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Your privacy is important to us. It’s our policy to respect your privacy and comply with any applicable law and regulation regarding the personal information we collect about you through this website, alyielts.com, and through any associated services and third-party platforms we may use.

 

Types of Information Collected

There are two types of information that we obtain from you online and then store and use:

       *   non-personal information that’s collected automatically from each visitor, such as your device operating system; and

       *   personal information that you voluntarily provide to us or that is collected automatically.

Personal information is any information about you which can be used to identify you. Any information we collect may be automatically collected (i.e. information automatically sent to us by your devices when you access our services) or voluntarily provided (i.e. information you knowingly and actively provide us).

 

Automatically collected information

Our servers automatically log standard data provided by your web browser when you visit our website. This data may include your device’s IP address, device type, operating system, browser type and version, the pages you visit, the time and date of your visit, time spent on each page, and other details about your visit or device.

 

Device data we collect can depend on the settings of your device and software. We recommend checking the policies of your device manufacturer or software provider to learn what information they make available to us.

 

Additionally, if you encounter errors on this site, we automatically collect data about the error and the circumstances surrounding its occurrence. This data may include technical details about your device, what you were trying to do when the error happened, and other information relating to the problem. You may or may not receive notice of such errors.

 

Please be aware that while this information may not be personally identifying by itself, it is possible to combine it with other data to personally identify individual persons.

 

Voluntarily provided personal information

When you use our product order form, we ask for personal information such as your name, email address, website address, and payment information. When you contact us, submit a review, or interact with us on social media, we may collect the personal information associated with your activity, such as your name and profile.

 

User-generated content

We consider user-generated content to be comments on articles and in forums, voluntarily submitted by our users and customers through our on-site feedback widget. We may use personal information in order to attribute user-generated content we publish on our site and on other platforms (including social media platforms).
Please be aware that any content you submit for the purpose of publication may be public after posting (and subsequent review or vetting process). Once published, it may be accessible to third parties not covered under this privacy policy.

 

Personal Information We Collect From You

We may collect the following Personal Information about you:

  • Contact Information, such as name, postal address, phone, and email address.
  • Commercial Information, such as information relating to your purchases and use of our Services, including purchasing or consuming histories, tendencies or interests.
  • Internet or Similar Network Activity, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system and activity on our Site. We also collect Personal Information concerning your interaction with our advertising and other communications.
  • Location Information, such as information collected automatically when you access our Site.
  • Demographic Information, such as age or birthday, race or gender, salary range, education, marital status, occupation, or personal and online interests.
  • Inferences drawn from other personal information, such as profiles reflecting your preferences, characteristics, predispositions, attitudes and aptitudes.

Our Use of Personal Information

We use your information for our legitimate interests, including:

  • to manage our Service, including your registration and account;
  • to provide you with customer service and support;
  • to provide the products and services you use or purchase, respond to your questions, and carry out the transactions you have requested;
  • to communicate with you regarding updates, technical notices, orders, security alerts, administrative messages, and information regarding changes to our policies;
  • to help authenticate any account you create with us;
  • to conduct market research and/or to provide general aggregated statistics regarding use of the Site;
  • to protect the rights or property of alyielts.com, our users, or other third parties, and prevent fraud and other prohibited or illegal activities;
  • to protect the security of our products, services and business;
  • to enhance and personalise our Service and our marketing efforts;
  • to develop and serve advertisements on our Service or through e-mails or other communications; and
  • for our internal purposes (such as auditing, data analysis, and research to improve and develop our products, services, content, advertising, and communications).

We also use your information with your consent, including:

  • to administer promotions you have entered;
  • to serve advertising tailored to your interests on our Service and third party services;
  • to send you newsletters and other promotional communications about our and third party products, offers, promotions, rewards, events, and services; and
  • Fulfill any other purpose disclosed to you and with your consent.

By using this Site, you agree that we may collect, hold, process and use your information (including personal information) for the purpose of providing you with the Site services and developing our business.

 

Security of Your Personal Information

We use commercial reasonably physical, technical and administrative security measures to reduce the risk of loss, misuse, unauthorized access, and disclosure of data. Please note, however, that no security measures are perfectly secure, and we are unable to guarantee the security of your Personal Information.

 

Third Party Products and Services

Our Service contains links to, or content from, third party websites and other products and services. The fact that we link to a website or display an advertisement or other third party content is not an endorsement, authorisation or representation of our affiliation with any of those third parties, nor is it an endorsement of their privacy or information security policies or practices.

 

We do not exercise control over third party websites, products or services, and where they store their information. These other products and services may place their own cookies or other technologies on your computer or other device, collect data, or solicit information from you. Other persons and entities follow different rules regarding the use or disclosure of the information you submit to them or they collect from you. We encourage you to learn about the privacy practices of those third parties.

