Privacy Policy

Introduction

 

Your privacy is important to Guru Animation Studio Ltd., and its parent and affiliate companies (individually and collectively “Guru”, “we”, “our”, etc.). It is important you understand how information relating to your use of this website (our “Website”) may be collected and used by us. Please review this policy (the “Privacy Policy”) carefully. By using or accessing our Website, you agree to be bound by the terms of the Privacy Policy. Please also review the Terms of Use for our Website, found at gurustudio.com/terms-of-use.

 

The Privacy Policy is incorporated in and forms part of the Terms of Use. By using the Website, you are agreeing to the Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use. If you do not agree, please refrain from using our Website.

 

This Privacy Policy is effective as of March 15, 2024. We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at our sole discretion. Be sure to check this page from time to time to see if the Privacy Policy has been updated. Your continued use of our Website constitutes your agreement to the revised terms. This Privacy Policy governs our practices with respect to Personal Information we collect through our Website, and it does not apply to other websites operated by third parties. Our compliance rules follow Canadian data laws and guidelines.

 

What is Personal Information?

 

Guru may collect, store, and use certain types of Personal Information when you use our Website.

 

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, “Personal Information” is information that identifies you as an individual or could be combined by us or our service providers and affiliates with other information to identify you. This information includes your name, personal e-mail address, username (if applicable), your home address, your home telephone number, your personal cellphone number, your image, and may include your age, date of birth, and other similar information when associated with you. Personal Information may also be information containing details as to how you have used our Website and usage patterns, if we can associate that Personal Information with you. If you are a business customer or prospective business customer, personal information does not include your title, business address and business telephone number when we use that information to contact you in your business capacity.

 

“Non-personal” or “anonymous” information includes information not associated with individual users, for example, the type of browser being used; or aggregate information or statistics about a group of users (e.g., length of time or time of day users are on a website).

 

What type of Personal Information does Guru collect and How do We Use it?

 

The section explains the type of Personal Information we may collect, use and share when you use our Website.

 

Personal Information You Provide

 

We may receive and store Personal Information such as your name, email address and other registration information you submit in order to use our Website, including:

 

1. To send marketing emails and updates only if you have consented to be added to our subscriber email list.
2. To process job applications.
3. To help us to understand how you engage with our site and to provide us with a report on the usage of the site.

 

If you do not want to be on our mailing list, you can opt-out anytime by unsubscribing.

 

We may use session cookies, persistent cookies and other technologies to help us collect data to enhance your user experience with the Website. Cookies are small text files that can be used to recognize when you come back to our Website.

 

Third Party Parties Providing Services on our Behalf

 

We may use third party vendors or services suppliers to perform certain services which support our Website, such as: (i) assisting us with operations; (ii) managing our database of user information; (iii) hosting our Website; (iv) designing our Website’s features; (v) tracking our Website’s activities and analytics, (vi) sending you marketing and promotional offers (with your consent); (vii) or performing other administrative services and other services to assist us. We may need to provide these third parties with access to Personal Information and device identifiers they need in order to carry out the services they are performing. We require our service providers to keep your Personal Information secure. We do not authorize our service providers to use Personal Information for any other purpose other than providing these services unless we or they have obtained your consent. We may also use third party analytics and other service providers to help us gather and analyse information about the areas that you visit on our Website in order to evaluate and improve the user experience of it. Such third party vendors may set and access tracking technologies on your device and they may otherwise collect or have access to information about you, potentially including Personal Information.

 

Information we collect from third parties

 

Your use of our Website may permit you to access third party social media websites (e.g., YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook). By accessing these social media sites through our Website, we may receive and use Personal Information as permitted by your user agreement and privacy settings on the social media sites. In addition, usage analytics through Google Analytics are collected. These third parties use cookies and other technologies to help analyze and provide data to us. You consent to the processing of your cookie data as set out in this Privacy Policy.

 

Children’s Privacy

 

Our website is not intended for the use by or entertainment of children under the age of 13 years. We will not knowingly collect Personal Information about a child under the age of 13. If we learn that we have inadvertently gathered Personal Information from children under 13, we will take reasonable steps to promptly delete such Personal Information from our records.

