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At SIRKit Ltd. (the “Company”, “we” and “us”), we are strongly committed to transparency, and we want you (“you” or “your”) to understand how we collect, use, disclose and protect your personal information, and if “you” are a corporation or other legal entity, the personal information will be that of your employees or contractors, or of other individuals that is under your custody or control, that you may provide to us in connection with your use of the Services (as later defined). This Privacy Policy also sets out how you can manage the personal information we collect from you.
This Privacy Policy applies to information we collect, use, or disclose about you on https://www.sirkit.ca/ and https://docs.sirkit.ca/ (collectively, the “Originating Websites”), and through other websites and services associated with the Originating Websites including, but not limited to, sirkit.pro and sirkithosting.ca (collectively, the “Related Websites”, together with the Originating Websites, the “Website”), which facilitate the provision of Services and in email, text message and other electronic communications between you and the Company.
This Privacy Policy applies to your use of our Website, and all related services provided on or through the Website (collectively, the “Website Services”), and all other services we provide whether online or offline (collectively, the “Other Services” together with the Website Services, the “Services”). Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices for collecting, processing and storing your personal information. By using the Services, you are accepting the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Services. If you do not understand, or if you have questions about, this Privacy Policy, please contact us before using, or continuing to use, the Services.
The last update details are located at the end of this Privacy Policy. We maintain the right to update or modify our Privacy Policy at our discretion. Except for situations where the Services you have purchased or are utilizing necessitate a designated notice period, as outlined in your contractual agreement or terms and conditions with us, any modifications to our Privacy Policy become effective immediately upon posting. Your continued use of our Services following the posting of changes to our Privacy Policy signifies your acceptance of such amendments.
Please refer to the following sections to learn more about our Privacy Policy.
Personal information means information about an identifiable individual (collectively, “personal information”). Personal information does not include information that cannot be attributed to an identifiable individual, such as information of an aggregate or anonymous nature (collectively, “non-personal information”).
We will obtain your express consent prior to or when collecting, using, or disclosing your personal information for any purpose not described in this Privacy Policy, or for a purpose that was not identified to you nor reasonably expected at the time of collection, unless we are required or permitted by law not to obtain your consent.
We may rely on your implied consent in certain circumstances, after taking into account factors such as the sensitivity of the personal information and your reasonable expectations. We will only use your personal information to provide you with our Services and in accordance with this policy unless otherwise required by applicable law. We will limit the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information to only that which is necessary for the purposes identified, unless you have otherwise consented, or when such collection, use, and/or disclosure is permitted or required by law.
Unless required by applicable law, you can always refuse to provide your personal information, except that refusal may prevent you from using our Services or receiving responses to your inquiries or other information of interest.
We may collect various types of personal information from you, depending upon how you interact with us or use or interact with our Services. This personal information may include your:
We need to collect personal information from you in order to provide you with our Services, as well as to improve your experience using our Services. You may provide us with personal information by paper, verbally or electronically, including, for example when you:
With your permission, we may also collect personal information from other sources (such as from third party service providers), to, among other things, enable us to complete, verify, or update personal information contained in our records and to better customize the Services we provide. These third-parties may have relevant information to support our business needs.
Automatic Information Collection and Tracking Technologies
When you download, access, and use our Services, we may automatically collect certain information about your browsing actions and patterns including:
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include cookies, flash cookies, web beacons, and/or similar log files. These are small files stored on your computer browser or device when you visit certain online pages, images on web pages that track user activity on the Website, or similar.
The information we collect automatically is statistical information and may include personal information, and we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service in order to improve your online experience, including by enabling us to:
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
We may also use various types of online analytics, including Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”), on our Services. Google Analytics uses cookies or other tracking technologies to help us analyze how users interact with and use our Services, compile reports on the related activities, and provide other services related to the Website activity and usage. The technologies used by Google may collect information such as your IP address, time of visit, your location, search history, YouTube history, data from sites that partner with Google, whether you are a return visitor, and any referring website or application. The information generated by Google Analytics will be transmitted to and stored by Google and will be subject to Google’s privacy policies. You may opt-out of Google Analytics through your Ad Settings. To learn more about Google’s partner services and how to opt out of tracking of analytics by Google.
Third-Party Information Collection
Some content or applications on the Website, including advertisements, are served by third-parties, including advertisers, advertising networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect personal information about you when you use our Website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites, applications and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they are used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.
Unless otherwise consented by you in advance, or as may be permitted or required by law, we will only use and disclose your personal information to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected (and in accordance with this Privacy Policy).
We use personal information to:
Except as set forth in this Privacy Policy, or as required or permitted by law, we disclose your personal information to our service providers and our affiliates, and their respective directors, officers, employees, agents, consultants, advisors or other representatives that have a need to use your personal information to provide or improve our Services, to legal or regulatory authorities, or for other purposes for which you have provided your consent. In no event will we sell or lease your personal information.
We may disclose personal information:
We may disclose your personal information to third-parties who assist us with the following:
We do not disclose your personal information to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes without your consent. We only disclose non-personal information to third parties as reasonably necessary to meet our business needs.
