1. Scope of this Privacy Policy
This Policy applies to personal information handled by APlusWebTraffic.com through the website, member area, administrative systems, advertising services, search and directory features, referral program, communications, and related services.
It does not govern the independent privacy practices of advertisers, destination websites, social-media platforms, payment providers, or other third parties.
2. Information we collect
The information collected depends on how you use the platform.
We may collect information that you provide directly, information generated through your use of the service, information received from payment or service providers, and limited technical information used to operate and protect the website.
We aim to collect only information reasonably needed for identified platform, contractual, security, legal, accounting, and communication purposes.
3. Account information
When you register for or maintain a member account, we may collect:
- Your name.
- Your email address.
- A securely processed password or password hash.
- Email-verification status.
- Account status.
- Registration and login timestamps.
- Your assigned referral code.
- Account preferences and communication choices.
- Support, moderation, security, or administrative notes associated with the account.
Passwords should not be stored in readable form. Passwords are intended to be processed using secure one-way password hashing.
4. Advertisement and listing information
When you create or manage an advertisement, we may collect and store:
- The destination type.
- The submitted destination URL.
- The normalized destination URL.
- The destination display domain.
- A destination hash used for duplicate-destination controls.
- The advertisement headline.
- The directory description.
- The selected directory category.
- Submitted exact-match keywords.
- Advertisement and keyword statuses.
- Review and correction history.
- Approval, suspension, and expiration dates.
- Click and placement information.
Advertisement content intended for publication may become publicly visible after approval.
5. Orders and payments
When you create an order or attempt payment, we may collect and store:
- The internal order number.
- Order line items.
- Prices, discounts, taxes, and totals.
- Currency.
- Order and payment status.
- The selected payment provider.
- Provider order and transaction identifiers.
- Payment timestamps.
- Limited failure or troubleshooting information.
- Refund, cancellation, or dispute information.
Payments may be processed through PayPal, Stripe, or another supported payment provider.
APlusWebTraffic.com is not intended to directly store complete payment-card numbers, card security codes, or online-banking credentials. That sensitive payment information is normally provided directly to the selected payment provider.
Payment providers may independently collect and process information under their own privacy policies and legal obligations.
6. Technical and usage information
When you visit or use the service, servers and security systems may automatically process limited technical information, including:
- Internet Protocol address.
- Browser and device information.
- Requested pages and files.
- Referring page or referral parameter.
- Date and time of requests.
- Session and authentication events.
- Error and diagnostic information.
- Security and rate-limiting events.
- Suspected bot, spam, fraud, or abusive activity.
This information may be processed through application logs, web-server logs, hosting systems, security services, or platform databases.
8. Referral tracking
When a visitor follows an eligible referral link, the referral code may be stored temporarily in the visitor’s session.
If the visitor later creates an eligible account or completes an eligible transaction, the referring member may receive referral attribution.
Referral information may be used to:
- Attribute eligible registrations or purchases.
- Calculate or review referral credit.
- Prevent self-referrals and duplicate attribution.
- Investigate suspected referral fraud or abuse.
- Maintain accounting and program records.
Referral attribution does not give the referring member access to another member’s password, complete payment information, or private account records.
9. Email and communications
We may send account and service communications such as:
- Email-verification messages.
- Password and security notices.
- Order and payment confirmations.
- Advertisement review decisions.
- Correction requests.
- Expiration and renewal reminders.
- Account-status notices.
- Support responses.
Some messages are transactional or necessary to administer an account, purchase, security event, or requested service.
Promotional or commercial emails will be sent in accordance with applicable consent and unsubscribe requirements.
Unsubscribing from promotional email may not stop necessary account, security, payment, legal, or service messages.
10. How information is used
We may use information to:
- Create and administer member accounts.
- Verify email addresses.
- Authenticate members and protect sessions.
- Save and manage advertisement drafts.
- Create and manage internal orders.
- Process and verify payments.
- Conduct human advertisement reviews.
- Publish approved advertisements in eligible search, directory, and placement surfaces.
- Record and report advertisement clicks.
- Administer referral attribution.
- Send requested and operational communications.
- Respond to support and contact requests.
- Prevent spam, fraud, abuse, malware, unauthorized access, and payment manipulation.
- Diagnose technical errors.
- Maintain accounting and audit records.
- Enforce the Terms and Listing Standards.
- Comply with legal obligations.
- Develop, maintain, secure, and improve the platform.
11. Information displayed publicly
After an advertisement is approved, some submitted information may be displayed publicly, including:
- The advertisement headline.
- The display domain.
- The destination URL through a redirect gateway.
- The directory description.
- The selected category.
- The destination type.
- Other approved listing information needed for search and directory presentation.
Exact-match keywords may be used internally to determine search eligibility. They may also become visible where the platform presents keyword or search information.
Members should not place private, confidential, financial, identity, medical, or other sensitive information inside advertisement content.
