interiordesignservices.ca Privacy Policy
Effective from January 2021
Welcome to interiordesignservices.ca’s Privacy Policy!
1. Please read carefully!
interiordesignservices.ca values the privacy of its visitors and users. This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes how the website collects, uses, and shares your personal information, along with an explanation of the data rights you may provide in that personal data. This Privacy Policy applies to all the interiordesignservices users, including unregistered visitors and registered users. This Privacy Policy is not intended to override the terms of any rights you may have under applicable data privacy laws.
Kindly read this policy and make sure you completely understand our practices in relation to your Personal Information. If you read and completely understand this Privacy Policy, and are opposed to our practices, you must immediately leave and discontinue all use of any of our Services. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this policy, please contact us at hello@interiordesignservices.ca.
2. What Personal Information do we collect
To provide you with personalized responses or routine updates on the website’s activities, we must collect Personal Information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“Personal Information”). We collect Personal Information you provide us, from your use of the Services, and from other sources. Here are the types of Personal Information we collect about you:
1. Information you provide us. When you register and become our member, purchase merchandise; and/or when you contact us directly by any communication channel (e.g. emails, social media handles), you may provide us Personal Information, such as name, email address, phone number, payment information (for Users purchasing items listed under merchandise), information you include in your communications with us and with other users on our platform, and Personal Information contained in scanned identification documents (such as ID card, driver’s license, or passport).
2. Information we collect when you use the Services. When you visit, download, and/or use any of our Services, we may collect aggregated usage Personal Information, such as Visitors’ and Users’ browsing and ‘click-stream’ activity on the Services, session heatmaps and scrolls, non-identifying Personal Information regarding the Visitor’s or User’s device, operating system, internet browser, screen resolution, language and keyboard settings, date/time stamps, etc.
3. Information we collect from other sources. We may receive Personal Information about you from third party sources, such as i) security providers, fraud detection and prevention providers for example to help us screen out users associated with fraud, ii) social media platforms, when you log-in or sign-up using your social media account, we may receive Personal Information from the service(e.g. your username, basic profile Personal Information) and in some cases, we may collect Personal Information from enhancement companies which help us to improve our service offering; iii) advertising and marketing partners in order to monitor, manage and measure our ad campaigns.
3. Why do We collect such Personal Information
We use your Personal Information for the following purposes:
1. To provide and operate the Services;
2. To further develop, customize , expand, and improve our Services, based on Users’ common or personal preferences, experiences and difficulties;
3. To provide our Users with ongoing customer assistance and technical support;
4. To be able to contact our Users with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages (as further detailed in Section 8 below);
5. To help us to update, expand and analyze our records to identify new members;
6. To facilitate, sponsor, and offer certain contests, events, and promotions, determine participants’ eligibility, monitor performance, contact winners, and grant prizes;
7. To analyze our performance and marketing activities;
8. To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and /or inferred information, which we or our business partners may use to provide and improve our respective services;
9. To provide you with professional assistance, only upon your request;
10. To enhance our security and fraud prevention capabilities; and
11. To comply with applicable laws and regulations
We use your Personal Information for the purposes set out in Section 3 where,
1. Our use of your Personal Information is necessary to comply with a relevant legal or regulatory obligation that we have; or
2. Our use of your Personal Information is necessary to support legitimate interests and business purposes (for example, to maintain and improve our Service), provided it is conducted in a way that is proportionate and that respects your privacy rights.
4. How do we share your Personal Information
We may share your Personal Information with service providers and others (or otherwise allow them access to it) in the following manners and instances:
4.1. Third-Party Service Providers: interiordesignservices has/may partner with a number of selected service providers, whose services complement, facilitate and enhance or own. These include billing and payment processing services, domain name registrars, fraud detection and prevention services, web analytics, e-mail distribution and monitoring services, data optimization and marketing services, content providers, and our legal and financial advisors(collectively, “Third Party Service Provider(s)”).
inter may share the following categories of Personal Information with Third-Party Service Providers for a business purpose:
Indentifiers, including name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, internet protocol address, e-mail address, account name, or other similar identifiers
Commercial information, for example, information regarding products or services purchased, obtained or considered
4.2. Law Enforcement: Legal Requests and Duties: interiordesignservices may disclose or otherwise allow access to your Personal Information pursuant to a legal request, such as a subpoena, legal proceedings, search warrant or court order, or in compliance with applicable laws, if we have a good faith belief that the law requires us to do so, with or without notice to you.
