Last updated January 5/2021

The first half of this policy is the website’s Privacy Policy. The second half of this page includes the Cookie Policy. The Table of Contents for the Cookie Policy is located under the Cookie Policy title, lower on this page.

My Business Threads is dedicated to respecting the privacy of your personal information. This Privacy Policy page describes what information is collected from you on https://mybusinessthreads.com (hereinafter the “website”) and how it is used. The term “you refers to anyone who uses, visits and/or views the website.

By visiting and using the website, you accept and agree to be bound by this privacy policy. Your continued use of the website after posting of any changes to our Privacy Policy constitutes your acceptance of those changes and updates. You must not access or use the website if you do not wish to be bound by this Privacy Policy.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully as it will help you make informed decisions about sharing your personal information with us. If there are any terms in this privacy policy that you do not agree with, please discontinue use of our site and our services.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. What Information Is Collected
2. How Information Is Obtained
3. How Information Is Used?
4. How Information Is Shared
5. How Long Information Is Obtained
6. Third Party Links, Websites and Use
7. Email Marketing
8. Privacy Rights, GDPR & CCPA Visitor Rights
9. Comments & Social Media
10. Security Policy
11. Protecting Children’s Privacy
12. Policy Changes

1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

Information That You Provide: Personal

You control the amount and type of information that you provide to us when using our website. That information depends on the context of your interactions with us and the services and choices you make and the products and features that you use. We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you access the website including but not limited to your name; first name, maiden name, last name, nickname, business email, social media email, address, phone number and avatar image.

Information Associated With Product & Service Purchases

When purchasing products and services, we collect your first and last name, email address, physical address, credit card or other payment information, phone number, and other information listed. 

Information Automatically Collected

When you visit the Site, we automatically collected certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information.”

2. HOW IS YOUR INFORMATION OBTAINED?

Information You Provide

This information is collected when you register on the site, place an order, subscribe to a newsletter, contact us, use the search feature on the website, provide comments or feedback, fill out a form, use live chat or enter any other information on the website to communicate with us. From time to time, we may also collect information that you submit when you participate in any online surveys that we may post on our website.

Information Automatically Collected

Certain information is automatically collected but does not reveal your name or contact information, such as your IP address and/or browser and device characteristics, usage information, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, and information about how and when you use our services and other technical information.

Technologies Used to Collect Device Information:

Cookies

“Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

Log Files

Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.

Web Beacons

“Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site. More information on Web Beacons in the Cookie Policy.

3. How Do We Use Your Personal Information?

Improve User Experience

Your personal information is used to personalize your experience, improve the website to better serve you, provide customer service support, efficiently process your requests or transactions, tailor advertisements to you, elicit reviews of services or products, provide you offers, promotions and to follow up with you through correspondence (email, live chat, or phone). We may also use this information to provide you offers and promotions from our partners and/or our affiliates in exchange for a commission without additional cost to you.

Communication & Legalities

Your personal information is also used to send you marketing and promotional communications, send administrative information to you, request feedback, enable user-to-user communications, to enforce our terms, conditions and policies for business purposes, legal reasons and contractual reasons, to respond to legal requests and prevent harm, to deliver services to the user, and to respond to user inquiries/offer support to users.

Log Data & Analytics

Additionally, like other websites, this website automatically collects certain information about you through Log Data and Google Analytics. Log Data is information about your computer’s Internet Protocol Address, which is your “IP” address, browser information, Internet Service Provider’s information, your operating system, and your browser type. Similarly, Google Analytics collects certain information about your location, browsing history, the pages you visit, equipment you used to access the website, traffic patterns, and other general patterns related to your use of the website.

Improve Site Performance

This information is also used to analyze website statistics related to user behaviour and interests. This allows us to improve our site performance as well as further enhancing our products and services. We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).

4. Sharing Your Personal Information

With Your Consent

You information is only shared with your consent, to comply with laws, to provide you with services, to protect your rights or to fulfill business obligations. We may process or share your data on the following legal basis: if you’ve given us consent for a specific purpose, to achieve out legitimate business interests, to fulfill the terms of a contract, when we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable laws, if we need to investigate, prevent or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, potential threats, illegal activities or as evidence in litigation which we are involved.

