CATAPULT STARTUPS PRIVACY POLICY
Last modified: 2025-02-19
PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY TO UNDERSTAND OUR POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR COLLECTING, PROCESSING, STORING, USING, AND DISCLOSING YOUR INFORMATION AND DATA. BY ACCESSING OR USING ANY PORTION OF THE WEBSITE THE INDIVIDUAL ACCESSING OR USING THE WEBSITE ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THEY HAVE READ THIS POLICY, UNDERSTAND IT, AND PROVIDE EXPRESS CONSENT TO THE POLICIES AND PRACTICES STATED HEREIN EFFECTIVE THE DATE YOU FIRST USED THE WEBSITE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH OUR POLICIES AND PRACTICES, YOUR ONLY CHOICE IS TO NOT USE THE WEBSITE, LEAVE IMMEDIATELY, AND STOP INTERACTING WITH US. PLEASE KEEP A COPY OF THIS POLICY FOR YOUR RECORDS.
INTRODUCTION
Catapult Startups (“Company”, “we”, “us”, “our”, “CATAPULT”) is a not-for-profit corporation from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, that provides services to help companies launch and grow their business and provides the website found at www.catapultbic.org (the “Website”).
CONSENT TO PRIVACY POLICY
By accessing or using the Website or in any other interactions with CATAPULT, you state that you clearly and irrevocably understand, accept, and consent to the practices described in this Privacy Policy. For greater clarity, User acknowledges and agrees that any of the following actions shall clearly evidence, constitute, and denote User’s express consent and agreement to this Privacy Policy, including when User enters into a written agreement with CATAPULT, User contacts CATAPULT, User submits any personal information to CATAPULT or the Website, User provides any materials to CATAPULT or the Website, User submits a form on the Website, or User engages in continued use of the Website.
This Privacy Policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of the Website and CATAPULT’s intellectual property, including after we make changes, indicates that you accept and consent to those changes. It is your responsibility to check this Privacy Policy periodically for updates.
CONSENT TO MAIL LIST & MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS
Without limiting anything in this Privacy Policy, by using or accessing the Website or our intellectual property, User expressly agrees and provides consent to CATAPULT to send, distribute, or otherwise transmit to you any commercial electronic message (CEM) or other communications or notifications, including for commercial and other promotional purposes; and you agree to be added to our mail list until and when you provide us written notice that you wish to unsubscribe in accordance with the notice provision at the end of this Privacy Policy.
AGE RESTRICTIONS
Use of and access to the Website is not intended for individuals under 18 years of age. No one under 18 may provide any information to the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from individuals under 18. If you are under 18, do not submit any information to the Website or otherwise provide us personal information. If you believe we might have any information about individuals under 18, please contact us in accordance with the notice provisions at the end of this Privacy Policy.
GEOGRAPHIC RESTRICTIONS
CATAPULT is in Alberta, Canada. The Website is offered only for access and use in the provinces and territories of Canada, except in Quebec. The Website is not intended for use in any jurisdiction where its use is not permitted, including in Quebec. Such users must leave the Website immediately. CATAPULT does not have sufficient capabilities to determine where a User is located, including blocking a User based on its geographic location. If you access the Website from outside the permitted regions, you do so at your own risk and you are responsible for compliance with local laws and regulations of your jurisdiction. You must immediately stop using the Website if your access and use of it as it is offered by CATAPULT is prohibited under your local laws or regulations and in no way shall CATAPULT be responsible or liable for your unauthorized or unlawful use of the Website.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU
We collect and use several types of information from and about you, including: personal information, that we can reasonably use to directly or indirectly identify you, including demographic and psychographic information, and your name, age, gender, location, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number, IP address, username, billing and account information, or any other identifier we may use to contact you; non-personal information, that does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity or directly relate to an identifiable individual, such as statistical or aggregated data; technical information, including your login information, browser type and version, device and device settings, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and website, advertising identifiers and trackers, and information about your internet connection, hardware, software, and your usage and interactions with the Website or any of our intellectual property, including on third-party sites, apps, or channels; non-personal details about your Website interactions, including URLs, clickstream to, through and from our Website (including date and time), products you viewed or searched for, page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, and page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs); and usage information, including as pertaining to User’s submission of materials to the Website, User’s interactions with content, features, functionality, products, and services on the Website, User’s back-end information and settings as set by User, and User’s transactions, advertisements, solicitations, and engagements for products and services on the Website and the details thereof.
