Who are we?
Our website address is: https://marcdumaine.com.
Use of personal data collected
Comments
When you leave a comment on our website, not only the data entered in the comment form, but also your IP address and your browser’s user agent are collected to help us detect unwanted comments.
An anonymous string created from your email address (also called hash) can be sent to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. The Gravatar service’s privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After validating your comment, your profile picture will be publicly visible next to your comment.
Medias
If you are a registered user and you upload images to the website, we advise you to avoid uploading images containing EXIF GPS coordinate data. Visitors to your website can download and extract location data from these images.
Other
We use user information to :
Communicate with you; review offers for potential risks or fraud; and where consistent with the preferences you have communicated to us, provide you with information or advertisements about our products or services.
We use the device information we collect to help us detect potential risks and fraud (in particular, your IP address) and, more generally, to improve and optimize our site (for example, by generating analyses of how our customers navigate and interact with the site, and to evaluate the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).
marcdumaine.com also uses remarketing tracking cookies from third party vendors, including the Google Adwords, Google Analytics and Facebook tracking cookie. This means that we will continue to show you ads on the Internet (Google, Facebook and Instagram). We respect your privacy and do not collect any identifiable information through the use of Google or any other system.
Third party providers, including Google, will place cookies on web browsers to serve ads based on past visits to our website. This allows marcdumaine.com to serve ads to users who have shown interest in our service.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site, you will be asked to save your name, e-mail address and website in cookies. This is only for your convenience so that you do not have to enter this information if you make another comment later. These cookies expire after one year.
If you go to the login page, a temporary cookie will be created to determine if your browser accepts cookies. It does not contain any personal data and will be deleted automatically when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will set a number of cookies to save your login information and screen preferences. The lifetime of a login cookie is two days, and the lifetime of a screen option cookie is one year. If you check “Remember me”, your cookie will be stored for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the cookie will be deleted.
When editing or publishing a publication, an additional cookie will be stored in your browser. This cookie does not contain any personal data. It simply indicates the ID of the publication you have just modified. It expires after one day.
Embedded content from other sites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles…). Content embedded from other sites behaves in the same way as if the visitor were visiting that other site.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking tools, track your interactions with such embedded content if you have an account connected to their website.
Use and transmission of your personal data
Visitors’ comments can be verified using an automated service to detect unwanted comments.
We also 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. You can also unsubscribe from Google Analytics here.
Finally, we may also share your personal information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other legal request for information we receive, or to protect our rights in any other way.
As described above, we use your personal information to provide you with targeted advertising or marketing communications that we believe may be of interest to you. For more information on how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) education page here.
You may object to targeted advertising by :
How long we store your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This makes it possible to automatically recognize and approve subsequent comments instead of leaving them in the moderation queue.
For users who register on our site (if possible), we also store the personal data indicated in their profile. All users can view, change or delete their personal information at any time (with the exception of their username-ice). The site managers can also view and modify this information.
The rights you have over your data
If you have an account or if you have left comments on the site, you can request to receive a file containing all the personal data we have about you, including those you have provided. You may also request the deletion of your personal data. This does not include data stored for administrative, legal or security purposes.
Contact Information
For more information about our privacy practices, if you have any questions or if you wish to file a complaint, please contact us by email at contact@marcdumaine.com or by mail using the contact information provided below: 4020 St-Ambroise Street #495, Montreal, QC, H4C 2C7, Canada