UNIONVILLE CURLING CLUB - Privacy Policy

At the Unionville Curling Club ("UCC"), 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, cell phone number, fax number and e-mail address. It could also include such things as date of birth and the participant's curling biography to determine eligibility, age group, and appropriate level of play or credit card information for entering competitions, registration at conferences or purchasing equipment, coaching manuals or other products. 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:

  • "Business" means the business of operating the UCC which includes the Web site;
  • "Membership" means a membership in the UCC;

 2.      Collection of Personal Information

Our primary purpose in collecting information from you and about you is to ensure the provision of high quality products and/or club services for the benefit of our members. 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 of the UCC diligently.

3.      Use of Your Personal Information

We may use the personal information we collect from and about you to:

  • Ensure the provision of high quality membership services;
    • Inform you about online and offline offers, information, newsletters, membership services, updates and events (including expiry and renewal of your membership);
    • Enable us to contact you;
    • Establish and maintain communication with you;
    • Assist us in complying with legal and regulatory requirements;
    • Invoice you for products and/or services;
    • Collect unpaid accounts;
    • Provide you with information concerning the business operations of the UCC.

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 membership trends, 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 of the UCC and to better tailor the business to meet your needs.

4.   Disclosure of Personal Information

As a matter of policy, we do not lease or give 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:

  • We may disclose your personal information to an individual who, in our reasonable

judgment, 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.

  • We may disclose your personal information as may be required by law.
    • 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.
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5.      Control of Your Password

You are responsible for all actions taken with any user ID and/or password used to access the Web site. Therefore, we recommend that you do not disclose your password to any third parties. If you choose to share your user ID, your password or your personal information with a third party, you are responsible for all actions resulting therefrom. If you lose control of your password, you may lose substantial control over certain personal information. Therefore, if your password has been compromised for any reason, you should immediately change your password.

6.    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 (the "Club Manager") 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.

7.      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 if you choose to disclose your personal information to them.

8.      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. However, complete confidentiality and security is not yet possible over the Internet. While we employ different security techniques to protect such data from unauthorized access by users inside and outside the Club, we cannot ensure perfect security, particularly in relation to the Web site. UCC shall not be responsible for any harm or damages that you or any person may suffer as a result of a breach of confidentiality with respect to your use of this site or any information you transmitted to this site. UCC assumes no liability for any damages you may suffer as a result of interception, alteration or misuse of information (including your personal information) transmitted over the Internet.

9.      Amendments to this Policy

We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time by mailing (including regular mail or email) any amended terms to you or by posting the amended terms on the Web site or at the UCC (257 Carlton Road, Markham, Ontario). All amended terms shall automatically be effective five (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 the Club Manager who is Fred Berkhuizen.

If you do not agree with our statements you should contact the above Officer with a short written note to have your information removed from our lists. If the UCC does not hear from you, we will collect and use this personal information in accordance with the above Privacy Policy.

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:

Unionville Curling Club 257 Carlton Road

Markham, Ontario

L3R 2A3

Attention: Club Manager

Phone: 905-477-2711

Email: info@unionvillecurlingclub.com

© 2011 Unionville Curling Club