Processing Your Data to Serve You Better

We may also process your data or share your information in the following situations: to trusted third party vendors that work for us, such as contractors or agents who perform services for us on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work, such as our website hosting partners, email marketing service provider, other service providers that assist in the operation of the website, and any other affiliates and subsidiaries we rely upon to provide you products and services offered here.

Sharing Information With Affiliates & Other Third Parties

We do not sell or rent your personal data to third parties for marketing purposes.  However, we may use your non personal data for data aggregation purposes. Any such data aggregation would not contain any of your personal data. We may provide your personal data to third-party service providers we hire to provide services to us, including but not limited to: payment processors, web analytics companies, advertising networks, call centers, data management services, help desk providers, accountants, law firms, auditors, shopping cart and email service providers, and shipping companies.

3rd Party Advertisers Use of Cookies

We may also share your information with when needed to third party advertisers; to serve ads when you visit the services. Third party advertisers may use information about your visits to our website that are contained in web cookies and other tracking technologies in order to provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you.

Comply With Laws

Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful requests for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

5. How Long Is Your Information Retained

You information is kept for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy policy unless otherwise required by law. When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will delete it, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your persona information has been stored in back up archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

6. Third Party Links, Websites & Use

Third Party Advertising

We may include, offer or advertise third party links, products or services on the website. Once you click on a third party link and leave this website, you are no longer bound by our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

Embedded Content

Articles on this website may include embedded content such as videos, images and advertisements 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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Third Party Links & Sites

Our website may contain links to other websites. These websites are not under our control and are not subject to our privacy policy. We have no responsibility for these websites and we provide links to these websites solely for your convenience. You acknowledge that your use of and access to these websites are solely at your risk. It is your responsibility to check the privacy policies of these websites to see how they treat your personal data.

We cannot guarantee the safety and privacy of data you provide to any third parties. We are not responsible for the content or privacy and security practices and policies of any third parties, including other websites, services or applications that may be linked to or from the other website. You must contact the other website owner directly if you have questions or concerns.

7. Email Marketing

You have the option of opting in or unsubscribing from our email list. By subscribing and opting in, you agree to receive newsletters, updates, messages, promotional materials and any other content related to this website. When you send an email, your email message along with email address and responses are saved for communication purposes with you. This information is kept confidential and we do not share, sell or trade your email information with third parties except as otherwise stated in this privacy policy.

If you are in the European Union and opt in to receive any of our free products or services and/or purchase any products or services through our website then you will be subscribed to receive our free email newsletter once you affirmatively consent to it. Please see Opt Out section below should you wish to “unsubscribe” and not receive any emails from us.

But if you are NOT in the European Union then you will be automatically subscribed to receive our free email newsletter once you opt in to receive any of our free products or services and/or purchase any products or services through our website. Please see Opt Out section below should you wish to “unsubscribe” and not receive any emails from us.

Opt Out

We do not spam or send misleading information. Should you wish to no longer receive communications from us, you may unsubscribe by clicking “unsubscribe” in the bottom of the email we send to you or by contacting us at alexis@mybusinessthreads.com.

8. Privacy Rights for General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) Visitor Rights & California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”)

Any persons who use this site, including those protected under GDPR and CCPA may review, change, or terminate their account at any time.

GDPR

We do not intentionally target people in the European Union or California as readers of our blog, email list subscribers, or as customers for our products/services. However, we are still taking the following steps to protect the privacy of all our readers and customers.

We have Google Analytics installed. You can read more about this on their respective sites. In regards to our mailing list, when you provide your email address to us to receive our email newsletter, blog updates, and new blog post updates, we will add you to our email list and you will occasionally be sent an email with topics ranging from blogging, small business, Massage Therapy, Aesthetics and more. You can opt-out at any time by using the unsubscribe link on each email or by emailing alexis@mybusinessthreads.com.

We never have and never will sell our email list.

