PRIVACY POLICY

PREFACE

This Privacy Policy covers the treatment of Personal Information and other non-identifiable information gathered by The Wallrus when you are using or accessing the Services.

This Privacy Policy has been put into place to help you understand how Orangerine Inc. protects your privacy and personal data. By using any of the Services, you agree to be bound by the terms of the present Privacy Policy.

To simplify this policy, we call the Website, the Applications and the Platforms together the “Services”.

Orangerine inc. reserves the right, at any time, to modify this Privacy Policy. Please check the Privacy Policy periodically for changes. We we will also notify you via email of any changes that, in our sole discretion, impact your use of the Services or the treatment of your Personal Information. Your use of the Services following the posting of any changes to the Privacy Policy constitutes acceptance of those changes.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of any third-party services (such as Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Four Square, Twitter, etc.) that you choose to make available on the Wallrus Platform or to any applications developed by third parties that Orangerine Inc. does not own or control or to any third parties who use the Wallrus’s API (Application Programming Interface).

TAs an example, the Privacy Policy does not cover any information or other content you can display via the wall and that pertains to third party apps (twitter, Instagram, etc,.) or information you provide to those Third-Party Apps accessed via The Wallrus Platform. We cannot take responsibility for the content or privacy policies of any Supported Platforms and Third-Party Apps. We encourage you to carefully review the privacy policies of any Supported Platforms or Third-Party Apps you access via the Services.

1 – CASES IN WHICH WE COLLECT AND USE PERSONAL INFORMATION:

1. Sign In and user information

When you register on The Wallrus, we collect some personal information about you such as:

1. - Your full name, username, and email address
  - Your password, in connection with your “The Wallrus” account
  - The geographic area where you use your computer and mobile devices

Alternatively, you may register for a “The Wallrus” account using your Twitter account.When you register with, or link your Twitter account to your “The Wallrus” account, we may access other information related to your social profiles.

1. Purchasing The Wallrus

When purchasing a license, we collect your credit card, billing address, and such other information as is required to complete a commercial transaction on our site.

As a registered user of The Wallrus, we may also collect the following:

Information you post in the form of messages, conversations, or contributions to discussions exchanged over the Supported Platforms,
Information we may receive relating to communications you send us, such as queries or comments concerning our services,
Information relating to your real time location, but only where you enable your computer or mobile device to send us location information or when posting through the Supported Platforms.

Orangerine Inc. uses the collected information for the following general purposes:

To identify you when you log in to your account.
To enable us to provide the Services to you.
To verify transactions you make and for billing, security, and authentication (including security tokens for communication with installed Third-Party Apps).
To analyze the Website , Services and our visitors, including research into our user demographics and user behaviour in order to improve our content and Services.
To contact you about your account and provide support.
To share aggregate (non-identifiable) statistics about users of our Services to prospective advertisers and partners.
To keep you informed of information about our Services we think you may find useful or which you have requested from us, provided you have indicated you would like to be contacted for these purposes.
By submitting information to Orangerine Inc. when registering, you consent to the use of your information for these purposes.

The Wallrus may gather Personal Information about organizational representatives via various methods (phone, email, online forms, in-person meetings) but only if such Personal Information is submitted voluntarily. Orangerine Inc. may use such Personal Information for sales, marketing, and support of the Services. This Personal Information is never shared with third parties.

2 – COOKIES AND RELATED TECHNOLOGIES

The Wallrus uses tracking technology (“cookies”) on the Website, in the Applications, and in the Platforms to help us recognize you across different Services. By visiting the Website or using the Services you agree to the use of cookies in your browser and HTML-based emails. Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a web site, in order to track use of the site and to improve your user experience.

Session Cookies

The Services use “session cookies”, which improve your user experience by storing certain information from your current visit on your device, such as log-in information. These enable us to remember your log-in session so you can move easily within the Website or the Services. Without these cookies, we wouldn’t be able to provide the Services to you. These session cookies have limited functionalities and expirations, and you will be required to re-enter your “The Wallrus” log-in information after a certain period of time has elapsed to protect you against others accidentally accessing your account contents and related Personal Information

Google Analytics

Orangerine Inc. uses a specific cookie in order to facilitate the use of Google Analytics for users logged-in to the Applications or the Platforms. If you are a Logged-In User, Orangerine Inc. may use your “The Wallrus” user ID in combination with Google Analytics to track and analyze the pages of the Services you visit. We do this only to better understand how you use the Services and the Website, with a view to offering improvements for all The Wallrus users; and to tailor our business and marketing activities accordingly, both generally and specifically to you. Google Analytics cookies do not provide Orangerine Inc. with any Personal Information.

Learn more about privacy at Google at http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/

Google Display Advertising

Orangerine Inc. may also use related technologies including web beacons, bugs, pixels, and software tokens in order to facilitate the logging in to and the functioning of both the Supported Platforms and Third-Party Apps.

