PRIVACY POLICY

Who we are

Our website address is: https://granstone.ca

This Privacy Statement covers personal information, non-personal data collection and aggregate reporting.

Personal information is information that is associated with your name or personal identity. Granstone uses personal information to understand better your needs and interests and to provide you with better service. Once you choose to provide us with personal information, you can be assured it will be used only to support your customer relationship with Granstone. We take seriously the trust you place in us. Granstone will not sell, rent or lease your personal information to others.

On some pages and links at https://granstone.ca, you can order request information or quotes, subscribe to marketing or support materials, register yourself, or apply for a job at Granstone. The types of personal information you provide to us on these pages may include name, address, phone number, e-mail address, user IDs and passwords, billing and transaction information, credit card information, contact preferences, educational and employment background, and job interest data.

Non-personal information is data about usage and service operation that is not associated with a specific personal identity. Granstone collects and analyzes non-personal information to evaluate how visitors use the Granstone website.

Granstone also collects non-personal information for the use of remarketing services in conjunction with third-party vendors including Google & Facebook, who use cookies to serve Granstone ads on sites across the internet based on non-personal visitor history on our website. If you would like to opt-out of Google’s use of cookies you can by visiting Google’s Ad Settings. Alternatively, you can opt out of Facebook’s and other third-party vendor’s use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page or www.aboutads.info/choices.

Non-personal data we collect may include the pages visited on the Granstone websites, unique URLs visited within our website, browser type, and IP address. Most non-personal data is collected via cookies or other analysis technologies.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. 

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Contacting Us 

We value your opinions. If you have comments or questions about our privacy policy, please send them through our contact form.