NatureTot Inc. Privacy Policy

PRIVACY POLICY 

Last Updated: September 28, 2023

NatureTot Inc. (“Company”, “we”, “our” or “us”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it. This Privacy Policy governs your access and use of our website at https://naturetot.ca and related landing pages (collectively, “Site”), whether as a guest or a registered user. In this Privacy Policy “you” or “your” refers to any person who accesses our Site.

PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY BEFORE USING OUR SITE.

This Privacy Policy is legally binding. By using our Site, you expressly accept and agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, you must not access or use our Site.

1. OVERVIEW

This Privacy Policy sets out how we collect information from you when you visit our Site, either automatically or through certain voluntary actions that you may take while visiting our Site, including accessing, purchasing or downloading any products, services, content or resources available on our Site (collectively, “Services”).

This Privacy Policy applies to information we collect:

• through this Site; and

• in email and other electronic messages between you and us.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to information collected by us offline or through any other means unrelated to the Site, including on any other website operated by us, or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries).

This Privacy Policy also sets out how we handle your personal information and your rights with respect to your personal information. 

2. USERS OF THE SITE

You must be at least the age of majority in your jurisdiction to use our Site. If you are under such age, you must immediately stop using our Site and not provide any information to us through any function on our Site. If you become aware that we have collected information from anyone under such age, please contact us or email us at info@naturetot.ca so we may delete that information. 

3. INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We collect certain types of information from you when you visit our Site. By using the Site, you are expressly consenting to our collection, use, disclosure and other handling of your information as set out in this Privacy Policy.

Here are some examples of the information that we may collect. This may not be a complete list:

• Personal Information: Personal identifying information such as your name, billing and/or shipping address, telephone numbers, email addresses, and other demographic information, such as your age and gender.

• User Account Information: In order to purchase or access certain Services, we may require you to create a user account and provide your name and/or email address and create a unique password. For your security, we do not have access or knowledge of your password and it is your sole responsibility to keep the password confidential and not share your account details with any other person.
  

• Computer, Browser and Mobile Information: Computer and connection information such as statistics on your page views, traffic to and from the Site, your unique resource locator (“URL”), advertisement data, your internet protocol (“IP”) address, your browsing history, and your Site log information. If you access our Site via your mobile phone, we may collect information about your device, including but not limited to, the model, manufacturer, device identification and your location information.
  

• Social Media Information: We may access personal information from social networking sites and apps, including Information but not limited to, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Plausible Analytics, Rocket Hosting, Fluent Forms and CRM, and Borlabs Analytics, which may include your name, username on any of these platforms, location, email, age, gender, profile picture and any other public information you have included on any of your social media profiles. If you want to limit this data, you should review the privacy and security settings of each social media site and change your privacy settings.
  

We will not request sensitive information from you at any time. Please do not submit any sensitive information to us, including your social insurance or security number, health data, genetic data, or information related to your ethnic origin, religious beliefs, or criminal history. If you do send us this information, then by doing so you are consenting to our use, storage, and processing of this information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. 

4. HOW WE COLLECT YOUR INFORMATION 

• Information You Voluntarily Provide. We collect information that you voluntarily and manually provide when you use our Site, such as when you purchase or access Services or certain content on our Site, sign up for our email list or newsletter, submit a form, send us questions, or interact with us through this Site (e.g., when you provide comments or feedback). Some of the information you manually provide may be personal information, such as your name or email address.

• Information from Your Website Browser or Mobile Device. We collect information that is sent to us automatically from your website browser or mobile device, such as your IP address, the name of your operating system, the name and version of your browser, date and time of your visit, page(s) you visit and length of time you spent on each page. The information we receive may depend on your browser or device settings. Information received from your website browser and mobile device typically is not, in and of itself, personally identifiable. However, we may combine it with other information in an attempt to identify you, or we may combine it with information that does identify you.

