Last Updated: June 7th, 2018
Welcome to ScribeCat.ca’s Privacy Policy!
ScribeCat.ca and its owner, Ashley Lachance, care deeply about the privacy of our visitors and users, and we are fully committed to protect their personal information and use it properly in compliance with data privacy laws. This policy describes how we may collect and use personal information, and the rights and choices available to our visitors and clients regarding such information.
We strongly urge you to read this policy and make sure you fully understand it, before you access or use any of our services.
Capitalised terms which are not defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed to them in our Terms of Service.
Please Read Carefully!
This ScribeCat.ca Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes how we (ScribeCat.ca and its authors – “ScribeCat”, “we” or “us”) collect and use information pertaining to each of our unregistered visitors and clients (each, a “Visitor” or “Client” (respectively), or “you”), in connection with their access to and use of ScribeCat’s website (including www.scribecat.ca and any of its subdomains, the “Website”) and related services (collectively, the “Services”).
The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to provide you with a clear explanation of when, why, and how we collect and use your personal information, as well as an explanation of your statutory rights. This Privacy Policy is not intended to override the terms of any contract you have with us, nor any rights you might have under applicable data privacy laws.
Read this policy and make sure you fully understand our practices in relation to your personal information, before you access or use any of our Services. If you read and fully understand this Privacy Policy, and remain opposed to our practices, you must immediately leave this website, application or service, and avoid or discontinue all use of any of our Services. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this policy, please feel free to contact us.
What information we collect:
We receive, collect, and store any information you enter on our website or provide us in any other way. This may include personally identifiable information (including name, email, project information, communications); comments, feedback, product reviews, and recommendations. We may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page.
In addition, ScribeCat.ca's web host, Squarespace.com, may also gather information. Please see Squarespace.com's Privacy Policy for further details.
How we collect this information:
When you fill out any of the forms (such as our Services forms) on our website, as part of the process, we collect personal information you give us such as your name and email address. Your personal information will be used for the specific reasons stated below only.
Why we collect such personal information:
We collect such Non-personal and Personal Information for the following purposes:
To provide and operate the Services;
To be able to contact our Visitors and Clients with general or personalised service-related notices and promotional messages;
To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred Non-personal Information, which we may use to provide and improve our respective services;
To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.
How we store, use, share and disclose site visitors' personal information:
Our company is hosted on the Squarespace.com platform. Squarespace.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data may be stored through Squarespace.com’s data storage, databases, and the general Squarespace.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.
We maintain this information in the Squarespace.com's database for so long as you remain a Client with us. When your project is complete, this data is removed from the databases.
Communication with site visitors and clients
We may contact you to notify you regarding your project request, contact request, or book review request. If you sign up for our monthly newsletter, you may also receive said newsletter and/or emails to poll your opinions through surveys or questionnaires, to send updates about our company, or as otherwise necessary to contact you to enforce our User Agreement, applicable national laws, and any agreement we may have with you. For these purposes we may contact you via email, telephone, or text messages (when such information is provided by you).
How we use cookies and other tracking tools:
Please see Squarespace.com's Privacy Policy to read how they use cookies and other tracking tools as our web host.
How you can withdraw your consent:
If you would like us to remove the data submitted in our forms prior to the completion of your project or should you like to be removed from our newsletter or any other communications, please contact us.
Privacy policy updates
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.
Any questions, please contact us!
If you would like to: access, correct, amend, or delete any personal information we have about you, you are invited to contact us anytime!