Privacy Policy
Last modified: October 9, 2024CanadaVisa Media ("Company" or "we", "us", "our") respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it by complying with this Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”).
This Privacy Policy describes:
- How we collect, use, disclose, and protect the personal information of users of our website at canadavisaplus.com and related applications ("you").
- The types of personal information we may collect from you, or that you may provide, when you visit or use our website at canadavisaplus.com or related applications (together, our "Website") or otherwise interact with us.
- Our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
As used in this Privacy Policy, "personal information" means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with an individual. It may also include other types of more technical information, but only when this information can identify you as an individual. Aggregated, anonymized and de-identified information that cannot be reasonably be linked to an identifiable individual is not considered personal information.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices for collecting, processing, and storing your information. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you indicate that you understand, accept, and consent to the practices described in this Privacy Policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy).
1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU
The types of personal information we collect depend on a variety of factors, such as the type of services or products you request or use, applicable legal and regulatory requirements, and the means by which you communicate with us. Personal information collected may include:
- contact information, such as your name and email;
- demographic information, such as your date of birth, education, and language abilities;
- citizenship or residency information, such as your country and province of residence, residency status, and citizenship; which allows us to establish and verify your identity, including government-issued identification, name, date of birth and occupation;
- financial information, such as settlement funds;
- employment information, such as your current occupation and work experience, and Canadian offers for employment you have received;
- information relating to your dependants, including age, residency and citizenship information;
- Information relating to Canadian relatives and other connections, including age, residency and citizenship information, and their relationship to you;
- location information collected when you browse our Website or use our applications;
- technical information, including your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, or information about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details, such as pages and events viewed, clickstream data, account logins, preferences and IP addresses if they can be used to identify you as an individual; and
- any other information you provide to us.
Please note that, when you provide personal information of other persons such as dependants, relatives and other connections, you represent AND WARRANT to us that you have obtained all necessary consents from such persons to do so. IF ANY SUCH PERSON WITHDRAWS THEIR CONSENT, YOU MUST NOTIFY US AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
2. HOW WE COLLECT INFORMATION ABOUT YOU
We use different methods to collect your information, including through:
- Direct interactions with you when you provide it to us, for example, by filling in forms.
- Automated technologies or interactions, as you navigate through our Website. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons and other tracking technologies. For more details, please see below.
Information We Collect Through Automated Technologies
As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use cookies or other automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
- Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
- Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
The information we collect automatically helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
- Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
- Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
- Recognize you when you return to our Website.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include cookies and web beacons.
- Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
- Web beacons. Our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count users who have opened an email, or notify us when users click on a link in the email that directs them to our Website, and that allow us to gather other related Website statistics.
Third Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Some content or applications on the Website, including advertisements, 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 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 (behavioural) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties' tracking technologies or how they are used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For more information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see the section “Your Choices” of this Privacy Policy.
3. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:
- To present our Website and its contents to you.
- To provide you with information or services that you request from us.
- To fulfill the purposes for which you provided the information or that were described when it was collected.
- To provide you with notices about your account.
- To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights, or to comply with legal requirements.
- To notify you about changes to our Website or any services we offer or provide though it.
- To measure or understand the effectiveness of, and to improve, our Website, services, marketing, your user experience or our relationship with you.
- In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
- For any other purpose with your consent.
With your consent, we may also use your information to contact you about services that may be of interest to you, as permitted by law. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please see the “Your Choices” section of this Privacy Policy.
4. DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this Privacy Policy:
- To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
- To third party business partners to market their products or services to you, including those listed here.
- To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business (including this Website), who are contractually obligated to keep personal information confidential, use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them, and to process the personal information with the same standards set out in this policy.
- In accordance with applicable law, to a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of CanadaVisa Media's assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by CanadaVisa Media is among the assets transferred.
- To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
- For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
- With your consent.
We may also disclose your personal information:
- To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request, in accordance with applicable law.
- To enforce or apply our Terms of Use and any other agreements we may have with you.
- If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of CanadaVisa Media or others.
5. TRANSFERRING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We or our service providers may access, process or store your personal information outside of the jurisdiction where we are located and where you reside. As a result, when your personal information is used or stored in a jurisdiction other than where you are residing, it may be subject to the law of this foreign jurisdiction, including any law permitting or requiring disclosure of the information to the government, government agencies, courts and law enforcement in that jurisdiction.
You are welcome to contact us to obtain further information about our use of service providers outside of the jurisdiction in which you reside. See the section “Contact Information” of this Privacy Policy.
6. YOUR CHOICES
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. Below, we describe a variety of mechanisms designed to provide you with ways to control the collection, use or disclosure of your information:
- Cookies. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this Website may not be accessible or may not function properly. For more information about cookies and other tracking technologies, see Information We Collect Through Automated Technologies.
