Privacy Policy

Last Updated: December 18, 2025

At Altavva, we are committed to maintaining the trust and confidence of our visitors. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and safeguard your personal information.

1. Who We Are

Our website address is: https://altavva.ca.

2. Information We Collect and Why

Comments

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

An anonymized string created from your email address (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/. Upon 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 hosted on the site.

Cookies

To improve your experience, we use cookies in the following ways:

  • Comments: If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These last for one year.
  • Login Sessions: If you visit our login page, we set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies (contains no personal data; discarded when you close your browser).
  • Authentication: When you log in, we set cookies to save your login info (lasts 2 days) and screen display choices (lasts 1 year). If you select “Remember Me,” your login persists for 2 weeks.
  • Content Editing: If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie indicating the post ID is saved (expires after 1 day).

3. Embedded Content from Other Websites

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

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

4. Data Sharing and Retention

  • Password Resets: If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
  • Comment Retention: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely for automated moderation.
  • User Profiles: For users that register on our website, we store the personal information provided in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except their username).

5. Your Rights Over Your Data

If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request:

  1. An exported file of the personal data we hold about you.
  2. The erasure of any personal data we hold about you.

Note: This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

6. Where Your Data Is Sent

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

7. Canadian Privacy Compliance (PIPEDA)

We operate in accordance with the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). We do not sell your personal information to third parties.

8. Contact Information

For any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or to make a request regarding your personal data, please contact us via our official contact page.