| At Quinte Curling Club Inc., we are committed to collecting, using, and disclosing your personal information
responsibly and to maintaining the accuracy, confidentiality, and security of such personal information. |
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| Personal information includes information that tells us specifically who you are, such as your address,
telephone number and e-mail address. However, publicly available information, such as a public directory listing of your name, address and telephone number is not considered personal information. |
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| We have adopted the following privacy policy that guides how we collect, use and disclose personal
information about our members and prospective members. Our intent is to balance our legitimate business interests in collecting, using, and disclosing your personal information against your reasonable expectations of privacy. |
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| 1. Definitions |
| In this policy: |
| a) "Business" means the business of operating the Quinte Curling Club Inc., which includes the Web site; |
| b) "Membership" means a membership in the Quinte Curling Club Inc.; |
c) "we", "us", "our" and the "Club" refer to the Quinte Curling Club Inc., located at 246 Bridge Street West and/or
www.quintecurlingclub.reach.net |
| d) "Web site" refers to the web site found at www.quintecurlingclub.reach.net |
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| 2. Collection of Personal Information |
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| Our primary purpose in collecting personal information from you and about you is to ensure the provision
of high quality products and/or services. We only collect personal information from and about you that we consider
necessary for achieving this purpose and to permit us to conduct the Business diligently. |
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| 3. Use of Your Personal Information |
| We may use the personal information we collect from and about you to: |
| a) ensure the provision of high quality products and/or services; |
| b) inform you about online and offline offers, products, services, updates
and events (including expiry and renewal of your Membership); |
| c) enable us to contact you; |
| d) establish and maintain communication with you; |
| e) assist us in complying with legal and regulatory requirements; |
| f) invoice you for products and/or services; |
| g) collect unpaid accounts; |
| h) create and post team lists and lists of spares; |
| i) create a club directory for use by members. |
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| We may also use your personal information as may be described to you at the time of collection.
We may compare and review your personal information for errors and omissions and for accuracy. If you choose to
provide us with your financial information, we may use your address and financial information to bill you and to
provide associated support. We may use personal information about you, in a non-personally identifiable manner,
to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to analyse Memberships, to improve our content and product
offerings, and to customize our Web site's content, layout, and services. These uses are to enable us to improve
the Business and to better tailor the Business to meet your needs. |
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| 4. Disclosure of Personal Information |
| As a matter of policy, we do not sell, rent, or lease any of your personal information
to third parties without your explicit consent. However, there are a variety of circumstances where we may
need to disclose some of your personal information, including the following: |
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| a) We may disclose your personal information to an individual
who, in our reasonable judgement, is seeking the information as your agent. For example, we may provide
your personal information to your legal representative if we are satisfied that the individual is requesting
the information on your behalf. |
| b) We may disclose your personal information as may be required by law. |
| c) We may aggregate personal information and disclose such
information in a non-personally identifiable manner to advertisers and other third parties for marketing
and promotional purposes. |
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| 5. Access, Review, Change and Destruction of Your Personal Information |
| You may access, review and/or change the personal information we have in our
files by submitting a written request to do so to our Privacy Information Officer at the address below.
We ask that you promptly advise us of any changes to your information. Upon your written request, we
will destroy, as soon as reasonably possible and in accordance with our internal policies and applicable
law, any and all personal information that we have in our files about you. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
we will retain in our files some personal information in order to enable us to collect any unpaid accounts
and/or as may be required by law. |
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| 6. Other Information Collectors |
| Except as otherwise expressly included in this Privacy Policy, this document only addresses
the collection, use and disclosure of personal information WE collect from and about you. To the extent that you
disclose your personal information to other parties, different rules may apply to their collection, use or disclosure
of such personal information. Since we do not control the privacy policies of third parties, you are subject to
the privacy policies of such third parties. |
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| 7. Protecting Your Privacy |
| The personal information that is retained by us is kept in a secure environment and we use reasonable
procedural and technical safeguards to protect your personal information against loss, theft and unauthorized access or
disclosure. While we employ many different security techniques to protect such data from unauthorized access by users
inside and outside the company, we cannot ensure perfect security, particularly in relation to the Web site. |
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| 8. Amendments to This Policy |
| We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time by mailing (including regular mail and email)
any amended terms to you or by posting the amended terms on the Web site or at 246 Bridge Street West.
All amended terms shall automatically be effective five days (5) days after mailing or on the date of posting. |
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| 9. Privacy Information Officer, Access, Questions, or Concerns |
| The Privacy Information Officer for the Club is Laura Chapman. |
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| If you wish to access, review and/or change your personal information contained in our files or
if you have any questions or concerns about our privacy principles outlines above or about our practices, please
contact us at: |
| Quinte Curling Club Inc. |
| 246 Bridge Street West |
| Belleville, ON K8P 5L6 |
| (613) 962-5570 (phone) |
| (613) 962-2263 (FAX) |
| qcc@reach.net (e-mail) |
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| Member's Consent |
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| I have read and understood the Quinte Curling Club Inc. Privacy Policy,
and I hereby consent to the collection, use and disclosure of my personal information by Quinte
Curling Club Inc. in accordance with this Privacy Policy. |