PRIVACY POLICY OF VISTORM.CA

FULL POLICY

OWNER AND DATA CONTROLLER

VI Storm
Parksville, BC

Owner contact email: northmandevelopment@gmail.com

TYPES OF DATA COLLECTED

Among the types of Personal Data that this Application collects, by itself or through third parties, there are: first name; last name; gender; date of birth; phone number; VAT Number; company name; profession; physical address; fax number; country; state; county; email address; ZIP/Postal code; various types of Data; city; Tax ID; field of activity; User ID; number of employees; website; Usage Data; Trackers; answers to questions; clicks; keypress events; motion sensor events; mouse movements; scroll position; touch events; number of Users; session statistics; payment info; contact info; shipping address; billing address; purchase history; device information; Data communicated while using the service; geographic position; language; password; screenshots; username; workplace; Social Security number (SSN); picture; prefix ; profile picture; budget; academic background; Twitter handle; house number; unique device identifiers for advertising (Google Advertiser ID or IDFA, for example).

Complete details on each type of Personal Data collected are provided in the dedicated sections of this privacy policy or by specific explanation texts displayed prior to the Data collection.
Personal Data may be freely provided by the User, or, in case of Usage Data, collected automatically when using this Application.
Unless specified otherwise, all Data requested by this Application is mandatory and failure to provide this Data may make it impossible for this Application to provide its services. In cases where this Application specifically states that some Data is not mandatory, Users are free not to communicate this Data without consequences to the availability or the functioning of the Service.
Users who are uncertain about which Personal Data is mandatory are welcome to contact the Owner.
Any use of Cookies – or of other tracking tools — by this Application or by the owners of third-party services used by this Application serves the purpose of providing the Service required by the User, in addition to any other purposes described in the present document.

Users are responsible for any third-party Personal Data obtained, published or shared through this Application.

MODE AND PLACE OF PROCESSING THE DATA

METHODS OF PROCESSING

The Owner takes appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, or unauthorized destruction of the Data.
The Data processing is carried out using computers and/or IT enabled tools, following organizational procedures and modes strictly related to the purposes indicated. In addition to the Owner, in some cases, the Data may be accessible to certain types of persons in charge, involved with the operation of this Application (administration, sales, marketing, legal, system administration) or external parties (such as third-party technical service providers, mail carriers, hosting providers, IT companies, communications agencies) appointed, if necessary, as Data Processors by the Owner. The updated list of these parties may be requested from the Owner at any time.

PLACE

The Data is processed at the Owner’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located.

Depending on the User’s location, data transfers may involve transferring the User’s Data to a country other than their own. To find out more about the place of processing of such transferred Data, Users can check the section containing details about the processing of Personal Data.

RETENTION TIME

Unless specified otherwise in this document, Personal Data shall be processed and stored for as long as required by the purpose they have been collected for and may be retained for longer due to applicable legal obligation or based on the Users’ consent.

THE PURPOSES OF PROCESSING

The Data concerning the User is collected to allow the Owner to provide its Service, comply with its legal obligations, respond to enforcement requests, protect its rights and interests (or those of its Users or third parties), detect any malicious or fraudulent activity, as well as the following: Contacting the User, Spam and bots protection, Advertising, Remarketing and behavioral targeting, Analytics, Displaying content from external platforms, Tag Management, Backup saving and management, Building and running this Application and Registration and authentication provided directly by this Application.

For specific information about the Personal Data used for each purpose, the User may refer to the section “Detailed information on the processing of Personal Data”.

DETAILED INFORMATION ON THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA

Personal Data is collected for the following purposes and using the following services:

• ADVERTISING

  This type of service allows User Data to be utilized for advertising communication purposes. These communications are displayed in the form of banners and other advertisements on this Application, possibly based on User interests.
  This does not mean that all Personal Data are used for this purpose. Information and conditions of use are shown below.
  Some of the services listed below may use Trackers for identifying Users, behavioral retargeting i.e. displaying ads tailored to the User’s interests and behavior, or to measure ads performance. For more information, please check the privacy policies of the relevant services.
  Services of this kind usually offer the possibility to opt out of such tracking. In addition to any opt-out feature offered by any of the services below, Users may learn more on how to generally opt out of interest-based advertising within the dedicated section “How to opt-out of interest-based advertising” in this document.

  GOOGLE AD MANAGER

  Google Ad Manager is an advertising service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on how the Owner manages the Data processing, that allows the Owner to run advertising campaigns in conjunction with external advertising networks that the Owner, unless otherwise specified in this document, has no direct relationship with.
  In order to understand Google’s use of Data, consult Google’s partner policy.
  This service uses the “DoubleClick” Cookie, which tracks use of this Application and User behavior concerning ads, products and services offered.  

   

  Users may decide to disable all the DoubleClick Cookies by going to: Google Ad Settings.

  Personal Data processed: Trackers; Usage Data.

  Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy; Ireland – Privacy Policy.

  GOOGLE ADS CONVERSION TRACKING

  Google Ads conversion tracking is an analytics service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on how the Owner manages the Data processing, that connects data from the Google Ads advertising network with actions performed on this Application.

  Personal Data processed: Trackers; Usage Data.

  Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy; Ireland – Privacy Policy.

• ANALYTICS

  The services contained in this section enable the Owner to monitor and analyze web traffic and can be used to keep track of User behavior.

  GOOGLE ANALYTICS 4

  Google Analytics 4 is a web analysis service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on how the Owner manages the Data processing, (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of this Application, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services.
  Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
  In Google Analytics 4, IP addresses are used at collection time and then discarded before Data is logged in any data center or server. Users can learn more by consulting Google’s official documentation.

  Personal Data processed: number of Users; session statistics; Trackers; Usage Data.

  Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out; Ireland – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.

  GOOGLE ANALYTICS ADVERTISING REPORTING FEATURES

  Google Analytics on this Application has Advertising Reporting Features activated, which collects additional information from the DoubleClick cookie (web activity) and from device advertising IDs (app activity). It allows the Owner to analyze specific behavior and interests Data (traffic Data and Users’ ads interaction Data) and, if enabled, demographic Data (information about the age and gender).

   

  Users can opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting Google’s Ads Settings.

  Personal Data processed: Trackers; unique device identifiers for advertising (Google Advertiser ID or IDFA, for example); various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.

  Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out; Ireland – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.

• BACKUP SAVING AND MANAGEMENT

  This type of service allows the Owner to save and manage backups of this Application on external servers managed by the service provider itself. The backups may include the source code and content as well as the data that the User provides to this Application.

  BACKUP ON DROPBOX (DROPBOX, INC.)

  Dropbox is a service to save and manage backups provided by Dropbox Inc.

  Personal Data processed: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.

  Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.

• BUILDING AND RUNNING THIS APPLICATION

  Key components of this Application are built and run directly by the Owner by making use of the software listed below.

  WORDPRESS (SELF-HOSTED) (THIS APPLICATION)

  This Application is built and run by the Owner via a CMS software (Content Management System) called WordPress.

  Personal Data processed: billing address; city; company name; contact info; country; Data communicated while using the service; date of birth; device information; email address; first name; gender; geographic position; language; last name; password; payment info; phone number; physical address; profession; purchase history; screenshots; shipping address; Usage Data; username; VAT Number; workplace; ZIP/Postal code.

• CONTACTING THE USER

  CONTACT FORM (THIS APPLICATION)

  By filling in the contact form with their Data, the User authorizes this Application to use these details to reply to requests for information, quotes or any other kind of request as indicated by the form’s header.

  Personal Data processed: city; company name; country; county; date of birth; email address; fax number; field of activity; first name; gender; last name; number of employees; phone number; physical address; profession; state; Tax ID; Trackers; Usage Data; User ID; various types of Data; VAT Number; website; ZIP/Postal code.

• DISPLAYING CONTENT FROM EXTERNAL PLATFORMS

  This type of service allows you to view content hosted on external platforms directly from the pages of this Application and interact with them. Such services are often referred to as widgets, which are small elements placed on a website or app. They provide specific information or perform a particular function and often allow for user interaction.
  This type of service might still collect web traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when Users do not use it.

  GOOGLE FONTS

  Google Fonts is a typeface visualization service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on how the Owner manages the Data processing, that allows this Application to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.

  Personal Data processed: Trackers; Usage Data.

  Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy; Ireland – Privacy Policy.

  GOOGLE MAPS WIDGET

  Google Maps is a maps visualization service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on how the Owner manages the Data processing, that allows this Application to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.

  Personal Data processed: Trackers; Usage Data.

  Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy; Ireland – Privacy Policy.

  ADOBE FONTS (ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED)

  Adobe Fonts is a typeface visualization service provided by Adobe Systems Incorporated that allows this Application to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.

  Personal Data processed: Usage Data; various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.

  Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.

  FONT AWESOME (FONTICONS, INC. )

  Font Awesome is a typeface visualization service provided by Fonticons, Inc. that allows this Application to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.

  Personal Data processed: Trackers; Usage Data.

  Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.

  FONTS.COM WEB FONTS (MONOTYPE IMAGING INC.)

  Fonts.com Web Fonts is a typeface visualization service provided by Monotype Imaging Inc. that allows this Application to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.

  Personal Data processed: Trackers; Usage Data.

  Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.

  MYFONTS (MONOTYPE IMAGING INC.)

  MyFonts is a typeface visualization service provided by Monotype Imaging Inc. that allows this Application to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.

  Personal Data processed: Trackers; Usage Data.

  Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.

