VOTESTOP POLICY REGARDING PRIVACY AND CLIENTS PERSONAL INFORMATION

 

VoteStop is an information and popular culture website intended for recreational purposes only.

 

By using this Web site, you (the "user") are consenting to VoteStop's use of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. VoteStop is committed to upholding and respecting the privacy and concerns of its users. This Privacy Policy is intended to ensure that confidentiality is preserved and that user information is maintained and kept secure and accurate.

 

What is Personal Information?
"Personal information" is information about an identifiable individual as defined by applicable Federal and Provincial legislation. This includes any information, however recorded, about a user whose identity may be inferred or known by the information provided to VoteStop. Such information commonly includes name, business address, telephone, fax numbers and email address. Information may be obtained by users providing it at the time of signing up for mailing lists, contests, reward programs, and using the VoteStop Web site. However the information is obtained, VoteStop is committed to following the Privacy Policy set out herein.

 

Use of Personal Information Provided to VoteStop
Questionnaires and Surveys
From time to time, VoteStop may conduct questionnaires and surveys about using the VoteStop website. Such surveys may be conducted through its Web site, by mail, or other means. Users are not required to respond and the information voluntarily provided by users will be used for the purposes of creating user statistics, web site use and application statistics, and reports for VoteStop's internal use. If consent has been obtained at the time of the collection of the personal information, the user may be contacted in future for further surveys, feedback and promotions.
Discussion Forum
VoteStop may, from time to time, incorporate forums or discussion boards onto its Web site, the purpose of which is to allow users and relevant professionals to discuss current issues, concerns, or product/service information. When users post their content to such forums, the content will be accessible to all Web site users. If the user does not wish his or her content to include personal information, as described above, VoteStop asks that the user not include any such personal information in the content that he or she proposes to post. VoteStop may use the content from such discussion forums for the purposes of client feedback and customer analysis.
Contests
VoteStop may, from time to time, organize or facilitate contests. Details of who sponsors or organizes the contests will be included in the contests rules. If users are asked to voluntarily provide information in order to qualify for contest entry, the contest rules will provide details regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal information collected further to contest entry. Insofar as the contest rules may differ from this Privacy Policy, if the contest rules comply with the relevant legislation then its provisions will apply to the personal information collected in connection with the specific contest. If the contest rules fail to meet privacy legislation requirements or in the cases where the contests fail to include contest rules with provisions relating to privacy, this Privacy Policy will govern.
Automatically Collected Information
Upon accessing the VoteStop Web site, certain information is collected about each user, such as the Internet Protocol address of the user's computer, the Internet Protocol of the user's internet service provider, the web browser used to access the VoteStop Web site, the date and time of access to the VoteStop Web site, time spent on each page of the VoteStop Web site by the user and the content downloaded from the VoteStop Web site. This information is not linked to personal information about the users. The aforementioned information collected is used to improve the VoteStop Web site, for the purposes of marketing, and business administration. The information so provided may be used for reports and client analysis. VoteStop may from time to time use "cookies". Cookies are information generated by the VoteStop web server and stored in the user's computer. Cookies are embedded in the HTML information flowing back and forth between the user's computer and the VoteStop server. The cookies are used to track how users utilize the VoteStop Web site and to assist users by tracking information about their favourite items and assisting in Web purchases. If you wish to disable this function, most browsers provide a means to disable cookies. For further information about cookies and how to disable them, VoteStop suggests you review the "help" section for your web browser.

 

Disclosing Your Personal Information
As a general rule, all information concerning users is kept confidential and, except where provided in this Privacy Policy, or as the users are informed, or as may be required by Federal or Provincial law, or as may be necessary to establish or collect fees, where the information is already in the public domain, or where it may be necessary for VoteStop to pursue available remedies or limit damages that VoteStop may sustain, personal information is not disclosed to third parties. VoteStop does not "sell" or "lease" personal information about its users to third parties, except where VoteStop feels it is necessary for the provision of services/products to the user, where such disclosure of the personal information would benefit the user, and where VoteStop has received written agreement from the third party to adhere to limited use with respect to the disclosed material and provide sufficient security for the information so relayed. If VoteStop is required to disclose information without the consent of its users it will undertake to disclose the least information that is required.

 

Security: Maintaining and Safeguarding Your Personal Information
To safeguard the confidentiality of the personal information provided to it, VoteStop employs administrative and technological safeguards appropriate to the sensitivity of the personal information relayed. VoteStop operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewalls and password protection systems. The information provided is backed up and stored at restricted access sites.

 

VoteStop restricts access to the personal information of its users to those employees and contractors that management has determined to require the information. If any employee or contractor misuses the personal information provided to VoteStop, it will be considered as a serious offence for which disciplinary action, including possibly termination, will be taken.

 

Despite the measures VoteStop has implemented, data transmitted over the internet is not guaranteed to be secure. VoteStop not does guarantee, warrant or represent that the personal information provided to it by its users will be transmitted securely or protected completely against third party interference such as hacking or identity theft. VoteStop accepts no responsibility or liability for any damages arising when personal information transmitted by the users is intercepted, lost, misused or altered by third parties.

 

Other Web Sites
When users leave the VoteStop Web site by using a link contained in the VoteStop Web site, the VoteStop Privacy Policy does not apply to these third party Web sites. Users should be aware that VoteStop has no control over the content of these third party Web sites nor does VoteStop have any control over the use or misuse of personal information by third party Web sites. VoteStop recommends that all users review the Privacy Policies for each Web site.

 

Privacy Policy May Be Subject to Change
VoteStop reserves the right to change the Privacy Policy to comply with changes in legislation, business practices or market norms, without notice or liability to any of its users. Changes to the Privacy Policy will be posted on the VoteStop Web site and will apply to the information collected from the date of posting on the VoteStop Web site. Questions regarding the changes to the Privacy Policy can be directed to the VoteStop Privacy officer.

 

Copy of This Privacy Policy
VoteStop users are permitted to make a copy of this Privacy Policy for their personal records.

 

Privacy Officer
Please direct your questions or comments regarding the Privacy Policy to our Privacy officer, who can be reached at admin@votestop.com, attn: Privacy Officer.

 

VoteStop allows reasonable access and review of personal information held by VoteStop. If you would like to know what personal information is held by VoteStop pertaining to you, please send a written request to the Privacy officer. VoteStop undertakes to provide a response within a reasonable period of time. If VoteStop is unable to provide a copy of the personal information to the user, an explanation will be provided.

 

To correct or update your personal information, or to request that your personal information be removed from our systems, please contact the Privacy Officer at admin@votestop.com.