Industry Spotlight Canada

Privacy Policy

Last updated September 1, 2010

Our Commitment to Your Privacy

Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this Privacy Policy to explain our information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected, used and disclosed. This Privacy Policy is accessible by a link at the bottom of every page on Industryspotlight.ca and applies to all information collected through or submitted to the Industry Spotlight Canada website.

We are particularly committed to protecting the privacy of minors. For that reason, we will refuse to open an account for a person under the age of 13. If you are under 13, please do not attempt to register for Industryspotlight.ca or send any information about yourself to us. If we learn that information from a child under the age of 13 has been submitted to us, we will delete that account and information as soon as possible.

For persons between the ages of 13 and 18, we require parental or guardian consent prior to opening an account and we reserve the right to verify the existence of that consent.

We will fully cooperate with any request to release information to any law enforcement agency when a proper request is received. We may also take steps to protect the health and well being of members, visitors and other parties if we have reason to believe that any of these persons are in danger.

Collection and Use of Personal Information by industryspotlight.ca

It is important that you understand what information is displayed to the public. Except as described in this Privacy Policy, any information included in your Profile or posted to videos and forums and classifieds is accessible to the general public and not just registered members. We encourage you to view your Profile as others would view it by clicking on the Profile link in the top menu. All posting and sharing is done at your own risk.

When opening an account, Industryspotlight.ca collects identifiable information submitted by you (Personal Information), including but not limited to: name, email address, username (that you create), sex (gender), location and age. Profile Data is not Personal Information collected by Industry Spotlight Canada.

You may change or remove any of your Profile Data at any time by logging into your account and clicking on the "Profile" and "Preferences" tabs in the top menu, except for your username, age, sex and location which are all publicly visible to all members and visitors (non-members). You may restrict your Profile from being viewed by visitors (non-members) and those users placed or your "ignore list". In addition, you may choose to hide your birth date. However, this information is still used to calculate your age.

We may use your external email address to respond to your inquiries or send updates or other news regarding the Industry Spotlight Canada service. We also use Personal Information of members included in a member’s Profile to deliver advertising content that we believe may be of interest or use to a member.

From time to time, industryspotlight.ca may hold a promotion, sweepstake or contest on industryspotlight.ca Members may be asked to provide Personal Information such as name, email address or home address or to answer questions in order to participate. If you participate, Industryspotlight.ca may collect and use Personal Information to administer the promotion, sweepstake or contest. What information is being collected and how it may be used or disclosed (and to whom) will be made evident at the time of collection through the relevant promotion, sweepstake or contest rules.

Industryspotlight.ca also logs non-personally-identifiable information of members and visitors to the site, including IP address, aggregate user data, and browser type. This information helps us manage the website, track usage and improve the website services. Aggregated information may be shared with third parties to provide more relevant services and advertisements to members. For example, we may tell an advertiser that X number of individuals visited a certain area on our website or that Y number of men or Z number of women filled out our registration form. Industryspotlight.ca also records user IP addresses for the purposes of security and monitoring.

Disclosure of Personal Information

We may share some or all of your Personal Information with any parent company, any subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under a common control we may have (collectively, "Affiliates"), in which case we will require our Affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy.

In the event Industry Spotlight Canada goes through a business transition such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your Personal Information will likely be among the assets transferred. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Industry Spotlight Canada or its assets may continue to use your Personal Information as set forth in this Privacy Policy.

Industry Spotlight Canada expressly reserves the right, and in some states may be legally required, to report certain materials, such as, but not limited to, child pornography or terror plans, that we may become aware of in the course of providing the Services to the authorities in charge.

Some Personal Information may be stored or processed by third parties, including contractors, business partners and affiliates located in the United States. Therefore, your information may be processed and stored in the United States. As a result, the governments, courts, or law enforcement or regulatory agencies may be able to obtain disclosure of your information through laws applicable in the United States.

Except as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy, Industryspotlight.ca will not disclose Personal Information to any third party unless we believe that disclosure is necessary for one of the following reasons: (1) as required by law, including to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other legal process received by Industry Spotlight Canada; (2) to enforce the industryspotlight.ca Terms of Use or to protect our rights; or (3) to protect the safety of the public and members of and visitors to the service.

Notification of Changes

If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post any changes on our site and provide notification so that users will always be aware of what changes have been made to how information is collected, used and disclosed, and continued use of Industryspotlight.ca shall constitute consent to the changes in the Privacy Policy.