• Tracking Technologies. We may use cookies, pixels, website beacons, tags, and other tracking technologies to collect information about your engagement on the Site, as well as your browsing and purchasing behaviour. These tracking technologies include:

• • Clickstream Data: Through Site access logs we collect your URL, clickstream data and HTTP protocol elements, which generate certain kinds of non-identifying Site usage data, such as the number of hits and visits to the Site. This information is used for internal purposes for research and development, user analysis and business decision making, all of which provides better services to our users. The statistics garnered, which contain no personal information and cannot be used to gather such information, may also be provided to third-parties for data processing and analyzing.
  • Cookies: Cookies collect data sent to us by your computer about (i) the way you interact with our Site, such as when you use certain features or download attachments; and (ii) how long you stay on a certain webpage on our Site and the location from where you access our Site. All of this information helps us to improve the Site and Services and provide content based on the interests of our users. Most browsers are set to accept cookies by default. When you first encounter our Site, you will be asked to “consent to cookies.” If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options. However, this may affect your ability to use or make purchases from our Site. More detailed information about cookie management with specific website browsers can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.
  • Website Beacons or Pixels. These are small graphics that help us understand browsing activity and provide a better user experience. Unlike cookies, website beacons and pixels are non-identifiable when you visit a website page.
  • Social Widgets.These buttons are provided by third-party social media providers that allow you to interact and access certain social media services when you view a page on our Site. These widgets may collect browsing data, which may be sent to the respective third-party social media provider.
  • Third Party Software. We may use third-party software to post advertisements on our Site to oversee marketing or email campaigns, or manage other business initiatives. This third-party software may use cookies or similar tracking technology. We have no control over these third-parties or their use of cookies.
  • Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies. Some content or applications, including advertisements on our Site are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and/or servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use the Site. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
    

We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

• Ability to OPT-OUT of Tracking. We also may use the above-mentioned technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). We respect your decision if you want to opt-out of tracking for this website. If you choose to opt-out, some features of this Site may not work properly. For example, you may not be able to share content from our Site to social media sites, etc.
  

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website.

To learn how to turn tracking on or off on your device, you can visit the following websites:

• • Turn “Do Not Track” on or off/Android

• • Turn “Do Not Track” on or off/Mac

• Website Analytics. From time to time, we may use third party analytic tools operated by third-party companies. These analytic tools may also use cookies or other tracking technologies to analyze visitors’ use of our Site to determine the popularity of the content, and better understand online activity. We do not transfer personal information to these third-party vendors. However, in order to access our Site, you are consenting to the collection and use of your information by these third-party analytic companies. We recommend you review their respective privacy policies and contact them directly with any questions or requests to delete your information.
  

• Email Policies. We are committed to keeping your e-mail address confidential. We do not sell, rent, or lease our subscription lists to third parties, and will not disclose your email address to any third parties except as expressly set out in this Privacy Policy. All e-mail messages sent from our organization will contain an “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of each email so that you can opt-out of further e-mail communication from us. If you have any issues unsubscribing from our newsletter, please contact us or email us at info@naturetot.ca requesting to unsubscribe from future emails.
  

5. HOW WE USE AND DISCLOSE YOUR INFORMATION 

• Purpose. We collect information from you for the following purposes (collectively, the “Purposes”):

• • to provide our Site and Services to you;
  • to provide you with information, products or services that you request from us;
  • to carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts between you and us, including for billing and collection;
  • to collect statistical data and analyze trends to better understand your needs and interests;
  • to improve our Services, marketing and promotional efforts or troubleshoot issues on our Site;
  • to contact you with special offers and newsletters relating to our Services;
  • to allow you to participate in interactive and social features on our Site;
  • to improve the content, functionality and usability of this Site and provide a tailored and personalized experience for you when you visit our Site;
  • to prevent fraudulent activities and security breaches;
  • to resolve disputes and assist law enforcement when necessary or respond to any legal claims or otherwise comply with our legal obligations; and
  • to carry out any other purpose which is disclosed to you and for which you consent, or as is otherwise permitted by applicable law.

We may also use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers’ target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.

• Disclosure of your Personal Information. We may disclose your personal information to third parties in certain circumstances. In particular, we may share your personal information with third party processors as needed to serve our legitimate business interests. We will not sell your personal information to any third-party.

• General. When we disclose your Personal information to third parties, we take reasonable measures to ensure that these third parties implement appropriate technical and organizational measures in accordance with applicable privacy and data protection laws. We minimize the amount of personal information we disclose to what is directly relevant and necessary to accomplish the specified purpose.

