| 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.
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. We are committed to complying with British
Columbia’s Personal Information Protection Act
(the “Act”) and all other applicable privacy laws.
Definitions
“business contact information”
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.
“employee personal information”
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.
“personal information” means
any information that personally identifies an individual,
but does not include business contact information or work
product information.
”work product information” 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. We have developed
policies and procedures to deal with the proper collection,
use and disclosure of personal information.
We have appointed the following person to answer any questions
or to handle requests for access to personal information or
complaints:
Name: Natisha Mathews
Phone: 604-888-3848
Email: imasco@imascominerals.com
Purposes
We collect personal information for the following purposes:
• to individualize your experience on our website;
• to communicate separately with you;
• to facilitate your movements throughout our website;
• to be able to selectively send you communications
that may be of interest to you, either electronically or otherwise;
• other
Consent
We require the consent of individuals to collect, use or
disclose personal information. 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. 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.
Unsubscribe Policy
We strive to only send e-mails to those who want to receive
it. If you would not like to receive future e-mails from us,
reply to any email with UNSUBSCRIBE as the subject.
Collection
We will only collect personal information for the purposes
we have identified above and that are reasonable in the circumstances.
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 “cookie”
- may be created by our server and stored on your computer.
The cookie contains a unique session identification number
and is used to:
• keep track of your online order;
• ensure that you see the correct products and pricing
applicable to the province in which you are located;
• personalize your experience by alerting you to features
and information that might interest you;
• other
A cookie cannot be used to access or otherwise compromise
the data on your hard drive. If you arrive at our website
with your browser configured to disable cookies, you will
not be identified until you register and sign-in. 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.
Aggregate Information
We collect certain aggregate information, such as tracking
the Internet address of the domains from which you visit our
site and analyzing this data for trends and statistics, tracking
your IP address (the number that is automatically assigned
to your computer when you are using the Web), and tracking
your browser type.
We use this aggregate information to help diagnose problems
with our servers, to administer our website, and to gather
broad demographic information. None of this information is
connected with your personal information. We may also generate
non-identifying and aggregate profiles from personal information
provided during registration (such as the total number, but
not the names, of clients).
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.
We may disclose the personal information to:
(i) a person who in our reasonable judgment is seeking the
information as an agent of the individual;
(ii) a company or individual engaged by us to perform functions
on its behalf, such as research or data processing;
(iii) a credit reporting agency;
(iv) a public authority or agent of a public authority, if
in our reasonable judgement, it appears that there is imminent
danger to life or property which could be avoided or minimized
by disclosure of the information; or
(v) 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. Subsequently,
we will destroy, erase, or make anonymous such information.
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.
Accuracy of Personal Information
We will make reasonable efforts to ensure that personal information
in our control is accurate and complete. You may request corrections
to your personal information. 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.
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.
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. Such complaint must clearly state the nature of the
dispute and contain all necessary contact information for
you.
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. 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 clients’ 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. 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.
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