Privacy Policy – Cypress Painting & Decorating Co.

Last Updated: February 4, 2026.

Your privacy is important to us. We do not sell your information to any third party. We use the information you provide on this Website only to communicate with you, provide the services you have requested (such as painting quotes), and improve our services for you and all our customers.

This Privacy Policy describes the manner in which Cypress Painting & Decorating Co.’s website (https://www.cypresspainting.ca/) (the “Website”) collects, uses, maintains, and discloses information collected from visitors (“Visitors”) to the Website. Cypress Painting & Decorating Co. (“Cypress Painting”) is a sole proprietorship owned and operated by Sabi Szechenyi, providing residential and commercial painting services exclusively in British Columbia, Canada.

Cypress Painting is the sole owner of the information collected on the Website. We only collect information you voluntarily provide via forms, email, or other direct contact. We will keep this information confidential and will not sell or rent it to anyone.

We may collect personally identifying information from online Visitors only through forms on the Contact Us or other pages. Visitors may be asked for, as appropriate, name, email address, mailing address, and phone number. Visitors may, however, visit our Website anonymously. We will collect personally identifiable information from Visitors only if they voluntarily submit it to us.

Cypress Painting provides forms on our website for requesting painting quotes or services. These forms are submitted online. When a Visitor submits a form, it is converted into an email and sent to Cypress Painting. Submitted information is emailed directly to Cypress Painting and is not stored on the Website.

We may collect non-personal identification information about Visitors whenever they interact with our Website. This may include the browser name, the type of computer, and technical information about Visitors’ means of connection to our Website, such as the operating system and the Internet service provider utilized and other similar information.

To assist us in collecting information through our website, we have retained the services of a third-party host, Old Dog Web Strategies, whose privacy policies are consistent with ours to ensure your information is kept secure and confidential.

Cypress Painting also uses Google Analytics to measure website performance and collect general information about your visit. We do not collect any personally identifying information through Google Analytics. We use this information to improve the relevance of our website for all visitors. Please see the policy disclosure about Google Analytics below.

You can elect to opt-out of Google Analytics collection of your data by installing a browser add-on.

Cypress Painting does not sell products or services online and does not collect credit card or payment information through its website.

Cypress Painting uses its best efforts to protect your information in compliance with the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and British Columbia’s Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA). We implement appropriate safeguards, including secure email transmission and limited access to data by authorized personnel only. However, no method of transmitting or storing data over the Internet is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

Cypress Painting may collect and use visitors’ personal information for the following purposes:

• To respond to you regarding the reason you contacted us (e.g., providing painting quotes).
• To improve customer service. The information you provide helps us respond to your requests and support needs more efficiently.
• To personalize the user experience. We may use information in the aggregate to understand how our Visitors as a group use the services and resources provided on our Website.
• To improve our Website. We may use feedback you provide to improve our products and services.
• To run a promotion, contest, survey or other Website features. To send Visitors information they agreed to receive about topics we think will be of interest to them.
• To send periodic emails. We may use the email address to respond to Visitor inquiries, questions, and/or other requests, in compliance with Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL).

We do not sell, trade, or rent Visitors’ personal identification information to others. We may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personal identification information regarding visitors and users with our business partners, trusted affiliates, and advertisers for the purposes outlined above.

Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the normal course of business or to notify you of changes to this privacy policy.

We retain personal information only as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. Once no longer needed, information is securely deleted or anonymized.

The Website does not allow visitors to leave comments or to upload videos or images.

Articles on this site do not include, but may in the future include, embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Consent for the collection, retention, and use of personal information is obtained when website visitors voluntarily provide such information by completing forms on the contact page. We collect only the personal information reasonably required to provide painting quotes or services. You may withdraw consent at any time by contacting us, subject to legal or contractual restrictions.

Visitors may find content on our Website that links to the sites and services of our partners, suppliers, advertisers, sponsors, licensors, and other third parties. We do not control the content or links that appear on these sites and are not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to or from our Website. In addition, these sites or services, including their content and links, may change frequently. These sites and services may have their own privacy policies and customer service policies. Browsing and interaction on any other website, including websites which have a link to our Website, is subject to that website’s own terms and policies.

IP Address: An Internet Protocol (IP) address is a unique string of numbers that is assigned to your computer by your Internet Service Provider. Web servers automatically identify your computer by its IP address. We will use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Site. Your IP address may also be used to gather broad demographic information.

Cookies: A cookie is a small data file that can be placed on your hard drive when you visit certain websites. We use cookies to collect, store, and sometimes track information for statistical purposes to improve the services we provide. These cookies do not enable third parties to access any personally identifiable information.

Cypress Painting may use Google Ads from time to time and will use Google Ads remarketing service to advertise on third-party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. This means that we may advertise to previous visitors to our website. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page or a site in the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Cypress Painting website. Google’s policy on use of cookies is set out in its Policies and Principles on Advertising in Technologies. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy.

You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page, and if you want to you can opt-out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin by visiting the Google Advertising opt-out page or the Network Advertising Initiative information on opting-out.

Customer Match Advertising: We share customer data (such as email addresses) with third parties like Google to perform services on our behalf, including targeted advertising through Google’s Customer Match feature. This helps us deliver personalized ads for painting services to users who have interacted with us. We obtain consent for such sharing where required by law or applicable Google policies governing personalized ads and/or user consent, including Google’s EU user consent policy. For more details, see Google’s Customer Match policy [link: https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/7474263].

Google Analytics is a web analytics tool that Cypress Painting uses to help understand how visitors engage with this website. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit this site, which pages they visit, and which other sites they visited before coming to this site. We use information from Google Analytics solely to improve this site. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit this site, rather than your name or other identifying information. We do not combine information collected through Google Analytics with personally identifiable information. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit this site, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. See Google’s policy on use of Cookies.

Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. You can prevent Google Analytics from tracking you on subsequent visits to this site by disabling cookies in your browser. See the above section on Google Ads.

You have the option to decline to have your data collected by Google Analytics by installing this browser add-on.

For consistent font rendering, this page uses web fonts provided by Google. When you open a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into its cache to render text correctly.

To do this, your browser must establish a direct connection to Google’s servers. Google has been notified that our web page was accessed from your IP address. Using Google Web Fonts is intended to ensure a consistent, attractive presentation of our plugin. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.

If your browser does not support web fonts, your computer will use a standard font.

Further information about handling user data, can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

Other than as described above, we do not use or associate personally identifiable information with remarketing lists, cookies, data feeds, or other anonymous identifiers. We do not use or associate targeting information, such as demographics or location, with any personally identifiable information collected from any Google Ads or the associated landing page.

Cypress Painting does process geolocation information from visitors who elect to provide it; however, we do not retain precise location information from any Website visitor.

Under PIPEDA and PIPA, you have the right to access, correct, or delete your personal information held by us. You may also withdraw consent or complain about our handling of your information. To exercise these rights, contact us at the details below.

In the event of a security breach involving personal information, we will notify affected individuals and report to the appropriate authorities as required by law.

If you have questions or comments about the Cypress Painting privacy policy, please contact us via any of the ways described in the contact page. If you believe that Cypress Painting has not adhered to this Statement, please contact us at sabi@cypresspainting.ca. We will use our best efforts to address your concerns and remedy the problem as soon as practically possible.

This Privacy Policy is reviewed and revised from time to time. You will want to revisit it regularly. When it changes, we will update the “Last Updated” date at the top of the page.

By using this Website, you signify your acceptance of this policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our Website. Your continued use of the Website following the posting of changes to this policy will evidence your acceptance of those changes.