YOUR PRIVACY IS IMPORTANT TO US.

Our policy is to respect your privacy. The Urban Explorer has a few fundamental principles:

• Be thoughtful about the personal information we ask you to give and collect about you.
• Store personal information for only as long as we have a reason to keep it.
• Aim for full transparency on how we gather, use, and share your personal information.

GATHERING OF PERSONALLY-IDENTIFYING INFORMATION

Visitors of TheUrbanExplorer.ca may choose to interact in ways that require personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information gathered depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. For those who wish to receive updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, The Urban Explorer collects such information only in so far as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction. The Urban Explorer does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

INFORMATION AUTOMATICALLY COLLECTED

The Urban Explorer uses services provided by Automattic to deliver TheUrbanExplorer.ca. Automattic process information about visitors in connection with these services provided through WordPress.com, Jetpack (including WooCommerce Shipping & Tax), IntenseDebate, Crowdsignal.com, and Akismet. Follow the link to their Privacy Notice for Visitors to Our Users’ Sites.

Here are some ways information is automatically collected:

• Technical Data: Information is collected that web browsers, mobile devices, and servers typically make available, such as the IP address, browser type, unique device identifiers, language preference, referring site, the date and time of access, operating system, and mobile network information.
• Visitor Interactions: Information is collected about a visitor’s interactions, including the “likes” and “ratings” left by visitors using WordPress.com or Jetpack.
• Location Information: Determining the approximate location of a visitor’s device from the IP address. This information can be used to see how many people visit from certain geographic regions. If you’d like, you can read more about our Site Stats feature for WordPress.com sites and Jetpack sites.
• Akismet Commenter Information: Information is collected about visitors who comment using Akismet anti-spam service. The information collected includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address and the comment itself.)
• Crowdsignal Response Information: Information is collected about visitors who respond to a Crowdsignal survey. That information typically includes IP address, browser type, operating system, user agent, and the web page last visited.
• Information from Cookies and Other Technologies: A cookie is a string of information that a Site stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to TheUrbanExplorer.ca each time the visitor returns. Pixel tags (also called web beacons) are small blocks of code placed on sites. Automattic uses cookies and other technologies like pixel tags to help identify and track visitors and site usage. Visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using any website, with the drawback that certain features may not function properly without the aid of cookies. For more information about how to manage and delete cookies, visit aboutcookies.org,

HOW WE SHARE INFORMATION

Information shared with Automattic about customers might include “backend” administrative information necessary for managing TheUrbanExplorer.ca.

In addition to the above, Automattic may use some information about The Urban Explorer visitors who are also their Users as described in their Privacy Policy. Automattic may also use and share information that has been aggregated or reasonably de-identified, so that the information could not reasonably be used to identify any individual. For instance, Automattic may publish aggregate statistics about the use of their services.

We may share information collected about visitors in the limited circumstances spelled out below:

• Subsidiaries, Employees, and Independent Contractors: We may disclose visitor information to our subsidiaries, our employees, and individuals who are our independent contractors that need to know the information in order to help us provide our services or to process the information on our behalf. We require our subsidiaries, employees, and independent contractors to follow this Privacy Notice for information about visitors that we share with them.
• Third-Party Vendors: We may share visitor information with third-party vendors who need to know this information in order to provide their services to us. This group includes vendors that help us provide our services. We require vendors to agree to privacy commitments in order to share information with them.
• Legal Requests: We may disclose visitor information in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental request. For more information on how we respond to requests for information, please see our Legal Guidelines.
• To Protect Rights, Property, and Others: We may disclose visitor information when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of The Urban Explorer, Automattic, our Users, third parties, or the public at large. For example, if we have a good faith belief that there is an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury, we may disclose information related to the emergency without delay.
• Business Transfers: In connection with any merger, sale of company assets, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company, or in the unlikely event that Automattic goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, visitor information would likely be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. If any of these events were to happen, this Privacy Notice would continue to apply to visitor information and the party receiving this information may continue to use this information, but only consistent with this Privacy Notice.
• Information Shared Publicly: Information that visitors choose to make public is disclosed publicly. That means, of course, that information like visitor comments and “likes” are all available to others, including information about the visitor that is displayed in connection with a comment or “like” (such as a visitor’s WordPress.com username and Gravatar). Public information may also be indexed by search engines or used by third parties.

HOW LONG VISITOR INFORMATION IS KEPT

If not legally required to keep it, we generally discard information about visitors when no longer needed for the purposes for which we collect and use it as outlined above.

Web server logs that record information about a visitor — such as a visitor’s IP address, browser type, and operating system — are kept for approximately 30 days.

PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES

Although most changes are likely to be minor, The Urban Explorer may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and at our sole discretion. The Urban Explorer encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.