PERSONAL INFORMATION POLICY

Our Commitment

It is our commitment to maintain the principles of integrity and trust with respect to the protection of personal information.ÔøΩ As part of our commitment, we will protect the privacy of personal information of employees, clients, customers and others individuals whose personal information we collect, use and disclose.ÔøΩ We are committed to complying with British ColumbiaÔøΩs Personal Information Protection Act (the ÔøΩActÔøΩ) and all other applicable privacy laws.ÔøΩ

Definitions

ÔøΩbusiness contact informationÔøΩ means information that enables an individual to be contacted at work, including his/her name, title, business address, business telephone number, fax number and e-mail address.

ÔøΩemployee personal informationÔøΩ means personal information about an employee that is collected used or disclosed solely for the purposes reasonably required to establish, manage or terminate an employment relationship, but does not include other personal information about the employee.

ÔøΩpersonal informationÔøΩ means any information that personally identifies an individual, but does not include business contact information or work product information.

ÔøΩwork product informationÔøΩ means information prepared or collected by an individual or group of individuals as part of their employment or business responsibilities or activities related to their employment or business.

Responsibility

We are responsible for all personal information under our control, even if it is not in our possession.ÔøΩ We have developed policies and procedures to deal with the proper collection, use and disclosure of personal information.ÔøΩ

We have appointed the following person to answer any questions or to handle requests for access to personal information or complaints:ÔøΩ

Name	Contact Information
Harcharan Grewal	902-220-5466

Purposes

We collect personal information for the following purposes:

ÔøΩ        [to individualize your experience on our website];

ÔøΩ        [to communicate separately with you];

ÔøΩ        [to facilitate your movements throughout our website];

ÔøΩ        [to be able to selectively send you communications that may be of interest to you, either electronically or otherwise];

Consent

We require the consent of individuals to collect, use or disclose personal information.ÔøΩ Unless required by law or otherwise authorized by the Act, we will not use or disclose personal information already collected for other purposes unless we obtain the consent of the individual to whom it belongs.ÔøΩ Generally, we will seek consent to use and disclose personal information at the same time as we collect the information.

[We will affirmatively ask to join our mailing lists using the forms provided on this website or other means expressly sanctioned by us.]

Subject to contractual or legal arrangements, you may withdraw or refuse consent provided that we are given reasonable notice. We will inform you of the consequences of withdrawing your consent, if any.

Collection

We will only collect personal information for the purposes we have identified above and that are reasonable in the circumstances.ÔøΩ We will only collect personal information through methods that are lawful, will not collect information indiscriminately and will try to collect personal information directly from the individual concerned unless authorized by that individual to collect it from a third party or otherwise as permitted by the Act.

Depending on how you have configured your browser, when you access our website, a small file - a ÔøΩcookieÔøΩ - may be created by our server and stored on your computer.ÔøΩ The cookie contains a unique session identification number and is used to:

ÔøΩ        keep track of your online order;

ÔøΩ        ensure that you see the correct products and pricing applicable to the province in which you are located;

ÔøΩ        personalize your experience by alerting you to features and information that might interest you;

ÔøΩ        [other?]

A cookie cannot be used to access or otherwise compromise the data on your hard drive.ÔøΩ If you arrive at our website with your browser configured to disable cookies, you will not be identified until you register and sign-in.ÔøΩ Please be advised that cookies may be required to complete certain functions on this website, such as making purchases or placing orders at our online store.

 

Use of IP Addresses

An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you're surfing the Internet. Web servers automatically identify your computer by its IP address. We may collect IP addresses for the purposes of system administration, to report aggregated information to our advertisers, and to audit the use of our website. When clients request pages from our website, our servers log the requesting clients' IP addresses. We normally will not link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable, which means that clients' sessions will be logged, but client identity remains anonymous to us. We can and will use IP addresses to identify a client when we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with our rules or terms of service or to protect our service, website, or any person, or where it is otherwise authorized or required by law.

Use, Disclosure and Retention

We will only use or disclose personal information for the purpose(s) for which it was collected.ÔøΩ

We may disclose the personal information to:

(i)ÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩ a person who in our reasonable judgment is seeking the information as an agent of the individual;

(ii)ÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩ a company or individual engaged by us to perform functions on its behalf, such as research or data processing;

(iii)ÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩ a credit reporting agency;

(iv)ÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩ a public authority or agent of a public authority, if in our reasonable judgment, it appears that there is imminent danger to life or property which could be avoided or minimized by disclosure of the information; or

(v)ÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩ where you consent to such disclosure or it is required or authorized by law.

We may use and disclose employee personal information for a variety of purposes related to commencing, managing or terminating the employment relationship.

We do not sell, rent, loan, trade, or lease any personal information collected at our site, including contact forms, download requests or email lists.

We will retain personal information only as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes stated above, as required for legal or business purposes or as required by law.ÔøΩ Subsequently, we will destroy, erase, or make anonymous such information.ÔøΩ However, we will retain for at least one year personal information that has been used to make a decision about a client, customer or employee.ÔøΩÔøΩ

Accuracy of Personal Information

We will make reasonable efforts to ensure that personal information in our control is accurate and complete.ÔøΩ You may request corrections to your personal information.ÔøΩ If your request for a correction is rejected by us, we will make a notation of such request and rejection on your file or personal information.

Safeguarding Personal Information

We will protect personal information in your control against risks of loss, theft, unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use, modification or destruction by security safeguards that are appropriate to the sensitivity and format of the information.ÔøΩ

Access

Upon reasonable written notice from you, we will, within 30 days or such longer period in the event we obtain an extension, provide access to all your personal information in our possession and tell your what the information is being used for and to whom it has been disclosed.ÔøΩ

We reserve the right to charge a reasonable fee for providing access to personal information.

If we refuse your request for access, we will notify you in writing, documenting the reasons for refusal, the relevant provision of the Act on which we rely and resources for redress available to you, including from the British Columbia Information and Privacy Commissioner.

Complaints

If you have complaints about how your personal information is being handled by us, you may file a written complaint with our designated representative at the contact address listed above.ÔøΩ Such complaint must clearly state the nature of the dispute and contain all necessary contact information for you.ÔøΩ

We will acknowledge receipt of a complaint, investigate such complaint and notify you of the outcome of the complaint, including any relevant steps taken.

If a complaint has not been resolved to your satisfaction, you may seek redress with the British Columbia Information and Privacy Commissioner.

Links to Other Sites

We are not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of websites to which our website may link and our privacy policy does not apply to those websites. These other websites may send their own cookies to users, collect data, or solicit personal information.ÔøΩ Please keep in mind that whenever you give out personal information online (for example, via message boards or chat lines), that information can be collected and used by people you don't know. While we strive to protect our clientsÔøΩ personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you disclose online, you disclose such information at your own risk.

 

Our Commitment to Children's Privacy

 

Protecting children's privacy is especially important to us. It is our policy to comply with applicable laws.ÔøΩ We recommend that children ask a parent for permission before sending personal information to us or to anyone else online.

Revisions to this Policy

To ensure that this Policy is up to date and complies with the Act, we reserve the right to make changes, which will become effective 30 days following our providing notice thereof.