Sphaera Research Data Protection and Privacy Policy
Sphaera Research operates the Halo Canada Project and the http://www.halocanadaproject.com/ website.
Our services are designed help religious communities and Canadian society to better understand the socio-economic relationship they share. All of our services are based on the premise that Information fuels Imagination.
This page informs you of our policies and regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal data when you access our website or participate in any of our research assessments, and the choices you have associated with that data.
We use the data you provide to us to:
1. Provide an agreed upon service of assessment
2. Further academic research and public knowledge.
By using our services, you agree to the collection of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise set out in this Privacy Policy, the terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms of Service Agreement.
Definitions
Personal Data - Personal Data means data about a living individual who can be identified from those data (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession).
Usage Data - Usage Data is data collected automatically either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
Cookies - Cookies are small files stored on your device (computer or mobile device).
Data Controller - Data Controller means the natural or legal person who (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons) determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal information are, or are to be, processed. For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, we are a Data Controller of your Personal Data.
Data Processors (or Service Providers) - Data Processor (or Service Provider) means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller. We may use the services of various Service Providers in order to process your data more effectively.
Data Subject (or User) - Data Subject is any living individual who is using our services and is the subject of Personal Data.
Information Collection and Use
In the course of our research, we collect several different types of information for various purposes.
Types of Data Collected
Personal Data
While using our service we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (Personal Data). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
We may use your Personal Data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that maybe of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or the instructions provided in any email we send. We adhere to Canadian Anti-Spam Laws.
Usage Data
When you visit our website, we collect information that web browsers, mobile devices and servers make available, such as the internet protocol address, browser type, language preference, time zone, referring URL, date and time of access, operating system, mobile device manufacturer and mobile network information. We include these in our log files to understand more about visitors to our website and how to improve our service.
Location Data
We may use and store information about your location if you give us permission to do so (“Location Data”). We use this data to provide features of our service, to improve and customise our service. You can enable or disable location services when you use our service at any time by way of your device settings.
Referrals
If someone has referred any of our Services to you through any referral method, that person may have provided us your name, email address and other personal information. You may contact us at [email protected] to request that we remove your information from our database. If you provide us information about another person, or if another person gives us your information, we will only use that information for the specific reason for which it was provided to us.
Tracking Cookies Data
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and we hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Other tracking technologies are also used such as beacons, tags and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyse our services. 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.
Examples of Cookies we use:
Use of Data
Sphaera Research uses the collected data for various purposes:
Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Sphaera Research legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Data we collect and the specific context in which we collect it.
Sphaera Research may process your Personal Data because:
Retention of Data
Sphaera Research will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
Sphaera Research will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer periods.
Transfer of Data
Your information, including Personal Data, 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 from those of your jurisdiction. This includes storing or processing data in the United States.
If you are located outside Canada and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, 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.
Sphaera Research will take all the steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organisation or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.
Disclosure of Data
Disclosure for Law Enforcement
Under certain circumstances, Sphaera Research may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).
Legal Requirements
Sphaera Research may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
Security of Data
The security of your data 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 Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Your Data Protection Rights
Your personal information belongs to you. As such, you have the right to know what information we are storing and how it is being used. You also have the right to shut down your account and have all your personal information removed at your request. Sphaera Research aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete or limit the use of your Personal Data.
If you wish to be informed about what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us at [email protected].
In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:
You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data.
In Canada, you can contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (“OPC”), see: https://priv.gc.ca/en/contact-the-opc/ .
We would, however, appreciate every opportunity to address your concerns before approaching any supervisory authority. We invite you to contact us directly as soon as any concern arises.
Does Sphaera Share the Information it Receives?
Your trust in Sphaera and our use of information is integral to achieving our mutual goals. As a result, we do not sell or rent your information to others. We share user and listing information only as described in this document.
Service Providers
From time to time we may engage third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), provide the Service on our behalf, perform Service-related services or assist us in analysing how our Service is used.
These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
Analytics
We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyse the use of our Service. These include but are not limited to:
Survey Monkey, MailChimp, Google Forms and Google Analytics.
Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualise and personalise the ads of its own advertising network.
You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.
For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
Marketing & Communications
Sphaera Research may use marketing services to advertise on third party websites to you after visiting our site. We and our third-party vendors use cookies to inform, optimise and serve ads based on your past visits.
