Active Parents is a for-profit website that provides free content through paid advertising and sponsorships. Our website contains both paid and non-paid mentions of local businesses and organizations in Burlington, Hamilton and Oakville, Ontario. Any reference made here to local businesses, products, organizations, services, classes, etc. is for informational purposes only and does not constitute an endorsement. We encourage you to do your own research before participating in an event or engaging with a local business or organization.
The intent of Active Parents is to provide ideas for family-friendly activities, events, and resources. Participants assume all risks from any activities they engage in. Active Parents is not responsible for any injuries or problems that may arise from partaking in any of these events and activities; users/readers/visitors to activeparens.ca agree to hold Active Parents harmless in any such claims.
Active Parents (“us”, “we”, “the Company”, or “our”) operates https://www.activeparents.ca (the “Site”). This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information we receive from users of the Site. We use your personal information only for providing and improving the Site. By using the Site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.
Information collection and use
While using our Site, 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, your name, email address, postal address, and phone number (“Personal Information”).
Like many site operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site (“Log Data”). This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, and the time spent on those pages and other statistics.
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
Affiliate & Advertising Disclosure
The purpose of Active Parents is to help you discover events, activities, and resources in Burlington, Oakville, Hamilton, and across Ontario. By sharing this information I hope to help you make family memories, find fun seasonal activities, locate kids activities, and discover resources you might not otherwise know about, and I LOVE doing it!
There are a number of costs associated with running a website – website hosting, sending newsletters, staff time, website design, and more. Sometimes when you click on a link and make a purchase through that link we’re earning a small fee from that company. Posts with affiliate links are marked, however, we only recommend products and local activities that we think are a good deal and/or something we use and love ourselves.
We also accept paid advertising on our website in the Sponsor areas and in Sponsored Blog Posts. This helps us continue to provide you with all of our great content for FREE!
Cookies
Cookies are files with a small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your computer’s hard drive.
Like many sites, we use “cookies” to collect information. 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 portions of our Site.
Security
The security of your Personal Information 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 Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Links to other sites
Our Site may contain links to other sites 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 this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on the Site. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. If a revision meaningfully reduces your rights, we will notify you at least thirty (30) days before the effective date of the changes. If we are involved in a merger, reorganization, or if there is a change of control within our Company, your information may be transferred as part of that deal. In such a case, we will notify you of any such deal and outline your choices in that event.
Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)
The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.
First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.
Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.
The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:
- IP Address
- Operating System type
- Operating System version
- Device Type
- Language of the website
- Web browser type
- Email (in hashed form)
Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.
If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.
For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.
Contact us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please refer to our Contact Form.
Updated October 4, 2022
Published on March 20, 2020