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Girls Can Do Anything Magazine Inc.
PRIVACY POLICY
Girls Can Do Anything Magazine Inc.’s thoughts on
Privacy
We at Girls Can Do Anything Magazine Inc. (hereinafter
referred to as GCDA Magazine) think your private
information should remain protected and private. Here
you’ll get the details of our privacy policy so that you
understand what we are doing with your personal
information. We’re committed to protecting all users
visiting our Website. Please read this in its entirety,
and if you are a visitor who is under 13, please have
your parents read it with you.
What this Privacy Policy Covers
GCDA Magazine will inform you about what information is
collected about you on our Website and how the
information is collected, what we use the information
for, and who will have access to your information.
Access to Children
Since our Website is accessible by children under the
age of 13, we strongly encourage parents to be actively
monitoring their children’s use of our Website.
ATTENTION CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 13:
IF YOU ARE UNDER 13, WE MUST RECEIVE PERMISSION FROM
YOUR PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN BEFORE YOU MAY SEND ANY
PERSONAL
INFORMATION
ABOUT YOURSELF OVER THE INTERNET, BY E-MAIL OR BY ANY
OTHER MEANS TO GIRLS CAN DO ANYTHING, MAGAZINE. PLEASE
HAVE YOUR PARENT OR GUARDIAN READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY
WITH YOU BEFORE YOU USE OUR WEBSITE.
Parent’s/Legal Guardian’s Rights to their Children’s
Collected Information
As a parent/guardian, you have the right to
monitor/review the information collected about your
child and to delete and/or remove the child’s personal
information.
Upon receipt by GCDA Magazine of your request to do any
of the above, we will verify that you are in fact the
child’s parent/legal guardian. We request that you
contact us at the address below to exercise this right.
The Personal Information We Collect and How We Use It
Throughout our Website, your child may navigate freely
without providing any personally identifiable
information to us, including but not limited to, the
“get published” section.
Certain sections of our Website may collect individually
identifiable information from our users, including name,
address, e-mail address, telephone number and other
personal information; however, we will never collect any
personal information from a child under the age of 13
without proper parental notice or consent. Please see
below for more information concerning specific features
of our Website.
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GCDA Magazine Website: Users
of our Website may request to receive regular
newsletters/updates and information from GCDA
Magazine. The only information we require from a
child is their first name and email address. If the
requester indicates that he or she is under the age
of 13, we also ask for the email address of a
parent. The contact information we collect is used
only to send these updates to the child and for no
other purpose. GCDA Magazine will not combine
contact information collected exclusively to fulfill
a user’s request for newsletters/updates with any
other information collected on the Website. If we
use the services of a third party to help us deliver
or process the delivery of these updates to the
child, we will only do so under a contract which
requires the third party assisting us to keep such
information strictly confidential.
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GCDA Magazine’s Advisory Committee:
Certain individuals may be selected as GCDA
Magazine Advisory Committee members. Advisory
Committee members will be required to sign a
Confidentiality Agreement to maintain privacy and
may provide input on projects such as new product
concepts, articles, contests, promotions, product
testing, product preferences, opinion surveys,
polls, content, teen questions, and other GCDA
Magazine research. Information collected will be
used only for GCDA Magazine’s marketing purposes in
connection with the sale or advertising of GCDA
Magazine’s products and/or services. Except as
outlined under this Privacy Policy, any information
shared with third parties will be done on an
anonymous basis, and only under contract which
requires the third party assisting us to keep such
information confidential.
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PayPal.com:
Our Website offers users the chance to purchase
subscriptions though PayPal.com. Although PayPal is
a third party, PayPal has a strict Privacy Policy
and we direct you to their policy directly. After
you have added a subscription(s) to your shopping
cart, you will be directed to PayPal, where your
transaction will be finalized. PayPal will collect
personal information in order to complete the
purchase. Data collected by PayPal in connection
with GCDA Magazine will be kept separate and
private. Any information collected and maintained
by PayPal should be referenced through and is
subject to their Privacy Policy. Additionally, you
may receive cookies from PayPal for which we have no
control. We are not responsible for the privacy
practices or website content of PayPal. Please
review their Privacy Policy before making a purchase
on PayPal. If you are not comfortable with PayPal’s
policies, do not make a purchase through PayPal.
Alternatively, money orders and cheques are
acceptable forms of payment for subscriptions and
can be mailed to 15-75 Bayly Street West, Suite #229
, Ajax , ON , L1S 7K7 . Please allow 4 – 6 weeks
for the processing of cheque and money order
subscriptions.
