The
SimcoeMuskoka.com Privacy Policy SimcoeMuskoka.com has created this
privacy policy to demonstrate our firm commitment to protecting your profile
information and informing you about how we handle it. This privacy policy only
applies to transactions and activities in which you engage (“Transactions”),
and data gathered, on this web site (the “Site”), or any of the other part of
the SimcoeMuskoka.com. Please review
this privacy policy periodically as we may modify it from time to time. This
privacy policy was last revised on September 28, 2010. Each time you visit the
Site or provide us with information, by doing so you are accepting the
practices described in this privacy policy at that time. Your IP Address Like most e-commerce websites, each
time you visit the Site, we automatically collect your IP address and the web
page from which you came. In order to administer and optimize the Site for you
and to diagnose problems with our Site, we use your IP address to help identify
you and to gather broad demographic information about you. Cookies Like most websites, the Site uses
cookies to keep track of your purchases and other activity on the Site and
enhance your experience on the Site. We also use cookies to deliver content
specific to your interests, to save your password, and if you choose, to save
other personal and financial information so you do not have to re-enter it each
time you visit the Site. Third parties advertisers on the Site may also place
cookies on your browser. If you wish to disable these cookies, the
"help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how.
However, if you set your browser to disable cookies, you may not be able to
access certain areas or features of the Site. Information We
Collect From You In order to operate the Site and
provide you with information on products and services that may be of interest
to you, we may collect profile information (i.e. information that could be used
to contact you such as full name, postal address, phone number and email
address), demographic information (e.g. postal code, hometown, gender), public
information such as user name from you. Please note that nowhere on the Site do
we knowingly collect profile information from children under the age of 13. The
Site also provides you with the opportunity to save, in a personal account
previous classified listings and other information that is saved in a personal
account is referred to elsewhere in this privacy policy as “Saved Listings.” Information Other Web
Sites Collect From You On the Site, we place links to other
web sites operated by other parties. These third-party ad servers or ad
networks use technology to the advertisements and links that appear on SimcoeMuskoka.com
send directly to your browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when
this occurs. Other technologies ( such as cookies,
JavaScript, or Web Beacons ) may also be used by the third-party ad networks to
measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and / or to personalize the
advertising content that you see. Some of our advertising partners may
use cookies and web beacons on our site. Our advertising partners include
Google Adsense. Other links on our web-site such as
those listed under area attractions are simply sites deemed to be of possible
interest to our users. When you click on these links and visit
these other web sites, regardless of whether or not they contain our brand
names, trademarks and other intellectual property, you need to be aware that we
do not control these other web sites or these other web sites' business
practices, and that this privacy policy does not apply to these other web
sites. Consequently, the operators of these other web sites may collect different
kinds of information about you, and may use and disclose that information in
different ways than we would if it were collected on the Site. We encourage you
to review their privacy policies and remind you that we will not be responsible
for their actions. How We Use Personal
Information We use your profile information to help
us efficiently perform Transactions on the Site, to contact you when necessary
in connection with Transactions, and to send you information. To process Transactions on the Site, we
may share your profile information with our agents, representatives,
contractors and service providers so they can provide us with support services
such as authorization of credit card transactions. By purchasing classified ad services,
you consent to our providing your profile information to those third parties. Any third party with whom we are allowed to
share your profile information is authorized to use your profile information in
accordance with our contractual arrangements with such third parties and in
accordance with their own privacy policies, over which we have no control, and
you agree that we are not responsible or liable for any of their actions or
omissions. Those who contact you will need to be instructed directly by you
regarding your preferences for the use of your profile information by them. Please read the information below under
the heading “How We Use Public Information, Reviews, Ratings and User Names” to
learn how we may make some of your profile information accessible to the public
via the Site or via other means. How We Use Public
Information, Reviews, Ratings and User Names When you register on the Site, you must
enter a user name. Your user name and any
public information you place in your classified ad. While we discourage users from displaying any
personal info such as their e-mail address and instead allow SimcoeMuskoka.com
to act as a contact between parties, if you choose to display your e-mail
address or contact info in a public manner we cannot be held responsible for
any third party misuse of that information. Our Security
Precautions, Location of Information The Site has security measures in place
to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our
control. Your information may be transferred to and maintained on computer
networks which may be located outside of the state, province, country or other
governmental jurisdiction in which you reside, and the countries in which these
computer networks are located may not have privacy laws as protective as the
laws in your country. Inquiries Please direct any question on our
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