Privacy Policy

OUR COMMITMENT
Welcome to OkanaganChild.com (the “Site”) a website owned by Bellhop Media Inc. (referred to as “we,” “us” or “our”). Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this policy explaining our on-line information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used by the Site.

YOUR CONSENT AND AGREEMENT
Please read this entire policy carefully before using or submitting information to this Site. Whenever you visit the Site, you consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to these terms, please do not access or use this Site.

CHANGES TO OUR POLICY
From time to time, we may change this Privacy Policy. The updated Privacy Policy will be posted on the Site so that you will always be aware what information the Site collects and how it is used. You should review the Privacy Policy periodically to see if any changes have been made. This Privacy Policy was last modified on March 31, 2009.

WHAT IS PERSONAL INFORMATION?
“Personal Information” as used in this policy, is information that specifically identifies an individual, including, but not limited to, an individual’s name, home address, telephone number, or e-mail address, but excluding an individual’s job title, business address and other business information.

WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
The Site may be browsed without providing any personally identifying information. However, to engage in certain functions or features of the Site, you may be asked to provide Personal Information. We collect Personal Information from you when you do any of the following:

  • Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter and/or digital magazine edition
  • Send us photographs
  • Enter a sweepstakes or contest

We may also collect Personal Information from you when you participate in another site feature or correspond with us.

Like many websites, we also use “cookies”. Cookies collect non-personally identifying information. Please refer to the “What are Cookies?” section below for more information. We also may collect standard web log entries for each page you view, including your IP address, page URL, and timestamp. This web log data enables us to diagnose server problems, administer the Site, and provide functional service to users.

Subscribe to the Digital Edition and/or Newsletters
The Site offers an option to subscribe to our newsletters and/or digital magazine edition. Should you choose to enroll we will collect personal information, such as your name, e-mail address and other information (e.g., postal code). Any e-mail you receive from the Site will contain the option to “unsubscribe” at the end of the e-mail. You can unsubscribe at any time.

Sending / Uploading Photographs
The Site offers you the option to share photographs. When you submit a photograph, we will ask you to include information such as your full name, contact information, name and age of the child pictured and a caption for the photograph. We will not disclose your contact information but will make public the name and age of the child in addition to any caption provided. The decision to submit photographs is completely voluntary and therefore you have a choice whether or not to disclose this information.

Sweepstakes & Contests
To enter any sweepstakes or contests on the Site, we typically ask you for your e-mail address and your first and last name. We may at any time request other information in order to verify the entrant’s identity, location, or age. In some situations, we need additional information, such as a prize selection choice. We may also request you post a comment on the Site as a form of entry to the contest. Participation in these sweepstakes or contests is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information.

What are Cookies?
To enhance your online experience we and some of our partners may use “cookies.” Cookies are text files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your computer’s internet browser to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your e-mail address or other personally identifiable information. We use cookies to collect non-personal traffic information (such as the number of visits to our site and pages visited) and to improve our content, offerings, and advertisements.

Our advertising is provided by third party advertising companies which may deliver a cookie to you so the ads you see can be tracked. We do not provide these third party advertising companies with any personally identifiable information. However, these companies may use non-personally identifiable information about your visits to the Site and other sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. We have no access to or control over the cookies used by third parties.

You may modify your browser preferences to provide you with choices relating to cookies. You may accept all cookies, be notified when a cookie is being sent, or reject all cookies. You can manage your cookie settings by following directions in your internet browser’s “help” file. Please be aware, however, that some services on the Site may not function properly if cookies are disabled.

HOW DO WE USE THE INFORMATION?
We may use the information you provide in a variety of ways, including, for example, to communicate with you, such as to notify you when you have won one of our sweepstakes, or to fulfill a request by you to receive our on-line newsletter.

We sometimes use the non-personally identifiable information we collect to improve the content of our Site and to analyze site usage.

DO WE SHARE OR DISCLOSE INFORMATION TO THIRD PARTIES?
We share aggregated non-personally identifiable demographic information (e.g., age, geographic location) about our site users with our partners and/or advertisers and/or investors. This information does not identify individual users. For example, we may report to potential advertisers the percentage of our e-mail newsletter subscribers that are one gender or another, and/or fit into certain age ranges, to help advertisers best select appropriate products or services to promote.

We will not rent, sell or transfer your Personal Information to other parties under any circumstances, except as follows:

  • Oftentimes sweepstakes or contests on the Site are sponsored or co-sponsored by unaffiliated third parties. The information you provide in your contest entry may be available to the third party if, for example, they send the product directly to you. This information is to be used by the third party solely in connection with the sweepstakes or contest. However, we recommend you consult the third party’s privacy policy if you are concerned about their use of personal information.
  • In the event that the Site goes through a contemplated or actual business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale or disposal of all or a portion of its assets, your Personal Information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via e-mail of any such change in ownership or control of your Personal Information.
  • Your Personal Information may be shared with website hosting partners or other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you. All these third parties are asked to agree to keep your Personal Information confidential.
  • We may also disclose your Personal Information if we are required to do so by law or in order to protect ours or others’ rights, or enforce our site policies.

THIRD PARTY ADVERTISING AND LINKS TO OTHER SITES
The Site may contain links to advertiser and partner websites that are not co-branded or affiliated in any way with the Site. These linked sites are governed by their own privacy policies. In no event shall we be liable or responsible, directly or indirectly, for the content and activities of these linked sites.

AGE RESTRICTIONS
This Site is not intended for children under the age of 18. We will not knowingly collect personally identifiable information through this Site from visitors under 18 years of age without the express consent of their parents. If an individual under 18 years of age has provided us with information, a parent or guardian of that child should contact us if they would like the information deleted from our records.

TERMS OF USE
Please also carefully read our Terms of Use which govern the use of this Site.

CONTACT
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us

E-mail: info@okanaganchild.com

Mail:
Privacy Officer, Okanagan Child
Box 30131 – Suite 405 3989 Quadra St.
Victoria, BC
V8x 5E1

CONTEST RULES

To enter a contest

  1. You must be a resident of the Okanagan.
  2. By entering the competition, you warrant that all information submitted by you is true, current, and complete.
  3. By using OkanaganChild.com and entering the competition you thereby warrant to Bellhop Media Inc. that you are 18 years of age or older.
  4. Bellhop Media Inc. reserves the right to disqualify any entrant if it has reasonable grounds to believe the entrant has breached any of these terms and conditions.
  5. There is no purchase requirement to enter a competition and there is no charge to register
  6. If you do not want to enter the contest by e-mail, you may enter by regular mail. Please send your full name, address and phone number to Okanagan Child, Box 30131, Suite 405 – 3989 Quadra St., Victoria, BC, V8X 5E1. Be sure to note which contest you wish to enter. You must submit an entry for each contest.
  7. Bellhop Media Inc. does not accept any responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft, destruction, alteration of, or unauthorized access to entries, or entries lost or delayed whether or not arising during operations or transmission as a result of server functions, viruses, bugs, or other causes outside its control.

Any misrepresentation or breach of the terms set out herein or any other terms and conditions of the Site or Bellhop Media Inc. will immediately invalidate your entry in a contest and any claim you may have in connection thereto.

Prize winners will be chosen at random. Return of any prize notification as undeliverable or failure to reply within 3 days of the contest closing date will result in disqualification and selection of an alternate winner.

Prizes are non-transferable and there is no cash or credit alternative.

Bellhop Media Inc. reserves the right to cancel or amend the Competition, the Competition Notice or these Rules at any time without prior notice. Any changes will be posted here.