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Privacy policy

1. Introduction

At ShipLink, we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This policy outlines how we handle your personal data when you visit our website, your privacy rights, and how the law protects you.

2. Important Information and Who We Are

Purpose of This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy provides information on how ShipLink collects and processes your personal data through your use of our website, including any data you may provide when you contact us or purchase our services. Our website is not intended for children, and we do not knowingly collect data related to children. It is important to read this Privacy Policy together with any other privacy notices we may provide on specific occasions to understand how and why we are using your data. This policy supplements other notices and is not intended to override them.

Controller

ShipLink is the controller responsible for your personal data. When we refer to “ShipLink ,” “we,” “us,” or “our” in this policy, we are referring to ShipLink . We have appointed a data privacy manager to oversee questions regarding this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions or wish to exercise your legal rights, please contact the data privacy manager using the details below

Contact Details

ShipLink Services Inc.

3020A route Marie-Victorin
Unit 100
Varennes, QC
J3X 0J5 Canada

Email: contact@shiplink.com

Changes to the Privacy Policy and Your Duty to Inform Us of Changes

This Privacy Policy was last updated on 2024-07-01. We reserve the right to update it as necessary. Any significant changes will be communicated via a pop-up notice on our website. It is crucial that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please inform us of any changes to your personal data during your relationship with us.

Third-party Links

Our website may contain links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Clicking on those links may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of every website you visit.

3. The Data We Collect About You

Personal data refers to any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include anonymous data. We may collect, use, store, and transfer various kinds of personal data about you, which we have grouped as follows:
  • Identity Data: first name, last name, username, or similar identifier and gender.
  • Contact Data: delivery address, email address, and telephone numbers.
  • Financial Data: bank account and payment card details.
  • Transaction Data: details about payments to and from you and other details of services you have purchased from us.
  • Technical Data: IP address, login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
  • Profile Data: username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback, and survey responses.
  • Usage Data: information about how you use our website, products, and services.
  • Marketing and Communications Data: your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
We also collect, use, and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data in accordance with this privacy notice. We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, health, and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offenses

4. How Is Your Personal Data Collected?

We use various methods to collect data from and about you, including:

  • Direct Interactions: You may provide Identity, Contact, and Financial Data by filling in forms or corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you apply for our services, create an account on our website, subscribe to our services, provide shipping information, request marketing, enter a competition, promotion or survey, or give us feedback.
  • Direct Interactions: You may provide Identity, Contact, and Financial Data by filling in forms or corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you apply for our services, create an account on our website, subscribe to our services, provide shipping information, request marketing, enter a competition, promotion or survey, or give us feedback.
  • Third Parties or Publicly Available Sources: We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources, such as analytics providers (e.g., Google), advertising networks (e.g., Facebook), search information providers (e.g., Google), and providers of technical, payment, and delivery services (e.g., Stripe).

5. How We Use Your Personal Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

  • Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
  • Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
  • Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

Generally, we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data other than in relation to sending third-party direct marketing communications to you via email or text message. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us.

6. Marketing

We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising. You can view and make certain decisions about your personal data use on your Account Settings page.

7. Promotional Offers From Us

We may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage, and Profile Data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which services and offers may be relevant for you (we call this marketing). You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us or purchased services from us, and you have not opted out of receiving

8. Third-party Marketing

We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any company outside ShipLink for marketing purposes.

9. Opting Out

You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by logging into the website and checking or unchecking relevant boxes to adjust your marketing preferences or by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by contacting us at any time. Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of a service purchase, warranty registration, service experience, or other transactions.