You must be at least 16 years old, or the age of majority in your jurisdiction, to use our Site. If you are under 16 years of age you must have parental consent to use our website. We do not knowingly collect, use or disclose personal information about visitors under 16 years of age. If you become aware that we have collected information from anyone under the age of 16, please contact us so we may delete that information. 

For visitors in jurisdictions where the age of majority is lower than 16, or where laws such as COPPA (US) or GDPR (EU) apply, no personal information should be submitted by anyone under 13 without parental consent. If we become aware that we have collected such information from minors, it will be deleted immediately.

We collect certain types of information from you when you visit our Site. By accepting this Privacy Policy, you are expressly consenting to (i) our collection of information as described below; (ii) our use of the information collected; (iii) the processing of this information; and (iv) our sharing of data with third-party processors as needed to run our business. 

Here are some examples of the data we collect. However this may not be a complete list:

Personal Information: Personal identifying information such as your name, telephone numbers, email addresses, and other demographic information, such as your age and gender.

User Account Information: In order to purchase or access certain Services, we may require you to create a user account and provide your name and/or email address and create a unique password. For your security, we do not have access or knowledge of your password and it is your sole responsibility to keep the password confidential and not share your account details with any other people, including us. 

Computer, Browser and Mobile Information: Computer and connection information such as statistics on your page views, traffic to and from the Site, your unique resource locator (“URL”), advertisement data, your internet protocol (“IP”) address, your browsing history, and your Site log information. If you access our Site via your mobile phone, we may collect information about your device, including but not limited to, the model, manufacturer, device identification and your location information. 

Social Media Information:  We may access only publicly available personal information from social networking sites and apps, or information you voluntarily provide through these platforms. We do not access private profiles or data beyond what is publicly shared. 

We will not request sensitive information from you at any time. Please do not submit any sensitive data to us, including your social insurance or security number, health data, genetic data, or information related to your ethnic origin, religious beliefs, or criminal history. If you do send us sensitive information, we will delete it immediately and will not use it for any purpose.

Information You Voluntarily Provide

We collect information you voluntarily and manually provide when you use our Site, such as when you access Services or certain content on our Site, sign up for our email list or newsletter, submit a form, send us questions, or interact with us through this Site such as when you provide comments or feedback. Some of the information you manually provide may be personal information, such as your name or email address. 

Tracking Technologies

We collect information when you visit our Site and through our email communications, by using cookies, pixels, website beacons, tags, and other tracking technologies to collect information about your engagement, as well as your browsing and purchasing behaviour. These tracking technologies include:

• Clickstream Data: Through Site access logs we collect your URL, clickstream data and HTTP protocol elements, which generate certain kinds of non-identifying Site usage data, such as the number of hits and visits to the Site. This information is used for internal purposes for research and development, user analysis and business decision making, all of which provides better services to our users. The statistics garnered, which contain no personal information and cannot be used to gather such information, may also be provided to third-parties for data processing and analyzing.

• Cookies: Cookies collect data sent to us by your computer about (i) the way you interact with our Site, such as when you use certain features or download attachments; (ii) collect data to assess and improve our marketing and advertising; (iii) allow partners and third-parties to use these tracking technologies to track your use of our Site, including on multiple devices; (iv) collect statistical data such as how long you stay on a certain webpage on our Site and the location from where you access our Site. All of this information helps us to improve the Services, provide content based on the interests of our users and improve the functionality of our Site. Most browsers are set to accept cookies by default. In addition, when you first encounter our Site, you will be asked to “consent to cookies.” If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options. However, this may affect your ability to make donations from our Site. More detailed information about cookie management with specific website browsers can be found at the browsers’ respective websites. 

• Website Beacons or Pixels. These are small graphics that help us understand browsing activity and provide a better user experience. Unlike cookies, website beacons and pixels are non-identifiable when you visit a website page. 

• Social Widgets. These buttons are provided by third-party social media providers that allow you to interact and access certain social media services when you view a page on our Site. These widgets may collect browsing data, which may be sent to the respective third-party social media provider. 

• Third Party Software. We may use third-party software to post advertisements on our Site to oversee marketing or email campaigns, or manage other business initiatives. This third-party software may use cookies or similar tracking technology. We have no control over these third-parties or their use of cookies. 

Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Some content or applications, including advertisements on our Site are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and/or 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 they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. 

Ability to OPT-OUT of TrackingWe also may use the above-mentioned technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking).  We respect your decision if you want to opt-out of tracking for this website. If you choose to opt-out some features of this Site, or future features of this Site may not work properly. For example, you may not be able to share content from our Site to social media sites etc. 

