Privacy & Cookie Policy

MyGirlFriday.ca Privacy Policy

At MyGirlFriday.ca (“we”, “us”, or “our”), we are committed to protecting the privacy of our users (“you”, “your”, or “yours”). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and share information about you when you visit or use our website, mygirlfriday.ca (the “Site”), and the choices you have associated with that information.

By accessing or using the Site, you accept the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, do not use the Site.

Information We Collect

We collect several types of information from and about users of the Site, including:

Personal information that you provide to us, such as your name, email address, and phone number.
Information about your device, such as your IP address, browser type, and device identifiers.
Information about your interactions with the Site, such as the pages you visit and the links you click.

We may also collect personal information from third parties, such as social media platforms.

How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect from and about you for a variety of purposes, including:

To provide and improve the Site and our services.
To personalize your experience on the Site.
To communicate with you about your account and our services.
To send you marketing communications, if you have opted-in to receive such communications.

We may also use your information for research and analytics purposes, to enforce our policies, and to comply with legal obligations.

Sharing Your Information

We may share your information with third parties in the following circumstances:

With service providers and business partners who perform services on our behalf, such as hosting and maintenance, analytics, marketing, and payment processing.
With law enforcement, government agencies, or other third parties as required by law, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of MyGirlFriday.ca, our users, or others.
In connection with a merger, sale, or other transfer of all or part of our business.

Your Choices

You have the following choices regarding the information we collect and how we use it:

You can choose not to provide personal information to us. However, this may limit your ability to use certain features of the Site.
You can opt-out of marketing communications by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in those communications.
You can update or delete your personal information by contacting us at tonya@mygirlfriday.ca.
You can exercise your right to data portability by requesting a copy of your personal information in a commonly-used electronic format.
You can exercise your right to object to the processing of your personal information, or request that we restrict the processing of your personal information, by contacting us at tonya@mygirlfriday.ca.

Data Retention

We will retain your information for as long as your account is active, or as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy.

We may also retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies.

Children’s Privacy

The Site is not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under the age of 13, we will take steps to delete such information as soon as possible.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post any changes on this page and encourage you to review the Privacy Policy periodically. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by email or through a notice on the Site. Your continued use of the Site after any changes to this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such changes.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at tonya@mygirlfriday.ca.

Cookie Policy for MyGirlFriday.ca

This is the Cookie Policy for MyGirlFriday.ca, accessible from https://mygirlfriday.ca

What Are Cookies

As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or 'break' certain elements of the sites functionality.

For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

The Cookies We Set

Account related cookies

If you create an account with us then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out however in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.

Forms related cookies

When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

Site preferences cookies

In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.

Third Party Cookies

In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.

For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.

More Information

Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren't sure whether you need or not it's usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site. However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods:

Email: tonya@mygirlfriday.ca