RedLightSearch.ca is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. We adhere to the U.S. CAN-SPAM act as well as to Canadian PIPEDA legislation.
This document discloses the privacy practices for RedLightSearch.ca including:
- What personally identifiable information of yours is collected
- What organization is collecting the information
- How the information is used
- With whom the information may be shared
- What choices are available to you regarding collection, use and distribution of the information
- What kind of security procedures are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under RedLightSearch.ca’s control
- How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.
Questions regarding this privacy policy should be directed to RedLightSearch.ca via our
contact form.
Table of Contents
- Minors
- Information We Collect
- Our Use of Your Information
- Opt-out of e-mail communications
- Our disclosure of your information
- Control of Your Password
- Reviewing and Changing Your Personally Identifiable Information
- Other Information Collectors
- Security
- Changes to Privacy Policy
- Copyright and Proprietary rights
1. Minors
Minors (under 18 years old) are not eligible to use our services and we ask that minors do not submit any personal information to us.
2. Information We Collect
Our primary goal in collecting personal information from you is to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and personalized experience while using our services. This allows us to provide services and features that most likely meet your needs, and to customize our service to make your experience easier and quicker.
To fully use our services, you may need to register using our
online registration form, where you will be required to provide us with your contact information (e.g. e-mail address) and some other information relating to your professional employment or business (e.g. name of the company you work for, address, your position there, etc). We may track certain information about you based upon your behavior on our site. We use this information to do internal research on our users' demographics, interests, and behavior to better understand and serve our users. This information is compiled and analyzed on an aggregated basis.
Using the Site's web server log files, we use IP addresses to analyze trends, track users' movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information. This information may include the URL that you just came from (whether this URL is on our site or not), which URL you next go to (whether this URL is on our site or not), what browser and operating system you are using, your IP address etc.
In addition, we use cookies on certain pages of our site. We may also offer certain features that are only available through the use of a cookie. Cookies can also help us provide information which is targeted to your interests. Cookies are stored on your hard drive, not on our site. Most cookies are "session cookies," meaning that they are automatically deleted at the end of a session. The other type of cookie we use is a 'persistent' cookie. This stays on your hard drive and we use this to automatically identify who you are. We use this cookie so that you do not need to log in manually every time you visit the site if you are a registered user. The cookie itself contains no personally identifiable information but it does pass an ID to our server which allows us to tie the cookie to your personal information. We do this to allow us to let you know on the homepage what has changed on the site since your last visit. We also use the cookie to track how often you visit the site so we know who our most loyal users are. You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, although in that case you will not be able to use certain features on our site. For example, if you disable cookies, you will need to log in manually each time you visit the site as we cannot use a cookie to remember who you are. Some of our clients and business partners may use cookies on our site. These are used to monitor site performance and to measure site traffic and usage. We have no access to or control over these cookies. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by RedLightSearch.ca only, and does not cover the use of cookies by any clients, partners, or advertisers.
Surveys & Contests
From time-to-time our site may request information from users via surveys, contests or for a particular service (e.g. newsletter). Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested will include contact information (as supplied to the site during registration) and supplementary information on your professional interests, opinions and preferences (e.g. choice of products and services, opinions on industry issues, feedback on the RedLightSearch.ca web site). We will use the contact information to notify winners. We will not publish winners' details on the site though on request we will provide details of any winners' name and organization. If the survey or contest has a sponsor then we will share information given by entrants with the sponsor.
Payment Processing
In order to process payments online we require personal information from you. This information may include, but is not limited to; your full name, credit card number including ccv, billing address for the credit card used, and shipping address (if necessary). We currently use two payment processors including PayPal for your convenience. For details of how your information is used, please see following section.
3. Our Use of Your Information
We use personally identifiable information about you to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to statistically analyze site usage, to improve our content and product offerings and to customize our site's content, layout, and services. We believe these uses allow us to improve our site and better tailor it to meet our users' needs.
We use your e-mail address to send you newsletters or other communications that you have requested from the Site. Out of respect for our users we offer an opt-out (see 4. below).
We use information in the file we maintain about you, and other information we obtain from your current and past activities on the site, to resolve any disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our User Agreement. At times, we may look across multiple users to identify problems or resolve disputes.