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly. Non-essential cookies, analytics, and tracking technologies will only be activated once you provide explicit consent through our cookie banner or preference settings.

To learn how to turn tracking on or off on your device, you can visit the following websites:

Turn “Do Not Track” on or off/Android

Turn “Do Not Track” on or off/Mac

Website Analytics: From time to time, we may use third party analytic tools operated by third-party companies. These analytic tools may also use cookies or other tracking technologies to analyze visitors’ use of our Site to determine the popularity of the content, and better understand online activity. We do not transfer personal information to these third party vendors. However, in order to access our Site, you are consenting to the collection and use of your information by these third party analytic companies. We recommend you  review their respective privacy policies and contact them directly with any questions or requests to delete your information. 

Email Policies: We are committed to keeping your e-mail address confidential. We do not sell, rent, or lease our subscription lists to third parties, and will not disclose your email address to any third parties except as expressly set out in this Privacy Policy. In compliance with CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (Public Law No. 108-187) all e-mails sent from our organization will clearly state who the e-mail is from and provide clear information on how to contact the sender. In addition, all e-mail messages will also contain concise information on how to remove yourself from our mailing list so that you can opt-out of further e-mail communication from us and will contain an “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of each email. If you have any issues unsubscribing from our newsletter, please contact us requesting to unsubscribe from future emails. For users in the EU or Canada, marketing emails will only be sent after explicit opt-in consent is obtained.

Use of Information

We generally store your data and transmit it to a third party for processing. However, to the extent we process your data, we do so to serve our own legitimate business interest. Generally, the purpose of collecting your information through our Site is to:

• Provide our Site and its contents to you; 

• To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us; 

• To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts between you and us, including for billing and collection; 

• Collect statistical data and analyze trends for our use, and for use by third-parties to better understand your needs and interests; 

• Improve our Services, marketing and promotional efforts or troubleshoot issues on our Site; 

• Contact you with special offers, newsletters, information advertisements of third parties and content we believe will be of interest to you which in some instances may be in exchange for a commission to be paid to us by such third parties (if you opt to take part in such promotions, the third parties will receive your information); 

• To allow you to participate in interactive and social features on our Site; 

• Improve the content, functionality and usability of this Site and provide a tailored and personalized experience for you when you visit our Site; 

• Prevent fraudulent activities and security breaches; 

• Resolve disputes and assist law enforcement when necessary or respond to any legal claims or otherwise comply with our legal obligations; and

• For any other purpose with your consent.

We may also use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers’ target audiences. Even though we do not disclosure your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria. 

Disclosure of your Information

We may disclose your personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this Privacy Policy with third parties in certain circumstances. In particular we may share your data with third party processors as needed to serve our legitimate business interests. We will not sell your information to any third-party. We may share your Information with third-parties from time to time in certain situations and in order to carry out the following business operations:

• Administering our Site and various tasks such as payment processing, hosting services, email delivery, communications and customer service; 

• Delivery of our Services;

• Administering your account; 

• Entering into agreements and communication with you; 

• Analyzing data and trends, including partnering with third-party analytic companies; 

• Run and manage our ads to produce ads that appear when you visit our Site; 

• Protecting the security of our business and Site; including to investigate and remedy any breach of any of our rights or policies, or as needed to obtain and maintain insurance coverage, manage risks, obtain financial or legal advice; 

• Promoting and marketing the Site and Services; 

• In the event of sale or transfer of our business; 

• To comply with any requirements to disclose by law, such as to initiate or respond to any legal action or to protect the rights, property and safety of others. This includes sharing information with other parties to prevent security breaches, fraud or credit risks;

• Any other reason necessary to comply with any legal obligation, to protect your interests, the interests of others or our business; 

• With your consent. 

We also may disclose aggregated information about our users and information that does not identify any individual in compliance with this Privacy Policy and without restriction. 

Retention of Information

We generally retain your information only as long as is reasonably necessary to provide you with the Services, comply with our legal obligations or until you request that we delete your information. Any information we no longer need will be permanently deleted. As a guideline, we generally retain email communications for 12 months, analytics and non-identifiable usage data for 24 months, and account information for the duration of active engagement plus any legally required period. Information no longer needed will be deleted.

International Data

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to and maintained on servers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy, and that transfers to countries outside your jurisdiction only occur where adequate safeguards are in place, such as standard contractual clauses or other legally recognized protections. 

