Privacy Policy

Your privacy is critically important to us. At VancouverIslandAbound.com we have a few fundamental principles:

• We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
• We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
• We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.

Below is our privacy policy which incorporates these goals:

(Note, thanks to WordPress for making this privacy policy available under a Creative Commons Sharealike license, which means you’re more than welcome to steal it and repurpose it for your own use, just make sure to replace references to us with ones to you, and if you're able they would appreciate a link to WordPress.com somewhere on your site.

www.VancouverIslandAbound.com ("VIA") operates this website. It is our policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, VIA collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. VIA’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how VIA’s visitors use its website. From time to time, VIA may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

VIA also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. VIA does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to VIA’s websites choose to interact with VIA in ways that require VIA to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that VIA gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a newsletter, and hence the user must provide a name and email address. Those who engage in transactions with VIA – by purchasing a product from VIA, for example – are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, VIA collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with VIA. VIA does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

VIA may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, VIA may monitor the most popular pages on the Tofino Guide. VIA may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, VIA does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

VIA discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on VIA’s behalf or to provide services available at VIA’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using VIA’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. VIA will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, VIA discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when VIA believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of VIA, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an VIA website and have supplied your email address, VIA may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with VIA and our products. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. VIA takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. VIA uses cookies to help VIA identify and track visitors, their usage of VIA website, and their website access preferences. VIA visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using VIA’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of VIA’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Ads

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by VIA and does not cover the use of cookies by any adverVIAers.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, VIA may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in VIA’s sole discretion. VIA encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.