PRIVACY POLICY

This privacy policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from www.alisonsiaotong.ca (the “Site”).


Last Updated May 23rd, 2021

You acknowledge that you have read Alison Siaotong Studio Privacy Policy, as it may be updated from time to time located at https://www.alisonsiaotong.ca/privacy-policy and consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information (whether previously collected or to be collected) for the purposes which have been identified in our Privacy Policy below.



Information and Its Use

We collect information from you when you:

  • Book an appointment for service.
  • Contact us through website chat service, e-mail, or social media.
  • Submit a consent and release of liability form prior to receiving service(s).
  • Place an order.
  • Enter a contest/giveaway.
  • Respond to a survey.
  • Enroll in related courses.

Information Collected

Accordingly, we may collect the following information:

  • Personal information such as your name, e-mail address, mailing address, phone number, credit card information.
  • Location of your device through internet protocol (IP) address and time zone geographic location.
  • Information about your health when submitting the consent and release of liability form.
  • Information about your purchases of our products and services.
  • Information about your use of our website (cookies).



Information Security

To protect your personal information, we take a reasonable precaution and follow industry best practices to ensure, to the best of our ability, that it is not inappropriately lost, accessed, misused, altered, disclosed, or destroyed.

All sensitive/credit information you supply is transmitted via secure socket layer (SSL) technology and stored with AES-256 encryption, a link between a web server and browser. This link ensures that all data passed between the web and server and browsers remain private. SSL creates trust by developing a secure connection.

We analyze our data collection and storage practices, including physical security measures, in order to guard against possible data breaches. Unfortunately, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure.


Retention Period of Personal Information

We store your personal data only as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose it is being processed for. After reaching mentioned purpose, we will destroy your personal data. To define the appropriate retention and preservation time for your personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the managed data, the potential risk of disclosure of your personal information, and the purposes for which we process your personal data. In any case, we do not store your personal data for more than two years, and if it is possible, we will try to reduce the personal data that we manage through this period of time.


Right of Personal Information

You have the right to request and access, opt-out, remove or modify your personal information. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at alison_siaotong@hotmail.com.


Hosting of Personal Information

Our company is hosted on the Shopify.ca platform. Shopify.ca provides us with the online platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data may be stored through Shopify.ca’s data storage, databases, and the general Shopify.ca applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall. 

All direct payment gateways offered by Shopify.ca and used by our company adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.


Third-Party Services 

Generally, the third-party providers used by Alison Siaotong Studio will only collect, use, and disclose your information to the extent necessary to enable them to perform the services that they provided to us. 

However, particular third-party service providers, such as payment gateways and other payment transaction processors, have their own privacy policies regarding the information that we are required to provide to them for the transactions related to your purchase.

For such providers, we recommend that you read their privacy policies, in order to better understand the manner in which your personal information will be handled by such providers.


Cookies

We collect cookies or similar tracking technologies from your transactions. This results in the transfer of information from our website's server to your computer.  Such information can be used to track your session(s) on our website. Cookies may also be used to customize our website's content for individual users.

If you are utilizing one of the commonly used Internet Web Browsers, you can set up your browser to either let you know when you receive a cookie or to deny cookie access to your computer.

Alison Siaotong Studio uses cookies to recognize your device and provide you with a personalized sense of transaction. We also use cookies to attribute visits to our sites to our third-party sources and to serve targeted advertisements from third-party vendors such as Instagram, Google, Facebook. Our third-party advertisers use cookies to track your previous visits to our website and the Internet, for purposes of serving you targeted ads.


Web Analysis Tools

We reserve the right to use web analysis tools built into Alison Siaotong Studio’s website to measure and collect anonymous session information.


Age of Consent

By using this site, you represent that you are at least the age of majority in the jurisdiction that you reside in.


Privacy Policy Updates

Please review this Privacy Policy frequently, as Alison Siaotong Studio reserves the right to modify this privacy policy at any time. Clarifications and changes will take effect immediately upon its posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that is has been updated, in order for you to be aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.


Privacy Support and Complaint

If you have any questions, comments, or complaints about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us any time at alison_siaotong@hotmail.com