1. INTRODUCTION
Effective Date: 29-05-2022
Your privacy is important to us.
It is GrowthWeb’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to www.growthweb.ca (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, or “www.growthweb.ca”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.
This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms of Service posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms of service.
1. Website Visitors
Like most website operators, GrowthWeb collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. GrowthWeb’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how GrowthWeb’s visitors use its website. From time to time, GrowthWeb may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
GrowthWeb also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on https://growthweb.ca/ blog posts. GrowthWeb only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.
2. Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to GrowthWeb’s websites choose to interact with GrowthWeb in ways that require GrowthWeb to gather personally identifying information. The amount and type of information that GrowthWeb gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who leave a comment at https://growthweb.ca/ to provide a username and email address.
3. Security
The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
4. Links To External Sites
Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and Terms of service of every site you visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party sites, products, or services.
5. GrowthWeb uses Google Ads for remarketing
GrowthWeb uses remarketing services to advertise on third-party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an inquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page or a site in the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy.
You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page, and if you want to you can opt-out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.
6. Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
GrowthWeb discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on GrowthWeb’s behalf or to provide services available at GrowthWeb’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using GrowthWeb’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. GrowthWeb will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations, as described above, GrowthWeb discloses potentially personally identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental requests, or when GrowthWeb believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of GrowthWeb, third parties or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of https://growthweb.ca and have supplied your email address, GrowthWeb may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with GrowthWeb and our products. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. GrowthWeb takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
7. Aggregated Statistics
GrowthWeb may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. GrowthWeb may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, GrowthWeb does not disclose your personally-identifying information.
8. Cookies
To enrich and perfect your online experience, GrowthWeb uses “Cookies”, similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, and appropriate advertising, and store your preferences on your computer.
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. GrowthWeb uses cookies to help GrowthWeb identify and track visitors, their usage of https://growthweb.ca, and their website access preferences. GrowthWeb visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using GrowthWeb’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of GrowthWeb’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to GrowthWeb’s use of cookies.
9. E-commerce
Those who engage in transactions with GrowthWeb – by purchasing GrowthWeb’s services or products are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, GrowthWeb collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with GrowthWeb. GrowthWeb does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
10. Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, GrowthWeb may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and at GrowthWeb’s sole discretion. GrowthWeb encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
At times it may become necessary or desirable to Themerex, for legal purposes, to release your information in response to a request from a government agency or a private litigant. You agree that we may disclose your information to a third party where we believe, in good faith, that it is desirable to do so for the purposes of a civil action, criminal investigation, or other legal matter. In the event that we receive a subpoena affecting your privacy, we may elect to notify you to give you an opportunity to file a motion to quash the subpoena, or we may attempt to quash it ourselves, but we are not obligated to do either. We may also proactively report you, and release your information to, third parties where we believe that it is prudent to do so for legal reasons, such as our belief that you have engaged in fraudulent activities. You release us from any damages that may arise from or relate to the release of your information to a request from law enforcement agencies or private litigants.
Any passing on of personal data for legal purposes will only be done in compliance with the laws of the country you reside in.