At MarketLinc, we respect your privacy and are committed to protect the personal information that you share with us. We've adopted the Canadian Standards Association's "Model Code for the Protection of Personal Information" as the basis of our own MarketLinc Privacy Code. The CSA Model Code sets the principles for collection, protection, and use/disclosure of our customers' and prospects' personal information. The CSA Model Code also forms the basis for the "Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act", the Canadian Federal Government's privacy legislation which came into effect January 1, 2001.
The following is a brief summary of our privacy policy to ensure you are informed about our privacy practices. We want to ensure you understand why we collect your personal information, and we want to ensure we have your consent to collect, use and disclose such information for those purposes.
Collection and Use of Personal Information
MarketLinc will not collect, use or disclose your personal information without your consent. When personal information is collected, we will inform you at the point of collection the purpose for the collection. Personal information means any information that may be used to identify an individual, including, but not limited to, a first and last name, email address, physical address, other contact information, title, birth date, gender, occupation, industry, personal interest, other information when needed to provide a service you request.
MarketLinc uses information for several general purposes:
- to understand your needs and preferences in order to serve you better
- to establish/maintain a relationship with you and to provide ongoing service
- to assist with the development and enhancement of services we provide
- to market our services
- to ensure you are kept informed (via e-newsletters, etc) regarding new developments and enhancements of our services
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When you browse our website, you do so anonymously, unless you previously indicated that you wish MarketLinc to remember your login and password.
Disclosure and Security of Personal Information
Your personal information is never shared outside MarketLinc. Inside MarketLinc, data is stored in controlled servers with limited access. We will however disclose your personal information if required to do so by law, to enforce our Terms of Use, or in urgent circumstances, to protect personal safety, the public or our website.
We will strive to keep your personal information current and accurate, and will honor any request you may make for access to your personal information.
Protection of Children's Personal Information
MarketLinc.com is a general audience site - we do not knowingly collect personal information from children.
Use of Cookies
A cookie is a small data file that certain Web sites write to your hard drive when you visit them. A cookie file can contain information such as a user ID that the site uses to track the pages you've visited, but the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Some parts of MarketLinc's website use cookies to track user traffic patterns. We do this in order to determine the usefulness of our website information to our users and to see how effective our navigational structure is in helping users reach that information.
If you prefer not to receive cookies while browsing our website, you can set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies and refuse the cookies when your browser alerts you to its presence. You can also refuse all cookies by turning them off in your browser, although you man not be able to take full advantage of MarketLinc's website if you do s. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use/navigate through many parts of our website, except access to certain of MarketLinc's web pages require a login and password.
Third Party Sites
MarketLinc's website may contain links to other sites. Marketlinc does not share your personal information with those websites and is not responsible for their privacy practices. We encourage you to learn about the privacy policies of those companies.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
MarketLinc will amend this policy from time to time. If we make any substantial changes we will post a notice on this site.
Contact Information
If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy practices, please email us at privacy@marketlinc.com.
This document was last updated July 8, 2003.
All contents are Copyright 2003 MarketLinc. All rights reserved.
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