terms of service and privacy

Please read this Privacy Policy to make sure you understand it. Your continued use of this site indicates your acceptance of this Privacy Policy.

When this Privacy Policy uses the term “Canadian Soil Exchange,” “we,” “us,” or “our,” that refers to 2336867 Ontario Inc., operating as the Canadian Soil Exchange and its affiliates, and subsidiaries, and each of its and their respective officers, directors, agents, partners, and employees. Canadian Soil Exchange has prepared this Privacy Policy to help you understand our practices with respect to the collection, use, and disclosure of information we collect from you through the Canadian Soil Exchange’s web or mobile applications, our hosted services, our websites that link to this Privacy Policy, and any other services we provide to our customers or end users (collectively, the "Services").

1. What Information We Collect

We may collect information from you when you create or register an account, or administer your account; input, post, or upload information, data, or other content through the services; submit questions, requests, or other communications to us via various communication channels; contact us for customer support or technical support; visit any of our websites or download any of our applications; participate in any promotions, demonstrations, contests, surveys, or other marketing events; interact with other Canadian Soil Exchange users and guests on our community forums; integrate third party products and services with your Canadian Soil Exchange account.

1.1 Personal Information

Information related to the creation of accounts or that otherwise identifies you as a customer or end user of the Services is what we call "Personal Information." Personal Information may include your name, physical address, an email address, phone number, location data, and credit card information including credit card number, expiration date, and billing address.

1.2 Automatically Collected Information

We collect information about how you use the Services and your actions on the Services, including your IP addresses, browser types, operating systems, ISPs, platform types, device types, mobile device identifiers such as make and model, and mobile carrier. We may also use tools, including third-party tools, to collect analytics data. Some of this information is collected using "cookies" and other tracking technologies, such as web beacons, pixels, session replay scripts, and similar technologies ("tracking technologies").

We may also work with third-party partners to employ cookies and tracking technologies. For example, we may work with online advertising networks, social media companies and other third-party services that use cookies, tracking technologies, or other information about your use of our Services over time to display personalized or interest-based ads on the Services, on other websites, through apps or services you may use, and on other devices you may use. We and our third-party partners use this information to make the advertisements you see online more relevant to your interests, as well as to provide advertising-related services such as reporting, attribution, analytics, and market research. Certain tracking technologies we use are related to advertising networks, and through those technologies we may share certain information such as IP addresses. Please note that the information we share with those advertising networks might be combined with other information about you that those networks may have collected from other sources.

2. How We Use the Information We Collect

We use the information we collect for a variety of purposes, and how we use it depends on what we collect and what Services (or features of the Services) you use. We may use your Personal Information for the performance of the services or transaction for which it was given, and in connection with other products, services promotions, or contests we may offer, and our private, internal reporting for this site, and security assessments for this site. We may use Automatically Collected Information to provide better service to site visitors, customize the site based on your preferences, compile and analyze statistics and trends about the use of this site, and otherwise administer and improve this site for your use.

3. How We Share Information

We may disclose Automatically Collected Information without restriction, and we reserve the right to disclose your Personal Information as described below.

3.1 Vendors and Service Providers

With vendors we engage to provide you with aspects of the Services, such as data storage, hosting, and payment processing; with vendors we engage to help us with marketing and email campaigns, to advertise, gain insights, and perform analytics into how the Services are used and how they might be improved (for example, we may share Personal Information with various social media platforms to engage in custom audience advertising or use third-party data enrichment services to match Personal Information or other information we collect with publicly available database information in order to communicate more effectively with you).

3.2 Successors

As necessary in the event of a proposed or actual reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer, financing, or other disposition of all or any portion of Canadian Soil Exchange business, assets, or stock.

3.3 Legal Processing

As necessary to comply with applicable law, including governmental requests, law enforcement requests, and otherwise to protect the rights, privacy, safety, or property of you, us, or others; with others for any legitimate business purpose that does not conflict with the statements made in this Privacy Policy.

