OWN INNOVATION

OWN INNOVATIONPrivacy Policy

Data Protection & Privacy Policy

General Information

Thank you for visiting our website and for your interest in our products and services. The protection of your personal data is very important to Own Innovation Inc. and the Law Firm of James Hinton. We process personal data that is collected when you visit our website confidentially and only in accordance with the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL). It is important for us to inform you about which personal data is collected, how it is used and what options you have in this regard.

By accessing or using our website, you agree to be bound by this Data Protection & Privacy Policy (the “Policy”), this website’s Terms of Use, all applicable laws and regulations, and agree that you are responsible for compliance with any applicable local laws.

1. Responsible Person

The data controller is Own Innovation Inc., 137 Glasgow St, Unit 210, Kitchener, ON N2G 4X8, Canada. Exceptions are explained in this Policy. If you have any questions about data protection, you can contact our data protection officer.

2.    Collection, processing and use of personal data

2.1    Categories of data processed

We collect certain personally identifying information (“Personal Data”) when you use or access certain parts of our website. We may collect the following Personal Data including, but not limited to, your:

2.2 Principles

We collect, process and use personal data (including IP addresses) only if there is a legal basis for this and you have implicitly or explicitly given your consent for us to do so. We will only use your Personal Data for the purpose(s) for which it was provided. If we need to use your Personal Data for any reason other than the reason for which it was provided, we will seek your consent before doing so.

We use the collected Personal Data for various purposes, including:

We may also disclose Personal Data to third-party Service Providers and Distributors only for these purposes. We are obligated not to disclose or use your Personal Data for any other purpose. We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your Personal Data to outside parties, without your consent.

2.4 Transfer and Storage of Data

Your Personal Data may be transferred to — and stored on — computers located outside of your country or jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction. 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.

2.5 Age Requirement

This website is aimed at adults and is not intended to address anyone deemed to be a “child” or minor in the jurisdiction where the site is accessed. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us at the address below. 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.

3. User of Cookies and Similar Technologies

Cookies and similar technologies can be used as part of the provision of our website Cookies are text files containing data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier, that are sent to your browser from a website and can be saved on your device when you visit the website.

3.1       Cookie Categories

3.2 Management of Cookie and Tracking Mechanism Settings

You can typically manage your cookie settings individually or as a whole in your browser. The settings you have made only relate to the corresponding browser and may only relate to a particular mode of the browser (such as private mode). Please note that turning off all cookies can impair the functionality of the website. Details on the browsers used in many cases can be found here:
Mozilla Firefox
Internet Explorer
Google Chrome
Safari

3.3 Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics on the Sites. Google Analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google LLC (“Google”), that uses cookies to track and report website traffic. The information collected by the cookies about your use of our Sites is anonymized and transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Google uses the anonymized data collected to track and monitor the use of our Sites. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit Google’s privacy policy web page.

You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Sites available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.

3.4 Google Maps

This website uses the Google Maps map service via an API. The provider is Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

When you click on the integrated Google Maps map, Personal Data (in this case the IP address) are forwarded to Google. This information is usually transmitted to a Google LLC server in the USA and stored there. The provider of this site has no influence on this data transfer.

The use of Google Maps is in the interest of an appealing presentation of our website and to make it easy to find the places we have indicated on the website.

You can find more information on handling user data in Google’s privacy policy.

4. External Links

Our website may contain links to third-party websites that are not affiliated with us. After clicking the link, we no longer have any influence on the collection, processing and use of any personal data transferred to the third party when the link is clicked (such as the IP address or the URL of the page on which the link is located), since the behaviour of third parties is naturally beyond our control. We are not responsible for the processing of such Personal Data by third parties.

5. Safety

Our employees and the service companies commissioned by us are bound to secrecy and compliance with the provisions of applicable data protection laws. We take security measures to protect and keep confidential information, including Personal Data, managed by us. Our measures include taking all necessary technical and organizational measures to ensure an appropriate level of protection. Our security measures are continuously improved in line with technological developments.

Your access to or use of the Website does not create a client relationship lawyer-client, patent agent, trademark agent, advisory, and fiduciary relationships between you and Own Innovation Inc., the Law Firm of James Hinton, or any partner or employee thereof. Your use of the Website may facilitate communications with Own Innovation Inc., the Law Firm of James Hinton, and its employees. Such communications similarly do not create client relationships.

With any form of data communication and storage, there are potential risks to the communicated and stored information. These risks include unintentional, unauthorized, and/or unlawful destruction, manipulation, loss, alteration, interception, disclosure or access of the information that may adversely affect your associated rights and privileges. This risk may be greater for unsecured transmissions via the Internet, such as transmissions via this website’s contact webform. Despite our security measures we cannot and do not ensure or warrant the security of any information you submit via our online products or services, such as the webform. We suggest you avoid or exercise extreme care when submitting information such as confidential, proprietary, and privileged information via any form of unsecured Internet communication, including this website’s webform. Any submissions you make via our online products or services, such as this webform you do so at your own risk.

6. User Rights

To assert your rights, please use the information in the “Contact” section below. Please make sure that we can clearly identify you.

6.1 Right to Information and Access

You have the right to receive information from us about the processing of your Personal Data. To do this, you can assert a right to information in relation to the Personal Data that we process about you.

6.2 Right to Rectification and Erasure

You can ask us to correct incorrect data. As long as the legal requirements are met, you can request the completion or deletion of your Personal Data. This does not apply to Personal Data that are required for billing and accounting purposes or are subject to statutory retention requirements. If access to such Personal Data is not required, their processing will be restricted (see below).

6.4 Data Portability

As long as the legal requirements are met, you can request that the Personal Data you have made available to us be transmitted in a structured, common and machine-readable format or – if technically feasible – that the Personal Data be transmitted to a third party.

6.5 Right to Object

6.5.1 Objection to Direct Marketing

You can object to the processing of your Personal Data for advertising purposes at any time. Please note that, for organizational reasons, there may be an overlap between your objection and the use of your Personal Data in the context of an ongoing campaign.

6.5.2 Objection to Data Processing

You have the right to object to data processing by us at any time. We will then stop processing your Personal Data, unless there is a legal basis for the continued processing of your Personal Data.

6.6 Revocation of Consent

If you have given us your consent to process your Personal Data, you can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future. This does not affect the legality of processing your data until you withdraw your consent.

7. Changes to this Policy

We reserve the right to update this Policy and/or change our security and data protection measures from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Policy on this page. Therefore, please note the current version of our Policy below.

8. Contact

If you would like to get in contact with us, you can reach us at the address or email in section 1.

For questions, suggestions and complaints regarding the processing of your Personal Data, we recommend that you contact our data protection officer.

9. Governing Law

This Policy is governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Ontario, Canada and you irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in the Province of Ontario.

This Policy is effective as of 09/01/2023.