Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes our policies on the collection, use, and disclosure of information about you in connection with your use of our services, including those offered through our website, communications (e.g., emails, and texts), and/or mobile applications.

When you use the Service, you consent to our collection, use, and disclosure of information about you as described in this Privacy Policy. We may translate this Privacy Policy into other languages for your convenience. Nevertheless, any inconsistencies among the different versions will be resolved in favor of the English version.

1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE USE IT
   We may collect, transmit, and store information about you in connection with your use of the Service, including any information you send to or through the Service. We use that information to provide the Service’s functionality, fulfill your requests, improve the Service’s quality, engage in research and analysis relating to the Service, personalize your experience, track usage of the Service, provide feedback to third party businesses that are listed on the Service, display relevant advertising, market the Service, provide customer support, message you, back up our systems, allow for disaster recovery, enhance the security of the Service, and comply with legal obligations. Even when we do not retain such information, it still must be transmitted to our servers initially and stored long enough to process.
   
   
1. Account Information: When you create a StrikeOn.ca account, we store and use the information you provide during that process, such as the first and last name you enter, email address, Postal code, physical address, and any other information you may provide during the account creation process, such as a gender, phone number, or birth date. You can later modify some of the account information you provide through your account settings. If you believe that someone has created an unauthorized account using your personal information, you can request its removal by contacting us.
   
   
2. Public Content: Your contributions to the Service are intended for public consumption and are therefore viewable by the public, including your photos, ratings, reviews.
   
   
3. Communications: When you sign up for an account or use certain features, you are opting to receive messages from other users, businesses, and StrikeOn.ca.
   
   
4. Transactions: If you initiate a transaction through the Service, such as making a reservation, making an appointment, or making a purchase, we will collect and store information you provide associated with your transaction, such as your name, phone number, address, email, and payment information, as well as any other information you provide relating to the transaction or request, in order to process your transaction, send you communications related to the transaction, and to facilitate future transactions. We may also use aggregated or anonymized information regarding those transactions for analytics purposes and to improve StrikeOn.ca’s services. This information may be shared with third parties, and third parties may share such information with us, for the same purposes. When you submit credit card numbers and other sensitive payment information, that information is encrypted using industry standard technology. If you write reviews about businesses with which you transact through the Service, we may publicly display the fact that you transacted with those businesses in connection with such reviews. For example, if you make a dining reservation through the Service and later write a review about your dining experience, we may publicly display the fact that you made your reservation through the Service in connection with that review.
   
   
5. Activity: We store information about your use of the Service, such as your search activity, the pages you view, the date and time of your visits. We also store information that your computer or mobile device may provide to us in connection with your use of the Service, such as your browser type, type of computer or mobile device, browser language, IP address, Wi-Fi information such as SSID, mobile carrier, phone number, unique device identifier, advertising identifier, location (including geolocation, beacon-based location, and GPS location), and requested and referring URLs and mobile applications.
   
   
6. Different Devices: You may access the Service through different devices (e.g., your mobile phone, personal computer, or other internet connected device) and different platforms. The information that we collect and store through those different uses may be cross-referenced and combined, and your contributions through one StrikeOn.ca platform will typically be similarly visible and accessible through all other StrikeOn.ca platforms.
   
   
7. Professional Information: If you represent a business on StrikeOn.ca, we may collect and display information about you related to your business activities, such as a business name that may incorporate your individual name, or a publicly available business address that is also used as a home address.
   
   

2. COOKIES
   We, and our third-party service providers, may use cookies, web beacons, tags, scripts. Cookies may contain unique identifiers, and reside, among other places, on your computer or mobile device, in emails we send to you, and on our web pages. Cookies may transmit information about you and your use of the Service, such as your browser type, search preferences, IP address, data relating to advertisements that have been displayed to you or that you have interacted with, and the date and time of your use. Cookies may be persistent or stored only during an individual session.

3. You can also set some Cookie preferences through your browser settings but doing so may affect the functionality of the Service. The method for disabling Cookies may vary by device and browser but can usually be found in your device or browser preferences or security settings.
   
   
4. We do not sell or share our subscriber's information and data with any other party for any reason.
   
5. THIRD PARTIES
   
   Third parties may share, receive, or process information about you as follows:
   
   
1. Advertisers: We may share some non-identifiable, de-identified or aggregated information from or about you with third parties in connection with advertising programs and data analytics. We also share certain information described below with businesses on StrikeOn.ca, who may or may not be advertisers.
   
   
2. Content and Data Partners: We allow third party partners to use and display some of the public content available through the Service, such as your photos, reviews, and other information.
   
   
3. Acquired Data: StrikeOn.ca may acquire information enabling us to identify and contact representatives of local businesses from third parties. Such acquired data may be combined with other data StrikeOn.ca receives from or about you and used for the purposes described in Section 1 of this Privacy Policy.
   
