1. Introduction
Welcome to Online Bazaar Canada. We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the security of your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website, use our services, and interact with us.
2. Roles Covered by This Policy
This policy applies to the following roles on our platform:
- Guests: Visitors who browse and explore products/services without registering an account.
- Business Owners: Sellers who register and create listings on our platform.
3. Information We Collect
Personal Information:
- Guests: IP address, browser type, and usage data.
- Business Owners: Name, email address, phone number, mailing address, payment information, account login credentials.
Non-Personal Information:
- Browser type and version
- Device type
- Operating system
- Referring URLs
- Pages viewed and time spent on our website
4. How We Collect Information
We collect information through various methods:
- Directly from you: When you create an account, make a purchase, or contact us.
- Automatically: Through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies when you visit our website.
- From third parties: Such as payment processors and social media platforms, when you interact with us through these services.
5. Use of Your Information
We use your information for the following purposes:
- To provide and manage our services
- To process transactions and send related information, such as purchase confirmations and invoices
- To communicate with you, including responding to your inquiries and providing customer support
- To personalize your experience on our website and tailor content and advertisements to your interests
- To analyze usage patterns and improve our website and services
- To comply with legal obligations and protect our rights and interests
6. Sharing Your Information
We may share your information with:
- Service providers: Such as payment processors, hosting providers, and email service providers, to facilitate our services.
- Business partners: With your consent, for marketing and promotional purposes.
- Legal authorities: When required by law or to protect our rights and interests.
- Third parties: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, where your information may be transferred as part of the transaction.
7. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to collect and use personal information about you. This helps us understand how you use our website, improve your experience, and provide personalized advertising. You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings.
8. Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, the visitor’s IP address, and browser user agent string to help spam detection. Comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
9. 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.
10. What Rights You Have Over Your Data
You have the following rights regarding your personal information:
- Access: You can request a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
- Correction: You can request that we correct or update your personal information.
- Deletion: You can request that we delete your personal information, subject to certain legal restrictions.
- Opt-out: You can opt out of receiving marketing communications from us by following the unsubscribe instructions in those communications.
- Data Portability: You can request to receive the personal data we hold about you in a commonly used and machine-readable format.
11. Data Security
We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. However, no security measure is completely foolproof, and we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your information.
12. Data Retention
We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
13. Third-Party Links
Our website may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of these external sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party sites you visit.
14. Children’s Privacy
Our services are not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we become aware that we have inadvertently collected such information, we will take steps to delete it.
15. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on our website. Your continued use of our website and services after the changes take effect constitutes your acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy.
16. Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:
Online Bazaar Canada
Email: contact@onlinebazaar.ca
Last Updated: [27 May 2024]