Privacy Policy
Your privacy is important to us. 2-Dollar-Wiki.com, its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, " 2-Dollar-Wiki", " us ", " we ") are committed to maintaining the privacy, security and accuracy of the personal information they collect, use and disclose in accordance with applicable legislation. This privacy policy (the " Privacy Policy ") is a statement of principles and guidelines concerning the protection of personal information of our individual clients, individual service providers and other individuals (" you ") (with the exception of our personnel, whose personal information is collected, used and disclosed in accordance with our Personnel Privacy Policy).
CONSENT
BY SUBMITTING PERSONAL INFORMATION TO 2-DOLLAR-WIKI.COM OR ITS AGENTS, YOU AGREE THAT WE MAY COLLECT, USE AND DISCLOSE SUCH PERSONAL INFORMATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY, THE PRIVACY PREFERENCES YOU HAVE MADE KNOWN TO US AND AS PERMITTED OR REQUIRED BY LAW. Subject to legal and contractual requirements, you may refuse or withdraw your consent to certain of the identified purposes at any time by contacting us . If you refuse or withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide you or continue to provide you with certain services or information that may be of value to you.
What personal information do we collect?
Canadian privacy legislation defines personal information broadly as information about "an identifiable individual" or as information that allows an individual to be identified. The types of personal information that we may collect from you from time to time include: your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, your forwarding address (e.g. during a vacation), previous address(es), payment information (for billing purposes), your mailing preferences (such as "no scents", "no wrappers", etc.), delivery instructions, and individual customer service preferences (such as "do not solicit"). In addition, from time to time, we may ask you to provide us with more detailed information regarding your interests, occupation, and background. For example, we sometimes ask our customers to complete surveys in order to get a better sense of who they are and what issues, products or services may be of interest to them and our readership. Finally, from time to time, we may acquire demographic and other information about you (e.g. your occupation and interests) from an outside organisation, but only if you have previously agreed to allow such an organization to disclose the information to companies such as 2-Dollar-Wiki.com.
3. Why do we collect your personal information?
We collect your personal information for the purposes listed below:
(a) To provide the product, service or information you requested
If you are a customer of one of our publications, we use your name and address (postal and/or e-mail) in order to deliver the product, service or information you requested and to follow up with you about the transaction (i.e., send a bill, notify you that your subscription is expiring, etc.). If you enter into a contest offered through one of our websites or printed publications, we use your personal information to administer the contest on our own behalf or on behalf of our sponsors.
(b) To process payment
Your credit card number, debit card number, or banking information for pre-authorized payments is used only for processing payments and for presenting you with payment options - not for marketing purposes.
(c) To send you information
From time to time we may send you further information about the publication, its offers, or other products produced under its name.
(d) Other purposes
In addition, from time to time, we may use your personal information for the following purposes:
- to detect and protect 2-Dollar-Wiki.com and other third parties against error, fraud, theft and other illegal activity, and to audit compliance with 2-Dollar-Wiki.com policies and contractual obligations;
- to understand your needs and preferences, including to contact and communicate with you and to conduct surveys, research and evaluations;
- to obtain audited statements regarding numbers of subscribers per publication;
- to engage in business transactions, including the purchase, sale, lease, merger, amalgamation or any other type of acquisition, disposal, securitization or financing involving 2-Dollar-Wiki;
- for any other purpose we may indicate to you from time to time.
Control of your personal information
At 2-Dollar-Wiki.com, we want you to be able to maintain control over how we use your personal information. In particular:
- You may have the right to "opt out" of some or all of the identified purposes, uses and disclosures listed in sections 3 and 4 above.
- You always have the option to instruct us not to use your name, address, e-mail address, etc. beyond providing you with the product, service or information you requested. See " Contact Us " below.
- E-mail communications will always include an identification of the sender and an "Unsubscribe" option.
- If you receive a mailing from any of our consumer magazines and you wish to know the source of your name (i.e. what list it came from), we will make every reasonable effort to determine the source and provide you with the information. For this request, or to confirm that any personal information we may have is correct, please contact us (See " Contact Us " below). (Note that some account information can be confirmed by visiting the customer care section of our consumer magazine websites).
As mentioned above, we may not be able to provide you with our services if you withdraw your consent to our use of your personal information.
6. Where is your personal information stored?
Your personal information is stored in secured locations and on servers controlled by 2-Dollar-Wiki.com, located either at our offices or at the offices of our service providers. For access to your personal information, please contact our Chief Privacy Officer using the contact information in the " Contact Us " section below.
7. How can you access your personal information?
Upon written request, subject to certain exceptions, 2-Dollar-Wiki.com will inform you of the existence, use, and disclosure of your personal information and will give you access to that information. Access requests should be sent to our Chief Privacy Officer, using the contact information in the " Contact Us " section below.
8. How do we protect your personal information?
We make every reasonable effort to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of personal information under our control. Our security policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary.
Only authorized employees and suppliers have access to your personal information. Where information is sent to a third party for processing, we make sure, through our contracts with them, that all your information is kept secure. We keep your information for the time we are providing you with a product or service, and for a reasonable time thereafter in the event that you wish to resume service.
We operate secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems. Credit card information is processed using industry-standard encryption and security. We do not collect personal information from bulletin boards or forums. However, we cannot guarantee that personal information voluntarily disclosed in chat rooms or discussion boards will not be collected and used by others, which may result in unsolicited messages to you from other parties.
