Last Updated : July 14th, 2018 (changed Opera Cookie Configuration page’s URL)
Who we are
Our website address is: https://solopreneurdesign.com.
Personal data we collect
Contact forms
When you communicate with Solopreneur Design using the contact form on the company’s website, we collect the information you have entered in the form in order to answer questions you have about the services offered by the company and to perform the work you request if you decide to do business with us.
Personal Information Usage
We generally use your Personal Information for the following purposes:
• To provide customer service and to interact with you regarding inquiries.
• To send you marketing communications about our services, offers, and promotions.
• To send information to you through a newsletter upon your agreement to receive it.
• To understand and analyze your replies, needs and preferences.
• To administer our promotions.
• To elaborate, improve, commercialize and offer services that meet your needs.
We may also collect your contact details when you provide them in the context of our customer, vendor, and partner relationships. In most cases, we will collect Personal Information directly from you when you interact with us about our services.
Personal Information Transmission
We may transfer your Personal Information to third party service providers such as service providers that provide data storage or processing with whom we have a contractual agreement that includes appropriate privacy standards, where such third parties are assisting us with the Purposes. When we use contractual or other trusted third party services to conduct business activities we take steps to ensure that such third parties comply with this policy and all applicable privacy laws.
How long we retain your data
We will keep and store your Personal Information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which the Personal Information was collected and as permitted or required by law. We will retain any personal information transmitted in the course of our business relationship if it may be useful for carrying out the work you request from us at a later date.
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.
For users that register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive 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.
How we protect your data
Protection of privacy and confidentiality of personal information is a priority of Solopreneur Design.
Solopreneur Design will protect your personal information by implementing security measures specific to the sensitivity of the data collected: physical measures (locked filing cabinets, restricted access, appropriate destruction of personal information, etc.), administrative measures (security clearances, selective access, etc.) and technological measures (passwords, encryption, etc.).
What data breach procedures we have in place
In case of security problems, we will contact all affected third parties within 72 hours.
What third parties we receive data from
We may collect Personal Information from a third party based on your consent or as otherwise permitted by law.
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
From time to time, with the agreement of the people using our services, we send them newsletters to inform them of our offers.
Cookies
Cookie Usage
This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. We use cookies to retain user preferences, measure and improve the effectiveness of our Website, and provide anonymised tracking data to Google Analytics. As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. To learn more about cookies, we suggest visiting the website of the the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
Cookie Management
The user can manage cookies in several ways. However, it is specified that any settings made by the user may modify Internet browsing and the conditions of access to certain services requiring the use of cookies.
The user may choose at any time to express and modify his/her wishes regarding cookies, by the means described below.
Configuring your Browser
Chrome – https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en&hlrm=en
Internet Explorer – https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
Firefox – https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cookies-information-websites-store-on-your-computer
Opera – https://help.opera.com/en/latest/web-preferences/#cookies
Sharing cookies (social links)
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/
Additional information
Embedded content from other websites
Pages and articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. Additionally, we may include third party buttons, such as Facebook “share” buttons, that may function as web beacons even when you do not interact with the button. Information collected through third-party web beacons and buttons is collected directly by these third parties, not by us. Please consult these third party’s data collection, use, and disclosure policies for more information.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Our website contains links to other websites. We are not responsible for external websites or their privacy policies. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of all websites that collect personally identifiable information. This privacy policy applies solely to information collected by Solopreneur Design.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site’s blog we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Analytics
Using Google Analytics allows us to see user’s activities such as pages visited, the source and the time spent on our Website. This information is displayed as numbers, which means that it cannot be used to identify the user. Visiting the Google Analytics disable page will allow you to block, opt out or disable Google Analytics.
Industry regulatory disclosure requirements
This policy is subject to the Canadian Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, and any other applicable privacy legislation, and Solopreneur Design’s right to change it at any time.
Updates to this privacy policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time for any reason; each version will apply to information collected while it was in place. We will notify you of any modifications to our Privacy Policy by posting the new Privacy Policy on our Site and indicating the date of the latest revision. You are advised to consult this Privacy Policy regularly for any changes.
If for any reason the modifications alter your rights, we will notify you of the change. An email will be sent or a popup will be displayed on the site to alert you of the changes. Your continued use of our services and website after the revised Privacy Policy has become effective indicates that you have read, understood and agreed to the current version of this Privacy Policy.
Consent
By providing Personal Information to Solopreneur Design, you recognize that you agree and have consented, freely and in full awareness to the collection, use and disclosure of your Personal Information by Solopreneur Design for the purposes specified in the Privacy Policy or otherwise as identified to you at the time of collection of the Personal information.
You may decide to no longer receive communications from Solopreneur Design by contacting us by filling out the Contact Form on our website.
Contact information
You can contact us at any time to:
• Request access to your private information.
• Correct any information that we have about you.
• Delete information that we have about you.
You may submit a written request by filling out the Contact Form on our website.
You may opt out of receiving electronic marketing or promotional messages from Solopreneur Design by unsubscribing using the procedure indicated in the messages. You can also forward your request in writing by filling out the Contact Form on our website.
All comments, questions, concerns or complaints regarding your Private Information, this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices should be forwarded at:
By email
or
By post
We may request that you provide sufficient identification to permit access to the existence, use or disclosure of your Personal Information. Any such identifying information shall be used only for this purpose.
We will attempt to respond to each of your written requests no later than thirty (30) days after receipt. We will advise you in writing if we cannot meet your requests within this time limit.