HOW WE COLLECT INFORMATION ABOUT YOU
We use different methods to collect your information, including through: direct interactions with you when you provide it to us, for example, by submitting a form on the Website, entering into a contract with us, or corresponding with us by phone, email, social media, mail, or otherwise; automated technologies or interactions, for example, information may be collected automatically as you use the Website, including through cookies; third party software, including the use of third party plugins, applications, or APIs that enhance the Website which may collect information on you; and third party tracking technologies, such as Google Analytics and tracking pixels, which may include usage details, demographic or psychographic information, IP addresses, advertising data, tracking information, identifiers, and information collected through cookies and other tracking technologies.
INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE TO US
The information we collect directly from you on or through the Website or through other means may include: information that you provide us directly or through a feature on the Website such as our contact form or intake form; information provided to us during the registration process, subscribing to our services or products, or mailing list, or as uploaded to your user profile; information and copies of your correspondence and details if you contact us; contract and transaction details if you enter into a contract or transaction with us; and your search queries on the Website and usage of the Website.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT THROUGH AUTOMATIC MEANS
As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use cookies or other automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including: details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website; usage information about your use of the Website; and information about your device and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type. We may also use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services. The information we collect through automatic means allows us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to estimate our audience size and usage patterns; store information about your preferences; customize our Website according to your interests; speed up your searches and load times; personalize your user experience or user interface; recognize you when you return to our Website and allow you to pick up where you left off; deliver advertisements to you, including on third-party websites, applications, or services; and save your payment preferences and information to make future orders easier.
The technologies we use for automatic data collection may include using Cookies, a small file placed on the hard drive of your device or your internet browser; Flash Cookies, that collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website; and Beacons/Pixels, small electronic files that permit us to monitor usage, gather statistics, and enhance the effectiveness of our advertisements.
THIRD PARTIES ON THE WEBSITE
Certain services on the Website including content, advertisements, functions, features, links, or APIs may be operated or provided by third parties. They may collect and use your data, including personal information, when you use the Website. The Website may also include outbound links to third-party sites and pages off the Website. These third parties have their own privacy and data policies and practices, and we do not accept any responsibility or liability for such policies and practices.
Third-party services we use on the Website include: Brevo CRM, Meta Advertisements, LinkedIn Advertisements; Google Ad Words; Meta Pixel; LinkedIn Pixel; Google Tag Manager; Google Analytics; Fluent Forms; WordPress, and associated plugins including Elementor; and Rebel.ca.
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
We use information that we collect on users or that is provided to us in order to: offer our Website and its content and functionality to our users; to provide users information and fulfil their requests; to add users to our mailing list; to provide users with notices about their account; to carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts with a user, including for billing and collection purposes or to comply with legal requirements; to verify the accuracy or appropriateness of any User’s submission to the Website; to monitor our Website and enforce our standards; to notify users about changes to our Website or any products or services we provide; to allow users to register for the Website; to allow users to participate in interactive functions on our Website; to allow users to submit materials to the Website; to manage our relationship with our users; to deliver relevant advertising to our users; to study and generate industry, market, economic, and financial data; to contact users about goods and services that may be of interest to them; to enable advertisers to directly market to our users; to collect and measure data used to make the Website and CATAPULT and our products and services more effective; to train artificial intelligence and machine learning applications; or in any other way we may describe when a user provides the information or for any other purpose with their consent.
