Privacy Policy

Oblique Consultants Ltd., owner of www.worldsnorkel.com, www.worldsnorkeling.com and www.worldsnorkelling.com, respects and upholds individual rights to privacy and the protection of personal information while balancing such rights with our need to process your personal information to manage our business and deliver our services to you.

Our Website and Software may contain links or direct you to other websites, software, service providers, or Internet resources (the “Other Providers”) which are provided for your convenience, benefit, and information. When you click on one of those links, you are contacting another website, software, service provider, or Internet resource. We are not responsible or liable for, nor have control over those Other Providers or how they process your personal information. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of those Other Providers to learn how they process your personal information.

PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY

If you do not consent to the processing of your personal information in accordance with this Policy, please do not access or continue to use any of the Website, Software, or Services or otherwise provide any personal information to us.

What Data Do We Collect?

When you use our Services, we collect and use data.

We collect this data in four main ways:

You give us data when using our Services (such as your name or email).
Data is collected automatically as you use our Services (such as your IP address).
We obtain data from other parties to help run our Services.
We use or combine the data we get to infer things about you (such as what appears to interest you).

We collect the data needed for our legitimate purposes. To provide our Services to you, we use data. Some of this data is personal data. That means it relates to someone we may be able to identify. We collect some of this data from you and others, and some of it we create.

Data You Provide to Us

To use some of our Services, you need to share some of your data with us, using online forms or other means. What data we need will depend on the Service you wish to use, but it may include the following:

Name or username
Email
Postal address
Billing address
Phone number
Payment card

You may choose to share other data with us, such as your status, images, comments, interests, likes and dislikes, and survey answers. When giving us feedback or asking for help, you may provide us with the data you think is needed so that we can respond.

Having obtained any consent that may be needed, you may also share the data of others with us (for example, if you refer a friend to receive one of our email newsletters).

Data Collected Automatically

When you use our Services, we and our business partners may collect some data automatically.

The data we collect will depend on the Service you use, but it may include:

ISP
Source (how you got to our site)
Clicks, page views, and other actions
Visit length
Cookie and other IDs
IP address
Device and browser data
Replays of your sessions
Emails you have opened
With your consent, we may also collect more precise location data.

Data We Get from Other Sources

Depending on the Service you are using, we may obtain data from other parties. The data we get will depend on the Service you use, but it may include:

Name
Email
Address
Phone number
Business
Role
Age
Gender
Family size
Education
Likely interests
Purchases
Off site actions (e.g., banner ads clicked)
Public data (e.g., online posts)
Credit reports

We may also ask for your consent to obtain data about you from other sources (e.g., financial service providers)

Data We Create

We may use or combine any data we get to create new data. The data we create about you will depend on your use of our Services, but it may include:

Approximate location
Inferences about your interests and preferences
Interest cohorts
Linked devices

Anonymous data

We may combine your data with the data of others (e.g., count of the total number of website users per day). This data we create by doing this cannot be used to single you out, it is not considered to be personal, and we do not try to re-identify you from this data.

Information About Minors

This site is intended solely for users who are not minors (16 years of age or older). We do not knowingly collect personal information about any minor. No such minor, nor any parent or guardian as it relates to such minor, should submit such minor’s personal information to us through the Website, Software or otherwise for any reason and under any circumstances.

How Do We Use Your Data?

We use your data to serve you and operate our business.

Depending on the Services you use and the choices you make, we will use your data to:

Provide our Services and carry out your requests.
Improve and promote the Services of us and others.
Operate and secure our business.

When providing our Services we may use your data (as applicable):

To register and secure your account.
To receive and respond to calls and messages from you.
To check your identity and eligibility for our Services.
To help you get the best pricing and products we have.
To direct you to the websites of our partners.
To process transactions between you and us, or our partners.
To personalize the Service you get.
To keep your data updated with the best information we have.
To provide customer service and support.
To complete data rights requests you have made.
To enable you to use social sharing tools.
To track sales and get paid by our partners.
Improving and promoting the Services of us and others.

To help improve and promote our Services, and the Services of our partners, we may use your data:

To carry out analysis and market research.
To help present our Services clearly and in the most effective way.
To run sweepstakes and surveys.
To help us and our partners create better products for you.
To process any rewards we may offer to you.
To send updates and Service messages about your products and services.
To let you know about our services and promotions by email, social media (e.g., Facebook), and using push notifications (where you agree).
To build, train, and augment models which help us understand your likely interests and those of other consumers.
To target advertising to you, on this and other websites, based on data we have collected or created.
To help us understand if and how our and others marketing works.

Operating our business.

In the course of running our business we may use your data:

We use your data to serve you and operate our business.

Depending on the Services you use and the choices you make, we will use your data to:

Provide our Services and carry out your requests.
Improve and promote the Services of us and others.
Operate and secure our business.

When providing our Services we may use your data (as applicable):

To register and secure your account.
To receive and respond to calls and messages from you.
To check your identity and eligibility for our Services.
To help you get the best pricing and products we have.
To direct you to the websites of our partners.
To process transactions between you and us, or our partners.
To personalize the Service you get.
To keep your data updated with the best information we have.
To provide customer service and support.
To complete data rights requests you have made.
To enable you to use social sharing tools.
To track sales and get paid by our partners.
Improving and promoting the Services of us and others.

