FIRST, AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE:

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF OUR PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS ONLINE OR MOBILE WEBSITE, AS THEY AFFECT YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WAIVERS OF RIGHTS, LIMITATION OF LIABILITY, AND YOUR INDEMNITY TO US.

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This website is owned and operated by Spooktober.ca (referred to as “we” “our” or “us”), is located in Ontario Canada, and is accordingly governed by the laws of Canada and the province of Ontario. Your privacy is important to us. You need to be informed about how information about you is collected, used, and shared with others. ​As used in this privacy statement, the word “including” means including, without limitation.  If you do not agree to the collection, use, or sharing of your information in the manner described in this privacy statement, please do not access this website (site) or communicate with us.

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1. Information we collect:

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A. Personal Information: Personal information is information through which we can identify you such as your name, email address, date of birth, and telephone number.

When you visit our Site, create an account, submit a "reaction", leave a "comment", send us an email, or otherwise communicate with us, we may collect or have access to personal information that you voluntarily provide to us.  

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B. Social Media Information: Our Site includes social media buttons that link to our respective social media profiles. These features may collect information about you including your Internet Protocol Address and the pages you visit on our Sites. These features may also set cookies to enable the features to function properly.  Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy statement of the social media platform providing these links.  If you engage with our Site through third-party social networking platforms, we may have access to certain personal information associated with your social media account such as your name, email address, photograph, birthday, location, and people you follow or like. We may also use analytics tools provided by social media platforms to understand how you interact with us, to measure the performance of our social media posts, and for other marketing and analytics purposes.  For information on controlling access to your personal information through social networking platforms, you should review their privacy statements and terms of use.

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C. Technologies Tracking Your Information: We may use (or authorize third parties to use) web beacons, cookies, pixel tags, scripts, e-tags and other technologies (“Tracking Technologies”) on our Site to collect information about you, your online behavior, your computer, and your mobile device to optimize our Site's functionality, collect statistics, and deliver content tailored to your interests.  Such information may include the type of browser and operating system you are using, the domain name of your Internet service provider, your geographic location, the pages you visit, how long you visit each page, the unique number assigned to your server or Internet connection, etc. These are stored in log files. We may combine this automatically collected information with other information we collect about you. We do this to improve the services we offer you, to improve marketing and analytics or Site functionality. We (or authorized third parties) may also collect anonymized cookies and other data obtained through Tracking Technologies from third parties for ad-targeting purposes.

 

2. Use of Collected Information:

 

A. Our Purposes: We may use the information we collect for our own marketing and non-marketing purposes.  If you voluntarily sign up to our "Mailing List", we may use your personal information to send you marketing materials.  If you do not want us to use your personal information for marketing purposes then do not subscribe to our mailing list. If you have subscribed to our mailing list and no longer wish to receive marketing emails from us, you may unsubscribe to receiving such emails at anytime by clicking the unsubscribe link in your email browser.

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B. Legal Compliance: We may disclose your information as required by law, such as to comply with a subpoena or similar legal process when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, to investigate fraud, to respond to a government request, etc.

 

C. Analytics and Advertising: We may use and share information collected through Tracking Technologies with third parties in Canada and other jurisdictions for marketing and non-marketing purposes, including analytics and advertising.  For example, information collected through Tracking Technologies may be shared with advertisers on our site for their own marketing purposes and analytics. 

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3. Information Collected by Third Parties: Information Collected for Analytics and Advertisements: Third parties may serve advertisements and use Tracking Technologies to collect information about you and your activities on our Site such as the links you click, the advertisements you see and click, etc. These third parties may use the information collected at our Site for a variety of purposes including analytics and providing advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you. This type of advertising customization is sometimes referred to as interest-based advertising. 

We are affiliated with Amazon for purposes of placing advertising on this Site, and Amazon collects and uses certain data for advertising purposes.  The use of data by Amazon is subject to Amazon's privacy statement, not our privacy statement.  

To learn more about Amazon’s data usage, please click here:

 Amazon.ca Privacy Notice - Amazon Customer Service

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4. Account User's Personal Information:

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A. Creating A Site User Account: On our site you can create a personal account if you so choose. When you create an account on our site, the information you provide in your account profile is visible to only you and our site administrator. You may update your account information, or delete your account at any time.  We do not sell or share any personal information that you voluntarily provide us when you create an account on our site.

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B. Account User Name: When creating an account on our site you will be asked to choose your own "nickname", for the purpose of protecting your identity. Do not put personal information in your "nickname", as it is publicly viewable throughout the site pages that you leave "reactions" on. You are solely responsible for any legal or other repercussions that occur as a result of the "display name" you have chosen to use on our Site. We assume no responsibility or liability which may arise from the "nickname" you have chosen to use on our Site.

 

C. In Site Comments: On our site you may leave comments on film pages referred to as "reactions" or "comments". Do not put personal information in any "reactions" or "comments" you post, as they are publicly viewable throughout the site pages. You may remove or change your "reactions" or "Comments" at any time. You are solely responsible for any legal or other repercussions that occur as a result of the "reactions" or "comments" you post on our Site. We assume no responsibility or liability which may arise from your "reactions" or "comments" posted on our Site.

 

D. Ratings: If you so choose to create an account on our site you will be able rate films. Your ratings are confidential and no person viewing the site can see your personals ratings besides yourself and the site administrator. ​

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E. Display Photo: If you so choose to create an account on our site you can choose a display a photo. You can change or remove your display photo at anytime. This display photo shows you when you are logged in and is also visible on "comments" on our blog. You are solely responsible for any legal or other repercussions that occur as a result of the "display photo" you select to use on our Site. We assume no responsibility or liability which may arise from your chosen "display photo" on our Site. 

 

5. Persons Under 18: ​Our Site is not intended for persons under the age of 18 without the permission of a parent or guardian. We do not knowingly collect personal information from persons under 18. If you are the parent or guardian of a person under 18 and believe that they have provided personal information to us, please contact our site administrator via our email and we will delete their information promptly.

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6. In-site Links: ​Our Site contains links to other websites like Youtube, Netflix, Amazon, etc. We are not responsible for the information collection or privacy practices of other websites. For example, if you click on a button that links to another website, this privacy statement will not apply to information collected at that other website. We recommend that you review the privacy statements of other websites before you visit those websites or provide any personal information.

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​IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO BE LEGALLY BOUND BY ALL OF THE FOREGOING TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, DO NOT ACCESS OR USE THE WEBSITE SPOOKTOBER.CA

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If you have a question or concern regarding this privacy policy you can email pumpkinhead@spooktober.ca 

Please also review our Terms of Use Agreement  Legal Disclaimer | Spooktober.ca

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