Disclosure of personal information to third parties

We will not share your personal information collected from this web site with an unrelated third party without your permission, except as otherwise provided in this Privacy Policy. In the ordinary course of business, we may share some personal information with companies that we hire to perform services or functions on our behalf. In all cases in which we share your personal information with a third party for the purpose of providing a service to us, we will not authorize them to keep, disclose or use your information with others except for the purpose of providing the services we asked them to provide.

 

We will not sell, exchange or publish your personal information, except in conjunction with a corporate sale, merger, dissolution, or acquisition. For some sorts of transactions, in addition to our direct collection of information, our third party service vendors (such as credit card companies, clearinghouses and banks) who may provide such services as credit, insurance, and escrow services may collect personal information directly from you to assist you with your transaction. We do not control how these third parties use such information, but we do ask them to disclose how they use your personal information before they collect it.  

 

We may be legally compelled to release your personal information in response to a court order, subpoena, search warrant, law or regulation.

 

We may cooperate with law enforcement authorities in investigating and prosecuting web site visitors who violate our rules or engage in behavior, which is harmful to other visitors (or illegal). We may disclose your personal information to third parties if we feel that the disclosure is necessary to protect our rights or property, protect someone’s health, safety or welfare, or to comply with a law or regulation, court order or other legal process. From time to time we may allow a third party to serve advertisements on this web site.

 

If you share information with the advertiser, including by clicking on their ads, this Privacy Policy does not control the advertisers use of your personal information, and you should check the privacy policies of those advertisers and/or ad services to learn about their use of cookies and other technology before linking to an ad.

 

We may disclose personal information to a parent, subsidiary, or affiliate of our company; third party service providers for the purpose of enabling them to provide their services, including (without limitation) IT service providers, data storage, hosting and server providers, ad networks, analytics, error loggers, debt collectors, maintenance or problem-solving providers, marketing or advertising providers, professional advisors, and payment systems operators; our employees, contractors, and/or related entities; our existing or potential agents or business partners; courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities, and law enforcement officers, as required by law, in connection with any actual or prospective legal proceedings, or in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights; third parties, including agents or sub-contractors, who assist us in providing information, products, services, or direct marketing to you; third parties to collect and process data; an entity that buys, or to which we transfer all or substantially all of our assets and business.

 

Third parties we currently use include Google Analytics, for analytics, search engine marketing; Flywheel Managed Hosting for our web hosting, data hosting and data storage; and Stripe and PayPal for processing payments.

Storing and protecting your personal information

 

We keep your personal information only for as long as we need to. This time period may depend on what we are using your information for, in accordance with this privacy policy. If your personal information is no longer required for its intended purpose, we will delete it or make it anonymous by removing all details that identify you.

 

However, if necessary, we may retain your personal information for our compliance with a legal, accounting, or reporting obligation or for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific, or historical research purposes or statistical purposes.

 

When we collect and process personal information, and while we retain this information, we will protect it within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorised access, disclosure, copying, use, or modification.

 

Although we will do our best to protect the personal information you provide to us, we advise that no method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure, and no one can guarantee absolute data security.

Children’s Privacy

We do not aim any of our products or services directly at children under the age of 18, and we do not knowingly collect personal information about children under 18.

International transfers of personal information

The personal information we collect is stored and/or processed in Canada and the United States, and where we or our partners, affiliates, and third-party providers maintain facilities.

 

The countries to which we store, process, or transfer your personal information may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided the information. If we transfer your personal information to third parties in other countries: (i) we will perform those transfers in accordance with the requirements of applicable law; and (ii) we will protect the transferred personal information in accordance with this privacy policy.

 

Where the disclosure of your personal information is solely subject to the  Digital Privacy Act, you acknowledge that some third parties may not be regulated by the Digital Privacy Act. You acknowledge that if any such third party engages in any act or practice that contravenes the Canadian Privacy Laws, it would not be accountable under the Digital Privacy Act, and you will not be able to seek redress under the Digital Privacy Act.

 

We will ensure that any transfer of personal information from countries in the European Economic Area (EEA) to countries outside the EEA will be protected by appropriate safeguards, for example by using standard data protection clauses approved by the European Commission, or the use of binding corporate rules or other legally accepted means.

 

Your rights and controlling your personal information

 

Your choice: By providing personal information to us, you understand we will collect, hold, use, and disclose your personal information in accordance with this privacy policy. You do not have to provide personal information to us, however, if you do not, it may affect your use of our website or the products and/or services offered on or through it.

