Privacy Policy

Rob Shaw Astrology

Effective Date: July 1, 2020         (updated January 14, 2021.)      

Welcome to RobShawAstrology.ca, a web site owned and offered by Rob Shaw Media, (“Rob Shaw Media”, “us” or “we”). This privacy policy addresses how information is collected, stored, and utilized through our website, www.robshawastrology.ca (the “Website”), our digital horoscope magazine(s) (the “Newsletter”), our advertising (the “Products”), and our Mailchimp, YouTube, or other subscriber email services (collectively, the “Services”).

By accessing or using our Services, you signify that you have read, understood and agree to our collection, storage, use and disclosure of your information, as applicable, as described in this Privacy Policy and the Website’s Terms of Service.

Rob Shaw Media reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy. See the section entitled “Changes to this Privacy Policy” below.

1.         Information Collected

Information that you provide to us

We collect information that you provide to us directly through the Websites, such as when you register an account or subscription, purchase a product, register a product or warranty, sign up for our Newsletter mailing list, apply for a job, or otherwise communicate with us (e.g., via customer service). Account creation is required when purchasing products from the Website.The information we collect includes information that identifies you personally. Some examples of information we collect ourselves or through third-party vendors (Google, your web host provider, etc.) include the following:

  • Contact data, including your first and last name, phone number, and email address
  • Credentials, including passwords, password hints, and other information for authentication and account access
  • Demographic data, including your date of birth, and location
  • Payment information, including your payment instrument (such as a credit card number) and associated security code in order to process your payments, if you give us your credit card number and make a purchase
  • Data about the products you purchase, including your product type, your purchase date, and contact data
  • Content of the messages you send us, including feedback, comments, reviews, and information related to Services
  • Resume data, including your employment history, transcript, writing samples, references, and other data as necessary to consider you for publication or a job opening if you submit a contributor’s submission or job application with us

You may choose to voluntarily submit other information to us through the Services that we do not request, and, in such instances, you are solely responsible for such information.

Information automatically collected

We and our third-party partners, automatically collect certain information when you visit our Website, read our emails, or otherwise engage with us. Examples of information we collect include service use data (such as web pages viewed while visiting our Website, links clicked, length of time spent on our Services, and referring  website from which you accessed the Website) and configuration data (such as the type of device or browser you use, your device’s operating system, your internet service provider, and your device’s regional and language settings) and device identifiers (such as IP address).

We may collect analytics data, or use third-party analytics tools, to help us measure traffic and usage trends for the Website and to understand more about the demographics of our users. In gathering this information we are able to enhance your experience when visiting our Website (including keeping your preferences and items placed in your shopping cart between visits) and to provide custom, personalized content and information, including targeted content and advertising.

We collect this information through a variety of tracking technologies, including cookies, web beacons, file information and similar technologies (collectively, “tracking technologies”).

  • Cookies. A cookie is a small data file stored on your device that acts as a unique tag to identify your browser. We use two types of cookies: session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies make it easier for you to navigate the Services and expire when you close your browser. Persistent cookies help with personalizing your experience, remembering your preferences, and supporting security features. Additionally, persistent cookies allow us to bring you advertising both on and off the Services. Persistent cookies may remain on your device for extended periods of time, and generally may be controlled through your browser settings.
  • Pixels. A pixel (also known as a web beacon) is code embedded in a website, video, e-mail, or advertisements that sends information about your use to a server. There are various types of pixels, including image pixels (which are small graphic images) and JavaScript pixels (which contains JavaScript code). When you access a website, video, e-mail, or advertisement that contains a pixel, the pixel may permit us or a third party to drop or read cookies on your browser. Pixels are used in combination with cookies to track activity by a particular browser on a particular device. We may incorporate pixels from third parties that allow us track our conversions, bring you advertising both on and off the Services, and provide you with additional functionality, such as the ability to connect our Services with your social media account.
  • Device “Fingerprinting”. Device “fingerprinting” is the process of analyzing and combining sets of information elements from your device’s browser, such as JavaScript objects and installed fonts, in order to create a “fingerprint” of your device and uniquely identify your device and apps.
  • Location-Identifying Technologies. Broad location data may be used for purposes such as verifying your region or state and delivering or restricting relevant content and advertising based on the relevant laws or regulations of that location.

