By accessing our site, you are consenting to the terms of our Website Privacy Policy. White Punt Communications (the Company) operating as White Punt Communications respects your privacy and does not sell or distribute customer contact information outside of Company unless required by law.
Company complies with the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, Canada (“PIPEDA”) and the included provisions of the CSA Model Code to protect the personal information of its customers. Personal information includes any information about an identifiable individual, such as name, address, gender, age, ID numbers, and other things.
Who we are
Our website address is: https://whitepunt.com.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
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.
Contact forms
Information from you when you communicate with us, register with us, enter a contest, subscribe to a newsletter, or respond to a communication. We may ask for your name, e-mail address, phone number, mailing address, or other information. You may visit our site anonymously without ordering or providing personal information. The information we collect is used for marketing purposes but not sold or provided to anyone outside Company unless required by law. We limit the collection of information to the information necessary to perform the purposes outlined in our Website Privacy Policy. We may see your IP Address or other information provided through the use of Google Analytics, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and MailChimp.
Cookies
Like many websites, we use “cookies” to collect information about visits to our website and who visits our site. If you allow “cookies” on your web browser, we or our systems can capture and remember certain information, for example, to remember preferences. You can choose to turn off “cookies” in your browser settings. If your “cookies” are turned off you may not be able to access some features of our website, but can still contact us directly. We use MailChimp as a third party service provider for marketing automation.
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. It expires after 1 day.
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.
Who sees your data
We limit disclosure of your information to disclosure as required to in order to comply with the law, to protect our rights or the rights of others, or to enforce our policies. Non-personally identifiable information is viewable by Google and Facebook as marketing providers and our web service providers.
Who we share your data with
We may use it to deliver content and products that you are most interested in. We use it to serve you better and respond to customer service requests, to run contests or promotions, send surveys or e-mail newsletters. We do not use your personal information for purposes other than those for which it was originally collected unless we first obtain your consent to do so.
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.
Please let us know if you do not wish to receive correspondence from us by using your opt-out options provided directly in our communications. Please note that we may retain information about transactions for record keeping and in order to provide service relating to any previous transactions.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
How we protect your data
Your personal information is only accessible by those who need to access it to provide you service and use it in the ways described above. We use a variety of security measures to keep it safe, including secure networks and limited access to your information.
Additional information
Links
We may have third party links on our website (for example, links to the websites of our partners, or resources we believe are of interest to you). These websites have separate privacy policies so please be aware and review the privacy policy of any other site you visit.
Consent
By providing Company with your personal information, you consent to its collection, use, and disclosure by us in accordance with the terms of this Website Privacy Policy.
Changes
Our Privacy Policy may change from time to time; if changes are made they will be posted here. This policy was most recently modified on July 25, 2021.
Contact information
If you have any questions about our privacy policy or need any other information please contact our privacy officer at P.O. Box 21043 St. John’s NL A1A 5B2 or email us at interact@whitepunt.com. We welcome your questions, comments, and concerns.