Bookmark Privacy Policy
Last Updated: November 4, 2022
By using any of Bookmark’s Services, you confirm you have agreed to the Terms and Conditions as well App Marketplace Terms of Use and read and understand this Privacy Policy as well as the Cookie Policy. Bookmark Your Life Inc. (“Bookmark,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) recognizes the importance of privacy to our customers and users of this website. This Privacy Policy applies to the privacy practices of Bookmark, including on our website www.Bookmark.com (“Website”), and sets out the manner in which Bookmark collects, uses, discloses and otherwise manages personal information.
1. Collection and Use of Personal Information
Bookmark is a website development and e-learning platform. As part of our website development service offering, our customers may provide us with certain personal information for the purposes of performing services on their behalf (e.g. the sending of emails such as welcome emails, registration emails, password resets and other notifications) in connection with their own websites. We do not collect or use the personal information of our customers for any purpose other than to provide the services our customers’ request. For details about the way in which individual websites hosted by Bookmark treat your personal information, please contact the website operator directly.
We may otherwise collect and use personal information when you:
- Register for our Website: You do not have to register in order to browse our Website. However, in order to use our templates, participate in our e-learning platform, community forums or other services, you will need to register and provide a name, email address and a password that you select. We will also collect any domain names that you may wish for us to administer. We use this information to identify who you are, communicate with you about our services (including promotional offers), and otherwise administer your use of our Website.
- Make a Purchase on our Website: If you choose to subscribe to one of our paid services, we or our third-party service provider may collect your payment information such as your name, address, phone number, email address, billing address, and payment card information. This information is used to process and fulfill your order.
- Participate in our e-Learning Platform and Community Forums: If you participate in our e-Learning platform or other message boards, community forums, chat rooms or similar functions on our Website, we may collect your name and email address, as well as any comments, suggestions and other feedback you provide as postings. We may use your comments, suggestions or feedback to monitor and/or improve our product and service offerings and our Website. Please remember that any information that you provide in these comment areas is accessible to the public as well as other users of the Website and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose any personal information about yourself or anyone else.
- Participate in a Contest: When you enter a contest, we may collect your name, address, phone number, email address, and other information you provide. We use this information to administer your participation in the contest. If a contest is jointly sponsored by us and one or more sponsors, your personal information may be shared with such sponsors, as specified at the time of collection of your personal information. We do not control the use, disclosure or security of your personal information by other sponsors, and recommend you review their respective privacy notices or statements.
- Participate in a Survey: From time to time, we may offer you the opportunity to participate in one of our surveys. The information obtained through our surveys is used in a non-personally identifiable form. We use this information to help us understand our customers, to enhance our product and service offerings, promotions and events.
- Engage with us through Social Media: We may offer you the opportunity to engage with us or our content on or through third-party social networking websites, plug-ins and applications. For example, we collect the Personal Information you provide us when you register to our Services; when you sign-in to our Services via third party services such as Facebook or Google When you engage with us or our content in this manner, you may allow us to have access to certain information associated with your social media account (e.g., name, username, email address, profile picture, gender) to deliver the content or as part of the operation of the website, plug-in or application. When you provide information from your social media account, we may use this information to personalize your experience with us and to provide you with other products or services you may request.
- Contact our Customer Service: When you contact us with a comment, question or complaint, you may be asked for information that identifies you (such as your name, address and a telephone number) along with additional information we need to help us promptly answer your question or respond to your comment. We may also retain this information to assist you in the future and to improve our customer service, product and service offerings, and our Website.
2. Disclosure of Personal Information
We will not disclose, trade, rent, sell or otherwise transfer personal information, without consent, except as otherwise set out herein.
- Service Provider Arrangements: We may transfer (or otherwise make available) personal information to third parties who provide services on our behalf. For example, we may use service providers to process payments, host our website and store information on our behalf. Personal information may be maintained and processed by third party service providers in the US or Canada and may be accessed by the courts, law enforcement and national security authorities as required under the laws of those jurisdictions. Our service providers are given the information they need to perform their designated functions, and we do not authorize them to use or disclose personal information for their own marketing or other purposes. For more information about the way in which our service providers treat personal information, contact us as set out below.