For further information on tracking technologies and your rights and choices regarding them, see the sections entitled “Third Party Tracking and Online Advertising” and “Rights with Respect to Your Data” below.

If you download and use information from our mobile App, we automatically collect additional types of information about your device and usage of the App, including information about the version of the App you are running, your time spent using the App, which features of the App you access and use, and any error messages you experience within the App. There are a variety of app-specific tracking technologies that may be included in our App, and these are not browser-based like cookies and cannot be controlled by browser settings. For example, our App may include third party SDKs, which is code that sends information about your use of the app to a server. These SDKs allow us to track Product usage information, crash reports, and provide you with additional functionality.

We understand that the data associated with your use of our Products and Services is important to you, and we take appropriate measures to protect that data.

Information from other sources

We also obtain information about you from other third party sources. To the extent we combine such third party sourced information with information we have collected about you through the Service, we will treat the combined information in accordance with the practices described in this Privacy Policy, plus any additional restrictions imposed by the source of the data. These third party sources vary over time, but have included:

  • Social networks when you reference our Services
  • Partners or affiliates with which we offer co-branded services, sell or distribute our products, or engage in joint marketing activities.
  • Publicly-available sources such as data in the public domain.

2.         Use of Information Collected

Rob Shaw Media uses information that is collected about you for our legitimate interests. For example, we use information to operate, maintain, and provide to you the features and functionality of the Website, App, and Products.

We also use information to communicate directly with you, such as to send you service-related emails or messages (e.g., account verification, change or updates to features of the Services, technical and security notices) and respond to your comments, questions, and requests.

We also use information to process your purchases on the Websites, to provide you with products or services you request from us, to improve your overall experience with the Services, to troubleshoot technical difficulties and errors, to prevent and address fraud, breaches of policies or terms, and threats or harm, to assist with product development efforts, to respond to mandated legal notices, to consider you for publication, advertising or a job, and for internal analytics purposes. Information collected helps our efforts to advance our customers’ and visitors’ online experience when visiting our Services. This ranges from accessibility, improving content, customer service, shopping checkout experience and overall Services satisfaction.

We also use information to develop and send you direct marketing, including advertisements and communications about our business and third party products, offers, promotions, rewards, events, and services. In certain circumstances, we use information that is collected about you based on your consent. For more information about how we collect and use information associated with your use of our Products or Services, please see the section entitled “Information automatically collected” above.

Other examples of where we use data based on your consent include where we use your information to serve advertising tailored to your interests on our Websites and third party services, or where you take a survey or enter into a sweepstakes, contest, or promotion.

We may use information that does not identify you (including information that has been de-identified) without obligation to you except as prohibited by applicable law.

For information on your rights and choices regarding how we use your information, please see the section entitled “Rights with Respect to Your Data” below.

3. Sharing of Information Collected

We share your information as follows:

  • With third-party vendors, service providers, contractors and agents in connection with the performance of services on our behalf, as needed to carry out their work for us, which may include identifying and serving advertisements, providing mailing services, providing financial services, web hosting, or providing analytic services. These service providers are prohibited from using your information except as needed to perform our work or as required by law, although we may permit them to use aggregate information which does not identify you or de-identified data for other purposes;
  • With other companies and brands owned or controlled by Rob Shaw Media and other companies owned by or under common ownership as Rob Shaw Media, which also includes any subsidiaries (i.e., any organization we own or control);
  • With our business partners and affiliates in connection with offering you co-branded services, selling or distributing our products, or engaging in joint marketing activities. For example, we may share information about you with Google for purposes of providing you with product support or in connection with an advertisement;
  • When you post content to any public area of our externally facing platforms, including social media pages or blog, this information may be visible to the public and we may publish this information on our website and social media pages along with some of your information such as your first name, last initial, and province/state of residence;
  • With third parties as required by law or subpoena or if we reasonably believe that such action is necessary to (a) comply with the law and the reasonable requests of law enforcement; (b) enforce our Terms of Service or to protect the security or integrity of our Services; (c) exercise, investigate, or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Rob Shaw Media, our visitors, or others; or (d) investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, under-age use or purchase, suspected fraud and/or counterfeit, situations involving potential violations of our Terms of Service or Privacy Policy, or as evidence in litigation in which Rob Shaw Media is involved;
  • With other parties in connection with a potential or actual company transaction, such as a merger, corporate restructuring, sale of company assets or shares, reorganization, financing, change of control or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company or third party, or in the event of a bankruptcy or related or similar proceedings; and
  • For any other purpose disclosed to you and with your consent.