 

Business Transfers

 

We may disclose your Personal Information to third parties in connection with a corporate merger or the sale of all or substantially all of our assets, other corporate changes, including, without limitation, during the course of any due diligence process, or in the unlikely event that Guru goes out of business or enters into bankruptcy or similar proceedings. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and that any such acquirer may use your Personal Information as set forth in this policy.

 

Updating or Deleting your Information

 

We do not verify the correctness of Personal Information. You may access and update your Personal Information you provide by contacting us as set out in the Questions/Concerns section below. Personal Information may also be deleted upon request, subject to us retaining Personal Information for a reasonable retention period and/or subject to applicable laws, rules, regulations or court orders, as set out in the Retention section below.

 

Retention and Disclosure of your Personal Information

 

We retain Personal Information for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes for which we collected the information or a longer retention period if required or permitted by laws, rules, regulations or court orders. We maintain a records retention and destruction programme to destroy information when it is no longer needed or required. Some Personal Information may be retained if it is necessary to resolve disputes, enforce user agreements, and comply with technical requirements related to the security, integrity and operation of our Website. For legal purposes, we may disclose your Personal Information if we have reason to believe that it is relevant to the investigation or decision to investigate a breach of the laws of Canada, a province or territory of Canada, or a foreign jurisdiction, and we are legally permitted to do so, or we think it is necessary to detect, prevent or address illegal activity on our Website, or to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who appears to be causing harm or interfering with Guru’s rights or the property or safety of users. We will disclose Personal Information without your knowledge or consent if we receive an order, subpoena, warrant or other legal requirement issued by a court, tribunal, regulator or other person with jurisdiction to compel disclosure of your Personal Information.

 

Third Party Content/Websites

 

Our website may include links to other applications or websites. These links are provided for your convenience. Please note that this Privacy Policy applies to our Website only. Such third-party applications or websites are not under our control and such links do not constitute an endorsement by Guru of those apps or sites. Your use of such third-party websites and apps is at your own risk and will
be governed by the privacy policies of those websites or apps and not by this Privacy Policy. Do not transmit Personal Information using those websites or apps without reading the privacy policies and terms of service governing those websites and apps. If you do not agree to such third-party websites’ or apps’ terms and policies, please discontinue using them.

 

Safeguards and Third-Party Contractors

 

We follow generally accepted industry standards and takes administrative, technical and physical measures to safeguard your Personal Information against unauthorised access, unauthorised disclosure, theft and misuse. In addition, where Guru engages third party contractors to perform tasks on our behalf (e.g., suppliers that host our data or maintain our Website), and we need to share your Personal Information with them, we have contracts in place with such third parties that require them to protect your Personal Information, and we try to ensure that they comply with applicable privacy laws. Although we take precautions against possible breaches of our security systems, no company can fully eliminate the risks of unauthorised access to your Personal Information and no website is completely secure.

 

While we cannot fully guarantee that there will be no unauthorised access, hacking, data loss or breaches of our security systems associated with your use of our Website or your Personal Information, we will inform you promptly if that should happen along with remedial actions taken by us.

 

Jurisdiction and Data Transfers

 

This Privacy Notice is governed by the laws of Canada and applicable provincial laws. By submitting Personal Information to us, you understand that your Personal Information will be subject to the laws of Canada and applicable provincial laws. Your Personal Information may be used or stored by us or our service providers outside of Canada. We require that our service providers safeguard your Personal Information. However, if your Personal Information is used or stored outside of Canada, it will also be subject to the laws of the country in which it is used or stored.

 

Questions/Concerns

 

We have a representative who is accountable for our Personal Information handling practices. If you have a question or complaint about our Personal Information handling practices or this Privacy Policy, please contact us by emailing [email protected]. We will make every effort to resolve your concerns promptly.

 

If your question is not addressed to your satisfaction, or if you have general questions relating to privacy of personal information, you may contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada for further guidance at www.priv.gc.ca.

Guru Animation Studio
110 Spadina Avenue, Suite 500
Toronto Ontario, M5V 2K4