Terms and Conditions
Terms & Conditions
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. This Privacy Policy should be read in conjunction with the terms and conditions contained in the Terms of Use. All capitalized terms used herein not otherwise defined, as applicable, shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Terms of Use.
Personal Information and Collection
In this Privacy Policy, “Personal Information” means information that refers to an individual specifically and that is personally identifiable, such as your age, income, credit records, date of birth, ethnic origin, e-mail address, account numbers, passwords and so on. Information that is not considered Personal Information includes, but is not limited to, information contained in public telephone directories where the subscriber can refuse to be listed that may include your name, address, or telephone number, professional and business directories available to the public, certain public registries and court records, and certain other publicly-available printed and electronic publications. We only collect Personal Information when you voluntarily submit it to us, when you authorize us to collect it from third parties, or when third parties have the right to provide us your Personal Information. If you do not want your Personal Information collected, do not provide it to us, do not authorize us to collect it from third parties, or do not provide third parties with the right to provide us with such Personal Information, as applicable.
Use of Information
SAFEsystem and its affiliates may use and or maintain records of your Personal Information, including, without limitation, your name, address, e-mail address, current location or other unique personal identifiers, and other relevant registration data as the case may be, for the following purposes: • to provide and facilitate your use of the Site, including, if applicable, registering your user account for the Site; • to provide you with our products and services, including, without limitation, sending and receiving confirmations, communications, invoices or bills, validating your identity, providing you support, authorizing and processing payments or performing credit checks as may be required by us in order to provide you with our products and services; • as needed to install, provide and/or maintain products or services; • as is necessary in the case of emergency or requested by an appropriate emergency response authority; • to communicate with you generally about the Site, our products, or our services; • to conduct marketing research, and to send you marketing and other communications or to recommend products or services that we believe will be of interest to you; • to understand your needs and preferences and your eligibility for our products & services; • to develop and enhance the Site, our products, and services; • to respond to specific requests from you; • to administer and manage our business and operations, including the protection of the security and integrity of our services and our website; • to perform statistical analyses of behaviour and characteristics of your use of our Site, products, or services in order to measure interest in and use of the various sections of the Site, our products, or our services so as to improve design and navigation of the Site, our products, or our services; • to protect against fraud and error; and • to meet legal and regulatory requirements as applicable. We will only use your Personal Information for the purposes for which it was collected, and will only retain your Personal Information only as long as we require it for such purposes. We may also collect non-personal, aggregated information about your use of the Site, our products, or our services. This information is not personally identifiable to you and will only be used by SAFEsystem to determine various anonymized usage statistics about the Site, our products, or our services. Please note that any personal information or content that you voluntarily disclose while using the Site or our products or services which can be viewed by other users of the Site, our products, or our services (e.g., via discussion boards, in direct or private messages and chat areas, or via third party services etc.), becomes publicly viewable at such time and can be collected and used by others thereafter. Please also note that, due to the global nature of the Internet, you may be transferring your personal information to countries outside of your jurisdiction of residence whose legal systems do not offer the same protection for your data as the laws of your jurisdiction of residence.
Disclosure of Information
SAFEsystem will disclose Personal Information it collects
to certain independent contractors of SAFEsystem, subsidiaries
and affiliates of SAFEsystem, consultants, business associates, suppliers,
service providers, and credit and collection agencies, if and to the
extent the disclosure will enable that party to perform a function related to
one of the purposes described above.
Due to the global nature of the Internet, you may be
transferring your personal information to countries outside of Canada whose
legal systems do not offer the same protection for your data as the laws of
Canada. Some service providers may be located in other jurisdictions
that do not have privacy legislation similar to such legislation
contemplated by this Privacy Policy and information in such jurisdictions
may be accessed pursuant to the laws of those countries.
We may from time to time engage in transactions such as the sale or
securitization of assets, public offerings, private placements
and the sale of shares in our company, amalgamations and similar
transactions and SAFEsystem reserves the right to
disclose your Personal Information to other persons in connection
with their review of such a
transaction. SAFEsystem will use reasonable attempts
to secure an undertaking from any such persons to treat your Personal
Information with the same degree of care and diligence as was provided
by SAFEsystem.
NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING, FROM TIME TO TIME, WE
MAY DISCLOSE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION TO OUR REPRESENTATIVES FOR THE PURPOSES
OF PROVIDING SERVICES TO YOU, AS WELL AS EMERGENCY WORKERS AND ENTITIES
PROVIDING EMERGENCY SERVICES AND YOU HEREBY GRANT YOUR CONSENT TO DISCLOSE SUCH
PERSONAL INFORMATION AT THE SOLE DISCRETION OF SAFESYSTEM.
Safeguarding Personal
Information
We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural
safeguards designed to protect your Personal Information. We review such safeguards
on a periodic basis and revise them if necessary. We take reasonable steps
designed to limit access to Personal Information only to persons as provided
for in this Privacy Policy.
Your Rights
You may:
·
refuse
to provide us with your Personal Information;
·
ask
us for access to Personal Information that we possess;
·
ask
us to correct any inaccuracies or omissions in your Personal Information; or
·
ask
us to remove Personal Information we possess, subject to reasonable notice,
existing legal or regulatory obligations and our reasonable business
requirements
However, we may not be able to offer you some of our
services or functions of our website if you do not provide us with certain
Personal Information or if you ask for your Personal Information to
be removed. Marketing communications will only be sent to you if you elect to
receive them when you register on our website or when you sign up for our
services. You may opt out of receiving marketing communications at any time by
selecting the “unsubscribe” option (in the case of e-mail communications),
visiting our website or contacting our call centre.
Tracking, IP Address, and Third-Party Cookies
SAFEsystem may store cookies on your computer to facilitate and
customize your experience on the Site. Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers
that enable our systems to recognize your internet browser and to provide you
with certain features. We use cookies in order to provide a better, more
customized user experience of the Site. Cookies also allow us to collect
automatic information from you, including which pages you visit and what links
you click, etc. Most browsers automatically
accept cookies; however, it is usually possible to change
your internet browser settings so that your internet browser declines
cookies. If you decline to accept cookies, it is possible that some
parts of the Site, our products, or our service may not work properly.
Your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address is
usually associated with the physical place from which you enter the Internet,
like your Internet Service Provider, your company or your university. We may,
from time to time, use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our
server, gather broad demographic information, or administer the Site.
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