Cookies

A "cookie" is a small piece of information/text sent by a web server to be stored on a user’s web browser so it can later be read back from that browser on subsequent visits to a website. industryspotlight.ca uses cookies to store visitors' preferences and to record session information. You may be able to configure your browser to accept or reject all or some cookies, or to notify you when a cookie is set, however, cookies must be enabled in order to access some functions on the site. Since each browser is different, check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.

Links

Industryspotlight.ca contains links to other sites. Industryspotlight.ca is not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices on other sites. A member should read the privacy policy stated on any site being accessed. The Industry Spotlight Canada Privacy Policy only governs the privacy policies and practices of Industry Spotlight Canada.com.

Advertising

industryspotlight.ca does not provide Personal Information to advertisers, however, if you click on an ad appearing on industryspotlight.ca, you may be taken to an advertiser’s or other third’s party web-site. Your use of these other websites is subject to the privacy policies of those web sites and Industryspotlight.ca expressly disclaims all representations and responsibilities in relation to those web sites.

Blogs, Forums, Message Boards and Classifieds

When you voluntarily post comments, including your personally identifiable information to blogs, forums, classifieds or any other public forums, the information can be accessed by the public. In turn, the information can be used by those people to send you unsolicited communications. These posted comments are not Personal Information collected by Industry Spotlight Canada.

Security

Industryspotlight.ca uses physical and electronic precautions to protect member Personal Information stored within our database, and we restrict access to member information to those employees who need access it to perform their job functions, such as our customer service personnel and technical staff.

Industryspotlight.ca uses member-created passwords to assist in the security of member accounts. It is your responsibility to protect your password as disclosure of it allows anyone to access your account, including all of your sent and received messages. You should also take precautions to protect your email account as anyone can request that your password be sent to your email address. As such, if you allow someone else to use or control your email account, that person may be able to gain access to your Industry Spotlight Canada account. To protect your Industry Spotlight Canada account, please ensure that you do not use the "Remember Me" feature or set your browser to remember your details on any public or shared computers.

While we take measures to attempt to protect your Personal Information and privacy, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of Personal Information due to actions of other members with whom you share your pages and information and factors such as unauthorized third party entry or use, or hardware or software failure that may compromise security.

For any additional information about the security measures we use on Industryspotlight.ca, please contact us at erin@industryspotlight.ca.

Access to Personal Information

As set out below, Industry Spotlight Canada permits requests for access to and review of Personal Information collected by Industry Spotlight Canada about an individual by the individual concerned. An individual can request to access and/or update Personal Information collected about them by Industry Spotlight Canada by sending an email request to erin@ndustryspotlight.ca. Industry Spotlight Canada reserves the right not to change any Personal Information but may append any alternative text the individual concerned believes appropriate. An individual may also request that Industry Spotlight Canada delete an individual's Personal Information from Industry Spotlight Canada's system and records. However, due to technical constraints and the fact that Industry Spotlight Canada backs up its systems, Personal Information may continue to reside in Industry Spotlight Canada's systems after deletion. Individuals, therefore, should not expect that their Personal Information would be completely removed from Industry Spotlight Canada systems in response to an accepted request for deletion.

Industry Spotlight Canada reserves the right to decline access to Personal Information where the information requested:

• Would disclose the Personal Information of another individual or of a deceased individual;
• Was not collected by Industry Spotlight Canada from the individual;
• Would disclose business confidential information that may harm Industry Spotlight Canada or the competitive position of a third party;
• Is subject to solicitor-client or litigation privilege;
• Could reasonably result in:
  • serious harm to the treatment or recovery of the individual concerned;
  • serious emotional harm to the individual or another individual; or
  • serious bodily harm to another individual;
• May harm or interfere with law enforcement activities and other investigative or regulatory functions of a body authorized by statute to perform such functions;
• Is not readily retrievable and the burden or cost of providing would be disproportionate to the nature or value of the information; or
• Does not exist, is not held, or cannot be found by Industry Spotlight Canada.

Where information will not or cannot be disclosed, the individual making the request will be provided with the reasons for non-disclosure.

Where information will be disclosed, Industry Spotlight Canada will endeavor to provide the information in question within a reasonable time and no later than 30 days following the request. Industry Spotlight Canada will not respond to repetitious or vexatious requests for access. In determining whether a request is repetitious or vexatious, it will consider such factors as the frequency with which information is updated, the purpose for which the information is used, and the nature of the information.

To guard against fraudulent requests for access, Industry Spotlight Canada will require sufficient information to allow it to confirm the identity of the person making the request before granting access or making corrections.

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, please contact us at: erin@industryspotlight.ca, or by mail at: Duncan McNeill Centre, W207F, 11762-106 Street, Edmonton, Alberta, T5G 2R1