(the “Privacy Policy”)
(Effective: 11 March 2019)
Atlantic Cultivation Limited (“ACL”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) takes the security of your personal information very seriously. This Privacy Policy describes ACL’s privacy practices in relation to how we collect, use, store, disclose and protect your personal information, as well as your choices regarding use, access and correction of your personal information. To this end, we fully endorse and adhere to the principles of Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).
Scope of this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy applies to information we may collect from visitors through our websites, which link to this Privacy Policy. ACL may change all or part of this Privacy Policy from time to time. An up-to-date version of our Privacy Policy will be posted on www.atlanticcultivation.com. Your continued use of any of our websites or other services after the date of any such revision or replacement constitutes your consent to our collection, use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with the revised or replaced Privacy Policy.
What information we collect and why
This Privacy Policy distinguishes between “personal information” and “non-personal information”. Personal information is information that can be used to identify an individual person. Non-personal information means data in a form that does not, on its own, permit direct association with any specific individual. The types of information we collect and for which purposes are set out below.
Personal Information – When you contact us, we collect personal information. This personal information may include your name, email address, phone number, contact preferences and any other personal information you choose to provide to us.
We use personal information to help us create, develop, operate, deliver, and improve our products, services, content and advertising, and for loss prevention and anti-fraud purposes. Some of the specific types of purposes for which we may use your personal information are as follows:
- When expressing an interest in obtaining additional information about us, our products and services or contacting us, ACL may collect and use personal information, such as your contact information, to assist us in performing the request.
- We may contact you to survey you with respect to your use and views on our products or to send you promotional material. If you do not wish to receive such communications, you may opt out anytime by updating by emailing contact@atlanticcultivation.com.
Online Navigational Information– Our websites, emails and advertisements may use “cookies” and other similar technologies to collect online navigational information, such as information about your web browser, your Internet Protocol (IP) address, your Internet Service Provider, your operating system, referring and exit web sites and applications, date/time stamps, clickstream data and the actions you take on our websites. Cookies and similar technologies may also be placed by third-party analytic services, such as Google analytics, or third-party marketing services.
In some of our email or other electronic communications, we may use a “click-through URL” linked to content on our website. When the email reader clicks one of these URLs, they pass through a separate web server before arriving at the destination page on our website. We may track this click-through data to help us determine interest in particular topics and measure the effectiveness of our customer communications. If you prefer not to be tracked in this way, you should not click text or graphic links in our electronic communication.
Online Navigational Information is aggregated and used to help us understand and analyze trends, to understand and analyze the effectiveness of our marketing, to administer the website, to learn about user behavior on the site, to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole, and to improve our products and services to better serve you.
Aggregated data with respect to online navigational information is considered non-personal information for the purposes of this Privacy Policy. If we do combine non-personal information with personal information, the combined information will be treated as personal information for as long as it remains combined. To the extent that IP addresses or similar identifiers are considered personal information, we also treat these identifiers as personal information for the purposes of this Privacy Policy.
Disclosure of personal information to others
Other than as set out in this Privacy Policy, we do not use your personal information internally for any other purposes and we do not share it with anyone outside of ACL or its affiliated companies.
Service Providers – We may contract with third party service providers to assist us in performing business-related functions such as information processing, managing and enhancing customer data, providing customer service, assessing your interest in our products and services, and conducting customer research or satisfaction surveys. To the extent a service provider has access to your personal information for such a purpose, we will ensure that they are obligated to use your personal information only for such purpose and that they are obligated to protect your information to standards at least as protective as those set out in this Privacy Policy.
Legal Process – It may be necessary by law, litigation or other legal process for us to disclose your personal information. Our policy is to notify you of any such legal process seeking access to your personal information unless we are prohibited by law from doing so or when the request is an emergency. We may also disclose information about you if we determine that disclosure is reasonably necessary to enforce our terms and conditions or protect our operations or users.
Business Transitions – If we are involved in a reorganization, merger, or the actual or prospective sale of our business or company (or a unit or division) we may disclose personal information to the relevant third party as part of the transaction. In that event, we will ensure that your personal information remains protected in accordance with the principles set out in this Privacy Policy.
RETENTION AND PROTECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We will retain your personal information for the period consistent with the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. We take the security of your personal information very seriously. We use technical, administrative, and physical controls to maintain the security of your data. While we use industry-recognized security protocols to protect personal information, we cannot guarantee the safety of personal information from hacking or theft. If you have a security-related concern, please contact us at contact@atlanticcultivation.com.
Your rights to access, correct or delete your personal information
We will provide you with access to your personal information that we retain for any purpose including requesting that we correct the data if it is inaccurate or delete the data if we are not required to retain it by law or for legitimate business purposes. We may decline to process requests that are frivolous, that jeopardize the privacy of others, are impractical, or for which access is not otherwise required by local law. Access, correction, or deletion requests can be made through contact@atlanticultivation.com.
This party information practices
Our websites may contain links to third-party websites, products, and services. The information collected by third parties is governed by their privacy policies. ACL is not responsible for these third-party websites, products or services and encourages you to review the privacy policies of such third party web sites, products and services to understand their information practices.
Privacy Questions
If you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy or associated practices, please contact our Data Protection Officer at contact@atlanticcultivation.com.