Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy for Vancouver Island View

This privacy policy discloses the privacy practices for (www.vancouverislandview.com). This privacy policy applies solely to information collected by this website and notifies you of the following:

  • What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the website, how it is used and with whom it may be shared.
  • What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.
  • The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.
  • How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.
  • Cookies, as they pertain to this site
  • Links used on this site
  • How and what information is gathered during contests and surveys
  • What information is gathered when you make a purchase or order on this site
  • Disclosure of Law Enforcement
  • Affiliate links used on this site and sponsored posts
  • A note about private property
  • How we handle changes to this policy

Information Collected, Use, and Sharing

We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or another direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone. We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request.
Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy.

Your Access to and Control Over Information

You may opt-out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address given on our website ([email protected]):
• See what data we have about you if any.
• Change/correct any data we have about you.
• Have us delete any data we have about you.
• Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

Security

We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.
We use industry-standard 3rd party providers (ie. MailChimp, PayPal, etc.) to voluntarily gather personal information and accept payment information from our users and we are not responsible for any security issues that may occur from the use of these providers.

Cookies

We use “cookies” on this site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor’s hard drive to help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. For instance, when we use a cookie to identify you, you do not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. Cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site.

Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to your website. This site has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found on the browsers’ respective websites.

Google information:  http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/

This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

Surveys & Contests

From time to time our site requests information via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you may choose whether or not to participate and therefore disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and address), and demographic information (such as postal code, age level). Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.

Orders

We request information from you on our order form when you make a purchase on the site. To buy a product or service from us, you must provide contact information (like name and address) and financial information (like credit card number, expiration date). This information is used for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, we’ll use this information to contact you.

Disclosure to Law Enforcement

We may disclose any subscriber information to law enforcement agencies without further consent or notification to the subscriber upon lawful request from such agencies. We will cooperate fully with law enforcement agencies.

This site is affiliated with Amazon Associates; Bookings.com; Awin Affiliate Marketing; Avantlink Affiliate Marketing Platform; and CJ Affiliate. When an affiliate link is clicked and a purchase is made from that click, this site may receive a small commission at no further cost to you. Affiliate links are labelled as such on each article where affiliate links are provided. However, please assume that any links contained on our website are affiliate links.  Our use of affiliate links does not influence the products, services and websites that we share with you.  This disclaimer applies to all of the various means we use to communicate with you, including via this website, email, phone, social media, our Products or otherwise. 

We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.ca and affiliated sites.

This website may contain sponsored posts or reviews, where we receive a form of compensation in exchange for publishing a post or a review of a product or service.  We may also receive a small commission or another form of compensation at no additional cost to you if you click on and/or make a purchase through an affiliate link in a sponsored post or review.

A Note About Private Property

Private forest lands make up approximately 23% of the land base on Vancouver Island. And, unfortunately, many of Vancouver Island’s greatest assets (and hidden gems) are found by accessing these lands. Although many of the private landowners are aware that this happens, we still need to be mindful that this privilege could just as easily be taken away from us if not respected. This means when walking through private land we leave no trace. We take out what we brought in and treat their land with the utmost respect. As for Vancouver Island View’s involvement, please remember, that I am providing you with an information service only. What you do with that information is entirely up to you, and you do so at your own risk.

Changes

Any changes to our Privacy Policy will be placed here and will supersede this version of our Policy. We will take reasonable steps to draw your attention to any changes in our Policy. However, we suggest that you read this document each time you use the website to ensure that it still meets with your approval.

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