Last updated: March 23, 2021

This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection,
use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You
about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.

We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the
Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with
this Privacy Policy.

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined
under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same
meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

• Account means a unique account created for You to access our Service or
  parts of our Service.
• Company (referred to as either "the Company", "We", "Us" or "Our" in this
  Agreement) refers to Caribbean Scholar, 257 Hemlock Street, Waterloo.
• Cookies are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or
  any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing
  history on that website among its many uses.
• Country refers to: Ontario, Canada
• Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a
  cellphone or a digital tablet.
• Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or
  identifiable individual.
• Service refers to the Website.
• Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data
  on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or
  individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide
  the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the
  Service or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used.
• Third-party Social Media Service refers to any website or any social
  network website through which a User can log in or create an account to
  use the Service.
• Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the
  use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example,
  the duration of a page visit).
• Website refers to Caribbean Scholar, accessible from
  https://www.thecaribbeanscholar.com/
• You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company,
  or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or
  using the Service, as applicable.

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally
identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You.
Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

• Email address
• First name and last name
• Phone number
• Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City
• Usage Data

Usage Data
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Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.

Usage Data may include information such as Your Device's Internet Protocol
address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our
Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on
those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect
certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of
mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your
mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet
browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our
Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.

Information from Third-Party Social Media Services

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The Company allows You to create an account and log in to use the Service
through the following Third-party Social Media Services:

• Google
• Facebook
• Twitter

If You decide to register through or otherwise grant us access to a Third-
Party Social Media Service, We may collect Personal data that is already
associated with Your Third-Party Social Media Service's account, such as Your
name, Your email address, Your activities or Your contact list associated with
that account.

You may also have the option of sharing additional information with the
Company through Your Third-Party Social Media Service's account. If You choose
to provide such information and Personal Data, during registration or
otherwise, You are giving the Company permission to use, share, and store it
in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies
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We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our
Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons,
tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze
Our Service. The technologies We use may include:

• Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on Your
  Device. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate
  when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You
  may not be able to use some parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted
  Your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our Service may use
  Cookies.
• Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Service may use local stored
  objects (or Flash Cookies) to collect and store information about Your
  preferences or Your activity on our Service. Flash Cookies are not managed
  by the same browser settings as those used for Browser Cookies. For more
  information on how You can delete Flash Cookies, please read "Where can I
  change the settings for disabling, or deleting local shared objects?"
  available at
• Web Beacons. Certain sections of our Service and our emails may contain
  small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear
  gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for
  example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email
  and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the
  popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server
  integrity).

Cookies can be "Persistent" or "Session" Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on
Your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session
Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser. Learn more about
cookies: What Are Cookies?.

We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:

• Necessary / Essential Cookies Type: Session Cookies Administered by: Us Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with services
  available through the Website and to enable You to use some of its
  features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of
  user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that You have asked for
  cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to provide You with
  those services.
• Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies Type: Persistent Cookies Administered by: Us Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies
  on the Website.
• Functionality Cookies Type: Persistent Cookies Administered by: Us Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices You make when You use
  the Website, such as remembering your login details or language
  preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide You with a more
  personal experience and to avoid You having to re-enter your preferences
  every time You use the Website.
• Tracking and Performance Cookies Type: Persistent Cookies Administered by: Third-Parties Purpose: These Cookies are used to track information about traffic to the
  Website and how users use the Website. The information gathered via these
  Cookies may directly or indirectly identify you as an individual visitor.
  This is because the information collected is typically linked to a
  pseudonymous identifier associated with the device you use to access the
  Website. We may also use these Cookies to test new pages, features or new
  functionality of the Website to see how our users react to them.
• Targeting and Advertising Cookies Type: Persistent Cookies Administered by: Third-Parties Purpose: These Cookies track your browsing habits to enable Us to show
  advertising which is more likely to be of interest to You. These Cookies
  use information about your browsing history to group You with other users
  who have similar interests. Based on that information, and with Our
  permission, third party advertisers can place Cookies to enable them to
  show adverts which We think will be relevant to your interests while You
  are on third party websites.

For more information about the cookies we use and your choices regarding
cookies, please visit our Cookies Policy or the Cookies section of our Privacy
Policy.

Use of Your Personal Data

The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

• To provide and maintain our Service , including to monitor the usage of
  our Service.
• To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the
  Service. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different
  functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a registered
  user.
• For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and
  undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items or services
  You have purchased or of any other contract with Us through the Service.
• To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other
  equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile
  application's push notifications regarding updates or informative
  communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted
  services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for
  their implementation.
• To provide You with news, special offers and general information about
  other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those
  that you have already purchased or enquired about unless You have opted
  not to receive such information.
• To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.
• To deliver targeted advertising to You : We may use Your information to
  develop and display content and advertising (and work with third-party
  vendors who do so) tailored to Your interests and/or location and to
  measure its effectiveness.
• For business transfers: We may use Your information to evaluate or conduct
  a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or
  other sale or transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going
  concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in
  which Personal Data held by Us about our Service users is among the assets
  transferred.
• For other purposes : We may use Your information for other purposes, such
  as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness
  of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Service,
  products, services, marketing and your experience.