9. Privacy and our websites
2-Dollar-Wiki.com sometimes collects personal information through its various websites. In this section, we provide you with additional information regarding such collection.
Cookies - When an individual visitor accesses the 2-Dollar-Wiki.com websites, we may use a browser feature called a "cookie" to collect information such as the type of Internet browser and operating system the visitor uses, the domain name of the websites from which the visitor came, date and duration of the visit, number of visits, average time spent on our websites, pages viewed and number of cookies accumulated. A cookie is a small text file containing a unique identification number that identifies the visitor's browser, but not necessarily the visitor, to our computers each time our websites are visited. Unless a visitor specifically informs us (e.g. by enrolling for our services or sending us correspondence from the websites), we will not know who the individual visitors are. In addition to the identified purposes described in our Privacy Policy, we may use this website information and share it with other organizations with whom we have a commercial relationship to measure the use of our websites and to improve the functionality and content of the websites. Visitors can reset their browsers either to notify them when they have received a cookie or refuse to accept cookies. However, if a visitor refuses to accept cookies, he or she may not be able to use some of the features available on our websites.
Online Communications - In order to provide our website visitors with a product, service or information, visitors may voluntarily submit personal information to us for purposes such as asking a question, obtaining information, subscribing to, reviewing or downloading a publication, participating in contests and surveys. If you are known to 2-Dollar-Wiki.com as a registered user of an online service, we may combine and store personal information about your use of our websites and the online information you have provided with certain other online and offline information we may have collected.
E-Mail Communications - Occasionally, we may send marketing or promotional e-mail communications to you with information that may be useful, including information about the products and services of 2-Dollar-Wiki.com and other third parties with whom we have a relationship. We will include instructions on how to unsubscribe and inform us of preferences if recipients decide they do not want to receive any future marketing or promotional e-mails from 2-Dollar-Wiki.com.
Also, if you send us an email message, we may retain that message and your email address, as well as any response we send you.
Advertisers - If you submit some of your personal information on any 2-Dollar-Wiki.com website to request information from a third party (such as an advertiser), we are not responsible for any use of your personal information by such third party. Hence, we suggest that you first learn more about such third party's privacy policies prior to submitting your personal information by visiting its website or contacting it by postal mail or telephone.
Opinion Polls - Opinion polls on our websites are anonymous. We do not correlate votes submitted via such polls with names or individual email addresses, unless otherwise disclosed at the point of collection.
Chat Rooms and Bulletin Boards - Some of 2-Dollar-Wiki.com's websites offer chat rooms and bulletin boards. Only individuals 18 years of age or older may participate in our chat rooms and bulletin boards. The voluntary disclosure of personal information in a chat room or on an bulletin board is not governed by this Privacy Policy. Any communications which are part of chat rooms or discussion boards are public and not private and you provide such information at your own risk. Although it is prohibited to use our forums as a source of email addresses for sending unfounded or unsolicited messages or spamming, others may still capture your email address and send you email messages if you post your email address and we cannot control such actions by others. We advise you to remain prudent and attentive at all times when you are on line on the Internet.
Searches - For your convenience, search functions are sometimes provided on our websites. We keep logs of the words searched to learn more about what kind of information our visitors are seeking, and thus improve our services.
Hyperlinks - For your convenience, 2-Dollar-Wiki.com's websites sometimes contain hyperlinks to websites managed by third parties. By activating these hyperlinks, you will leave 2-Dollar-Wiki.com's websites for those of the third parties, which may have different privacy policies and practices than 2-Dollar-Wiki.com. 2-Dollar-Wiki.com cannot be held liable for the use of such third party websites.
Advertising to Children - We believe that none of 2-Dollar-Wiki.com's websites appeal directly to children of 13 years old or less. We do not knowingly direct our advertising at children under the age of 13, except as permitted by law.
Individuals Under 18 - No personal information should be submitted or posted on our websites by individuals under 18 years of age without their parent's or guardian's permission. We may request name, address, phone number, email address and date of birth from an individual under 18 years of age for contest participation so that we may notify him or her if selected as a winner. In the event we do so, we will request their parent's or guardian's consent prior to collection.
No information collected from online guests under 18 years of age is used for any marketing or promotional purposes whatsoever by 2-Dollar-Wiki.com. Unless otherwise disclosed at collection, we do not provide any personal information collected through any 2-Dollar-Wiki.com website from individuals under 18 years old, regardless of its source, to any third party for any purpose whatsoever.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
2-Dollar-Wiki.com reserves the right to modify or supplement this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make a change to this Privacy Policy, we will post such change on our websites and make such revised policy and change available upon request to the Transcontinental Chief Privacy Officer. However, Transcontinental will obtain the necessary consents required under applicable Privacy Laws if it seeks to collect, use or disclose an individual's personal information for purposes other than those to which consent is obtained unless otherwise required or permitted by law.
Prior to January 1, 2004 some 2-Dollar-Wiki.com websites may have collected personal information, such as e-mail address, using privacy policies which differ from the statement above. In such cases where information has already been provided, customers will be contacted and informed of the new policy practices before any new use is made of their personal information.
12. Contact Us
2-Dollar-Wiki.com has appointed a Chief Privacy Officer to oversee compliance with this Privacy Policy and applicable Privacy Laws. You can contact the 2-Dollar-Wiki.com Chief Privacy Officer at:
e-mail: support[at]2-dollar-wiki[]com
