Privacy Policy
Our primary goal in collecting personal information from you is to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and personalized experience. This allows us to provide services and features that most likely meet your needs, and make your experience easier and quicker.
Surveys - From time to time our site may request information from users via surveys. Participation in these surveys is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested will include contact information (as supplied to the site during registration) and supplementary information on your professional interests, opinions and preferences.
Payment Processing - In order to process payments online we require the billing address for the credit card used and our external payment provider, Moneris, requires your credit card details. For details of how this information is used, please see the section below.
Our Use of Your Information - We use personally identifiable information about you to improve our marketing efforts, to statistically analyze site usage, to improve our content and product offerings and to customize our site's content, layout, and services. We use your email address to send you event updates, newsletters or other communications.
We use information in the file we maintain about you, and other information we obtain from your current and past activities on the Site, to resolve any disputes, troubleshoot problems.
Payment Processing - We take online payments for our membership/events and/or services. We use Moneris' ecommerce platform as our external payment provider. In addition to the information outlined above, we require the billing address of the credit card you use to give to Moneris who check the address against the cardholder's details for security purposes. We don't store the credit card details on our server. We also use the billing details in case we need to contact you regarding payments e.g. for an outstanding invoice or failed transaction. Moneris requires that you provide your credit card details to process the transaction.
Our Disclosure of Your Information - We do not sell or rent any personally identifiable information about you to any third party. Unfortunately, due to the existing regulatory environment, we cannot ensure that all of your private communications and other personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy.
Suppliers and Other Service Providers. From time to time we use third party Suppliers and Service Providers to facilitate our services. Where any Service Provider collects information directly from you (such as the situation where we ask a Service Provider to conduct a survey for us) you will be notified of the involvement of the Supplier or Service Provider, and all information disclosures you make will be strictly optional.
Other Information Collectors - Except as otherwise expressly discussed in this Privacy Policy, this document only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you.
Security - In order to process and help protect your credit card details, we use payflow pro to communicate with Moneris, our payment provider. We use best endeavour to safeguard the confidentiality of your personally identifiable information but we do not use encryption or firewalls to further protect the information as it travels across the Internet. You should be aware that "perfect security" does not exist on the Internet.
Changes to Privacy Policy - If we are going to use your personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will make any changes to this Privacy Policy and post them to our site.
Surveys - From time to time our site may request information from users via surveys. Participation in these surveys is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested will include contact information (as supplied to the site during registration) and supplementary information on your professional interests, opinions and preferences.
Payment Processing - In order to process payments online we require the billing address for the credit card used and our external payment provider, Moneris, requires your credit card details. For details of how this information is used, please see the section below.
Our Use of Your Information - We use personally identifiable information about you to improve our marketing efforts, to statistically analyze site usage, to improve our content and product offerings and to customize our site's content, layout, and services. We use your email address to send you event updates, newsletters or other communications.
We use information in the file we maintain about you, and other information we obtain from your current and past activities on the Site, to resolve any disputes, troubleshoot problems.
Payment Processing - We take online payments for our membership/events and/or services. We use Moneris' ecommerce platform as our external payment provider. In addition to the information outlined above, we require the billing address of the credit card you use to give to Moneris who check the address against the cardholder's details for security purposes. We don't store the credit card details on our server. We also use the billing details in case we need to contact you regarding payments e.g. for an outstanding invoice or failed transaction. Moneris requires that you provide your credit card details to process the transaction.
Our Disclosure of Your Information - We do not sell or rent any personally identifiable information about you to any third party. Unfortunately, due to the existing regulatory environment, we cannot ensure that all of your private communications and other personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy.
Suppliers and Other Service Providers. From time to time we use third party Suppliers and Service Providers to facilitate our services. Where any Service Provider collects information directly from you (such as the situation where we ask a Service Provider to conduct a survey for us) you will be notified of the involvement of the Supplier or Service Provider, and all information disclosures you make will be strictly optional.
Other Information Collectors - Except as otherwise expressly discussed in this Privacy Policy, this document only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you.
Security - In order to process and help protect your credit card details, we use payflow pro to communicate with Moneris, our payment provider. We use best endeavour to safeguard the confidentiality of your personally identifiable information but we do not use encryption or firewalls to further protect the information as it travels across the Internet. You should be aware that "perfect security" does not exist on the Internet.
Changes to Privacy Policy - If we are going to use your personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will make any changes to this Privacy Policy and post them to our site.