To help improve and promote our Services, and the Services of our partners, we may use your data:

To carry out analysis and market research.
To help present our Services clearly and in the most effective way.
To run sweepstakes and surveys.
To help us and our partners create better products for you.
To process any rewards we may offer to you.
To send updates and Service messages about your products and services.
To let you know about our services and promotions by email, social media (e.g., Facebook), and using push notifications (where you agree).
To build, train, and augment models which help us understand your likely interests and those of other consumers.
To target advertising to you, on this and other websites, based on data we have collected or created.
To help us understand if and how our and others marketing works.

Operating our business.

In the course of running our business we may use your data:

To conduct tasks necessary for running our Services and business.
To help secure our business and prevent fraud.
To create reports for internal or external purposes.
To comply with legitimate legal requests.
To audit our business and processes.
To protect the interests of our business, and those of our partners.
For other purposes not described in this Privacy Policy that you consent to (from time to time) and as otherwise permitted by law.

International Users

We are headquartered in Canada. Our sites and services are intended for users in the Canada and hosted and administrated in the Canada or hosted with cloud service providers who are headquartered in the Canada and in other countries. If you are located outside Canada, be aware that information you provide to us or that we obtain as a result of your use of our sites and services may be processed in, transferred to, and stored in the Canada and in any other countries from where our cloud service providers operate. Please be aware that the privacy laws and standards in certain countries may differ from those that apply in the country in which you reside. By using our sites and services or providing us with your information, you consent to the transfer of your information for processing and storage to Canada and any other country from where our cloud service providers operate.

How Do We Use Cookies?

To ensure our Website, Software or Service is optimized for your use and for future communications between you and us, we may save your user data in the form of cookies or log files and use such cookies or log files to collect standard Internet log information about how and when you use our Website, Software or Service. This information may include, but not be limited to, your IP address and location data, weblogs, time zone, date, your language preferences, browsers used, web addressees visited, other communication data, searches conducted, pages visited. You can manage your cookie preferences, but please note that if you refuse to allow cookies, you may not be able to use certain features of our Website, Software or Service

We rely on third party services providers to perform a variety of services on our behalf, such as payment card processers, telephone and technical support providers, hosting, data storage and processing service providers, and research and analytics providers.

If we provide your information to service providers, then we require that the service providers maintain the confidentiality of your personal information and keep your personal information secure. We also require that they only use your personal information for the limited purposes for which it is provided. When our service providers no longer need your personal information for those limited purposes, we require that they dispose of the personal information. In some circumstances, we may permit our service providers to retain aggregated, anonymized or statistical information that does not identify you. We do not authorize the service providers to disclose your personal information to unauthorized parties or to use your personal information for their direct marketing purposes. If you would like more information about our service providers, please contact us using the contact information in the “How to Contact Us” section below.

Additionally, we may use and disclose your information when we believe such use or disclosure is permitted, necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce the terms of the agreements for our products and services; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates or subsidiaries; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or those of our affiliates, you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain. In addition, we may transfer your personal information and other information to a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, brands, affiliates, subsidiaries or other assets, or other business transaction.

If we otherwise intend to disclose your personal information to a third party, we will identify that third party and the purpose for the disclosure, and obtain your consent.

How Long Do We Keep Your Data?

We keep your data for as long as we need it to offer our Services to you, and for other valid business reasons, such as:

Financial record-keeping
Complying with the law or other regulatory requirements
Ensuring the security and availability of our Services

When we decide how long to keep your data, we think about how much we have, what kind of data it is, the risks that unintended use or disclosure could bring, and what the law says. This means we may keep some of your data for longer than we hold other data. Of course, you have choices too – you may request that we delete or correct your data.

At any time, we may make your data anonymous, which means it can’t be linked with you.

When we no longer need to keep data for our purposes, or when we get a valid request to delete, we begin a process to safely delete the data from our systems.

How Do We Keep Your Data Safe?

We work hard to keep your data safe and secure. We use tools and techniques to monitor and protect the data we collect and use about you. We also have rules in place to make sure that your data can only be used by those who have valid business reasons, such as providing our Services to you.

We use best practices to help keep your data safe. However, there is always some risk when storing data or sending it over the internet. As such, we cannot guarantee the security of your data, and you should know that sharing it is done at your own risk.

How Can You Control Your Data?

We provide this privacy policy as a statement to you of our commitment to protect your personally identifiable information. If you have submitted personally identifiable information through our website and would like to download and review that information, or request to edit or delete any of your information from the servers contact us and we will help you with that.

How can you contact us?

Email: worldsnorkelling@gmail.com

Changes to This Policy

Sometimes we need to make changes to how we collect, use, and protect your data. When we do, we will let you know by updating this policy. If the changes we make are important, we’ll also post a special notice on our website.

Any change to this Policy will apply to existing information, as well as information collected onwards from the date that the privacy policy is posted or on the date as specified in the notification.

We will also let you know when we last made these changes by publishing the date we last changed it.

Last Updated: December 1, 2024