Privacy Policy

At Virtual Shore, we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information through this Privacy Policy.

Our privacy commitment is based on the ten principles outlined in the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (Canada) (“PIPEDA”).

This Privacy Policy governs your access to and use of virtual-shore.com, including any content, functionality, and services offered on or through the Website (the “Website”), whether as a guest or as a registered user. This policy applies to Personal Information we collect on the Website and through email, text, forms, or other electronic messages between you and the Website.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully before you start to use the Website. By using the Website, you accept and agree to be bound by and abide by the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, you must not access or use the Website.

Personal Information

Personal Information under PIPEDA refers to any information about an identifiable individual, but does not include the name, title, business address, or telephone number of an employee of an organization.

Why Do We Collect Personal Information?

We collect Personal Information in order to provide consulting, coaching, training, and authoring services/products to you. We also distribute publications and offer educational opportunities, which we provide as a service to you and others in our community.

The Company collects your information to record and support your participation in the activities you select. If you register to download a PDF or resources, sign up for our newsletter, and/or purchase a product from us, we collect your information. We use this information to track your preferences and keep you informed about the products and services you have selected to receive, as well as any related products/services.

How Do We Collect Personal Information?

We collect personal information only by lawful and fair means, and only collect personal information that is reasonably necessary for the legitimate purposes identified and for which consent has been obtained.

Information You Provide To Us: The Website provides various places for users to provide information. We collect information that users provide by filling out forms on the Website, communicating with us via contact forms, responding to surveys, searching for content, providing comments or feedback, and ordering a product or service via the Website.
Information We Collect Through Automatic Tracking Technology: As you navigate through our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies like Google Analytics to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. This generally includes your location, your traffic pattern through our Website, and communications between your computer and our Website, such as IP address, operating system, browser type, and more.

Use of Cookies and Pixels

Similar to other commercial websites, our Website utilizes cookies and server logs to collect information about how our site is used. Information gathered through cookies and server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our site, and websites visited just before and just after our own, as well as your IP address.

We may also use technological equivalents of cookies, including social media pixels. These pixels allow social media sites to track visitors to outside websites to tailor advertising messages users see while visiting those social media websites. We comply with the policies of the various social media sites when using these pixels.

Third-Party Use of Cookies

Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third parties, such as advertisers, ad networks, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or with other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. This information may be used for interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

Email Information

If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses. We provide the same protections for these electronic communications as we do for information received online, by mail, or over the phone.

Email Policies

We are committed to keeping your email address confidential. We do not sell, rent, or lease our subscription lists to third parties and will not disclose your email address to any third parties except as required by law.

All emails sent by us will comply with the Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation (“CASL”), including clearly stating who the email is from and providing information on how to contact the sender. All email messages will contain a concise way to remove yourself from our mailing list if you no longer wish to receive communications from us.

How Do We Use Your Information?

We use your personal information to:

Present our Website and its contents to you.
Provide you with information about our products and services.
Offer you personalized promotions and offers.
Provide customer service and administer contracts between you and the Company.

From time to time, we may use your information to offer you third-party products and services in exchange for a commission. Should you opt to take part in such promotions, the third parties will receive your information.

Disclosure of Information

As a general rule, we do not sell, rent, lease, or otherwise transfer any information we collect. However, we may disclose your personal information to our subsidiaries, affiliates, and service providers for the purpose of providing services to you.

We may disclose your information if required by law or if necessary for the protection of our legal rights.

Security Measures

We use appropriate security measures to protect against loss, theft, unauthorized access, disclosure, use, or modification of personal information. These measures include physical, organizational, and electronic safeguards, such as restricted file access, security software, and firewalls to prevent unauthorized access.

Updating Information and Correcting Errors

If any of your personal information changes, is inaccurate, or incomplete, please inform us so that we can make the necessary updates.

Access to Personal Information

We will respond promptly to any request for access to your personal information. In certain circumstances, we may be unable to provide access to some or all of your personal information, but we will inform you if that is the case.

Visitor GDPR Rights

If you are visiting this Website from the European Union (“EU”), you have certain rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), including:

The right to request access to your personal data.
The right to rectify or erase your data.
The right to restrict or object to the processing of your data.
The right to data portability.
The right to withdraw consent for data processing at any time.

For more information, please refer to the European Commission website: EU Data Protection Regulation.

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time without notice. Please check our Website for the most up-to-date version of the policy.

Questions, Concerns, or Requests for Access

If you have any questions or concerns regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

Dani Burt
Founder, Virtual Shore
info@virtual-shore.com

Effective date: January 1, 2022

Last Updated: April 16, 2025