Privacy Policy
Welcome to Mapinion.com (the "Website") brought to you by Splode Inc. We are committed to preserving the privacy of all visitors to the Website. This Privacy Policy is designed to inform you about how we collect, use and protect the information that you provide to us.
1.Accountability
We value your privacy. We are committed to protecting both your privacy and your personal information and have implemented this Privacy Policy in accordance with the principles set out in the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (“PIPEDA”) to better serve this goal. We are accountable for all personal information provided by you on the Website.
2.Identifying the Purposes of Collecting Personal Information
If you decide to create a personal profile with the Website you will be asked to provide certain personal information. Prior to collecting such information, we will identify why it is needed and how it will be used.
Use of Information
We may use your information for the following purposes:
- to administer your membership account and enable us to provide you with access to all parts of the Website and to enable you to download information and materials from the Website;
- to enable us to provide you with the services that you have subscribed to from the Website, including where appropriate to personalise the Website in accordance with your preferences;
- where you have submitted your information to a profile page to display your username and contact details to other users;
- to display the information that you submitted as part of your profile to other members and to enable other members of the Website to contact you;
- for research, statistical and marketing analysis and user profiling at an individual level;
- to build reports based on locations pertinent to corporations and individual business owners;
- to provide customer service in relation to your use of the Website;
- to administer, support, improve and develop our Website; and
- otherwise to the extent permitted by applicable law.
3.Obtaining Consent
We will obtain your consent prior to collecting, using or disclosing your personal information. By completing and submitting the form in the ["Start Sharing!"] section of this Website, you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your information in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy.
4.Limiting Collection of Personal Information
We will not collect your personal information indiscriminately. We collect information only for the purposes stated in this Privacy Policy or as otherwise disclosed to you on this Website, or as permitted by applicable law. We will not deceive or mislead you about the reasons for collecting personal information.
5.Limiting Use, Disclosure and Retention of Personal Information
If you choose to create a personal profile, you will asked to disclose certain information, including but not limited to your age, date of birth, location, profile image and information on your travel preferences. We may also collect information about your usage of the Website, as well as information about you, from e-mails or letters that you send to us.
We will only use any such information in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy, except with your consent or as required by law. Your personal information will be retained only as long as necessary for the fulfillment of the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy or otherwise on the Website.
Use of information
We may use your information to send you notifications, information about the Website, newsletters and other content we think may be of interest to you if you have so consented on the registration form. If at any time you no longer wish to be contacted for this purpose, please let us know and we will remove you from our mailing list.
Your personal information may be anonymised and we may use this anonymised information for research, user profiling and analysis purposes. We may share this anonymised information with Splode Inc. and third parties, but we will never disclose your identifiable personal information (including your name, address and telephone number) to any third parties, unless your consent is obtained in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
By uploading content to the site, you grant Splode Inc. a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual and irrevocable right to use, reproduce, modify, distribute, sublicense, and prepare derivative works of, such Content, in any format or medium now known or later developed, solely on and through the site, subject to this Privacy Policy.
Disclosure of information
Your anonymised personal information may be disclosed as part of reports. This includes (but not exclusively) gender, location, and preference selections, as well as reviews on specific locations. Some or all of this data entered on the site may be included as part of these reports. These reports may be purchased by individual business owners or to corporations for their own use. Statistical information and reviews will not be directly attributed to individual users.
No identifiable personal information will be disclosed to any third parties, unless your consent is obtained in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If such consent is obtained, we may disclose your information for marketing purposes, however, you will not receive direct marketing from outside companies as a result of giving us your details. We may use your information to send you administrative or service messages, even where you have told us you do not wish to receive direct marketing. If our company is sold, the buyer will be entitled to use your existing marketing consents.
Certain elements of your profile and other information or reviews you post to the Website will be visible by users of the Website throughout the world, even if they are not connected to your network. We advise you to be selective about what information you post on the Website or that you provide to other users. Do not submit information that you do not wish to be available to the public, such as telephone numbers, personal addresses, etc.
We may disclose your personal information to (i) to any third party to whom disclosure is necessary to enable us to provide you with any service to which you have subscribed via the Website (ii) any person to whom disclosure is necessary to enable us to enforce our rights under this Privacy Policy or under the Terms of Use (iii) any purchaser of the Website (iv) to as described in clause 4 above, and (v) as may otherwise be permitted by law.
Cookies
We use cookies to ensure that you get the most out of the Website. Cookies are small amounts of information which we store on your computer and they make it easier for you to log on to and use the Website during future visits. They also allow us to monitor website traffic and to personalise the content of the site for you. If you do not wish us to install cookies on your computer for these purposes, you may change the settings on your internet browser to reject cookies. For more information please consult the Help section of your browser. Please note that if you do set your browser to reject cookies, you may not be able to use all of the features of our Website.
Third party sites and contributors
The Website contains links to websites that are operated by third parties. We do not control those websites and as such this Privacy Policy does not apply to those websites. Please consult the terms and conditions and Privacy Policy of those third party websites to find out how they collect and use your personal data and to establish whether and for what purpose they use cookies.
Advertisements contained on our Website operate as links to that advertiser’s websites and as such any information they collect by virtue of your clicking on that link will be collected and used in accordance with the Privacy Policy of that advertiser.
6.Accuracy
We will keep personal information as accurate, complete and up to date as necessary. We will request updates to your personal information only when necessary for the purposes identified in this Privacy Policy.
7.Using appropriate Safeguards
No identifiable personal information will be disclosed to any third parties, unless your consent is obtained in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We employ security measures to protect your information from access by unauthorised persons and against unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction and damage. We will retain your information for the duration of your membership of the Website and for a reasonable period or as long as the law requires or permits.
8.Making Information about Policies and Procedures Available
We will be open about the procedures used to manage personal information. You will have access to information about these procedures through this Privacy Policy or by contacting us at the details in Paragraph 10.
9.Individual Access to Personal Information
You are entitled to see the information held about you and you may ask us to make any necessary changes to ensure that it is accurate and kept up to date. If you wish to do this, please contact us using the information provided above.
You may withdraw your consent for us to process your data at any time by notifying us in writing, but if you withdraw your consent to certain types of processing described above we may be unable to maintain your membership of the Website.
10.Recourse
You may direct any questions, inquiries or complaints with respect to this Privacy Policy at:
Splode Inc.
15 Erskine Ave.
Suite 803
Toronto, Ontario
M4P 1Y5
Attention: Privacy Officer
Email: info@mapinion.com
March 8, 2011
Splode Inc © 2012