Occasionally we will have sponsored posts and sponsored content on our site. The companies that advertise on our site will often have their own tracking code that we add to each sponsored post. We will also have affiliate links on our site. These links allow the tracking of clicks on certain links and if you purchase something using these links we earn a commission at no cost to you. As sponsored posts, sponsored content, or affiliate links are added and used on this site, a list of these companies will be made below, here, in the Privacy Policy. The list will be updated often.

Below are links to privacy policies:

Google: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Gravatar: https://automattic.com/privacy/

Facebook: https://facebook.com/about/privacyshield

Mailerlite: https://www.mailerlite.com/legal/privacy-policy

Processing Data (GDPR)

The European Union has not found that Canada and some other countries to have an adequate level of protection of personal data under Article 45 of the GDPR. Therefore, our company relies on derogation’s for specific situations as defined in Article 49 of the GDPR. For European Union customers and users, with your consent, your personal data may be transferred outside the European Union to Canada and/or other countries.

Your personal data is only processed and/or transferred to provide goods, services, and/or information that you’ve requested from us to perform a contract with you or to satisfy a legitimate interest of our company in a manner that does not outweigh your freedoms and rights. We will take reasonable steps to protect your personal data. By consenting and using our website, services, or products, you agree to the transfers of your personal data described within this section.

We will use the information we collect from you in accordance with our Privacy Policy. To provide consent, you may check the “agree” button on the cookies bar pop up on the website. We require only the information that is reasonably necessary to enter into a contract with you. When processing has multiple purposes, we will require separate consent for each purpose. You have the right to seek restrictions on the processing of your data. You have the right to object to the processing of your data and the right to the portability of your data.

Accessing and/or Deletion Of Data (GDPR)

If you are a resident in the European Union and you believe we are unlawfully processing your personal information, you also have the right to complain to your local data protection supervisory authority. You can find their contact details here: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorties/index_en.htm

We will retain any information you choose to provide to until asked to delete it. You have the right to request access to your data that the company stores and the rights to either rectify or erase your personal data at any time. To access your data to rectify, or erase/delete your data, please email to alexis@mybusinessthreads.com and I will rectify the situation in a timely manner. Please note that such requests may result in you no longer being able to access paid or free content previously provided to you.

Other times when your data may be deleted: if we decide to cease using our existing data providers, if the website decides to no longer be in business or continue offering services, if the data is no longer needed to provide you with services, if it’s too costly to maintain further retention, or if the website finds it outdated.

CCPA

According to the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), residents of California in the United States have very specific rights regarding their personal data including having the right to request that a business disclose information about how their information is collected as well as the use of personal data over the last 12 months. They also have the right to have their personal data deleted and the right to opt-of of the sale of their personal data.

If you have a request for My Business Threads regarding your personal data regarding access or deletion, please contact My Business Threads directly at alexis@mybusinessthreads.com and your request will be handled in a timely matter.

9. Comments & Social Media

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. When you leave a comment, your name, email address and website/organization name is not shared with a third party, and may be used to communicate with you.

Social media accounts and sharing options are available on this website. Social media sites including Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube etcetera, can track your personal information. Should you choose to interact with us on social media, please note that you will be voluntarily disclosing that personal information. This information is no longer private. It becomes public information and can be collected and used by others. We have no control over this and take no responsibility for the use, storage or dissemination of such publicly disclosed personal information provided by you.

Any such interactions via comments and social media with us do not subject us to any kind of liability related to misuse of your information by others.

10. Security Policy

We have built our website using industry-standard security measures and authentication tools to protect the security of your personal data. We and the third parties who provide services for us, also maintain technical and physical safeguards to protect your personal data. When we collect your credit card information through our website, we will encrypt it before it travels over the Internet using industry-standard technology for conducting secure online transactions. Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee against the loss or misuse of your personal data or secure data transmission over the Internet because of its nature. 

We strongly urge you to protect any password you may have for our website and to not share it with anyone. You should always log out of our website when you finish using it, especially if you are sharing or using a computer in a public place. By using this website, you agree to hold us harmless for any security breach and for any unauthorized use of your personal information by third parties. You also agree that we cannot be held responsible for any disclosure of your information through our website without our knowledge and consent.

