Privacy Policy

We are firmly committed to ensuring that your personal account information is kept strictly confidential. The following is a summary of the policy we have implemented. It includes details of our compliance with third party privacy standards.We are firmly committed to ensuring that your personal account information is kept strictly confidential. The following is a summary of the policy we have implemented. It includes details of our compliance with third party privacy standards.

The following conditions apply to any account or transaction information received by Green Apple Studio:

  • This information will not be rented, sold or shared with any third party other than the financial institutions involved in order processing.
  • In some cases, Green Apple Studio may disclose this information received from its members to protect the rights or property of Green Apple Studio and its other members.

Green Apple Studio may, from time to time, monitor site activity to collect aggregated non-personal information. This information is not linked in any way to an account holder's personal identity. Rather, it is used for statistical analysis, including monitoring site usage or traffic to help us make more informed decisions for future site development, marketing and special promotions.

We will occasionally communicate with you via the email address you provided at the time of account creation. In the case of promotional announcements, you may opt-out of receiving these messages. If it is an announcement of important changes to the site that we feel our members should know about, we will send you these types of messages without your consent.

Green Apple Studio provides a secure and private environment for the digital photos uploaded and stored on our site. Access to your account is password protected. However, because Green Apple Studio allows the sharing of photo albums with others, it is important to be aware of the following:

  • You can invite others to view shared photo albums in your account.
  • Invitations to view shared albums are sent by email: the message contains a link to the shared album.
  • If you forward this email to other people, the link remains open: they will have access to the shared album even if they have not received a direct invitation from you.
  • >You can ask visitors to sign in before viewing the shared album. In this case, their email addresses will appear in your guestbook.

Cookies are small amounts of information that your browser receives from websites. They are stored on your hard drive. Cookies store site-specific settings so that the next time you visit, your preferences are automatically set based on your previous visit. Green Apple Studio uses cookies only to preset your password, allowing for a faster account login. If you prefer, you can disable the password cookie.

Green Apple Studio uses IP addresses to generate aggregated demographic information. As such, the IP addresses of visitors to our site are stored in a log file. We only look at these log files to establish specific IP/user ID links in two instances:

  • If credit card fraud is suspected, we would be obliged to consult the log files and forward the results to the financial institutions or legal authorities.
  • If our Technical Support department receives a request that is best handled by consulting the log files, we will do so, but only after receiving the user's approval.

If you were referred to Green Apple Studio through a promotion on another site, we will store the associated IP addresses in our database by matching them to your user ID. This procedure allows us to fulfill the contractual obligations of our promotional partnerships.

When you cancel your membership, you will be asked several times to confirm your cancellation decision. In this case, all information and photos associated with your account are immediately deleted. As a result, the photos are unrecoverable.

Green Apple Studio reserves the right to change its Privacy Policy without notice. We suggest that you return to this page to check for changes to this policy. If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, other policies and practices, or about your dealings with us, please email us at service@greenapplestudio.ca.