Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy last updated: February 26, 2017

Kijimea Inc. is aware that the security of your private information from the use of our web site kijimea.com (the “Site”) is an important concern to us. This Privacy Policy describes the information we collect about you on our Site, how we use it and how we protect it. “Kijimea Inc.” or “us/we/our” refers to Kijimea Inc. and/or its subsidiaries or affiliates. “User” or “you” refers to you. Your accessing and browsing of this Site is subject to this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use. This Privacy Policy forms and integral part of the Terms of Use that govern your use of our Site. BY USING THIS SITE, YOU CONSENT without limitation or qualification TO THE COLLECTION AND USE OF INFORMATION AS SET FORTH IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY. YOU ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE MAY PERIODICALLY CHANGE, MODIFY, ADD OR REMOVE OR OTHERWISE UPDATE THIS PRIVACY POLICY AT OUR DISCRETION, WITHOUT PRIOR NOTIFICATION.

Information We Collect and Use

Kijimea Inc. may collect different kinds of information from you in different ways.

Voluntarily Provided Information.

In the course of visiting and using the Site, you may provide personal information, such as, for instance, your name, email address, address, phone number, credit card information, etc. You choose whether to disclose this information, but you may not be able to use certain portions of the Site without disclosing it. Kijimea Inc. may use any and all information submitted through the Site for any purpose, including but not limited to using the information to address and respond to specific requests or inquiries you submit through the Site or to fulfill orders placed by you.

Technologically Gathered.

Kijimea Inc. may collect for administration and troubleshooting purposes and to improve your use and enjoyment of the Site some information automatically as you navigate the Site, such as the URL from which you access the Site, your internet protocol address (“IP”) and how you browse our Site. Please see also the Section on How We Collect Information.

We may also combine information we gather from you with information you have provided to Kijimea Inc. in another manner and/or information from third parties to, for example, verify contact or financial information.

How We Collect Information

Cookies and Web Beacons.

Kijimea Inc. may use cookies and web beacons to understand user behavior and preferences, improve the Site, and manage content. Cookies are text files that contain pieces of information that a portal/website transfers to an individual’s hard drive for record-keeping purposes. A cookie is created when an individual views the Kijimea Inc. content or product. The Kijimea Inc. server uses cookies to capture user movement on the Site. These are persistent cookies, which remain on your computer to allow Kijimea Inc. to identify your browser, but they are not used to identify you. Kijimea Inc. cookies are stored only on your device and Kijimea Inc. does not release, trade, or sell any individual-identifying information generated from cookies. Web beacons are transparent graphic images located on pages of the Site. Web beacons allow Kijimea Inc. to capture the actions of users during Site navigation. This helps Kijimea Inc. understand how people navigate through the Site. You can set your web browser to allow you to control whether you will accept or reject cookies or to notify you when a cookie is sent to your browser. The help section of your browser may tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting cookies.

Mobile Device IDs.

We may also use mobile device IDs (the unique identifier assigned to a device by the manufacturer), instead of cookies, to recognize you. We may do this to store your preferences and track your use of the Site. Unlike cookies, device IDs cannot be deleted. Device IDs may be used to track usage of the Site, track the number of pages displayed, measure performance and display content that is more relevant to you.

Purpose of Use.

The use of cookies, pixel tags, web beacons, clear GIFs or other similar technologies allows our third-party vendors to deliver advertisements about our products when you visit the Site or other web sites or web properties across the Internet. Our third party vendors may place pixel tags, web beacons, clear GIFs, or similar technologies on the Site and other websites or web properties and also place or recognize third-party cookies when you visit the Site or other sites or web properties. They may use information about your visits to the Site and other web sites or web properties to provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you.

How We Use Your Information

Generally Kijimea Inc. uses information provided through the Site to enhance and personalize the Site, to communicate with you via email, to link you to third party websites to conduct transactions, to improve, administer, customize, and/or maintain the Site and to carry out our obligations and enforce our rights. In addition, we may use personal identifiers to recognize you when you arrive at our Site via an external link, for example such as a link appearing on a third party site or in an email Kijimea Inc. has presented to you.

We may use your information to offer, market and advertise to you via the Site and/or through email or U.S. mail and to allow third parties who sell and promote Kijimea Inc. goods to do the same. We may communicate with you about Kijimea Inc. products. We may use your non-personal information to conduct market research and analysis for ourselves and for others. We may aggregate and/or use anonymous data about visitors of our Site for various business purposes including the developing and improving our products and services. Kijimea Inc. does not place any restrictions on the use of non-personal information.

