This website is owned and operated by My DIY Event. We are committed to protecting the privacy of our visitors while they interact with the content, products and services on this website (the “Website”). This Privacy Policy applies to the Website only. It does not apply to other websites to which we link. Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we want you to understand what information we collect about you, how we collect it, how that information is used, and how you can control our disclosure of it. You agree that your use of the Website signifies your assent to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Website.
1. COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION AND WHY
Through the use of pages on this website and interaction with our products and services, we may collect data from you. Sometimes the data we collect relates to you or identifies you. Our goal is always to maintain the highest levels of privacy and security with your personal data, in keeping with the principles of the Federal Trade Commission Act and related regulations, the General Data Protection Regulation, and applicable local privacy laws. We will always try to give you appropriate notice of what data we collect and how we will use it, and we will only process your data when we consider it is fair and lawful to do so.
We collect your personal information when you provide it to us when you create an account, complete membership registration and buy or provide items or services on our website, subscribe to a newsletter, email list, submit feedback, enter a contest, fill out a survey, or send us a communication. We collect two types of information from you: information that personally identifies you (e.g. through a voluntary registration process, sign-ups or emails); and information that does not personally identify you.
Information that personally identifies you
We collect personally identifiable information when you choose to use certain other features of the Website, including:
i) one creates a user account (for example, when you register for an account, you will be asked to provide certain basic information, such as your name, email address, username, password, company name, occupation, location, and phone number). We may also use this information to respond to your inquiries, to interact with you directly, providing you with new upcoming content information, or promotional information from our affiliated companies.
ii) consenting to receive email – The submission of information by users to My DIY Event is done on voluntary basis. When a user clicks the “Submit” button on any of our web forms at our website https://mydiyevent.com/, the users are indicating they are aware of the My DIY Event Terms of Use and Privacy Policy provisions and voluntarily consent to the conditions outlined therein. We may send you a notification about upcoming changes or improvements to our services, or to help solve any issues you might be facing. You may opt-out from receiving future promotional information at any time. Occasionally, we may also request information such as your shopping preferences and demographics which will help us better serve you and our others users in the future.
iii) commenting on articles, and others;
iV) billing and communications information (for example, if you purchase one of our Services, you may also need to provide us with payment and billing information, such as your credit card details and billing address). My DIY Event will maintain a record of your billing transactions and purchases, and any communications and responses.
When you choose to use these additional features, we require you to provide your contact information, such as name, e-mail address, phone number, etc. We do not automatically collect such information when you visit our website. We use the information we collect to provide, maintain, and improve our services, to develop new ones. Personally identifiable information is used solely to address your specific request and it is not sold to third parties or market researchers.
Information that does not personally identify you
We use information that does not personally identify you in a variety of ways, including helping analyze website traffic and improve our services. Non personal information may include the Web browser you used to visit the Website, the time you visited the Website, which Web pages you visited on the Website, and other anonymous Website usage data. For example, when you visit https://mydiyevent.com/, you need to know that we use third party services, such as Google Analytics, to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out the number of visitors to the various parts of the Website. The information we collect includes unique identifiers, browser type and settings, device type and settings, operating system, mobile network information including carrier name. This information is only processed in a way which does not identify anyone. Google Analytics does not make any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website. In addition, we use CDN (Content Delivery Network) to identify Geolocation of visitors to our website. We use this type of information to count the number and type of visitors that visit our website, and to constantly improve our website.
Information we collect from other sources
From time to time, we may obtain information about you from third-party sources, such as public databases, social media platforms, third-party data providers and our joint marketing partners. We take steps to ensure that such third parties are legally or contractually permitted to disclose such information to us.
We’ll ask for your consent before using your information for a purpose that isn’t covered in this Privacy Policy.
2. COOKIES
Cookies are small pieces of information stored on your computer with information about your visit to our website. No other website can use or view the cookies set by My DIY Event. We may use cookies on the website in order to make our website experience more convenient for you (such as saving your preferences and for you). These cookies do not typically contain personally identifiable information.
We automatically place single pixel gifs, also known as web beacons, in every email sent by our users. These are tiny graphic files that contain unique identifiers that enable us and our users to recognize when their subscribers have opened an email or clicked certain links. These technologies record each subscribers email address, IP address, date, and time associated with each open and click for a campaign. We use this data to create reports for our users about how an email campaign performed and what actions subscribers took.
