Effective date: 4th day of July, 2024
https://www.aquabatics.com/ (the "Site") is owned and operated by Aquabatics. Aquabatics is the
data controller and can be contacted at:
[email protected]
(250) 847-3678
7391 Hwy 16 West, Smithers, BC V0J 2N2
The purpose of this privacy policy (this "Privacy Policy") is to inform users of our Site of the
following:
This Privacy Policy applies in addition to the terms and conditions of our Site.
For users in the European Union, we adhere to the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European
Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016, known as the General Data Protection
Regulation (the "GDPR"). For users in the United Kingdom, we adhere to the GDPR as
enshrined in the Data Protection Act 2018.
We have not appointed a Data Protection Officer as we do not fall within the categories of
controllers and processors required to appoint a Data Protection Officer under Article 37 of the
GDPR.
By using our Site users agree that they consent to:
When the legal basis for us processing your personal data is that you have provided your consent
to that processing, you may withdraw your consent at any time. If you withdraw your consent, it
will not make processing which we completed before you withdrew your consent unlawful.
You can withdraw your consent by: Contacting us via email.
We collect and process personal data about users in the EU only when we have a legal basis for
doing so under Article 6 of the GDPR.
We rely on the following legal basis to collect and process the personal data of users in the EU:
We only collect data that helps us achieve the purpose set out in this Privacy Policy. We will not
collect any additional data beyond the data listed below without notifying you first.
Data Collected in a Non-Automatic Way
We may also collect the following data when you perform certain functions on our Site:
This data may be collected using the following methods:
Data collected on our Site will only be used for the purposes specified in this Privacy Policy or
indicated on the relevant pages of our Site. We will not use your data beyond what we disclose in
this Privacy Policy.
The data we collect when the user performs certain functions may be used for the following
purposes:
We may disclose user data to any member of our organization who reasonably needs access to
user data to achieve the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.
We will not sell or share your data with other third parties, except in the following cases:
If you follow hyperlinks from our Site to another site, please note that we are not responsible for
and have no control over their privacy policies and practices.
User data will be stored for The data remains in the customer's account profile for the purpose of
product warranties, returns etc. for an indefinite period of time.
You will be notified if your data is kept for longer than this period.
For our retail and webstore operations we use Lightspeed Commerce, which is a point-of-sale
and e-commerce software. Lightspeed uses PCI DSS, the global security standard for protecting
payment card information. Lightspeed does not store, process, or transmit any cardholder data. In
order to protect your security, we use the strongest available browser encryption and store all of
our data on servers in secure facilities. All data is only accessible to our employees. Our
employees are bound by strict confidentiality agreements and a breach of this agreement would
result in the employee's termination.
While we take all reasonable precautions to ensure that user data is secure and that users are
protected, there always remains the risk of harm. The Internet as a whole can be insecure at times
and therefore we are unable to guarantee the security of user data beyond what is reasonably
practical.
Under the GDPR, you have the following rights:
We do not knowingly collect or use personal data from children under 16 years of age. If we
learn that we have collected personal data from a child under 16 years of age, the personal data
will be deleted as soon as possible. If a child under 16 years of age has provided us with personal
data their parent or guardian may contact our privacy officer.
If you would like to know if we have collected your personal data, how we have used your
personal data, if we have disclosed your personal data and to who we disclosed your personal
data, if you would like your data to be deleted or modified in any way, or if you would like to
exercise any of your other rights under the GDPR, please contact our privacy officer here:
Susan E. Smith
[email protected]
(250) 847-3678
7391 Highway 16 West, Smithers, BC V0J 2N2
Do Not Track ("DNT") is a privacy preference that you can set in certain web browsers. We do
not track the users of our Site over time and across third party websites and therefore do not
respond to browser-initiated DNT signals.
In addition to the method(s) described in the How to Access, Modify, Delete, or Challenge the
Data Collected section, we provide the following specific opt-out methods for the forms of
collection, use, or disclosure of your personal data:
A cookie is a small file, stored on a user's hard drive by a website. Its purpose is to collect data
relating to the user's browsing habits. You can choose to be notified each time a cookie is
transmitted. You can also choose to disable cookies entirely in your internet browser, but this
may decrease the quality of your user experience.
We use the following types of cookies on our Site:
This Privacy Policy may be amended from time to time in order to maintain compliance with the
law and to reflect any changes to our data collection process. When we amend this Privacy
Policy we will update the "Effective Date" at the top of this Privacy Policy. We recommend that
our users periodically review our Privacy Policy to ensure that they are notified of any updates.
If necessary, we may notify users by email of changes to this Privacy Policy.
If you have any complaints about how we process your personal data, please contact us through
the contact methods listed in the Contact Information section so that we can, where possible,
resolve the issue. If you feel we have not addressed your concern in a satisfactory manner you
may contact a supervisory authority.
If you have any questions, concerns or complaints, you can contact our privacy officer, Susan E.
Smith, at:
[email protected]
(250) 847-3678
7391 Highway 16 West, Smithers, BC V0J 2N2