Do Not Track Settings

Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting. This setting allows you to activate, and signal your privacy preference to not have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. Our website does not respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. You can turn off tracking features and other security settings in your browser by referring to your browser’s user manual.

Data Retention

When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.

11. Protecting Children’s Privacy

Even though our website is not designed for use by anyone under the age of 18, we realize that a child under the age of 18 may attempt to access our website. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under the age of 18. By using the services, you represent that you are at least 18 years of age or that you are the parent or guardian of such a minor and consent to such minor dependant’s use of the services. If we learn that personal information from users less than 18 years of age has been collected, we will deactivate the account and take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from our records within a reasonable period of time. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child is using our website, please contact us for the removal of such data. When you contact us, before we remove any information, we may ask for proof of identification to prevent malicious removal of account information. You acknowledge that we do not verify the age of our users nor do we have any liability to do so.

12. Policy Changes

We reserve the right to change and/or update this Privacy Policy at any time. When this Privacy Policy is changed and/or updated, the date the changes/updates were made will be posted at the top of this page. In all cases, your continued use of our website, services, and products after any change and/or update to this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Cookie policy

This cookie policy (“Policy”) describes what cookies are and how Website Operator (“Website Operator”, “we”, “us” or “our”) uses them on the My Business Threads website and any of its products or services (collectively, “Website” or “Services”).

Read this Policy carefully so you can understand what type of cookies we use, the information we collect using cookies, how information is collected and how that information is used. It also describes the choices available to you regarding accepting or declining the use of cookies.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. What Are Cookies?
2. Types Of Cookies Used
3. Google Analytics
4. Facebook Pixel
5. Web Beacons
6. Cookie Options
7. Changes To Policy
8. Acceptance of This Policy
9. Contact Us

1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small pieces of data stored in text files that are saved on your computer or other devices when websites are loaded in a browser. They are widely used to remember you and your preferences, either for a single visit (using a “session cookie”) or for multiple repeat visits (using a “persistent cookie”).

Cookies may be set by the Website (“first-party cookies”), or by third parties, such as those who serve content or provide advertising or analytics services on the website (“third party cookies”). These third parties can recognize you when you visit our website and also when you visit certain other websites.

2. What type of cookies do we use?

Necessary cookies

Necessary cookies allow us to offer you the best possible experience when accessing and navigating through our Website and using its features. For example, these cookies let us recognize that you have created an account and have logged into that account to access the content. These cookies are necessary for proper functioning of the website, such as displaying content, validating your session, responding to your request for services as well as other functions. Most web browsers can be set to disable the use of cookies. However, if you disable these cookies, you may not be able to access features on our website correctly or at all.

Functionality cookies

Functionality cookies let us operate the Website and our Services in accordance with the choices you make. Essentially, they enable the website to remember a user’s choices – such as their language, username and other personal choices while using the website. This means that this information will be accessed more efficiently during your future visits to our site.

Persistent Cookies

These cookies are stored on a user’s device in between browser sessions, which allows the user’s preferences or actions across a site (or, in some cases, across different sites) to be remembered. Persistent cookies may be used for a variety of purposes, including remembering users’ choices and preferences when using a website or to target advertising to them.

Performance Cookies

These cookies collect information about the use of the website, such as pages visited, traffic sources, users’ interests, content management, and other website measurements.

Analytical cookies

These cookies enable us and third-party services to collect aggregated data for statistical purposes on how our visitors use the Website. These cookies do not contain personal information such as names and email addresses and are used to help us improve your user experience of the Website.

Advertising or Targeting Cookies

These cookies are usually placed and used by advertising companies to develop a profile of your browsing interests and serve advertisements on other websites that are related to your interests. You will see less advertising if you disable these cookies

Social media cookies

Third-party cookies from social media sites (such as Facebook, Twitter, etc) let us track social network users when they visit our Website, use our Services or share content, by using a tagging mechanism provided by those social networks.

These cookies are also used for event tracking and remarketing purposes. Any data collected with these tags will be used in accordance with our and social networks’ privacy policies. We will not collect or share any personally identifiable information from the user.

