Who we are?
Our website address is: https://whatsnearme.ca. We are here to connect local residents with business within their community.
BlueTAC Consulting Inc. Dba WhatsNearMe.ca is committed to protecting your privacy. We believe that your online privacy is important. We will only collect your email, which you supply to us, and will not disclose any personal information that individually identifies you.
This Privacy Policy explains how BlueTAC Consulting Inc. collects and uses your personal information when you use our services and our websites located at https://whatsnearme.ca
BlueTAC Consulting Inc. may use your personal information for the following purposes: to provide you with our Services; to deliver specific content through our Services to you based on your geographic location; to generate aggregated statistical analysis regarding your use of our Services for third party sales agents, local area businesses and other industries involved in store front sales (“Clients”); to manage our relationship with you; to identify you in our system; to manage our business and operations; to provide technical support for our Services; to respond to your questions that you send through the Sites, by e-mail, or by phone; if you have consented, to send you marketing e-mails related to our Services; to track communications with you; to compile aggregated statistical analysis for advertising and marketing purposes; to improve the Sites and help us develop new services, tools and features of the Sites that meet your needs; and as otherwise permitted or required by law.
What personal information do we collect?
Personal information means any information about an identifiable individual. The only type of personal information that we may collect is your email address. The only time other personal information that may be obtained is if you provide us any that we did not request (such as personal information you voluntarily put into an e-mail to us).
We limit the collection of personal information to that which is necessary to fulfill the purposes identified in this Privacy Policy and we collect, use and disclose your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
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/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
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.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. 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 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 log in, 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.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
Your personal information will not be used without your consent for purposes other than those for which it was collected or in accordance with applicable laws. We retain your personal information only for as long as we need it to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected and to comply with our legal obligations. We will not use or disclose your personal information to third parties.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, 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 you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, 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 your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.