Payment Processing
We take online payments for our subscription and membership services. We use
PayPal as our external payment provider. PayPal requires that you provide your credit or debit card details to process the transaction. This is done on a secure PayPal server using SSL (secure sockets layer). After the transaction has been authorized you are returned to the RedLightSearch site. RedLightSearch does not have any access to these credit card details and they are not stored or processed in any way by RedLightSearch. In the case of a suspected fraudulent transaction, card details may be disclosed to RedLightSearch by PayPal for the sole purpose of performing further checks. RedLightSearch is not permitted to then retain these details. These details are stored securely by PayPal in order to process future payments you may make, but PayPal does not use your information for any other purpose.
4. Opt-out of e-mail communications
If at any stage you wish to no longer to receive any e-mails from RedLightSearch.ca, you can stop them by clicking the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of the message.
5. Our Disclosure of Your Information
Unfortunately, due to the existing regulatory environment, we cannot ensure that all of your private communications and other personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy.
By way of example (without limiting the foregoing), we may be forced to disclose information to the government or third parties under certain circumstances, or third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications. We can (and you authorize us to) disclose any information about you to law enforcement or other government officials as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate, in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringements, or other activity that is illegal or may expose us to legal liability.
Under no circumstances do we sell or rent any personally identifiable information about you to any third party.
Advertisers
We do aggregate personally identifiable information and disclose such information in aggregate to advertisers and for other marketing and promotional purposes. However, in these situations, we do not disclose to these entities any information that could be used to personally identify you.
Public Performance
Please be aware that if you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you risk receiving unsolicited messages from other parties in return. RedLightSearch.ca makes every attempt to limit exposure to such communication, but cannot be liable for any such communications.
Legal Requests
RedLightSearch.ca cooperates with law enforcement inquiries and other third parties to enforce laws, intellectual property and other rights. Local and International law enforcement agents can request and may receive your personally identifiable information.
Suppliers and Other Service Providers
From time to time we use third party Suppliers and Service Providers to facilitate our services. Where any Service Provider collects information directly from you (such as the situation where we ask a Service Provider to conduct a survey for us) you will be notified of the involvement of the Supplier or Service Provider, and all information disclosures you make will be strictly optional.
6. Control of Your Password
If you, or a representative of your company or organization posts a listing on RedLightSearch.ca, a username and password will be assigned to that person for account maintenance purposes. It is solely your, your representative, or you organizations responsibility to protect this information. Under no circumstances are you to disclose this information to any third party, nor share it with any third party. If you lose control of your password, you may lose substantial control over your personally identifiable information and may be subject to legally binding actions taken on your behalf. RedLightSearch.ca or its employees, or partners cannot be held liable for any damage done to the credibility of you, your organization, or your employees through the unauthorized use of this information. Therefore, if your password has been compromised for any reason, you should immediately contact RedLightSearch.ca.
7. Reviewing and Changing Your Personally Identifiable Information
You can at any time review and change the information you submitted during registration by visiting the
preferences page on the site.
8. Other Information Collectors
Except as otherwise expressly discussed in this Privacy Policy, this document only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you. To the extent that you disclose your information to other parties, whether they are suppliers, partners, users and/or members of RedLightSearch.ca or other sites throughout the Internet, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the personal information you disclose to them.
9. Security
In order to process and protect your credit card details, our payment provider PayPal uses SSL (secure sockets layer) encryption. The secure server is hosted by PayPal and not RedLightSearch.
On the RedLightSearch site we use best endeavour to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal identifiable information but we do not use encryption (such as SSL) or firewalls to further protect the information as it travels across the Internet. This is because we do not believe that, apart from the credit card information processed by PayPal, the personal information we currently collect warrants such measures and the accompanying loss of speed experienced. You should be aware that "perfect security" does not exist on the Internet.
10. Changes to Privacy Policy
If we are going to use your personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify you via email, prior to making such changes. You will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in this different manner. In addition, if we make any material changes in our privacy practices that do not affect user information already stored in our database, we will post a prominent notice, before changes go into affect, on our web site notifying users of the change. In some cases where we post the notice we will also email users, who have opted to receive communications from us, notifying them of the changes in our privacy practices.
11. Copyright and Proprietary Rights
This site is the property of RedLightSearch.ca Inc. and is protected by Canadian, United States, and International Copyright laws. All copyright, trademark, and other proprietary rights within this site and in the software, text, graphics, design elements, audio, video, photos and all other materials originated or used by RedLightSearch.ca on its site(s) are reserved to RedLightSearch.ca and its licensors.
You may not reproduce, upload, post, transmit, download or distribute any part of the RedLightSearch.ca information.
You may not modify the material residing on this site. You may not use the RedLightSearch.ca site in any manner that infringes the rights of any person or entity.