- Promotional communications. You may opt in to receiving email promotional communications at the time that you use our services. We may also have your implied consent to send you such promotional communications under applicable laws. If you no longer wish to have your email address used by the Company to receive promotional communications, you can unsubscribe by clicking the unsubscribe link we have included in the email. Please note that:
- Even if you have opted out of receiving promotional communications from us, we may still contact you for transactional purposes, in compliance with applicable laws. We may also need to contact you with questions or information relating to your inquiries; and
- It may take some time for all of our records to reflect changes in your preferences (e.g., if you request that you not receive promotional communications, your preference may not be captured for a promotion already in progress).
We do not control third parties' collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of several third party ad servers' and networks' cookies simultaneously by using an opt-out tool created by the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada. You can also access these websites to learn more about online behavioural advertising and how to stop websites from placing cookies on your device. Opting out of a network does not mean you will no longer receive online advertising. It does mean that the network from which you opted out will no longer deliver ads tailored to your web preferences and usage patterns.
While some internet browsers offer a "do not track" or "DNT" option that lets you tell websites that you do not want to have your online activities tracked, these features are not yet uniform and there is no common standard that has been adopted by industry groups, technology companies, or regulators. Like most other companies, our Website is not currently configured to respond to browsers' "Do Not Track" signals because at this time no formal "Do Not Track" standard has been adopted. Click here for more information on "Do Not Track."
7. DATA SECURITY
The security of your personal information is very important to us. We use physical, electronic, and administrative measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. In addition, we limit personal information access to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties that have a legitimate business need for such access. We implement a combination of policies and internal practices to protect your personal information, including:
- internal policies and procedures that define the roles and responsibilities of our employees throughout the life cycle of an item of information and limit their access to that information on a “need-to-know” basis and the retention of destruction of personal information;
- procedures for responding to complaints or inquiries related to privacy, including related any confidentiality incident involving personal information;
- if the information is collected or stored electronically, technical safeguards such as encryption, firewalls, passwords, anti-virus software and similar measures; and
- contractual protections and other measures to ensure that service providers with whom we share personal information maintain adequate protections and security standards.
8. DATA RETENTION
Except as otherwise permitted or required by applicable law or regulation, we will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. Under some circumstances we may anonymize your personal information so that it can no longer be associated with you.
9. CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 18
Our Website is not intended for children under 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18, and only collect information about children under 18 if they are dependants or Canadian relatives or connections of users of the Website, and entered by such users. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 18 without verifiable parental or legal guardian consent, we will delete or anonymize that information.
10. ACCESSING AND CORRECTING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
It is important that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal information changes. By law you have the right to request access to and to correct the personal information that we hold about you.
You can review and change your personal information by logging into the Website and visiting your account profile page.
If you want to review, verify, or correct your personal information you may contact us using the coordinates provided in the section entitled “Contact Information”, below.
We may request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and your right to access, and to provide you with the personal information that we hold about you or make your requested changes. Applicable law may allow or require us to refuse to provide you with access to some or all of the personal information that we hold about you, or we may have destroyed, erased, or made your personal information anonymous in accordance with our record retention obligations and practices. If we cannot provide you with access to your personal information, we will inform you of the reasons why, subject to any legal or regulatory restrictions.
If you are concerned about our response or would like to correct the information provided, you may contact us using the coordinates provided in the section entitled “Contact Information”, below.
11. WITHDRAWING YOUR CONSENT
Where you have provided your consent to the collection, use, and transfer of your personal information, you may have the legal right to withdraw your consent under certain circumstances. To withdraw your consent, if applicable, you may contact us using the coordinates provided in the section entitled “Contact Information”, below. Please note that if you withdraw your consent we may not be able to provide you with a particular service. We will explain the impact to you at the time to help you with your decision.
12. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will provide more prominent notice to you as and where required by applicable law. By continuing to interact with us after the modified version of the Privacy Policy has been posted or you have been informed of such update, you agree to be bound by all such changes. If you do not agree to the changes in our Privacy Policy, it is your responsibility to stop interacting with us.
We include the date the Privacy Policy was last revised at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date, active, and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.
13. CONTACT INFORMATION
We welcome your questions, comments, and requests regarding this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices. Please contact us at:
Riley Cohen
155 University Avenue, 1210,
Toronto, Ontario, M5H 3B7
sysadmin@canadavisa.com
514-937-9445
We have procedures in place to receive and respond to complaints or inquiries about our handling of personal information, our compliance with this Privacy Policy, and with applicable privacy laws. To discuss our compliance with this Privacy Policy please contact our Privacy Officer using the contact information listed above.