Privacy Policy for Prairie Vault
Prairie Vault is dedicated to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and protect the information obtained from visitors and clients of our architectural tours, historical building conservation consulting, urban design workshops, heritage site preservation advocacy, and architectural photography services, as well as users of our online platform. We operate in compliance with applicable privacy laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) where relevant.
Information We Collect
We collect various types of information to provide and improve our services to you.
- Personal Information You Provide: This includes information you voluntarily provide when you make a booking, register for a workshop, request a consultation, subscribe to our newsletter, or contact us directly. This data may include your name, contact details (such as address, phone number), and payment information. For specific services like architectural photography or consulting, additional project-specific details may be collected.
- Technical Data: When you visit our online platform, we automatically collect certain technical information, including your IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access our site. This helps us understand how our site is used and improve its functionality.
- Usage Data: We collect information about how you use our services and our online platform. This includes details of your visits to our site, pages viewed, and resources accessed. This data helps us analyze user behavior and enhance our offerings.
- Marketing and Communications Data: This includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences.
How We Use Your Information
We use the personal information we collect for the following purposes:
- To Provide Services: To process your bookings for architectural tours, deliver conservation consulting services, organize and conduct urban design workshops, facilitate heritage site preservation advocacy efforts, and fulfill architectural photography assignments.
- To Manage Our Relationship With You: This includes notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy, asking you to leave a review, or responding to your inquiries.
- For Marketing and Promotional Purposes: To send you updates, newsletters, marketing communications, and other information that may be of interest to you, based on your preferences. You can opt-out of these communications at any time.
- To Improve Our Services and Online Platform: To analyze how our services are used, conduct research and development, and enhance the functionality and user experience of our online platform.
- For Security and Fraud Prevention: To protect our services, our clients, and our online platform from fraud and other security threats.
- To Comply With Legal Obligations: To meet our legal and regulatory requirements.
Disclosure of Your Information
We may share your personal information with:
- Service Providers: Third-party vendors and service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, and customer service. These providers are obligated to protect your data and are not permitted to use it for their own purposes.
- Legal and Regulatory Authorities: When required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or government agency).
- Business Transfers: In connection with any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes.
Data Security
We have implemented appropriate security measures to prevent your personal information from being accidentally lost, used, accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. Access to your personal data is limited to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
While we strive to protect your personal information, no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on your location and applicable data protection laws, you may have the following rights regarding your personal information:
- The Right to Access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
- The Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
- The Right to Erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The Right to Object to Processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The Right to Data Portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details provided below.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us:
Prairie Vault
789 Pembina Highway, Suite 300
Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2G7
Canada