4.3. Protecting Rights and Safety: interiordesignservices may share your Personal Information if we believe in good faith that this will protect the rights, property or personal safety of interiordesignservices, any of our Users, any Users-of-Users, or any member of the general public, with or without notice to you.
4.4. Connection with a Change in Corporate Control: Should interiordesignservices undergo any change in control, including by means of merger, acquisition or purchase of substantially all of its assets, your Personal Information may be shared with the parties involved in such event.
4.5. Upon Your Further Direction: interiordesignservices may share your Personal Information with third parties for other purposes upon your further direction or with your explicit approval.
5. Where do we store the Personal Information
5.1. Users’ and Users-of-User’ Personal Information may be stored in the hosting website’s data server and/or the firm’s (AM Design’s) local office computers based in Dawson Creek, British Columbia, Canada.
5.2. Privacy Shield: In compliance with the Privacy Shield Principles, interiordesignservices.ca commits to resolve complaints about our collection or use of your Personal Information.
6. Users-of-users’ Personal Information
Interiordesingservices.ca may collect, store and process certain Personal Information of Users-of-Users (“Users-of-Users Information”), solely on our Users’ behalf and at their direction.
You are responsible for the security, integrity and authorized usage of Personal Information about Users-of-Users’, and for obtaining consents, permissions and providing any required data subject rights and fair processing notices required for the collection and usage of such Personal Information.
Interiordesignservices.ca cannot provide legal advice to Users or their User-of Users, however, we do recommend that all Users publish and maintain clear and comprehensive privacy policies on their User Websites in accordance with any applicable laws and regulations, and that all Users-of-Users carefully read those policies and make sure that they understand and, to the extent required by applicable law, consent to them.
For more information on how Users-of-Users Personal Information may be handled by interiordesignservices
If you are a visitor, user or customer of any of our Users, please read the following: interiordesignservices has no direct relationship with Users-of-Users whose Personal Information it processes. If you are a visitor, user or customer of any of our Users, and would like to make requests or queries regarding your Personal Information, please contact such User(s) directly. For example, if you wish to request to access, correct, amend, or delete inaccurate Personal Information processed by interiordesignservices on behalf of its Users, please direct your query to the relevant User (who is the “Controller”of such data). If interiordesignservices is requested by our Users to remove any Users-of-Users’Personal Information, we will respond to such requests in a timely manner upon verification and in accordance with applicable law. Unless otherwise instructed by our User, we will retain their Users-of-Users’Personal Information for the period set forth in Section 12 below.
7. Use of cookies
We use cookies (“Cookies”) in order for us to provide our Service and ensure that it performs properly, to analyze our performance and marketing activities, and to personalize your experience.
Please note that we do not change our practices in response to a “Do Not Track” signal in the HTTP header from a browser or mobile application, however, most browsers allow you to control cookies, including whether or not to accept them and how to remove them. You may set most browsers to notify you if you receive a cookie, or you may choose to block cookies with your browser.
8. Communications from interiordesignservices
8.1. Promotional Messages: We may use your Personal Information to send you promotional content and messages by e-mail or text message.
If you do not wish to receive such promotional messages or calls, you may notify interiordesignservices at any time or follow the “unsubscribe” or STOP instructions contained in the promotional communications you receive.
8.2 Service Messages: We may send you a notice (through any of the means available to us ) if a certain Service is temporarily suspended for maintenance or notify you of material changes in our Services.
It is important that you are always able to receive such messages.
9. Your rights in relation to your Personal Information
Interiordesignservices agree that is is imperative that you have control over your Personal Information. Pursuant to privacy regulations worldwide, interiordesignservices is taking steps to enable you to request access to, receive a copy of, update, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Information.
Before fulfilling your request, we may ask for additional information in order to confirm your identity and for security purposes. We reserve the right to charge a fee where permitted by law(e.g. if your request is unfounded or excessive)
You have the right to file a complaint with your local supervisory authority for data protection (but we still recommend that you contact us first).
If you are an interiordesignservice User, and you wish to receive a copy, access and/or request to make corrections to the Personal Information that you have stored with us (either yours or your Users-of-Users’), or wish to request a list of what Personal Information (if any) pertaining to you we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes, please contact us at hello@interiordesignservices.ca. You can also mail your request to AM Design, 2106, Loiselle Subdivision, V1G 0C2, Dawson Creek, British Columbia, Canada. We will make reasonable efforts to honor your request promptly(unless we require further information from you in order to fulfill your request), subject to legal or other permissible considerations.
Please note that unsubscribing or removing membership erases all your Personal Information from interiordesignservices’ databases.
