Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, use, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from dougf.ca. References to “we”, “us” and “our” refers to Doug Friesen Media.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We only collect or have access to the personal information you voluntarily provide us via payment or communications (email/phone/web). We will never rent or sell this information.

We will use this information to communicate with you and fulfill our services to you. We will not share this information with anyone outside of our organization, apart from any 3rd party interfaces within the website, unless permitted by you.

Unless you request no further communication, we may contact you in the future via the email you provided in previous communications, relating promotions, updates, and changes to this privacy policy. We use third-party tools and services that also utilize cookies. These tools help us deliver a better website browsing experience. By continuing to view our site, you consent to the use of cookies (1st and 3rd Party) on our site. If you do not agree, please do not use our services.

We primarily use Google Analytics, Statcounter, Pixieset, and Webflow (website caching for performance) as our main analytics tools. Please see their privacy policy and terms of use relating to the information they collect.

COOKIES

We use “cookies” on this website. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a website visitor’s hard drive to help us improve your access to our website and identify repeat visitors to our website. For instance, when we use a cookie to identify you, you may be prompted to contact us in our efforts to better serve our customers. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our website. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our website. Most browsers enable cookies by default.

Some of our business partners may use cookies on our website (for example, Google). These cookies may be used in Google Analytics Advertising Features such as:

– Re-marketing with Google Analytics
– Google Display Network Impression Reporting
– Google Analytics Demographics and Interests Reporting
– Additional Integrated Services that require Google Analytics for data collection

These cookies will track which webpages you used to link into our platform, for example clicking on a link from Facebook, or Google Adwords. This allows us to better recognize where our visitors are coming from and allows us to tailor our advertising in a more effective manner. We will not facilitate the merging of personally-identifiable information with non-personally identifiable information collected through any Google advertising product or feature unless we have robust notice of, and your prior affirmative (i.e., opt-in) consent to, that merger.

YOU HAVE CONTROL

You may opt out of future non-essential emails by contacting us via hello@dougf.ca or by replying with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line of any email you receive from us. You have the right to express concern about the personal data you provided, correct any personal information, or ask for deletion.

OPT OUT

You may opt out of cookie gathering by disabling cookies on our website. Additionally, you may opt out of Google Analytics by following the instructions found here.

LAW ENFORCEMENT

Where required by law enforcement, personally identifiable (or other) information will be provided to authorities as required.

GOOGLE'S PRIVACY POLICY

If you have questions about the Google Privacy Policy, it can be found here.

SECURITY

We take precautions to protect your information online and offline. Our online client data storage environment is password protected. Our local offline personally stored backups and client information are encrypted.

Never send sensitive financial data via standard email. All payments to us are handled via payment processors PayPal, Pixieset and Square - We have no access to your personal financial data when using third party payment providers.

See their privacy policies and terms of use for more information.

EFFECTIVE JULY 12 2019 // WORK IN PROGRESS