PRIVACY POLICY

(Ad)Venture Canada Publishing Inc. (referred to as “Friends United”, “we” or “us”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully as it governs your access to and use of the Friends United website, https://www.friends-united.ca/ and any content available on our social media channels (together the “Website”). This Privacy Policy describes how and why we may collect personal information, explains what we do with that personal information and how we protect it, and who you can contact if you have any questions or concerns about your privacy. We may change our Privacy Policy from time to time without notice.

By using the Website, you consent to the collection, use, disclosure, and protection of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and any applicable privacy laws. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, you must not access or use the Website.

Personal Information We Collect

We collect personal information only by lawful and fair means. For example, we may collect your name and any contact information (e.g., email address and telephone number) that you provide to us when interacting with our Website or otherwise communicating with us.

As you navigate through our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies and cookies to collect certain information (for example, Google Analytics). This will generally include information about your location, your traffic pattern through our Website, and any communications between your computer and our Website. Personal information collected about you may include data about the type of computer you use, your Internet connection, your IP address, your operating system, your browser type and version, and your browsing actions and patterns (e.g., visit date and time of visits, the pages viewed and time spent at our Website).

Use and Disclosure of Your Personal Information

We will use your personal information to communicate with you, provide you with information you request from us or for any other purpose we may describe when your personal information is collected. As a general rule, we do not sell, rent, lease, or otherwise transfer any personal information collected from you.

Information we collect through automatic tracking technology and cookies is used for statistical data and will not include personal information. We use this data to improve our Website. To the extent that you voluntarily provide personal information to us, our systems will associate the automatically collected information with your personal information.

Security Measures

We use appropriate security measures to protect against loss, theft, unauthorized access, disclosure, use and modification of your personal information. However, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website or through other means of communication, including email.

Privacy Officer

You have the right to request access to the personal information that we hold about you. If you want to review your personal information, correct any personal information that is inaccurate or incomplete, withdraw your consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information, or ask any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact our Privacy Officer, Rolf Bouman, via info@friends-united.ca.

If we do not address your privacy concerns to your satisfaction, you may contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.

Effective Date: September 01, 2023