Privacy Policy Application
The Policy outlines how Vallee Forestry Equipment collects, uses, and protects information voluntarily provided by users of its website and those automatically transmitted by their internet server. This Policy applies to the entire site https://valleeforestryequipment.com as well as to the products and services offered by Vallee Forestry Equipment. It also explains how to review or update your personal information and how to contact Vallee Forestry Equipment with any questions, suggestions, or comments. At all times, Vallee Forestry Equipment reserves the right to modify its Policy without notice. We recommend you read our Policy carefully and consult it regularly.
Information Collection
Two types of information are collected on our website.
a) Personal Information
For the purposes of this Policy, “personal information” refers to information that identifies an individual. Any action related to an online booking, registration, sending a resume, or a contact form requires the voluntary transmission of your personal information. When this information is mandatory for processing your request, you will be notified. Among this information, Vallee Forestry Equipment collects:
First and Last Name
Gender
Civic Address
Email Address
Phone Number
Credit Card Number
Note that this list is not exhaustive and may change without notice.
b) Non-Personal Information
For the purposes of this Policy, “non-personal information” refers to anonymous information that is usually recorded by internet servers, such as the Internet Protocol address (IP address), the date and time of access, as well as the operating system and browser used by the user. Demographic statistics about our visitors (age group, country of origin, language of correspondence, etc.) and their browsing habits (pages viewed, number of visits, duration of visit, etc.) are also considered non-personal information. Vallee Forestry Equipment collects such information, mainly through cookies. Cookies are small data files installed by the browser on the hard disk of a user’s computer during their first visit to a website. User data is collected to allow Vallee Forestry Equipment to provide its products and services and for the following purposes: advertising, behavioral analysis and statistics, customer contact, interaction with social networks and external platforms, registration and authentication, response to comments, remarketing and targeting based on visit habits.
Collected Information
a) Personal Information
Contact Information
Contact information voluntarily provided by users of the website https://valleeforestryequipment.com can be used for the following reasons: to confirm the receipt of an order, to send information about our company’s products and services, to contact them if necessary, to understand their needs, and to assess their satisfaction through a survey.
b) Non-Personal Information
Cookies
The use of cookies allows Vallee Forestry Equipment to compile statistics used for analyzing traffic on its website and for creating advertising announcements.
Analytical Tool
Our company uses the audience analysis tool Google Analytics to obtain demographic statistics about its visitors and statistics on their browsing habits. We may also use this data to better understand their behavior or to improve the structure of our site https://valleeforestryequipment.com. Furthermore, Google Analytics allows us to profile our current or potential customers to improve our product and service offerings. To collect anonymous information and produce statistics reports, Google Analytics may use cookies, but without personally identifying you.
Advertising and Remarketing
Our company uses the advertising tools Google Ads and Facebook Ads to promote its products and services on the search engine and to increase traffic to its site https://valleeforestryequipment.com. These tools use cookies and other technologies to track and analyze data, assess content popularity, better understand online activities of internet users, and publish targeted advertising announcements (taking into account interests, site visits, or demographic data, for example). How Vallee Forestry Equipment uses Google Ads and Facebook Ads allows it to tailor its marketing practices to better meet its customers’ needs and display ads that, according to the company, are likely to interest them.
Disabling Cookies
Any user can enable or disable the use of cookies by Google by visiting the following address: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=en
You can also disable the display of targeted ads based on interests or demographic data on Google by consulting the Ad Preferences Manager. When you deactivate this setting, ads are not blocked. They will still appear but are generally no longer related to your interests, demographic data, or the sites you have visited.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address for spam protection purposes.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year. If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
Content from External Sources
Some articles on this website may include content from external sources (videos, images, articles, etc.). Content from external sources behaves in the same way as if the visitor had visited the original site. These external sites 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.
Information Retention Period
Your personal information is retained only for the time corresponding to the purposes for which it was collected, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
Disclosure of Your Information
All information provided by users of our website, whether personal or not, remains confidential. Each of Vallee Forestry Equipment’s employees is bound by this Policy. The use of these data is reserved for Vallee Forestry Equipment and the suppliers and partners with whom the company has a business relationship. Information will be transmitted to them only if Vallee Forestry Equipment deems such disclosure necessary to ensure the provision of its product and service offerings. In all other cases, no disclosure of your information to a third party will be authorized. Should Vallee Forestry Equipment need to transmit personal information to a party whose service has not been retained by Vallee Forestry Equipment, you will be notified in writing in advance. Only your explicit consent will allow this disclosure.
Your Rights Regarding the Use of Your Personal Data
If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request a file containing all the information collected about you, including any data gathered by our site. You can also request the deletion of any personal information we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where We Send Your Information
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Additional Information
Protection of Your Information
We make every reasonable effort to ensure the security of personal information provided by users of our website. A technician ensures the functionality of the server and the forms used for our website. Furthermore, Vallee Forestry Equipment has adopted appropriate security measures to protect its customers against the loss or unauthorized use of their personal information, including credit card details.
Collection and Use of Information by Third Parties
It is possible that some non-personal information, as defined in section 4b), may be collected by a third party.
Statistics
To collect information about its users and their browsing habits, Vallee Forestry Equipment uses Google Analytics statistics. When this information is used for the personal purposes of Vallee Forestry Equipment, it is protected by this Policy. However, Google Analytics may collect data for its own use. In this case, your information is collected, used, and protected according to its own Privacy Policy.
Advertising and Remarketing
To create advertisements, Vallee Forestry Equipment uses Google Ads and Facebook Ads tools. When the information provided by this service is used for the personal purposes of Vallee Forestry Equipment, it is protected by this Policy. However, Google Ads and Facebook Ads may collect data for their own use. In this case, your information is collected, used, and protected according to their respective policies: Facebook Privacy Policy – Google Privacy Policy.
Withdrawal and Correction of Your Personal Information
Pascal Vallee is responsible for the protection of personal information at Vallee Forestry Equipment. To remove your name from Vallee Forestry Equipment’s electronic participation lists or to modify the personal information you have provided, please send your request by email to [email protected].
Policy Update
The content of this Privacy Policy may be modified at any time. Therefore, we invite you to consult it regularly to stay informed about how we handle personal information.
This version was updated on February 8, 2024.
Questions and Comments
Our company encourages you to submit any requests for information, suggestions, or comments regarding this Privacy Policy. You can contact us at any time by email at [email protected].