• Service Providers. We may provide your Personal information to third party service providers in order to help us achieve the Purposes. For example, we may use third party service providers to help us: (A) process payments; (B) analyze usage of our Services; (C) track the effectiveness of our marketing strategies and communications; (D) assist with the prevention, detection and investigation of potentially illegal acts and security breaches; and (E) collect and process error and crash reports and store data.

• Corporate Transactions. We may also disclose or transfer your personal information to affiliates or third parties in the event of a proposed reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or equity, subject in each case to customary confidentiality agreements.

• Legal Disclosure. We may disclose personal information if we reasonably believe disclosure is in accordance with or required by any applicable law. This includes the disclosure of personal information where necessary for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims, or as otherwise permitted by applicable law. We will have no liability associated with any such disclosures made in good faith.

• International Transfer and Storage. Your personal information may be stored and processed in any country where we have facilities or in which we engage third party service providers. By using our Site and Services, and otherwise providing us your personal information, you consent to the transfer of your personal information to countries outside of your country of residence, which may have different data protection rules than in your country. Such personal information will be subject to the laws of the country in which it is held, and may be subject to disclosure to the governments, courts or law enforcement or regulatory agencies of such other country. If applicable, we will comply with the GDPR requirements providing adequate protection for the transfer of personal information from the European Economic Area to a third country.

For certainty, we may disclose aggregated information about our users and information that does not identify any individual without restriction. 

6. RETENTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We retain your personal information only as long as is reasonably necessary to provide you with the Site and Services, comply with our legal obligations, or until you request that we delete your personal information. Any personal information that we no longer need will be permanently deleted.

7. PROTECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We employ commercially reasonable methods to ensure the security of the personal information you voluntarily provide to us, as well as that information that is collected automatically. We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information, including using standard security protocols and transmitting information securely via Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and only using recognized online secure payment systems and reputable third-party payment processors and applications. Since email is not considered secure, please do not send us private information via email. Doing so is completely at your own risk. In order to protect our Site, we use software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information or hack or otherwise damage our Site. While we take these steps to protect your personal information as much as we can, no system or transmission of data over the internet or any storage of data is 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee absolute security. We encourage you to also take steps to protect your information by, for example, closing all web browsers after using our website If you are concerned about your personal information, please contact us or email us at info@naturetot.ca. 

In the event that personal information has been lost, stolen, or potentially compromised, our policy is to alert our users via email no later than 72 hours of our becoming aware of the event, or otherwise sooner if required by applicable law. We will also report such incident to any required data protection authority. We will work closely with any users affected to determine next steps such as any end-user notifications, needed patches, and how to avoid any similar event in the future. 

8. GROUNDS FOR PROCESSING PERSONAL INFORMATION

• General. We will not process your personal information without your consent, unless we are permitted or required to do so by applicable law. Your consent may be express or implied. The type of consent we may rely on in processing your personal information will vary based on your reasonable expectations, the sensitivity of your personal information, and the circumstances surrounding the collection of your personal information. Express consent is when you willingly agree (e.g., orally, in writing, or electronic agreement) to the processing of your personal information for particular purposes. Implied consent is when: (i) you do not expressly give consent, but you rather volunteer personal information for obvious purposes that a reasonable person would consider appropriate in the circumstances; or (ii) you are given notice and a reasonable opportunity to opt-out of your personal information being processed for specified purposes, and you do not opt-out.

• European Union. For individuals to whom the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) applies, we may process your personal information on the following grounds, in addition to any other grounds that may be available pursuant to applicable law:

• • Consent. Where you have given us consent through a statement or clear affirmative action agreeing to the processing of your personal information. For instance, by submitting your personal information on a form on our Site for a specified purpose.

• • Contract. Where processing of personal information is necessary to perform a contract to which you are a party with us, or which you have agreed to enter with us.

• • Legal Obligation. To comply with a legal obligation to which we are subject.
  • Legitimate Interests. Where the processing of personal information is based on our legitimate interests, provided that these do not override your own interests and fundamental rights. We have legitimate interests in the following:

• • • to properly operate and deliver our Site and Services to you;
    • to understand how users engage with our Site and Services;
    • to improve our Site and Services;
    • to market our Site and Services; and
    • to provide customer service, including responses to inquiries and feedback.
• Consent. For certainty, by accessing, using and/or downloading our Site and Services, as the case may be, you hereby consent to our processing of your personal information pursuant to this Privacy Policy.

