Privacy. Plain and Simple
Your privacy is important to you. And it's important to us as well.
Treasures Publications Inc. will not sell, distribute, barter or
transfer any of your personally identifiable information to companies,
organizations or other parties outside of Treasures Publications Inc.
without your permission. It's that simple.
Want more detailed information about how we protect your
personal information, how you can contact us with questions about
privacy or any other privacy-related concerns? Continue reading below.
Protecting Your Privacy
We at Treasures Publications Inc. recognize and respect the privacy of
each visitor to our web site and are committed to protecting your
privacy. Our privacy policy is designed to help you to understand the
type of personal information we gather and how we collect, use and
safeguard it. The policy reflects our commitment to take
commercially-reasonable steps to protect the privacy and
confidentiality of the personal information you entrust to us. This
policy will continuously be assessed and updated to reflect new
technologies, business practices and client needs. We reserve the right
to alter our privacy policies and will post any alterations to these
principles on our web site in a timely manner.
What does this policy cover?
Our privacy policy covers
the Treasures Publication's treatment of your personally identifying
information when you visit or when you use any of the Treasures
services. Our policy also covers the Treasures Publications treatment
of any personally identifying information that our business partners
share with the Treasures Publications and to the personally identifying
information that Treasures Publications share with its business
partners.
What does 'personally identifying information' mean? 'Personally identifying information' is any information which can, by
its nature, identify who you are. Examples of this type of information
are your name, address, phone number and email address.
What kind of personally identifying information does Treasures
Publications Collect? Treasures Publications Inc. collects some
personal information from web site members and from subscribers to its
print products. In addition to name, address (postal and email),
telephone number and credit card information, we may collect
demographics and opinions of subscribers or potential subscribers to
our Treasures Book, e-newsletters and web sites. Some of our sites
collect data through on-site tools and applications designed to assist
you, for instance, in fundraising planning and other activities. As
well some sites feature sections geared to businesses and professionals
where business-related data is collected.
How does Treasures Publications Inc.collect the information?
Treasures Publications Inc. collects information about readers and
online users through product order forms and surveys, contests, over
the telephone, through the mail, by email, by fax and through our
websites.
How does Treasures Publications Inc. use the information you
obtain? Treasures Publications Inc. uses the personal information we
collect for three main purposes:
To deliver the products and services you have requested from
us; To customize our advertising and editorial content; To contact you
(or have an authorized third party contact you) about specials and new
products and services. Treasures Publications Inc. may also use
information about subscribers' and online users' interests and
preferences as well as feedback we receive from surveys to improve our
products and customer service. Treasures Publications Inc. makes all
commercially-reasonable efforts to ensure that information is used
responsibly and only for its intended purpose.
What about demographic data that you collect?
Treasures
Publications Inc. will from time to time conduct voluntary surveys of
visitors to the site to obtain demographic information about them. Such
information may be compiled and shared in an anonymous aggregate form
with advertisers and other third parties but no personal details will
be traceable or associated with specific individuals.
When do you disclose my personal information to others?
Treasures Publications Inc. will only send personally identifiable
information about you to other organizations when we have your consent
to share the information or:
We need to share your information to provide the product or
service you have requested. We need to send the information to
organizations who work on behalf of Treasures Publications Inc. to
provide a product or service to you. (Unless we tell you differently
and unless you consent, these companies do not have any right to use
the personal information we provide to them beyond what is necessary to
assist us.) We respond to subpoenas, court orders or legal process. We
find that your actions on our web site violate Treasures Publications
Inc.'s Terms of Use or any of our usage guidelines for specific
products or services. We may disclose personal information to our
purchaser or new corporate entity in the event of a sale, merger or
substantial restructuring of our business. We will obtain your express
consent before using or disclosing your personal information for any
purposes not identified in this policy.
What happens to the information I provide when registering for
site membership? Visitors to Treasures Publications Inc.'s membership
provides us with a name, password and a working email address. We use
this information to set up your account. We do not sell or redistribute
the membership list and will not send you email at the address you
provide, except if you have subscribed to one of our email products, or
for infrequent announcements, or to resolve issues that may arise with
your account.
What about the information I post on your public forums?
Depending on the site, the name or email address you register with us
will be posted on our message boards and public forums if you post
comments there. Remember that the information you post can be publicly
viewed. You should exercise caution in deciding what personal
information you will share in these public forums. Members are expected
to comply with the rules governing the message board but we cannot
control third parties' use of information you may choose to provide in
this public forum.