What Information Third Parties might collect
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Third Parties and their software may, from time to
time, passively collect and track information about
user activities on their Website. When a user is
directed to another website by a link from our
Website, we strongly suggest that you review that
Third Party’s particular Privacy Policy and agree to
its terms before proceeding to use and enjoy that
website.
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Cookies and other Automated Processes:
Cookies are small text files that are stored on a
user’s computer and record data about a user’s
visit. Cookies assist web surfing by saving visitor
preferences and other information. In general, use
cookies are used to collect information so that it
can be determined how to improve a website by seeing
which areas and features are most popular. If a
user decides not to accept the cookies, a user will
still be able to access those parts of the Website
available to the general public but the user may not
be able to use some of the Website’s features or
other services, and the user may have a less
satisfactory experience.
Sharing your Personal Information with Third Parties
We will never share any Personal Information with any
party outside of GCDA Magazine under any circumstances.
We may share aggregated information with third parties,
provided that it is not traceable to any particular user
and will not be used to contact you, such as poll
results. We will only do so only under a contract which
requires the third party assisting us to keep such
information confidential.
Responsibility to your Privacy
GCDA Magazine recognizes its duty to maintain reasonable
procedures that protect the confidentiality, security,
and integrity of your child’s and your information. We
adhere to such reasonable procedures in an effort to
maintain confidentiality, security and integrity.
Limits to Confidentiality
At GCDA Magazine, we will share your Personal
Information only when we are required by law to do so or
in the event of:
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Transactions with
GCDA Magazine
We may provide a user’s Personal Information to
trusted businesses or persons (“Business
Associates”) for the single purpose of processing
and/or storing Personal Information on our behalf.
These Business Associates include website
developers, internet service providers, banks and
credit card processing companies as well as other
third parties we use to assist us in our mission of
proving users with GCDA Magazine and/or its
products. When we do disclose a user’s information
to others, it will be subject to agreements that
require Business Associates to maintain the security
of the Personal Information provided by GCDA
Magazine, and to process such Personal Information
only on our instructions, in compliance with this
Privacy Policy, and in an appropriate confidential
and secure manner.
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User Instructions
If a user or their parent/guardian of our Website
voluntarily contacts us because the user is having a
problem with the Website such as purchases though
our Business Associates, we will seek and require
the user’s permission to investigate that purchase
on behalf of the user and may need to use
information provided by the user in the course of
investigating and attempting to resolve the problem.
In such cases, we may need to share with Business
Associates information provided by the user to GCDA
Magazine, and we will need to contact the user once
we have investigated the complaint.
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Inappropriate Conduct
If we find that your actions on our Website violates
our Privacy Policy in any way, we may access and
disclose Personal Information if necessary in order
to protect the rights and safety of our minor users
and others and to comply with the applicable laws of
Canada.
Security
The importance of security for all Personal Information
associated with our users, like you, is of great concern
to us. Personal Information provided in connection with
GCDA Magazine is available only to our internal staff
and is kept on a secure server. Except as otherwise set
forth in this Privacy Policy, only those employees who
need access to our users’ information in order to do
their jobs are allowed access, as described above. Any
employee who violates our privacy and/or security
policies may be subject to termination and civil and/or
criminal prosecution.
Contact our Website
For inquiries concerning our information practices, you
may contact us at:
Girls Can Do Anything Magazine Inc.
15-75 Bayly Street West
Suite # 229
Ajax , Ontario
L1S 7K7
Or by e-mail through the contact page of our Website. We
will employ reasonable methods to insure that we are
communicating with the parent or legal guardian during
this contact, and during any contact requiring
verifiable parental consent.
Links to Other Web Sites
Our Website may contain links to other Internet
websites. We encourage our associates, contributors and
other third parties to implement policies and practices
that respect your privacy. We recommend you familiarize
yourself and agree to their respective Privacy Policy
that may be in place at the time of use of their
website.
We are not, however, responsible for other websites’
privacy practices or website content. Occasionally, you
may receive cookies from third party advertisers,
partners and vendors. We do not control these cookies.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to change this policy at any time.
We ask that you review this Privacy Policy from time to
time to insure you are familiar with the most current
version of it.
Acceptance of this Privacy Policy
By using this Website, you agree to the terms of this
Privacy Policy as well as any posted changes to this
Privacy Policy.
If you do not agree to the terms, please DO NOT use our
Website.
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