This Privacy Code is available
to the public in electronic formmat via info@decorframing.com.
If you have any additional
concerns or questions, we
encourage you to contact us and we will address them to the best of our
ability. Please
read this "Privacy Code"
carefully, and check back periodically as we update it from time to time.
By submitting your personal
information to decorframing.com,
you signify your agreement to the terms and conditions of this "Privacy
Code".
What Is Personal Information?
Personal information is any
information about an identifiable individual, personal information does
not include the name, title,
business address or telephone
number of an employee of an organization. Information used solely for journalistic
purposes is
exempted from the Act.
Decorframing.com is
responsible for personal information under its control. Our employees are
informed about the importance
of privacy and receive periodic
information, to update them about our "Privacy Code" and related
policies. We have appointed a
Chief Privacy Consultant
to oversee personal information handling practices of decorframing.com
and its affiliates.
Children
If you are under 18, be sure
to obtain your parent or guardians permission before you send any personal
information to us, or
anyone else over the Internet.
We encourage parents to get involved with their children's online usage
and to be aware of the
activities in which they
are participating
What Personal Information
Do We Collect, And Why?
Decorframing.com collects
personal information for specific and limited purposes. Information is
collected by fair and lawful
means.
We collect personal contact
information, (for example, name, address, email address and telephone numbers)
if you: Sign up for
a newsletter, register with
an online forum or web site, register for our mail and e-mail list, purchase
any product from
decorframing.com, are
an advertiser or auction participant, or provide it to us when you attend
a trade or consumer show.
This information is used
to fulfill your request and respond to your inquiries.
If you enter a contest or
other promotion, we use your personal contact information to administer
the contest or promotion
including contacting, announcing
and promoting prizewinners.
We collect purchase history
and a list of promotions offered to you ("history”), in order to gain a
better understanding of your
interests so that we may
develop better products and services, and to determine eligibility for
our products and services.
We may also use personal
contact and history information from time to time to contact you about
changes, enhancements or
other notices related to
goods or services you requested and which decorframing.com provides.
In addition, we may use this information to send you offers or information
from us, our affiliates and from selected sponsors or advertisers (“Marketing
Offers”).
If you do not wish to receive
Marketing Offers, you may opt-out at any time by following the procedure
set out in our opt-out
policy (see below).
We keep notes and special
instructions on file for advertisers and subscribers to help us fulfill
your request and provide
customer service.
We collect credit card information
if you: Register on a paid web site, purchase any product from decorframing.com,
are an
advertiser or an auction
participant. This credit card information is used for the purpose of fulfilling
your order.
If you choose to opt-out
of any use of your personal information in accordance with our opt-out
policy, we keep your contact
information on a list so
that your request can be honored. If you complain to any of our departments,
we collect your contact information and the nature of your complaint, for
the purpose of investigating and responding to you.
Purposes for the collection,
use or disclosure of personal information, which are not set out in this
"Privacy
Code", will be set out
at the time of collection.
You will be given a reasonable opportunity to opt-out of any additional
purposes no later than the time
of collection.
We also collect certain non
personal information, like internet cookies and data for market research.
Internet Cookies:
An internet cookie is a small piece of information that a web site stores
on your internet browser. We use
cookies to better understand
how you use our web sites, to make sure our ads and dynamic content are
served correctly and to
improve the performance
of our web sites. For example, a cookie may recall a set of preferences
you have set for our web site
and record items that you
have registered for storing cookies on your web browser allows us to present
you with custom web
pages and other content
that are tuned with your preferences. For example, if you are a registered
user, you may see a welcome
page with your name on it.
These activities are invisible to you, and are generally intended to improve
your internet surfing
convenience. Unless you
have set your preferences so that you will be alerted when a cookie is
being stored on your computer,
you wont know about it.
If you are concerned about
cookies, it is possible to turn them off in your web browser preferences.
However, please be aware
that by disabling cookies,
you may not be able to use all portions of our web sites, particularly
pages requiring registration.
We may place advertising
or other links on our sites that originate from outside advertisers. If
you view these ads, the advertisers
may assign a cookie. Decorframing.com
does not control these cookies, nor is it responsible for any marketing
or other use of
your name by these advertisers.