3 – WHEN WE MAY SHARE PERSONAL INFORMATION

Except as provided in the next paragraphs and elsewhere in this Privacy Policy, Orangerine Inc. does not divulge any Personal Information gathered via the Services to third parties.

Notwithstanding anything in the Privacy Policy to the contrary, we may share any information we have collected about you or that you have submitted:

When you explicitly consent to the disclosure of such information to a third party when connecting to a third-party service that asks you if you consent to such sharing;
Where we are legally required to do so, such as in response to court orders or legal process, or to establish, protect, or exercise our legal rights or to defend against legal claims or demands;
If we believe it is necessary in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, fraud, or situations involving potential threats to the rights, property, or personal safety of any person;
If we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding situations that involve abuse of the Services infrastructure or the Internet in general (such as voluminous spamming, denial of service attacks, or attempts to compromise the security of the Website infrastructure or the Services generally);
To a parent company, subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under common control with Orangerine Inc.;
If we are acquired by or merged with another entity (in which case we will require such entity to assume our obligations under this Privacy Policy or inform you that you are covered by a new privacy policy); and
If this information is not private, is aggregated or is otherwise non-personal information, such as your public user profile information and related public data (such as Tweets, likes, etc.) or the number of users who clicked on a particular link (even if only one did so).

Subject to confidentiality obligations consistent with this Privacy Policy, we may also disclose information to our affiliates, agents, contractors, and service providers in order to facilitate the functioning of the Services or to perform tasks that are integral to the Services, such as processing transactions, fulfilling requests for information, or providing support services or other tasks, from time to time. Information may also be transferred from The Wallrus to the third parties in control of the Supported Platforms, but only to the extent required in order for the Services to function properly.

4 – CHILDREN

Our Services should only be accessed by individuals of Minimum Age. “Minimum Age” may mean different ages in different countries, depending on where the individual accesses the services. For reference, “Minimum Age” shall mean (a) 14 years old for the United States, Canada, Germany, Spain, Australia, and South Korea; and (b) 13 years old for all other countries. However, if applicable law requires that you must be older than such ages in order for Orangerine Inc. to lawfully provide the Services to you (including the collection, storage, and use of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy), then the Minimum Age would be such older age. The Services are not designed nor intended for use by children or anyone else under the age of 13 .

5 – SECURITY

The Wallrus uses third-party vendors and hosting partners such as Amazon to provide the necessary hardware, software, networking, storage, and related technology required to run the Services. These vendors have been selected for their high standards of both physical and technological security, including ISO and SSAE16 certifications.

When payments are processed via credit card, Orangerine Inc. uses third-party vendors that are PCI-DSS Compliant. At no point are credit card informations saved and/or recorded in our databases.

You should bear in mind that submission of information over the Internet is never entirely secure. We cannot guarantee the security of information you submit via the Services whilst it is in transit over the Internet and any such submission is at your own risk, and this risk is specifically disclaimed in our Terms.

If you are a Logged-in User, it is advisable that you log out of your account at the end of every session and not leave a logged-in account unattended for any period of time, particularly if you use a shared computer or device.

6 – EMAIL PREFERENCES

Orangerine Inc. uses email as the primary mode of communications with our users. We want to respect your privacy by only sending emails of interest to you. You can manage your email preferences, such as opting-out or unsubscribing from emails sent by The Wallrus, by adjusting your preferences in your account settings. You may also opt out or unsubscribe from any future email communications from within a link provided in each email correspondence that we send you.

7 – YOUR RIGHTS

You can contact us to obtain a copy of the Personal Information held about you by us. This may be subject to a fee not exceeding any prescribed fee permitted by applicable law. You can also ask us to correct and, where relevant, erase that information. Please note that certain Personal Information may need to be retained by Orangerine Inc. for a period of time following cancellation of your account where this is necessary for our legitimate business purposes or required by applicable law. As mentioned above you have a right to change your email preferences at any time.

You should be aware that The Wallrus acts as a conduit between our users and the various Supported Platforms and Third-Party Apps. In several instances, the content published via The Wallrus will not be in Orangerine inc.’s custody or control, and any content that has been shared by you through any Supported Platform or Third-Party Apps via the Services may continue to be available to third parties and the public at large, as this content is now under the control of the operators of the Supported Platforms and/or the Third-Party Apps.

8 – Account deletion

Users may at any time request deletion of their account and all associated data by sending an email to support@the-wallrus.com and providing their username and account number as well as account deletion in the subject.

9 – CONTACT US

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact legal@the-wallrus.com or:

The Wallrus Legal Services
c/o Orangerine Inc.
(Attn: Zú) 2200 Rue Stanley
Montreal, QC, H3A 1R6