   
4. Aggregate or Anonymous Information: We share user information in the aggregate with third parties, such as businesses that are listed on StrikeOn.ca and content distributors. For example, we disclose the number of users that have been exposed to or interacted with advertisements, or that we estimate visited the physical location of a particular business.
   
   
5. Businesses on StrikeOn.ca: We may share information from or about you (such as your city), your device type, and your use of the Service (such as which businesses you bookmark or call, or if you visit a business’s URL) with businesses on StrikeOn.ca.
   
   
6. Investigations and Legal Disclosures: We may investigate and disclose information from or about you if we have a good faith belief that such investigation or disclosure: (a) is reasonably necessary to comply with legal or law enforcement processes, such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute, judicial proceeding, or other legal process or law enforcement request; (b) is helpful to prevent, investigate, or identify possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service; or (c) protects our rights, reputation, property, or that of our users, affiliates, or the public, such as disclosures in connection with StrikeOn.ca’s Consumer Alerts program. If you flag or otherwise complain to us about content through the Service, we may share the substance of your complaint with the contributor of that content to provide an opportunity for the contributor to respond.
   
   
7. Links: The Service may link to third party-controlled websites, like a business’s URL. Except as set forth herein, we do not share your personal information with them, and are not responsible for their privacy practices.
   
   
8. Interaction With Third-Party Platforms: If you sign up for, or log into, StrikeOn.ca using a third-party platform like Facebook or Google, or link your StrikeOn.ca account with a third-party platform like Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter, we may receive information about you from such third-party platform. If you post content to a third-party platform through the Service, that third-party platform will also receive that content, which will be visible to anyone that has access to it through that third-party platform. If you interact with businesses through StrikeOn.ca, they will receive whatever information you choose to share with them, for example contact information you share through quote requests or direct messages to the business, or your phone number if you call the business. StrikeOn.ca may share information with third parties where you direct StrikeOn.ca to do so through the Service.

5. DATA RETENTION AND ACCOUNT TERMINATION
   Information on how to close your account is available here. We will remove certain public posts from view and/or dissociate them from your account profile, but we may retain information about you for the purposes authorized under this Privacy Policy unless prohibited by law. For example, we may retain information to prevent, investigate, or identify possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service or to comply with legal obligations. We may also maintain residual copies of your personal information in our backup systems. Please note that businesses cannot remove their business pages, ratings, or reviews by closing their accounts. StrikeOn.ca retains information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, or as otherwise permitted or required by law. 
   
   
6. CHILDREN
   The Service is intended for general audiences and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. Although use of StrikeOn.ca by children is unlikely, if you become aware that a child has provided us with personal information without parental consent, please contact us. If we become aware that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information without parental consent, we take steps to remove such information and terminate the child’s account.

7. SECURITY
   We use various safeguards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and after we receive it. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or via mobile device, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
    
8. MODIFICATIONS TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
   We may modify this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most current version of the Privacy Policy will govern our collection, use, and disclosure of information about you. By continuing to access or use the Service after those changes become effective, you acknowledge the revised Privacy Policy.
   
   
9. EUROPEAN RESIDENTS:
   
   If you are a European Resident, you have the right to access your personal data, and the right to request that we correct, update, or delete your personal data. You can object to the processing of your personal information, ask us to restrict processing of your personal information, and request portability of your personal information. Similarly, if we have collected and processed your personal information with your consent, then you can withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent. The Service generally provides you with a reasonable means to view and change your profile information and you can opt-out of marketing communications at any time by clicking on the “unsubscribe” or “opt-out” link in the marketing emails we send you. We take the privacy of our users seriously and therefore take steps to safeguard your information, including ensuring an adequate level of data protection in accordance with E.U. and United Kingdom standards in effect as of the date of this Privacy Policy.  

For European Residents, our legal basis for collecting and using the information described above will depend on the specific information concerned and the context in which we collect it. We, however, will normally collect personal information from you only where we have your consent to do so. In some cases, we may have a legal obligation to collect personal information from you or may otherwise need the personal information to protect your vital interests or those of another person (for instance, to prevent, investigate, or identify possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service or to comply with legal obligations). If we ask you to provide personal information to comply with a legal requirement, we will make this clear at the relevant time and advise you whether the provision of your personal information is mandatory or not (as well as of the possible consequences if you do not provide your personal information). If we collect and use your personal information in reliance on our legitimate interests (or those of any third party), this interest will typically be to operate our Services, communicate with you in relation to our Services, or for our other legitimate commercial interests, for instance, when responding to your queries, to analyze and improve our platform, engage in marketing, or for the purposes of detecting or preventing fraud.