PRIVACY POLICY
Collins Design Studio, found at www.collinsdesignstudio.ca is owned and operated by Paige Dobson. Paige Dobson is the data controller and can be contacted at: paigedobsdesign@gmail.com
Collins Design Studio, (“company,”, “I”, “we,” or “us”) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy through this Privacy Policy.
Your use of and access to www.collinsdesignstudio.ca, including any content, functionality, and services offered on or through www.collinsdesignstudio.ca (the “Website”), is governed by this Privacy Policy.
PURPOSE
Your access to the Website means we will learn certain information about you, both through voluntary actions you may choose to take and automatically during your visit. This Privacy Policy applies to any information we collect through your visit, and also through any email, text or electronic messages between you and the Website.
CONSENT
Please read the Privacy Policy carefully before using the Website. By using the Website, you agree to the Terms of Use outlined in this policy. When this option is made available to you, you accept and agree to be bound and abide by the Privacy Policy. By using www.collinsdesignstudio.ca, you hereby consent to an agreement with the following data procedures expressed in this agreement.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU
The Company will learn certain information about you during your visit when you access the Website. The Website provides various places for users to provide information. We collect information provided by users when they fill out forms on the Website, communicate with us via contact forms, provide comments or feedback, and when they provide information when ordering products or purchasing services via the Website.
GDPR
For users in the European Union, we adhere to the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”). For users in the United Kingdom, we adhere to the GDPR as enshrined in the Data Protection Act 2018.
We have not appointed a Data Protection Officer as we do not fall within the categories of controllers and processors requires to appoint a Data Protection Officer under Article 37 of the GDPR.
We collect and process personal data about users in the EU only when we have a legal basis for doing so under Article 6 of the GDPR. We rely on the following legal basis to collect and process the personal data of users in the EU:
1) Processing of user personal data is necessary to a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of our official authority.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT THROUGH AUTOMATIC DATA COLLECTION TECHNOLOGY
When you access our website, we may use automatic data collection technologies including Google Analytics to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and usage patterns. This generally will include information about your location, your traffic pattern through our website, and any communications between your computer and our Website. Among other things, we will collect data about the type of computer or device you use, your Internet connection, your IP address, your operating system and your browser type, and clicked links and/or content viewed.
The information we automatically collect is used for statistical data and will not include any personal information. This data is used to improve our Website and our services. To the extent that you voluntarily provide personal information to us, our systems will associate the automatically collected information with your personal information.
DATA COLLECTED IN A NON-AUTOMATIC WAY
We may also collect the following data when you perform certain functions on our Website. By filling out an inquiry form, we may collect your first and last name, your email address, phone numbers and any other personal information that you provide. This data is not shared or used beyond what we disclose in this Privacy Policy.
HOW WE USE PERSONAL DATA
Data collected on our Website will only be used for the purposes specified in this Privacy Policy or indicated on the relevant pages of our Website. We will not use your data beyond what we disclose in this Privacy Policy. We use personal information for purposes of presenting our Website and its contents to you, providing you with offers for products and services, providing you with information about your subscriptions and products, carrying out any contract between you and the Company, administering our business activities, providing customer service, and making available other items and services to our customers and prospective customers.
We may use the information you provide to us to make you offers and purchase products and services provided by third parties in exchange for a commission to be paid to us by such third parties. Should you opt to take part in such promotions, the third parties will receive your information.
This information you provide to us may be used to display advertisements to you that are tailored to your personal characteristics, interests, and activities.
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
We do not sell, rent, lease or otherwise share any information collected whether automatically or voluntarily action through our Website.
We may disclose your personal information to our subsidiaries and affiliates for the purpose of providing our services to you. We may disclose your personal information to a third party, including a lawyer or collection agency, when necessary to enforce our terms of service or any other agreement between you and the Company. We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so. When we, in good faith, believe the law requires your information for the protection of our legal rights or when compelled by a court or other governmental entity to do so.
If you follow hyperlinks from our Website to another Website, please note that we are not responsible for and have no control over their privacy policies and practices.
HOW LONG WE STORE PERSONAL DATA
User data will be stored until the purpose the data was collected for has been achieved. You will be notified if your data is kept for longer than this period.
HOW WE PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We employ commercially reasonable methods to ensure the security of your personal information that you give voluntarily and that we collect automatically on our Website, in order to protect it from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure.
While we take all the reasonable precautions to ensure that user data is secure and that users are protected, there always remains the risk of harm. The Internet as a whole can be insecure at times and therefore we are unable to guarantee the security of user data beyond what is reasonably practical.
