This privacy policy covers all websites that are created and operated by Creartica Web Design Inc. including creartica.ca. Creartia.ca wants to show its commitment to our users privacy, and has agreed to disclose our information practices. Table of Contents: I. General Principles II. Acceptance III. Collection of Information and Content IV. Customer Service V. Billing Information VI. Sharing Your Content with Third Parties VII. Third Party Advertising VIII. Links IX. Legal Disclaimer X. Changing or Removing Content XI. Updating Personal Information XII. Security XIII. Newsletter XIV. Special Offers and Updates XV. Choice/Opt-out XVI. Refer-A-Friend XVII. Business Transitions XVIII. Notification of Privacy Policy Changes If users have questions or concerns regarding this privacy policy, they should first contact us at contact@creartica.ca. I. General Principles: Creartica.ca enables you to share web based content. We give you control and you choose what content you make available to the general public. Our privacy policy limits the display of your advertizing content only to parties you choose to share it with. Creartica.ca is based on the accumulation of user provided and/or formed content. II. Acceptance: By using creartica.ca services, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact creartica at geo@creartica.ca. III. Collection of Information and Content: You provide us with two types of information: limited personal information and content you knowingly choose to disclose and/or post on a creartica.ca website. You post user content (as defined in the creartica.ca Terms of Service) at your own risk. Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot control the actions of other users with whom you may choose to share your pages and content. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that user content you post on the site will not be harmed by unauthorized persons. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the site. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of user content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other users have copied or stored your user content. We use this information to contact the user about products and services creartica.ca provides. IV. Customer Service: We communicate with users on a regular basis to provide requested services and in regards to issues relating to their website we reply via email or phone, in accordance with the users wishes. V. Billing information: Should you sign up for charged services (as defined in the Terms of Service); we will require your billing information in order to process the transaction and to collect the fees involved. We do not store your billing information, and this information will be discarded after your transaction has been processed. Nevertheless, the required information for your billing will be handled by our payment company (Paypal.com) which will store your billing information on their secure payment gateway for as long as necessary to carry out the terms of your subscription. All transactions are processed over an industry standard SSL/TLS connection, with a minimum of 1024-bit encryption. Paypal.com does not retain share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes. VI. Sharing Your Content with Third Parties: Creartica.ca provides the ability of sharing created content with others while providing you with privacy settings that restrict other users from viewing and/or accessing your content without your consent. We allow you to choose the content you wish to provide and the manner in which you choose to share it. We may provide information and/or personal user content to service providers to help us provide the services we offer. Specifically, we may use third parties to facilitate our business, such as to process payments for products and/or services. We may from time to time partner with other third parties to provide specific services. When the user signs up for these particular services, we may share names, or other contact information that is necessary for the third party to provide these services. These third parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except for the purpose of providing these services. We occasionally provide created content that allow non-users a glimpse into creartica.ca design abilities. In order for creartica.ca to properly fulfill its obligation to users it is sometimes necessary for us to supplement the information we receive with information from 3rd party sources. When you use creartica.ca, certain information you post or share with third parties, such as personal information, comments, messages, photos, videos or other information. All such sharing of information is done at your own risk. VII. Third Party Advertising: Advertisements that appear on creartica.ca are sometimes delivered (or "served") directly to users by third party advertisers. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. These third party advertisers may also download cookies to your computer, or use other technologies such as JavaScript and "web beacons" (also known as "1x1 gifs") to measure the effectiveness of their ads. Doing this allows the advertising network to recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement in order to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. In this way, they may compile information about where individuals using your computer or browser saw their advertisements and determine which advertisements are clicked. Creartica.ca does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third party advertisers. Third party advertisers have no access to your contact information stored on creartica.ca unless you choose to share it with them. This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by creartica.ca and does not cover the use of cookies or other tracking technologies by any of its advertisers. VIII. Links: Creartica.ca may contain links to other websites. We are of course not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by creartica.ca. Please be aware that creartica.ca, is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. IX. Legal Disclaimer: Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on a creartica.ca based website. We do not reveal information until an information request by law enforcement or private litigants meets applicable legal standards. Additionally, we may share account or other information when we believe it is necessary to comply with law, to protect our interests or property, to prevent fraud or other illegal activity perpetrated through the creartica.ca service or using the creartica.ca name, or to prevent imminent bodily harm. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, agents or government agencies. We may offer or provide services jointly with other companies on creartica.ca when another company is involved in the providence of such service on creartica.ca, and we may share customer information with such third party in connection with your use of such service. Like many other websites that interact with third party sites, we may receive some information that pertains to non-creartica.ca users, from those sites in conjunction with the technical operation of our system. In cases where creartica.ca receives information on non-creartica.ca users, creartica.ca will discard it. X. Changing or Removing Content: Access and control over personal content on creartica.ca, may be modified or deleted. Any such changes will be updated as soon as possible. XI. Updating Personal Information: If a user’s personally identifiable information changes (such as area code, phone, email or postal address), or if a user no longer desires our service, we provide a way to correct, update or delete/deactivate users’ personally identifiable information. XII. Security: Creartica.ca takes appropriate precautions to protect our users' information and content. We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards which protect your account information and uploaded content. Be aware that email and instant messaging are not recognized as secure communications. If you have any questions regarding the security, please contact us at geo@creartica.ca. Creartica.ca takes every precaution to protect our users’ information. When users submit sensitive information via the website, their information is protected both online and off-line. When our registration/order form asks users to enter sensitive information, that information is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry - SSL. We also do everything in our power to protect user-information off-line. All of our users’ information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our office. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, our customer service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information. Any time new policies are added; our employees are notified and/or reminded about the importance we place on privacy. XIII. Newsletter: If a user wishes to subscribe to our newsletter, we ask for contact information such as name and email address. Out of respect for our users privacy we provide a way to opt-out of these communications. XIV. Special Offers and Updates: We send all new members a welcoming email. Established members will occasionally receive information on products, services, special deals, and a newsletter. Out of respect for the privacy of our users we present the option to not receive these types of communications. Please see the Choice and Opt-out section below. XV. Choice/Opt-out: Our users are given the opportunity to ‘opt-out’ of having their information used for purposes not directly related to our site at the point where we ask for information. For example, users who buy a product from us, but don’t want any marketing material, can keep their email address off of our lists. Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications may opt-out of receiving these communications by replying to unsubscribe in the subject line in the email. XVI. Refer-A-Friend: If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our site, we ask them for the friend’s name and email address. Creartica.ca will send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the site. Creartica.ca stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program. XVII. Business Transitions: In the event creartica.ca goes through a business transition, such as a merger, being acquired by another company, or selling a portion of its assets, users’ personal information will, in most instances, be part of the assets transferred. Users will be notified via email & prominent notice on our website for 30 days prior to a change of ownership or control of their personal information. If as a result of the business transition, the users’ personally identifiable information will be used in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection they will be given choice consistent with our notification of changes section. In any case in which the ownership of creartica.ca changes, your user information may be transferred to the new owner so the service can continue operations. In any such transfer of information, your user information would remain subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Policy. When you use creartica.ca, certain information you post or share with third parties, such as personal information, comments, messages, photos, videos or other information. All such sharing of information is done at your own risk. XVIII. Notification of Privacy Policy Changes: If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If we are going to use users’ personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify users. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. In some cases where we post a notice we will also email users, who have opted to receive communications from us, notifying them of the changes in our privacy practices.