Information Collection and Use
At Tech Swap Zone Inc. (TSZ), we value our customers and their privacy. We collect store, use, and share customer information in accordance with this policy. We may store information you enter on our website, including your account information. We use your personal information to ensure efficient processing of your order, to communicate with you, and to improve our website, services, and products. We sometimes send offers to select groups of TSZ customers on behalf of other businesses. When we do this, we may help our partners verify the effectiveness of their offers to our customers. We will not sell or share identifiable personal information to any third party, except in accordance with this privacy policy or unless we are required to do so by law. The information provided by the customer might be used for variety of reason including but not limited to the following.
To understand our marketing approach, advertising, to learn where the customers are based, etc
With the customer’s consent in providing the information, factorydirect.ca uses the information for a variety of reasons including (but not limited to): To assist our marketing department in determining where our customer base is coming from which allows Tech Swap Zone to better serve our customers and to distribute flyers more efficiently.
COOKIES :
Our web site uses “cookies”, a technology that installs a small amount of information on a web site user’s computer to permit the web site to recognize future visits using that computer. Cookies enhance the convenience and use of the web site.
PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES :
This privacy policy is subject to change as we continue to learn our weaknesses to improve our practices and policies in order to serve the interests of our customers.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
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
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.
Contact forms
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
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.
Analytics
Who we share your data with
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.