At the Langley Curling Club we are committed
to collecting, using, and disclosing your personal information
responsibly and to maintaining the accuracy, confidentiality,
and security of such personal information.
Personal information includes information
that tells us specifically who you are, such as your address,
telephone number and e-mail address. However, publicly available
information, such as a public directory listing of your name,
address and telephone number is not considered personal information.
We have adopted the following privacy policy
that guides how we collect, use and disclose personal information
about our members and prospective members. Our intent is to
balance our legitimate business interests in collecting, using,
and disclosing your personal information against your reasonable
expectations of privacy.
1. Definitions
In this policy:
a) “Business” means the business
of operating the Langley Curling Club which includes the Web
site;
b) “Membership” means a membership
in the Langley Curling Club;
c) “we”, “us”,
“our” and the “Club” refer to the
Langley Curling Club, located at 20699 – 42 Avenue,
Langley, BC and/or www.langley.curlingclub.ca
d) “Web site” refers to the
web site found at www.langley.curlingclub.ca
2. Collection of Personal Information
Our primary purpose in collecting personal
information from you and about you is to ensure the provision
of high quality products and/or services. We only collect personal
information from and about you that we consider necessary for
achieving this purpose and to permit us to conduct the Business
diligently.
3. Use of Your Personal Information
We may use the personal information we collect
from and about you to:
a) ensure the provision of high quality
products and/or services;
b) inform you about online and offline
offers, products, services, updates and events (including
expiry and renewal of your Membership);
c) enable us to contact you;
d) establish and maintain communication
with you;
e) assist us in complying with legal and
regulatory requirements;
f) invoice you for products and/or services;
or
g) collect unpaid accounts.
We may also use your personal information
as may be described to you at the time of collection. We may
compare and review your personal information for errors and
omissions and for accuracy. If you choose to provide us with
your financial information, we may use your address and financial
information to bill you and to provide associated support. We
may use personal information about you, in a non-personally
identifiable manner, to improve our marketing and promotional
efforts, to analyse Memberships, to improve our content and
product offerings, and to customize our Web site’s content,
layout, and services. These uses are to enable us to improve
the Business and to better tailor the Business to meet your
needs.
4. Disclosure of Personal Information
As a matter of policy, we do not sell, rent,
or lease any of your personal information to third parties without
your explicit consent. However, there are a variety of circumstances
where we may need to disclose some of your personal information,
including the following:
a) We may disclose your personal information
to an individual who, in our reasonable judgement, is seeking
the information as your agent. For example, we may provide
your personal information to your legal representative if
we are satisfied that the individual is requesting the information
on your behalf.
b) We may disclose your personal information
as may be required by law.
c) We may aggregate personal information
and disclose such information in a non-personally identifiable
manner to advertisers and other third parties for marketing
and promotional purposes.
5. Access, Review, Change and Destruction
of Your Personal Information
You may access, review and/or change the
personal information we have in our files by submitting a written
request to do so to our Privacy Information Officer at the address
below. We ask that you promptly advise us of any changes to
your information.
Upon your written request, we will destroy,
as soon as reasonably possible and in accordance with our internal
policies and applicable law, any and all personal information
that we have in our files about you. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
we will retain in our files some personal information in order
to enable us to collect any unpaid accounts and/or as may be
required by law.
6. Other Information Collectors
Except as otherwise expressly included in
this Privacy Policy, this document only addresses the collection,
use and disclosure of personal information WE collect from and
about you. To the extent that you disclose your personal information
to other parties, different rules may apply to their collection,
use or disclosure of such personal information. Since we do
not control the privacy policies of third parties, you are subject
to the privacy policies of such third parties.
7. Protecting Your Privacy
The personal information that is retained
by us is kept in a secure environment and we use reasonable
procedural and technical safeguards to protect your personal
information against loss, theft and unauthorized access or disclosure.
While we employ many different security techniques to protect
such data from unauthorized access by users inside and outside
the company, we cannot ensure perfect security, particularly
in relation to the Web site.
8. Declining to Provide Consent
Should a member decline to provide consent,
it may hinder the Association’s ability to provide the
service normally provided to other members.
9. Amendments to This Policy
We may amend this Privacy Policy at any
time by mailing (including regular mail and email) any amended
terms to you or by posting the amended terms on the Web site
or at 20699 – 42 Avenue, Langley, BC. All amended terms
shall automatically be effective five days (5) days after mailing
or on the date of posting.
10. Privacy Information Officer
Access Questions, or Concerns
The Privacy Information Officer for the
Club is Valerie Caskey.
If you wish to access, review and/or change
your personal information contained in our files or if you have
any questions or concerns about our privacy principles outlined
above or about our practices, please contact us at:
Langley Curling Club
20699 – 42 Avenue
Langley, BC V3A 3B1
Tel. 604.530.8218
Fax. 604.530.9372
E-mail: langleycurling@shawbiz.ca
