PRIVACY STATEMENT
LAST UPDATE OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY – Last updated November 15, 1919
BEFORE USING OUR SITES, PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY.
This Privacy Policy is applicable to Fontanie Associates Consulting Services Inc. (FACSi) and sets out our policy on the gathering and use of information on this site and our other sites (collectively "Sites"). FACSi is committed to providing safe web sites for visitors of all ages and has implemented this Privacy Policy to demonstrate our firm commitment to your privacy. FACSi complies with Canadian Federal and Provincial privacy laws and regulations including the Personal Information and Electronic Documents Act.
There may be links from our Sites to other web sites; note that this Privacy Policy applies only to our Sites and not to web sites of other companies or organizations to which our Sites may be linked. You must check on any linked sites for the privacy policy that applies to that site and/or make any necessary inquiries in respect of that privacy policy with the operator of the linked site. These links to third party websites are provided as a convenience and are for informational purposes only. FACSi does not endorse, and is not responsible for, these linked websites.
Although you are not required to register to access our Sites, you may be asked to provide us with personal information when you visit certain sections of our Sites. Your use of our Sites signifies your acknowledgement and consent to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not continue to use our Sites. Your continued use of the Sites signifies your acceptance of these terms and any changes in effect at the time of use.
COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
Personal Information is information about you that identifies you as an individual, for example, your name, address, e-mail address, or telephone number.
We collect information that you voluntarily provide to us through responses to surveys, search functions, questionnaires, feedback, Tell Your Story forms and the like. On some of our Sites, we may offer assessment tools that ask you to provide self-assessment information. We may also ask you to provide additional information such as your e-mail address if you want to obtain additional services, information, participate in a contest or to resolve complaints or concerns.
We collect the following personal information and data:
• Data For Communication: This includes any communication that you send to us via contact form on our website, email, text, social media messaging, social media posting or any other communication you send us.
• Customer Data: This includes data relating to any purchases of goods, and/or services such as your name, title, billing address, delivery address, email address, phone number, contact details and purchase details.
• User Data: This includes data about how you use our website and any online services together with any data that you post for publication on our website or through out on-line services.
• Technical Data: This includes any data about your use of our website and online services such as your IP address, your log in data, details about your browser, length of visit to pages on our Site, page views and navigation paths, details about the number of times you use our Site, time zone settings and other technology on the devices you use to access our Site. The source of this data is from our analytics tracking system.
WHY DOES FACSi GATHER INFORMATION ABOUT YOU?
Before forwarding us any personal information, please be advised that any information gathered on our Sites may be used in the aggregate for research and development relating to our Sites and/or for future site development and, if you ask us to, to send you promotional materials. In particular, we may use information gathered about you for the following purposes:
• to monitor interest in our range of products and to assist us to tailor the content of our Sites to your needs by collecting information about your preferences through tracking of patterns page views on our Sites;
• to create a profile relating to you in order to show you the content that might be of interest to you and to display the content according to your preferences; and, in circumstances where you have indicated that you wish to receive additional information;
• to send you information about us about our products together with details of any offers we may have available from time to time.
• to assist us to properly administer our Sites and our business.
• to forward marketing, advertising and promotional materials or messages based on your preference.
• to safeguard data for legal and tax purposes.
• to monitor and prevent fraud or abuse.
PROMOTIONAL AND INFORMATIONAL OFFERS
With the permission of an online visitor, information submitted at the time of registration or submission may be used for marketing and promotional purposes by FACSi provided notice of this fact is made available online. If a visitor objects to such use for any reason, he/she may prevent that use, either by e-mail request or by modifying the registration information provided. FACSi uses reasonable efforts to maintain visitors' information in a secure environment
We will use your email address for purposes of forwarding you materials as described. You can unsubscribe or opt out from receiving emails from us as indicated on the materials we send you. We may use third-party data processors to process email addresses.
DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
FACSi will not disclose personal information that you provide on its Sites to any third parties other than to a FACSi agent except:
• in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy, or
• to comply with legal requirements such as a law, regulation, warrant, subpoena or court order, and/or
• if you are reporting an adverse event/side effect, in which case FACSi may be required to disclose such information to bodies such as, but not limited to, Canadian and/or international regulatory authorities. Please note that any of these disclosures may involve the storage or processing of personal information outside of Canada and may therefore be subject to different privacy laws than those applicable in Canada, including laws that require the disclosure of personal information to governmental authorities under circumstances that are different than those that apply in Canada.
ON-LINE ORDERING & SECURITY
Our site uses an online ordering system for customers to request information, products, and services. We collect visitor's contact information such as your names, home or business address, telephone number and email address. Contact information from the order form is used to send orders and other information about FACSi to our customers. Financial information that is collected is used to bill the user for products and services.
