Privacy Policy

Updated: Effective May 25, 2018

Paula Onysko Consulting (POC) is a division of Stone Peaks Ltd., an Alberta-based corporation. POC (“we”, “us”, or “our”) is the owner of www.paulaonysko.com ( the “Website” or “site”). The term “you” refers to the user or viewer of the“Website”).

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We respect your privacy and we are committed to safeguarding your personal information. This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the Website and our practice for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy. The use of information collected through our Website shall be limited to the purposes under this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use for customers.
Please read this Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices (“Practices”), regarding your information and how we treat it. If you do not agree with our Practices, your choice is not to use our Website.

By accessing or using the Website, you consent to this Privacy Policy, whether or not you have read it. We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy on the Website at any time without notice. In the event of a material change, we will let you know via email and will reflect the updated date at the top of this page. Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be your acceptance of those changes.

This Policy applies to the information that we collect:
• on this Website
• in email and other electronic messages between you and this Website
• when you interact with our advertising on third-party websites and services, if that advertising include links to this Policy

We collect this information:
• Directly from you when you provide it to us
• Automatically as you navigate through the Website. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies and other tracking technologies
• From third parties, for example PayPal (https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full), Aweber
(https://www.aweber.com/privacy.htm)
Stripe (https://stripe.com/ca/privacy )
Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=privacy)
Survey Monkey (https://www.surveymonkey.com/mp/legal/privacy-policy/)

Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect on or through our Website may include:
• Information that you provide by filling-in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering for an event, purchasing a program or product, or requesting information about our products or services. We may also ask you for information when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by POC and when you report a problem with our Website.
• Records and copies of any correspondence you submit, when contacting us.
• Your response to surveys and/or online event evaluations that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
• Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
• Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

The information we collect automatically is statistical data and may include Personal Data, but we may maintain it or associate it with the Personal Data 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 customer experience, including by enabling us to:
• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
• Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
• Speed up your searches.
• Recognize you when you return to our Website.

Technology We Use for This Automatic Data Collection May Include

• Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
• Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies.
• Web Beacons. On some of our Website pages and e-mails, there may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs). These web beacons permit us to count users who have visited certain of our Website pages or opened an email.

Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad 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 information about you when you browse the Website. The information they collect may be associated with your Personal Identifying Information or they may collect information, including your Personal Identifying Information, about your online activities over time and across different websites 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 third-party tracking technology or how third parties use your information. Any questions you have about how our sponsors or other third parties use your information, you should contact them directly or carefully review the terms of service and privacy statements on their web pages.

What We Do With the Information We Collect

We may use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including Personal Identifiable Information:

• To present our Website and its contents to you.
• To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
• To provide you with notices about your account and/or event participation, including expiration and renewal notices.
• To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and POC, including for billing and collection.
• To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
• To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website.
• In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
• For any other purpose with your consent.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose information about our users and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
We may disclose Personal Data that we collect, or you provide as described in this Policy:
• To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it. For example, if you give us an email address to confirm a sign-up for an event, we will transmit to you the contents of that email and to any additional email you request.
• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
• With your consent.
• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
• To enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of POC, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the Personal Identifiable Information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
• 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. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

• Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising. If you do not want us to share your Personal Identifiable Information with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for promotional purposes, you can opt-out by unsubscribing at the end of every email we send you through Aweber or by sending us an email stating your request to contact@paulaonysko.com.

• Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your email address or other contact information used by POC to promote our own or third parties’ products or services, you can opt-out by unsubscribing at the end of every email we send you through Aweber or by sending us an email stating your request to contact@paulaonysko.com.

• Targeted Advertising. If you do not want us to use Personal Identifiable Information that we collect or that you provide to us to deliver advertisements according to our advertisers’ target-audience preferences, you can opt-out by unsubscribing at the end of every email we send you through Aweber or by sending us an email stating your request to contact@paulaonysko.com.

We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt-out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (https://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/what-are-my-options).

Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. We do not store your Personal Identifying Information. All of your Personal Identifying Information, including payment transactions, go directly to a third-party site, such as PayPal, Stripe and Aweber.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you.

Sites you may access through our Website, such as PayPal (https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full) may require that you have a password for access. You are responsible for keeping that password confidential. We ask you not to share those passwords with anyone. We also strongly urge you to be careful about giving out information while in public areas of earshot of others, on public devices, or while using public WiFi. The information you share in public areas may be viewed or overheard by others.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our procedure to post any changes we make to this Policy on this page, with a notice that the Privacy Policy has been updated. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ Personal Data, we will notify you through notice on this Website. The last revised date will be noted at the top of the page. You are responsible for periodically visiting our Website, as well as reviewing this Policy for updates.

Contact Information

Please direct all questions and comments about this Policy and our privacy practices, to contact@paulaonysko.com.