Type of website: News or Media
Effective date: 21st day of April, 2021
www.thevintageseeker.ca (the “Site”) is owned and operated by The Vintage Seeker. The Vintage Seeker is the data controller and can be contacted at: support@thevintageseeker.ca.
We are responsible for maintaining and protecting the Personal Information under our control. We have designated an individual or individuals who is/are responsible for compliance with our privacy policy.
We collect, use and disclose Personal Information to provide you with the product or service you have requested and to offer you additional products and services we believe you might be interested in.
The purposes for which we collect Personal Information will be identified before or at the time we collect the information. In certain circumstances, the purposes for which information is collected may be clear, and consent may be implied, such as where your name, address and payment information is provided as part of the order process.
The purpose of this privacy policy (this “Privacy Policy”) is to inform users of our Site of the following:
This Privacy Policy applies in addition to the terms and conditions of our Site.
Knowledge and consent are required for the collection, use or disclosure of Personal Information except where required or permitted by law. Providing us with your Personal Information is always your choice.
However, your decision not to provide certain information may limit our ability to provide you with our products or services. We will not require you to consent to the collection, use, or disclosure of information as a condition to the supply of a product or service, except as required to be able to supply the product or service.
By using our Site users agree that they consent to:
When the legal basis for us processing your personal data is that you have provided your consent to that processing, you may withdraw your consent at any time. If you withdraw your consent, it will not make processing that we completed before you withdrew your consent unlawful.
You can withdraw your consent by clicking “unsubscribe” within emails or by contacting support@thevintageseeker.ca.
For users in the European Union, we adhere to the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”). For users in the United Kingdom, we adhere to the GDPR as enshrined in the Data Protection Act 2018.
We have not appointed a Data Protection Officer as we do not fall within the categories of controllers and processors required to appoint a Data Protection Officer under Article 37 of the GDPR.
Under the GDPR, you have the following rights:
We collect and process personal data about users in the EU only when we have a legal basis for doing so under Article 6 of the GDPR. We rely on the following legal bases to collect and process the personal data of users in the EU:
The Personal Information collected will be limited to those details necessary for the purposes identified by us. With your consent, we may collect Personal Information from you in person, over the telephone or by corresponding with you via mail, facsimile, or the Internet.
Data collected on our Site will only be used for the purposes specified in this Privacy Policy or indicated on the relevant pages of our Site. We will not use your data beyond what we disclose in this Privacy Policy.
Employees. We may disclose user data to any member of our organization who reasonably needs access to user data to achieve the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.
Some of the articles and content within The Vintage Seeker may use affiliate (third-party) links. These links in no way influence the direction of our editorial content, and we remain committed to delivering accurate and trustworthy information.
When you click on an affiliate link, a cookie that tracks your journey on that site alone will be dropped onto your computer for a period of time (length varies depending on the third-party site, but usually around 30 days). The Vintage Seeker does not receive the tracking information. If you make a purchase on that third-party site, we may receive a small commission from the retailer or service provider at no additional cost to you. This compensation helps us maintain and improve our website, ensuring that we can continue to offer you insightful and engaging content.
Our recommendations are always based on our own research and expertise. We will only promote products and services that we think will be of value to you. We are not responsible for the products and services themselves, nor are we responsible for the privacy policies on those websites.
Articles that contain affiliate links are always labelled as such at the top of the article, underneath the headline and subhead.
If you would prefer not to use these links for privacy reasons, you can still find the recommended products by using your favourite search engine and visiting pages directly.
If you have questions about how we use affiliate links, please contact us.
We will not sell or share your data with other third parties, except in the following cases:
Our website may contain links to other third-party sites that are not governed by this privacy policy. Although we endeavour to only link to sites with high privacy standards, our privacy policy will no longer apply once you leave our website. Additionally, we are not responsible for the privacy practices employed by third-party websites. Therefore, we suggest that you examine the privacy statements of those sites to learn how your information may be collected, used, shared and disclosed.
User data will be stored for two years before re-confirming consent as per Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL). You will be notified if your data is kept for longer than this period.
In order to protect your security, our data is stored on secure servers. All data is only accessible to our employees.
While we take all reasonable precautions to ensure that user data is secure and that users are protected, there always remains the risk of harm. The Internet as a whole can be insecure at times and therefore we are unable to guarantee the security of user data beyond what is reasonably practical.
Personal information will be maintained in as accurate, complete and up-to-date form as is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it is to be used.
We do not knowingly collect or use personal data from children under 16 years of age. If we learn that we have collected personal data from a child under 16 years of age, the personal data will be deleted as soon as possible. If a child under 16 years of age has provided us with personal data their parent or guardian may contact our privacy officer.
If you would like to know if we have collected your personal data, how we have used your personal data, if we have disclosed your personal data and to who we disclosed your personal data, if you would like your data to be deleted or modified in any way, or if you would like to exercise any of your other rights under PIPEDA or the GDPR, please contact our privacy officer here: support@thevintageseeker.ca.
Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a privacy preference that you can set in certain web browsers. We do not track the users of our Site over time and across third party websites and therefore do not respond to browser-initiated DNT signals.
In addition to the method(s) described in the How to Access, Modify, Delete, or Challenge the Data Collected section, we provide the following specific opt-out methods for the forms of collection, use, or disclosure of your personal data specified below:
A cookie is a small computer file or piece of information that may be stored in your computer’s hard drive when you visit our websites. We may use cookies to improve our website’s functionality and in some cases, to provide visitors with a customized online experience.
Cookies are widely used and most web browsers are configured initially to accept cookies automatically. You may change your Internet browser settings to prevent your computer from accepting cookies or to notify you when you receive a cookie so that you may decline its acceptance. Please note, however, if you disable cookies, you may not experience optimal performance of our website.
This Privacy Policy may be amended from time to time in order to maintain compliance with the law and to reflect any changes to our data collection process. When we amend this Privacy Policy we will update the “Effective Date” at the top of this Privacy Policy. We recommend that our users periodically review our Privacy Policy to ensure that they are notified of any updates. If necessary, we may notify users by email of changes to this Privacy Policy.
If you have any complaints about how we process your personal data, please contact us through the contact methods listed in the Contact Information section so that we can, where possible, resolve the issue. If you feel we have not addressed your concern in a satisfactory manner you may contact a supervisory authority. You also have the right to directly make a complaint to a supervisory authority in your region.
If you have any questions, concerns or complaints, you can contact founder Kristina Urquhart at hello@thevintageseeker.ca.