Website Privacy Policy

First Choice Computers is a professional IT company based in Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario. Our website address is: https://firstchoicecomputers.ca/

We DO NOT SELL Your Personal Information OR KEEP PAYMENT INFORMATION ON OUR SERVER

We do not sell your personal Information to third parties. We DO use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site. You can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

We do not sell your data. When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information”.

We collect Device Information using the following technologies:
– “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.
– “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.
– “Web beacons”, “tags”, and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.

Additionally when you complete a form, we collect the information that you submit, including your name, company name, location, email address, and phone number. We refer to this information as “Form Submission Information”. When we talk about “Form Submission Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Device Information and Form Submission Information.

Do you want to learn how to opt out of behavioral advertising across the World Wide Web?

As described above, we do not sell your personal information to provide you with targeted advertisements, or marketing communications. We only use cookies to personalize your experience on this website. For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at https://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

If you are interested in opting out of targeted advertising use the links below:
– Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads
– Google: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous
– Bing: https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized-ads

Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: https://optout.aboutads.info/.

Do not track

Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.

Age of Consent

By using this site, you represent that you are at least the age of majority in your state or province of residence, or that you are the age of majority in your state or province of residence and you have given us your consent to allow any of your minor dependents to use this site.

Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

Comments / Testimonials, & Form Submissions

When visitors leave comments / testimonials or complete a quote request on the site, we collect the data shown in the form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

Media

Whenever you upload images to a website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included.  Location data from images can always be extracted.

Cookies

If you leave a comment / testimonial or complete a quote request 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.

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/testimonial information that you provided is retained indefinitely.  Unless a request by the author is made to remove it.

What rights you have over your data

If you have left comments / testimonials, or completed a form, you can request to receive an exported file of the data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any of the data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where do we send your data?

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.