FACSi does not collect any credit card information directly. Credit card numbers and CVV codes are not viewable by us. All sensitive data is handled by the credit card processor that you choose during the purchasing transactions.
We are not the third-party processor for eCommerce transactions. The merchant service (PayPal, Square, Stripe, or others) handle all payment data. Please see the PayPal Privacy Policy or Stripe Private Policy, or Square Private Policy for more details.
Credit/debit card information is not stored on our Site and is only shared with our payment processors in order to complete the transaction.
All payment transactions are protected via SSL encryption by the payment processor.
COOKIES
FACSi, in common with many web site operators, may use standard technology called "cookies" on its Sites. Cookies are small data files that are downloaded onto your computer when you visit a particular web site. You can disable cookies by turning them off in your browser; however, some areas of the Sites may not function properly if you do so.
Currently, we do not support Track or DNT.
Third party advertising services do utilize cookies to display related ads based on our Site activities. For example if Google Adsense is used, then google would detect via cookies the interests of visitors and display appropriate advertisements on our Site.
RETENTION TIME
Personal Data shall be processed and stored for as long as required for the purpose for which they have been collected.
Therefore:
• Personal Data collected for purposes related to the performance of a contract between the FACSi and the User shall be retained until such contract has been fully performed.
• Personal Data collected for the purposes of the FACSi’s legitimate interests shall be retained as long as needed to fulfill such purposes. Users may find specific information regarding the legitimate interests pursued by the FACSi within the relevant sections of this document or by contacting FACSi.
FACSi may retain Personal Data for a longer period whenever the User has given consent to such processing, as long as such consent is not withdrawn. Furthermore, the Owner may be obliged to retain Personal Data for a longer period whenever required to do so for the performance of a legal obligation or upon order of an authority.
Once the retention period expires, Personal Data shall be deleted. Therefore, the right to access, the right to erasure, the right to rectification and the right to data portability cannot be enforced after expiration of the retention period.
EMBEDED CONTENT FROM OTHER SITES
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
PROTECTION OF CHILDREN ONLINE
FACSi considers the protection of children's privacy, especially online, to be of the utmost importance. We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from children, nor do we allow them to become registered users of, or to request information through, our Sites or help-seeking information lines.
ADDITIONAL TERMS FOR CERTAIN WEBSITES
The following additional information applies to our Sites that require registration. Generally, you are not required to provide personal information as a condition of using our Sites, except as may be necessary to provide you with a product or service that you have requested.
LAST UPDATE OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY – Last updated November 15, 1919
BEFORE USING OUR SITES, PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY.
This Privacy Policy is applicable to Fontanie Associates Consulting Services Inc. (FACSi) and sets out our policy on the gathering and use of information on this site and our other sites (collectively "Sites"). FACSi is committed to providing safe web sites for visitors of all ages and has implemented this Privacy Policy to demonstrate our firm commitment to your privacy. FACSi complies with Canadian Federal and Provincial privacy laws and regulations including the Personal Information and Electronic Documents Act.
There may be links from our Sites to other web sites; note that this Privacy Policy applies only to our Sites and not to web sites of other companies or organizations to which our Sites may be linked. You must check on any linked sites for the privacy policy that applies to that site and/or make any necessary inquiries in respect of that privacy policy with the operator of the linked site. These links to third party websites are provided as a convenience and are for informational purposes only. FACSi does not endorse, and is not responsible for, these linked websites.
Although you are not required to register to access our Sites, you may be asked to provide us with personal information when you visit certain sections of our Sites. Your use of our Sites signifies your acknowledgement and consent to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not continue to use our Sites. Your continued use of the Sites signifies your acceptance of these terms and any changes in effect at the time of use.
COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
Personal Information is information about you that identifies you as an individual, for example, your name, address, e-mail address, or telephone number.
We collect information that you voluntarily provide to us through responses to surveys, search functions, questionnaires, feedback, Tell Your Story forms and the like. On some of our Sites, we may offer assessment tools that ask you to provide self-assessment information. We may also ask you to provide additional information such as your e-mail address if you want to obtain additional services, information, participate in a contest or to resolve complaints or concerns.
We collect the following personal information and data:
• Data For Communication: This includes any communication that you send to us via contact form on our website, email, text, social media messaging, social media posting or any other communication you send us.
• Customer Data: This includes data relating to any purchases of goods, and/or services such as your name, title, billing address, delivery address, email address, phone number, contact details and purchase details.
• User Data: This includes data about how you use our website and any online services together with any data that you post for publication on our website or through out on-line services.
• Technical Data: This includes any data about your use of our website and online services such as your IP address, your log in data, details about your browser, length of visit to pages on our Site, page views and navigation paths, details about the number of times you use our Site, time zone settings and other technology on the devices you use to access our Site. The source of this data is from our analytics tracking system.