- Sale of Business: We may transfer any information we have about you as an asset in connection with a merger or sale (including transfers made as part of insolvency or bankruptcy proceeding) involving all or part of Bookmark or as part of a corporate reorganization or other change in corporate control.
- Legal: Bookmark and our Canadian, US and other service providers may provide personal information in response to a search warrant or other legally valid inquiry or order, or to an investigative body in the case of a breach of an agreement or contravention of law, or as otherwise required or permitted by applicable Canadian, US or other law.
We may also disclose personal information where necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims and to investigate or prevent actual or suspected loss or harm to persons or property.
3. Additional Information About Our Website
Visiting our Website: We collect the IP (Internet protocol) addresses of all visitors to our Website and other related information such as page requests, browser type, operating system and average time spent on our Website. We use this information to help us understand our Website activity, and to monitor and improve our Website. An example would be Google analytics which we utilize to Improve performance across all sites, apps, and offline marketing. Google’s analytics solutions can help you turn customer insights into action for your business. You can view Google privacy policy regarding analytics here: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
We use cookies to:
- Authenticate you - cookies help us to verify your account and to automatically log you into your website from the same browser.
- Understand and save user's preferences for future visits
- Keep track of advertisements
- Compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interactions in order to offer better site experiences and tools in the future.
- Third Party Services may use cookies to help you sign into their services from our Services. Any such third party cookie usage is governed by the policy of the third party placing the cookie.
- You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser (like Internet Explorer) settings. To learn more about Bookmark and the cookies, please go to our Cookie Policy.
- Tracer Tags & Web Beacons: Our Website may also use a technology called "tracer tags" or “Web Beacons”. This technology allows us to understand which pages you visit on our Website and which posts you view on our e-Learning platform and community forums. These tracer tags are used to help us optimize and tailor our Website for you and other future visitors to our Website.
- Third Party Links: Our Website may contain links to other websites that Bookmark does not own or operate. Also, links to our Website may be featured on third party websites on which we advertise. Except as provided herein, we will not provide personal information to these third parties without consent. We provide links to third party websites as a convenience to the user. These links are not intended as an endorsement of or referral to the linked websites. The linked websites have separate and independent privacy statements, notices and terms of use. We do not have any control over such websites, and therefore we have no responsibility or liability for the manner in which the organizations that operate such linked websites may collect, use or disclose, secure and otherwise treat personal information.
4. Security of Personal Information
We have implemented reasonable administrative, technical and physical safeguards in an effort to protect against unauthorized access, use, modification and disclosure of personal information in our custody and control.
5. Access to Personal Information
Individuals have the right to access, update, and correct inaccuracies in their personal information in our custody and control, subject to certain exceptions prescribed by law. You may request access, updating and corrections of inaccuracies in personal information we have in our custody or control by emailing or writing to us at the contact information set out below. We may request certain personal information for the purposes of verifying your identity.
6. Changes
This Privacy Policy may be updated periodically to reflect changes to our personal information practices. The revised Privacy Policy will be posted on the website.
7. How to delete your account
To delete your Bookmark account you will need to login and go into your Account Settings. On the Account Settings page scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the ‘Delete Account’ button and your information will be removed from our system.
Link to our Help guide.
8. Removal of all account data
To remove your account data, please follow the above steps to delete your account. Upon deletion of your account all account data is immediately removed from our system. Please note that once an account deletion is performed, there is no way to restore any previous data that includes user information, website configuration/data, customer information, billing and payment details, and invoices.
If you’d like to request specific account data to be removed, please contact our customer support team at support@bookmark.com with the subject line, “Remove Account Data” and detail your request. A customer support agent will work with you on a best-efforts basis depending on the nature of the request.
9. Contact
Please contact us at the address set out below if:
you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy;
you wish to access, update, and/or correct inaccuracies in your personal information; or
you otherwise have a question or complaint about the manner in which we or our service providers treat your personal information.
Bookmark Your Life Inc.
c/o Privacy Officer
171 East Liberty Street, Unit 200
Toronto, ON
M6K 3P6
info@bookmark.com