Email is not considered a secure method of communication. For this reason, we request that you do not share personal or private information with us over email. Doing so is allowed at your own risk. Credit Card information and other sensitive information will never be transferred via email.
USE OF COOKIES AND PIXELS
Our website utilizes a standard technology called “cookies” and server logs similar to other commercial websites. Cookies collect information about how our site is being used. Information gathered through cookies and server logs may include the date and time of your visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our site, and the websites you visit before and just after our own, as well as your IP address.
A cookie is a small text document that often includes an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a website, that site’s computer asks your computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard drive specifically designated to store cookies. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it. To protect your privacy, your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.
The Company reserves the right to use technological equivalents to cookies, including social media pixels. These pixels allow social media sites to track visitors to outside websites so as to tailor advertising messages users see when visiting that social media website. The Company reserves the right to use these pixels in compliance with the policies of the various social media sites.
THIRD PARTY USE OF COOKIES
Some content or applications, including advertisements on the Website, are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our Website. The information the cookies collect may be associated with your personal information including personal information about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. These third parties may use this information to provide you with Internet-based advertising or other targeted content.
The tracking technologies used by these third parties are not under our control. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you can contact the responsible provider directly for more information.
INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFER
Your information, including Personal Information, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction. If you are located outside of Canada and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the information, including personal information, to Canada and process it there.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
If you click on a third party link on our website, you will be directed to that third party’s site. Our website may contain links to third party sites that we do not operate. We strongly advise you review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.
We assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party sites or services. We have no control over third-party sites.
EMAIL POLICIES
We do not distribute our email subscription lists to third parties, by means of selling, renting leasing, or sharing, because we are committed to keeping your email address confidential. We will not disclose your email address to any third parties except as allowed in the section titled Disclosure of Your Information.
We maintain email subscription addresses and information you send via email to send you emails in accordance with applicable federal law.
In compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act, all emails sent from our organization will clearly state who the email is from and provide clear information on how to contact the sender. All email messages will contain concise information on how to remove yourself from our mailing list so that you can receive no further email communication from us.
All of our emails provide users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us and our partners by reading the unsubscribe instructions located at the bottom of any email you receive from us at any time.
Any user who no longer wishes to receive our newsletter or promotional materials via email may opt-out of receiving these updates at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the email.
YOUR RIGHTS AS A USER
Users under the GDPR are entitled to certain information and have certain rights, including:
We will retain the any information you choose to provide to us until the earlier of: (a) you asking us to delete the information, (b) our decision to cease using our existing data providers, or (c) the Company decides that the value in retaining the data is outweighed by the costs of retaining it.
You have the right to request access to your data that the Company stores and the rights to either rectify or erase your personal data.
You have the right to seek restrictions on the processing of your data.
You have the right to object to the processing of your data and the right to the portability of your data.
To exercise these rights please email us at paigedobsdesign@gmail.com.
CHILDREN
The minimum age to use our website is 16 years of age. We do not knowingly collect or use personal data from children under 16 years of age. If we learn that we have collected personal data from a child under 16 years of age, the personal data will be deleted as soon as possible. If a child under 16 years of age has provided us with personal data their parent or guardian may contact our privacy officer.
HOW TO ACCESS, MODIFY, DELETE, OR CHALLENGE THE DATA COLLECTED
If you would like to know if we have collected your personal data, how we have used your personal data, if we have disclosed your personal data and to who we disclosed your personal data, if you would like your data to be deleted or modified in any way, or if you would like to exercise any of your other rights under the GDPR, please contact us at paigedobsdesign@gmail.com.
DO NOT TRACK NOTICE
Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a privacy preference that you can set in certain web browsers. We do not track the users of our Website over time and across third party websites and therefore do not respond to browser initiated DNT signals. We are not responsible for and cannot guarantee how any third parties who interact with our Website and your data will respond to DNT signals.
MODIFICATIONS
This Privacy Policy may be amended from time to time in order to maintain compliance with the law and to reflect and changes to our data collection process. Any changes to this privacy policy will be made public on this page. If changes to how we treat users’ personal information are made, we will notify you by email and/or through a notice on the Website home page. The most recent revision date of the privacy policy is identified at the bottom of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date email address for you and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
COMPLAINTS
If you have any complaints about how we process your personal data, please contact us through the contact methods listed below so that we can, where possible, resolve the issue. If you feel that we have not addressed your concern in a satisfactory manner you may contact a supervisory authority. You also have the right to directly make a complaint to a supervisory authority.
CONTACT INFORMATION
If you have any questions, concerns or complaints, regarding the Privacy Policy please contact us:
Collins Design Studio
Red Deer, AB
Email: paigedobsdesign@gmail.com
Effective as of August 14, 2023.