• REGISTRATION AND AUTHENTICATION PROVIDED DIRECTLY BY THIS APPLICATION

  By registering or authenticating, Users allow this Application to identify them and give them access to dedicated services. The Personal Data is collected and stored for registration or identification purposes only. The Data collected are only those necessary for the provision of the service requested by the Users.

  DIRECT REGISTRATION (THIS APPLICATION)

  The User registers by filling out the registration form and providing the Personal Data directly to this Application.

  Personal Data processed: academic background; billing address; budget; city; company name; country; county; date of birth; email address; fax number; field of activity; first name; gender; house number; language; last name; number of employees; password; phone number; physical address; picture; prefix ; profession; profile picture; Social Security number (SSN); state; Tax ID; Trackers; Twitter handle; Usage Data; User ID; username; various types of Data; VAT Number; website; workplace; ZIP/Postal code.

• REMARKETING AND BEHAVIORAL TARGETING

  This type of service allows this Application and its partners to inform, optimize and serve advertising based on past use of this Application by the User.
  This activity is facilitated by tracking Usage Data and by using Trackers to collect information which is then transferred to the partners that manage the remarketing and behavioral targeting activity.
  Some services offer a remarketing option based on email address lists.
  Services of this kind usually offer the possibility to opt out of such tracking. In addition to any opt-out feature offered by any of the services below, Users may learn more on how to generally opt out of interest-based advertising within the dedicated section “How to opt-out of interest-based advertising” in this document.

  GOOGLE ADS REMARKETING

  Google Ads Remarketing is a remarketing and behavioral targeting service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on how the Owner manages the Data processing, that connects the activity of this Application with the Google Ads advertising network and the DoubleClick Cookie.

   

  In order to understand Google’s use of Data, consult Google’s partner policy.

   

  Users can opt out of Google’s use of Trackers for ads personalization by visiting Google’s Ads Settings.

  Personal Data processed: Trackers; Usage Data.

  Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out; Ireland – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.

• SPAM AND BOTS PROTECTION

  This type of service analyzes the traffic of this Application, potentially containing Users’ Personal Data, with the purpose of filtering it from unwanted parts of traffic, messages and content that are recognized as spam or protecting it from malicious bots activities.

  GOOGLE RECAPTCHA

  Google reCAPTCHA is a SPAM protection service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on how the Owner manages the Data processing.
  The use of reCAPTCHA is subject to the Google privacy policy and terms of use.

  Personal Data processed: answers to questions; clicks; keypress events; motion sensor events; mouse movements; scroll position; touch events; Trackers; Usage Data.

  Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy; Ireland – Privacy Policy.

• TAG MANAGEMENT

  This type of service helps the Owner to manage the tags or scripts needed on this Application in a centralized fashion.
  This results in the Users’ Data flowing through these services, potentially resulting in the retention of this Data.

  GOOGLE TAG MANAGER

  Google Tag Manager is a tag management service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on how the Owner manages the Data processing.

  Personal Data processed: Trackers; Usage Data.

  Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy; Ireland – Privacy Policy.

INFORMATION ON OPTING OUT OF INTEREST-BASED ADVERTISING

In addition to any opt-out feature provided by any of the services listed in this document, Users may follow the instructions provided by YourOnlineChoices (EU), the Network Advertising Initiative (US) and the Digital Advertising Alliance (US), DAAC (Canada), DDAI (Japan) or other similar initiatives. Such initiatives allow Users to select their tracking preferences for most of the advertising tools. The Owner thus recommends that Users make use of these resources in addition to the information provided in this document.

The Digital Advertising Alliance offers an application called AppChoices that helps Users to control interest-based advertising on mobile apps.

Users may also opt out of certain advertising features through applicable device settings, such as the device advertising settings for mobile phones or ads settings in general.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT DATA COLLECTION AND PROCESSING

LEGAL ACTION

The User’s Personal Data may be used for legal purposes by the Owner in Court or in the stages leading to possible legal action arising from improper use of this Application or the related Services.
The User declares to be aware that the Owner may be required to reveal personal data upon request of public authorities.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT USER’S PERSONAL DATA

In addition to the information contained in this privacy policy, this Application may provide the User with additional and contextual information concerning particular Services or the collection and processing of Personal Data upon request.

SYSTEM LOGS AND MAINTENANCE

For operation and maintenance purposes, this Application and any third-party services may collect files that record interaction with this Application (System logs) or use other Personal Data (such as the IP Address) for this purpose.

INFORMATION NOT CONTAINED IN THIS POLICY

More details concerning the collection or processing of Personal Data may be requested from the Owner at any time. Please see the contact information at the beginning of this document.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

The Owner reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time by notifying its Users on this page and possibly within this Application and/or – as far as technically and legally feasible – sending a notice to Users via any contact information available to the Owner. It is strongly recommended to check this page often, referring to the date of the last modification listed at the bottom.

Should the changes affect processing activities performed on the basis of the User’s consent, the Owner shall collect new consent from the User, where required.