This privacy policy ("Policy") describes how gudrun.ca in Canada ("Company", "we" and "our") processes, 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 how we will process data.
We collect information about you in a range of forms, such as personal data. As used in this Policy," personal data" is as defined in the General Data Protection Regulation, this includes any information which, either alone or in conjunction with other information we process about you, identifies you as an individual, including, for instance, 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 so as to offer you 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 foundation we need under applicable law to process your information. You maintain the right to withdraw such consent at any time. If you do not agree 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 connect with social networking sites (each a"SNS"). If you connect to an SNS through our Site, you authorize us to access, use and store the information that you agreed the SNS could provide to us according to your preferences on this SNS. We will access, use and store that information in accordance with this Policy. You can reverse our access to the information you provide in this way 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 personal 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 version, browser type, browser language, display resolution, the website you visited before navigating to our Site, pages you viewed, how long you spent on a webpage, access times and data about 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 will 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 personal computer or mobile device by a site. We may use both session cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your computer or mobile device until you delete them) to supply you with a more interactive and personal experience on the Site.
We use two broad classes of cookies: (1) first-party cookies, served directly by us to your computer or mobile device, which can be used only by us to recognize your computer or mobile device when it revisits our Site; and (2) third-party cookies, which are served by service providers on our Site, and can 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 crucial to provide you with services accessible through our Site and to enable you to use some of its features. By way of instance, they allow you to log in to secure areas of the Site and help the content of the pages you request load fast. With no cookies, the services you have asked for can't be provided, 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 details and recalling the changes you make to other sections of our Site that you can customize. The purpose of these cookies is to provide you with 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 gather information about visitors 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 websites 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 monitor the level of activity on our Site. We use Matomo for this function. Matomo uses its own cookies. It's only used to improve how our Site works. You can discover more about how Matomo protects your information here: https://matomo.org/privacy/. |
Targeted and advertising cookies |
These cookies track your surfing habits to enable us to show advertising which is more likely to be of interest to you. These cookies use information about your surfing history to group you with other users who have similar interests. Based on that information, and with our consent, third party advertisers can place cookies to enable them to show adverts which we think will be relevant to your interests while you are on third party sites. You can 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 eliminate targeted or advertising cookies, you will still see adverts, but they may not be applicable to you. Even if you do decide to remove cookies by the companies listed at the above link, not all companies that function online behavioral advertisements are included in this listing, and so you may still get some cookies and tailored adverts from companies that are not listed. |
Social Media Cookies |
These cookies are used when you share information using a social media sharing button or"like" button on the Site or you link your account or participate 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 may typically remove or reject cookies via your browser settings. In order to do this, follow the directions 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 on your use of our Site. For example, we might be unable to recognize your computer or mobile device, and you might want to log in every time you visit our Site.
We may use other companies to serve third-party advertising when you visit and use the Site. These companies may collect and use click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of ads clicked or scrolled 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 firms 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 publish user-generated articles to our Site, such as via 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 accessible 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 published on our Site.
If you provide feedback to us, we may use and disclose such feedback on our Site, provided we don't associate such feedback with your personal information. For those who have given your consent to do so, we may post your first and last name together with your comments on our Site. We'll collect any information contained in such feedback and will treat the personal data in it in accordance with this Policy.
Your data, including personal data that we collect from you, could be moved to, stored at and processed by us outside the country where you live, where data security and privacy regulations may not provide the same degree of security as in other areas of the world. By accepting this Policy, you agree to this move, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy.
We seek to use reasonable organizational, administrative and technical measures to safeguard personal data within our organization. Unfortunately, no transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure, and the transmission of information via the world wide web isn't completely secure. If you have reason to think that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for instance, if you believe that the safety of any account 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 close your account/cancel your subscription unless a longer retention period is required or allowed by law (for example 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, they 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. In your request, please be clear: (I) what personal data is concerned; and (ii) which of the aforementioned rights you'd like to enforce. For your security, we may only implement requests regarding the private data associated with the particular email address which you use to send us your request, and we might need to verify your identity before implementing your request. We will 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 might have to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes and/or to complete any transactions that you began prior to requesting such alteration or deletion.
We are committed to resolving any complaints about our collection or use of your personal information. If you would like to make a complaint regarding this Policy or our practices in regard to your personal information, please contact us through the information listed on our site. We will reply to your complaint as soon as we can and in any case, within 30 days. We expect to solve any complaint brought to our attention, but if you feel that your complaint hasn't been adequately resolved, you reserve the right to contact the local data protection supervisory authority.
We welcome your comments or questions concerning this Policy. You may contact us in writing or through our site.