PRIVACY POLICY
Immigrationsquare is committed to protecting the privacy of users of our Website.
This Privacy Policy sets forth Immigrationsquare’s policy in relation to personal and other information collected from our users.
This Privacy Policy is the integral part of Terms of Use. All capitalized terms used in this document shall have the same meaning given to them in the Terms of Use.
This Privacy Policy applies to:
- any guests visiting the Website and/or our Affiliated website;
- any service providers and/or immigration professionals performing professional services on the Website in accordance with the Terms of Purchase for Service Providers;
- clients and/or prospects in accordance with the Terms of Purchase for Clients;
- other individuals and entities to whom these Terms directly apply.
By browsing and using our Website and services, you agree to proceed on the basis of this Privacy Policy.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT
When using our Website, services and Contents, we may collect certain personal information about you. We may receive and collect the following personal information:
- information provided during account registration, for example: your full name and e-mail address;
- information about your plans regarding the use of our Services;
- information connected with your browsing activities, statistical information, information on visits and use of the Website;
- data automatically collected by our software, for example: IP address, cookies data, performance specifications of the user’s hardware and software, date and time of access to the Website, the URL of the page requested;
- other information about the user stored for the use of the Website.
Our prospects are requested to provide certain information during completion of the questionnaire, including, without limitation:
- your full name;
- your date of birth;
- your country of citizenship and residence;
- your family information, including your spouse and children information;
- information about your proficiency and education;
- your professional, educational and personal ties with Canada;
- your occupations experience.
Such information will be received, collected and used by the Service Providers solely for provision of Services. Service Providers are obliged to use such information received from Prospects as provided in the Terms of Purchase for Service Providers.
HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Personal information may be collected (and combined) in various ways, e.g. if you:
- have previously provided us with personal information prior to this Privacy Policy coming into effect, either directly from you personally or via a third party;
- sign-up to the Website and Affiliate Website;
- use any Service in any way on the Website and Affiliate Website;
- subscribe to any alerts, information releases, news, newsletters, updates and media releases, or request launch or event information or information about our products or services or other information services as well as third party products or services;
- complete and submit any forms to us;
- post any comments on the Website and Affiliate Website;
- communicate with us and other users;
- participate in any offers, promotions or marketing activities;
- interact with the Website for a specific purpose; or
- interact with or browse the Website generally.
Personal information is requested in order to facilitate or provide you with certain content, products or services, and information about such content, products or services (including the uploading, access to, and receipt of content on the Website), marketing materials, newsletters, electronic newsletters (e-newsletters), news and media releases / launch information, and also to advise you of Services or third party services, offers or events which may be of interest. You are not obliged to provide personal information. However, failure to do so may result in Immigrationsquare and/or Service Providers being unable facilitate or provide you with certain content, products or services (including access to the Website).
USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We use your personal information in order to perform Services requested. We also process your personal information in order to identify you, process registration, facilitate our communication, contact you and process any requests and applications, improve our services and Website, target advertisements, carry out statistical analysis based on anonymized data. Additionally, we may use your personal information for marketing purposes.
WEBSITE NAVIGATIONAL INFORMATION
Cookies
A cookie is a small data file that we transfer to your device to enable our systems to recognize your device and to provide certain features.
These data files may be cookies, pixel tags, e-tags, "Flash cookies", or other local storage provided by your browser or associated applications ("cookies").
Cookies allow your browsing choices to be remembered and make you recognized when you return to the Website and Affiliate Website. We also use cookies to ensure that our Website and Affiliate Website work properly, to provide customized services, to target advertising displayed to the user, for statistical and research purposes and to improve our Services.
You may change your web browser’s settings to stop accepting cookies, to enable your browser notify when you receive new cookies, or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from a website you visit. However, because cookies allow you to take advantage of some of Immigrationsquare’s essential features, we recommend that you leave them turned on, as otherwise you may not be able to use our Website, Affiliate Website or Services entirely.
Web Beacons
Immigrationsquare uses Web beacons alone or together with cookies to compile information about your usage of our Website, Affiliate Website and interaction with emails from Immigrationsquare. Web beacons are clear electronic images that can recognize certain types of information on your computer, such as cookies, when you viewed a particular website tied to the Web beacon, and a description of a website tied to the Web beacon. For example, we may place Web beacons in marketing emails that notify us when you click on a link in the email that directs you to our Website and Affiliate Website. Immigrationsquare uses Web beacons to operate and improve our Website, Affiliate Website and email communications.
PROTECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
The protection of the personal information and your privacy is important to us. We do not disclose the personal information to any third parties except for our Service Providers. These Service Providers are under a duty of confidentiality to us and are only permitted to use the personal information in connection with their functions and not for their own purposes (including direct marketing).
The user understands that the personal information is available and accessible by our employees, freelancers and independent contractors engaged by us who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide services to you or in order to do their jobs.
We can only speak for ourselves. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that we do not own or control, or individuals that we do not employ or manage.
YOUR ACCESS TO PERSONAL INFORMATION
Under applicable laws, the user may have the right to access to the user’s personal information held by us and to request certain user’s personal information to be edited and/or removed.
NOTIFICATIONS
From time to time we may send you messages that are service-related and required for our users, including newsletters and other alerts. Such messages may be sent internally, by e-mail or by push notifications. You may choose to subscribe or unsubscribe from newsletters.
MODIFICATIONS
We may revise the Privacy Policy at any time and in our sole discretion by posting the relevant revised and restated Privacy Policy on the Website. Please visit this page to be kept updated.
