Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://vietnamdaily.ca. All information in this policy pertains exclusively to Vietnamdaily.ca.

1) Privacy Policies Related to Advistising & Affiliates

The plain-English policy is that we, VietnamDaily.ca, as users of 3rd-Party Advertisement-provisioning networks like Google Adsense and/or E-Zoic, and occasional users of commission-earning Affiliate Partners, are required to make certain disclosures and may seek readers’ consent (depending on their jurisdiction) in order to maintain compliance with these Ad-networks and Affiliate-Partners. Part of the advertiser’s requirements are the use of “Cookies”. We describe and disclose these technologies below.

Cookies Introduction

Cookies are files stored by your internet browser on your local computer or mobile device. These are managed entirely by 3rd-party networks such as Google Adsense, E-Zoic and/or CJ-Affiliates, and are not provisioned nor monitored nor collected nor tracked nor handled directly nor indirectly by staff at VietnamDaily.ca.

We encourage you to read about these programs Cookie and Privacy policies:

In the case of Advertising Networks like Google Adsense, the cookie’s are used to provision personalized-ads. If users at VietnamDaily.ca elect to turn-off or disable cookies, these networks will provision users instead with non-personalized ads. VietnamDaily.ca will never use these cookies directly.

In the case of Affiliate Partners like CJ Affiliates, cookies may be used to allocate sales commission if any reader clicks on a promotional link for a 3rd-Party Retailers and makes a purchase at their websites. VietnamDaily.ca will never use these cookies directly. These cookies have a short life-span usually less than 1 month.

Consent

In order for us to use services like Google Adsense, certain jurisdictions, like the European Economic Area & UK, require the Advertisement Networks to get readers’ consent to use cookies. When a reader from these jurisdictions visits our website for the first time, a small pop-up prompt will solicit consent to use cookies, and will explain where and how to learn more about cookies. FOR such jurisdictions, readers can choose to opt-out of certain cookie usages related to private data.

Cookie Settings – User Management

Readers can disable the use of cookies through their browser’s settings. This may disable all or most of the functionality of VietnamDaily.ca. You can automatically or manually delete cookies, as well as specify which cookies may be allowed or disallowed. Please see your Browser’s settings and Help-pages for more information.

Selling Data to Third Parties

We do not directly collect any data about our users, nor do we sell data to third parties. The only data collected via our website is via our Advertising and Affiliate Partners listed above. When you post a comment, data may be collected via a 3rd-Party anti-spam service.

2) Privacy Policies in Relation to User-Generated Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

Who we share your data with

We do not share any of your personally-identifiable data with any 3rd-party, except for automated spam detection. In the future we may solicit email addresses for an opt-in news-letter service and use 3rd-party services for managing said newsletter.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

What rights you have over your data

If you have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

3) Data-Retained About Parties to a Commercial Transaction

In the event that a party (hereafter, “Purchaser”) enters into a commercial transaction with the business operations of VietnamDaily.ca (hereafter “Seller”), the Seller must retrain a minimum amount of transactional data and information about the Purchaser for tax compliance, governing law, and audits, including but not limited to: Purchaser’s name, delivery address, purchase orders, invoices, receipts, payment reference numbers and account-information as divulged by third party payment platforms (including but not limited to Stripe) while processing payments. This information must be retain indefinitely for Canadian tax authorities. Any information about the Purchaser will be held securely and confidentially by the Seller, and not released to any third party who is not directly connected with: government tax authorities and law enforcement, reputable auditors, and reputable business Acquirers operating under a strict Non-Disclosure Agreement.

The ability for the Seller to provision the Purchaser with the requested goods and/or service is conditional on the Purchaser being able to successfully utilize and participate in third party payment processors (including, but not limited to, Stripe and its affiliates) as well as the Anti Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) policies and obligations of the third party payment processors. In the event that the Purchaser and Seller cannot successfully transact due to seizure of funds or denial of payment by a third party payment processor, this agreement is null and void, and all outstanding or in-progress services will be terminated, with no product or service obliged to be provisioned thereafter. The Purchaser may attempt to resolve their AML/KYC issues with third party processors, but the Purchaser acknowledges that the Seller is under obligation to continue working with the Purchaser, even if the Purchaser is not deemed at-fault.