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Your privacy is important to Clintar (“our,” “us,” or “we”) [and our subsidiaries and affiliates, together Clintar]. This Privacy Notice (the “Notice”) explains the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website www.clintar.com (our “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. This Notice does not apply to information collected through any other means, including on any other website operated by a third party.
Please read this Notice carefully. If any term in this Notice is unacceptable to you, please do not use our Website or provide us with any personal information.
In this Notice, when we talk about “Personal Information,” we mean any information that is related to an identified or identifiable natural person.
This Notice does not apply to any products, services, websites, mobile applications, or content (including advertising) offered by third parties or that may be linked to or from the Website. Data collected by these third parties is covered by their own privacy notices.
Depending on your relationship with us, we may collect the following categories of Personal Information from you:
Information We Collect Directly From You
We may collect Personal Information that you provide to us when you use our Website or interact with us. For example, we may collect information when you browse through the Website, register or create an account, make an information request, or when you otherwise interact with us and provide your information via our Website.
Cookies
The technologies we use for automatic data collection include cookies (i.e., browser cookies), flash cookies, and web beacons. We may store cookies (e.g., locally stored objects) on your device when you use our Website. These technologies help us speed up your future activities and improve your experience by remembering the information that you have already provided to us. Third parties operating on our behalf may also use these technologies to provide us with anonymous data and information regarding the use of our Website. You may block or delete these technologies from your device. However, by disabling such technologies, you may not have access to the entire set of features of our Website. For more information about cookies, including links to web browser instructions for disabling and managing such technologies, visit https://optout.networkadvertising.org/.
We use Google Analytics to collect information on your use of our Website. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit our Website, what pages they visit, and other websites visited prior to or after coming to this Website. The data collected through these tools is not tied to other Personal Information that we collect about you. To know more about data collected by Google Analytics, visit https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
You may prevent the use of Google Analytics by disabling cookies as described above. You may also prevent Google Analytics from recording the data generated by the cookie and pertaining to your use of our Website (including your IP address), or processing this data, by downloading and installing the following browser plug-in available through Google at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.]
Information We Collect From Other Sources.
We may collect Personal Information about you from our affiliates and our partners and their service providers and contractors. For example, this may include your current job position, business address, company name, and position title provided by your employer. We also may obtain information you have made publicly available, including from websites and online services you use, consumer research platforms, and/or business contact databases.
We may collect Personal Information for the following purposes:
We may disclose information about you as follows and as otherwise described in this Notice or at the time of collection:
We may also process and disclose information to third parties if the information has been de-identified or aggregated in a way so it cannot be used to identify you.
We use reasonable security measures to protect your Personal Information. Please understand, however, that no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our databases, nor can we guarantee that the information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to and from us over the Internet.
The Website is not directed towards children. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under the age of 13 (or 16 where applicable by law) through the Website. If you are under 13, please do not give us any Personal Information. We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s Internet usage and to help enforce our Notice by instructing their children to never provide Personal Information through the Website without their permission. If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 13 has provided Personal Information to us, please contact us using the methods described in Section 9 “How to Contact Us,” and we will endeavor to delete that information from our databases.
The Website may contain content, services, advertising, and other materials that link to external websites. We do not endorse and are not responsible for the content of any such external website. Please refer to the terms of use and privacy notices of the external website for more information.
This Notice is effective as of the date stated at the top of this Notice. We may change this Notice from time to time. Your access of the Website after such change will be deemed acceptance of the new Notice.
If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy practices or about exercising your rights, you may send an email to info@clintar.com or call us at 1-800-361-3542. You may also write to us at: 200 CACHET WOODS CT, UNIT 119 MARKHAM, ON L6C 0Z8.
Promotional Emails. You may opt out of receiving promotional emails from us by following the instructions in those emails. If you opt out, we may still send you non-promotional emails, such as those about your account or our ongoing business relations.
Marketing Phone Calls/Text Messages. With your consent, we may engage in marketing and other automated communications, which may include phone calls and text messages made using an automatic telephone dialing system or artificial prerecorded voice. You are not required to consent to such communications as a condition of purchasing products or services, and you may revoke consent at any time by contacting us via the methods in Section 9 “How to Contact Us.”
If you are located in Canada, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act and applicable provincial privacy legislation (collectively, “Canadian Privacy Laws”) govern the collection, use and disclosure of personal information by organizations in the course of commercial activities. If you are located in Canada, this Canadian Privacy Rights section applies to you. Additionally, in certain Canadian provinces, provincial privacy legislation will apply to you, namely, for the Province of Alberta – the Personal Information Protection Act (Alberta), for the Province of British Columbia – the Personal Information Protection Act (British Columbia) and for the Province of Quebec – the Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector also applies to you and the expression “Canadian Privacy Laws” therefore also includes reference to these provincial laws. If you live in Canada and any part of our general Privacy Notice conflicts with this Canadian Privacy Rights section, this Canadian Privacy Rights section governs to the extent of the conflict.
Personal Information
Under Canadian Privacy Laws, personal information means any information about an identifiable individual, which may, in certain circumstances, include information gathered from your use of the Services.
Consent
In Canada, express or implied consent is the legal basis upon which organizations may collect, use and disclose personal Information. Accordingly, personal information will only be collected, used, and disclosed by us for the purposes described above in this Privacy Notice under the heading “How We Use Your Personal Information”, with your express or implied consent. We will collect your express consent for any sensitive personal information that we may collect, use, or disclose. Otherwise, your continued use of the Services signifies your consent to our collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Notice, as it may be amended from time to time after you have been informed of any such amendment. Your continued use of the Services after having been informed of any amendment to this Privacy Notice will be deemed a consent by you to any such amendment; if you do not agree with this Privacy Notice or any amendment, do not access the Services.
