Privacy
Privacy Policy – Niagara Farmhouse Retreat
Who / What is “niagara-retreats.com”?
This website is a portal promoting a rental accommodation property, located near Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada.
This privacy policy applies to the following website: https://niagara-retreats.com
Updates
This policy maybe updated from time to time, as administration or the website dictates, or as regulations and legal requirements change. If you are registered or subscribe you will be notified by email of any updates or changes to this privacy policy changes. At any time, you can update or change your personal information by logging into your account.
Who are we?
Site/Property Owner: D. Koch
Address:
Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada
Telephone: (289) 213-1182
What Personal Information is Collected and How is it Used?
Personal information that may be collected in your use of this website may include your name, email address, personal account preferences; also, transactional data such as purchases of services, record of courses taken and technical data related to performance in language quizzes. The latter is retained to track student progress, but only if the student registers or enrols in a module. Information is collected during the purchase or enrolment process. Generally, personal data is not just created by a user’s casual interaction with the website. Personal data is generated from login, contact forms, posted comments, cookies, analytics, and a variety of third party embeds.
Your Rights with Respect to Personal Data
You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:
- If you edit, publish an article, or upload a homework assignment then an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after one (1) day.
- you may submit a request for access to the data we process about you;
- you may object to the processing;
- you may request an overview, in a commonly used format, of the data we process about you;
- you may request correction or deletion of the data if it is incorrect or not or no longer relevant. Where appropriate, the amended information shall be transmitted to third parties having access to the information in question.
- You have the right to withdraw consent at any time, subject to legal or contractual restrictions and reasonable notice. You will be informed of the implications of such withdrawal.
- You have the right to address a challenge concerning non-compliance with PIPEDA to our organization and, if the issue is not resolved, to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.
To exercise these rights, please contact us. Please refer to the contact details on this page. If you have a complaint about how your data is handled, we would like to hear from you.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Compliance Framework
Persnally Identifiabe Information (PII) is any information or data that can be used on its own, or in combination with other data, to contact or locate an individual, or to identify an individual in context. The proprietor behind niagara-retreats.com (aka Niagara Farmhouse Retreats) is based in Canada, however the website is hosted on servers located primarily in the United States, but also distributed through a Content Delivery Network (CDN) gobally. Every effort is made to comply with a broad range of laws, standards and best practices governing the collection, use and protection of personal information across multiple jurisdictions. These include, but are not necessarily limited to:
Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) | Canada |
CAN-SPAM | USA |
California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA) | USA |
General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) | EU |
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Uploading 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.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded Content
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.