Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies only to personal information collected by Thinking Latino and its affiliates. Be aware that our websites may contain links to other websites that are maintained by third parties who are not required to comply with this Privacy Policy and for which the Star has no responsibility. Please review the privacy policies on any external websites to determine their information handling practices.

This Privacy Policy is available to the public through our websites. By submitting your personal information to Thinking Latino, you signify your agreement to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.

What is personal information? Personal information is any information about an identifiable individual.

Thinking Latino is responsible for personal information under its control.

What is excluded from privacy protection?

This Privacy Policy does not impose restrictions on:  business contact information, including the name, title, business address or telephone number of an employee of an organization; information collected, used or disclosed solely for journalistic, literary or artistic purposes; publicly available information, such as an individual’s name, telephone number and address when listed in a directory or made available through directory assistance; or information that is aggregated and not associated with a specific individual, including demographic information and statistics.

Children:

If you are under the age of 18, be sure to obtain your parent or guardian’s permission before you send any personal information to us, or anyone else.  We encourage parents to get involved with their children’s online usage and to be aware of the activities in which they are participating.

What personal information do we collect, and why?

• We collect personal contact information (such as your name, address, email address and telephone numbers) if you: sign up for a newsletter; register on an online forum or website, or to attend a paid event; purchase any product or service from Thinking Latino; are a classified advertiser or auction participant; or provide it to us when you attend a trade or consumer show. This information is used to fulfill your request for information, products or services, to provide targeted advertising, and to respond to your inquiries. From time to time this information may be used to provide reward points or apply credit, as applicable in the circumstances.
• We will retain your subscriber ID and passwords so that upon request by you we may remind you of them.
• If you enter a contest or other promotion, we use your personal contact information to administer the contest or promotion including contacting, announcing and promoting prizewinners.   In addition, sometimes our contest rules provide that we may contact contest entrants with promotions and product information.  Those rules will also include a way for you to indicate to us that you do not want to be contacted for this purpose.  Some contests may also involve co-sponsors, who have their own privacy practices.  In these cases, the contest rules and/or entry forms will indicate that your personal information is being shared with these co-sponsors and will provide you with the ability to opt-out from receiving promotions and product information from them.
• We collect demographic information, as well as purchase history and a list of promotions offered to you, in order to gain a better understanding of your interests so that we may develop better products and services, and to determine your eligibility for other products and services.
• We may also use demographic, personal contact and history information to contact you about changes, enhancements or other notices related to products or services you requested from us and  Thinking Latino provides. In addition, we may use this information to send you offers or information from us, our affiliates and from selected sponsors or advertisers (“Marketing Offers”). If you do not wish to receive Marketing Offers, you may opt-out at any time by following the opt-out procedure below.
• If you choose to opt-out of any use of your personal information in accordance with our opt-out policy, we will keep your contact information on a list so that your request can be honoured. If you provide a complaint to any of our departments, we will collect your contact information and the nature of your complaint, for the purpose of investigating your concerns and responding to you.
• If you provide freelance or other services to us, we may collect your social insurance number for tax reporting purposes and your contact information in order to pay you.
• We may also use or collect additional information from freelancers, other service providers and from advertisers, such as financial information (for example, banking details and credit history) to assess credit risk, sales data to prepare royalty reports and other relevant information to help us evaluate the quality of your services.
• If you use any of our websites, we may assign an internet cookie. An internet cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your internet browser and that can collect and store information. We use cookies to better understand how you use our websites, to make sure our ads and dynamic content are served correctly and to improve the performance of our websites. For example, a cookie may recall a set of preferences you have set for our website and record items that you have registered for. Storing cookies on your web browser allows us to present you with web pages and other content that are attuned with your preferences. These activities are invisible to you, and are generally intended to improve your internet surfing convenience. Unless you have set your preferences so that you will be alerted when a cookie is being stored on your computer, you won’t know about it.
• If you are concerned about cookies, it is possible to turn them off in your web browser preferences. The following link has useful information about how to opt out of cookies that are placed by companies who are members of the Network Advertising Initiative: NAI (Network Advertising Initiative) Opt-Out.   However, please be aware that by disabling cookies, you may not be able to use all portions of our websites, particularly pages requiring registration.
• We may place advertising or other links on our websites that originate from outside advertisers.  If you view these ads, the advertisers may assign a cookie.  The Star does not control these cookies, nor is it responsible for any marketing or other use of your information by these advertisers.
• Our websites may use Web beacon, gif, or other technologies to better tailor and manage advertising on those sites.  These technologies may be in use on a number of pages across web sites.  When you access these pages, a non-identifiable notice of that visit is generated which may be processed by us or by our suppliers.  These Web beacons usually work in conjunction with cookies.  If you don’t want your cookie information to be associated with your visits to these pages, you can set your browser to turn off cookies.  If you turn off cookies, Web beacon and other technologies will still detect visits to these pages, but the notices they generate cannot be associated with other non-identifiable cookie information and are disregarded.
• Many of our websites use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit the site.  These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you.  Some ads appearing on our websites are delivered to you by AdTech, which is a web advertising company.  These third parties may, from time to time, use information that they collect about your visits to this site, such as the number of times you have viewed an ad (but not your name, address or other personal contact information) to serve additional ads about goods and services that may be of interest to you.  If you do not wish to have your information used in this way, please click on the following link: AdTech Opt-Out
• We use IP (internet protocol) addresses, to gather demographic and statistical information about our users, for systems administration and to diagnose problems with our servers, and to administer our websites.  We may also use IP addresses to display or allow our third party advertising providers to display more targeted advertising and content.
• We may, from time to time, track and analyze anonymous usage and browsing patterns of visitors to our websites to provide our advertisers with more targeted advertising opportunities and to help users see advertising that is most likely to interest them.
• We generally use your personal information for the purposes of : managing, administering, collecting or otherwise enforcing your accounts; maintaining business records for reasonable periods of time and generally managing and administering our business; and meeting all relevant Canadian and international regulatory, legal, insurance, audit, security and processing requirements.
• Occasionally, we ask our customers to complete market research surveys. If you choose to participate in these surveys and provide your personal information for that purpose, your information will be aggregated as part of the survey results and shared with our advertisers, sponsors and affiliates in a manner that does not identify you.
• Other than as permitted or required by law, if we wish to collect, use or disclose your personal information for purposes that are not contemplated in this Privacy Code, we will identify those purposes at the time of collection. You will be given a reasonable opportunity to opt-out of any such additional purposes.

