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Privacy Policy
PLEASE READ PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS
SITE OR SUBMITTING ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION.
OUR COMMITMENT
TO PRIVACY
CanmoreAlberta.com Ltd. is committed to controlling the collection, use and
disclosure of the personal information provided by its customers and visitors.
This Privacy Statement is a simplified version of the CanmoreAlberta.com Ltd.
Privacy Policy adopted to ensure the accuracy, confidentiality and integrity
of your personal information.
The CanmoreAlberta.com Ltd. Privacy Policy is compliant with federal and provincial
privacy laws including the federal Personal Information Protection and
Electronic Documents Act. A complete copy of the CanmoreAlberta.com Ltd.
Privacy Policy is available on request by contacting our Privacy
Compliance Officer
Any time you do business with a CanmoreAlberta.com Ltd., or with anyone acting
as an agent on our behalf, you are protected by the rights and safeguards
contained in our Privacy Policy.
WHAT IS PERSONAL
INFORMATION?
"Personal information" is personally identifiable information such
as your name, residential address and e-mail address and includes information
about your product and service subscriptions and usage, billing records, service
and recorded complaints.
Personal information is collected by CanmoreAlberta.com Ltd. only when
you specifically and knowingly choose to provide it to us such as when you
request information through our Contact Forms, enter a CanmoreAlberta.com
Ltd. Contest, submit a Resume’ at CanmoreJobs.com or sign up for one of our
products or services. We may also receive personal information from our business
partners and other third parties provided that such third parties confirm
to us that they have obtained your consent to the disclosure of your personal
information.
Publicly available information, such as a public directory listing of your
name, address, telephone number and electronic address, is not considered
personal information.
COLLECTION
AND USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
CanmoreAlberta.com Ltd. collects and use your personal information primarily
for the purpose of providing you with the products, services and information
you have requested from us, including maintaining billing records.
Your personal information is used to communicate with you about your account
and to provide you with information related to other CanmoreAlberta.com Ltd.
services. If you indicated that you were interested in receiving offers or
information from our advertisers, your personal information would also be
used to contact you or to send you e-mail materials and other mailings about
products and services that you had requested.
If you enter a contest or other promotion offered by CanmoreAlberta.com Ltd.,
your personal information will be used to administer the promotion, including
the use of your name and selected other information for the purposes of contacting,
announcing and promoting the winners of the promotion.
Unless you specifically authorize us to release your personal information,
or release is required or permitted by law, CanmoreAlberta.com Ltd. will not
sell, lease or trade your personal information to other third parties.
Anonymous or "non-personal" information gathered by the CanmoreAlberta.com
Ltd. through our website may be used for technical, research, analytical purposes
and to develop or enhance service offerings.
CanmoreAlberta.com Ltd. will only ask for information about you that we need
and will only ask for it when we need it. When we ask you for the information,
we will explain to you why we need it and what we are going to do with it.
We will seek your prior consent to the collection, use and disclosure of the
information as required by applicable privacy legislation. Subject to legal
and contractual requirements, you can refuse to consent to our collection,
use or disclosure of information about you. You may also withdraw your consent
to any further collection, use or disclosure of information about you at any
time by giving us reasonable notice. If our intended disclosures or uses of
information change, we will notify you accordingly.
Your personal information will not be used for any other purpose without your
consent.
DISCLOSURE
To enable us to more efficiently provide the products and services you have
requested from us, CanmoreAlberta.com Ltd. may share your personal information
with selected third parties who are acting on our behalf as our agents, suppliers
or service providers. Such third party service providers are provided only
with such information as is necessary in the circumstances (i.e. your name
and address may be disclosed to our technical contractors and carriers for
the purpose of providing on site technical service). Information provided
to third parties is used only for the purpose stipulated and is subject to
strict terms of confidentiality.
USE OF COOKIES
CanmoreAlberta.com Ltd. uses a browser feature called a "cookie"
to collect information anonymously and track user patterns on our website.
A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard disk by a website.
"Cookies" contain a unique identification number that identifies
your browser, but not you, to our computers each time you visit our website.
Cookies tell us which pages of our websites are visited and by how many people.
The use of cookies is an industry standard and many major browsers are initially
set up to accept them. You can reset your browser to either refuse to accept
all cookies or to notify you when you have received a cookie. However, if
you refuse to accept cookies, you may not be able to use some of the features
available on our website.
