The Personal Information Protection
and Electronic Documents Act ("PIPEDA") governs the collection, use and disclosure
of personal information by private sector and not-for-profit organizations in the
course of commercial activities.
Waypoint™
("We", "our", "us") respects your right to privacy. We protect your personal information
and adhere to all legislative requirements with respect to protecting privacy.
Personal
information includes, but is not limited to, your name, address, telephone number,
and e-mail address, etc,. We do not rent, sell or trade our mailing lists.
Purpose
for the Collection of Personal Information
We use personal information to keep you informed and up-to-date on activities of
the organization including mailing list, customer support, and newsletters. We may
also request demographic information from you.
Collection of Information
a) When a user subscribes to Waypoint™ we may collect some (or all) of the following
personal information:
- Company
Name
- Full
Name
- Email
Address
- Address
- City
- Phone
- Fax
- State
/ Province
- Zip
/ Postal Code
- Country
b) When
submitting a comment by email to the Waypoint™ general mailbox info@gatif.com
the following personal information:
c) Waypoint™
also collects non-personally identifiable information that becomes available
as a result of the user's visit to the Waypoint™ website. This information includes
some (or all) of the following:
- The
user's IP Address (A number automatically assigned to your computer when you visit
the website. Our server logs the user's IP address.)
- The
user's Internet Service Provider (ISP)
- The
user's Web browser.
- Non-personal
information about a user's visiting habits MAY also be automatically collect through
the use of "cookies". Cookies are computer files that are placed in a user's hard
drive to remember any preferences the user may have when surfing the web. They can
also tell us how often particular pages are visited.
Use Personal Information
Your personal
information is not shared to sold to third parties. If we intend to collect, use
or disclose your personal information for any reason other than one of those described
in this privacy policy, the purpose of that collection, use or disclosure will usually
be described to you in advanced and you will be given an opportunity to refuse or
revoke your consent.
Storage and Safeguarding of Personal Information
Personal information is stored in our database and in hard copy files. We will protect
any personal information that you share with us. Only authoritized Waypoint™
personnel have access to this information.
Retention of Personal Information
Personal information will only be retained for so long as we use it or are
legally required to keep it.
About Our Forums
Waypoint™ may feature forums (such as message boards and chat rooms) which
enable our users to communicate with each other. Waypoint™ will try to moderate
and is not responsible for the content that you or any user posts on any forum(s).
All personal information you post in a forum becomes public information and may
be viewed, collected and used by any visitor to the site, and may expose you to
unsolicited messages. This is beyond our control. Therefore, Waypoint™ strongly
recommends that you do not post on any forum private information about yourself
or other individuals.
Termination
Without limiting the foregoing, Waypoint™ shall have the right to immediately
terminate your access to this site in the event of any conduct by you which we,
in our sole discretion, considers to be unacceptable, or in the event of any breach
by you of any of these Terms of Service and/or this Privacy Policy.
Updating / Deleting your Information
When collected, Waypoint™ enables our users to update/correct personal information
previously submitted which the user states is erroneous to the extent such activities
will not compromise privacy or security interests. To update or delete your information,
please go to the Log-In function and update or delete your personal information
accordingly from our database. Please note that it may be impossible to delete a
user's entry totally without some residual information because of backups and records
of deletions.
Links
Our web site may include links to other web sites whose privacy politicies we do
not control. Once you leave our servers (you can check where you are by looking
at the URL in the location bar on your browser), use of any information you provide
is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the web site you are visiting.
That policy may differ from ours. If you cannot find the privacy policy of any of
these web sites via a link from the web site's homepage, you should contact the
web site directly for more information. Waypoint™ is not responsible for the
privacy practices or the content of such web sites.
Cookies
We use cookies only as a method of tracking our web traffic statistics and as such
cannot track the personal information or web habits of any individual who visits
our site. We do not use or share information transferred through cookies with third
parties for marketing or other purposes.
If you
have any questions or concerns about these practices or the Waypoint™ web site you
can contact us at info@gatif.com or mail us at the following address:
GATIF
260 King Street East
Suite C100
Toronto, Ontario
M5A 4L5
CANADA
For more
information on PIPEDA, visit http://www.privcom.gc.ca/
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GATIF Inc. All rights reserved.