Privacy Policy

Marketing Martian respects and is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains our online privacy practices, allowing you to make informed choices about your privacy.

What data do we collect, and why do we collect it?

The Marketing Martian website (“Website”) does not automatically gather any personal information from you (such as your name, phone number, or email address). This information is only obtained if you provide it voluntarily through an online form or contact us via email. If you choose to provide us with personal information through this Website, we’ll use that information to respond to your message or obtain the information you requested.

Any personal information that you do provide is kept strictly confidential and is not disclosed to anyone except the Marketing Martian staff who need the information for legitimate business purposes (such as responding to your request). We do not trade or sell information to any second or third party.

When you visit this Website, our web server automatically collects a limited amount of non-identifying information about your online visit for statistical purposes regarding how our visitors interact with us online. We do not associate any of this information with you as an individual.

If you choose to provide us with your personal information through this website, we’ll use it only for the following purposes.

Get back to you after you contact us by form, email, or phone
Send you emails if you subscribed to our newsletter
Make your user experience more personalized
Make improvements to the website based on your feedback
Improve the information and services on the website
Enforce this privacy policy

The information which may be collected from your visit is as follows:

the Internet domain and Internet Protocol (IP) address from which you access this Website;
the type of browser, device and operating system used to access this Website;
the date and time you access this Website;
screen resolution of your monitor;
the pages you visit on this Website; and
the address of another Website link, if any, that linked you to this Website.

We collect and use this information to help make this Website more useful and to better understand your needs and preferences.

If we plan to use your personal information for a purpose not outlined above, we’ll tell you what that purpose is at the time we collect your information. This will ensure you know our intent and can give your informed consent.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form and the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection. You can choose to leave comments anonymously.

Media

If you upload a profile picture to your comment, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Links and embedded content from other websites

This Website contains links to other websites. Marketing Martian is not responsible for the content and the privacy practices of other websites and encourages you to examine each website’s privacy policy and disclaimers and make your own decisions regarding the accuracy, reliability, and correctness of material and information found.

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

We use Google Analytics, a service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies to help us analyze how users use our website. The information generated by these cookies (including your truncated IP address) is transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information to evaluate your and other users, use of our website, compile reports for us on website activity and provide other services relating to website activity and Internet usage. Please note that Google only receives your truncated IP address. This is sufficient for Google to identify (approximately) the country from which you are visiting our Website but is not sufficient to individually identify you, your computer, or mobile device.

You can find more information here, or by reviewing Google’s privacy policy. To opt-out of analysis by Google Analytics on our website and other websites, please visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Who we share your data with

We do not trade or sell information to any second or third party.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can automatically recognize and approve any follow-up comments instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights do you have over your data?

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you provided. 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.

It’s important that you are able to control the collection of personal data relating to your use of our website, so we’ve provided links to help you opt out of personal data collection using cookies or other technologies as set out below.

Use your browser settings or preferences to see and control the cookies that are set on your computer or mobile device. Visit http://www.aboutcookies.org to find out how.

To opt-out of analysis by Google Analytics on our website and other websites, please visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Contact information

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact Sarah Marsh at sarah@marketingmartian.ca.

Summary

We do not collect, use, or disclose your personal information for any purpose other than those identified above except with your consent.

This policy doesn’t cover situations where we’re required by law to share your personal information with law enforcement or government agencies. If you choose to use our Website without blocking or disabling cookies or opting out of these technologies, you will indicate your consent to our use of these cookies and other technologies and to our use (in accordance with this Privacy Policy) of any personal information that we collect using these technologies. If you do not consent to the use of these technologies, please be sure to block or disable them using your browser or mobile device settings or the Opting Out resources listed above.