Privacy Policy

Bushwhackers Forestry and its corporate affiliates (“Bushwhackers”, “we”, “us”, “our”) respect and uphold 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. Based on applicable privacy and data protection principles common to Canada and other jurisdictions, we have developed this privacy policy (the “Policy”) to explain our practices for processing your personal information. This Policy does not apply to our employees’ personal information or any anonymized information.

PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY. By using our Website, Software, or Service, or otherwise by choosing to provide us with your personal information, you acknowledge and consent to the processing of your personal information in accordance with this Policy and as may be further identified when the personal information is collected. If you are located or residing outside of Canada, please be aware that our Website, Software and Service are intended for and directed to users in Canada, and the privacy laws and principles in Canada may differ and not offer the same level of protection as those in your location or residing country/region. Through your continued use of our Website, Software or Service, you are transferring your personal information to Canada and you expressly consent to that transfer and we will use this consent as the legal basis for such data transfer, unless otherwise stated in this Policy.

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.

Personal Information

For the purposes of this Policy, “personal information” means any information about an identifiable individual, including but not limited to an individual’s name, home address, telephone number, social insurance number, gender, income and family status, except any other information otherwise exempted by the applicable laws of Canada and other jurisdictions. For example, in Canada, personal information does not include any business contact information that is processed solely to communicate with that person in connection with his or her employment or profession.

When you use our Website, Software or Service, we may collect the following personal information from you:

  • Demographic information such as gender, age, marital status, and location of residence (city/province/country);

  • Contact information such as name, email address, mailing address, and phone number;

  • Unique identifiers such as username, account or membership number, and password;

Your personal information may be collected when:

  • you connect with us through social media;

  • we collect cookies and other tracking information through your use of Website;

  • we collect data from third parties or publicly-available sources.

We only collect personal information that we need. We encourage you to not provide us with any personal information beyond what is necessary and as requested by us.

Cookies and Log Files

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.

Third-Party Analytics

Our Website, Software or Service uses cookies and a Google Analytics tracking code which provides information to us about how and when you use our Website, Software or Service. We use Google services to improve our content we share information with Google. How Google Analytics Uses Your Information. We have also enabled Google Analytics Demographics and Interests Reports.

Information about Minors

This site is intended solely for users who are not minors (13 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.

Disclosure of Your Personal Information

  • We may disclose your personal information for the Purposes as described in this Policy in the following ways:

  • To our employees and contractors;

  • To our service providers including web hosting providers, advertising agencies, payment processors and customer service agencies;

  • To members and third parties within the member marketplace, if applicable;

  • To law enforcement, government or regulatory bodies, or other lawful authorities when legally obligated to do so;

  • Otherwise when and as you provide us with your consent to do so.

Your personal information that we collect may be processed in the United States or elsewhere outside of Canada.

Consent

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.

You may refuse to provide consent or may notify us at any time that you wish to withdraw or change your consent to the processing of your personal information without penalty, subject to legal or contractual restrictions and reasonable notice by (i) changing your privacy preferences through the Website or Software, (ii) deleting your account with the Website or Software and stopping use of the Website or Software, (iii) opting out of the use of your personal information such as unsubscribing to any newsletter or mailing list subscription that we provide through the Website or Software, or (iv) contacting us by phone, email or in person to withdraw your consent. However, if you withdraw or change your consent, we may not be able to provide you with the Service through the Website or Software.

Updates or Changes to Privacy Policy

We may update this Policy to reflect changes to our information practices from time to time. If we make any material changes we will either (a) notify you by email (sent to the e-mail address listed in your account), or (b) provide a notice on the Website or otherwise through the Service before the change becomes effective. 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.

You will find the date of the latest update at the end of this Policy. We recommend that you print a copy of this Policy for your reference. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices to ensure you are aware of any changes. Your continued use of the Service signifies your acceptance of any changes to this Policy.

Privacy laws continue to evolve and, as a result, we may change this Policy from time to time at our full discretion without any prior notice or liability to you or any other person. The processing of your personal information by us will be governed by the version of this Policy in effect at that time.

End of Privacy Policy (Last Updated: September 19, 2023)