This privacy policy ("Policy") explains how www.physconsortium.com in Canada ("Company", "we" and "our") processes, collects, uses and shares personal data when using this site (the "Site"). Please read the following information carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data and the way we will process data.
We collect information about you in a range of forms, such as personal information. As used in this Policy," personal data" is as defined in the General Data Protection Regulation, this includes any information which, either alone or in conjunction with other information we process about you, identifies you as an individual, including, for example, your name, postal address, email address and telephone number.
We will only process your personal data in accordance with applicable data protection and privacy laws. We need certain personal data so as to offer you access to the Site. If you registered with us, you'd have been asked to tick to agree to offer this information so as to access our services, purchase our products, or see our content. This approval provides us with the legal basis we need under applicable law to process your information. You maintain the right to withdraw such consent at any time. If you don't consent to our use of your personal data in accordance with this Policy, please do not use our Site.
We collect information about you in the following ways:
Our Site includes interfaces that allow you to connect with social networking sites (each a"SNS"). If you connect to an SNS via our Site, you authorize us to access, use and store the information that you agreed the SNS could provide to us according to your settings on that SNS. We will access, use and store that information in accordance with this Policy. You can revoke our access to the information you provide in this manner at any time by amending the appropriate settings from within your account settings on the applicable SNS.
We automatically log information about you and your computer or mobile device when you access our Site. For instance, when visiting our Site, we log your computer or mobile device operating system name and version, manufacturer and model, browser type, browser language, display resolution, the site you visited before browsing to our Site, pages you've viewed, how long you spent on a webpage, access times and information about your use of and activities on our Site. We collect this information about you using cookies.
We do not use your personal data for the purposes of automated decision-making. However, we may do so in order to fulfill obligations imposed by legislation, in which case we will notify you of any such processing and offer you an opportunity to object.
We may collect information using "cookies."Cookies are small data files stored on the hard disk of your computer or mobile device by a site. We may use both session cookies (which expire as soon as you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which remain on your personal computer or mobile device until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience on the Site.
We use two broad classes of cookies: (1) first-party cookies, served directly by us to your computer or mobile device, which can be used only by us to recognize your computer or mobile device when it revisits our Site; and (2) third-party cookies, which are served by service providers on our Site, and may be used by such service providers to recognize your computer or mobile device when it visits other sites.
Our Site uses the following types of cookies for the purposes set out below:
| Type of cookie | Purpose |
Essential Cookies |
These cookies are essential to provide you with services accessible through our Site and to let you use some of its features. By way of example, they let you log in to secure areas of our Site and help the content of the pages you request load quickly. Without these cookies, the services that you have asked for cannot be supplied, and we just use these cookies to supply you with those services. |
Functionality Cookies |
These cookies allow our Site to remember choices you make when you use our Site, such as remembering your language preferences, remembering your login details and recalling the changes you make to other parts of our Site that you can customize. The objective of these cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience and to prevent you having to re-enter your preferences every time you visit our Site. |
Analytics and Performance Cookies |
These cookies are used to gather information regarding visitors to our Site and how users use our Site. The information gathered doesn't identify any individual visitor. It includes the number of visitors to our Site, the sites that referred them to our Site, the pages they visited on our Site, what time of day they visited our Site, whether they have visited our Site before, and other similar information. We use this information to help operate our Site more efficiently, to gather broad demographic information and to monitor the level of activity on our Site. We utilize Matomo for this purpose. Matomo uses its own cookies. It is only utilized to enhance how our Site works. You can discover more about how Matomo protects your data here: https://matomo.org/privacy/. |
Targeted and advertising cookies |
These cookies track your surfing habits to enable us to show advertising which is more likely to be of interest to you. These cookies use information about your surfing history to group you with other users who have similar interests. Based on that information, and together with our consent, third-party advertisers can set cookies to allow them to show adverts which we think will be relevant to your interests when you are on third party websites. You can disable cookies that remember your browsing habits and target advertising at you by seeing http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices. If you choose to eliminate targeted or advertising cookies, you will still see adverts, but they might not be applicable to you. Even if you do decide to remove cookies by the companies listed in the above link, not all companies that serve online behavioral advertisements are included in this listing, and so you may still receive some cookies and tailored ads from companies which aren't listed. |
Social Media Cookies |
These cookies are used when you share information using a social media sharing button or"like" button on the Site or you join your accounts or participate with our articles on or through a social networking website such as Facebook, Twitter or Google+. The social network will record that you have done this. |
You may typically remove or reject cookies via your browser settings. In order to do so, follow the directions provided by your browser (usually located within the"settings,""help""tools" or"edit" facility). Many browsers are set to accept cookies until you change your settings.
If you do not accept our cookies, you may experience some inconvenience on your use of our Site. For instance, we may not be able to recognize your computer or mobile device, and you may want to log in each time you visit our Site.
We may use other companies to serve third-party advertisements when you visit and use the Site. These companies may collect and use click stream information, browser type, date and time, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over during your visits to the Site and other websites in order to provide ads about goods and services likely to be of interest to you. These companies typically use tracking technologies to collect this information. Other companies' use of their tracking technologies is subject to their own privacy policies.
We may use your personal data as follows:
We may share your personal data as follows:
You may share personal data with us when you submit user-generated content to our Site, such as via our rewards program, forums, message boards and blogs on our Site. Please note that any information you post or disclose on our Site will become public information, and will be available to other users of our Site and the general public. We urge you to be very careful when deciding to disclose your personal information, or any other information, on our Site. Such personal data and other information won't be private or confidential once it is published on our Site.
If you provide feedback to us, we may use and disclose such feedback on the Site, provided we don't associate such feedback with your personal data. If you have provided your consent to do so, we might post your first and last name together with your feedback on our Site. We'll collect any information contained in such feedback and will treat the personal data in it in accordance with this Policy.
Your information, including personal data that we gather from you, may be moved to, stored at and processed by us outside the country where you live, where data protection and privacy regulations may not provide the same degree of security as in other areas of the world. By accepting this Policy, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to make certain that your information is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy.
We attempt to use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to safeguard personal data within our business. Unfortunately, no transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be totally secure, and the transmission of data via the world wide web isn't completely secure. For those who have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you feel that the safety of any account you might have with us has been compromised), please immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us.
We will only retain your personal data as long reasonably required for you to use the Site until you shut your account/cancel your subscription unless a longer retention period is required or allowed by law (such as for regulatory purposes).
Our Site is/are not directed to children under 16. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that their child has provided us with information without their consent, he or she should contact us. We'll delete such information from our files as soon as reasonably practicable.
If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us. In your request, please make clear: (I) what personal data is concerned; and (ii) which of the aforementioned rights you would like to enforce. For your protection, we might only implement requests regarding the private data related to the specific email address which you use to send us your request, and we might have to verify your identity before implementing your request. We'll attempt to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable and in any case, within one month of your request. Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes or to finish any transactions that you started prior to requesting such change or deletion.
We are committed to resolving any complaints regarding our collection or use of your personal data. If you would like to make a complaint regarding this Policy or our practices in regard to your personal data, please contact us via the information listed on our site. We'll respond to your complaint as soon as we can and in any event, within 30 days. We hope to solve any complaint brought to our attention, however, if you feel that your complaint has not been adequately resolved, you reserve the right to contact the local data protection supervisory authority.
We welcome your comments or questions concerning this Policy. You may contact us in writing or through our website.