SMS Equipment Privacy Statement
SMS Equipment Inc. (“SMS Equipment”) is committed to
protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you a safe and
powerful online experience. This SMS Equipment Privacy Statement (the “Privacy
Statement”) applies to the collection, use and disclosure of personal
information relating to you (“you” or the “User”) by SMS Equipment and the SMS
Equipment Web site (the “Web Site”). By using the Web Site, you agree and
consent to the data practices described in this Privacy Statement, and to the
collection, use and disclosure of your Personal Information (as hereinafter
defined) by SMS Equipment in accordance with the terms of this Privacy
Statement.
Collection of your
Personal Information
SMS Equipment collects information about identifiable
individuals (“Personal Information”) relating to use of the Web Site by Users,
which may include but may not be limited to Users’ home e-mail addresses,
names, home or work addresses or telephone numbers. SMS Equipment also collects
anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your
Postal Code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favourites.
There is also information about your computer hardware and
software (“Computer Information”) that is automatically collected by SMS
Equipment, which may include but may not be limited to your IP address, browser
type, domain names, referring domain names, access times and referring Web site
addresses. SMS Equipment does not access, read, or collect any of your private
online communications made through the Web Site. SMS Equipment also
automatically collects data relating to sites and pages our Users visit within
the Web Site (“Web Site Information”), in order to determine what SMS Equipment
services are the most popular.
Please keep in mind that if you disclose Personal
Information or personally sensitive data through the Web Site’s public message boards or the Web Site’s public chat functions,
this information may be collected, used, and/or disclosed by other Users. The
collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information and personally sensitive
data made available in this fashion cannot be controlled by SMS Equipment, and
SMS Equipment does not control and accepts no responsibility or liability for
the unauthorized collection, use and/or disclosure of Personal Information and
personally sensitive data that you make available in this fashion.
The Web Site may contain links to other Web sites or
Internet resources. When you click on one of those links you are contacting
another Web site or Internet resource that may collect information about you
voluntarily or through cookies or other technologies according to privacy
policies which may not mirror those of SMS Equipment. SMS Equipment encourages
you to review the privacy policies of Web sites or Internet resources which you
choose to access from the Web Site, so that you can understand how those Web
sites and Internet resources collect, use and share your information. SMS
Equipment has no control over other Web sites or Internet resources or their
policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of your Personal
Information, and SMS Equipment accepts no responsibility or liability for the
unauthorized collection, use or disclosure of your Personal Information by such
other external Web sites or Internet resources.
Use of your Personal
Information
SMS Equipment uses your Personal Information to operate the
Web Site and deliver the services you have requested. SMS Equipment also uses
your Personal Information to inform you of other products or services available
from SMS Equipment and its affiliates. SMS Equipment may also contact you via
surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of
potential new services that may be offered in the future.
Computer Information, as defined above, is used by SMS
Equipment for the operation of the services provided to you via the Web Site,
to maintain the quality of the services provided through the Web Site, and to
provide SMS Equipment with general statistics relating to use of the Web Site.
Web Site Information, as defined above, is used to deliver customized content
and advertising within the Web Site to customers whose behaviour indicates that
they are interested in a particular subject area.
SMS Equipment does not sell, rent or lease its customer
lists to third parties. SMS Equipment may, from time to time, contact you on
behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of
interest to you. In those cases, your unique Personal Information (e-mail,
name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the external business
partner. In addition, SMS Equipment may share data with trusted partners to
provide services to SMS Equipment, which services may include performing statistical
analysis, sending your email or postal mail, providing customer support, or
arranging for deliveries. All such partner service-providers are prohibited
from using your Personal Information, except to provide these services to SMS
Equipment, and are required to maintain the confidentiality of your Personal
Information.
SMS Equipment does not use or disclose sensitive Personal
Information, such as Personal Information relating to your race, religion, or
political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
SMS Equipment may use or disclose your Personal Information,
without notice, if legally permitted to do so according to the relevant
provisions of the Canada Personal
Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, the Alberta Personal Information Protection Act,
and/or any other relevant privacy enactment (collectively, the “Privacy
Acts”). The Privacy Acts may permit the
use or disclosure of Personal Information without notice if, for example: (a)
the Personal Information could be useful in the investigation of a
contravention of the laws of Canada, a province or a foreign jurisdiction; (b)
the Personal Information is used or disclosed for the purpose of acting in
respect of an emergency that threatens the life, health or security of an individual;
and (c) the Personal Information is disclosed to comply with the edicts of the
law, or to comply with a subpoena or warrant issued or an order made by a
court. SMS Equipment may also disclose your Personal Information if SMS
Equipment holds the good faith belief that such action is necessary to protect
and defend the rights or property of SMS Equipment and/or act under exigent
circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of SMS Equipment, or the
public.
Use of Cookies
The Web Site uses “cookies” to help personalize your online
experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web
page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your
computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web
server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. One of the primary purposes
of cookies is to save you time, by informing the Web server that you have
returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize certain Web Site pages
or services, or register with SMS Equipment through the Web Site, a cookie
helps the Web Site recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This
simplifies the process of recording information such as billing addresses,
shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Web Site page or
service, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can
easily use the Web Site features that you had previously customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web
browsers automatically accept cookies, but most Web browsers allow you to
modify your browser settings to decline cookies, if you prefer. If you choose
to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive
features of the SMS Equipment services you use or Web Site pages that you
visit.
Security of your
Personal Information
SMS Equipment secures your Personal Information from
unauthorized access, use or disclosure by third parties. SMS Equipment secures
the Personal Information you provide on computer servers in a controlled,
secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When
Personal Information is transmitted to other Web sites or third parties for the
purposes specified above, it is protected through the use of encryption, such
as by way of the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Changes to this
Privacy Statement
This Privacy Statement may be changed, removed, added to or
otherwise modified by SMS Equipment from time to time at SMS Equipment’s sole
discretion and without any prior notice or liability to you. The collection,
use and disclosure of your Personal Information by SMS Equipment will be
governed by the version of this Privacy Statement in effect at that time. All
new, amended, or otherwise modified terms take effect immediately.
Your continued use of the Web Site subsequent to any
modifications to this Privacy Statement signifies that you consent to the
collection, use and disclosure of your Personal Information in accordance with
the modified Privacy Statement. You should bookmark this page and periodically
review this Privacy Statement to ensure that you are familiar with the most
current version of the Privacy Statement.
Privacy Statement
Comments
SMS Equipment welcomes your comments regarding this Privacy
Statement. If you believe that SMS Equipment has not adhered to the terms of
this Privacy Statement, please contact SMS Equipment’s designated Privacy
Officer at privacy@smsequip.com. We will use commercially reasonable
efforts to promptly identify and remedy any failure by SMS Equipment to adhere
to the terms of this Privacy Statement.