Our Privacy Policy
This privacy policy is an agreement between Granpaparazzi and our visitors (you) with respect to personal information you may provide in order to receive newsletters and announcements or to participate in surveys and contests. This document also outlines our policies related to public comments you may make on our site and photo submissions to our editors.Our Commitment
Granpaparazzi is committed to providing you with an exceptional experience. Protecting your personal information is one of our highest priorities.We inform our visitors why and how we collect, use and disclose their personal information. We obtain their consent where required and only handle their personal information in a manner that a reasonable person would consider appropriate in the circumstances.
Information Collection
Granpaparazzi may occasionally ask you to provide personal information (i.e. your name, age, marital status, religion, income, education and area of employment). We use this information to ensure every aspect of our site -- content, advertising, services and collateral materials -- are appropriate to your interests.Personal information does not include contact information (described below).
Contact Information
Contact information is information that enables us to contact you. This may include your name, e-mail, mailing address and telephone number. Contact information is not covered by this policy.If you’ve indicated a preference to be contacted for news, updates, opportunities or events, we will respect your request and use the information for the stated purpose only. If you’ve indicated that you do not want to be contacted for marketing purposes or updates, we will contact you only in the course of conducting business matters as authorized and/or requested by you.
Data Collection
While you browse Granpaparazzi, our servers may collect data relating to your browser, your IP address and pages that you have visited. In no way does this directly identify you or your business. All data that is gathered by our systems, directly or indirectly, is kept in the strictest confidence and is not revealed to third parties unless required to do so by order of law. Information gathered about visitors to our website is used for technical purposes related to server performance, usability and usage statistics.Cookies may be used by our website and/or servers to track your personal preferences for this site or to track your login status. The cookies will only store information relevant to your visit(s) to our website and will not be shared with unauthorized, third parties.
Securing Your Information
We are committed to ensuring the security of your personal information in order to protect it from unauthorized access, collection, use, disclosure, copying, modification, disposal or similar risks.The following security measures will be followed to ensure that your personal information is appropriately protected: Wherever personal information is physically held, we will use locked cabinets and facilities equipped with alarms. We will use appropriate security measures when destroying personal information (i.e. shredding) and continually review our security policies to ensure ongoing personal information security.
Public Comments and Photo Submissions
Our website provides numerous opportunities for visitors to submit comments, send photos for publication on our site and send letters to the editor. These activities are voluntary and may result in public exposure of words and images you submit to us or upload to our site.We reserve the right to remove comments we deem inappropriate or defamatory.
A note about copyright: Anything you submit to Granparazzi (i.e. photos, graphics, videos and comments) becomes the property of the Granparazzi Collective and will be protected under our copyright agreement.
Photos and words submitted to us via e-mail or online submission tools may be used by the Granparazzi Collective at any time, at our discretion. Please see our Copyright Statement for details.
Links
We may provide links to outside, third-party websites as resources for you. Links to third-party websites do not indicate any guarantee as to the adherence of other parties to the policies of this website and visitors must be aware that websites not under our domains will have privacy and terms of use policies that are different than those of Granpaparazzi.We don’t guarantee the privacy policies of any third-party websites. Removing Personal Information from our Records
While your personal information is protected, you may choose to remove it from our records. For example, if you don’t want to receive updates or news from us, we will honour your request without question. Upon request, we will remove your protected personal information from our site and any data files in our offices.