Privacy Policy

Who is T.O.F.U.?

T.O.F.U. Magazine is an independent vegan publication founded in Canada in 2007, and currently owned and operated by Ryan Patey. For further information, please visit the about page.

T.O.F.U.’s website address is: https://www.ilovetofu.ca.

Your Personal Data and Why T.O.F.U. Collects It

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, T.O.F.U. collects 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. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact Forms

If you submit a message through the contact form, T.O.F.U. collects your name and email to include with the message sent to the magazine. For communication purposes, this information may be kept indefinitely.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on the 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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.

When you log in, T.O.F.U. will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select "Remember Me", your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

Embedded Content From Other Websites

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.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

As well, this site contains links to other websites. Please be aware that T.O.F.U. is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. When you go to other websites from here, you are advised to be aware and read their privacy policy.

Analytics

T.O.F.U. uses Google Analytics to better understand website traffic and webpage usage. Google Analytics is a service which transmits website traffic data to Google servers. Google Analytics does not identify individual users or associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.

By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner described in Google’s Privacy Policy and for the purposes set out above. You can opt out of Google Analytics if you disable or refuse the cookie, disable JavaScript, or use the opt-out service provided by Google.

T.O.F.U. also uses interfaces with social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and others. If you choose to engage with information from this website through any of these services, you should review the privacy policy of the respective service. If you are a member of a social media site, the interfaces may allow the social media site to connect your visits to this site with other personal information

Who T.O.F.U. Shares Your Data With

As mentioned above, T.O.F.U. may share data with Google and various social media platforms to better understand website traffic and webpage usage.

If you sign-up to the newsletter, T.O.F.U. also shares the data collected in the form with Mailchimp to provide the information mentioned within the sign-up form.

Finally, visitor comments are checked through an automated spam detection service. The information collected includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).

How Long T.O.F.U. Retains Your Data

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

Data sent to platforms or services such as Mailchimp, Google, Facebook, etc. is retained according to their policies. Thus, T.O.F.U. suggests you familiarize yourself with each policy to better understand the use of your data.

For users that register on the website (if any), T.O.F.U. also stores the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What Rights You Have Over Your Data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data T.O.F.U. holds about you, including any data you have provided. You can also request that T.O.F.U. erases any personal data it holds about you. This does not include any data T.O.F.U. is obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Contact Information

For further information, you may use the contact form found here.

Last Updated: June 3, 2018