Privacy Policy

What information do we collect?

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

  • Contact Webform

We share this information with Squarespace & Google, our website analytics providers, to learn about site traffic and activity.

What are Cookies and what are your options when engaging with them?

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

  • These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.

  • These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

  • Alternatively, You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. This action can be completed through your browser settings. Every type of browser is a little different, please review the browser’s Help Menu for more information about modifying cookies. Please keep in mind that if you turn cookies off, some features that make your website experience more efficient may not function properly.

How Is Contact Form Submission Information Stored?

When you submit information to this website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us. We also share this information with Gmail for storage and with Zapier for data porting.

For Website Visitors:

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Web pages you view while on this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

Fonts:

This website uses font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, or device

  • Your IP address

How we protect collected information?

We only provide information on our website and an option to contact us via a Squarespace webform. Your personal contact information is Stored within Google products.

All Google products are built with strong security features that continuously protect your information. The insights we gain from maintaining our services help us detect and automatically block security threats from ever reaching you or Mark H Smith Designs Inc. And if we do detect something risky that we think you should know about, we’ll notify you and help guide you through steps to stay better protected.

What Does Google Do To Protect Your Information?

Google works hard to protect your information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of information we hold, including:

  • Google uses encryption to keep your data private while in transit

  • Googles offers a range of security features

  • Google reviews our information collection, storage, and processing practices, including physical security measures, to prevent unauthorized access to our systems

  • Google restricts access to personal information to Google employees, contractors, and agents who need that information in order to process it. Anyone with this access is subject to strict contractual confidentiality obligations and may be disciplined or terminated if they fail to meet these obligations

Where you can learn more about Google Ads and Google Analytics privacy polices?

Google’s ads policies can be found here.

Google Analytics polices can be found here.

Where you can learn more about Squarespace’s privacy polices?

Squarespace’s privacy policy can be found here.

Contact information:

If you have any questions in regards to our privacy policy, please contact us.

Info@markHsmith.ca

50 Cambridge Ave. Suite 203, Toronto, ON, M4K 2L3

647 – 609 0333