Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy Statement Updated November 2, 2020

Your privacy is important to BC Instant Lawns. This privacy statement provides information about the personal information that BC Instant Lawns collects, and the ways in which BC Instant Lawns uses that personal information.

Personal information collection

BC Instant Lawns may collect and use the following kinds of personal information:

  • information about your use of this website
  • information about inquiries submitted via this website
  • any other information that you send to BC Instant Lawns.

Using personal information

BC Instant Lawns may use your personal information to:

  • administer this website
  • personalize the website for you
  • enable your access to and use of the website services
  • send to you products that you purchase
  • supply to you services that you purchase
  • send to you statements and invoices
  • send you marketing communications
  • remarketing purposes. Your information and history will be utilized to show you advertisements throughout the internet, you have the option to opt out of this service by visiting the link on the next line.
  • we utilize cookies and third party vendors, including Google to track your online performance and serve ads based on your past visits to BC Instant Lawns website. Visitors may opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting Googles ad settings page http://www.google.com/settings/ads. Alternatively, you can opt out of third party use of cookies by visiting: optout.networkadvertising.org

Where BC Instant Lawns discloses your personal information to its agents or sub-contractors for these purposes, the agent or sub-contractor in question will be obligated to use that personal information in accordance with the terms of this privacy statement.

In addition to the disclosures reasonably necessary for the purposes identified elsewhere above, BC Instant Lawns may disclose your personal information to the extent that it is required to do so by law, in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings, and in order to establish, exercise or defend its legal rights.

Securing your data

BC Instant Lawns will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.

BC Instant Lawns will store all the personal information you provide on its secure servers.

Credit Card Transactions

BC Instant Lawns does not store or keep any credit card information used online. All credit card information you provide is processed with Square Inc. through a secure network plugin provided by square on bcinstantlawns.com.

Cross-border data transfers

Information that BC Instant Lawns collects may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which BC Instant Lawns operates to enable the use of the information in accordance with this privacy policy.

In addition, personal information that you submit for publication on the website will be published on the internet and may be available around the world.

You agree to such cross-border transfers of personal information.

Updating this statement

BC Instant Lawns may update this privacy policy by posting a new version on this website.

You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are familiar with any changes.

Other websites

This website contains links to other websites.

BC Instant Lawns is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of any third party.

Contact BC Instant Lawns

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or BC Instant Lawn’s treatment of your personal information, please write:

  • by email to [email protected] or
  • by post to 3865 72nd St., Delta, British Columbia, V4K 3N2

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

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.

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.

If 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.

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.