HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
Welcome to our privacy page. Here, we outline the ways we handle and utilize your personal information, ensuring transparency and building trust. Whether you're a data privacy advocate or an online shopper, it's crucial to understand how your data is used. Below, we detail our practices, focusing on customer communication and safeguarding against potential risks.
Communicating with You
One of our primary uses of your personal information is to communicate effectively with you.
This includes:
•Order Confirmations: Ensuring you receive timely updates about your purchases.
•Customer Support: Addressing inquiries, resolving issues, and providing assistance.
•Service Updates: Informing you about any changes or improvements to our services.
Our goal is to keep you informed and satisfied with every interaction.
Screening for Potential Risk or Fraud
Your safety is our priority. We utilize your personal information, particularly your IP address, to screen for potential risk and fraud.
This proactive measure helps us:
•Detect Suspicious Activity: Identifying and mitigating fraudulent actions before they impact you.
•Enhance Security: Strengthening our defenses against unauthorized access and transactions.
•Maintain Trust: Providing a secure environment for all your online activities.
By doing so, we aim to protect your data and ensure a secure browsing experience.
Providing Relevant Information and Advertising
When aligned with your preferences, we use your personal information to offer information or advertising related to our products and services.
This includes:
•Personalized Offers: Tailoring promotions and deals based on your interests and past purchases.
•Informative Content: Sharing valuable insights and updates about our offerings.
•Targeted Advertising: Ensuring you receive advertisements that are relevant and meaningful to you.
Our objective is to enhance your shopping experience by providing content that resonates with you.
Utilizing Device Information
In addition to personal data, we collect device information to improve and optimize our website.
This data helps us:
•Generate Analytics: Understanding how our customers browse and interact with our site.
•Enhance User Experience: Identifying areas for improvement to make your visits more enjoyable.
•Assess Marketing Success: Evaluating the effectiveness of our marketing and advertising campaigns.
By leveraging this information, we aim to create a better, more efficient online environment for you.
Subscription Management and Opt-Out Procedures
When users complete any Forms on our Website or Social Media platforms, they are automatically subscribed to our text messaging and email lists. If you wish to opt-out of receiving text messages, simply reply with "STOP". To cease receiving emails, please click the "unsubscribe" link provided in each email.
We are committed to respecting your privacy and ensuring you have full control over your subscription preferences.
Personal Information we collect
This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from www.mrlawnmower.ca (the “Site”).
When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information.”We collect Device Information using the following technologies:
- “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
- “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.
- “Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.
Additionally when you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the Site, we collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers, email address, and phone number. We refer to this information as “Order Information.”
When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Device Information and Order Information.
Age Restriction and Online Safety Notice
To ensure a safe and secure online environment, we would like to inform you that our website is strictly intended for adults and is not suitable for individuals under the age of 18. This age restriction is in place to protect underage users from accessing content that may not be appropriate for them. We urge parents, guardians, and educators to be vigilant about online safety and to guide minors in making responsible choices on the internet. If you have any questions or need further information about our online safety policies, please do not hesitate to contact us. By adhering to this age restriction, we aim to provide a safer digital space for everyone.
Sharing your personal Information
We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above. 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 here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.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.
Behavioral Advertising
As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.
You can opt out of targeted advertising by:
FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads
GOOGLE - https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous
BING - https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized-ads]]
Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: http://optout.aboutads.info/
Do Not Track
Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.
Your Rights
If you are a European resident, you have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below. Additionally, if you are a European resident we note that we are processing your information in order to fulfill contracts we might have with you (for example if you make an order through the Site), or otherwise to pursue our legitimate business interests listed above. Additionally, please note that your information will be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada and the United States.
Data Retention
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.
Changes
We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. We use the Order Information that we collect generally to fulfill any orders placed through the Site (including processing your payment information, arranging for shipping, and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations).
Contact Us
For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at info@mrlawnmower.ca or by phone at (416)-298-2148.