Privacy Policy
Effective Date: May 26, 2023
THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBES THE INFORMATION THAT THIS WEBSITE COLLECTS AND HOW IT USES SUCH INFORMATION. PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS WEBSITE. BY USING THE WEBSITE OR SUBMITTING PERSONAL INFORMATION THROUGH THIS WEBSITE, YOU ARE EXPRESSLY CONSENTING TO THE PROCESSING AND USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION ACCORDING TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY.
Privacy Statement
We are committed to safeguarding your privacy online. This privacy policy applies to your information that this Website collects, and by using this Website, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. Please read the following policy to understand how your Personal Information will be treated as you use this Website.
Personal Information Defined
For this Privacy Policy, “Personal Information” means information that is personally identifiable to a user as well as other non-public information that is associated with a user. We collect and use Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy from the users of our Services.
Google Analytics
You may browse the Website without entering any Personal Information. However, this Website automatically collects data using Google Analytics to better understand how users access and use our Website. This information may be shared with 3rd party reporting systems. This is simply for reporting purposes. Google Analytics may collect information such as IP address, domain name, the type of browser and operating system you used to access the Website, the date and time you access the Website, the pages you visit (click-through), and if you linked to the Website from another website, the address of that website as well as additional information related to your visit. Google Analytics may also collect user demographics (age, gender, location, and interests). This should only apply if the user has allowed Google to collect this type of data.
This Website also uses the Google Analytics Advertising Features, which allows Google to use your data for the purposes of creating remarketing lists based on specific behavior, demographic, and interest data, and share those lists with Google Ads; generation of Google Analytics reports using demographic and interest data; and creating Segments based on demographic and interest data.
You may prevent Google Analytics from tracking this data at any time by opting out here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/
Cookies
We may place “cookies” on your personal computer. “Cookies” are small identifiers sent from a web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive, similar to a license plate, that help us to recognize you if you visit the Website again. We use cookies to record session information, such as record user-specific information on what pages you access or visit, record past activity in order to provide better service when you return to the Website, to customize Website content based on your browser type, and to track how you found the Website. Cookies are not designed to be used to get data from your hard drive, your e-mail, or any other personal data about you. To protect your privacy, we do not use cookies to store or transmit any Personal Information about you on the Internet. You can reject cookies by changing your browser settings. Please note, however, that if you reject our cookies, it is possible that some web pages may not properly load, your access to certain information might be denied, or you might have to enter information about yourself more than once.
Minors
We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. Do not provide us with any personal information regarding any individual under the age of 13.
Use of Personal Information
Personal Information you submit to us, or to third parties that support us in collecting information, is used by us to provide you and other users with the services, to respond to requests that you make, to improve our services, and to operate, maintain, and improve the features, functionality, performance, and support of the services.
We use the Personal Information we gather about you for the following purposes:
- To tailor the content and information that we may send or display to you while using the Website.
- For marketing and promotional purposes. For example, we may use your information, such as your email address, to send you news and newsletters, special offers, and promotions, or to otherwise contact you about products or information we think may interest you, including the products and services of promotional partners. We also may use the information that we learn about you to assist us in advertising our services on third party websites.
- To better understand how users access and use the Website, both on an aggregated and individualized basis, to improve the Website and respond to user desires and preferences, and for other research and analytical purposes.
Feedback
If you provide feedback about the Website, we may use and disclose such feedback for any purpose, provided we do not associate such feedback with your Personal Information. We will collect any information contained in such feedback and will treat the Personal Information in it in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Disclosure of Personal Information
Except as otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy, we do not disclose or share your Personal Information with third parties, unless you ask or authorize us to do so. We may provide your Personal Information to third party service providers and suppliers who work on behalf of or with us to provide you with some of our services and features of the services and to help us communicate with users. However, these service providers and suppliers do not have any independent right to use this information except to help us provide the services. We may share some or all of your Personal Information with any parent company, subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under a common control (collectively, “Affiliates”), in which case we will require Affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy.
Legal Obligation to Disclose
We may (and you authorize us to) disclose information we have collected from and about you (including Personal Information) if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to: (a) comply with relevant laws or to respond to subpoenas or warrants served on us; (b) to enforce this Privacy Policy; or (c) to protect and defend the rights or property of us, the users of our Website, or third parties.
Changing or Deleting Personal Information
You may change your Personal Information or have your Personal Information deleted by sending an email to perri@dugardcommunications.com.
Information Sharing
On occasion, we will make available to potential advertisers, research firms, and business partners aggregated results from research it has conducted regarding visitors to the Website. We may count, track, and aggregate visitor activity into our analysis of general traffic flows to the Website and may merge this information into group data, which may then be shared on an aggregated basis with potential advertisers, research firms, and business partners. In such a case, we will only provide demographic information on an aggregated basis and does not disclose individual reader information.
Links to Other Web Sites
The Website may contain links to Third Party Sites that are not owned or controlled by us. The provision of such links is for your convenience and does not signify our endorsement of such websites or location or its contents. We have no control over, do not review, and are not responsible for the privacy policies of or content displayed on Third Party Sites. Please be aware that the terms of this Privacy Policy do not apply to Third Party Sites.
Notification of Privacy Statement Changes
From time to time, we may use Personal Information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in this Privacy Policy. If our information practices change at some time in the future, we will post the policy changes to this Website to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at this Website periodically.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this Website, or your dealings with this Website, please contact us by email at perri@dugardcommunications.com.