These services may include but are not limited to: Facebook
Facebook remarketing service is provided by Facebook Inc.
You can learn more about interest-based advertising from Facebook by visiting this page: https://www.facebook.com/help/164968693837950
To opt-out from Facebook’s interest-based ads, follow these instructions from Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217
Facebook adheres to the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioural Advertising established by the Digital Advertising Alliance. You can also opt-out from Facebook and other participating companies through the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada in Canada https://youradchoices.ca/ or opt-out using your mobile device settings.
For more information on the privacy practices of Facebook, please visit Facebook’s Data Policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation
Payments
We may provide payment options for products and/or services via our website. In that case, we use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors). We will not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors 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 payment information.
The payment processor we work with is: Square.
Their privacy policy can be viewed at: https://squareup.com/ca/en/legal/general/privacy?country_redirection=true
Inherent Risk
Notwithstanding the reasonable security measures that we take, it is important to remember that the transmission of data via the internet may not be completely secure, and that you are advised to take suitable precautions when transmitting data to us via the internet.
Links to Other Sites
Our Service contains links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click 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.
This includes any “donate” link. We do not manage or process donations for organizations nor do we warrant their charitable status. We recommend you verify the charitable status with the Government of Canada’s charity listings service. 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
We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
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 our Website and update the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy regularly for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page and your continued use signifies your acceptance of them.
Contact Us
If you have any questions, concerns, complaints, or want to exercise any of your rights to your data, you can contact our office at [email protected]. All issues will be investigated and any necessary corrective action taken.
Effective Date: January 10, 2020
Sphaera Research operates the Halo Canada Project and the http://www.halocanadaproject.com/ website.
Our services are designed help religious communities and Canadian society to better understand the socio-economic relationship they share. All of our services are based on the premise that Information fuels Imagination.
This page informs you of our policies and regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal data when you access our website or participate in any of our research assessments, and the choices you have associated with that data.
We use the data you provide to us to:
1. Provide an agreed upon service of assessment
2. Further academic research and public knowledge.
By using our services, you agree to the collection of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise set out in this Privacy Policy, the terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms of Service Agreement.
Definitions
Personal Data - Personal Data means data about a living individual who can be identified from those data (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession).
Usage Data - Usage Data is data collected automatically either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
Cookies - Cookies are small files stored on your device (computer or mobile device).
Data Controller - Data Controller means the natural or legal person who (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons) determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal information are, or are to be, processed. For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, we are a Data Controller of your Personal Data.
Data Processors (or Service Providers) - Data Processor (or Service Provider) means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller. We may use the services of various Service Providers in order to process your data more effectively.
Data Subject (or User) - Data Subject is any living individual who is using our services and is the subject of Personal Data.
Information Collection and Use
In the course of our research, we collect several different types of information for various purposes.
Types of Data Collected
Personal Data
While using our service we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (Personal Data). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
- Email address
- First name and last name
- Phone number
- Organization you are a part of and title/role held
- Gender
- Address, City, Province, Postal Code
- Cookies and Usage Data
We may use your Personal Data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that maybe of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or the instructions provided in any email we send. We adhere to Canadian Anti-Spam Laws.
Usage Data
When you visit our website, we collect information that web browsers, mobile devices and servers make available, such as the internet protocol address, browser type, language preference, time zone, referring URL, date and time of access, operating system, mobile device manufacturer and mobile network information. We include these in our log files to understand more about visitors to our website and how to improve our service.
Location Data
We may use and store information about your location if you give us permission to do so (“Location Data”). We use this data to provide features of our service, to improve and customise our service. You can enable or disable location services when you use our service at any time by way of your device settings.
Referrals
If someone has referred any of our Services to you through any referral method, that person may have provided us your name, email address and other personal information. You may contact us at [email protected] to request that we remove your information from our database. If you provide us information about another person, or if another person gives us your information, we will only use that information for the specific reason for which it was provided to us.
Tracking Cookies Data
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and we hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Other tracking technologies are also used such as beacons, tags and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyse our services. 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.
Examples of Cookies we use:
- Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our site.
- Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
- Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.
Use of Data
Sphaera Research uses the collected data for various purposes:
- To provide and maintain our site
- To notify you about changes to our services
- To setup and maintain your account
- To provide user support
- To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our service.
