Privacy Policy

Your privacy is very important to us. At Lock Street Brewing Co. we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:

  • We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
  • We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
  • We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.

LOCK STREET BREWING CORP (“Lock Street Brewing Co.”)  operates: lockstreet.ca. It is Lock Street Brewing Co.’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Lock Street Brewing Co. collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Lock Street Brewing Co.’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Lock Street Brewing Co.’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Lock Street Brewing Co. may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Lock Street Brewing Co. also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. Lock Street Brewing Co. only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Lock Street Brewing Co.’s websites choose to interact with Lock Street Brewing Co. in ways that require Lock Street Brewing Co. to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Lock Street Brewing Co. gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive Lock Street Brewing Co. updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, Lock Street Brewing Co. collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Lock Street Brewing Co.. Lock Street Brewing Co. does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

Lock Street Brewing Co. may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Lock Street Brewing Co. may monitor the most popular pages on the Lock Street Brewing Co..com site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Lock Street Brewing Co. may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Lock Street Brewing Co. does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Lock Street Brewing Co. discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Lock Street Brewing Co.’s behalf or to provide services available at Lock Street Brewing Co.’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Lock Street Brewing Co.’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Lock Street Brewing Co. will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Lock Street Brewing Co. discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Lock Street Brewing Co. believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Lock Street Brewing Co., third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Lock Street Brewing Co. website and have supplied your email address, Lock Street Brewing Co. may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Lock Street Brewing Co. and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Lock Street Brewing Co. takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Lock Street Brewing Co. uses cookies to help Lock Street Brewing Co. identify and track visitors, their usage of Lock Street Brewing Co. website, and their website access preferences. Lock Street Brewing Co. visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Lock Street Brewing Co.’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Lock Street Brewing Co.’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If Lock Street Brewing Co., or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Lock Street Brewing Co. goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Lock Street Brewing Co. may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Ads

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Lock Street Brewing Co. and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Comments

Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Lock Street Brewing Co. may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Lock Street Brewing Co.’s sole discretion. Lock Street Brewing Co. encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.