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Who we are

The website https://springfieldcommerce.com is part of the Springfield Chamber of Commerce, Manitoba, Canada.

Your privacy is important to us, and to ensure your privacy choices are respected the Springfield Chamber of Commerce (“SCC,” “we,” or “us”) has outlined in this Privacy Policy our practices regarding how information is collected or used when viewing the website yesspringfield.ca (to be referred to as the “Site”).

The Information We Collect

Information provided by you, such as your name, contact, phone number, uploaded videos (“Personal Information”) through forms on our Site including contest submission or contact forms. As you navigate the Site, information is collected through automatic data technologies. Any information collected may be used in the following:
• Videos submitted by you for purposes of the Yes Challenge may be made available for public viewing.
• To personalize your experience (your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs)
• To improve our website (we continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you)
• To improve service (your information helps us to more effectively respond to your service requests and support needs)
• Your information, whether public or private, will not be sold
• To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature
• To send periodic emails. The email address you provide for order processing may be used to send you information and updates pertaining to your order, in addition to receiving occasional company news, updates, related product or service information, etc.

Note: If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email.

Media

Videos uploaded for Yes Challenge if selected, will be available for public viewing.

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.

Protecting Your Information

Our server service is secure transferring data via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. Only authorized personnel are permitted special access rights to our systems and are required to keep all information confidential.

We do not sell, trade, or transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist website operation. Third-party vendors agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. Non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

Public Forum

If you voluntarily disclose any Personal Information in a public forum (blog) on the Site, this information, along with any information disclosed in your communication, can be collected and used by third parties and may result in unsolicited messages from third parties. Such activities are beyond our control and this Privacy Policy does not apply to such information. You accept that you, and not SCC, are responsible for providing such information in any public forum. Any submissions to public areas on the Site are accepted by you with the understanding that such forums are accessible to all third parties. If you do not want your comments or any content to be viewed by third parties, you are advised not to make any submissions. Ultimately, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your password and/or account information. Please be careful and responsible whenever you're online.

Cookies

If you’ve enabled cookies on your computer, information from your computer is transferred through your web browser allowing service provider systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is sent, additionally, you can choose to turn off all cookies via your browser settings. Disabling cookies may disable some site functionality. However, you can still communicate with us by contacting us directly.

Third-party vendors such as Google and Facebook may have enabled cookies to track advertisements and compile data about site traffic and site interaction. This information helps us provide site experiences. We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business.

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.

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 submitted or uploaded any information on this site, 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.

Online Privacy Policy

This online Privacy Policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.

Your Consent

By using our site, you consent to our online Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on this page, and/or update the Privacy Policy modification date below.

This policy was last modified on March 9, 2023.