1.0 OVERVIEW
SOSNA Inc has created this Privacy Policy in order to demonstrate our commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for the Web site: sosna.ca. By accessing, using, and/or downloading materials from these web sites, you agree on your own behalf and on behalf of each entity on whose behalf you act, to the terms of this Privacy Policy and to the practices for the collection and use of your personal information as described below.
2.0 PERSONAL USER INFORMATION GATHERED BY SOSNA Inc
SOSNA Inc does not collect information that personally identifies individuals except when individuals provide such specific information on a voluntary basis. Any personal information that you do provide is protected under the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act of Canada (“PIPEDA”). This ensures that at the point of collection, you will be informed that your personal information is being collected, and that you have a right of access to that information. Under no circumstances do we collect any personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, health, or sex life.
If you are simply browsing the SOSNA Inc web site, no personal information is collected about you. You may be offered the opportunity to have a SOSNA Inc representative contact you directly to provide additional information about our services or products. To do so, we will require additional information such as name, telephone number, and email address.
3.0 AGGREGATION OF USER DATA
SOSNA Inc reserves the right to perform statistical analyses of user behavior and characteristics in order to measure interest in, and use of, the various sections of its sites so as to improve design and navigation and to gather marketing information. Only aggregated data from these analyses, not individual data, will be used for this purpose. Examples of such aggregated information include how many people visited the web site, which pages people visit, and which browsers people use.
4.0 COOKIES
Cookies are small text files that identify an individual computer’s browser entering a web site. They allow the site to track that browser’s movement through the site over several sessions. SOSNA Inc may use cookies to track how our visitors use the web site. Whenever we enable cookies to facilitate your usability of this web site, no personal information will be collected.
5.0 RECEIVING NOTIFICATIONS AND OPTING-OUT OF FUTURE NOTIFICATIONS
From time to time, we notify registered members of the SOSNA Inc web site of new products, announcements, and other updates. If you would like to opt-out, or stop receiving such updates, please use the unsubscribe link provided in the emails or contact us at the address given at the end of this Privacy Statement.
6.0 PUBLIC COMMENTS
This site may contain public forums and/or user commenting which is available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.
7.0 CHILDREN’S GUIDELINES
The web site of SOSNA Inc is not marketed or directed towards children. Nevertheless, it is possible for children to publicly post or distribute personally identifiable contact information without prior parental consent within contact forms, etc. No communication, however, will be sent to anyone or information collected from anyone who indicates that they are younger than 16 years old without their parents’ permission.
8.0 SECURITY
SOSNA Inc considers the protection of all personally identifiable information that we receive from our web site customers to be critical to our success. This site has reasonable security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and interception by third parties. SOSNA Inc assumes no liability for interception, alteration or misuse of information transmitted over the Internet to or from this site.
9.0 DISCLOSURE OF USER IDENTITY
We do not disclose the identities of our users unless we are legally required to do so.
10. USER QUESTIONS & SUGGESTIONS
Occasionally you may have questions, comments, or suggestions about various aspects of our web site, particularly as they pertain to privacy. We welcome such communications (refer to the Contact section below). Any information provided will be used solely for the purpose of responding to you or improving our web site.
11. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT
SOSNA Inc may edit this policy from time to time.
12. CONTACT
Please contact us with any inquiries about our privacy policy: contact@sosna.ca
13. Google reCAPTCHA Privacy Policy
Our primary goal is to provide you an experience on our website that is as secure and protected as possible. To do this, we use Google reCAPTCHA from Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheater Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA). With reCAPTCHA we can determine whether you are a real person from flesh and bones, and not a robot or a spam software. By spam we mean any electronically undesirable information we receive involuntarily. Classic CAPTCHAS usually needed you to solve text or picture puzzles to check. But thanks to Google’s reCAPTCHA you usually do have to do such puzzles. Most of the times it is enough to simply tick a box and confirm you are not a bot. With the new Invisible reCAPTCHA version you don’t even have to tick a box. In this privacy policy you will find out how exactly this works, and what data is used for it.
14. What is reCAPTCHA?
reCAPTCHA is a free captcha service from Google that protects websites from spam software and misuse by non-human visitors. This service is used the most when you fill out forms on the Internet. A captcha service is a type of automatic Turing-test that is designed to ensure specific actions on the Internet are done by human beings and not bots. During the classic Turing-test (named after computer scientist Alan Turing), a person differentiates between bot and human. With Captchas, a computer or software program does the same. Classic captchas function with small tasks that are easy to solve for humans but provide considerable difficulties to machines. With reCAPTCHA, you no longer must actively solve puzzles. The tool uses modern risk techniques to distinguish people from bots. The only thing you must do there, is to tick the text field “I am not a robot”. However, with Invisible reCAPTCHA even that is no longer necessary. reCAPTCHA, integrates a JavaScript element into the source text, after which the tool then runs in the background and analyses your user behaviour. The software calculates a so-called captcha score from your user actions. Google uses this score to calculate the likelihood of you being a human, before entering the captcha. reCAPTCHA and Captchas in general are used every time bots could manipulate or misuse certain actions (such as registrations, surveys, etc.).
You can find out more about reCAPTCHA on Google’s Developers page at Google reCAPTCHA Documentation
. While Google do give more detail on the technical development of reCAPTCHA there, they have not disclosed precise information about data retention and data protection. A good, basic overview of the use of data however, can be found in the company’s internal privacy policy at Google Privacy Policy