We may offer special programs, activities, clinical trials, events or promotions through our Site that have specific terms, privacy notices and/or informed consent forms regarding personal information you provide. Kijimea Inc. will adhere to these specific terms with respect to your personal information. Please note that some of special programs, activities, clinical trials, events or promotions may involve that we share information you provided with a third party. Kijimea Inc. will notify you in case such special terms apply and you may be offered the opportunity to agree to or opt-out of our sharing of your information with such third party. In case you opt-out of such sharing of your information, you may not be able to participate in this special program, activity, clinical trial, event or promotion. Should you consent to or not opt-out, we will share your information with the third party. Please be aware that the personal information you provide may then be used by the third party in accordance with the special terms for their own purposes in accordance with their own policies. Please read those special terms and any other applicable third party terms thoroughly before participating in any special program, activity, clinical trial, event or promotion.

When We Disclose Your Information to Third Parties

General Disclosures.

Kijimea Inc. may disclose your personal information in response to a subpoena or other court order, if otherwise required by law, or in an effort to cooperate with law enforcement. Kijimea Inc. may disclose your personal information when Kijimea Inc. believes that doing so is necessary or desirable (a) to enforce Kijimea Inc. rights or defend against legal claims, in the United States or in foreign jurisdictions (b) to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving personal threats to physical safety, allegations of intellectual property infringement or violations of privacy rights and/or (c) as otherwise required by law, including the laws outside of this jurisdiction. Kijimea Inc. may disclose your personal information in the event of a sale of Kijimea Inc. assets, the merger, dissolution, or reorganization of Kijimea Inc. or in connection with the transfer of a discrete portfolio of assets or information. If that occurs, we will use or best efforts to commit the new company to use and protect your personal information consistent with this Privacy Policy.

Sharing Information.

We may also share your information with other companies for various reasons. What information we make available to other companies depends on the nature of our relationships with them. Where feasible, we require these other companies to keep our user information confidential. We may disclose information collected through the Site to our affiliates, to our third party partners with whom we co-brand or co-market for a promotion, and to our third party service providers who provide services, including but not limited to those who provide website hosting and moderating, data analysis, retail services, infrastructure provision, IT services, customer service, e-mail and direct mail delivery services, auditing services, and other services, in order to enable them to provide services. Except as otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy, we do not, but may in the future, share, sell, or rent your personal information with non-affiliated third parties so that they may offer, market and advertise products and services directly to you. If and when Kijimea Inc. chooses to share your personal information with non-affiliated third parties other than as described in this Privacy Policy, we will provide you with advance notice and the choice to opt out of such information sharing.

California Residents.

California Civil Code permits users of the Site who are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to privacy@kijimea.com, call us at +1-917-732-2235 or write us at:

Kijimea Inc.
2425 Matheson Boulevard East
Mississauga, Toronto, L4W 5K4
Canada

Personal information and Minors

This Site is not intended for use by individuals under the age of 18. We will not knowingly collect, use or disclose personal information from a minor under the age of 18, without obtaining prior consent from a person with parental responsibility (e.g., a parent or guardian) through direct off-line contact. If we discover that any use our Site or registration is made by children under the age of 13, such use or registration will be immediately and permanently canceled and removed from our Site without further notice.

Security

Kijimea Inc. takes certain measures to protect the security of the information. The information is stored on servers protected by physical and network security, including keys, access codes and/or passwords. Access to the servers is restricted to authorized personnel who are trained in security policy and processes. While we take these measures, there is no guarantee that the Site is error free, interruption free or free from threat of outside attack, despite our efforts to safeguard your experience.

Third Party Sites

This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information, or other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any site or web property (including, without limitation, any application) that is available through this Site or to which this Site contains a link. The availability of, or inclusion of a link to, any such site or property on the Site does not imply endorsement of it by us or by our affiliates.

Cross Border Transfer

Your personal information may be stored and processed or transferred in any country where we have facilities or service providers, and by using our Site or by providing consent to us (where required by law), you agree to the transfer of information to countries outside of your country of residence, including to the United States, which may provide for different data protection rules than in your country.

