by amending the right settings from within your account settings on the applicable SNS.
We automatically log information about you and your computer or mobile device when you access our Site. For example, when visiting our Site, we log your computer or mobile device operating system name and version, manufacturer and model, browser type, browser language, display resolution, the site you visited before navigating to our Site, pages you've viewed, how long you spent on a page, access times and information regarding your use of and activities on our Site. We collect this information about you using cookies.
We do not use your personal data for the purposes of automatic decision-making. But we may do this in order to fulfill obligations imposed by legislation, in which case we'll inform you of any such processing and offer you a chance to object.
We may collect information using "cookies."Cookies are small data files stored on the hard drive of your computer or mobile device by a site. We may use both session cookies (which expire as soon as you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your computer or mobile device until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience on the Site.
We use two broad categories of cookies: (1) first-party cookies, served directly by us to your computer or mobile device, which are used only by us to recognize your computer or mobile device when it revisits our Siteand (2) third-party cookies, which can be served by service providers on our Site, and may be used by such service providers to recognize your computer or mobile device when it visits other sites.
Our Site uses the following types of cookies for the purposes set out below:
| Type of cookie | Purpose |
Essential Cookies |
These cookies are essential to provide you with services accessible through our Site and to let you use some of its features. By way of example, they let you log in to secure areas of the Site and assist the content of the pages you request load fast. Without these cookies, the services you have asked for cannot be supplied, and we just use these cookies to supply you with those services. |
Functionality Cookies |
These cookies allow our Site to remember choices you make when you use our Site, like remembering your language preferences, remembering your login information and remembering the modifications you make to other parts of our Site that you can customize. The purpose of these cookies is to give you a more personal experience and to prevent you having to re-enter your preferences each time you visit our Site. |
Analytics and Performance Cookies |
These cookies are used to collect information regarding traffic to our Site and how users use our Site. The information gathered doesn't identify any individual visitor. It includes the amount of visitors to our Site, the sites that referred them to our Site, the pages they visited on our Site, what time of day they visited our Site, whether they've visited our Site before, and other similar information. We use this information to help operate our Site more efficiently, to gather broad demographic information and to track the level of activity on our Site. We utilize Matomo for this function. Matomo uses its own cookies. It is only utilized to enhance how our Site works. You can discover more about how Matomo protects your data here: https://matomo.org/privacy/. |
Targeted and advertising cookies |
These cookies track your browsing habits to enable us to demonstrate advertising that's more likely to be of interest to you. These cookies use information regarding your browsing history to group you with other users who have similar interests. Based on that information, and together with our consent, third party advertisers can set cookies to allow them to show adverts which we think will be relevant to your interests while you are on third party websites. You may disable cookies which remember your surfing habits and target advertising at you by visiting http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices. If you decide to remove targeted or advertising cookies, you will still see adverts, but they might not be relevant to you. Even in case you do decide to remove cookies by the companies listed at the above link, not all businesses that serve online behavioral advertisements are included in this listing, and so you may still receive some cookies and tailored adverts from companies that aren't listed. |
Social Media Cookies |
These cookies are used when you share information using a social media sharing button or"like" button on our Site or you join your account or engage with our content on or through a social networking website such as Facebook, Twitter or Google+. The social networking will record that you have done this. |
You can typically remove or reject cookies via your browser settings. In order to do so, follow the instructions provided by your browser (usually located within the"settings,""help""tools" or"edit" facility). Many browsers are set to accept cookies until you change your settings.
If you do not accept our cookies, you might experience some inconvenience in your usage of our Site. For example, we might be unable to recognize your computer or mobile device, and you may want to log in every time you visit our Site.
We may use other companies to serve third-party advertisements when you visit and use the Site. These companies may collect and use click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or clicked over during your visits to the Site and other websites in order to provide ads about goods and services likely to be of interest to you. These companies typically use tracking technologies to collect this information. Other companies' use of their tracking technologies is subject to their own privacy policies.
We may use your personal data as follows:
We may share your personal data as follows:
You may share personal data with us when you submit user-generated articles to our Site, such as through our rewards program, forums, message boards and blogs on our Site. Please be aware that any information you disclose or post on our Site will become public information, and will be available to other users of our Site and the general public. We urge you to be very careful when deciding to disclose your personal data, or any other information, on our Site. Such personal data and other information won't be confidential or confidential once it is printed on our Site.
If you provide feedback to us, we may use and disclose such feedback on our Site, provided we do not associate such feedback with your personal data. For those who have given your consent to do so, we may post your first and last name along with your feedback on our Site. We will collect any information contained in such feedback and will treat the personal data in it in accordance with this Policy.
Your information, including personal data that we gather from you, may be transferred to, stored at and processed by us outside the country where you reside, where data security and privacy regulations may not offer the same level of security as in other parts of the world. By accepting this Policy, you consent to this transfer, processing or leasing. We'll take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy.
We attempt to use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect personal data within our organization. Unfortunately, no transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be totally secure, and the transmission of data via the internet is not completely secure. If you have reason to think that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for instance, if you feel that the security of any accounts you might have with us has been compromised), please immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us.
We will only retain your personal data so long reasonably required for you to use the Site until you shut your account/cancel your subscription unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as for regulatory purposes).
Our Site is/are not directed to children under 16. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that their child has provided us with information without their consent, he or she should contact us. We will delete such information from our files as soon as reasonably practicable.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us. On your request, please make clear: (I) what personal data is concerned; and (ii) which of the above rights you'd like to enforce. For your security, we might only implement requests regarding the personal data related to the specific email address that you use to send us your request, and we might have to verify your identity before implementing your request. We'll try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable and in any case, within one month of your request. Please note that we may have to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes and/or to complete any transactions that you started before requesting such change or deletion.
We are dedicated to resolving any complaints about our collection or use of your personal data. If you want to make a complaint regarding this Policy or our practices in regard to your personal data, please contact us through the information listed on our site. We will reply to your complaint as soon as we can and in any event, within 30 days. We expect to solve any complaint brought to our attention, however, if you feel that your complaint hasn't been satisfactorily resolved, you reserve the right to contact the local data protection supervisory authority.
We welcome your comments or queries concerning this Policy. You may contact us in writing or through our site.