Effective date: September 2022
Distinctive appliances. (“Distinctive”, “us”, “we” and “our”) is committed to protecting your privacy.
This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) explains how Distinctive collects, stores, uses and discloses personal information on www.distinctive-online.com (the “Website”) and in the information forms. In this Policy, “we”, “our” and other similar terms refer to Distinctive. “You” refers to anyone who visits or fills out a form on our Website.
By using our Website and/or filling out a form, you consent to the collection, storage, use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this Policy. If you have any questions about this Policy, please contact our Privacy Officer at the address provided below.
We reserve the right to change the terms of this Policy at any time. When we make changes, we will revise the date at the top of this Policy. If we make any material changes to the Policy, we may, at our discretion, inform you of them by prominently posting a notice of such changes on our Website, or by sending you an email. We encourage you to review this Policy whenever you visit our Website.
What personal information do we collect from you and why? Do we share this information with third parties?
By “personal information”, we mean any information that can identify you, either on its own or in combination with other information.
We may collect the following kinds of personal information when you visit or use our Website and/or fill out a form:
- Customer Information: We collect personal information when you visit our Website and/or fill out a form on our Website. This includes your first name, last name, email address, mailing address and phone number.
- Contests and Promotions: In addition, any information you submit in connection with your participation in a contest, draw or other promotion sponsored by Distinctive or any of its affiliates or partners will be used solely for the administration of those contests, draws or promotions in accordance with this Policy, except as specifically stated otherwise in the rules for those contests, draws or promotions.
What other information do we collect from you and why?
When you use our Website, we may collect other non-personal information, such as information about how you use our Website. We use this information to maintain and improve our products, services and technologies.
What are cookies?
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are and how we use them, the types of cookies we use i.e, the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used, and how to manage the cookie settings.
Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. They are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make it more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyze what works and where it needs improvement.
How do we use cookies?
As most of the online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.
The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.
Types of Cookies we use:
Strictly necessary Cookies
| Cookie key | Domain | Path | Cookie type | Expiration | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| wordpress_test_cookie | .distinctive-online.com | / | First-party | Session | Used on sites built with WordPress. Tests whether or not the browser has cookies enabled. |
| __cf_bm | .onesignal.com | / | Third-party | 30 minutes | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. |
Performance cookies
| Cookie key | Domain | Path | Cookie type | Expiration | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| _ga_HN8E67PS46 | .distinctive-online.com | / | First-party | 1 year 1 month | This cookie is used by Google Analytics to persist session state. |
| __kla_id | __kla_id | / | First-party | 1 year 1 month | Tracks when someone clicks through a Klaviyo email to your website. |
| _ga_Y18B5QFLFL | .distinctive-online.com | / | First-party | 1 year 1 month | This cookie is used by Google Analytics to persist session state. |
| _gat | .distinctive-online.com | / | First-party | 53 seconds | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate – limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. |
| _ga | .distinctive-online.com | / | First-party | 1 year 1 month | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics – which is a significant update to Google’s more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. |
| _gid | .distinctive-online.com | / | First-party | 1 day | This cookie is set by Google Analytics. It stores and update a unique value for each page visited and is used to count and track pageviews. |
Targeting cookies
| Cookie key | Domain | Path | Cookie type | Expiration | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IDE | .doubleclick.net | / | Third-party | 1 year | This cookie is set by Doubleclick and carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
| _gat_gtag_UA_9081654_5 | .distinctive-online.com | / | First-party | 59 seconds | This cookie is part of Google Analytics and is used to limit requests (throttle request rate). |
| YSC | .youtube.com | / | Third-party | Session | This cookie is set by YouTube to track views of embedded videos. |
| test_cookie | .doubleclick.net | / | Third-party | 15 minutes | This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to determine if the website visitor’s browser supports cookies. |
| _fbp | .distinctive-online.com | / | First-party | 3 months | Used by Meta to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | .youtube.com | / | First-party | 6 months | This cookie is set by Youtube to keep track of user preferences for Youtube videos embedded in sites; it can also determine whether the website visitor is using the new or old version of the Youtube interface. |
| _gcl_au | .distinctive-online.com | / | First-party | 3 months | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. |
| _lfa | .distinctive-online.com | / | First-party | 1 year | Leadfeeder cookie collects the behavioral data of all website visitors. This includes; pages viewed, visitor source and time spent on the site. |
| _pin_unauth | .distinctive-online.com | / | First-party | 1 year | Registers a unique ID that identifies and recognizes the user. Is used for targeted advertising. |
Functionality Cookies
| Cookie key | Domain | Path | Cookie type | Expiration | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| wp-wpml_current_language | .distinctive-online.com | / | First-party | Session | Stores the current language. By default, this cookie is set only for logged-in users. If you enable the language cookie to support AJAX filtering, this cookie will also be set for users who are not logged in. |
Unclassified Cookies
| Cookie key | Domain | Path | Cookie type | Expiration | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| search_active | .distinctive-online.com | / | First-party | Session | |
| ar_debug | .pinterest.com | / | Third-party | 1 year |
Your choices regarding cookies
You have certain choices when it comes to the placing of cookies on your device. You may choose to accept or deny any functional or marketing cookies. You can control your cookie choices through your browser, where you can instruct it to delete or refuse cookies. You can visit the help center of your browser, the “Tools”, “Edit”, or “Help” pages to set your cookie preferences and delete cookies. We also encourage you to visit aboutcookies.org to learn more about how to opt out of cookies.