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
We may disclose your information that we collect or you provide: directly on the Website when you submit a submission or content or interact with an interactive function on the Website; to our subsidiaries, assigns, and affiliates; to third parties to market their products or services to you; to contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business or deliver our products and services; to comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request, in accordance with applicable law; to enforce our contracts with you; or if we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of CATAPULT, our customers, other users, or the public.
STORAGE AND TRANSFER OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Where possible and practicable, we use reasonable efforts to process and store your personal information and other data in Canada. We currently use www.rebel.ca or comparable providers to host our servers and data, which stores your data in Canada, but may sometimes require your data to be located outside of Canada. In those instances, different privacy laws may apply that may or may not be as comprehensive as Canadian law. In these circumstances, the governments, courts, law enforcement, regulatory agencies, and other third parties in that country may be able to obtain access to your personal information through the laws of the foreign country.
CHOICES ABOUT YOUR DATA
You can control the collection and use of your data including with: browser and device choices, including by setting your browser to refuse cookies; opting out of third-party advertising, by providing us notice in accordance with the notice provision at the end of this Privacy Policy; and opting out of marketing communications, by providing us written notice in accordance with the notice provision at the end of this Privacy Policy. By opting out of any feature, you may be unable to access or use some or all of the Website.
To withdraw your consent to the practices stated in this Privacy Policy, please provide us notice in accordance with the notice provision at the end of this Privacy Policy. Please note that if you withdraw your consent, you may no longer able to access and use our products, services, Website or intellectual property.
DATA SECURITY
We use physical, electronic, and administrative measures to help secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. The safety and security of your information also depends on you. You are responsible for your profile on the Website and for keeping your password confidential. The transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure and we cannot guarantee the security of your information on the Website. Any transmission of information is at your own risk.
DATA RETENTION
Except as otherwise permitted or required by applicable law or regulation, we will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. Under some circumstances we may anonymize your personal information so that it can no longer be associated with you. We reserve the right to use such anonymous and de-identified data for any legitimate business purpose without further notice to you or your consent.
ACCESSING AND CORRECTING YOUR PESONAL INFORMATION
It is important that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal information changes. By law you have the right to request access to it and to correct the personal information that we hold about you. By withdrawing your consent, you will not be able to access and use the Website or our products or services. If you want to otherwise review, verify, correct, or withdraw consent to the use of your personal information you may send us written notice in accordance with the notice provision at the end of this Privacy Policy. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect. We may request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and your right to access the information, and to provide you with the personal information that we hold about you or make your requested changes. Applicable law may allow or require us to refuse to provide you with access to some or all the personal information that we hold about you, or we may have destroyed, erased, or made your personal information anonymous in accordance with our record retention obligations and practices. If we cannot provide you with access to your personal information, we will inform you, subject to any legal or regulatory restrictions.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
It is our policy at CATAPULT to post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page. We include the date the Privacy Policy was last revised at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date, active, and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.
HYPERLINKS
Any hyperlink in this Privacy Policy is provided for convenience only and is subject to change from time to time as the server, data, or destination changes, or as posts or pages are taken down or moved, and you understand that a wrong or missing hyperlink shall not affect the interpretation of this Privacy Policy.
CONTACT, COMPLAINTS & NOTICES
Catapult Startups is a not-for-profit corporation duly incorporated in Alberta, Canada.
All notices and communications to CATAPULT shall be delivered in writing via email to:
Catapult Startups
Attention: Privacy Officer
All notices and communications to User shall be delivered to User in writing via email to the email address they used to contact CATAPULT and/or the email address we have on file for User.
We welcome your questions, comments, complaints, and requests regarding this Privacy Policy and our privacy and digital practices. If submitting a notice, complaint, or request to withdraw consent or remove your account, content, data, or information from the Website, please particularize and substantiate all information and evidence CATAPULT needs to comply with such notice, complaint or request, including to comply with all relevant rules, regulations, and this Privacy Policy, within TEN (10) days of the circumstances of such notice, complaint, or request was made known to User.