 

Information from third parties:  If we receive personal information about you from a third party, we will protect it as set out in this privacy policy. If you are a third party providing personal information about somebody else, you represent and warrant that you have such person’s consent to provide the personal information to us.

 

Marketing permission: If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by contacting us using the details below.

 

Access: You may request details of the personal information that we hold about you.

 

Correction: If you believe that any information we hold about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant, or misleading, please contact us using the details provided in this privacy policy. We will take reasonable steps to correct any information found to be inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, or out of date.

 

Non-discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights over your personal information. Unless your personal information is required to provide you with a particular service or offer, we will not deny you goods or services and/or charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties, or provide you with a different level or quality of goods or services.

 

Notification of data breaches: We will comply with laws applicable to us in respect of any data breach.

 

Complaints: If you believe that we have breached a relevant data protection law and wish to make a complaint, please contact us using the details below and provide us with full details of the alleged breach. We will promptly investigate your complaint and respond to you, in writing, setting out the outcome of our investigation and the steps we will take to deal with your complaint. You also have the right to contact a regulatory body or data protection authority in relation to your complaint.

 

Unsubscribe: To unsubscribe from our e-mail database or opt-out of communications (including marketing communications), please contact us using the details provided in this privacy policy, or opt-out using the opt-out facilities provided in the communication. We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity.

 

Restrict: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information if (i) you are concerned about the accuracy of your personal information; (ii) you believe your personal information has been unlawfully processed; (iii) you need us to maintain the personal information solely for the purpose of a legal claim; or (iv) we are in the process of considering your objection in relation to processing on the basis of legitimate interests.

 

Objecting to processing: You have the right to object to processing of your personal information that is based on our legitimate interests or public interest. If this is done, we must provide compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which overrides your interests, rights, and freedoms, in order to proceed with the processing of your personal information.

 

Data portability: You may have the right to request a copy of the personal information we hold about you. Where possible, we will provide this information in CSV format or other easily readable machine format. You may also have the right to request that we transfer this personal information to a third party.

 

Deletion: You may have a right to request that we delete the personal information we hold about you at any time, and we will take reasonable steps to delete your personal information from our current records. If you ask us to delete your personal information, we will let you know how the deletion affects your use of our website or products and services. There may be exceptions to this right for specific legal reasons which, if applicable, we will set out for you in response to your request. Please be aware that search engines and similar third parties may still retain copies of your personal information that has been made public at least once, like reviews and attribution, even after you have requested deletion of the information from our services.

Use of Cookies and other Tracking Technologies

Like many commercial websites, we analyze how visitors use our Site with “cookie” technology. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your computer when you access our website and allows us to recognize you each time you visit the website. We may use cookies to (1) enhance or personalize your website usage and experience; (2) monitor website usage; and (3) improve the website and our services, including providing you with interest-based ads. 

 

If you choose, you can set your browser to reject cookies or you can manually delete individual cookies or all of the cookies on your computer by following your browser’s help file directions. However, if your browser is set to reject cookies or you manually delete cookies, you may have some trouble accessing and using some of the pages and features on our Site. Please note that browser-management tools for cookies are outside of our control, and we cannot guarantee their effectiveness. 

 

We may also use web beacons (sometimes called single-pixel gifs, clear gifs or action tags) on our Site, in our emails, and in our advertisements on other websites. Web beacons are tiny graphic images that are used to collect information about your visit to the website, such as the pages you view and the features you use, as well as information about whether you open and/or act upon one of our emails or advertisements. We may also collect the URL of the website you visited immediately before coming to our website. Web beacons help us analyze the behavior of visitors to our Site and measure the effectiveness of the Site and our advertising.

 

We may work with service providers and other third parties that help us track, collect and analyze the information collected in cookies and web beacons. We may combine the information we collect with other information we have collected from you or information from other sources.

 

Business transfers

If we or our assets are acquired, or in the unlikely event that we go out of business or enter bankruptcy, we would include data, including your personal information, among the assets transferred to any parties who acquire us. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any parties who acquire us may, to the extent permitted by applicable law, continue to use your personal information according to this policy, which they will be required to assume as it is the basis for any ownership or use rights we have over such information.

Limits of our policy

Our website may link to external sites that are not operated by us. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and policies of those sites, and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective privacy practices.

 

External links

In the event our site contains links to third party sites and services, please be aware that those sites and services have their own privacy policies. After following a link to any third-party content, you should read their posted privacy policy information about how they collect and use personal information. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any of your activities after you leave our site.

 

Updates to the Policy

We may update this Policy periodically as we offer new products and services, and as our business, technology, and applicable laws change. You can determine when this Policy was last revised by referring to the “Last updated” referenced above. Any changes will become effective upon posting of the revised Policy.

 

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us at

 

admin@alyielts.com

 

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