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Data Protection Policy

Data protection

The owners of this site take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy. Although this website is located in the USA and administered from Canada, we strive as much as possible to comply with current UK and EU GDPR regulations. Note that regulations in your country may be different.

The use of our website is possible without providing personal data. When personal information is requested (for example, your name and email address on the contact form), you give this voluntarily. This data will not be passed on to third parties.

We point out that sending information over the Internet is subject to security issues. Complete protection of the data from being accessed by third parties is not possible.

Cookies

This website uses cookies. Cookies do not harm your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies perform important functions in the operation of this site. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer by your browser.

Most of the cookies we use are "session cookies". They are automatically deleted when you close your browser. Other cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them. These cookies allow us to recognize your browser the next time you visit and restore some of your preferences (such as your preferred language).

You can configure your browser settings so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and allow cookies only in certain cases. Disabling cookies may limit the functionality of this website.

Besides session cookies, we use phpWebStat:

phpWebStat is an stand-alone script (program) running on our website, which helps us to understand our visitors; for example, how visitors find our website, how long they spend on our site, which web pages they are most-interested in, etc. We use phpWebStat because better-understanding how visitors are interacting with our website helps us to improve the content, design, and functionality of our site. This allows us to offer a better online experience to our visitors. If you prefer not to be registered in this way, please browse our site in incognito mode. phpWebStat uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on visitors, and visitor activity on our website. This data includes:

• Summary, consisting of:
• visitors total, visitors today, visitors yesterday, visitors this month, visitors last month, maximum, daily average, count hits/page impressions, average hits/page impressions, trends for months and years
• Stat Modules of hour / day / weekday / month / year
• Last Visitors by day interval
• Detailed Stats for days / months / years
• Browsers & Operating Systems (this can help us to make sure that our website functions correctly in the browsers/operating systems used to access our site)
• Device Information, such as device type, screen resolution, screen size, etc. (this can help us to make sure that our website functions correctly in the devices used to access our site)
• Javascript Status
• Visited URLs
• Search Engines & Search Words
• Referring Data, such as entry-sites & referrers with search engine link (this can help us to understand which search engines are helping visitors to find our website)
• Origins (countries)
• IP address, hidden from public view (to determine the country & general area where visitors are located)

To see phpWebStat in use on our website, click HERE.

Server log files

The provider of these pages automatically collects and stores information in server log files, which your browser transmits to us. These are:

• Browser type and version
• Operating system
• Referrer URL
• Host name of the accessing computer
• IP address (anonymized)
• Time of request

These data can not be assigned to specific persons. This data will not be merged with other data sources. We reserve the right to check this data retrospectively, if we become aware of specific indications for illegal use.

Contact form

If you send us inquiries via the contact form, your details from the inquiry form, including the contact details you provided there, will be stored in order to process the request and in case of follow-up questions. Of course, we will not pass on this data.

Right to information, cancellation, blocking

At any time you have the right to obtain information about your stored personal data, their origin and recipients and the purpose of any processing or transmission, along with a right to correct, block or delete this data.

You can configure your browser settings so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and allow cookies only in certain cases. Disabling cookies may limit the functionality of this website.

For further information on personal data you can contact us at any time. We are located a few miles west of Toronto, in Burlington, Ontario, Canada.