PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Policy describes how AR:T ROUTE Radio  www.artrouteradio.ca website  (the “Site” or “we”) collects, uses, maintains and discloses information collected from users (each, a “User” also meaning  “you” or “your”) of the website (“Site” "us" "we" "our"). This privacy policy applies to the Site and all products and services offered by the Site.

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By using this website, you hereby consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy and agree to the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information as described herein. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use this website.

This consent acknowledges that you have read and understood the Privacy Policy and that you voluntarily agree to the collection, processing, and use of your personal information in accordance with the purposes outlined in this policy.

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Please note that you have the option to withdraw your consent at any time as described in the "Opting Out" section of this Privacy Policy. However, withdrawing consent may affect your ability to access certain features or services offered on this website.

Your continued use of this website following any changes to this Privacy Policy, which will be posted on this page, signifies your acceptance of those changes and your ongoing consent to the collection and use of your personal information as described herein.

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What personal information do we collect?
We receive, collect and store any information you enter on our website or provide us in any other way. In addition, we collect the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer or device to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information and purchase history. We may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page. We also collect personally identifiable information (including name, email, password, communications); payment details (including credit card information), comments, feedback, product reviews, recommendations, and personal profile. 

We collect such Non-personal and Personal Information for the following purposes:
1.    To provide and operate the Services; and to perform analytics on Site usage to optimize our Site.
2.    To provide our Users with ongoing customer assistance and technical support;
3.    To be able to contact our Visitors and Users with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages;
4.    To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred Non-personal Information, which we or our business partners may use to provide and improve our respective services; 
5.    To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.

 

Order -Purchase Information|

Examples of Personal Information collected: name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers, email address, and phone number.  Collected from you.

• Purpose of collection: to provide products or services to you to fulfill our contract, to process your payment information, arrange for shipping, and provide you with invoices and/or order confirmations, communicate with you, customer support,  screen our orders for potential risk or fraud, and when in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.​​

• Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our processors Paypal or Wix.com, and our third-party vendors for the purpose of fulfilment of orders and for the purpose of resolving customer service issues. 

• We use Paypal or Wix.com to power our online store. You can read more about how Paypal uses your Personal Information here: https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full.  Wix.com privacy policy 

• We share order information with our third party vendors for the purpose of fulfilling orders.

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Web servers automatically collect certain information about a visit to a website, including the visitor's Internet Protocol (IP) address. IP addresses are unique numbers assigned by Internet Service Providers (ISP) to all devices used to access the Internet. Web servers automatically log the IP addresses of visitors to their sites. The IP address, on its own, may not identify an individual. However, in certain circumstances, it could be used to identify an individual using the site. This information can include the name of the page you visited and the date and time of your visit.

Unless otherwise noted, we do not automatically gather any specific personal information from you. The only way we would get this information is if you give it to us, for example, via one of our online forms. We have forms on our site to help you interact with our site– for example, to send contact us, We only ask for the information that we need to address your request.

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Personal Identification Information    
The Site collects personal information (such as your name, e-mail address, address, and/or credit card information) from the Site  only if you choose to provide that information to us.

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The Site is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Including all direct payment gateways offered by Wix.com and used by our Site.  Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.  wix.com privacy policy

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We use buymeacoffee.com platform for our Donation platform and processing.  buymeacoffee.com privacy policy 

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We may collect personal identification information from Users in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when Users visit our site, respond to a survey, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our Site. Users may be asked for, as appropriate, email address. Users may, however, visit our Site anonymously. We will collect personal identification information from Users only if you choose to provide that information to us.  Users can always refuse to supply personally identification information, except that it may prevent them from engaging in certain Site related activities.  The Site also may ask users  to provide personal information in other limited circumstances specified at the time the information is collected.

