This privacy policy ("Policy") explains how vacationlandontario.com in Canada ("Company", "we" and "our") procedures, 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 the way 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 that, either alone or in conjunction with other information we process about you, identifies you as an individual, including, as an example, your name, postal address, email address and phone number.
We will only process your personal data in accordance with applicable data protection and privacy laws. We need certain personal data so as to offer you access to the Site. If you registered with us, you'd have been asked to tick to agree to provide this information so as to access our services, purchase our products, or view our content. This consent provides us with the legal basis we require under applicable law to process your information. You maintain the right to withdraw such consent at any time. If you don't 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 allow you to get in touch 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 according to your preferences on this SNS. We'll access, use and store that information in accordance with this Policy. You can revoke our access to the information that you provide in this way at any time by amending the right 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 example, when visiting our Site, we log your computer or mobile device operating system name and version, manufacturer and model, browser type, browser language, screen resolution, the site you visited before navigating to our Site, pages you viewed, how long you spent on a page, access times and data about your use of and actions 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. However, we may do this in order to fulfill obligations imposed by law, in which case we will notify you of any such processing and offer you 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 site. We may use both session cookies (which expire as soon as you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which remain on your personal computer or mobile device until you delete them) to supply you with a more personal and interactive experience on our Site.
We use two broad classes of cookies: (1) first-party cookies, served directly by us to your computer or mobile device, which are used only by us to recognize your computer or mobile device when it revisits our Site; and (2) third-party cookies, which are served by service providers on our Site, and can be used by such service providers to recognize your computer or mobile device when it visits other sites.
Our Site uses the following types of cookies for the purposes set out below:
| Type of cookie | Purpose |
Essential Cookies |
These cookies are essential to provide you with services available through our Site and to enable you to use some of its features. For instance, they allow you to log into secure areas of our Site and help the content of the pages you request load fast. With no cookies, the services you have asked for can't be provided, and we only use these cookies to provide you with these 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 details and recalling the modifications you make to other parts of our Site which you can customize. The objective of these cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience and also to prevent you having to reevaluate your tastes each time you visit our Site. |
Analytics and Performance Cookies |
These cookies are used to gather information regarding 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, whether they've 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 our Site. We use Matomo for this function. Matomo uses its own cookies. It is only utilized to improve 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 browsing habits to enable us to show advertising that's more likely to be of interest to you. These cookies use information regarding your browsing history to group you with other users who have similar interests. Based on that information, and with our consent, third party advertisers can set cookies to allow them to show adverts which we think will be relevant to your interests when you're on third party sites. You may disable cookies which remember your surfing habits and target advertising at you by seeing http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices. If you choose to remove targeted or advertising cookies, you will still see adverts, but they may not be applicable to you. Even if you do decide to remove cookies by the companies listed at the above link, not all companies that function online behavioral advertising are included in this listing, and so 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 the Site or you join your account or engage with our content on or through a social networking site such as Facebook, Twitter or Google+. The social networking will record that you have done this. |
You can typically remove or reject cookies via your browser settings. In order to do this, follow the directions 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 do not accept our cookies, you might experience some inconvenience on your usage of our Site. For example, we might not be able to recognize your computer or mobile device, and you may want to log in each time you visit our Site.
We may use other companies to serve third-party advertising when you visit and use the Site. These companies may collect and use click stream information, browser type, date and time, subject of ads clicked or clicked over during your visits to the Site and other websites 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 via 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 published on our Site.
If you provide feedback to us, we may use and disclose such feedback on the Site, provided we don't associate such feedback with your personal data. If you have given your consent to do so, we may post your first and last name together 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 gather from you, could be transferred to, stored at and processed by us outside the country where you reside, where data protection and privacy regulations may not provide the same level of protection as in other parts of the world. By accepting this Policy, you consent to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all measures reasonably necessary to make certain that your information 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 organization. Unfortunately, no storage or transmission system can be guaranteed to be completely secure, and the transmission of data via the internet is not completely secure. For those who have reason to think that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for instance, if you believe that the security of any account 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 that you use the Site until you shut your account/cancel your subscription unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as for regulatory purposes).
Our Site is/are not directed to children under 16. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with information without their consent, they should contact us. We will 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 be clear: (I) what personal data is concerned; and (ii) that of the aforementioned rights you would like to enforce. For your security, we might only implement requests concerning the private data associated with the particular email address which you use to send us your request, and we might have to verify your identity before implementing your request. We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable and in any case, within one month of your request. Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes or to finish any transactions that you started before requesting such alteration or deletion.
We are dedicated to resolving any complaints about our collection or use of your personal data. If you want to make a complaint regarding this Policy or our practices in regard to your personal data, please contact us via the information listed on our site. We will respond to your complaint as soon as we can and in any event, within 30 days. We expect to solve any complaint brought to our attention, however, if you feel that your complaint has not been satisfactorily resolved, you reserve the right to contact your regional data protection supervisory authority.
We welcome your comments or questions about this Policy. You may contact us in writing or through our website.