If you provide personal information of a third party to us, you represent that you have complied with the requirements of Canadian Privacy Laws with regards to its collection before providing it to us and for us its use and disclosure as set out in this Privacy Notice.
Online Behavioural Advertising
With respect to the information that we collect using cookies or similar technologies that we have described above, you can opt-out of several third party ad servers’ and networks’ cookies simultaneously by using an opt-out tool created by the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada and an opt-out tool created by the Network Advertising Initiative. Opting out of a network does not mean you will no longer receive online advertising. It does mean that the network from which you opted out will no longer deliver ads tailored to your web preferences and usage patterns.
Your Rights
Withdrawal of Consent
Under Canadian Privacy Laws, you have the opportunity to withdraw your consent at any time to our collection, use or disclosure of your personal information, subject to reasonable prior notice and applicable legal and contractual restrictions. Depending on the nature of the personal information for which you choose to withdraw your consent, if you do withdraw your consent we may not be able to provide our products and services to you; we will explain the implications of withdrawing consent to you when we receive your notice of withdrawal. If you withdraw your consent in respect of any personal information that has been provided to third parties, we will advise such third parties of your withdrawal to the extent required by Canadian Privacy Laws.
Right to be informed
You have the right to be information about the personal information that we collect, use, process, disclose, retain and have deleted about you. You may request additional information to clarify the extent of your consent.
Right to an Accounting
You have the right to receive an accounting of the categories of third parties to whom we have disclosed your personal information.
Rights of Access, Correction
You have the right to access the personal information we maintain about you and you have the right to correct or supplement your personal information if it is inaccurate or misleading and to have it completed if it is incomplete. Where appropriate, to have personal information that you have corrected or supplemented transmitted to third parties who have had access to your personal information.
Right to be notified of a Data Breach
If you are in Quebec, you have the right to be informed of a confidentiality breach involving your personal information that may cause you a serious harm. If you are in the rest of Canada you have the right to be informed of a breach of security safeguards affecting your personal information where there is a real risk of significant harm to you.
Right to Lodge Complaints
You have the right to lodge a complaint about our collection, use or disclosure of your personal information with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and any applicable provincial privacy commissioner’s office having jurisdiction.
Additional Rights in Quebec
If you are in the province of Quebec, you have the following additional rights:
Right of Deletion
You may request under certain circumstances the deletion of your personal information.
Right to Data Portability
As of September 22, 2024 you will have the right to be provided, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, with a copy of your personal information or to have it transferred directly to another entity or person.
To exercise the above rights, please get in touch with us using the contact information provided below under the heading “Contact Us”. We will consider and process your request within a reasonable period of time and in any event within thirty days of receipt of your request or such longer time as we may be permitted under Canadian Privacy Laws. Please be aware that under certain circumstances, Canadian Privacy Laws may limit your exercise of these rights.
If we cannot provide you with access to your personal information, we will inform you of the reasons why, subject to any legal or regulatory restrictions.
If we refuse to rectify your personal information, we will attach a statement to the record that sets out the reason why we have refused to make the rectification.
We will also retain the personal information that has been the subject of an access request or a rectification request for as long as necessary to allow you to exhaust any recourse provided by law.
International Transfers
As noted above in this Privacy Notice, your personal information may be transferred to and stored at a location outside of your jurisdiction of residence. Please note that local data protection laws where your personal information is stored or processed may not provide as much protection as the data protection laws in force in your jurisdiction of residence, but we nevertheless ensure that we take reasonable steps to ensure that your personal information will not be used by such persons storing or processing the information for any purpose other than assisting us for the purposes described in this Privacy Notice. If you would like to receive more information about our policies and practices with respect to our use of service providers outside of Canada who handle your personal information or if you have any questions about our collection, use, disclosure or storage by any service providers outside of Canada on our behalf, please contact us at the address below under the heading “Contact Us”.
If you provide personal information of a third party to us, you represent that you have complied all the obligations imposed by Canadian Privacy Laws regarding the transfer of personal information outside the jurisdiction of residence.
Business Transfers
Where we disclose your personal information in the event of a business transfer described in our Privacy Notice above, we will ensure that the information is treated confidentially by the parties to the transaction and that the information will be protected by security safeguards appropriate to its sensitivity. If the transfer is completed we will require that the parties to the transaction continue to treat your personal information in accordance with Canadian Privacy Laws.
Service providers
Where we disclose personal information to services providers, we ensure that they are bound by contractual obligations to:
Electronic Marketing Messages
We send electronic marketing messages for the purposes described above in this Policy, however, notwithstanding Our Opt-in/Opt-out Policy described above, Canada’s anti-spam legislation contains special rules that regulate the way in which we may send these electronic messages to you. If you are located in Canada we will only send electronic marketing messages to you if we have your prior opt-in consent, unless an exception or a specific form of implied consent applies. You may learn more and sign up for our electronic mailing list by clicking here.
Information security and governance
Our internal policies and practices provide for:
Each employee who uses personal information is bound by confidentiality obligations and has received appropriate training. In addition, each employee may only access personal information that is necessary for the performance of his or her duties. In the event of a breach, our governance policies and practices provide for sanctions.
Last Updated: [9.20.24]
