Last updated: September 5, 2021

Collective Technologies Inc. (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the www.collective-technologies.com website.

Collective Technologies offers a suite of tools for the technical professional that focuses on electrical engineering products. 

When you use our service and future service we roll out, you will inevitably share some information with us.  This affects your privacy, so we want to explain how this can affect you and hopefully shows what you want to share and what to keep private.

Personal Information Collect, Use, Disclosure and Consent

Personal Information may include your name, email address, age, home address, phone number, marital status, income, credit history, medical information, education, employment information and social registration numbers.

We are committed to providing our clients, customers, members (“you”, “your” or “them”) with exceptional service. Providing exceptional service may involve the collection, use and, at times, the disclosure of your Personal Information. Protecting your Personal Information is one of our highest priorities. While we have always respected your privacy and safeguarded all Personal Information, we have strengthened our commitment to this goal. This is to continue to provide exceptional service to you and to comply with all laws regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information. We will inform you of why and how we collect, use and disclose Personal Information; obtain your consent, as required; and handle Personal Information according to applicable law. Our privacy commitment includes ensuring the accuracy, confidentiality, and security of your Personal Information and allowing you to request access to, and correction of, your personal information.

This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information when you use our Service.

We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.

We will only collect Personal Information that is necessary to fulfill the following purposes:

• To verify identity;
• To identify your preferences;
• To open and manage an account;
• To ensure you receive a high standard of service;
• To meet regulatory requirements;
• Other legal reasons as apply to the goods and services requested.

We will obtain your consent to collect, use or disclose Personal Information. In some cases, we can do so without your consent (see below). You can provide consent orally, in writing, electronically or through an authorized representative.

You provide implied consent where our purpose for collecting using or disclosing your Personal Information would be considered obvious or reasonable in the circumstances. Consent may also be implied where you have notice and a reasonable opportunity to opt-out of having your Personal Information used for mail-outs, marketing or fundraising and you do not opt-out.

We may collect, use or disclose Personal Information without the consent:

• When permitted or required by law;
• In an emergency that threatens an individual’s life, health, or personal security;
• When the Personal Information is available from a public source;
• When we require legal advice from a lawyer;
• For the purposes of collecting a debt or protection from fraud;
• Other legally established reasons.

We will not sell your Personal Information to other parties unless consent has been provided or implied. We retain your Personal Information for the time necessary to fulfill the identified purposes or a legal or business purpose. We will make reasonable efforts to ensure that your Personal Information is accurate and complete. You may request correction to your Personal Information to ensure its accuracy and completeness. A request must be in writing and provide sufficient detail to identify your Personal Information and the correction being sought.

We are committed to ensuring the security of your Personal Information and may use passwords, encryption, firewalls, restricted employee access or other methods, in our discretion. We will use appropriate security measures when destroying your Personal Information such as shredding documents or deleting electronically stored information, in our discretion.

We collect information, content and data that you post, or information of things you have viewed. Content information can include which pages you view the most, and how you interact with specific users and features.  Other information given to us is phone information, device phone book (only if we ask for it), location information (explained more further on), information collected by cookies and similar technologies, and camera and photos.

How We Use Information We Collect

• We may disclose information we collect to third party vendors, service providers, contractors or agents who perform functions on our behalf.
• We may transfer the information we collect to another business.
• For advertisement purposes
• For posting content/post details and content like photos to make things more interesting to other users.

Sharing and Posting Publicly

You cannot control who views your content; any content you post is publicly available.  So if you do not want to share something publicly, don’t post it.  We do not identity you by name or contact information through posts, but your user name will be viewable in the comments, notifications and future services. However, we cannot prevent users from identifying you from the content you post or how you share content. Your posts are available to all other users and can be shared by anyone internally on the site or on third party network by us or by other users.

Log Data

We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Service or when you access the Service by or through a mobile device (“Log Data”).

This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics.

When you access the Service by or through a mobile device, this Log Data may include information such as the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser you use and other statistics.

In addition, we may use third party services such as Google Analytics that collect, monitor and analyze this type of information in order to increase our Service’s functionality. These third party service providers have their own privacy policies addressing how they use such information.

Location Information

Subject to the provisions regarding the use of your Personal Information, above, we may use and store information about your location.  If you do not give us permission and allow us to use your location, the service will not function. We use this information for the purposes set out above, and specifically, to provide features of our Service, to improve and customize our Service. You can enable or disable location services when you use our Service at anytime, through your mobile device settings.  If you do not want us to use your personal information, or location information, you should delete your account and app.

How we use your location is depending on third party partnerships, third party ads relevant to you, and business and user boosted posts. We may also use your location for notifying you through push notifications of relevant information we find, and wish listed posts you are near you.

Cookies

Cookies are files with small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a web site and stored on your computer’s hard drive.

We use “cookies” to collect information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service. If you do not instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent, your consent to our use of your Personal Information may be implied.

Behavioural Remarketing

Collective Technologies and site uses remarketing services to advertise on third party web sites to you after you visited our Service. We, and our third party vendors, use cookies to inform, optimize and serve ads based on your past visits to our Service. In certain circumstances, your implied consent to our accessing, using or disclosing may be provided if you do not instruct your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is sent or if you do not opt out of Google Analytics or other services, as indicated below.

Google
Google AdWords remarketing service is provided by Google Inc.

You can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize the Google Display Network ads by visiting the Google Ads Settings page: http://www.google.com/settings/ads

Google also recommends installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on – https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout – for your web browser. Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on provides visitors with the ability to prevent their data from being collected and used by Google Analytics.

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/

Service Providers

We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service, to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

These third parties have access to your Personal Information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Communications

We may use your Personal Information to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send.

Compliance With Laws

As set out above, and for clarity, we will disclose your Personal Information where required to do so by law or subpoena or if we believe that such action is necessary to comply with the law and the reasonable requests of law enforcement or to protect the security or integrity of our Service.

You may seem anonymous on our app, but you as the user will be not be anonymous to our systems.  All posts can be tracked so please remember that if anything goes against our Privacy Policy, Terms of Service or Country laws, we will not encourage these posts and delete them.

Business Transaction

If Collective Technologies is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, your Personal Information may be transferred. We will make reasonable efforts to provide notice before your Personal Information is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Advertising

We may use your information and posts for specific advertisement you see depending on your geolocation, or viewing history.  We may also use your posts for business to post, boost and use.  Once a business has chosen to boost a post that may be posted by you, you as the anonymous poster and creator will not ever receive credit and or any compensation at all. Other forms of advertisement may be through push notifications, notifications, your newsfeed, and services that are introduced in a later stage.

We may display third party ads and ads through www.collective-technologies.com that are not user based posts and that are boosted on your newsfeed as another form of advertisement.  Advertisements can also be interest based ads depending on the category you are on and your history.

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Deletion and Retention of Content

Your content is yours, but the service we provide is ours and if any content goes against our company image, local laws, our terms of service or privacy policy, we may be required to delete them at notice. Content that can be deleted, altered, banned are locations, specific descriptions, photos, comments, user names and accounts and full posts.

International Transfer

Your information, including Personal Information, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside Canada and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the information, including Personal Information, to Canada and process it there.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

Links To Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Children’s Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Minor”).

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from Minors. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Minor has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Information from Minors without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers. If we discover a user under 13 has provided us with personal information, we will delete such information from our system.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time, so please be sure to check back periodically.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

If we make any major material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you through your email provided or provide a notice in the app.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at https://collectivetech.com/contact.