Organic.ca Web Privacy Statement
In this privacy statement, “Organic.ca ” includes
the divisions that form the Organic.ca Group, as well as all subsidiary corporations.
Organic.ca Group respects the
privacy of visitors to this Web site. Your personal information is collected,
used, and disclosed by Organic.ca only in accordance with this privacy
statement.
You can visit
Organic.ca on the Web without
telling us who you are or revealing any other personal information. We collect
personal information about you only when you knowingly provide it, for example when
you complete the site registration form or provide survey information. By
accessing Organic.ca ’s Web site, you consent to our collection, use, and disclosure of
the information you provide.
This privacy statement deals only with
personal information collected through Organic.ca ’s Web site. Any changes to this
statement will be incorporated into a revised statement posted here, so that you
will always have access to information on our current Web site information-handling
practices. To learn about Organic.ca ’s information-handling practices beyond the
Web, please consult the
Organic.ca Group Privacy Statement.
If you request information, products,
or services through Organic.ca 's Web site, you will be asked to provide personal information.
For example, you need to register with us if you want to listed on the site. When you register,
Organic.ca will ask for your name and contact details.
Organic.ca may decide to use your account information
and transaction history to generate statistics and reports for internal use as well
as to offer you products and services by telephone, regular mail, or e-mail.
There are a number of areas on our Web
site other than the Listing Services where you can provide personal information that
allows you to benefit from our programs and services. In addition to managing
your account and maintaining responsible commercial relations with you,
Organic.ca collects
and uses your personal information
- to provide information,
products, services, and programs that respond to your interests and needs
- to answer your
questions and address your concerns
- to meet legal
and regulatory requirements
The purposes for which personal information
is being collected, used, and disclosed are stated on every Web page where personal
information is collected. If you wish, you can ask that your personal information
not be used for marketing and promotional purposes. This can be done online
when you initially provide the information, or later by
contacting
us by telephone, regular mail, or e-mail.
2.
Information That Does Not Identify You
Organic.ca logs certain technical information
from your computer's Web browser when you visit us on the Internet. This information
includes your Internet address, the address of the Web site you are coming from,
the amount of time you spend visiting our Web site, the pages visited, the operating
system and Web browser software you use, and, if you link to us through a search
engine, the keywords you use to find our Web site. The logs do not record personal
information, can be accessed only by Organic.ca , and are used solely to track visits to
our site and improve its content and layout. Organic.ca never attempts to tie this information
to particular individuals visiting our Web site, unless that is necessary for investigating
a security breach.
When you visit our Web site a cookie
is created on our servers, these cookies provides statistics in site usage to a
third party monitoring tool. No personal information is identifiable by these cookies.
At the same time you are assigned a temporary text file called a cookie through
your Web browser. It is placed on your computer for programming purposes only and
enhances your use of the site by providing a unique identifier as you move from
page to page. If you use the search
engine, it remembers the keywords you enter.
3.
Disclosure and Retention of Your Information
The account information you provide
when registering with us is stored in our databases as long as you are a
Organic.ca registrant. You must
contact us if you no longer want
your information to be kept by us. If you are a Organic.ca listing member, your
information will be kept indefinitely for archival continuity purposes, and in a
manner that complies with the
Organic.ca Group Privacy Statement.
If you contact us with a question or comment, any information identifying you is
normally kept only long enough for us to provide a response.
4.
Accuracy of Your Information
Although Organic.ca obtains
information about you from a variety of sources, Organic.ca relies on you for
accuracy of its
information about you, except for obtaining independent verification of credit card
information. To ensure that you are kept up-to-date on the products and services
we offer, and that there is no interruption in our communications with you,
and the information we present about you is accurate and desired, please
contact us to advise us of any changes in your information (or
if you wish to remove or confirm the accuracy of the information we hold).
5.
How Your Information Is Kept during Transmission
Information collected anywhere
on our site is transmitted to our servers in an unencrypted form, which does create
a risk of interception. Please consult our
Terms
for further details.
6.
Contacting Organic.ca
We regularly review our online
information-handling practices to ensure that we are abiding by this privacy statement.
If you believe that Organic.ca is not abiding by this privacy statement or have concerns
about Organic.ca 's online information-handling practices, please
contact us.
Your concerns will be addressed promptly.