WHY DOES FACSi GATHER INFORMATION ABOUT YOU?
Before forwarding us any personal information, please be advised that any information gathered on our Sites may be used in the aggregate for research and development relating to our Sites and/or for future site development and, if you ask us to, to send you promotional materials. In particular, we may use information gathered about you for the following purposes:
• to monitor interest in our range of products and to assist us to tailor the content of our Sites to your needs by collecting information about your preferences through tracking of patterns page views on our Sites;
• to create a profile relating to you in order to show you the content that might be of interest to you and to display the content according to your preferences; and, in circumstances where you have indicated that you wish to receive additional information;
• to send you information about us about our products together with details of any offers we may have available from time to time.
• to assist us to properly administer our Sites and our business.
• to forward marketing, advertising and promotional materials or messages based on your preference.
• to safeguard data for legal and tax purposes.
• to monitor and prevent fraud or abuse.
PROMOTIONAL AND INFORMATIONAL OFFERS
With the permission of an online visitor, information submitted at the time of registration or submission may be used for marketing and promotional purposes by FACSi provided notice of this fact is made available online. If a visitor objects to such use for any reason, he/she may prevent that use, either by e-mail request or by modifying the registration information provided. FACSi uses reasonable efforts to maintain visitors' information in a secure environment
We will use your email address for purposes of forwarding you materials as described. You can unsubscribe or opt out from receiving emails from us as indicated on the materials we send you. We may use third-party data processors to process email addresses.
DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
FACSi will not disclose personal information that you provide on its Sites to any third parties other than to a FACSi agent except:
• in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy, or
• to comply with legal requirements such as a law, regulation, warrant, subpoena or court order, and/or
• if you are reporting an adverse event/side effect, in which case FACSi may be required to disclose such information to bodies such as, but not limited to, Canadian and/or international regulatory authorities. Please note that any of these disclosures may involve the storage or processing of personal information outside of Canada and may therefore be subject to different privacy laws than those applicable in Canada, including laws that require the disclosure of personal information to governmental authorities under circumstances that are different than those that apply in Canada.
ON-LINE ORDERING & SECURITY
Our site uses an online ordering system for customers to request information, products, and services. We collect visitor's contact information such as your names, home or business address, telephone number and email address. Contact information from the order form is used to send orders and other information about FACSi to our customers. Financial information that is collected is used to bill the user for products and services.
FACSi does not collect any credit card information directly. Credit card numbers and CVV codes are not viewable by us. All sensitive data is handled by the credit card processor that you choose during the purchasing transactions.
We are not the third-party processor for eCommerce transactions. The merchant service (PayPal, Square, Stripe, or others) handle all payment data. Please see the PayPal Privacy Policy or Stripe Private Policy, or Square Private Policy for more details.
Credit/debit card information is not stored on our Site and is only shared with our payment processors in order to complete the transaction.
All payment transactions are protected via SSL encryption by the payment processor.
COOKIES
FACSi, in common with many web site operators, may use standard technology called "cookies" on its Sites. Cookies are small data files that are downloaded onto your computer when you visit a particular web site. You can disable cookies by turning them off in your browser; however, some areas of the Sites may not function properly if you do so.
Currently, we do not support Track or DNT.
Third party advertising services do utilize cookies to display related ads based on our Site activities. For example if Google Adsense is used, then google would detect via cookies the interests of visitors and display appropriate advertisements on our Site.
RETENTION TIME
Personal Data shall be processed and stored for as long as required for the purpose for which they have been collected.
Therefore:
• Personal Data collected for purposes related to the performance of a contract between the FACSi and the User shall be retained until such contract has been fully performed.
• Personal Data collected for the purposes of the FACSi’s legitimate interests shall be retained as long as needed to fulfill such purposes. Users may find specific information regarding the legitimate interests pursued by the FACSi within the relevant sections of this document or by contacting FACSi.
FACSi may retain Personal Data for a longer period whenever the User has given consent to such processing, as long as such consent is not withdrawn. Furthermore, the Owner may be obliged to retain Personal Data for a longer period whenever required to do so for the performance of a legal obligation or upon order of an authority.
Once the retention period expires, Personal Data shall be deleted. Therefore, the right to access, the right to erasure, the right to rectification and the right to data portability cannot be enforced after expiration of the retention period.
EMBEDED CONTENT FROM OTHER SITES
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
PROTECTION OF CHILDREN ONLINE
FACSi considers the protection of children's privacy, especially online, to be of the utmost importance. We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from children, nor do we allow them to become registered users of, or to request information through, our Sites or help-seeking information lines.
ADDITIONAL TERMS FOR CERTAIN WEBSITES
The following additional information applies to our Sites that require registration. Generally, you are not required to provide personal information as a condition of using our Sites, except as may be necessary to provide you with a product or service that you have requested.