1. Introduction
Please read this Privacy Policy, providing consent to both documents in order to have permission to use our services.
2. Data Collected
Data Storage Location
Lester Communications Inc. is a Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada based publishing and communications company. Our hosting provider is an independently owned web hosting provider headquartered in Arlington, VA in the Washington DC metro area and also maintains services in Indianapolis. For more information on our hosting provider’s privacy policy, please visit https://squidix.com.
Registration Data
If you register on our website, we store your username and your email address and any additional personal information added to your user profile. You can see, edit, or delete your personal information at any time (except changing your username). Website administrators can also see and edit this information.
Contact Form
Information submitted through contact forms on our site is sent to our company email. These submissions are only kept for customer service purposes they are never used for marketing purposes or shared with third parties.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics on our site for anonymous reporting of site usage. No personalized data is stored. If you would like to opt-out of Google Analytics monitoring your behavior on our website please use this link: Google Analytics Opt-out.
3. Embedded Content
Pages on this site may include embedded content, like YouTube videos, for example. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if you 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. Below you can find a list of the services we use:
Youtube
We may use YouTube videos embedded on our site. YouTube has its own cookie and privacy policies over which we have no control. There is no installation of cookies from YouTube and your IP is not sent to a YouTube server until you consent to it. See their privacy policy here: YouTube Privacy Policy.
4. Cookies
This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences and provide anonymous tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. Cookies generally exist to make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the help section of your browser.
Necessary Cookies (all site visitors)
- cfduid: Is used for our CDN CloudFlare to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. See more information on privacy here: CloudFlare Privacy Policy.
- PHPSESSID: To identify your unique session on the website.
5. Third Party Access to Your Data
We don’t share your data with third-parties in a way as to reveal any of your personal information like email, name, etc.
6. How Long We Retain Your Data For
When you submit a contact form or sign up to our newsletter the metadata is retained until (if) you tell us to remove it.
7. Security Measures
We use the SSL/HTTPS protocol throughout our site. This encrypts our user communications with the servers so that personally identifiable information is not captured/hijacked by third parties without authorization.
In case of a data breach, system administrators will immediately take all needed steps to ensure system integrity, will contact affected users and will attempt to reset passwords if needed.
8. Your Data Rights
General Rights
If you have a author profile on this website you can request an exported file of the personal data we retain, including any additional data provided to us.
You can also request that we erase any of the personal data we have stored. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative or legal purposes.
PIPEDA Rights
Your privacy is critically important to us. Going forward with the Personal Information Protection and Electronics Documents Act (PIPEDA) we aim to support the PIPEDA standard.
9. Third Party Websites
Links to third party websites may be posted on this website. These third party websites are not screened for privacy or security compliance and you release us from any liability for the conduct of these third party websites. All social media sharing links, either displayed as text links or social media icons do not connect you to any of the associated third parties unless you explicitly click on them.
Please be aware that this Privacy Policy, and any other policies in place, in addition to any amendments, does not create rights enforceable by third parties or require disclosure of any personal information relating to members of the Service or Site. Lester Communications Inc. bears no responsibility for the information collected or used by any advertiser or third party website. Please review the privacy policy and terms of service for each site you visit through third party links.
10. Release of Your Data for Legal Purposes
Any passing on of personal data for legal purposes will only be done in compliance with laws of the country you reside in.