We may share Your personal information in the following situations:

• With Service Providers: We may share Your personal information with
  Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, to show
  advertisements to You to help support and maintain Our Service, to
  advertise on third party websites to You after You visited our Service,
  for payment processing, to contact You.
• For business transfers: We may share or transfer Your personal information
  in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company
  assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to
  another company.
• With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in
  which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy.
  Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint
  venture partners or other companies that We control or that are under
  common control with Us.
• With business partners: We may share Your information with Our business
  partners to offer You certain products, services or promotions.
• With other users: when You share personal information or otherwise
  interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be
  viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside. If You
  interact with other users or register through a Third-Party Social Media
  Service, Your contacts on the Third-Party Social Media Service may see
  Your name, profile, pictures and description of Your activity. Similarly,
  other users will be able to view descriptions of Your activity,
  communicate with You and view Your profile.
• With Your consent : We may disclose Your personal information for any
  other purpose with Your consent.

Retention of Your Personal Data

The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary
for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your
Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations
(for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable
laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage
Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data
is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our
Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time
periods.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company's
operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the
processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to —
and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country
or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ
than those from Your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such
information represents Your agreement to that transfer.

The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data
is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer
of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless
there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and
other personal information.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Business Transactions

If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your
Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal
Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Law enforcement
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Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your
Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by
public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Other legal requirements

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The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such
action is necessary to:

• Comply with a legal obligation
• Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
• Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
• Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
• Protect against legal liability

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no
method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is
100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect
Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Detailed Information on the Processing of Your Personal Data

The Service Providers We use may have access to Your Personal Data. These
third-party vendors collect, store, use, process and transfer information
about Your activity on Our Service in accordance with their Privacy Policies.

Analytics

We may use third-party Service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our
Service.

• Google Analytics Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks
  and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and
  monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google
  services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and
  personalize the ads of its own advertising network. You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to
  Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-
  on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js,
  analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics
  about visits activity. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the
  Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Advertising

We may use Service Providers to show advertisements to You to help support and
maintain Our Service.

• Google AdSense & DoubleClick Cookie Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our Service.
  Google's use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to
  serve ads to our users based on their visit to our Service or other
  websites on the Internet. You may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick Cookie for interest-based
  advertising by visiting the Google Ads Settings web page:
  http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/

Email Marketing

We may use Your Personal Data to contact You with newsletters, marketing or
promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to You.
You may opt-out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from Us by
following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email We send
or by contacting Us.

We may use Email Marketing Service Providers to manage and send emails to You.

• ActiveCampaign Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at
  https://www.activecampaign.com/ca/legal/privacy-policy

Payments

We may provide paid products and/or services within the Service. In that case,
we may use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment
processors).

We will not store or collect Your payment card details. That information is
provided directly to Our third-party payment processors whose use of Your
personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment
processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI
Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa,
Mastercard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure
the secure handling of payment information.

• Stripe Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://stripe.com/us/privacy
• PayPal Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at
  https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full

Behavioral Remarketing

The Company uses remarketing services to advertise to You after You accessed
or visited our Service. We and Our third-party vendors use cookies and non-
cookie technologies to help Us recognize Your Device and understand how You
use our Service so that We can improve our Service to reflect Your interests
and serve You advertisements that are likely to be of more interest to You.

These third-party vendors collect, store, use, process and transfer
information about Your activity on Our Service in accordance with their
Privacy Policies and to enable Us to:

• Measure and analyze traffic and browsing activity on Our Service
• Show advertisements for our products and/or services to You on third-party
  websites or apps
• Measure and analyze the performance of Our advertising campaigns

Some of these third-party vendors may use non-cookie technologies that may not
be impacted by browser settings that block cookies. Your browser may not
permit You to block such technologies. You can use the following third-party
tools to decline the collection and use of information for the purpose of
serving You interest-based advertising:

• The NAI's opt-out platform: http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/
• The EDAA's opt-out platform http://www.youronlinechoices.com/
• The DAA's opt-out platform:
  http://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN

You may opt-out of all personalized advertising by enabling privacy features
on Your mobile device such as Limit Ad Tracking (iOS) and Opt Out of Ads
Personalization (Android). See Your mobile device Help system for more
information.

We may share information, such as hashed email addresses (if available) or
other online identifiers collected on Our Service with these third-party
vendors. This allows Our third-party vendors to recognize and deliver You ads
across devices and browsers. To read more about the technologies used by these
third-party vendors and their cross-device capabilities please refer to the
Privacy Policy of each vendor listed below.

The third-party vendors We use are:

• Google Ads (AdWords) Google Ads (AdWords) remarketing service is provided by Google Inc. You can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customise
  the Google Display Network ads by visiting the Google Ads Settings page:
  http://www.google.com/settings/ads Google also recommends installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser
  Add-on - https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout - for your web
  browser. Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on provides visitors with
  the ability to prevent their data from being collected and used by Google
  Analytics. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the
  Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Children's Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly
collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13.
If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided
Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have
collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification
of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from Our
servers.

If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information
and Your country requires consent from a parent, We may require Your parent's
consent before We collect and use that information.

Links to Other Websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us.
If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party's
site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You
visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy
policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any
changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior
to the change becoming effective and update the "Last updated" date at the top
of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.
Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this
page.

Contact Us

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

• By email: [email protected]