Privacy Policy

Please read this policy and if you have any questions contact us.

By using the site you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this policy.

 

Who we are:

This site is operated by Coolstockphoto.com and may be accessed in Canada and abroad. For personal data protection purposes in the European Union,  Coolstockphoto.com is the controller and, unless otherwise noted, is also the processor of the personal data.

Our website address is: https://coolstockphoto.com.

Coolstockphoto.com is committed to protecting your privacy. This privacy policy tells you about our online collection, use and disclosure of personal data. The terms of this policy apply to all personal data collected by Coolstockphoto.com on the website Coolstockphoto.com. We have created this policy pursuant to the Personal Information Protection Act (Alberta) S.A. 2003, c.P-6.5, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (Canada) S.C. 2000, c.5 and the “Anti-Spam Act” (Canada) S.C. 2010, c.23. Your home jurisdiction may have privacy laws that are more or less protective than the province of Alberta, Canada.

  1. Privacy Officer

    Outside of the European Union, we have designated a privacy officer at Coolstockphoto.com to be accountable for our policies and practices with respect to the management of personal data. You may forward any questions, comments or complaints that you might have about this privacy policy to:

    Antonio Tremblay
    Coolstockphoto.com
    583a Des Ardennes St.
    Alma, QC, G8C 1G2

    Or by email via our Contact Us page..

  2. Accessing Your Personal Data

    If you would like to review or revise information that you previously provided to us, you may access and change your personal data in the “My Account” section of the site. You may also contact us via our Contact Us page for assistance.

  3. Personal Data Preferences

    Coolstockphoto.com respects your right to make choices about the use and disclosure of your personal data. You can request access to, and rectification or erasure of, personal data at all time.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

We collect personal information you provide to us. For example, we collect your name, email address, postal address, phone number, fax number, demographics, and other information you provide us. If you make a purchase, we also collect credit card numbers and other payment information.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

You can contact us by email via our Contact Us page.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

When you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

Our websites may include Cookies from third-party service providers. In some cases, that is because we have hired the third party to provide services on our behalf, such as site analytics. For this purpose, Getty Images works with various third-party partners like Amazon, Facebook and Google to see what actions you take on third party websites to deliver our personalised ads to you via third party websites. We use Demographics and Interest reporting features in Google Analytics to inform our requests to our service providers.

Our third-party partners like Google use Cookies on our site to:

  1. Measure and analyse aggregate usage and volume statistical information from our users on our site. Information gathered may include, but is not limited to the following: activity of the user browser when the user is visiting the site, the site path of users, general information regarding the visitor’s internet service provider and host, and the time users come to the site.
  2. Remember our users’ previous search of products and services, and dynamically display more relevant content to them.
  3. Record users’ behaviour on our site, such as pages visited, emails clicked, forms completed and products and services purchased to create customised advertisements and communications that better meet your needs.
  4. Evaluate user traffic and behaviour on the site to compile activity reports.
  5. Conduct research and diagnostics to improve our products and services.
  6. Identify users arriving at the site via a referral from an affiliate website or sponsored link.

Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. Learn more about privacy at Google here.

 

We do not share your data outside our website.

We use your data are only inside our site for our own transactional purposes.

 

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your contact information

You can contact us via our Contact Us page.

Additional information

How we protect your data

The security of your personal data is important to us. We take appropriate and reasonable steps designed to help protect your personal data from unauthorised access, use, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. For instance, in some cases we encrypt that information in transit using secure socket layer (SSL) technology. No method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

If you use a password to protect your account and personal data, it is your responsibility to keep your password confidential.

 

What data breach procedures we have in place

Confirm the Breach

The Data Breach Team should act as soon as it is aware of a data breach.  Where possible, it should first confirm that the data breach has occurred.  It may make sense to proceed Contain the Breach on the basis of an unconfirmed reported data breach, depending on the likelihood of the severity of risk.

Contain the Breach

The Data Breach Team should consider the following measures to Contain the Breach, where applicable:

  • Shut down the compromised system that led to the data breach.
  • Establish whether steps can be taken to recover lost data and limit any damage caused by the breach.
  • (eg: remotely disabling / wiping a lost notebook containing personal data of individuals.)
  • Prevent further unauthorised access to the system.
  • Reset passwords if accounts and / or passwords have been compromised.
  • Isolate the causes of the data breach in the system, and where applicable, change the access rights to the compromised system and remove external connections to the system.

Assess Risks and Impact

Knowing the risks and impact of data breaches will help Coolstockphoto.com  determine whether there could be serious consequences to affected individuals, as well as the steps necessary to notify the individuals affected.

Report the Incident

Coolstockphoto.com is legally required to notify affected individuals if their personal data has been breached.  This will encourage individuals to take preventive measures to reduce the impact of the data breach, and also help Coolstockphoto.com rebuild consumer trust.

Evaluate the Response & Recovery to Prevent Future Breaches

After steps have been taken to resolve the data breach, Coolstockphoto.com should review the cause of the breach and evaluate if existing protection and prevention measures and processes are sufficient to prevent similar breaches from occurring, and where applicable put a stop to practices which led to the data breach.

 

Which third parties we receive data from

  • We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors engage with our site and apps. Google Analytics services cannot function without the use of cookies. Your Browser record these tiny text files about your user activity. It then sent them to Google, which, in turn, use them to create those incredibly useful analytical reports. See Google infos on the subject for more details.

 

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data.

We might use some user data for statistical purpose only.

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

We may link to websites, including those of our third-party content providers or distributor network, that have different privacy policies and practices from those disclosed here. We assume no responsibility for the policies or practices of such linked sites, and encourage you to become acquainted with them prior to use.

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