Who We Are
Our website address is: https://islandcomeback.ca.
How Data is Collected, What is Collected and Why
This Privacy Policy contains standard information outlining how your personal information is collected, what personal data we collect for Island COMEBACK and why.
How Is Your Data collected?
When you visit the Island COMEBACK site the information, which is automatically collected, includes info about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and cookies installed on your device. As you visit more pages on our site we also collect information about the individual web pages visited.
Additionally, when you make a purchase or a donation, we collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address, phone number and email address and any other information you provide. This information is provided via the contact form during the Check-Out Process.
What Is Collected?
When you visit the Island COMEBACK Site, we automatically collect certain information about when visitors leave messages on the Purchase Page and Check Out Page that includes the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
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/.
Why Is It Collected?
We use the information provided on the Purchase Page and Check Out Page to assist in fulfilling orders placed through Island COMEBACK. This includes your name, billing address, email and phone number along with your payment information. This information is then used to: communicate with you, to detect any possible potential for risk or fraud (in particular your IP address), and more generally to help us improve the mapping of the site for future use in marketing and advertising.
How About Image Uploads For Vendors?
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.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are known data files that are placed on your device or computer and include an anonymous unique identifier. You can learn how to disable cookies by clicking on this link. If you opt-in to use Cookies we use them to save your name, email address and website. 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 visit our vendor login page, 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 login, if you login, 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.
Who Are We Sharing Your Data With?
We share your Personal Information with third parties only as needed. For example, we use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site -- you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here.
We share our order information with the business you have purchased the gift certificate from so they are prepared when you redeem it.
Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.
How Long Will We Retain Your Data?
When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information. If you leave a note or message, 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 (if any), 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 Do You Have Over Your Data?
If you have an account on this site, 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.
Where Do We Send Your Data?
We share our order information with the business you have purchased the gift certificate from so they are prepared when you redeem it.
Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.