If you leave a comment on our website, for example, 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 Website, 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.
Please note that advertisers that serve advertisements on our Website may use their own cookies that are subject to the advertiser’s Privacy Policy and not this one.
Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you are concerned about the storage and use of cookies, you can edit your browser option to block them in the future. You may also delete cookies manually from your hard drive through your internet browser.
Third-Party Cookies: In the course of serving advertisements to this website, our third-party advertisers may place or recognise a unique “cookie” on your browser.
3. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
My DIY Event only uses your personal information for the original purposes it was given. Your personal information will not be sold or otherwise transferred to unaffiliated third parties without your approval at the time of collection. My DIY Event will not disclose, use, give or sell any personal information to third parties for any purposes unless required to do so by law.
Please note that personally identifiable information is used only to provide you with a more enjoyable, convenient online experience and to help us identify and/or provide information, products or services that may be of interest to you. We use your personally identifiable information to support and enhance your use of the Website and its features, including without limitation: e-mail submissions, providing customer service, tracking email invitations you send, and otherwise supporting your use of the Website, verifying your identity when you sign in to our website, to fulfil a contract, or take steps linked to a contract, managing our legal and operational affairs (including, managing risks relating to content and fraud matters), for purposes which are required by law (for example, responding to requests by government, a court of law, or law enforcement authorities conducting an investigation).
My DIY Event may use your personal information for target advertising toward you based on things such as region, gender, interests, goals, habits, etc.
We may permit certain trusted third parties (such as Google Analytics) to track usage, analyse data such as the source address that a page request is coming from, your IP address or domain name, the date and time of the page request, the referring Website (if any) and other parameters in the URL. This is collected in order to better understand our Website usage, and enhance the performance of services to maintain and operate the Website and certain features on the Website. We may use third parties to host the Website; operate various features available on the Website; send emails; analyse data; provide search results and links and assist in fulfilling your orders.
My DIY Event may disclose Contact Information in special cases where we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating our terms and conditions of use or may be causing injury or interference with our rights, property, our customers or anyone who could be harmed by such activities.
We use non-identifying and aggregate information to better design our website and for business and administrative purposes. We may also use or share with third parties for any purpose aggregated data that contains no personally identifiable information.
4. HOW WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION
We are committed to protecting the information we receive from you. We take appropriate security measures to protect your information against unauthorised access to or unauthorised alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. To prevent unauthorised access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we maintain appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information and data stored on our system. While no computer system is completely secure, we believe the measures we have implemented reduce the likelihood of security problems to a level appropriate to the type of data involved.
5. WHO WE SHARE YOUR DATA WITH
We do not share personal information with companies, organizations and individuals outside of My DIY Eventunless one of the following circumstances applies:
To provide our services and publish our website https://mydiyevent.com/, we use the Bluehost Web Services Cloud Service. The Bluehost Web Services Privacy Policy is available here. We have not granted any permission whatsoever for them to share any personal information we collect from our account holders on our website. We also provide free webinars by using another service provider known as LogMeIn Inc. GoToWebinar and GoToMeeting. LogMeIn Inc.’s privacy policy can be found here.
Google (G-Suite) is another service provider we use for file transfer and Cloud Data Backup. The data stored or archived is encrypted and can be access only through the Multifactor Authentication Key. Such access is granted only to the My DIY Event’ Administrators. G-Suite services offer encryption for data being transported and at rest with at least 128 Bit AES encryption.
We will also disclose personal information to the following recipients: subscription management services which are located in Canada (My DIY Event uses Brevo; for example, we may ask you to provide certain Personal Information, such as your name, contact details, company name, profile information, in order to sign up for a free or paid account), security and fraud prevention services which are located in Canada, our professional advisers (lawyers, accountants, financial advisers etc.) which are located in Canada, a third party, in order to enforce or defend our rights, or to address financial or reputational risks, a rights holder in relation to an allegation of intellectual property infringement or any other infringement.
6. EMAILING
We use a third party providers such as Roundcube (webmail built into our hosting account) to deliver our emails to our network. For more information, please see Bluehost’s Privacy Policy. Emails sent by My DIY Event will by default be encrypted in transport by Roundcube. We do not guaranty that receivers of our emails have encryption enabled or available, therefore it is your responsibility to ensure encryption at your end. We will also monitor any emails sent to us, including file attachments for viruses or malicious software. Please be aware that you have a responsibility to ensure that any email you send is within the bounds of the law.