Session Cookies

These cookies allow websites to link the actions of a user during a browser session. They may be used for a variety of purposes, such as remembering what a user has put in their shopping cart as they browse a website. Session cookies also permit users to be recognized as they navigate a website so that any item or page changes they make are remembered from page to page. Session cookies expire after a browser session; thus, they are not stored long term.

We may also use cookies for:

• Identifying the areas of our website that you have visited
• Personalizing content that you see on our website
• Our website analytics
• Remarketing our products or services to you
• Remembering your preferences, setting, and login details
• Targeted advertising and serving ads relevant to your interests
• Affiliate marketing
• Allowing you to post comments
• Allowing you to share content with social networks

2. A. Current Cookies on the Website

Necessary Cookies

Performance & Analytical Cookies

Third Party Cookies

2. B. Cookies on Website From Plugins

Non Necessary Cookies

3. Google Analytics

Our website uses Google Analytics to collect information about the user. Google Analytics collects information from users including age, gender, interests, demographics, how often they visit our website, what pages they visit, and what other websites they have used before coming to our website. The information we receive from Google Analytics is used to analyze traffic, remarket our products and services to users, improve our marketing and advertising, and to improve our website.

We have enabled Google Analytics advertising features such as remarketing with Google Analytics, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit our website, not your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected using Google Analytics with your personal data.

Google Analytics uses permanent cookies on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit our website, the cookies cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google also uses specific identifiers to help collect information about the use of our website. For more information on how Google collects and processes your data, visit https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/

We use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site–you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

4. Facebook Pixel & Remarketing

We use the Facebook Pixel on this website which is an analytics tool. This tool collects and receives information from our website and other places on the internet. It allows us to measure how well our ads are doing by providing us with an understanding of the actions that our visitors take when visiting our website. Once you visit our website, Facebook uses an audience pixel to place a cookie on your browser. Once that happens, you may see future ads from us on Facebook. Using this pixel allows us to show our ads to the right people and it also allows us to create ‘look-a-like’ audiences through Facebook. This means that Facebook finds other people online who are similar to those who have visited My Business Threads’ website. To opt-out of Facebook’s collection and use of information for ad targeting, please visit: https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217

5. Web Beacons

We may also use a technology called web beacons to collect general information about your use of our website and your use of special promotions or newsletters. The information we collect by web beacons allows us to statistically monitor the number of people who open our emails. Web beacons also help us to understand the behavior of our customers, members, and visitors.

a) Mailerlite (Email Service Provider)

My Business Threads uses Mailerlite, 3rd party site, which is an email service provider. We use this service to send out newsletters, freebies, and other information to our subscriber list. Mailerite uses web beacons which include single-pixel gifs in emails that get sent out to subscribers. This allows them to collect information about when a subscriber opens emails from My Business Threads. It also collects your IP address, browser information, and/or email client type along with other similar details. They then use data from those web beacons to create custom reports regarding how My Business Threads’ email campaigns are performing. They also tell us what actions our subscribers are taking through our emails and they also record the time spent on different services and pages visited. Overall, it helps us at My Business Threads’ better understand our email campaigns and how they are performing as a whole. You can read Mailerlite’s full privacy policy here.

6. Cookie Options

If you don’t like the idea of cookies or certain types of cookies, you can change your browser’s settings to delete cookies that have already been set and to not accept new cookies. To learn more about how to do this or to learn more about cookies, visit internetcookies.org

7. Changes To Policy

We reserve the right to modify this Policy relating to the Website or Services at any time, effective upon posting of an updated version of this Policy on the Website. When we do we will revise the updated date at the top of this page. Continued use of the Website after any such changes shall constitute your consent to such changes. Policy was created with WebsitePolicies.

8. Acceptance Of This policy

You acknowledge that you have read this Policy and agree to all its terms and conditions. By using the Website or its Services you agree to be bound by this Policy. If you do not agree to abide by the terms of this Policy, you are not authorized to use or access the Website and its Services.

9. Contact Us

If you would like to contact us to understand more about this Policy or concerning any matter relating to our use of cookies, you may send an email to alexis@mybusinessthreads.com or by mail at PO Box 1698, Belleville STN Main, Belleville, ON.