We do not sell any Product Usage Data to third parties for advertising purposes. However, this does not affect our ability to serve advertisements to you based on the products you view on our Website or third party services. For more information about how we collect and use information associated with your use of the Products, please see the section entitled “Information automatically collected” above.

Without limiting the foregoing, in our sole discretion, we may share aggregated information that does not identify you or de-identified information about you with third parties or affiliates for any purpose except as prohibited by applicable law.

For information on your rights and choices regarding how we share your information, please see the section entitled “Rights with Respect to Your Data” below.

4.  Age and other information you share

The products and services that we sell on our Website are intended for adult audiences. Your birth data is used to compile a horoscope or statistics including the average age of the subscriber.

We welcome any other information you consent to share in your subscriber preference to help us target articles and information suited to your preferences.

Our trusted security services protect information that you share with us. All of our services have been developed with the customer’s privacy in mind with detailed information neither shared with others nor accessible.

5.         Third Party Tracking and Online Advertising on Our Website

We may share, or we may permit third-party online advertising networks and other third-party services, to collect, information about your use of our Website over time so that they may play or display ads that may be relevant to your interests on our Websites as well as on other websites or apps. Additionally, the Website utilizes third-party sites to provide content to Rob Shaw Media customers such as social media features. These third party sites may set cookies on your browser, use various tracking technologies, and/or obtain your IP address.

Typically, though not always, the information we share is provided through cookies or similar tracking technologies, which recognize the device you are using and collect information, including hashed data, click stream information, browser type, time and date you visited the Website, and other information. This information is used to display targeted ads on or through our Service or on other websites or apps.

We or the online advertising networks use this information to make the advertisements you see online more relevant to your interests.The information collected and stored by third parties remains subject to their own policies and practices, including what information they share with us, your rights and choices on their services and devices, and whether they store information in Canada, the U.S.A. or elsewhere. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with and consult their privacy policies and terms of use.

For information on your rights and choices regarding tracking technologies, please see the section entitled “Rights with Respect to Your Data” below.

6.         Rights with Respect to Your Data

Modifying or Deleting your Account Information

If you have any questions about reviewing, modifying, correcting, or deleting information you have provided to us through your account, or if you want to remove your name or comments from our Website or publicly displayed content, you can contact us directly at robshawmedia.ca using our contact form.  We may not be able to modify or delete your information in all circumstances.

Data subjects in Europe have additional rights as set forth in the section entitled “Your European Privacy Rights” below.

Tracking Technology Choices

Cookies and Pixels. Depending on your browser or mobile device, you may be able set your browser to delete or notify you of cookies and other tracking technology by actively managing the settings on your browser or mobile device. You may set your browser to not accept cookies; however, some features of the Websites may not function properly without the use of cookies. If you use multiple browsers on your device, you will need to instruct each browser separately. Although we do our best to honour the privacy preferences of our users, we are unable to respond to Do Not Track signals set by your browser at this time.

For more information on “Do Not Track,” visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.

Analytics and Interest-Based Advertising

You can opt-out of your data being used by Google Analytics through cookies by visiting https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout and downloading the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.Some of the third parties that collect information from or about you on the Services in order to provide you with advertising based on your interests are members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) and/or Digital Advertising Alliance (“DAA”). To learn more about interest-based advertising and how you may be able to opt-out of some of this advertising, please visit the NAI’s online resources at http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices, and/or the DAA’s resources at www.aboutads.info/choices (for website opt-out).