- To monitor the usage of our site
- To detect, prevent and address technical issues
- To ask you to participate in surveys or solicit feedback on our services
- To provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information
Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Sphaera Research legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Data we collect and the specific context in which we collect it.
Sphaera Research may process your Personal Data because:
- We need to perform a contract with you
- You have given us permission to do so
- The processing is in our legitimate interests and it is not overridden by your rights
- For payment processing purposes
- To comply with the law
Retention of Data
Sphaera Research will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
Sphaera Research will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer periods.
Transfer of Data
Your information, including Personal Data, 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 from those of your jurisdiction. This includes storing or processing data in the United States.
If you are located outside Canada and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, 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.
Sphaera Research will take all the steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organisation or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.
Disclosure of Data
Disclosure for Law Enforcement
Under certain circumstances, Sphaera Research may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).
Legal Requirements
Sphaera Research may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
- To comply with a legal obligation
- To protect and defend the rights or property of Sphaera Research
- To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with our services
- To protect the personal safety of our clients or the public
- To protect against legal liability
Security of Data
The security of your data 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 Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Your Data Protection Rights
Your personal information belongs to you. As such, you have the right to know what information we are storing and how it is being used. You also have the right to shut down your account and have all your personal information removed at your request. Sphaera Research aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete or limit the use of your Personal Data.
If you wish to be informed about what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us at [email protected].
In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:
- The right to access, update or delete the information we have on you. Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of your Personal Data directly within your account settings section. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact us to assist you.
- The right of rectification. You have the right to have your information rectified if that information is inaccurate or incomplete.
- The right to object. You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data.
- The right of restriction. You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.
- The right to data portability. You have the right to be provided with a copy of the information we have on you in a structured, machine-readable and commonly used format.
- The right to withdraw consent. You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where Sphaera Research relied on your consent to process your personal information.
You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data.
In Canada, you can contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (“OPC”), see: https://priv.gc.ca/en/contact-the-opc/ .
We would, however, appreciate every opportunity to address your concerns before approaching any supervisory authority. We invite you to contact us directly as soon as any concern arises.
Does Sphaera Share the Information it Receives?
Your trust in Sphaera and our use of information is integral to achieving our mutual goals. As a result, we do not sell or rent your information to others. We share user and listing information only as described in this document.
Service Providers
From time to time we may engage third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), provide the Service on our behalf, perform Service-related services or assist us in analysing how our Service is used.
These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
Analytics
We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyse the use of our Service. These include but are not limited to:
Survey Monkey, MailChimp, Google Forms and Google Analytics.
Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualise and personalise the ads of its own advertising network.
You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.
For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
Marketing & Communications
Sphaera Research may use marketing services to advertise on third party websites to you after visiting our site. We and our third-party vendors use cookies to inform, optimise and serve ads based on your past visits.
These services may include but are not limited to: Facebook
Facebook remarketing service is provided by Facebook Inc.
You can learn more about interest-based advertising from Facebook by visiting this page: https://www.facebook.com/help/164968693837950
To opt-out from Facebook’s interest-based ads, follow these instructions from Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217
Facebook adheres to the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioural Advertising established by the Digital Advertising Alliance. You can also opt-out from Facebook and other participating companies through the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada in Canada https://youradchoices.ca/ or opt-out using your mobile device settings.
For more information on the privacy practices of Facebook, please visit Facebook’s Data Policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation
Payments
We may provide payment options for products and/or services via our website. In that case, we use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors). We will not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors 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 payment information.
The payment processor we work with is: Square.
Their privacy policy can be viewed at: https://squareup.com/ca/en/legal/general/privacy?country_redirection=true
Inherent Risk
Notwithstanding the reasonable security measures that we take, it is important to remember that the transmission of data via the internet may not be completely secure, and that you are advised to take suitable precautions when transmitting data to us via the internet.
Links to Other Sites
Our Service contains links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click 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.
This includes any “donate” link. We do not manage or process donations for organizations nor do we warrant their charitable status. We recommend you verify the charitable status with the Government of Canada’s charity listings service. 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
We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
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 our Website and update the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy regularly for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page and your continued use signifies your acceptance of them.
Contact Us
If you have any questions, concerns, complaints, or want to exercise any of your rights to your data, you can contact our office at [email protected]. All issues will be investigated and any necessary corrective action taken.
Effective Date: January 10, 2020