Questions
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact us at data.info@amiel.ca.
How does Distinctive use Google Analytics on the Website?
- Distinctive currently uses Google Analytics to provide statistics about the visitors to our Website. Google Analytics tracks and analyzes non-personally identifiable statistical information, including, but not limited to, search engines, advertisements displayed, email marketing and digital collateral such as links within PDF documents. Further information about Google Analytics is available here.
How does Distinctive use the Campaign Monitor tool on the Website?
We also use Campaign Monitor to improve your experience on the Website Campaign Monitor’s privacy policy can be found at https://www.campaignmonitor.com/policies/.
Where do we process and store your personal information?
Distinctive uses, processes and stores your personal information within Canada. However, some of the third parties to which we may provide your personal information (as set out in this Policy), or which may have access to this information through our Website (as set out in this Policy), may be located in a province or territory of Canada other than the province or territory of your residence or in a jurisdiction outside of Canada (such as the United States, Europe or elsewhere). Therefore, your personal information may be used, processed and/or held in Canada, the United States or other jurisdictions. Please note that once your personal information is held outside of the jurisdiction of your residence (e.g., in a different province, territory or country), it will be subject to the laws of the jurisdiction in which it is held and such jurisdictions may not have a level of protection for such information equal to that of the jurisdiction of your residence.
In what other situations do we share your personal information with third parties?
Except as set out in this Policy (see previous sections), Distinctive does not disclose or sell your personal information to any third parties.
How do we keep your personal information secure?
We take the protection of your personal information seriously. We employ a range of safeguards designed to protect personal information against loss and theft as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use and modification, including physical, organizational and technological measures, commensurate with the sensitivity of your personal information. Our employees have access to your personal information only on a need-to-know basis, and are required to keep such personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which it was provided. They all sign a Distinctive Code of Conduct and Code of Computer Conduct that include information on their obligations in respect of your personal information.
Where we use service providers who might have access to your personal information in order to assist us in offering and administering the Website, we require them to have privacy and security standards that are comparable to our own. We use contracts and other measures with our service providers to maintain the confidentiality and security of your personal information and to prevent it from being used for any other purpose.
Please be aware that no data security measures can guarantee 100% security. You should also take steps to protect against unauthorized access to your password, phone and computer by, among other things, signing out after using a shared computer, choosing a robust password that nobody else knows or can easily guess, and keeping your username and password private. We are not responsible for any lost, stolen or compromised passwords or for any activity on your account via unauthorized activity.
How long do we retain your personal information?
We will only retain your personal information as long as is necessary for the fulfillment of the purposes for which it was collected or as required by law. Your personal information is securely stored until such time as it is no longer required, after which it is destroyed, making it impossible to identify you.
When will we contact you by email?
From time to time, and with your consent by signing up to receive our newsletters, we may send you marketing emails to inform you of new products or services or provide other information or offers. If you do not wish to receive marketing emails, you can click the “unsubscribe” link in any of these emails. To comply with Canada’s anti-spam legislation, Distinctive’s newsletter must include certain prescribed information and an “unsubscribe” link. We would be happy to discuss Distinctive’s obligations under Canada’s anti-spam legislation in further detail if you so desire.
If you choose not to receive marketing emails, please be advised that you will continue to receive communications and emails from us for information purposes in connection with the brand(s) or product(s) you have interacted with through a contest or request for information.
Privacy Officer
The designated Privacy Officer for Distinctive (Company) is Philippe Giroux. If you would like us to delete or correct specific personal information or report a privacy incident, please contact them by e-mail at data.info@amiel.ca