Sensitive Information

Unless we specifically request or invite it, we ask that you not send us, and you not disclose, any sensitive personal information (e.g., information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion or other beliefs, health, criminal background or trade union membership) on or through the Site or otherwise to us. In those cases where we may request or invite you to provide sensitive information, we will do so with your express consent.

Modifications

We may modify this Privacy Policy from time to time in our sole discretion. If we make a material change to this Privacy Policy, we will post such changes on our Site and contact registered users by email prior to the enactment of the amendments to the Privacy Policy. If this policy changes, the “Date last updated” at the top of this page will change. By continuing to use our Site after such notice, you are bound by this Privacy Policy as modified. If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, you may contact us at: contact@kijimea.com. We will use reasonable efforts to respond promptly.

Google Analytics 4

In order to be able to optimally adapt our website to user interests, we use “Google Analytics”, a web analysis service from “Google” (Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland and Google, LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; hereinafter: “Google” and “Google Analytics 4”). “Google Analytics 4” uses so-called “cookies”, which are stored on your end device for recognition purposes, as well as similar tracking methods for end device recognition such as tracking pixels, device fingerprinting and programming interfaces (e.g. APIs and SDKs) to process information from your end device. For this purpose, a randomly generated identification number (cookie ID/device ID) is assigned to your end device. With the help of these technologies, “Google” processes the generated information about the use of our website by your end device as well as access data for the purpose of statistical analysis – e.g. call of a specific web page, number of unique visitors, entry and exit pages, dwell time, click, wipe and scroll behavior, activation of buttons, registration for the newsletter, bounce rate and similar user interactions.

For this purpose, it can also be determined whether different end devices belong to you or your household. Access data includes in particular the IP address, browser and device information, cookie ID/device ID, the website previously visited, and the date and time of the server request. In systems of “Google Analytics 4” no individual IP addresses are logged or stored. At the moment of IP address collection by Google in special local data centers in the EU, your IP address is used to determine location information. Subsequently, the IP address is deleted before the access data is stored in a data center or on a server for “Google Analytics”. In “Google Analytics 4”, no precise geographical location data is provided, only general location information such as the region and city of the end device’s location derived from the IP address. “Google” will process this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for us and, where separately indicated, providing us with other services relating to website activity. If you are registered with a Google service, “Google” can assign the website visit to your user account and create and evaluate cross-application user profiles. In addition, a cross-platform analysis of user behavior is carried out on websites and apps that use “Google Analytics 4” technologies. This means that usage behavior can be recorded, measured and compared in the same way in different environments. For example, scroll events of the user are automatically recorded, which should enable a better understanding of the use of websites and apps. For this purpose, different cookie IDs/device IDs are used for different end devices.

We are then provided with anonymized statistics on the use of the various platforms, compiled according to selected criteria. “Google Analytics 4” is used to automatically create target groups for specific cookie IDs/device IDs or mobile advertising IDs, which are later used for individualized advertising. Target group criteria that can be considered are, for example: Users who have viewed products but not added them to a shopping cart or added them to a cart but not completed the purchase OR users who have purchased specific items. In this case, a target group includes at least 100 users. With the help of the “Google Ads” tool, interest-based advertisements can then be displayed in search results. Likewise, users of websites can be recognized on other websites within the “Google” advertising network (in Google search, on “YouTube”, so-called “Google Ads” or on other websites) and presented with tailored advertisements based on the defined target group criteria. With regard to the storage of and access to information in your terminal device, the legal basis is Art. 5 para. 3 of the ePrivacy Directive (Directive 2002/58/EC) or the respective implementation in the member states; for further processing, the legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a) DSGVO. “Google” also processes the data in part in the USA. No adequacy decision of the EU Commission exists for a data transfer to the USA. So-called standard contractual clauses have been concluded with Google, LLC in order to commit Google, LLC to an adequate level of data protection. You can obtain a copy of the standard contractual clauses at https://cloud.google.com/terms/sccs. Your data in connection with “Google Analytics 4” will be deleted after 24 months at the latest. Further information on data protection at “Google” can be found at: http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

Revocation of your consent to processing is possible at any time by pushing back the slider in the “Manage Cookie Settings” of the Consent Tool for the respective third-party provider. The lawfulness of the processing remains unaffected until you exercise the revocation.

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Contact Us

If you have any questions or concern, please contact us at:

contact@kijimea.com

Kijimea Inc.
2425 Matheson Boulevard
East Mississauga, Toronto, L4W 5K4
Canada

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