Who We are
Effective Date: August, 2021
Our website address is: https://carvingeden.com/
We are a landscaping and yard maintenence company located in ottawa, ontario. We serve multiple municipalites in the Ontario region. We operate in partnership with My Next Home Reno Construction company.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Carving Eden collects personally identifiable information, such as your email address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Carving Eden also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Carving Eden. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by Carving Eden for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Carving Eden website.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Carving Eden public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Carving Eden does not read any of your private online communications.
Carving Eden encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Carving Eden so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. Carving Eden is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the Carving Eden and Carving Eden family of websites.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact Forms
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Use of Personal Information
Carving Eden collects and uses your personal information to operate the Carving Eden website and deliver the services you have requested. Carving Eden also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Carving Eden and its affiliates. Carving Eden may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
Carving Eden does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.
Carving Eden may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Carving Eden may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Carving Eden, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Carving Eden does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
Who we share your data with
Carving Eden keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Carving Eden, in order to determine what Carving Eden services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Carving Eden to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Carving Eden websites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Carving Eden or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Carving Eden; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Carving Eden, or the public.
How long do we keep your data
The time periods for which we retain your Personal Data depend on the purposes for which we use it. Carving Eden may keep your Personal Data for as long as your account(project) is active, or as long as you are conducting business with our landscaping company, or user of our Services or for as long as we have another business purpose to do so (such as, but not limited to, for business, tax, or legal purposes) and, thereafter, for no longer than is required or permitted by law, or our records retention policy, reasonably necessary for internal reporting and reconciliation purposes, or to provide you with feedback or information you might request. This period of retention is subject to our review and alteration.
Following termination of your project, we may retain your profile information and all information posted to public areas of the Website. Following termination of your project, we may retain your Personal Data and other data, but will maintain it as confidential according to the Terms, this Privacy Policy, and as required by applicable law. We have the right to delete all of your Personal Data and other data after termination of your user account without notice to you.
We may retain De-Identified Personal Data for as long as we deem appropriate.
Even if you delete your account, keep in mind that the deletion by our Service Providers may not be immediate and that the deleted information may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time. We may retain De-Identified Personal Data for as long as we deem appropriate.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, an open project with one of our landscapers, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Cookies & Other Internet Technologies
This Site uses cookies (i.e., small text files placed on your device) and similar technologies (e.g., pixels and pixel tags, ad tags, clear GIFs, and Javascript) – including cookies and technologies from third-party providers – to enable certain features and functionality and to collect additional information that helps us to improve this Site and our services. This Site may use session cookies (which expire when you close your browser) and persistent cookies (which remain on your device after you close your browser until you delete them or they expire). We use these technologies for security purposes, to help you navigate this Site, to display information more effectively, to better serve you with tailored information on this Site, and to gather statistical information about how visitors use this Site in order to continually improve its design and functions.
If you do not want data to be collected from your device via cookies, most browsers have a setting that allows you to decline the use of cookies. Some features of this Site may not work properly if you decline the use of cookies. To learn more about cookies, please visit https://www.allaboutcookies.org/
Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics, a web analytics tool that may set cookies in your browser, in order to help us understand how visitors engage with this Site. To learn more about Google Analytics’ data practices, please visit https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en. For opt-out options specific to Google Analytics, please visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Other third party cookies and technologies. We also enable third-party cookies and other similar technologies to collect or receive data from this Site and elsewhere for use in advertising, including for the purposes of serving advertisements targeted to users’ interests, retargeting visitors to this Site, conversion tracking (i.e., tracking the actions users take after viewing or engaging with our advertisements), measuring ad effectiveness, and ensuring that you do not see the same ad repeatedly. These cookies and similar technologies collect data about your browsing habits and online behavior, including across different browsers and devices used by you, in order to serve advertisements that may be of interest to you. For example, Carving Eden’s third-party providers may use the fact that you visited this Site to place online ads for Carving Eden on non-Carving Eden websites.
Third parties may also use data about your use of this Site to help target non-Carving Eden advertisements based on your online behavior and/or interests in general. Data collected generally includes actions you take on this Site (e.g., URL, previous website visited), device and browser data (e.g., IP address, operating system, browser type), timestamp, and events (e.g., page views). In some cases, this data is connected to your social network ID. Please note that Carving Eden is not responsible for practices by such third parties, and those practices are subject to those companies’ own policies.
You may use industry platforms to opt out of interest-based advertising. To learn more about opting out of receiving interest-based advertisements and how to exercise your options, please visit: https://optout.aboutads.info These tools use cookies to record and implement your preferences. If you disable or delete cookies on your device after using these tools, you will need to complete the opt-out process again.
Third-Party Websites
This Privacy Statement does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy practices of any third parties, including those that operate websites to which this Site links. The inclusion of a link on this Site does not imply that we or our affiliates endorse the practices of the linked website.
Additional Information EU/EA Residents
If you have any questions or concerns about our collection or use of your personal data, you can contact our EU Data Protection Officer at privacy@carvingeden.com.
If you are unsatisfied with the way in which we have handled your personal data or any privacy query or request that you have raised to us, you have a right to complain to the appropriate National Data Protection Authority (“DPA”). To find the contact details of the DPA in your country of residence, please visit https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/article29/item-detail.cfm?item_id=612080.
Updates to this Privacy Policy
We may make changes to this Privacy Statement from time to time. The “Effective Date” at the top of this page shows when this Privacy Statement was last revised. Any changes will become effective when we post a revised version of this Privacy Statement on this Site. Your use of this Site is subject to the terms in the version of this Privacy Statement that is posted on this Site at the time of your visit. We encourage you to review this Privacy Statement periodically to remain informed about how we are protecting your data
Contact Information
If you have any comments or questions regarding this Privacy Statement or our data handling practices, or wish to contact our EU Data Protection Officer, please contact us at privacy@carvingeden.com. You can also send us a letter at the following addresses:
In Canada:
Attn: Legal Dept.
Carving Eden & Associates
345 Montgomery Street.
Ottawa,Ontario
K1L 7X1