Our sites use web beacon
or other technologies to better tailor those sites to provide better customer
service. These
technologies may be in use
on a number of pages across web sites. When a visitor accesses these pages,
a non identifiable
notice of that visit is
generated which may be processed by us or by our suppliers. These web beacons
usually work in
conjunction with cookies.
If you don't want your cookie information to be associated with your visits
to these pages, you can
set your browser to turn
off cookies.
If you turn off cookies,
Web beacon and other technologies will still detect visits to these pages,
but the notices they generate
cannot be associated with
other non identifiable cookie information and are disregarded.
Market Research: Occasionally,
we ask our customers to complete market research surveys. Survey results
are aggregated
and shared with our advertisers,
sponsors and affiliates in a manner that does not disclose personal information.
To whom does decorframing.com
disclose personal information, and why?
Decorframing.com may
disclose your personal information under the following circumstances:
In order to provide you with
marketing offers (see above), decorframing.com may disclose your
personal contact information
to affiliates and selected
sponsors and advertisers. If you do not wish to receive marketing offers,
you may opt-out at any time
by following the procedure
set out in our opt-out policy (see below).
Decorframing.com may
transfer your personal information to service providers acting on its behalf
in order to perform processing
and other specialized services,
for example, prize fulfillment of our contests, collection of overdue accounts,
product delivery, or
credit card processing.
When decorframing.com
needs to disclose your personal information to unrelated parties, for example,
if we find you have
violated any stated terms
of service or conditions of purchase, or if we need to comply with applicable
laws and lawful
governmental requests, other
legal and regulatory authorities and other legal reasons.
Decorframing.com may
disclose your personal information to parties connected with the contemplated
or actual financing,
insuring, sale, assignment
or other disposal of all or part of our business or assets, including for
the purposes of determining
whether to proceed or continue
with such transaction or business relationship or fulfilling any records
or other reporting
requirements to such parties.
We will require such parties to treat your personal information in accordance
with this Privacy
Code and to use and
disclose it only for the purposes for which it was collected.
Consent and opt-out policy:
In general, decorframing.com
seeks consent to use your personal information in accordance with our opt-out
policy. Except
as set out in this section,
decorframing.com
obtains your express opt-in consent to use or disclose sensitive personal
information.
If you do not wish to receive
marketing offers, you may opt-out at any time by doing any of the following:
follow the instructions at
the bottom of any email marketing offer you receive. Call Client Services
at (709) 368-4989 and
request that your personal
information not be used for marketing offers, email: info@decorframing.com
and request that
your personal information
not be used for marketing offers.
We reserve the right to use
and disclose your personal information without consent where required or
permitted by law, for
example, if we have reasonable
grounds to believe the information could be useful when investigating a
contravention of a
federal, provincial or foreign
law, in order to protect or defend our legal interests, or to comply with
applicable laws and lawful
governmental requests.
Safeguards:
Decorframing.com maintains
personal information in a combination of paper and electronic files. We
take technical, contractual,
administrative and physical
security measures to protect your personal information. When you provide
credit card information to
us, we work to help protect
the security of your credit card information by using industry standard
secure sockets layer (SSL) encryption technology.
Please be aware that email
is not a secure medium, and any personal information you send to us by
email could be intercepted.
If your communication is
very sensitive, or includes information such as your credit card number,
you should not send it
electronically unless the
email is encrypted or your browser indicates that the access to our web
site is secure. Materials posted
to online forums such as
bulletin boards or chat rooms are public, not secure and may be viewed
by anyone. Any personal
information you post may
be collected and used by anyone and may result in unsolicited messages
from other internet users.
How To Access And Correct
Your Personal Information:
Decorframing.com provides
you with the means to access, update. edit or delete any subscriber or
registration information
you have provided at any
time by going to the appropriate page on decorframing.com, and changing
or deleting such
information as desired.
We will give you access to
the information we retain about you within a reasonable time, upon written
request, satisfactory identification and proof of entitlement. In some
cases, we may not provide access to personal information in our possession
or
control. If we deny your
request, we will advise you in writing of the reason for the refusal and
you may challenge our decision.
How To Challenge Our Privacy
Practices:
Decorframing.com encourages
you to contact us with any questions or concerns you have about your privacy
or this Privacy
Code. If you have
a question concerning
decorframing.com Privacy Code, would
like a copy, or if you have a complaint,
please contact Client Services
at: info@decorframing.com

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