To whom does Thinking Latino disclose personal information, and why? Thinking Latino may disclose your personal information under the following circumstances:

• To provide you with Marketing Offers, the Star may disclose your personal contact information to affiliates and selected sponsors and advertisers. If you do not wish to receive Marketing Offers, you may opt-out at any time by following the opt-out procedure below.
• Thinking Latino may transfer your personal information to third party service providers in order to fulfill your order or perform processing and other specialized services (such as credit card processing, prize fulfillment of our contests, collection of overdue accounts, management of customer service requests, and product delivery).
• Thinking Latino may provide your name and credit card information on a confidential basis to a third party (which party may be outside of Canada) for the purpose of updating your credit card information to ensure that your ongoing subscription to the Star products and services is not interrupted.
• Your personal information may be processed and stored outside of the province in which you reside and/or outside of Canada by us, an affiliate or a third party service provider for the purposes set out in this Privacy Code and, under the laws of these other jurisdictions, in certain circumstances foreign courts, law enforcement agencies or regulatory agencies may be entitled to access your personal information.
• Thinking Latino may disclose your personal information to our affiliates for internal audit, management, billing or administrative purposes.
• Thinking Latino may disclose your contact information on a confidential basis to our advertisers for the sole purpose of newspaper delivery verification.
• Thinking Latino may disclose your personal information to third parties if you have violated our terms of service or conditions of purchase, or if we need to comply with applicable laws and lawful governmental requests, other legal and regulatory authorities and for other legal reasons.
• Thinking Latino may disclose your personal information on a confidential basis to parties connected with the contemplated or actual financing, insuring, sale, assignment or other disposal of all or part of our business or assets, including for the purposes of determining whether to proceed or continue with such transaction or business relationship or fulfilling any records or other reporting requirements to such parties.

Consent and opt-out policy. In general, Thinking Latino seeks consent to use your personal information in accordance with our opt-out policy. Except as set out in this section, Thinking Latino obtains your express opt-in consent to use or disclose sensitive personal information

User Agreement

Thinking Latino invites you to comment on news events and issues via our websites. Please share your experiences, observations or information.

Comment standards

Thinking Latino reserves the right to review, edit, refuse or delete any comment.

Here’s how to ensure your comments get published:

• Stay on topic.
• Respectfully debate the issue,  avoiding  personal attacks and name calling.
• Do not make comments that are threatening, obscene, profane, contain hate speech or degrade others.
• Do not make libelous statements, such as allegations of criminal activity or comments that unfairly harm a person’s reputation.
• Refrain from posting repeatedly on one story.
• Do not copy material from other sources, except in brief quotes, with the source acknowledged.

If you see a comment that appears to violate these guidelines, please send us an email info@thinkinglatino.com and one of our moderators will review it.
Screen Names

Your Screen Name will appear with any comments you post. You are welcome to use your real name as your Screen Name, but we advise against using personal information such as your address or phone number.

Thinking Latino reserves the right to reject any Screen Name that we consider to be offensive or potentially misleading.

Thank you for joining the discussion.

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