This privacy policy ("Policy") describes how drishti.ca in Canada ("Company", "we" and "our") processes, collects, uses and shares personal data when using this site (the "Site"). Please read the following information carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data and how we will process data.
We collect information about you in a range of forms, such as personal data. As used in this Policy," personal data" is as defined in the General Data Protection Regulation, this includes any information which, either alone or in conjunction with other information we process about you, identifies you as an individual, including, for example, your name, postal address, email address and telephone number.
We will only process your personal data in accordance with applicable data protection and privacy laws. We need certain personal data in order to provide you with access to the Site. If you registered with us, you would have been asked to tick to agree to provide this information in order to access our services, purchase our products, or view our content. This approval provides us with the legal foundation we require under applicable law to process your information. You maintain the right to withdraw such consent at any time. If you do not agree to our use of your personal data in accordance with this Policy, please do not use our Site.
We collect information about you in the following ways:
Our Site includes interfaces that permit you to connect with social networking sites (each a"SNS"). If you connect to an SNS via our Site, you authorize us to access, use and store the details you agreed the SNS could provide to us based on your preferences on this SNS. We'll access, use and store that information in accordance with this Policy. You can reverse our access to the information that you provide in this manner at any time by amending the appropriate settings from within your account settings on the applicable SNS.
We automatically log information about you and your computer or mobile device when you access our Site. By way of instance, when visiting our Site, we log your computer or mobile device operating system name and version, manufacturer and version, browser type, browser language, display resolution, the site you visited before browsing to our Site, pages you've viewed, how long you spent on a page, access times and data regarding your use of and activities on our Site. We collect this information about you using cookies.
We do not use your personal data for the purposes of automated decision-making. But we may do this in order to satisfy obligations imposed by legislation, in which case we will inform you of any such processing and provide you with a chance to object.
We may collect information using "cookies."Cookies are small data files stored on the hard drive of your personal computer or mobile device by a website. We may use both session cookies (which expire once you close your internet browser) and persistent cookies (which remain on your computer or mobile device until you delete them) to supply you with a more interactive and personal experience on the Site.
We use two broad classes of cookies: (1) first-party cookies, served directly by us to your computer or mobile device, which can be used only by us to recognize your computer or mobile device when it revisits our Siteand (2) third-party cookies, which can be served by service providers on our Site, and may be used by such service providers to recognize your computer or mobile device when it visits other websites.
Our Site uses the following types of cookies for the purposes set out below:
| Type of cookie | Purpose |
Essential Cookies |
These cookies are crucial to provide you with services accessible through our Site and to enable you to use some of its features. For instance, they let you log into secure areas of the Site and help the content of the pages you request load quickly. Without these cookies, the services you have asked for can't be provided, and we just use these cookies to provide you with those services. |
Functionality Cookies |
These cookies allow our Site to remember choices you make when you use our Site, like remembering your language preferences, remembering your login information and recalling the changes you make to other parts of our Site that you may customize. The purpose of these cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience and also to avoid you having to re-enter your preferences every time you visit our Site. |
Analytics and Performance Cookies |
These cookies are used to collect information about visitors to our Site and how users use our Site. The information gathered doesn't identify any individual visitor. It includes the number of visitors to our Site, the sites that referred them to our Site, the pages they visited on our Site, what time of day they visited our Site, if they have visited our Site before, and other similar information. We use this information to help operate our Site more efficiently, to gather broad demographic information and to monitor the level of activity on the Site. We use Matomo for this function. Matomo uses its own cookies. It is only utilized to enhance how our Site works. You can discover more about how Matomo protects your data here: https://matomo.org/privacy/. |
Targeted and advertising cookies |
These cookies track your surfing habits to enable us to demonstrate advertising that's more likely to be of interest to you. These cookies use information regarding your surfing history to group you with other users who have similar interests. Based on that information, and together with our consent, third party advertisers can place cookies to allow them to show adverts which we think will be relevant to your interests when you're on third party sites. You can disable cookies which remember your browsing habits and target advertising at you by visiting http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices. If you decide to remove targeted or advertising cookies, you will still see adverts, but they may not be relevant to you. Even in case you do choose to remove cookies by the companies listed at the above link, not all businesses that function online behavioral advertisements are included in this listing, which means you may still get some cookies and tailored ads from companies that aren't listed. |
Social Media Cookies |
These cookies are used when you share information using a social media sharing button or"like" button on our Site or you link your account or participate with our articles on or through a social networking website such as Facebook, Twitter or Google+. The social network will record that you have done this. |
You can typically reject or remove cookies through your browser settings. In order to do this, follow the instructions provided by your browser (usually located within the"settings,""help""tools" or"edit" facility). Many browsers are set to accept cookies until you change your settings.
If you don't accept our cookies, you might experience some inconvenience on your usage of our Site. For instance, we may be unable to recognize your computer or mobile device, and you may need to log in each time you visit our Site.
We may use other companies to serve third-party advertisements when you visit and use the Site. These companies may collect and use click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of ads clicked or clicked over during your visits to the Site and other sites in order to provide ads about goods and services likely to be of interest to you. These firms typically use tracking technologies to collect this information. Other companies' use of their tracking technologies is subject to their own privacy policies.
We may use your personal data as follows:
We may share your personal data as follows:
You may share personal data with us when you submit user-generated articles to our Site, such as through our rewards program, forums, message boards and blogs on our Site. Please note that any information you post or disclose on our Site will become public information, and will be available to other users of our Site and the general public. We urge you to be very careful when deciding to disclose your personal data, or any other information, on our Site. Such personal data and other information will not be confidential or confidential once it's printed on our Site.
If you provide feedback to us, we may use and disclose such feedback on our Site, provided we do not associate such feedback with your personal data. If you have provided your consent to do so, we may post your first and last name along with your feedback on our Site. We'll collect any information contained in such feedback and will treat the personal data in it in accordance with this Policy.
Your information, including personal data that we collect from you, may be moved to, stored at and processed by us outside the country where you live, where data security and privacy regulations may not provide the same degree of security as in other parts of the world. By accepting this Policy, you consent to this move, processing or leasing. We will take all measures reasonably necessary to make certain that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy.
We attempt to use reasonable organizational, administrative and technical measures to safeguard personal data within our business. Unfortunately, no transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be totally secure, and the transmission of data via the internet isn't completely secure. For those who have reason to think that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you believe that the safety of any accounts you could have with us has been compromised), please immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us.
We will only retain your personal data so long reasonably required for you to use the Site until you close your account/cancel your subscription unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (for example for regulatory purposes).
Our Site is/are not directed to children under 16. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that their child has provided us with information without their consent, they should contact us. We'll delete such information from our files as soon as reasonably practicable.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us. In your request, please make clear: (I) what personal data is concerned; and (ii) which of the above rights you'd like to enforce. For your security, we might only implement requests regarding the private data related to the particular email address that you use to send us your request, and we might need to verify your identity before implementing your request. We'll attempt to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable and in any event, within one month of your request. Please note that we might need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes or to finish any transactions that you started prior to requesting such change or deletion.
We are committed to resolving any complaints regarding our collection or use of your personal data. If you want to make a complaint regarding this Policy or our practices in relation to your personal information, please contact us via the information listed on our website. We'll respond to your complaint as soon as we can and in any event, within 30 days. We hope to resolve any complaint brought to our attention, but if you feel that your complaint hasn't been satisfactorily resolved, you reserve the right to contact your local data protection supervisory authority.
We welcome your comments or questions about this Policy. You may contact us in writing or through our website.