What happens to information I provide when I enter one of your
contests? From time to time, Treasures Publications Inc. will run
contests and promotions associated with our web sites, email
newsletters and Treasures book. We collect your personal information on
contest entries so that we can contact you if you are a prize winner.
If you consent at the time of entry, we may also contact you with
product information from us or from our sponsors, advertisers or
promotional partners. Contests may be co-sponsored by other companies
with their own privacy policies. You should always read the entry form
and contest rules before entering.
What are cookies and what kind of information do they gather
about me? Cookies are small data files written to your hard drive by
some web sites when you view them in your browser. Cookies and web
server logs are used to collected information in an aggregate or
non-identifiable way, and that information is used to improve your
experience as a user on our sites, to improve the content of our web
pages, to monitor the activity of our advertisements, to monitor
traffic to and from our web sites, to customize the content and/or
layout of our pages for each individual visitor and for purposes of
internal review. The information gathered through cookies and web
server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed,
time spent at our web site, the web sites visited just before and just
after our web site, browser information and your computer's IP address.
(IP stands for Internet Protocol. This address is a unique string of
numbers that identifies a computer on the Internet. All resources on
the Internet must have an IP address.) This information is collected on
an aggregate basis, meaning that none of this information is associated
with you as an individual. It may be shared with other organizations
but only in aggregate and/or statistical form. Note that companies
placing advertising on our sites have the ability to assign cookies to
you in a process that Treasures Publications Inc. does not control.
If I send you an email, will my email become part of your
database? If you choose to correspond with us via email, we may retain
the content of your email messages together with your email address and
our responses. Your email address will not become part of any other
data base. We provide the same protections for these electronic
communications that we employ in the maintenance of non-electronic
information, such as that received by mail and telephone.
What about other sites that are linked to your site?
The
sites of advertisers, sponsors and other third-party services may be
accessible from Treasures Publications Inc's site. These third parties
may collect information for their own promotions and offers and may
have their own privacy policies. Treasures Publications Inc. is not
responsible for these third-party policies or actions and bear no
liability for them.
What other steps should I take to protect my privacy online?
There is always the risk that personal information disclosed online in
forum areas or emails may be intercepted, collected and used. Treasures
Publications Inc. is not responsible if that information is
intercepted. You transmit information to anyone at your own risk. You
should safeguard your passwords from others and take steps to keep your
personal information safe.
How do I find out what personal information you have about me?
If you have questions about the collection, use or disclosure of your
personal information by Treasures Publications Inc. or if you want to
know whether we have any of your personal information on file you may
contact our privacy officer by one of the methods outlined below.
Treasures Publications Inc. will respond to your request for access in
accordance with applicable privacy legislation. In the event that we
refuse access to you we will provide you with the reasons for our
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.
The information you have on file is not accurate. How do I let
you know the correct information? Treasures Publications Inc. will try
to ensure that information about you is accurate, complete and
up-to-date. We may update the personal information in our records from
time to time, where current information is required for the provision
of a particular product or service. Please inform us of any change of
name, address or other information. Should 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. If we
have disclosed inaccurate information about you to a third party, we
will be pleased to contact the third party in order to correct the
information.
I no longer want to receive your email newsletter. How do I
get my name off your list? Every email newsletter we send includes an 'unsubscribe' link. Simply click the 'unsubscribe' link and follow the
instructions and you will be removed from that newsletter distribution
list.
How do I withdraw my permission to use my personal information?
Subject
to contractual and other legal obligations, you are entitled to
withdraw your consent to our use and disclosure of your personal
information. Specifically, if you prefer that we do not use or disclose
your personal information for marketing or promotional purposes please
send an email to Privacy@TreasuresBook.ca. Please note that your
request may take three to four weeks to implement. We are legally bound
to inform you that withdrawing your consent may preclude us from
providing you with certain products and services.
What security precautions do you have in place to protect my
information? Treasures Publications Inc. have organizational, physical
and technological measures in place to ensure commercially-reasonable
protection against the loss, misuse or alteration of personal
information under our control. We review our security practices on a
regular basis.
I have other questions or concerns not answered in this
document. How do I contact you? To access your personal information,
inform us of changes you believe need to be made to that information,
request that we investigate a concern you have about our personal
information practices or obtain further information about this policy,
please contact:
Privacy Officer
Privacy@TreasuresBook.ca
Treasures2010