9. RIGHTS RELATING TO PERSONAL INFORMATION

• General. You have certain rights relating to your personal information, subject to applicable law in each instance:

• Right to be Informed. To know how your personal information is collected, how it is used, and how it is disclosed and stored. This further includes:

• • Right to Withdraw Consent. To withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal information at any time. Please be advised that withdrawing your consent to the processing of personal information may impact the provision of the Site and Services. For further information on this, please contact us as provided in the “Contact Us” section below.
  • Right to Make a Complaint. To make a complaint about the processing of your personal information.
  • Right to Access. To receive a copy of your personal information.
  • Right to Rectification. To request correction of your personal information.

• European Union. If you are an individual to whom the GDPR applies, then you have the following additional rights relating to your personal information, subject to applicable law in each instance:

• • Right to Erasure. To request the deletion of personal information when: (A) you believe it is no longer necessary for the purposes collected; (B) you withdraw your consent or otherwise object to the processing of your personal information; or (C) your personal information was unlawfully processed.
  • Right to Restriction of Processing. To restrict the processing of personal information if you dispute its accuracy or object to its processing.
  • Right to Portability. To request that your personal information be transferred to another organization.
  • Right to Information about Automated Decision Making. To receive information about the basis of any automatic decision making (e.g., algorithms).
  • Right not to be Subject to Automated Decision Making. To not be subject to decisions based solely on automated processing, unless this is necessary pursuant to a contract between us.
  • Right to Object to Processing Activities. To object to the processing of your personal information based on our legitimate interests.

If you want to learn more about any rights under the GDPR, you can visit the European Commission’s page on Data Protection at https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection_en.

• Exercising Your Rights. If you would like to exercise your any of your personal information rights, please refer to our “Contact Us” section below. When doing so, please tell us which right you wish to exercise and provide us with contact information to direct our response. Your use of the Site and Services may be affected depending on the nature of the rights you seek to exercise.
  

Subject to applicable law: (i) we may verify your identity before fulfilling requests to exercise any rights; and (ii) we may request additional information if we cannot initially verify your identity, or if we require such additional information in order to properly assess your request. Any personal information that you disclose to us for the purposes of verifying your identity and/or exercising your rights will solely be used for those purposes. 

10. PERSONAL INFORMATION ABOUT OTHER INDIVIDUALS 

Before providing any personal information on behalf of another individual, you confirm that you have received all necessary authorizations under applicable law to do so. 

11. THIRD-PARTY LINKS

If you disclose your personal information to others, or if you engage any third-party sites or services, such third-party’s privacy notices and practices will apply. We cannot guarantee the privacy or security of your personal information once you provide it to a third party and we encourage you to evaluate the privacy and security policies of each such third-party before any such engagement or disclosure.

The Site may contain links to third party websites or applications that are not owned, maintained or operated by us. Any such links are provided solely as a convenience to you and not as an endorsement by us. We are not responsible for the content of such linked third-party websites or applications and do not make any representations, warranties or guarantees regarding the content or the privacy practices of such third parties. For certainty, the Company disclaims any liability associated with your access to, use of, download of, or reliance on, such third-party websites or applications and their content. If you decide to access, use or download any such third-party website, application or content, you do so at your sole risk.

12. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy in our discretion and will make our best effort to update the date “Last Updated” at the top of this page each time we make changes. You can review our most recent changes by visiting this page. By continuing to use our Site, you waive specific notice of, and accept all changes to our Privacy Policy made from time to time. We encourage you to return to this page each time you access our Site to ensure you have read our most recent Privacy Policy. 

13. INTERPRETATION 

In this Privacy Policy, unless the context otherwise requires, words importing the singular include the plural and vice versa, and words importing gender include all genders. Where the word “including” or “includes” is used in this Agreement, it means “including (or includes) without limitation”. 

CONTACT US

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or wish to exercise any of your rights you email us at info@naturetot.ca.