Effective as of January 1, 2020
Welcome to the Privacy Policy for www.thegreenchannel.tv (the \"Green Channel Site\"). For certainty, all reference to The Green Channel Site includes accessing www.thegreenchannel.tv through your web browser, or through the mobile application platform. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and forms part of our Terms of Use. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, disclose, and protect the personal information of our customers and users (\"you\"), describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit The Green Channel Site, and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. We will only use your personal information in accordance with this policy unless otherwise required by applicable law. We take steps to ensure that the personal information we collect about you is adequate, relevant, not excessive, and used for limited purposes. Privacy laws in Canada generally define \\\"personal information\\\" as any information about an identifiable individual, which includes information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person. This Privacy Policy applies to information we collect, use, or disclose about our customers and users:
The Green Channel Site may include links to third party websites, plug-ins, services, social networks, or applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow the third party to collect or share data about you. If you follow a link to a third-party website or engage a third-party plugin, please note that these third parties have their own privacy policies and we do not accept responsibility or liability for these policies. We do not control these third party websites, and we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit. For further clarity, this also applies to any third party payment processing services providers we use to process payments made by you to us. This Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will notify you in advance of any material changes to this Privacy Policy and obtain your consent to any new ways that we collect, use, and disclose your personal information. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices for collecting, processing and storing your information. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use The Green Channel Site. By accessing or using The Green Channel Site, you indicate that you understand, accept, and consent to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
We collect and use several types of information from and about you including:
You will also be required to create a password in connection with the registration of your account. Once you register, you will be able to review and edit your information at any time by accessing your profile page. You control your user profile and are able to correct or update your account information.
If you turn GPS and Geo-location service features on, when you use your mobile, we will collect information about WiFi access points as well as other location information about your longitude and latitude and may save your device\\\'s coordinates to offer certain features to you. This information helps us identify your physical location and we may use it to personalize The Green Channel Site and make it easier for you to interact with other users, by enabling the information to be displayed and shared with other members choosing to view posts that are in a certain geographical range. If you have enabled location services, but wish to turn it off, you can do so by the following changing your settings on your mobile device or your computer browser to turn off geo location services.
We use different methods to collect your information, including through:
The information we collect directly from you on or through our Green Channel Site may include:
As you navigate through and interact with The Green Channel Site, we may use cookies, which are small files placed on the hard drive of your computer to automatically collect information, or other automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns including:
You can set your browser to notify you before you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it. You can also set your browser to turn off cookies. If you do, however, some areas of The Green Channel Site may not function adequately. We also may use remarketing, re-engagement or similar audiences tools which allow us and/or third party vendors to reach users that have previously visited our Green Channel Site. Google and other similar third parties will show ads across websites that you use as a result of our remarketing tools. Such ads are shown across other websites and are based on your past visits to this The Green Channel Site by using cookies. You can opt out of remarketing by visiting Googles\\\' Ads Settings page (http://www.google.com/settings/Ads Settings page ). In the future, we may also use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioural tracking). If we use such technologies, this Privacy Policy will be updated to inform you of such changes. We will also provide more information with respect to how to opt-out of behavioural tracking on this Green Channel Site. The information we collect automatically is statistical data and may include personal information and we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways that you provide to us, or receive from third parties. It helps us improve our Green Channel Site and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
The Green Channel service may be provided through platforms such as gaming systems, smart TVs, mobile devices, set top boxes and a number of other Internet connected devices. Further, some content or applications on The Green Channel Site, including advertisements, 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 other tracking technologies) to collect information about you when you use our service. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with internet based (behavioural) advertising or other targeted content. We do not control these third parties\\\' tracking technologies or how they are used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. Further, The Green Channel is not responsible for the information handling practices of these other applications and platforms. The website may contain links to independently owned, controlled and/or managed third party Internet sites to which the Privacy Policy does not apply. These platforms have separate and independent privacy statements, notices and terms of use, which we recommend you read carefully.
We use the personal information we collect to provide, analyze, administer, enhance and personalize the service and marketing efforts for you and others. This includes processing your registration, orders and payments, and to communicate with you on these and other topics. From time to time, we may partner with companies whose products we believe will interest our members. In conjunction with these partners, we may send promotional announcements and/or serve web-based advertisements on their behalf, as permitted by law.
The information provided by you will be stored through our servers located in Canada and the US. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, and for further certainty, we use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:
The Green Channel collects and discloses your personal information for the following purposes:
We may transfer personal information that we collect or that you provide as described in this Privacy Policy to contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business (such as analytics and search engine providers that assist us with The Green Channel Site improvement and optimization) and who are contractually obligated to keep personal information confidential, use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them, and to process the personal information with the same standards set out in this Privacy Policy.
If you have any questions, concerns or would like more information about the collection, use or disclosure of your personal information by The Green Channel, or if you simply want to know whether we have any of your personal information on file, you may contact us.
You may opt out of receiving e-mail communications by clicking the \\\"Unsubscribe\\\" link at the bottom of the email received or contacting us. It may take us up to 10 days to complete this process, as permitted by law. Please note that though you may opt out, your personal information may be retained in the database for record keeping purposes and for internal research and analysis for a period of time that is permitted by applicable laws.
Where you have provided your consent to the collection, use, and transfer of your personal information, you may have the legal right to withdraw your consent under certain circumstances. To withdraw your consent, if applicable, contact us at the email address set out below.
Technical, contractual, administrative and physical security measures and safeguards, such as locked cabinets, restricted access and the use of passwords and firewalls have been adopted to protect your personal information against loss or theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification. Personal information collected from our website is kept in a safe and secure system. Unfortunately, no security system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Accordingly, we cannot guarantee the security of your information and cannot assume liability for improper access to it. By using our service, including our website and user interfaces, or providing information to us through any means, you agree that we can communicate with you electronically regarding security, privacy, and administrative issues relating to your use of The Green Channel service and our Products.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on October 28, 2019 and may be modified, revised or updated at The Green Channel’s discretion and, at any time. We will notify you upon changes to our Privacy Policy.
Your personal information is processed and stored inside or outside of the province in which you reside. Under the laws of these other jurisdictions, in certain circumstances foreign courts, law enforcement agencies or regulatory agencies may be entitled to access your personal information without notice to you. Therefore, by using the service and the website, you acknowledge and agree to the transfer of your information outside your country of residence to any country where we have facilities.
We welcome your questions, comments, and requests regarding this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices. Please contact our privacy officer at: Attention: Privacy Officer Email: privacy@thegreenchannel.tv