Additional legal bases for processing data include the data subject gives express consent to process the data; data processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation; processing is essential to protect the life or physical safety of the data subject or another third-party; necessary to execute a contract or contract related procedures that the data subject is a party of at the request of the data subject; necessary to process to fulfill the legitimate interests of the controller or the third-party except when data subject’s fundamental rights prevail; necessary to process in order to protect credit (refers to a credit score); you need to process to protect the health in relation to activities of health professionals or health entities; necessary to process to carry out studies by research entities that ensure, when possible, the anonymization of personal data; necessary to process to exercise rights in judicial, arbitration and administrative procedures; necessary to process to execute public policies provided in laws or those that are based on contracts, policies, agreements or similar binding instruments.

4. Managing Your Information

We may use some of the information we collect for marketing purposes, including to send you promotional communications about features, products, events, or other opportunities. If you wish to stop receiving these communications or to opt-out of use of your information for these purposes, please follow the opt-out instructions by clicking "Unsubscribe" (or similar opt-out language) in those communications. You can also contact us at privacy@cdnsoilex.ca to opt-out.

5. Managing Cookies and Tracking Technologies

5.1 How to Opt-out of Online Advertising in Internet Browser

We support the Self-Regulatory Principles for online behavioral advertising ("Principles") published by the Digital Advertising Alliance ("DAA"). This means that we allow you to exercise choice regarding the collection of information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites for online interest-based advertising purposes. More information about these Principles can be found at www.aboutads.info. If you want to opt-out of receiving online interest-based advertisements on your internet browser from advertisers and third parties that participate in the DAA program and perform advertising-related services for us and our partners, please follow the instructions at: www.aboutads.info/choices, or www.networkadvertising.org/choices.

When you elect to opt-out through these sites, they will place an opt-out cookie on your device indicating that you do not want to receive interest-based advertisements. Opt-out cookies only work on the internet browser and device they are downloaded onto. If you want to opt-out of interest-based advertisements across all your browsers and devices, you will need to opt-out on each browser on each device you actively use. If you delete cookies on your device generally, you will need to opt-out again. And some of these opt-outs may not be effective unless your browser is set to accept cookies. If you delete cookies, change your browser settings, switch browsers or computers, or use another operating system, you will need to opt-out again. Disabling cookies may limit your ability to use the Services.

By visiting www.privacyrights.info or optout.privacyrights.info, you can opt-out from sales of this type of personal information by businesses that participate in the DAA’s CCPA App-based Opt-out Tool.

5.2 How to Opt-out of Online Advertising in Mobile Applications

If you want to opt-out of receiving online interest-based advertisements on mobile apps, please follow the instructions at www.aboutads.info/choices.

To make opt-out requests related to mobile apps on your device for businesses participating in the DAA’s CCPA App-based Opt-out Tool, you can download the appropriate app at www.privacyrights.info/appchoices.

5.3 How to Opt-out of Google Data Collection

We also may use certain forms of display advertising and other advanced features through Google Universal Analytics, such as Remarketing with Google Analytics, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, the DoubleClick Campaign Manager Integration, and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. These features enable us to use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick advertising cookie) or other third-party cookies together to inform, optimize, and display ads based on your past visits to the online Services.

You may opt-out of certain Google advertising products by visiting the Google Ads Preferences Manager, currently available at google.com/ads/preferences. You may learn more about Google’s practices with Google Analytics by visiting Google’s privacy policy at google.com/policies/privacy/partners. You can also view Google’s currently available opt-out options at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

5.4 Effect of Opting Out

Please note that when you opt-out of receiving interest-based advertisements, this does not mean you will no longer see advertisements from us or on our online Services. It means that the online ads that you do see from DAA program participants should not be based on your interests. We are not responsible for the effectiveness of, or compliance with, any third parties opt-out options or programs or the accuracy of any third parties’ statements regarding their programs. In addition, third parties may still use cookies to collect information about your use of our online Services, including for analytics and fraud prevention as well as any other purpose permitted under the DAA’s Principles.

6. Information from Children

Canadian Soil Exchange is not directed to children under the age of 13 (or other age as required by local law) and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child, we will take reasonable steps to delete such information from our files as soon as is practicable. If you learn that your child has provided us with personal information without your consent, you may contact us at privacy@cdnsoilex.ca.