Overview
This privacy policy outlines the types of information we gather while you are using the CuriousMeditator.ca website (the “site”), and the ways in which we use this information. This privacy policy, including our children’s privacy statement, does not apply to any information you may provide to us or that we may collect offline and/or through other means (for example, at a live event, via telephone, or through the mail) insofar as the collected private data does not form a part of a filing system.
By visiting and using the site, you agree that your use of our site, and any dispute over privacy, is governed by this privacy policy. We may need to change our privacy policy at some point in the future, in which case we will post the changes to this privacy policy on this website and update the effective date of the policy to reflect the date of the change. By continuing to use the site after we post any such changes, you accept the privacy policy as modified.
CuriousMeditator.ca strives to provide its visitors with a personalized experience. We may use personally identifiable information, such as your name or email address, subject to the terms of this privacy policy. We will never sell, barter, or rent your email address to any unauthorized third party.
Cookies
We use cookies to improve your experience on our site. For more information, read our cookie policy.
Your Rights
You have the right to withdraw your consent on providing us your personal data, at any time, and to ask us to erase your data.
You may ask to see your data that you gave to us, and thus to exercise your right to access data.
If it happens that data you gave us is incorrect from any reason, you may ask for rectification of your data.
You also have the right to ask for restriction of access to your data, in which case the data shall not be erased, but just access thereto shall be denied.
Collected Information
We collect information from you when you subscribe to our newsletter, respond to a survey, or fill out a form. Depending on the form, you may enter your: name, email address, and other optional details you may choose to include. We will only ever ask for the minimum amount of data needed to complete the service you asked for. Before leaving your data, you will be clearly and intelligibly explained the purpose of collecting your data and asked to give your consent to it, which you can also withdraw easily. You may, however, visit our site anonymously.
Use of Information
Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:
- Personalize your experience
- Improve our website
- Improve customer service
- Process transactions
- Administer a contest, promotion, survey, or other site feature
- Send periodic emails or newsletters
Your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, other than for the express purpose of delivering the purchased product or service requested.
If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email.
Disclosure of Information to Outside Parties
We do not sell, trade, or transfer your personally identifiable information to outside parties. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may release your information if we are required to comply by law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
Data Protection
We use a secure server. All website interactions are transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. In the case of payment, we only use services which offer SSL technology. Only authorized personnel with special access rights to payment services are allowed to access such systems, and they are required to keep the information confidential.
User Comments, Feedback, and Other Submissions
If you choose to leave a comment on this site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also your IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. You agree that your comments will not violate any right of any third party, including copyright, trademark, privacy, personality or other personal or proprietary right. You further agree that your comments will not contain libellous or otherwise unlawful, abusive or obscene material, or contain any computer virus or other malware that could in any way affect the operation of the Service or any related website. You may not use a false email address, pretend to be someone other than yourself, or otherwise mislead us or third parties as to the origin of any comments. You are solely responsible for any comments you make and their accuracy. We take no responsibility and assume no liability for any comments posted by you or any third party.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Other submissions
If, at our request, you send certain specific submissions (for example contest entries) or without a request from us you send creative ideas, suggestions, proposals, plans, or other materials, whether online, by email, by postal mail, or otherwise (collectively, ‘comments’), you agree that we may, at any time, without restriction, edit, copy, publish, distribute, translate, and otherwise use in any medium any comments that you forward to us. We are and shall be under no obligation (1) to maintain any comments in confidence; (2) to pay compensation for any comments; or (3) to respond to any comments. We may, but have no obligation to, monitor, edit, or remove content that we determine in our sole discretion are unlawful, offensive, threatening, libellous, defamatory, pornographic, obscene, or otherwise objectionable or violates any party’s intellectual property or these policies.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
What rights you have over your data
If you leave comments, you may request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance
This children’s privacy statement explains our practices with respect to the online collection and use of personal information from children under the age of thirteen for non-European Union (EU) users and under the age of sixteen for EU users, and provides important information regarding their rights under federal law with respect to such information.
This site is not directed to children under the age of thirteen for non-EU users, nor to children under the age of sixteen for EU users, and we do NOT knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the said age limits as part of the site. We screen users who wish to provide personal information in order to prevent users under the age of thirteen and sixteen respectively from providing such information. If we become aware that we have inadvertently received personally identifiable information from an underage user as part of the Site, we will delete such information from our records. If we change our practices in the future, we will obtain prior, verifiable parental consent before collecting any personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen for non-EU users or sixteen for EU users as part of the site.
Because we do not collect any personally identifiable information from underage children as part of the site, we also do NOT knowingly distribute such information to third parties.
We do NOT knowingly allow children under the age of thirteen for non-EU users or sixteen for EU users to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable contact information through the site.
Because we do not collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen for non-EU users or under the age of sixteen for EU users as part of the site, we do NOT condition the participation of such children in the site’s online activities on providing personally identifiable information.
Governing Law
These policies, and any separate agreements whereby we provide you services, are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Vancouver, BC, Canada. Curious Meditator adheres to principles of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), wishing to provide all its customers with the highest standards in privacy protection. If a dispute arises under this policy we agree to first try to resolve it with the help of a mutually agreed-upon mediator in the following location: Canada.
Any costs and fees other than attorney fees associated with the mediation will be shared equally by each of us.
CuriousMeditator.ca is controlled, operated, and administered entirely in Vancouver, BC. This statement and the policies outlined herein are not intended to and do not create any contractual or other legal rights in or on behalf of any party.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to update, change, or replace any part of this privacy policy by posting updates and changes to our website. It is your responsibility to check our website periodically for changes. Your continued use of or access to our website or the service following the posting of any changes to this privacy policy mean you accept those changes. Information collected prior to the time any change is posted will be used according to the rules and laws that applied at the time the information was collected.
Contact Information
For any issue you may have in relation to your private data as entrusted to us, your rights as written above, or if you have any questions about this policy, please submit a support request.
Last updated: 22 September 2020