We may transfer personal information that we collect or that you provide as described in this Privacy Policy to contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business (such as analytics and search engine providers that assist us with Website improvement and optimization) and who are contractually obligated to keep personal information confidential, use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them, and to process the personal information with the same standards set out in this Privacy Policy.
We may process, store, and transfer your personal information in and to a location outside of your province or country, including on or in computing systems or cloud-based servers located outside of your province or country. In these circumstances, the governments, courts, law enforcement, or regulatory agencies of that province or country may be able to obtain access to your personal information through the laws of the other province or foreign country. Whenever we engage a service provider, we require that its privacy and security standards adhere to this Privacy Policy and applicable Canadian privacy legislation. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your disclosure of your personal information represents your agreement to such processing, storing and transferring of personal information.
The security of your personal information is very important to us. We use physical, electronic, and administrative measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, disclosure, copying, modification, disposal or destruction. For example, our office locations ensure round-the-clock security with surveillance, monitored alarm, and key fob access. Data in transit, and at rest, is protected with modern encryption standards. Additionally, we follow many cyber security best practices to reinforce our comprehensive safeguarding of the personal information you provide to us.
We will only retain your personal information for the period of time reasonably required to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected. We may retain non-personal information for as long as we have a business need to do so.
Our Services may utilize third party systems, programs, websites, solutions, and/or applications.
All of our service providers and contractors are contractually obligated to employ appropriate data security measures with respect to your personal information and to collect/use/disclose/retain it only within the scope required for the provision of our Services. However, we are not responsible for the actions and privacy policies of these third parties and their systems, programs, websites, solutions and/or applications.
We try our best to safeguard personal information once we receive it, but please understand that no transmission of data over the Internet or any other public network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you suspect an unauthorized use or security breach of your personal information, please contact us as soon as possible.
We offer you certain choices in connection with our Services.
Access to your personal information
On your reasonable written request, we will provide you, not later than thirty (30) days from our receipt of your request, or such additional time as required by law, with access to or information about your personal information (if any) under our custody or control, and the names of persons to whom, and any circumstances in which, your personal information has been and is being disclosed by us. You must provide sufficient information in your request to allow us to verify your identity and identify the information you are seeking.
If you request a copy of your personal information and the personal information can reasonably be reproduced, we will provide you with a copy of the personal information, or, if applicable, we will give you reasons for any delay in providing a copy of the requested personal information. All requests may be subject to minimal costs, in accordance with applicable privacy legislation.
We reserve all rights not to disclose personal information, in whole or in part, in certain circumstances permitted or required by law, including but not limited to where:
If access to your personal information is refused, in whole or in part, we will provide you with the reasons for the refusal and the provision of applicable privacy legislation on which the refusal is based. You may contact us if you have any questions about the refusal, and we will inform you that you may ask for a review of the refusal in accordance with applicable privacy legislation.
To submit a request to access your personal information or designate an authorized agent to make a request to access your personal information, please contact us. Our security procedures mean that we may request proof of identity before we disclose your personal information to you.
Updating your Information
The accuracy of the personal information we have about you is very important. To submit a request that we update your personal information, please contact us,
On your request, we will make every reasonable effort to correct outdated personal information, or errors or omissions in your personal information where that personal information is in our custody or control. Such request must be in writing, signed by you, and include sufficient detail to enable us to identify any personal information in our custody or control in relation to the request.
We will, as soon as reasonably practical and not later than thirty (30) days from our receipt of your request, or within such additional time as permitted or required by law, either correct the personal information and, if applicable and reasonable to do so, send correction notifications to any third party to whom we disclosed the incorrect personal information, or decide not to correct the personal information, but we will annotate the personal information under our control to indicate that a correction was requested but not made.
We will inform you of the action that we have taken in response to your request for correction. You may contact us if you have any questions about your request for correction, and you may ask for a review of the action taken in accordance with applicable privacy legislation.
Withdrawing your Consent
Where you have provided your consent to the collection, use, and transfer of your personal information, you may have the legal right to withdraw your consent under certain circumstances. To withdraw your consent, if applicable, please contact us. Please note that if you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide you with our Services. We will explain the impact to you at the time to help you make your decision.
Tracking Technologies and Advertising.
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies or block the use of other tracking technologies some parts of our Website may not be accessible or may not function properly.
Email communications
You may have the opportunity to receive certain communications from us related to our Services. If you provide us with your e-mail address in order to receive communications, you can opt-out of marketing emails at any time by following the instructions at the bottom of our emails and adjusting your email preferences. Please note that certain emails may be necessary for the operation of our Services. You will continue to receive these emails, if appropriate, even if you unsubscribe from our optional communications.
If you have questions, concerns, or would like to update/change your personal information, you can contact us in the following ways:
Email: privacy@sirkit.ca
Phone: 1-780-758-5200
Mail: Unit 217, 236 91 Street SW
Edmonton AB, T6X 1W8
Attention: Privacy Officer
We have procedures in place to receive and respond to complaints or inquiries about our handling of personal information, our compliance with this Privacy Policy, and with applicable privacy laws. To discuss our compliance with this Privacy Policy please contact our Privacy Officer using the contact information listed above.
Effective upon: August 15th, 2023 (Last updated: July 15th, 2023)
