1. Your Privacy at TorontoBarks.com
(1) TorontoBarks.com respects your right to the privacy of the personal information you provide us on our Web site. To that end, unless you designate otherwise or we state otherwise in this policy or at the time information is collected, any personal information you provide to TorontoBarks.com will be known only to two parties: you and TorontoBarks.com. The following policy is intended to explain how your personal information will be treated as you make use of our site and its features. Personal information includes your name and e-mail addresses, click-through activity and any other personal information you may provide here. This policy may change from time to time, so please check back periodically.
(2) TorontoBarks.com’s Customer Privacy Policy complies with the provision set out by the Canadian Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, S.C. 2000, c. 5 (PIPEDA). (1) The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), of the federal government, significantly impacts the way private businesses, corporations, federal agencies, not-for-profit organizations and associations handle the personal information they have collected in the course of their business. At the same time, it will clearly establish a code of privacy practices that will provide Canadians from coast to coast with a mechanism to ensure their personal information is handled respectfully.
(3) PIPEDA acknowledges the need to protect an individual’s right to privacy and also addresses the necessity of collecting private information for businesses in the conduct of their business affair. The act provides guidelines and principles for businesses for the accountability, purpose, obtaining of consent, disclosure, accuracy, safeguarding, openness of policy and access to personal information that was entrusted to its care.
(4) The PIPEDA principles:
(a) accountability;
(b) identifying the purposes for personal information collection;
(c) obtaining consent;
(d) limiting the collection of personal information;
(e) limiting use, disclosure, and retention of personal information;
(f) accuracy of personal information;
(g) safeguarding personal information;
(h) openness about policies and procedures;
(i) providing access to personal information; and
(j) challenging compliance.
2. Traffic Data
(1) Each time a visitor comes to the TorontoBarks.com Web site, our server – like most on the Web – collects some basic technical information, including, for example, your domain name (e.g., whether the user has logged on from aol.com or msn.com), referral data (e.g., we record the address of the last URL a user visited prior to clicking through to TorontoBarks.com) and browser and platform type (e.g., a Netscape browser on a Macintosh platform).
(2) We also count, track and aggregate the visitor’s activity into our analysis of general traffic flows at our site (e.g., tracking where traffic comes from, how traffic flows within the site, etc.). To these ends, we may merge information about visitors and visits into group data; but we will not disclose your individual identity or personally identifiable data without your permission. When we do present aggregated information to outside companies, no one will be able to identify you or contact you.
3. E-mail Alert Feature
After signing up to receive an e-mail alert, users will start receiving an e-mail delivered on a regular basis as new issues of the TorontoBarks News are posted. We collect subscribers’ e-mail addresses in order to distribute those newsletters and announcements and do not otherwise share them with any other companies or partners. Users can choose to unsubscribe from TorontoBarks.com newsletters at any time by following the unsubscribe instructions found in each e-mail.
4. OnLine Forum
TorontoBarks.com visitors who register for our Message Board Forum community area provide us with a name, password and a working e-mail address. We use this information to set up your account. We do not sell or redistribute the OnLine Forum membership list and will not send you e-mail at the address you provide, except for infrequent announcements relating to OnLine Forum. Your name and affiliation will be posted along with your comments on OnLine Forum, unless you request otherwise (in which case your comment will appear from anonymous). Participants in OnLine Forum are expected to comply with the rules governing the area, but we cannot control third parties’ use of information you may choose to provide in such a public forum. For more information, see the OnLine Forum comment page.
5. Surveys & Contests
TorontoBarks.com will from time to time conduct voluntary surveys of visitors to the site to obtain visitor’s opinions. Such information may be compiled and shared in the aggregate with the press and other third parties, but no personal details about the contributor of the information will be traceable or associated with specific individuals.
6. Other Disclosure of Personal Information
TorontoBarks.com will not otherwise use or disclose your personal information without your consent except as described in this privacy policy, or as required by law, court order or as requested by other government or law enforcement authority.
7. Unsubscribe and Data Removal Policies
If you would like to unsubscribe from a TorontoBarks.com e-mail list, please follow the instructions at the bottom of the e-mail itself. If you would like to remove your name and e-mail address from our Brand Forum database, you can send an e-mail requesting removal to info@TorontoBarks.com. If you have joined the TorontoBarks.com membership program and want to remove your name and e-mail address from that mailing list, you can send an e-mail requesting removal to info@TorontoBarks.com.
8. Other Sites
(1) TorontoBarks.com contains many links to other sites on the Web. We cannot control and are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of such other Web sites.
(2) Who can I ask if I have any additional questions? If you have any further questions or concerns about our privacy policies and use of personal information, please send them to questions@TorontoBarks.com.
9. Children
(1) Children Under Age 13
TorontoBarks.com does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to register. If you are under 13, please do not send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. No one under age 13 is allowed to provide any personal information to or on TorontoBarks.com. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at info@TorontoBarks.com.
(2) Children Between the Ages of 13 and 18
We recommend that minors over the age of 13 ask their parents for permission before sending any information about themselves to anyone over the Internet.
10. Contacting TorontoBarks.com About Privacy
(1) If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact our privacy staff at privacy@TorontoBarks.com.
(2) Any improper collection or misuse of information provided on TorontoBarks.com is a violation of the TorontoBarks.com Terms of Service and should be reported to privacy@TorontoBarks.com.
