Privacy Policy

Your privacy is very important to us, Kingston Businesses Online follows these principles:

We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.
With our services, we aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what’s visible to the public, seen by search engines, kept private, and permanently deleted.

Below is our privacy policy which echos those goals: (Note, this privacy policy available under a Creative Commons Sharealike license, which means you’re more than welcome to steal it and repurpose it for your own use, just make sure to replace references to us with ones to you. Also feel free to link to KingstonBusinessesOnline.ca if you use it.)

If you have questions about deleting or correcting your personal data please contact our support team.

Kingston Businesses Online operates several websites including KingstonBusinessesOnline.ca. It is Kingston Businesses Online's policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Kingston Businesses Online collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Kingston Businesses Online purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Kingston Businesses Online visitors use its website. From time to time, Kingston Businesses Online may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website to website owners or potential clients.

Kingston Businesses Online also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on blogs or websites. Kingston Businesses Online only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog or website commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Kingston Businesses Online's websites choose to interact with Kingston Businesses Online in ways that require Kingston Businesses Online to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Kingston Businesses Online gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we may ask visitors who sign up to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Kingston Businesses Online – by purchasing social media management, for example – are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Kingston Businesses Online collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Kingston Businesses Online. Kingston Businesses Online does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

Kingston Businesses Online may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Kingston Businesses Online may monitor the most popular sites we develop, and display those stats on our website. However, Kingston Businesses Online does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Kingston Businesses Online discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Kingston Businesses Online behalf or to provide services available at Kingston Businesses Online websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Kingston Businesses Online websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Kingston Businesses Online will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Kingston Businesses Online discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Kingston Businesses Online believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Kingston Businesses Online, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Kingston Businesses Online website and have supplied your email address, Kingston Businesses Online may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Kingston Businesses Online and our products. We primarily use our various blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Kingston Businesses Online takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Kingston Businesses Online uses cookies to help Kingston Businesses Online identify and track visitors, their usage of Kingston Businesses Online website, and their website access preferences. Kingston Businesses Online visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Kingston Businesses Online websites, with the drawback that certain features of Kingston Businesses Online websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If Kingston Businesses Online, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Kingston Businesses Online goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Kingston Businesses Online may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy. We will notify all past and present clients via email if this happens - you may request to have your account information deleted at that time.

Ads

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Kingston Businesses Online and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Kingston Businesses Online may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Kingston Businesses Online sole discretion. Kingston Businesses Online encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Change log:

2/27/2014 - Fixed a repeated phrase repeated phrase.

This Privacy Policy is based on the PP available through the Creative Commons Sharealike license at Automattic.com.