At ceubc.com, we are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the security of your personal information. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and share information when you visit or use our website. We are dedicated to complying with all applicable data protection laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
Information We Collect
We collect various types of information to provide and improve our services. This information can be broadly categorized as follows:
- Personal Information: This includes information that can be used to identify you, such as your name, email address, postal address, phone number, and any other information you voluntarily provide when you subscribe to our newsletter, create an account, participate in surveys, or contact us.
- Usage Data: We collect information about how you access and use our website, including your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages visited, and the dates/times of your visits. This data helps us understand user behavior and improve our website’s functionality.
- Log Files: Like many websites, ceubc.com utilizes log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking user’s movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.
- Cookies: We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device and used to remember your preferences, track your activity, and personalize content. We use both session cookies (which expire when you close your browser) and persistent cookies (which remain on your device for a longer period). You can control cookies through your browser settings, but disabling cookies may limit your ability to use certain features of our website.
- Web Beacons: We may also use web beacons (also known as pixel tags or clear GIFs) to track your activity on our website and in our emails. Web beacons are small, invisible images embedded in web pages or emails that allow us to monitor user behavior and collect data about email opens and clicks.
DoubleClick DART Cookie
Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on ceubc.com. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our site’s visitors based upon their visit to ceubc.com and other sites on the Internet.
Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network Privacy Policy at the following URL – https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads
Amazon Associates Program
ceubc.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. As part of this program, we may include affiliate links to Amazon products on our website. When you click on these links and make a purchase, we may earn a commission.
Amazon uses cookies to track your activity and attribute sales to our website. This allows them to determine the commissions we earn. The data collected through these cookies is subject to Amazon’s privacy policy, which you can review on their website. We do not have control over Amazon’s data collection practices.
Advertising Partners Privacy Policies
You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of ceubc.com.
Third-party ad servers or ad networks use technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on ceubc.com, which are sent directly to users’ browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.
Note that ceubc.com has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
Third Party Privacy Policies
ceubc.com’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.
You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.
CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)
Under the CCPA, California residents have the following rights regarding their personal information:
- Right to Know: You have the right to request information about the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, the sources of the information, the purposes for collecting it, and the categories of third parties with whom we share it.
- Right to Delete: You have the right to request that we delete your personal information, subject to certain exceptions.
- Right to Opt-Out: You have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information. ceubc.com does not sell your personal information to third parties. However, if we were to do so in the future, we will provide a clear and conspicuous “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” link on our website.
- Right to Non-Discrimination: You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising your CCPA rights.
To exercise your CCPA rights, please contact us using the contact information provided below.
GDPR Data Protection Rights
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have the following data protection rights under the GDPR:
- Right to Access: You have the right to request access to your personal data and receive a copy of it.
- Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal data we hold about you.
- Right to Erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, subject to certain exceptions.
- Right to Restriction of Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data.
- Right to Data Portability: You have the right to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to transmit it to another controller.
- Right to Object: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data, including for direct marketing purposes.
- Right to Withdraw Consent: If we are processing your personal data based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
- Right to Lodge a Complaint: You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if you believe that we have infringed your data protection rights.
To exercise your GDPR rights, please contact us using the contact information provided below. We will respond to your request within one month, although we may extend this period in certain circumstances, as permitted by law.
Children’s Information
Protecting the privacy of children is of utmost importance to us. ceubc.com does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.