ACCURACY
CanmoreAlberta.com Ltd. will try to ensure that information about you is
accurate, complete and up-to-date. However, please inform CanmoreAlberta.com
Ltd. of any change of name, address or other information. In the event you
have questions about the accuracy of factual information we have collected
about you, you will have access to that information in order to verify and
update it.
SECURITY
CanmoreAlberta.com Ltd. is committed to protecting your privacy. Security
measures, such as locked cabinets, restricted access and the use of passwords
and encryption have been adopted to protect your personal information against
loss or theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or
modification. Our employees have been trained to respect your privacy at all
times and those employees with access to your personal information shall use
your personal information strictly in accordance with the CanmoreAlberta.com
Ltd. Privacy Policy and applicable laws.
ACCESS
If you have any questions about the collection, use or disclosure of your
personal information by a CanmoreAlberta.com Ltd., or if you simply want to
know whether we have any of your personal information on file, you may contact
our Privacy
Compliance Officer. Except in limited circumstances, as specifically
provided by applicable privacy legislation, CanmoreAlberta.com Ltd. can tell
you whether we hold personal information about you. We can tell you the source
of the information, allow you access to your personal information.
CanmoreAlberta.com Ltd. will only refuse access to information about you in
those circumstances permitted or required by applicable privacy legislation.
If CanmoreAlberta.com Ltd. refuses access to you, it will provide you with
the reasons for its refusal upon request. Exceptions may include information
that contains references to other individuals, information that cannot be
disclosed for legal, security or commercial proprietary reasons, and information
that is subject to solicitor-client or litigation privilege. CanmoreAlberta.com
Ltd. will respond to your requests for access in accordance with applicable
privacy legislation.
TEN PRINCIPLES OF FAIR INFORMATION PRACTICES
PRINCIPLE 1 - ACCOUNTABILITY
CanmoreAlberta.com
Ltd. is responsible for the personal information under its control and shall
designate one individual who shall be accountable for our compliance with
the procedures and principles set out in the CanmoreAlberta.com Ltd. Privacy
Policy.
PRINCIPLE 2 - IDENTIFYING PURPOSE
CanmoreAlberta.com
Ltd. will identify the purpose for which personal information is collected
at or before the time the information is collected. The purposes for which
information is collected, used or disclosed by CanmoreAlberta.com Ltd. must
be those that a reasonable person would consider are appropriate in the circumstances.
PRINCIPLE 3 - CONSENT
The knowledge
and consent of the individual are required for the collection, use or disclosure
of personal information, except where consent is not required by privacy legislation
as, for example, where the collection, use or disclosure of personal information
is solely for journalistic, artistic or literary purposes.
PRINCIPLE 4 - LIMITING COLLECTION
CanmoreAlberta.com
Ltd. shall limit the collection of personal information to that which is necessary
for the purposes identified by the company. Personal information shall be
collected by fair and lawful means.
PRINCIPLE 5 - LIMITING USE, DISCLOSURE AND RETENTION
Personal information
shall not be used or disclosed for purposes other than those for which it
was collected, except with the consent of the individual or as required by
law. Personal information shall be retained only as long as necessary for
the fulfillment of the purposes for which it was collected.
PRINCIPLE 6 - ACCURACY
Personal information
shall be as accurate, complete and up-to-date as is necessary for the purposes
for which it is to be used.
PRINCIPLE 7 - SAFEGUARDS
Personal information
shall be protected by security safeguards appropriate to the sensitivity of
the information.
PRINCIPLE 8 – OPENNESS
CanmoreAlberta.com
shall make readily available to its customers and visitors specific information
about its policies and practices relating to the management of personal
information.
PRINCIPLE 9 - INDIVIDUAL ACCESS
Upon request,
an individual shall be informed of the existence, use and disclosure of his
or her personal information and shall be given access to that information
except where CanmoreAlberta.com Ltd. is permitted or required by law not to
disclose personal information to the individual customer or visitor. An individual
shall be able to challenge the accuracy and completeness of the information
disclosed to him or her and have it amended as appropriate.
PRINCIPLE
10 - CHALLENGING COMPLIANCE
An individual
shall be able to address a challenge concerning compliance with the principles
in the CanmoreAlberta.com Privacy the Privacy Compliance Officer.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this Web site's Privacy
Policy, you should first contact the company as follows:
CanmoreAlberta.com Ltd.
Attention: Privacy Compliance Officer
606 Seventh Street
Canmore, Alberta
T1W 2V8 |
