Privacy Policy

Mindworks Attic (“Our”, “We”, “Us”) collects and uses information through our website mindworksattic.ca or our online communications (such as email) for the purposes set forth within this policy.

It is important to us that we have a trusting relationship with our Members and website Visitors, particularly when it comes to protecting your personal information. We value your information and believe strongly that your information will always belong to you. We will always do what we can to protect your information from others.

Information we collect includes personal information provided in contact enquiries, purchases or when an individual subscribes to our services. We do not collect any personal information that you do not expressly provide.

We will not sell, rent, or share your personal information to any third party for marketing purposes without your consent.

This policy sets out how we will collect, use, disclose and protect your personal information.

When Do We Collect Your Personal Information
We collect your personal information in the following ways:

  • When you provide personal information to us, including via the website and any related service, through any registration or subscription process, through any contact with us (e.g. telephone call or email) or when you buy or use our services and products or from third parties where you have authorized this or the information is publicly available. If possible, we will collect personal information from you directly.
  • When using this website we may collect personal information through the use of WordPress plugins. This personal information is stored locally and not shared with any third parties. This is the same for any of our Member sites that use the same plugins. These plugins are used for essential purposes such as website security and for optional purposes such as form submissions.
  • When you visit this website we collect anonymous information such as your IP address or domain name to analyze site traffic for “visits” but this information is not tied to a given user’s personal information. This information is collected and stored via Google Analytics.
  • When you make a purchase on our website certain types of sensitive information, such as financial information, may be collected. We do not retain this information on our servers. Current payment gateways we use that collect and store this data are PayPal and Stripe.

How We Use Your Personal Information
We will use your personal information in the following ways:

  • To verify your identity and provide you with our services and products
  • To improve the delivery of our services and products to you
  • To market our services and products to you, including contacting you electronically (e.g. by phone, text or email for this purpose)
  • To bill you and to collect payments from you through the payment gateways specified above
  • To respond to communications from yout
  • To conduct research and statistical analysis (on an aggregate and anonymous basis)
  • To protect and/or enforce our legal rights and interests
  • For any other purpose authorised by you

Disclosure of Personal Information
We limit the transfer of your personal information to only that information that directly pertains to the service being provided. We may disclose your personal information to:

  • Businesses that we have partnered with or that we use to support our services and products delivered to you, including any person that maintains our hosting and data systems that we use to provide the website or other services and products. This business may be located outside of Canada.
  • When you make a purchase on our website certain types of sensitive information, such as financial information, may be collected by the payment gateways specified above
  • Other third parties (aggregate anonymous data)
  • A regulatory authority who can require us to supply your personal information
  • Any other person authorized by you

Protecting Your Personal Data
We and our partners take all necessary precautions to protect your information. In order to prevent unauthorized access to information on our site we have implemented suitable physical and electronic measures.

We and our partners review these measures and our internal policies and processes for managing information on a regular basis to ensure their effectiveness.

We restrict and control access to personal information to ensure that only those who need the information and that have the proper role and accountability have access to it.

Accessing Your Data
By contacting us you can:

  • Obtain any information we have about you
  • Change any information we have about you
  • Request that we delete any information we have about you

You can notify us directly at any time if you feel that we have acted in a way that is not in accordance with this policy. We will act accordingly.

Cookies and Links
A ‘cookie’ is a file sent to your computer when visiting a website. Cookies can allow websites to respond to you as an individual by recognizing your browser and improving your user experience. We may use cookies to improve your use of our application and to enhance our understanding of how you use our site – both result in a continually improving experience for our customers and users.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies in your browser settings. Declining cookies may prevent you from a complete user experience as we have designed it to be.

Usage of cookies is in no way linked to personal information that we obtain from our users.

Our website may contain links to other websites. As part of our continued commitment to quality we strive to ensure that we link only to other quality, trusted sites. However, we are not responsible for the content and privacy policies of these sites.

We encourage you to review the policies of these sites before providing them with your personal information.

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.

Media and Embedded Content
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.

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.

Changes to This Policy
We regularly review this policy and our compliance to it. It is in our best interest to ensure that your information is secure. We may update this policy at any time. Your rights, choices and security will not be reduced through any future updates.

We will post any changes to this policy clearly on our website. All changes will apply from the date that we revised the policy.