Last Update: 20 May 2020
OVERVIEW
By accessing the Weather My Trains website, you acknowledge you have read and fully understand this Privacy Policy. You also agree to be bound by all terms contained herein without exception.
Thank you for visiting the Weather My Trains website. Protecting your privacy is important to us. This privacy policy describes how we utilize and protect the information you provide while using our website. Weather My Trains is a small, e-commerce business located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
1. TYPES OF INFORMATION COLLECTED
We use the information we gather to provide a personalized shopping experience and enhance the products and services we provide. For shipping address we use your contact during the ordering process and financial information (for credit card payments) during billing processes at your discretion.
Weather My Trains does not send emails about the company, promotions or new products. You will only be contacted to discuss a project or to invoice you.
2. PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED
When you contact Weather My Trains, some personal information provided by you is collected in order to contact you to discuss a sale or a project.
This may include but is not limited to your name, billing address, shipping address, telephone number and email address.
We collect the minimum amount of information about you that is commensurate with providing you with satisfactory service. Your use of this website gives us the right to collect that information.
By corresponding with Weather My Trains, you agree that you may be initially contacted by e-mail or phone to clarify your initial correspondence. Promotions are posted on the weathermytrains.com website for you to peruse at your leisure. You will not be contacted for promotional purposes via e-mail.
We will not sell or rent your personal to other individuals or companies.
3. SECURITY
To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices to ensure it is not inappropriately misused, accessed, disclosed, altered, destroyed, or lost.
If you provide us with your credit card information it is not retained. It is only used to process the current transaction using a 3rd party payment application (SquareUp - see Section 4 below).
Information you provide via the Weather My Trains website is encrypted using an Organization Validation (OV) Secure Socket Link (SSL) Certificate as administered by our web hosting company, GoDaddy. For forther details, please visit https://ca.godaddy.com/web-security/ssl-certificate and https://ca.godaddy.com/legal/agreements/privacy-policy
Our service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. It is always in your best interest to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit on the internet. We have no control over - and assume no responsibility for - the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
4. PAYMENTS
Direct Payments - Credit Cards
If you choose a direct payment gateway to complete your purchase (applies to Canadian Currency customers), then Intuit Quickbooks uses your credit card data. When you buy from us this way, Intuit Quickbooks collects and processes the account information that you supply: we do not have access to that information. Quickbooks maintains its own privacy policy. Quickbooks participates in the E.U. – U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and complies with the Privacy Shield Principles. For more details, please visit https://www.intuit.com/ca/legal/privacy-policy/
Phoned-in Payments - Credit Cards
If you choose to call in your credit card to complete your purchase (USD$ and CAD$ invoices), Square (SquareUp) is used to manually process your payments in Canadian dollars. The Canadian dollar amount is determined at the time of the transaction from the online chart at https://www.scotiabank.com/ca/en/personal/rates-prices/foreign-exchange-rates.html. Your financial institution will convert the value of the transaction to USD. Your Credit Card data is not stored by Weather My Trains. For more information on Square's Privacy Policy, please see https://squareup.com/ca/en/legal/general/privacy-no-account
PayPal
You may also voluntarily elect to pay your invoice using PayPal. When you buy from us this way, PayPal collects and processes the account information that you supply: we do not have access to that information. For details on PayPals Privacy policy, please visit the PayPal website at https://www.paypal.com/ca/home
eTransfers
Customers with Canadian Bank accounts my elect to pay invoices using Interac eTransfer. This service is available at over 250 institutions. Your payment will be deposited directly into the Weather My Trains account should you choose this option. More information is available at https://www.interac.ca/en/consumers/security/ or from your banks' website.
5. SERVICE PROVIDERS
We employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service ("Service Providers"), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.
These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
In general, the third-party providers we utilize only collect, use and disclose your information to the extent necessary to allow them to perform the services they provide to us.
Certain third-party service providers, such as payment gateways and other payment transaction processors, have their own privacy policies in respect to the information we are required to provide to them for purchase-related transactions. For these providers, we recommend that you read their privacy policies to understand the manner in which your personal information will be handled by them. Please see article 4 PAYMENTS above for more information.
When you click on links on our website, you may be directed away from our site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites and encourage you to read their privacy statements.
Once you leave the Weather My Trains website or are redirected to a third-party website or application, you are no longer governed by this Privacy Policy or our website’s Terms of Service.
6. COOKIES
A cookie is a small file that asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added. The cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to our customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website experience by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of our website.
7. CONSENT
By using or accessing our website, you acknowledge you have read and understand these terms fully and agree to be bound by all terms of our Privacy Policy.
By using this site, you represent that you are at least 18 years of age. Weather My Trains does not knowingly address anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your monor child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact Weather My Trains. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information.
8. DISCLOSURE
We may disclose your personal information to government organizations if we are required to do so by law.
Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot offer you a guarantee that your Personal Information will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy. Weather My Trains, it's contractors and business partners and website contractors are not responsible for any inadvertent disclosures or any intercepted information sent via the Internet. You hereby release us from any and all claims arising out of or related to the use of intercepted information in any unauthorized manner.
If you are not comfortable conducting business with Weather My Trains in any way, please refrain from doing so.
9. UPDATES AND CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right to modify our privacy policy at any time. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting to our Privacy Policy page. We encourage you to review this page regularly to be familiar with the latest updates.
10. QUESTIONS AND CONTACT INFORMATION
If you have questions, concerns, or comments in regards to our privacy policy, you can e-mail us via our contact page and you will typically be contacted within 24 hours.