13. Service providers
APlusWebTraffic.com may rely on third-party service providers for functions such as:
- Website and database hosting.
- Email delivery.
- Payment processing.
- Security and traffic protection.
- Spam and automated-abuse prevention.
- Backups and infrastructure maintenance.
- Error logging and technical diagnostics.
Providers are given information reasonably necessary to perform their services and may have independent legal duties concerning information they process.
14. Processing outside your province or country
Some service providers may process or store information outside Ontario or outside Canada.
Information processed in another jurisdiction may be subject to the laws and lawful-access requirements of that jurisdiction.
APlusWebTraffic.com remains responsible for selecting and managing service providers in a manner appropriate to the information and services involved.
15. Information retention
Information is retained only as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Policy, including:
- Providing and administering the service.
- Maintaining active accounts and advertisements.
- Completing orders, payments, refunds, and chargeback handling.
- Maintaining accounting, tax, and transaction records.
- Resolving disputes and enforcing agreements.
- Preventing fraud, abuse, and repeat violations.
- Meeting legal, regulatory, audit, and security obligations.
- Maintaining reasonable backups.
Different categories of information may have different retention periods.
Information may be anonymized or aggregated so it no longer reasonably identifies an individual, after which it may be retained for reporting, security, operational, or analytical purposes.
16. Security safeguards
We use administrative, technical, and organizational measures intended to protect personal information against unauthorized access, disclosure, loss, misuse, copying, alteration, or destruction.
Depending on the information and system involved, safeguards may include:
- HTTPS connections.
- Secure session-cookie settings.
- Password hashing.
- Authentication and authorization checks.
- Cross-site request forgery protection.
- Prepared database statements.
- Ownership checks on member records.
- Rate limiting and anti-automation controls.
- Human review and administrative controls.
- Security logging.
- Restricted server and database access.
- Backups and software maintenance.
No website, network, database, or method of electronic storage can be guaranteed completely secure.
Members are responsible for choosing a strong password, protecting account credentials, logging out of shared devices, and promptly reporting suspected unauthorized access.
17. Security incidents and privacy breaches
If a security incident affects personal information, we may investigate, contain, document, remediate, and assess the incident.
Where required by applicable law, we may notify affected individuals, privacy regulators, service providers, law enforcement, or other appropriate parties.
Notifications may contain information about the incident, potential risks, protective steps, and how to obtain further assistance.
18. Your privacy choices
Depending on the feature and applicable law, you may be able to:
- Update account information.
- Change your password.
- Manage available communication preferences.
- Unsubscribe from promotional email.
- Edit eligible advertisement drafts.
- Cancel eligible unpaid orders.
- Request access to personal information.
- Request correction of inaccurate information.
- Request account deletion.
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent and withdrawal is legally available.
Some information may still need to be retained or processed for contractual, payment, fraud-prevention, legal, security, accounting, or dispute purposes.
19. Access and correction requests
You may request access to personal information held about you and request correction of information that is inaccurate or incomplete, subject to legal exceptions.
Before responding, we may need to verify your identity and authority to make the request.
Access may be limited where disclosure would reveal another person’s personal information, confidential commercial information, privileged material, security information, fraud-prevention methods, or information that cannot legally be disclosed.
20. Account deletion
Members may request deletion of their account through available account controls or the contact process.
Deletion may remove or deactivate account and listing information from active platform use.
Certain records may be retained where reasonably necessary for:
- Completed orders and accounting.
- Taxes and financial reporting.
- Payment disputes and chargebacks.
- Fraud and abuse prevention.
- Security investigations.
- Legal claims and compliance.
- System backups.
Public advertisement exposure should cease when a listing is no longer approved, active, and unexpired, even if limited historical records must be retained.
21. Children and minors
APlusWebTraffic.com is a commercial advertising platform and is not directed to young children.
A person using paid advertising features must have the legal capacity to enter into the applicable agreement, or act with valid authorization from a parent, guardian, business, or organization as required by law.
Do not submit personal information about a child unless you have lawful authority and the information is necessary for an approved purpose.
22. Third-party websites and social destinations
Search results, directory listings, advertisements, and redirect links may lead to third-party websites, stores, services, profiles, channels, or social-media platforms.
Those destinations are operated independently and may collect information under their own privacy policies.
APlusWebTraffic.com is not responsible for the privacy, security, content, products, or conduct of an external destination merely because it appears in a listing.
Visitors should review the privacy and security practices of a destination before providing personal, financial, or sensitive information.
23. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Policy when platform features, information practices, service providers, legal requirements, or business operations change.
The updated date will be displayed at the top of this page.
Material changes may also be communicated through the website, member area, or email where appropriate.
24. Privacy questions and requests
Questions, concerns, access requests, correction requests, deletion requests, or privacy complaints may be submitted through the APlusWebTraffic.com contact page once it is available.
Please include enough information to identify your account and explain the request, but do not send your password, complete payment-card number, or other unnecessary sensitive information.