Privacy Policy

This privacy policy was last modified on March 25, 2025, and was first published and made effective on January 15, 2025 (“Effective Date”).

Who we are

canadianartmap.com was conceived, built and designed by Dale Barrett (dalebarrett.ca). The site aims to be a comprehensive way-finding guide that identifies and locates art venues, art activities and art events across Canada; and helps users navigate to, from and between them.

canadianartmap.com is a vehicle for marketing and promoting art venues, activities and events. It’s also an online platform that amplifies a diversity of artists’ voices and art works via descriptive listings of Canadian art venues and activities. A basic listing is FREE of charge, and all listings are placed at the discretion of the site author / administrator. “PREMIUM” listings—with additional features, information and images—are offered at fixed rates. Display and pop-up ads are also available at fixed rates. Rates for listings and advertisements can be found on the “Ad & Listing Rates” page.

Purpose of Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies in addition to the terms and conditions of the site. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform canadianartmap.com users of the following:

• The personal data we collect;
• Use of collected data;
• Who has access to the data collected;
• The rights of Site users;
• The Site’s cookie policy.

Consent

By using our Site users agree that they consent to the conditions set out in this Privacy Policy.

Personal data we may collect and why we collect it

We may collect personal data when you perform certain functions on our site. The personal data we collect may include names, email addresses, personal account preferences; transactional data, such as purchase information; and technical data, such as information about cookies. This personal data is created by a user’s interactions with the site, including but not limited to users who register as subscribers, and users who manage and upload listings data (including images).

• We only collect data that helps us achieve the purpose set out in this Privacy Policy.
• Personal data is also generated from technical processes such as contact forms, comments, cookies, analytics, and third party embeds.
• When users visit our site, we may automatically collect and store data that is related to basic WordPress core functionality.
• We use plugins (listed below) that may collect personal data.
• We may disclose user data to any member of our organization who reasonably needs access to user data to achieve the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.
• If you follow hyperlinks from our site to another site, please note that we are not responsible for and have no control over their privacy policies and practices.

Other Disclosures

We will not sell or share your data with other third parties, except in the following cases:

• If the law requires it;
• If it is required for any legal proceeding;
• To prove or protect our legal rights; and
• To buyers or potential buyers of this company in the event that we seek to sell the company.

How Long We Store Personal Data

User data will be stored until the purpose the data was collected for has been achieved.

How We Protect Your Personal Data

While we take all reasonable precautions to ensure that user data is secure and that users are protected, there always remains the risk of harm. The Internet as a whole can be insecure at times and therefore, we are unable to guarantee the security of user data beyond what is reasonably practical.

Your Rights as a User. You have the following rights:

• Right to be informed;
• Right of access;
• Right to rectification
• Right to erasure
• Right to restrict processing;
• Right to data portability;
• Right to object.

Children

We do not knowingly collect or use personal data from children under 16 years of age. If we learn that we have collected personal data from a child under 16 years of age, the personal data will be deleted as soon as possible. If a child under 16 years of age has provided us with personal data their parent or guardian may contact us to have it removed.

Modify or Delete the Data Collected

If you would like your data to be deleted or modified in any way, or if you would like to exercise any of your other rights, please contact us.

Do Not Track Notice

Do Not Track (“DNT) is a privacy preference that you can set in certain web browsers. We do not track the users of our Site over time and across third party websites and therefore do not respond to browser-initiated DNT signals.

Cookie Policy

A cookie is a small file, stored on a user’s hard drive by a website. Its purpose is to collect data relating to the user’s browsing habits. Cookies are usually used to identify a user between pages, remember selected preferences, or store your shopping cart. You can hardly find a website nowadays that does not use first-party cookies. You can choose to be notified each time a cookie is transmitted; and you can also choose to disable cookies entirely in your internet browser, but this may decrease the quality of your user experience.

Modifications

This Privacy Policy may be amended from time to time in order to maintain compliance with the law and to reflect any changes to our data collection process. When we amend this Privacy Policy we will update the “Effective Date” at the top of this Privacy Policy. We recommend that our users periodically review our Privacy Policy to ensure that they are notified of any updates. If necessary, we may notify users by email of changes to this Privacy Policy.

Complaints

If vou have any complaints about how we process your personal data, please contact us through the contact methods listed in the Contact Information section so that we can, where possible, resolve the issue.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on this site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Embedded content from or on other websites

Listings on this site may include embedded content (e.g. images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These other websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

We are not responsible for the practices employed by websites or other services linked to or from canadianartmap.com. Please remember that when you use a link to go to another website or service, our privacy policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other website or service, including those that have a link on our service, is subject to that website’s or service’s own rules and policies.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Payments

When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to the financial tech company we use to receive online payments. This includes information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information

PlugIns:

Elementor / Elementor Pro

Elementor is a drag and drop WordPress website creation platform. Elementor Pro is the paid version of the plugin. It adds features that enable developers to develop tools that control conversions, manage user engagement, and other features and tools for building a website—including optimization of websites for a wide range of devices, ensuring a seamless desktop, tablet, and mobile experience.

WP File Manager Pro — Filester

Filester is a WP File Manager Pro plugin. It helps manage WordPress configuration files, including the management/upload/download of media library folders. This file manager plugin is dedicated to boosting productivity in managing WordPress. It is the clean and compact UI/UX, which makes editing and transferring directory files and folders extra fast.

WP Job Manager

This plugin adds the following cookies to help users resume job submissions (listings) that they have started but have not completed: wp-job-manager-submitting-job-id and wp-job-manager-submitting-job-key

User Registration & Membership Pro

This plugin is used to manage WordPress User Registrations & Membership (URM). It’s used to create membership sites, custom registration forms, and form templates. It’s designed to deliver a seamless membership experienc, ensuring a complete solution for site users and members.

Google Analytics & Google Web Fonts

The Google Analytics plugin for WordPress analyzes how people find and use a website.

The use of Google Web fonts is done in the interest of a uniform and attractive presentation of our plugin. If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font is used by your computer.

Wordfence

Wordfence is a firewall and security plugin. It researches the latest malware variants and WordPress exploits, turning them into firewall rules and malware signatures, and releasing those to customers in real-time. The plugin provides a comprehensive suite of security features. Wordfence Security includes an endpoint firewall, malware scanner, robust login security features, live traffic views, and more.

WPCode Lite

WPCode Lite is a code snippets plugin for WordPress. It allows developers to add code snippets in WordPress without having to edit the theme’s functions.php file. It can be used to insert custom PHP code snippets, JavaScript code snippets, CSS code snippets, HTML code snippets, and text snippets with full conditional logic support.