Empirical Technology Solutions Inc. (hereinafter also referred as 'we', 'us' or 'our') is committed to respecting your privacy and protecting your information. This Privacy Policy outlines details on the collection, use, sharing and processing of personal information by us with regard to your use of our website.
While visiting our website, you may come across hyperlinks that directs you to other websites, controlled by third-party organizations, or to third-party social media platforms. When visiting a website outside of empiricaltech.ca or a social media platform, personal information will be subject to the terms, conditions, and privacy policies of that third-party organization. In these cases, we strongly encourage you to take the time to read their privacy notices or statements that describe their specific terms, conditions, and policies.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully before using or proceeding to access our website. Your use of our website indicates that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy and indicates your consent to abide by the Terms of Use in effect and to be subject to this policy.
For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, 'Personal Information' is any form of data that could be used to identify an individual, submitted through your interactions with us while browsing our website.
Information about you that we may collect and process includes:
We use the information collected for the following reasons:
By filling out a form on our website and submitting your request, you consent to our use of the information sent to respond to your inquiry and contact you back. The personal information submitted will be treated as confidential.
Our employees are authorized to access personal information only to the extent necessary to serve the applicable purpose and to perform their job functions.
We may share personal information with third-party service providers like our Analytics partner to perform business functions on our behalf, to relevant third parties in the event of a business transition such as a merger, acquisition, corporate restructuring, joint venture, transfer or sale of all or a portion of our assets or business, or when required by law, to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or other legal process served on us.
When third parties are given access to personal information, we will take appropriate measures to ensure that personal information is processed only to the extent necessary, consistent with this Privacy Policy.
We use Google Custom Search Engine to provide search functionality on our website to help our visitors find the information they are looking for. This search technology assists in fetching high quality, relevant search results for our users but will serve ads based on the keyword(s) searched though. We do not gain any monetary benefit through Ad serving or earn a commission when you click on the advertised search results, generated based on your search terms, rather it is an inherent feature of the Standard Search Element offered as a part of the Custom Search Engine. This functionality is implemented via Javascript. Please refer to Google's Advertising Policy for more details. Visit Google's Ad Preferences page to learn more, block specific advertisers or opt out of personalized ads.
Web analytics is the collection, analysis and reporting of web traffic data. We carry out Web analytics using Google Analytics, a third-party service. Google Analytics require the use of cookies to track visitor count in real time and over a period of time, average session duration, pages that are most and least popular, bounce rate and traffic sources amongst others. The information gathered for analytics purpose is used to measure and improve our website's performance and will not identify an individual user, as the data is aggregated and will be anonymous.
In order to prevent your visit to our website from being tracked, you may:
Please be aware though that if you change your browser settings to reject cookies or disable Javascript, your visit won't be tracked but other website functionality and features like Search, navigation and content rendering may be impacted. Your visit to our website won't be impacted if you use the Google Analytics Opt-out browser add-on.
Please refer to Google Analytics Privacy & Terms to learn more about the privacy policy of our Analytics service provider.
Cookie usage details can be found in the Cookie Policy.
Please be aware that in case, we go through a business transition, such as a merger with another company, an acquisition by another company, corporate restructuring, joint venture, transfer or sale of all or a portion of our assets or business, all personal information that has been collected pursuant to this Privacy Policy, will, in most instances, be part of the assets transferred.
Although we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on us. If we’re going to turn over information related to you, we will make commercially reasonable efforts to provide you with advance notice, unless we are prohibited from doing so by law or a court order.
Whenever we change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this page and other places we deem appropriate, so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. You are responsible for reviewing and becoming familiar with any changes to this policy.
Last updated: May 5, 2019
