Privacy Policy

Use of this website means that you acknowledge having read the Privacy Policy and have consented to its terms. Please read the Privacy Policy closely before using this website.

Our business recognizes the importance of keeping your information confidential and we are determined to protect your information online. As we gather personal information about visitors to the site (e.g.: names, email addresses, etc.), we have developed this "Privacy Policy" to help you to understand the terms and conditions that affect the gathering and use of your personal information. This Privacy Policy stipulates the type of personal information we gather, how it is used and the means at your disposal to verify and modify the information we have collected about you at all times.

Guiding Principles

We have developed our Privacy Policy based on the following guidelines.

Our business gathers personal information online to offer our visitors a more personalized experience on our website. When we gather this type of information, we make every effort possible to avoid gathering excessive or irrelevant information. Our business takes reasonable physical, electronic and administrative measures to ensure the security of the personal information you have supplied and to protect it (e.g.: the data is stored in a protected database on secure servers with restricted access). However, the security of data submitted electronically is never entirely assured. We do not offer any guarantee and we make no claims as to the privacy of the personal information you have provided online. When you provide information online, you are doing so at your own risk.

Disclosure of Personal Information

We do not sell or rent the personal information provided by our clients to third parties, nor do we exchange this information with third parties other than as described in the Privacy Policy. Our business may disclose some personal information about people to the following entities:

- commercial partners such as service providers, proxies, and parent organizations as a part of the services they provide for our business such as the services required for the administration of this website and the provision of certain interactive functions. Please note that some of our proxies and suppliers are located in places outside of Canada and as such, they are beholden to foreign laws and these regulations may require the transmission of personal information with governmental bodies of the country in question.

- organizations that apply the law in order to allow them to investigate fraud or other infractions

- legal and financial advisors as well as other professional consultants, or as a part of a sale and/or re-organization of a part or the entirety of its services.

Subject to the preceding, our business will not use or communicate your personal information for any means other than those for which it was gathered and only with your consent in a manner that falls under the law and in order to supply you with the function or service you have requested. When you subscribe to a function or a service, we will inform you of the personal information you are required to provide in order for us to offer you the requested function or service and we will ask you to agree to this sharing of information.

Anonymous Data

Each time you visit the website, we may gather anonymous information relating to the means you have used to access our website. This information may include the type and version of your browser, your Internet service provider, your IP address, as well as the search engine you used to find the website if applicable. We use this information to diagnose problems affecting our server, for the administration of our website and to compile general statistical information. We also gather certain types of information related to your navigation of our website. This information allows us to establish sections of our website that are visited the most often and to help us adapt the sites to the needs and interests of our online visitors. We gather this information in a group and it isn't associated with any person in particular without their consent.

Use of Cookies

Our business may use a browser function called a "cookie". These cookies are small files placed on the hard disk of your computer that allow for personalized browsing. Our business uses cookies so you do not have to enter data several times over multiple visits such as your user name and your password when you visit our website. Cookies also help us to provide you with information based on your areas of interest as determined by your previous visits to the site. In the "Help" tab of the toolbar found on most browsers, you will find information about how to prevent your browser from accepting cookies, how to receive a notification that your browser has accepted a new cookie and how to deactivate cookies altogether. As this website was designed to make use of cookies, some functions may not work correctly and you may have to enter your username and password more frequently if you have your browser configured to refuse cookies.

Personal Information Provided Voluntarily

All the personal information provided by you (e.g.: your name, email address, etc.) when you subscribed to one of our email reminder services, when you request information or for any of the other interactive aspects of this website may be used to provide you with the information you requested about our business, products or services or to send you special requests. You can ask to no longer receive our messages (please see the Exclusion Proceedings section below) at all times. This data may also be used to personalize your experience on the website by providing you with content that corresponds to your areas of interest and to your geographical region.

Website Access

This website is hosted on a server located in the United States of America. As a result, your connection is made using servers located in the United States. All the personal information you provide during your visit will be processed and kept on our Web server and our other internal systems located in the United States.

External Links

This website provides links to external sites. Our business is not responsible for the protection measures of personal information, nor of the contents, of these websites. To ensure the protection of your personal information, we recommend reading the Privacy Policy of any other sites you access via our website.

Password

The personal information folder created when you signed up for the website is only accessible by means of a unique password associated with the folder. To protect the integrity of the personal information in the folder, you should never divulge your password to anyone else.

Public Fora

This website may occasionally make chat rooms, forums, bulletin boards and/or discussion groups available to its users. Please note that unless otherwise indicated, any information divulged in these areas becomes public information. As a consequence, you should show prudence when choosing to divulge personal information in these areas.

Exclusion Proceedings

Subject to the other provisions of this Privacy Policy, you will be notified if personal information about you is being shared with third parties and you will be given the opportunity to refuse to share this information.

You may ask to no longer receive communications from our business at any times. The website allows users to ask to no longer receive communications when personal information is being asked of them or they are being identified using other methods.

Modifications to the Current Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify and update the present Privacy Policy. These modifications will be made as necessary, when we judge it to be appropriate. We invite you to check our Privacy Policy regularly to ensure that you are up to date on any modifications we may have made.

Contacting the Website

Please contact us if you have any questions about the Privacy Policy or the practices used for this website.