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Pinty’s Premium Foods Inc. Global Privacy Statement (Last update) 3/06/00
Pinty’s Premium Foods Inc. is committed
to protecting your personal privacy. This Privacy Policy outlines
the type of information that is collected by Pinty’s Premium Foods
Inc. on this web site, and how we use and protect it. By using our web site, you signify that you agree
with the terms of our current Privacy Policy as posted in this area
of the site. If you do not agree with any term in this Policy, please
do not use the site.
From time to time, Pinty’s Premium
Foods Inc. may need to change its Privacy Policy because of changes
in its business, or in its attempts to serve your needs better.
Pinty’s Premium Foods Inc. will use reasonable efforts to publish
any changes to its Privacy Policy.
In this Privacy Policy, “we”, “us”,
“our” and similar terms and expressions refer to and mean Pinty’s
Premium Foods Inc.
What information does Pinty’s Premium
Foods Inc. gather?
There are times when Pinty’s Premium
Foods Inc. may need to gather specific information from you such
as your name and address, among other personal information. Information
that is essential for Pinty’s Premium Foods Inc. to provide the
services and/or products that are requested by you is generally
designated as "Required". Additional information that
would allow Pinty’s Premium Foods Inc. flexibility in providing
its services or products, and may be used for internal statistical
studies or market research, is generally indicated as "Optional".
The choice of how much personally identifiable
information you disclose to Pinty’s Premium Foods Inc. is completely
at your discretion. It is never mandatory for you to answer any
question, although it may limit the services and products that Pinty’s
Premium Foods Inc. is able to offer.
If you send us correspondence, such
as letters or email, we may collect such information into a file
specific to you.
We automatically track certain information
about you based on your behavior on our site. We use this information
to do internal research on our users’ interest, behavior and demographics
to better serve our users. This information may include the URL
that you just came from (whether this URL is on our site or not),
which URL you next go to (whether this URL is on our site or not),
what browser you are using and your IP address.
In addition we use “cookies” on certain
pages of our site. Cookies are small files that your web browser
places on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies help us provide information
which is targeted to your interests. We also use cookies to help
us remember user names and passwords, preferences, tracking click
streams and/or for load balancing. Because cookies are stored on
your hard drive, not on our site, you are always free to disable
or decline our cookies if our hard drive, not on our site, you are
always free to disable or decline our cookies if your browser permits.
Disabling cookies, however, may limit your use of certain features
on our site and may hinder site performance.
A special note about children.
Children are not eligible to use our
service and we ask that minors not submit personal information to
us.
How does Pinty’s Premium Foods Inc.
use personal information?
When you submit personal information
to Pinty’s Premium Foods Inc., you understand that you are agreeing
to allow Pinty’s Premium Foods Inc., its subsidiaries, and its affiliates,
access to, storage of, and use of, the data in any of the countries
where Pinty’s Premium Foods Inc., its subsidiaries, and its affiliates,
do business, whether inside or outside of Canada.
Pinty’s Premium Foods Inc. may use
the personal information you submit for any purposes related to
Pinty’s Premium Foods Inc.'s business, including, but not limited
to, generating statistical studies, conducting market research,
improving its products and services, sending you surveys, and notifying
you of product upgrades and updates, new products, special offers,
seminars and conventions and any other changes within Pinty’s Premium
Foods Inc. that may affect you.
What choices do you have about how
your personal information is used and what is Pinty’s Premium Foods
Inc.'s commitment to data quality and reliability?
Pinty’s Premium Foods Inc. respects
your privacy and realizes that not everyone likes to receive special
offers or information.
If you would like your name deactivated
from Pinty’s Premium Foods Inc.'s lists, or if you would like to
unsubscribe from Pinty’s Premium Foods Inc.'s e-mail bulletins,
please use the contact information below to request that Pinty’s
Premium Foods Inc. deactivate you from its lists. Be sure to include
your name, postal address, telephone number, information contained
in your Pinty’s Premium Foods Inc. mailer, and/or other necessary
information requested for deactivation.
If you believe that Pinty’s Premium
Foods Inc. may not have your correct and current personal information,
you may update your information any time by using the contact information
below to inform Pinty’s Premium Foods Inc. of changes in your personal
information.
Pinty’s Premium Foods Inc. will use
reasonable efforts to honor your requests, but we appreciate your
patience in allowing us a reasonable amount of time for processing.
Does Pinty’s Premium Foods Inc. share
the information that it gathers with third parties?
Pinty’s Premium Foods Inc. shares data
with third parties as a value-added service that will assist you
in finding products or services which you may not normally come
across in daily life. Pinty’s Premium Foods Inc. carefully reviews
the materials of third parties and only selects those, which it
believes would interest you. However, Pinty’s Premium Foods Inc.
does not assume responsibility for any actions of third parties.
Further, if you input your information
on a co-branded registration page, such as that of an Pinty’s Premium
Foods Inc. and third party company sponsored contest, then your
information becomes the property of both Pinty’s Premium Foods Inc.
and the third party company co-sponsoring the contest. In that instance,
Pinty’s Premium Foods Inc. is not responsible of the information
that the third party receives.
Should you decide you would not like
your information shared with third parties, please use the contact
information below to request that Pinty’s Premium Foods Inc. deactivate
you from its lists. Pinty’s Premium Foods Inc. will use reasonable
efforts to honor your requests. Please be aware that Pinty’s Premium
Foods Inc. has no control over removing your personal information
from the lists of third parties. Since Pinty’s Premium Foods Inc.
does not control the Privacy Policies of third parties, you are
subject to the privacy customs and policies of that third party.
We encourage you to ask questions before you disclose your personal
information to others. If you continue to receive materials from
third parties after informing Pinty’s Premium Foods Inc. to deactivate
your name, please notify the particular third parties regarding
deactivation of your personal information.
Does Pinty’s Premium Foods Inc. share
the information that it gathers with government agencies or law
enforcement?
Pinty’s Premium Foods Inc. reserves
the right to monitor, and disclose to, government officials or law
enforcement, without your consent, any communications and personally
identifiable information, whenever prompted to do so, by legal authorities,
even when you have requested that your information not be disclosed
to third parties.
What is Pinty’s Premium Foods Inc.'s
commitment to data security?
Pinty’s Premium Foods Inc. recognizes
your concern for security, and will use reasonable efforts to establish
secure connections with you and to limit access to databases containing
personal information to authorized personnel only. However, “perfect
security” does not exist on the Internet and Pinty’s Premium Foods
Inc. cannot ensure that your private communications and personal
identifiable information will not be disclosed in ways not otherwise
described in this Privacy Policy. By way of example only, third
parties may without due knowledge or consent of Pinty’s Premium
Foods Inc., unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private
communications.
Contact Information:
Pinty’s Premium Foods Inc.
15-17 Seapark Drive
St. Catharines, Ontario
L2M 6S5
Tel: 1-800-263-7223
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