Privacy Policy
This Website, qipaoottawa.com, is owned and operated by Daniel Luk (“we”, “us”, or “our”). It is our policy to respect the privacy of our users and readers (“you”) regarding any information we may collect while operating our Website. We also believe it is important to document acceptable Website use and disclose advertising sponsors for you and other users to have the best experience.

Please review the following Privacy Policy, Terms of Use, and Disclosures (“Policies”) before using this Website. While most changes are likely to be minor, we reserve the right to change these Policies on the Website at any time. Therefore, we encourage you to check this page frequently for any changes. By using this Website, you are agreeing to these Policies as they appear, regardless of whether you have read them.

While using our Website, we may collect certain personally identifiable information to help us monitor and improve user experience or enable certain site features. Personally identifiable information is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context. This Privacy Policy covers how we collect, use, protect, or otherwise handle your personally identifiable information, as described further below.

Website Users
Like most website operators, we collect potentially personally identifiable information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available (“Browser Data”), such as the Internet Protocol (IP) address, Internet Service Provider (ISP) information, browser type, language preference, referring site, pages visited, and the date and time of each user request. We may also use third-party services, such as Google Analytics, to collect, monitor, and analyze Browser Data. Our purpose in collecting Browser Data is to better understand how our users interact with the Website. From time to time, we may release non-personally identifiable information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of our Website.

Gathering of Personally Identifiable Information
Certain users choose to interact with our Website in ways that require us to gather personally identifiable information. The amount and type of information that we gather depend on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask users who comment on our Website to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, we collect such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the user’s interaction with our Website. We do not disclose personally identifiable information other than as described below. And users can always refuse to supply personally identifiable information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain Website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics
We may collect statistics about the behavior of our Website users. For instance, we may monitor the most popular pages on the site or use spam screened by third-party services, such as Akismet, to help identify spam. We may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, we do not disclose personally identifiable information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally Identifiable Information
We disclose personally identifiable information only to those of our agents and third-party service providers that need to know that information in order to process it on our behalf or to provide services available on our Website. Some of those agents and third-party service providers may be located outside of your home country; by using our Website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Other than to our agents and third-party service providers, as described above, we disclose personally identifiable information only in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental request, or when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of ourselves, third parties, or the public at large. We will not rent or sell personally identifiable information to anyone, except as otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy.

If you are a registered user of our Website and have supplied your email address, we 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 our Website. 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. We take all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction of personally identifiable information, but cannot guarantee absolute security. If you wish to access or delete any personally identifiable information we may have about you, please contact us via the information at the bottom of this page.

Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a user’s computer, and that the user’s browser provides to the website each time the user returns. We use cookies to help us identify and track users, their Website usage, and their Website access preferences. Along with third-party service providers such as Google, first-party cookies and third-party cookies or other identifiers may be used together to compile user advertising preferences as they relate to our Website. Our users who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using our Website, with the understanding that certain features of our Website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Please note, some internet browsers include a setting to send Do Not Track (DNT) signals, which differs from the cookie opt-out setting. As no industry standard has yet been developed with respect to Do Not Track, our Website does not currently process or respond to such Do Not Track signals.

Business Transfers
If the Website or substantially all of its assets were acquired or sold, or in the unlikely event that we go out of business or enter bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that are transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and that any acquirer of this Website may continue to use your personally identifiable information as set forth in this policy.

Advertising
Advertising appearing on our Website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the advertising 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 advertising 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 our Website and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers. For further information about third-party advertisers or to opt out of the use of cookies for personalized advertising, visit www.aboutads.info. A listing of our current advertising partners is available in our Disclosures, below.

Email Subscriptions
You may choose to subscribe to our email list to receive updates on what’s going on with our Website. By subscribing, you consent to occasionally receive emails from us related to our Website. You may unsubscribe from our Website at any time. Should you have trouble unsubscribing, please contact us via the information at the bottom of this page. We comply with the CAN-SPAM Act and do not send out spam or misleading information.

Comments
You may voluntarily provide comments or other submissions to our Website. By choosing to submit a comment, you give implied consent for this comment and your information to appear on our Website. When users leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the user’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. Your email address may be required to allow us to respond to your comment, but will not be shared with any third party, except as otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy. Comments and other user content may be submitted to third-party services, such as Akismet anti-spam service, to improve spam prevention. An anonymized string created from your email address, also called a hash, may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media
If you upload images to our Website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Website users can download and extract any location data from images on the Website.

Social media links and sharing options are available on this Website. If you choose to interact with us on social media, be advised that any interactions on our social media accounts are publicly available.

Third-Party Services, Links, and Embedded Content
We use various third-party services who assist us with operating our Website and serving our users. Many of these services require personally identifiable information to function properly. We make every attempt to select third-party service providers that keep personally identifiable information confidential and behave in a similar fashion to this Privacy Policy. However, third-party service providers ultimately have their own privacy policies, which you are encouraged to review. To assist you in reviewing these third-party service provider’s policies, we maintain a listing of utilized services in our Disclosures, below. While every effort will be made, we cannot guarantee this list is always 100% complete and up to date. By using this Website, you are consenting to the transfer of personally identifiable information to our third-party service providers.

We may, at our discretion, include links to or embedded content from third-party sites on our Website. Embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.) from third-party sites behaves in the exact same way as if you have visited that site. These third-party sites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with them, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content on our Website. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies, therefore, we assume no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked or embedded sites. Once you leave our Website or while interacting with a third-party site, you are no longer governed by this Privacy Policy or our Terms of Use, below, and are encouraged to review the third-party site’s policies.

Children
We do not specifically market our Website to children under 13 years of age. Collection of personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13 years old is governed by the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and allows parental control. We do not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under 13 years old without parental consent. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that their child has provided us with personally identifiable information without consent, please contact us via the information at the bottom of this page and we will delete such information.

Privacy Policy Changes
We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy on the Website at any time. Your continued use of this Website after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Contact Information
If you have any questions or concerns regarding our website, this Policy or simply want more information, please contact us at: daniel@qipaoottawa.com.

Last Updated: Mar 5, 2026.