Processing Your Information

Generally, we do not process or hold your Information but instead we use third-party processors to process your data. In order to carry out our business, it is necessary for us to transmit certain information to third-parties. For a full list of third-party applications we use, please contact us

In some instances however, we may process your information internally. When you agree to be bound by our Privacy Policy, you consent to our processing of your information for such purposes to carry out our business interests. 

For transparency, third-party processors may include providers of analytics, email communications, hosting, payment processing, advertising, and marketing services.

Protection of Your Information
We employ commercially reasonable methods to ensure the security of the information you voluntarily provide to us, as well as that information that is collected automatically. We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information including using standard security protocols and transmitting information securely via Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and reputable third party payment processors and applications. Since email is not considered secure, please do not send us private information via email. Doing so is completely at your own risk. In order to protect our Site, we use software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information or hack or otherwise damage our Site.  While we take these steps to protect your personal information as much as we can, no system or transmission of data over the internet or any other public network or any storage of data can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you are concerned about your personal information, please contact us

Event of a Breach

In the unlikely event customer data has been lost, stolen, or potentially compromised, our policy is to alert our customers via email no later than 72 hours of our becoming aware of the event. We will also report such incident to any required data protection authority. We will work closely with any customers affected to determine next steps such as any end-user notifications, needed patches, and how to avoid any similar event in the future.

We respect your rights to your personal information and data. You have the right to access, correct, request restriction or deletion of your information, or request how we use your personal information and data collected, as required by applicable law. Note that we may charge a reasonable fee for actions that you ask us to take with respect to your data. In addition, we reserve the right to first request you provide us with evidence verifying your identity before we take any action. 

After we verify your identity, you have the right to:

• Update or change any information you have provided to us. To update or delete Your information, please contact us

• Request that we confirm what data we hold about you, and for what purposes. You also have the right to confirmation of whether we process your data or deliver your data to third party processors, and for what purposes. We will supply you with copies of your personal data unless doing so would affect the rights and freedoms of others;

• Change your consent to our use of your information.

• Request a digital copy of the data that we hold about you. Your first request for a copy of your personal data will be provided free of charge; subsequent requests will incur a reasonable fee.

• Request that we gather and transfer your data to another controller, in a commonly used and machine readable format, unless doing so would cause us an undue burden;

• Request that we delete all data that we hold about you, and we must delete such data without undue delay. There are exceptions to this right, such as when keeping your data is required by law, is necessary to exercise the right of freedom of expression and information, is required for compliance with a legal obligation, or is necessary for the exercise or defense of legal claims. Such a request may result in limited or no use of our website;

• Opt-out of receiving future email correspondence from us by contacting us

• Opt-out of receiving any third party marketing communications or having your personal information used for marketing purposes. You may do this by contacting us

• In certain situations, restrict the processing of your data, such as when you contest the accuracy of your data or when you have objected to processing, pending the verification of that objection. When processing has been restricted, we will continue to store your data but will not pass it on to third party processors without your consent, or as necessary to comply with legal obligations or protect your rights, our rights,  or those of others. In addition, you may opt-out of any processing of your data altogether. In addition, you may opt-out of non-essential processing of your data altogether. Essential processing required to provide our Site and Services may continue even if you opt-out. Opting out of non-essential processing may limit access to certain optional features; and

• Complain to a supervising authority in your jurisdiction if you believe we are misusing your data or have violated any of your rights under this Privacy Policy or applicable law.

If you wish to have any third-parties, including those to whom we’ve transmitted your information, delete your information, you will need to contact those third-parties directly to do so. Upon request, we will provide a list of all third parties to whom we have transmitted your information.

Testimonials

All testimonials featured on this Site were voluntarily provided by individuals on publicly accessible platforms. No confidential information or private data is used.

If you are an European Union (EU) resident, you have certain rights afforded to you by way of the General Data Protection Regulation, including the right to complain to a supervising authority if you believe we are misusing your information or have violated any of your rights under this Privacy Policy or applicable law. You may do so in the EU member state in which you reside or have your place of business or in which the alleged infringement took place. If you are located outside the EU, you may have rights under privacy laws in the jurisdiction where you live.

We reserve the right to update and change this Privacy Policy and will make our best effort to update the date “Last Updated” at the top of this page each time we make changes. You can review our most recent changes by visiting this page. By continuing to use our Site, you waive specific notice of, and accept all changes to our Privacy Policy made from time to time. We encourage you to return to this page each time you access our Site to ensure you have read our most recent Policy.