This privacy policy has been formulated to better serve those individuals who are worried over how their ‘Personally Identifiable Information’ (PII) is being used on the internet. PII is described by US & Canadian privacy law and information security as the information that can be used by itself or with other information to identify, locate or contact an individual or to identify a single person in context. Please carefully read our privacy policy to fully understand how we gather, utilize, safeguard or otherwise handle your PII according to our website.
What personal information do we gather from the people that visit our website, blog or app?
When is your information collected?
How is your information used?
- For improving our website to serve you better
- To process your transactions quickly
- To ask for reviews and ratings of products or services
- To follow up after correspondence (email, live chat or inquiries via phone)
- To deliver a personalized experience and providing the type of content and product which you would be most interested in.
- To administer a promotion, survey, contest or other website features.
How is your information protected?
We make use of Malware Scanning regularly
To maintain the safety of your personal information a variety of security measures are implemented when a user submits, enters or accesses their information or places an order.
All the transactions are not stored or processed on our servers but are rather processed through a gateway provider.
Are ‘cookies’ used?
We utilize cookies to:
- Better understand and also save user’s preferences for their future visits.
- Help us remember and process the items in the shopping cart of users.
- Provision better tools and site experience in the future by compiling aggregate data about site interaction and site traffic. We might also utilize third-party services that can track this information for us.
You can disable the cookies in your computer or choose to have your computer notify you every time a cookie is being sent. This is done via browser settings. Since every browser is a little different from others, you can learn the right way to modify your cookies by looking at your browser’s Help Menu.
Some of the features that are responsible for making your website experience more efficient may not function properly if you turn the cookies off.
Third-party disclosure
Also note that non-personally identifiable visitor information may be given to other parties for marketing, advertising or other purposes.
Third-Party Links
https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/1316548?hl=en
Our website may utilize Google AdSense Advertising.
As a third-party vendor, Google utilizes cookies to display ads on our site. The use of the DART cookie allows Google to serve ads to our website users based on their previous visits and other sites online. By visiting the Google Ad and Content Network privacy policy, users may chose to opt-out of the use of the DART cookie.
The following has been implemented by us:
- Interests Reporting and Demographics
To compile the data about user interactions with ad impressions and other ad service functions that relate to our website, we use first-party cookies like Google Analytics and third-party cookies like DoubleClick or other third-party identifiers alongside third-party vendors like Google.
Opting out:
Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA)
1. Accountability: organizations are accountable for the personal information they collect, use, retain and disclose in the course of their commercial activities, including, but not limited to, the appointment of a Chief Privacy Officer;
2. Identifying Purposes: organizations are to explain the purposes for which the information is being used at the time of collection and can only be used for those purposes;
3. Consent: organizations must obtain an Individual’s express or implied consent when they collect, use, or disclose the individual’s personal information;
4. Limiting Collection: the collection of personal information must be limited to only the amount and type that is reasonably necessary for the identified purposes;
5. Limiting Use, Disclosure and Retention: personal information must be used for only the identified purposes, and must not be disclosed to third parties unless the Individual consents to the alternative use or disclosure;
6. Accuracy: organizations are required to keep personal information in active files accurate and up-to-date;
7. Safeguards: organizations are to use physical, organizational, and technological safeguards to protect personal information from unauthorized access or disclosure.
8. Openness: organizations must inform their clients and train their employees about their privacy policies and procedures;
9. Individual Access: an individual has a right to access personal information held by an organization and to challenge its accuracy if need be; and
10. Provide Recourse: organizations are to inform clients and employees of how to bring a request for access, or complaint, to the Chief Privacy Officer, and respond promptly to a request or complaint by the individual.
To see more, visit:
In accordance with CalOPPA, we concur to the following:
After the creation of this privacy policy, a link to it will be added on our home page or at least, on the first critical page after a user enters our website.
The word ‘Privacy’ is included in the link of our Privacy Policy and can be found on the page mentioned above with ease.
Changes in our Privacy Policy will be notified to you:
- On our Privacy Policy Page
You can change your personal information by:
- Logging into your account, or
- Emailing us
How are Do Not Track (DNT) signals handled by our website?
Does our website permit third-party behavioral tracking?
COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act)
We do not particularly market to kids less than the age of 13 years old.
Fair Information Practices
Should a data breach ever happen, we will take the following responsive actions to be in line with Fair Information Practices:
You will be notified through e-mail
- Within 7 business days
Through in-site notification the users will be notified
- Within 1 business day
We additionally consent to the Individual Redress Principle which requires that people have the prerogative to lawfully seek enforceable rights against data collectors and processors who neglect to follow the law. This principle not only requires that individuals have enforceable rights against data users, but also that individuals have the option to go to government agencies or courts to investigate as well as indict data processors who do not comply with the law.
CAN SPAM Act
Your email address is collected, so that we can:
- Process your orders and send you additional information and updates relating to the orders
- Respond to inquiries, send information and /or other questions or requests
- Send you additional information pertaining to your service and/or product.
- Continue to send emails to our clients or market to our mailing list after the original transaction has occurred.
- Market to our mailing list or continue to send emails to our clients after the original transaction has happened.
To adhere to CANSPAM, we agree to the following:
- Honor opt-out/ unsubscribe requests quickly
- Not use misleading or false subjects or email addresses.
- Identify the message as an advertisement in some reasonable way.
- Include the physical address of our business or site headquarters.
- Monitor third-party email marketing services for compliance, if one is used.
- Allow users to unsubscribe by using the link at the bottom of each email.
If you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you can email us at any time.
Follow the instructions at the bottom of each email and we will promptly unsubscribe you.
Contact Us
Manulife Place, 10180 – 101 Street, Suite 3423
Edmonton, Alberta T5J 3S4
Canada
support@acusync.com