10. Additional Information for California residents
If you are a California resident using the website, the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) may provide you the right to request access to and deletion of your Personal Information.
In order to exercise the right to request access to and deletion of your Personal Information, please see the information on section 9, above. We do not discriminate based on the exercise of any privacy rights that you may have under this Section.
Interiordesignservices does not sell user Personal Information to third parties for the intents and purposes of the CCPA.
As informed in section 6 above, interiordesignservices may collect, store and process certain Personal Information of Users-of-Users, solely on our Users’ behalf and at their direction. For such purposes, interiordesigndervices serves and shall be considered as a “Business[R1] ”.
Users of the Services who are California residents and under 18years of age may request and obtain removal of content they requested to be posted by emailing us at hello@interiordesignservices.ca. All requests must be labeled “California Removal Request” on the email subject line. All requests must provide a description of the content you want to be removed and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate that content. We do not accept California Removal Requests via postal mail, telephone, or facsimile. We are not responsible for notices that are not labeled or sent properly, and we may not be able to respond if you do not provide adequate information. Please note that your request does not ensure complete or comprehensive removal of the material. For example, materials that you may have requested for posting may further get republished or reposted by another user of a third party.
11. Questions and Complaints
If you have any questions or concerns about our collection, use or disclosure of Personal Information, or if you believe that we have not complied with this Privacy Policy or applicable data protection laws, please contact us-our details are set out at the end of this Privacy Policy
Our team will investigate the complaint and determine whether a breach has occurred and what action, if any, to take. We take every privacy complaint seriously and will make all reasonable efforts to resolving your complaint promptly and in accordance with applicable law.
You can file a complaint with your local supervisory authority for data protection at any time, however, we recommend that you contact us first so we can try to resolve it.
12. Data Retention
We may retain your Personal Information (as well as your Users-of-Users’Personal Information) for as long as your subscription or membership is active, as indicated in the Privacy Policy, or as otherwise needed to provide you with our Services.
We may continue to retain your Personal Information after you cease to use any particular Services, as reasonably necessary to comply with our legal obligations, to resolve disputes regarding our Users or their Users-of-Users, prevent fraud and abuse, enforce our agreements and/or protect our legitimate interests.
13. Security
interiordesignservices relies on security measures designed by the hosting website (“Squarespace”) to protect the Personal Information you share with us, including physical and electronic measures. Among other things, we get HTTPS secure access to most areas of our Serivces, the transmission of sensitive payment information(such as credit card number) through the designated purchase form of the hosting website.
Regardless of the measures and efforts taken by interiordesignservices, we cannot and do not guarantee the absolute protection and security of your Personal Information, your Users-of-Users’Personal Information or any other information you provide. We encourage you to set strong passwords for your membership and avoid providing us or anyone with any sensitive Personal Information of which you believe its disclosure could cause you substantial or irreparable harm.
If you have any questions regarding the security of our Services, you are welcome to contact us at hello@interiordesignservices.ca.
14. Public forums and user content
Our Services offer publicly accessible blogs, communities and support forums. Please be aware that any Personal Information you provide in any such areas may be read, collected, and used by others who access them. To request removal of youir Personal Information from our blogs, communities or forums, feel free to contact us at hello@interiordesigndervices.ca.
In any event, we advise against posting any Personal Information (via any means) you don’t wish to publicize.
15. Updates and interpretation
We may update this Privacy Policy as required by applicable law, and to reflect changes to our Personal Information collection, usage and storage practices. If we make any changes that we deem as “material” (in our sole good faith discretion), we will notify you (using one of the notification methods set forth in Sections __ in Terms of Use) prior to the change becoming effective. In relation to any updated Privacy Policy, we will, as required by applicable law, notify you, seek your consent and/or take any other measures. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest Information on our Privacy practices. Unless stated otherwise, our most current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you and your Users-of Users, with respect to our website.
Any heading, caption or section title contained herein, and any explanation is provided only for convenience, and in no way defines or explains any section or provision hereof, or legally binds us in any way.
The Privacy Policy was written in English. Any interpretation based on translation into other languages by Users themselves or by the aid of applications or online sources will not prevail over the Privacy Policy provided by interiordesignservices on the website in English.
16. Contacting Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to exercise any of your rights as described in section 9 or 10 please refer to those sections or contact the team at hello@interiordesignservices.ca. We will attempt to resolve the complaints regarding the use of your Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy:
You may also contact us by mail at:
AM Design, 2106, Loiselle Subdivision, V1G 0C2, Dawson Creek, British Columbia, Canada