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FREE TREES EXCHANGE INC.
PRIVACY POLICY
Updated February , 2024
Notice
Free Trees respects your privacy and is committed to protecting personal information that you provide in connection with your use of the Service. This Privacy Policy is intended to provide you notice of our information practices, including the types of information gathered, how that information is used and safeguarded, and how you can control the maintenance and sharing of your information.
BY ACCESSING OR USING THE SERVICE, YOU CONSENT TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND TO OUR COLLECTION, USE AND PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION FOR THE PURPOSES STATED BELOW. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, YOU CANNOT ACCESS OR USE THE SERVICE.
Personal Information
In this Privacy Policy, “personal information” means information about an identifiable individual and includes employee personal information, but does not include (a) information that enables an individual at a place of business to be contacted, such as their name, position name or title, business telephone number, business address and business email, or (b) information prepared or collected by an individual as a part of their employment or business responsibilities or activities.
Collection of Personal Information and Other Data
As part of its commercial activity, Free Trees collects, uses and processes personal information in order to provide information and services to its contributors and partners. The types of personal information that is collected as a result of your use of the Service includes:
Data that you may provide to us directly, such as:
Personal data, including your name, telephone number, email and postal code, in order to benefit from communications sent by Free Trees;
Professional data necessary to respond to a job offer, such as your CV, qualifications and employment history; and
Any other information that you wish to bring to the attention of Free Trees.
Data that we collect during our business relationship, such as:
Your encrypted username and password;
Financial transaction data, within the framework of a payment and in order to perform contractual obligations, encrypted information relating to the payment method and data necessary for delivery may be collected;
Data Security
We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, please understand that we cannot, and do not, guarantee that the internet itself is 100% secure. Although we will take reasonable precautions to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our servers is at your own risk. You should only access the Service within a secure environment.
Postings to Public Forums
In this Section, “Content” means any information that may be generated or encountered through use of the Service, such as data files, written text, software, music, graphics, photographs, images, sounds, videos, messages and any other similar materials.
All postings in our public forums will generally be available to, and freely accessible by, other users of these forums as well as the Internet general public. Therefore, you should not expect that any Content you post will be kept private or confidential and should exercise discretion when using these public forums. Additionally, your username, which you can change, will always be included in conjunction with your postings in the public forums. We are not responsible for events arising from the distribution of any Content that you choose to post publicly or share through these forums. All Content uploaded by you while utilizing the Service is subject to our Terms of Service.
Maintaining and Updating Your Personal Information
After receiving any requested changes to your personal information, we will make reasonable efforts to ensure that all of your personal information stored in databases we actively use to operate the Service will be updated, corrected, changed or deleted, as applicable, as soon as reasonably practicable. However, we reserve the right to retain in our archival files any information we remove from or change in our active databases. We will retain certain personal information in order to comply with applicable laws. We may also retain such information to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems or enforce our Terms of Service. In addition, it may not be technologically possible to remove every record of the information you have previously provided us, as a copy may exist in a non-erasable form that will be difficult or impossible for us to locate.
Storage of Your Personal Information
Our servers are located in Canada. If you are accessing the Service from outside Canada, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed by us in the facilities of our third party hosting provider and by those third parties with whom we may share your personal information in countries other than Canada.
Note to Residents of the EEA: If you are a resident in the European Economic Area, then these countries may not have data protection or other laws as comprehensive as those in your country. We will however take all measures reasonably necessary to protect your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and applicable law. We have implemented the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses to govern transfers of personal information between us and our third-party providers, which require all such recipients to protect personal information that they process from the EEA in accordance with European data protection laws. Our Standard Contractual Clauses can be provided upon request. We have implemented similar appropriate safeguards with our third party service providers and partners and further details can be provided upon request.
Retention of Information
We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting or other legal requirements).
When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.
Your Privacy Rights
In some regions (like Canada and the European Economic Area), you have certain rights under applicable data protection laws. These may include the right (a) to request access and obtain a copy of your personal information, (b) to request rectification or erasure; (c) to restrict the processing of your personal information; and (d) if applicable, to data portability. In certain circumstances, you may also have the right to object to the processing of your personal information. To make such a request, please contact us at privacy@free-trees.com. We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
If we are relying on your consent to process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Please note however that this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before its withdrawal.
If you are resident in the European Economic Area and you believe we are unlawfully processing your personal information, you also have the right to complain to your local data protection supervisory authority. You can find their contact details here: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm
California Residents
If you are a resident of California, you are granted specific rights regarding access to your personal information. California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law, permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please contact us at privacy@free-trees.com.
If you are under 18 years of age, reside in California, then you have the right to request removal of unwanted data that you publicly post on our sites. To request removal of such data, please contact us at privacy@free-trees.com, and include the email address associated with your account and a statement that you reside in California. We will make sure the data is not publicly displayed on our sites, but please be aware that the data may not be completely or comprehensively removed from our systems.
Governing Law; Notification of Changes
Any litigation or other dispute resolution between you and Free Trees arising out of or relating to this Privacy Policy, our Terms of Service or your use of the Service will take place in Vancouver, British Columbia, and you hereby consent to the personal jurisdiction and exclusive venue of the Courts of the Province of British Columbia with respect to any such litigation or dispute resolution. This Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Province of British Columbia and the laws of Canada applicable therein, excluding that body of British Columbia law concerning conflicts of laws. The parties expressly exclude the application of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, and all implementing legislation thereunder.
Free Trees is a Canadian company, and so we have written this Privacy Policy to satisfy Canadian privacy laws, except that we have made specific accommodation for residents of the European Economic Area and residents of California, USA as noted above in this Policy. By accessing and using the Service, you expressly agree to that level of privacy protection.
ALL CLAIMS AGAINST FREE TREES MUST BE BROUGHT IN YOUR OWN CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. YOU AGREE THAT, BY REGISTERING AN ACCOUNT AND/OR USING THE SERVICE, YOU ARE WAIVING THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY OR TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION.
Effective Date; Policy Changes
Each time you access or use the Service, the current version of our Privacy Policy will apply. Accordingly, when you use the Service, you should check the currency date of this Privacy Policy (that date is at the top) and review any changes since the last version. Our business changes frequently and this Privacy Policy is subject to change from time to time. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you. We will not materially change our policies and practices to make them less protective of customer information collected in the past without the consent of affected customers.
Contact Us
To contact us with your questions or comments regarding this Privacy Policy or the information collection and dissemination practices of the Service, please email us at privacy@free-trees.com.
Click here to see our Terms of Service.
If you are a resident in the European Economic Area, the “data controller” of your personal information is Free Trees Exchange Inc. and we can be contacted by sending us an email at privacy@free-trees.com.