Updated: March 19, 2023

This privacy policy is only valid for https://gjdev.ca (otherwise known as “this website”).

We care about your privacy and personal information and will not give away any of your personal information unless we are required to (processing credit card), you tell us to (you ask us to give your information to someone) or we are required to by law (we will do our best to inform you if we have to do this).

We will protect personal information by using reasonable security safeguards against loss or theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.

We do not directly process credit cards, if you pay us using a credit card please read over the processors (quickbooks online, paypal, stripe or square) privacy policy and terms of use. If you don’t want to pay us using a credit card we offer numerous other methods (E-transfer, cheque, cash, bitcoin), just ask us to use them.

We do our best not to trick you. If we ask you to share some information that you don’t feel comfortable sharing then let us know. If you choose this option we may not be able to continue to do our job, but that is your choice.

We use That Hosting Company (affiliate link, based in Canada) as hosting provider, and OVHCloud (based in France, server in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) as hosting. These companies may log information that is needed for you to visit our website.

We use Jotform for many of the forms on our website. Jotform has a good privacy policy and they say they will never read what information you send through their forms. If you don’t wish to use any of the forms you can email us and we will arrange to get the information another way.

We use itch.io for selling one-time products (such as a pdf checklist of certain blog posts), we may include an embed link on certain pages or posts. itch.io has their own privacy policy.

We keep logs of any 404 errors for a week, so we can redirect any pages that have been changed. We anonymize the IP address (mask last part). These logs are kept on our own servers.

We track any of the affiliate links on our site (they usually go /suggests/), we only keep track of how clicks in general are made, we don’t know your IP address, or any data about what browser you are using. If you do purchase something using any of our affiliate links we make a small commission, the only details we know are when you bought it, the sale amount, and what company you bought from.

We currently use WP Accessibility plugin to make our website more accessible to everyone who uses our website.

We use various services for our company, email is based in Norway, we use Zenkit to keep track of tasks which is based in the Europe, we use Bitrix24 for our CRM. These services are not optional when you contact us, or do business with us. We use these tools daily and may change services without notice.

We collect any information you provide to us (either via form on site, email, call, text, business card or any other method) to contact you and work with you (or hopefully get business from you). We may keep this information forever so we can easily contact you in the future. If there is any information about you that you want us to correct please email us.

We will keep all data related to a paying customer for at least 6 years (Canada Income Tax). All other data we may delete when we feel it is necessary.

If you are a previous client of ours we may backup your data to an offsite server for safe keeping and having the ability to quickly get that data back if we or you need it for any reason.

If you wish to request access to the data we have on you please email us and give us 14 business days to process your request.

If you wish for us to remove your personal data (also known as “the right to be forgotten”) then please email us and give us 7 business days then we will delete all personal data we have on you.

On certain pages & content we may include third-party advertisements to support our site. All these advertisements are text-based.

We may add embedded content from another site to any page on this site, we will try to use a privacy mode when adding this but we may not be able to for every content. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website, so they may collect everything about you.

We also add third-party links to help you understand the information or provide more context. We do not own these third-party websites so please read over their privacy policy and terms of use before deciding to visit that website. We do not add any third-party links if we are asked to.

We use a social media share bar at the bottom of all pages. These respect your privacy by not sharing any information with the social network until you click on the button to share. You can find more about this over at WordPress.org.

We do not do any automatic decision making. If we reconsider our decision we will inform you by updating this privacy policy.

We do not currently use heatmaps, as we consider them an invasion of privacy.

This website is not meant for those under the age of 13, if you are under the age of 13 please leave the website now.

We use a status page so we are public about the downtime (and uptime) of our website. This status page is hosted by HetrixTools.

We offer free products from time to time to encourage you to become a customer of ours. We use your email address to not only send you the product but sometimes to send you emails afterwards, the afterwards email are on a opt-in basis.

If you have any privacy-specific concerns you may email hello@gjdev.ca and we will do our best to answer them.

If we receive an valid Canadian court order to disclose information we will comply with the orders, we will do our best to inform you but there are times when that may not be possible (gag order, or another legal reason).

We are committed to conducting our business in accordance with these principles in order to ensure that the confidentiality of personal information is protected and maintained. Gregory J Development may change this privacy policy from time to time at Gregory J Development’s sole discretion.