Please note that if you opt-out of online behavioural advertising using any of these methods, the opt-out will only apply to the specific browser or device from which you opt-out. Further, opting-out only means that the selected members should no longer deliver certain interest-based advertising to you, but does not mean you will no longer receive any targeted content and/or ads (e.g., from other ad networks).

We are not responsible for effectiveness of, or compliance with, any third-parties’ opt-out options or programs or the accuracy of their statements regarding their programs.

Communications Preferences

You can stop receiving promotional email communications from us by clicking on the “unsubscribe link” provided in such communications or by visiting www.robshawmedia.ca/contact/.  We make every effort to promptly process all unsubscribe requests.

You may not opt out of non-promotional product or service-related communications (e.g., account verification, transactional communications, changes/updates to features of the service, technical and security notices).

Your European Privacy Rights

If you are a data subject in Europe, you have the right to access, rectify, or erase any personal data we have collected about you through the Services. You also have the right to data portability and the right to restrict or object to our processing of personal data we have collected about you through the Services. In addition, you have the right to ask us not to process your personal data (or provide it to third parties to process) for marketing purposes or purposes materially different than for which it was originally collected or subsequently authorized by you. You may withdraw your consent at any time for any data processing we do based on consent you have provided to us.

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at the address set forth in the section entitled “Contact Us” below and specify which right you intend to exercise. We will respond to your request within 30 days. We may require additional information from you to allow us to confirm your identity.

Please note that we store information as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, and may continue to retain and use the information even after a data subject request for purposes of our legitimate interests, including, as necessary, to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, prevent fraud, and enforce our agreements.

If you have any issues with our compliance, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a European supervisory authority.

7.         International Transfer

Your information collected through our Services may be stored and processed in Canada or any other country in which Rob Shaw Media or its affiliates or service providers maintain facilities.  If you are located in the European Union or other regions with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from Canadian law, please note that we may transfer information, including personal data, to a country and jurisdiction that does not have the same data protection laws as your jurisdiction, and you consent to the transfer of information to Canada or any other country in which Rob Shaw Media or its subsidiaries, affiliates, or service providers maintain facilities and the use and disclosure of information about you as described in this Privacy Policy.

If your data is collected in Europe, we will transfer your personal data subject to appropriate or suitable safeguards, such as standard contractual clauses.

8.         Children’s Privacy

Our Services are not intended for children. We do not knowingly collect or solicit any information from children as defined by the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act “(COPPA”).  In the event that we learn that we have inadvertently collected information from a child, we will delete that information as quickly as possible.  If you believe that we might have any information from a child, please contact us at info@robshawmedia.ca.

9.         Third Party Services

Our Services may contain links to websites or services operated by third parties. This Privacy Policy does not apply to these third party websites or services.  If you follow a link to any of these websites or services, please note that these websites or services have their own privacy policies and terms & conditions and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for their policies. Links should be clicked at your own risk, and it is your sole responsibility to review the applicable privacy policy and terms and conditions of any third party website or service accessed.

10.       Security

We take the security of your information extremely seriously and employ physical, administrative, and technological safeguards designed to preserve the integrity and security of all information collected through our website.

If you are using a shared computer to access the Website, we recommend that you log out of your account before ending your browser session. This will help prevent your account from being used by anyone other than yourself. Unfortunately, the transmission of information online is not completely secure.

Although we strive to protect all information collected through the Services, we cannot guarantee the security of your information collected and/or transmitted through the Services. Any transmission of information is at your own risk.

We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures we provide.

11.       Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may modify or update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect the changes in our business and practices, and so you should review this page periodically. When we change the Privacy Policy in a material manner we will let you know and update the date at the top of this page. If you object to any changes, you may close your account.

Continuing to use our Services after we publish changes to this Privacy Policy means that you are consenting to the changes.

12.       Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

By email: robshawmedia.ca/contact/ and use our contact form.

By mail:

Rob Shaw Media

RR #2

Wheatley, ON N0P 2P0

Canada