Privacy Policy

A. Introduction

The privacy of visitors to our website is very important to us, and we are committed to protecting it. This policy explains what we do with your personal information.
Consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with this policy when you first visit our website allows us to use cookies each time you visit.

B. Source
This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal (seqlegal.com).

C. Collection of Personal Information

The following types of personal information may be collected, stored, and used:

Information about your computer, including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, and operating system;
Information about your visits to and use of this website, including the referral source, length of visit, pages viewed, and navigation paths;
Information such as your email address, which you provide when registering on the website;
Information such as your name and email address, which you enter to subscribe to our emails and/or newsletters;
Information you enter while using the services on our website;
Information generated while using our website, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it;
Information contained in any communications you send us through email or our website, including their content and metadata;
Any other personal information you choose to send to us.

Before disclosing another person’s personal information to us, you must obtain that person’s consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.

D. Use of Personal Information

Personal information submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information to:

Administer our website and business;
Personalize our website for you;
Enable your use of the services available on our website;
Send you email notifications that you have specifically requested;
Send you our email newsletter, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive the newsletter);
Send you marketing communications relating to our business or the businesses of carefully selected third parties which we think may be of interest to you, by post or, if you have expressly agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive marketing communications);
Provide third parties with statistical information about our users (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information);
Deal with inquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website;
Keep our website secure and prevent fraud;
Verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our website’s private messaging service); and
Other uses.

If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the license you grant to us. Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and adjusted using your website account settings. Without your explicit consent, we will not supply your personal information to any third party for their or any other third party's direct marketing.

E. Disclosure of Personal Information

We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information:

To the extent that we are required to do so by law;
In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction);
To the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling; and
To any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information, where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.

Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.

F. International Data Transfer

Information that we collect may be stored and processed in, and transferred between, any of the countries in which we operate to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.
Information that we collect may be transferred to countries that do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area, including the United States of America, Russia, Japan, China, and India.
Personal information that you publish on our website or submit for publication may be available via the internet around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.
You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this Section F.

G. Retention of Your Personal Information

This Section G outlines our data retention policies and procedures, designed to help ensure we comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.

Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.

Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section G, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:

To the extent that we are required to do so by law;
If we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; and
To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction).

H. Security of Personal Information

We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information.

We will store all the personal information you provide on secure servers (protected by password and firewall).

All electronic financial transactions conducted through our website will be protected by encryption technologies.

You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

You are responsible for keeping the password you use for accessing our website confidential; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).

I. Amendments

We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are aware of any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging system on our website.

J. Rights

You may request that we provide you with any personal information we hold about you; the provision of such information will be subject to the following:

The payment of a fee; and
The supply of appropriate evidence of your identity. For this purpose, we usually accept a notarized photocopy of your passport plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address.

We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.

You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes. In practice, you will either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.

K. Third-Party Websites

Our website contains hyperlinks to, and details of, third-party websites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.

L. Updating Information

Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

M. Cookies

Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) sent by a web server to a web browser and stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be either “persistent” or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session when the web browser is closed. Cookies typically do not contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal data we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. We use both session and persistent cookies on our website.

The names of the cookies that we use on our website and the purposes for which we use them are set out below:

We use Google Analytics and Adwords on our website to: recognize a computer when a user visits the website / track users as they navigate the website / enable the use of a shopping cart on the website / improve the website’s usability / analyze the use of the website / administer the website / prevent fraud and improve the security of the website / personalize the website for each user / target advertisements which may be of particular interest to specific users.

Most browsers allow you to refuse or accept cookies. For example:

With Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies using the cookie handling override settings available by clicking “Tools,” “Internet Options,” “Privacy,” and then “Advanced”;
With Firefox (version 24), you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools,” “Options,” “Privacy,” selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the dropdown menu, and unchecking “Accept cookies from sites”; and
With Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the “Customize and control” menu and clicking “Settings,” “Show advanced settings,” and “Content settings,” then selecting “Block sites from setting any data” under the “Cookies” heading.

Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.

You can delete cookies already stored on your computer. For example:

With Internet Explorer (version 10), you must manually delete cookie files (you can find instructions for doing so here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);
With Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking “Tools,” “Options,” and “Privacy,” selecting “Use custom settings for history,” clicking “Show Cookies,” and then clicking “Remove All Cookies”; and
With Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by accessing the “Customize and control” menu, clicking “Settings,” “Show advanced settings,” and “Clear browsing data,” then selecting “Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data” before clicking “Clear browsing data.”

Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.

Contact

If you have any questions about the processing or updating of your personal information, or if you wish to raise any concerns, please contact us by email at sleroy@expertmed.ca or by phone at +1 450 902-0941. We will respond within thirty (30) days of receiving your email.