ROYAL
GROUP WEB SITES
ONLINE PRIVACY POLICY
Royal Group Technologies Limited (“Royal”)
is committed to respecting and protecting the privacy and security
of your personal information. Once you choose to provide us personally
identifiable information, you can be assured that it will only
be used to support your relationship with Royal.
WHAT IS PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION?
Personally identifiable information is information that refers
to specific individuals and is recorded in any form. This information
may includes such information as name, residential or mailing
address, date of birth, email address, ethnic origins, financial
and credit information, medical records and any other factual
or subjective information, recorded or not, that may be personally
identifiable.
Personally identifiable information does not include the name,
title or business address or telephone number of an employee or
organization. Nor does it include public telephone directories,
where the subscriber can refuse to be listed, certain public registries
and court records or other publicly available printed and electronic
publications.
WHY WE PROVIDE THIS STATEMENT
Royal provides this Online Privacy Policy (the “Policy”)
to demonstrate our commitment to preserving your privacy and to
make you aware of our privacy policy, practices and of the choices
you can make about the way your information is collected and used.
This Policy has been based on the 10 Key Principals as provided
by the Canadian Personal Information Protection and Electronic
Documents Act. To make this Policy easy to find, we make it available
at the Site.
ACCOUNTABILITY
Royal is committed to their responsibility for all of your personal
information that it has in its possession, including any personal
information transferred to third parties. Royal is dedicated to
implementing, establishing and adhering to specific procedures
for protecting personal information. Royal is also dedicated in
designating specific persons accountable for the compliance of
all privacy and security principals.
IDENTIFYING PURPOSES - WHAT WE COLLECT
AND THE PURPOSES FOR COLLECTION
On this Site, you can make requests and register to receive materials.
The types of personal information collected at this Site are name
and contact information. You supply the personal and business
contact information you choose.
In order to tailor our subsequent communications to you and continuously
improve our products and services (including registration), we
may also ask you to provide us with information regarding your
personal or professional interests, demographics, experience with
our products, and more detailed contact preferences. The purposes
for additional specific information requested are outlined at
the time the information is being requested.
LIMITED COLLECTION AND HOW WE USE
IT
Royal uses your information to better understand your needs and
provide you with better service. Specifically, we use your information
to communicate back to you, to update you on service and benefits,
and to update this Site to better suit you.
From time to time, we may also use your information to contact
you for market research or to provide you with marketing information
we think would be of particular interest. At a minimum, we will
always give you the opportunity to opt out of receiving such direct
marketing or market research contact.
Royal requests and collects only the information necessary for
these purposes and limits the information required accordingly.
All information collected, will be collected by fair and lawful
means.
LIMITING USE, DISCLOSURE AND RETENTION
- WHO WE SHARE IT WITH
Royal will not sell, rent, lease or trade your personally identifiable
information to others. Unless we have your permission or are required
by law, we will only share the personal data you provide online
with other Royal entities and/or business partners who are acting
on our behalf for the uses described in “How we use it and
Limitation of Collection”. Such Royal entities and/or business
partners, including those in Canada and/or any other countries,
are governed by this Policy with respect to the use of this data
and are bound by the appropriate confidentiality agreements.
Data collected online may also be combined with information you
provide when you register your ownership of Royal products.
Royal will not use or share the personally identifiable information
provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described
above without first letting you know and offering you a choice.
Your permission is always secured before we share your information
with third parties that are not acting on our behalf and governed
by this Policy.
CONSENT
Royal obtains your explicit consent prior to using or disclosing
personal information. The method of consent is appropriate to
the type of personal information being collected, used or disclosed.
You can change your consent at any time. To change your consent,
please refer to the “Contacting Royal” section of
this document below.
ACCURACY OF INFORMATION
Royal ensures, to the best of their ability, to maintain accurate,
up to date and relevant personal information for its use. You
can help us maintain accurate records by keeping us informed of
any changes to your personal information, such as an address change
or a phone number change.
In order for you to ensure that the information being maintained
by Royal is complete and accurate, you may request access to the
information on record for review and request amendments as required.
If you find any errors in the information received, please bring
it to the Royal’s attention and it will be rectified immediately.
In the case where Royal has received the information on behalf
of a third party, it may be required to refer you to that specific
third party.
In order to obtain access to your personal information, please
contact us directly by using the “Contacting Royal”
section of this document.
SAFEGUARDS
THIRD PARTY LINKING
Links to third party web sites on the site are provided solely
as a convenience to you. If you use these links, you will leave
this Site. Royal has not reviewed all of these third party sites
and does not control and is not responsible for any of these sites,
their content or their privacy policy. Thus, Royal does not endorse
or make any representations about the, or any information, software
or other products or materials found there, or any results that
may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of
the third party sites linked to this site, you do so at your own
risk.
COOKIES
A cookie is a small file containing certain pieces of information
that a web site creates when you visit that particular site. It
tracks how and when you use a site and which site you visited
prior and stores this information. Currently Royal does not use
cookies on any of the sites under their current and direct control
and therefore NO personally identifying information is being stored
via this method. When the Royal site is browsed, it is done so
anonymously and privately and without revealing any personal information
unless specifically provided.
SECURITY
Royal is committed to ensuring the security of your information.
To prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, maintain data accuracy,
and ensure the appropriate use of information, we have put in
place appropriate procedures to safeguard and secure the information
we collect online.
Authorized third parties may need access to some of your personal
information. For example, if we need to ship something to you,
we must share your name and address with a shipping company. We
limit such third parties in their access and use of your personal
information. We do not otherwise share your personal information
with third parties, unless you have granted us permission to do
so.
OPENNESS, INDIVIDUAL ACCESS AND CHALLENGING COMPLIANCE
Royal is committed to responding to any questions or concerns
with respect to the privacy of your personal information and any
of the privacy policies and procedures herein. Royal is therefore
committed to: readily providing specific information with respect
to its policies and practices relating to the management of personal
information; providing, upon request, the existence, use and disclosure,
of personal information to an individual; providing the availability
of an individual to challenge or update personal information;
providing an individual to which concerns or challenges can be
addressed; and responding to your questions and concerns with
respect to the privacy of your personal information or any of
the privacy policies and procedures.
CONTACTING ROYAL
If you have comments or questions about this Policy, please contact
us at:
Royal Group Technologies Limited
1 Royal Gate Boulevard
Woodbridge, Ontario
Canada L4L 8Z7
Tel.: (905) 264-0701
Fax.: (905) 264-0702
E-mail: privacy@royalgrouptech.com
GENERAL
By using this site you indicate that you accept Royal’s
Online Privacy Policy. Royal may revise this Policy at any time
by updating this posting. You should visit this page from time
to time to review the then current Policy as it is binding on
you. Certain provisions of this Policy may be superseded by expressly
designated legal notices or terms located on particular pages
at this Site.
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