7. THIRD PARTY ADVERTISING
Advertisements appearing on this Website may be delivered to you by PMy DIY Event or one of our Web advertising partners. Our Web advertising partners may set cookies. Doing this allows the advertising partners to recognise your computer each time they send you an advertisement. In this way, they may compile information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw their advertisements and determine which advertisements are clicked. This information allows an advertising partner to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. My DIY Event does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third party advertising servers of ad partners.
This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by My DIY Event and does not cover the use of cookies by any of its advertisers.
8. EMAIL CHOICE/OPT-OUT
The provision of My DIY Event services might entail the use of your personal data, with your express consent, to make available to you personalized advertisement related to our products and services. If any user who receives an email from the Website and would prefer not to receive such communications in the future, [he or she] can do so by following the instructions in the emails. In addition, you may send an email to hello@mydyievent.com. We will make commercially reasonable efforts to implement your opt-out requests promptly, but you may still receive communications from us for up to ten business days as we process your request.
9. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
My DIY Event is not directed towards children under the age of thirteen, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If a parent or guardian of a child under the age of thirteen has reasons to believe he or she has disclosed personal information, please contact us at hello@mydyievent.com and we will remove such information from our records.
10. EXTERNAL LINKS
Our website may link or contain links to other third party websites that we do not own or control. Please note that once you leave our website through an external link, you are subject to the privacy policy of the new website. The linked websites have separate and independent privacy policies and terms of use which we recommend you read carefully. We are not responsible or liable for the privacy policies, content, advertising, or any other materials available on a third party link. When you visit or make purchases through these third party websites, you may be asked to provide personal information, such as your name, address, email address, phone number, and credit/debit card information. Please note that in such cases, you are providing information to a third party and My DIY Event has no control over such third party’s use of any information you provide and, therefore, My DIY Event has no responsibility or liability for the manner in which the third party that operates a linked website may collect, use, disclose, secure or otherwise treat your personal information.
My DIY Event will not provide any of your personal information to any third parties without your consent.
11. SOCIAL MEDIA
My DIY Event’s website includes social media features (such as social media buttons and/or plugins that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways). These features may collect your IP address and which page you are visiting on our website, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing the feature. For example, if you send us a private or direct message via social media the message will be stored at Facebook as per their Privacy Principles, Instagram as per their Privacy Policy, or Twitter as per their Privacy Policy.
12. DISCLAIMER TO SECURITY
We take precautions to protect your information and privacy. When you submit information via the form(s) available on our website, your information is protected both online and offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment, monitored with a strictly controlled access. We use a third party service to help maintain the security and performance of our website. However, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be completely confidential. By consenting to the Terms and Conditions of the Website and hence the Privacy Policy, you consent that no data transmission over the Internet is completely secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee that any information you send us will not be lost, used unlawfully or modified in a fraudulent manner and we bear no liability for the use that may be made of the information provided by you or any third party.
13. HOW LONG WE RETAIN YOUR DATA
We retain your personal information to provide services to you and as otherwise necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. We will retain your personal information for no more than seven years following the later of (i) the date on which you terminate your use of the Services or (ii) May 25, 2018, unless we are otherwise required by law or regulation to retain your personal information for longer.
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).
14. WHAT RIGHTS YOU HAVE OVER YOUR DATA
Where the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679, or GDPR, applies, in certain circumstances and subject to data processing agreements, you have rights in relation to the personal information we hold about you.
You have the following data protection rights: to access, correct, update, or request deletion of your personal information. My DIY Event takes reasonable steps to ensure that the data we collect is reliable for its intended use, accurate, complete, and up to date. You may contact us directly at any time about accessing, correcting, updating, or deleting your personal information by emailing us at hello@mydyievent.com. Please keep in mind that we do not delete all of your information when requested due to legal obligations such retaining financial transactions with you.
We respond to all requests we receive from individuals wishing to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection laws. We may ask you to verify your identity in order to help us respond efficiently to your request.
15. NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES
My DIY Event reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time at its sole discretion. If at some point in the future, there are changes to our Privacy Policy, we will post them on our website as we like our readers to always be informed on what personal data we collect, how we use it and what your rights are.
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at: hello@mydyievent.com .