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Like all other web servers, the Site’s web server automatically creates log files for each visitor who accesses their site. These “access logs” allow us to make the site more useful to our visitors. The access logs do not record a visitor’s name, address, phone number, credit card numbers, or any other personally-identifying information.  They contain some or all of the following information:

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• The Internet Protocol Address (IP Address) of the machine which accessed our website.
• The date of the visit.
• The time of the visit.
• The path taken through our website.
• The type of computer and browser being used.
• A list of files being viewed.
• Any errors encountered.

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Cookies  
Our Site also uses “cookies” to enhance User experience. A cookie is a string of characters that can be written to a file on the User’s hard drive when the user visits a website. Only the website that set the cookie can read it, and it can only be used as a record keeping device to store information that the site already has. It cannot, for example, be used to read other information from the User’s hard drive.

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User’s web browser places cookies on their hard drive for record-keeping purposes and sometimes to track information about them. User may choose to set their web browser to refuse cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If they do so, note that some parts of the Site may not function properly.

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Th Site  uses cookies to track users’ activity through the site in order to improve the site’s platform and services, to offer the user interactive features that would not be possible without them, and to recall specific information to save the user time during subsequent visits to the site.  If you wish to prevent certain or all cookies from being set to your hard drive you may disable them in your browser’s preferences, although your browser might then be unable to accommodate certain functionalities on the Site.

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Use of Information  
The use of personally-identifying information is not used for anything else besides the purposes of the Site.  The use of personally-identifying information is limited to the following: responding to user e-mails; listing name, location (city, province/state and/or country), phone number, website, description and other information provided by users when publishing user listings or other submissions; contest management; editorial purposes such as contacting users; sending communications, including marketing and promotional communications, from the site 

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We do not sell, trade, or rent Users personal identification information to others. We may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personal identification information regarding visitors and users with our business partners, trusted affiliates and advertisers for the purposes outlined above.  We may use third party service providers to help us operate our business and the Site or administer activities on our behalf, such as sending out newsletters or surveys. We may share your information with these third parties for those limited purposes provided that you have given us your permission.

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The Site may also share personal information when compelled by legal obligations or when it deems such action necessary to: (a) Comply with applicable laws or legal processes. (b) Safeguard against misuse or unauthorized use of the website. (c) protect the personal safety or protect the property of the Site’s users, the general public, or the Site itself and its employees.

If you do not want your personally-identifying information to be collected or used for any of these purposes, you can ‘opt out’ according to the process described below.

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Security  
We adopt appropriate data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal information, username, password, transaction information and data stored on our Site.

The Site has in place what we believe to be appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. Information provided to the Site is protected through Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) security features, which scramble your personal information so that only your web browser and our website’s server can decipher it.

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Opting Out  
Please contact us to a) correct or update any personal information in the Site database that you state is erroneous, b) opt-out of future communications from The Site or c) request The Site to make reasonable efforts to remove your personal information from the Site online database. The user understands that it may be impossible to delete personal information entirely because of backups and records of deletions.

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Third Party Websites  
Users may find advertising or other content on our Site that link to the sites and services of our partners, suppliers, advertisers, sponsors, licensors and other third parties. We do not control the content or links that appear on these sites and are not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to or from our Site. In addition, these sites or services, including their content and links, may be constantly changing. These sites and services may have their own privacy policies and customer service policies. Browsing and interaction on any other website, including websites which have a link to our Site, is subject to that website’s own terms and policies.​

 

Our use of social media serves as an extension of our web presence. Social media accounts are public and are not hosted on our servers. Users who choose to interact with us via social media should read the terms of service and privacy of these third-party service providers and those of any applications you use to access them. You should also read  We use Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube.

 

Changes to this Policy    
The Site has the discretion to update this privacy policy at any time without notice.. When we do, we will revise the updated date at the bottom of this page. We encourage Users to frequently check this page for any changes to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this privacy policy periodically and become aware of modifications.

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Your Acceptance of Terms  
By using this Site, you signify your acceptance of this policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our Site. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Use of the Site constitutes consent to any policy then in effect. Please make sure that you read the Site’s Terms of Use to understand additional terms and conditions which apply to the use of our website.

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If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, please contact us at email here.

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This document was last updated on September 7, 2023