Nothing is more important than your privacy
Privacy is a default setting at Pelmorex
- Transparent privacy policies (The Weather Network)
- Ethical standards for use with AI Technologies
- We take extensive precautions to protect and securely store data.
- Our privacy practices follow the seven foundational Privacy by Design principles
- We are compliant with all aspects of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).
- All data is anonymized and aggregated into insights
- We never share or sell individual user data
You are in control of your information
You do not have to provide us with any personal information to use our services and you always retain full control over any personal information you choose to share with us.
There are several ways to opt-out of sharing your information:
- by using our paid app on iOS,
- setting your browser to remove cookies whenever you access the website and
- by disabling/modifying preferences for location services on our apps.
If you are an app user and have consented to location access, you can disable location sharing if you no longer wish to receive up to the minute weather information for your location.
If you do not consent to the app’s use of location information, you will need to manually enter your location each time in order to ensure the weather information you are getting is accurate to your location.
What is Privacy By Design?
Privacy by Design is a methodology for proactively embedding privacy into business practices. We follow its seven foundational principles in order to protect and securely store data.Privacy is seamlessly integrated into our products, services, and system designs by default.
- Proactive not reactive approaches
- We actively build processes and procedures to prevent privacy invasive events in addition to ensuring that privacy considerations are included in product development.
- Privacy is the Default Setting
- No project is started without privacy protection as a foundation
- Privacy Embedded into Design
- Our products provide transparent consent and opt-out options and security and safeguards in place to protect a user’s information
- Full Functionality
- Our platforms continue to provide full functionality regardless of a user’s decision to consent to or reject data collection or cookies other than strictly necessary cookies.
- End-to-End Security
- We utilize up to date security protocols to protect the security & data privacy of all stakeholders (Users, Partners and Employees) through investments in Technology, processes and people throughout the processing lifecycle
- Visibility and transparency – Keep it open
- We have clear, consistent and transparent privacy policies
- Our products have clear, concise and transparent consent prompts that are visible and easily accessible
- Respect for user privacy
- Privacy is a default setting for us
- We do not collect more information than necessary
- All information collected is stated in our privacy policies