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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.