Ascenda Brand Marketing – Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy applies to Ascenda Brand Marketing, a division of 1000132220 Ontario Inc. (referred to hereinafter as “ascendamarketing.com”, “this Website”, “our Website”, “the Website”, “we”, “our” and/or “us”), our Website and services. As an advertising/marketing agency, Ascenda Brand Marketing knows that you care about how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your expectation that we will do so carefully and sensibly. By visiting our Website displaying this Privacy Policy or a link thereto, or by otherwise interacting with ascendamarketing.com, you agree to accept the practices described in this Privacy Policy. For questions about this Privacy Policy please contact us.
As a conscientious provider of advertising/marketing services, Ascenda Brand Marketing values your privacy and is dedicated to protecting your personal information. We are also committed to informing you about what personal identifiable information we collect and how it is used, what choices you have regarding the collection, use and distribution of that information, the security procedures we implement to protect that information and what access you may have to correct any inaccuracies in the information we have collected from you.
What Information is Collected
We receive and store any information you enter on our Website or give us in any other way, such as via telephone, electronic mail, online or otherwise. Here are the types of information we gather:
Contact Information
When you contact Ascenda Brand Marketing to inquire about our advertising/marketing services, we collect and retain personal contact information that you submit to us voluntarily and this includes, but is not limited to, your name, mailing address, web address, telephone number, and email address. Such contact information may be used, for example, to communicate with you when necessary with respect to transactions. Additionally, we may collect contact information provided to us during any correspondence relating to customer support, as well as in connection with products and services offered on our Website.
Demographic Information
We may collect and store anonymous demographic information (such as your postal/zip code, gender and age), and use this data to tailor your experience on our Website, provide content that we think you might be interested in, perform general improvements to the Website, and display the content according to your preferences. Such demographic information may be shared with partners, market researchers and other third parties on an aggregate, non-personal identifiable basis. No personal identifiable information will be linked to such aggregated demographic information that is shared with third-parties.
Other Information
We collect and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, our analytics platform tracks the type of web browser you are using and the page from which you link. Additionally, we log IP addresses (a unique number assigned to every computer on the Internet) in order to improve security, analyze trends and administer our Website. We may track your movement within our Website, the third-party website pages from which you were referred, access times and browser types. We use this information to gauge the effectiveness of our Website, track information for statistical purposes and to improve the products and services we provide. We collect this information to better develop a sense of what advertising/marketing services our customers need and identify areas of improvement to our Website.
Cookies
The Website may use “cookie” technology for such purposes as enhancing your online experience by making it easier for you to navigate through our Website and making certain features function better. Cookies are text files which are commonly deposited by websites on a user’s hard drive when the user visits a website. The file identifies a user’s computer and can record their preferences and other data about their website visit. We do not extract information about individual users during this process. Your web browser may enable you to disable cookies, but please note that certain services may not function correctly without it and your experience on our Website may be hindered.
Third-Party Cookies
We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads on our behalf across the Internet. These companies may collect and use information about your visits to this and other websites and your interaction with our products and services in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. However, no personal identifiable information (such as your name, address, email address or telephone number) will be connected with such information. They may use information about your visits to this and other websites to target advertisements for paid search and social media services and may be used to keep track of user response to each advertisement. These targeted advertisements may appear on our Website or on other sites that you visit. The anonymous information is collected through the use of a pixel tag or cookies, which are industry standard technologies used by most major websites. If you do not want such companies to collect this information you may opt-out.
To learn more about the use of this information or choose not to have this information used by certain third-party advertising partners, please visit the Digital Advertising Alliance Of Canada at https://youradchoices.ca/. Please note that if you delete your cookies, use a different browser, or buy a new computer, you will need to renew your opt-out choice.
How Personal Information Is Used
Our Use
We receive and store any personal information you enter on our Website or give to us voluntarily in any other way and may use it to contact you from time to time regarding our advertising/marketing services. We take steps designed to ensure that only the employees who need access to your personal information to fulfill their employment duties will have access to it.
Service-Related Uses
We may use your personal information to contact you about the advertising/marketing services you have purchased from us, or for other purposes in which you have expressed an interest, for example, if you have contacted customer service or made an inquiry. We will also provide you with service and account related announcements.
Protection of ascendamarketing.com and Others
We may release account and other personal information when we are required to do so by law, court order, subpoena or other government or law enforcement authority or regulatory agency, including ICANN, in order to enforce or apply our Services Agreement or other agreements, or when we believe in good faith that disclosing this information is necessary or advisable, including for example, to protect the rights, property, or safety of ascendamarketing.com, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection, credit risk reduction or other similar purposes.
Sites Other Than ascendamarketing.com
As an advertising/marketing agency, Ascenda Brand Marketing has no control over and is not responsible for the privacy policies or information gathering practices of other websites, including those to which we may link and those which may link to us. We strongly recommend that you review the privacy policies of every online service you use before submitting any personal information and direct any concerns to the site administrator of that website.
Limitation of Liability
As a an advertising/marketing agency, Ascenda Brand Marketing assumes no responsibility or liability with regard to any theft, loss, alteration or misuse of personal or other information lawfully provided by ascendamarketing.com to third-parties, or with regard to the failure of any third party to abide by this privacy policy or such third-party’s privacy policy or any agreement between that third-party and ascendamarketing.com.
Choice and Opt-Out
You may opt-out of marketing communications from us by emailing us with your request, or you may send it to us via letter mail to:
Ascenda Brand Marketing, a division of 1000132220 Ontario Inc.
15 Bray Street
Beeton, ON
L0G 1A0
Procedures Used to Protect Personal Information
As a conscientious provider of advertising/marketing services, Ascenda Brand Marketing works to protect the security of your information during transmission by using HTTPS (connection security), which means our website server uses a certificate to prove the website’s identity to browsers, like Chrome. Keep in mind however, that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, but we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Effective Date
The Effective Date of this Privacy Policy is set forth below. Due to the constantly changing nature of our digital marketing business, we reserve the right to change, update or modify this Privacy Policy at any time at our sole discretion, and will post any new Privacy Policy here. Any such change, update or modification will be effective immediately upon posting on our Website. You are responsible for checking our Websites frequently to keep apprised of recent changes. By going to our Website or utilizing our services after the Effective Date you are deemed to have consented to our then-current Privacy Policy and will be bound by its terms.
How to Contact Us
For questions about this Privacy Policy please contact us.