Privacy statement

CHIPS Month Canada is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the CHIPS Month Canada website and governs data collection and usage. By using the CHIPS Month Canada website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

NOTE: We do not knowingly collect or maintain any personal information or non-personally-identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18 nor is any part of our website or service directed to children under the age of 18. We will remove and/or delete any personal information we believe was submitted by any child under the age of 18.

Collection of your personal information

CHIPS Month Canada does not collect personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name or telephone number unless provided through web form submission or otherwise in direct communications with you and with your consent. Google Analytics collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as postal code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites, which CHIPS Month Canada may use to enhance website user experience.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by CHIPS Month Canada. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by CHIPS Month Canada for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the CHIPS Month Canada website; CHIPS Month Canada does not link this information to any personally identifiable information provided by you.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through CHIPS Month Canada public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: CHIPS Month Canada does not read any of your private online communications.

CHIPS Month Canada encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from CHIPS Month Canada so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. CHIPS Month Canada is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the CHIPS Month Canada and CHIPS Month Canada family of websites.

In their business dealings with CHIPS Month Canada, our customers and prospective customers may be required to provide specific information about their business that may involve disclosure of information pertaining to employees, contractors or individual third parties, that may be considered personally identifiable information under applicable law (such as contact names and email addresses), even though such information is provided in a business context. We will always inform our customers when we need information that personally identifies them or their employees, and we will keep this information in strict confidence. Additionally, customers may, on occasion, voluntarily provide CHIPS Month Canada with information that can be classified as personal information – all such personal information will be stored and maintained in accordance with this privacy policy; where such personal information relates to the customer’s clients or other individuals with whom the customer has dealings, it is the customer’s responsibility to obtain such individuals’ consent to the disclosure of their personal information to CHIPS Month Canada.

Use of your personal information

CHIPS Month Canada collects and uses your personal information to operate the CHIPS Month Canada website and deliver the services you have requested. CHIPS Month Canada also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from CHIPS Month Canada and its affiliates. CHIPS Month Canada may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered; all such surveys will be conducted in accordance with applicable laws.

CHIPS Month Canada does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. CHIPS Month Canada may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, CHIPS Month Canada may share certain data with trusted service providers to the limited extent necessary to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail on behalf of CHIPS Month Canada, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to CHIPS Month Canada, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

CHIPS Month Canada does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

CHIPS Month Canada websites will disclose your personal information, without notice and without your consent, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on CHIPS Month Canada or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of CHIPS Month Canada; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of CHIPS Month Canada, or the public. Otherwise, your personal information will be used and disclosed in accordance with any disclosure or use restrictions provided by you in your consent to the collection of such personal information; where there are no explicit disclosure or use restrictions, such personal information shall be used solely to the extent reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes set forth in this Statement of Privacy and the purposes for which you provided the information.

Maintaining personal information

CHIPS Month Canada has established the following practices regarding the maintenance of personal information.

Individuals can request access to their personal information at any time

If, for any reason, an individual wishes to review their personal information that CHIPS Month Canada has in its possession, they can contact our designated Privacy Officer, who will be pleased to provide them with all their personal information that CHIPS Month Canada has on file, subject to verification of the identity of the individual to verify that they have the right to make such request and obtain such information.

Individuals can request changes to their personal information at any time

If a customer wishes to make any changes or corrections to their personal information, they may contact their business contact at CHIPS Month Canada, or our designated Privacy Officer, who will implement the changes. This will help us ensure our records are always up-to-date.

Individuals can opt out of communications at any time

Individuals always have the choice of whether they wish to receive information – such as e-mail updates – from CHIPS Month Canada. However, customers need to be aware that if they do choose to opt out of communications respecting products and services provided by CHIPS Month Canada, they may not obtain all the benefits we could otherwise provide, such as updates or warnings. CHIPS Month Canada will not have any liability for loss of those benefits or any negative effects respecting customers’ use of CHIPS Month Canada’s products or services after such opting out of communications.

Individuals can request that personal information be destroyed at any time

A situation may arise where an individual desires to have some or all of their personal information that is contained in CHIPS Month Canada’s records deleted or destroyed. In such an event, please contact our designated Privacy Officer, who will take care of removing the applicable personal information from all of CHIPS Month Canada’s records. However, there may be situations where we are obligated to retain one archival copy of the information to allow us to comply with laws or respond to legal processes, and there are certain situations where information cannot be deleted or removed (such as information affecting the count of people at a given location on a given date and time). We will inform the affected individual of all such situations, make reasonable efforts to anonymize such information without affecting our legal obligations, and will only use any retained personal information to the limited extent necessary to comply with such laws or respond to legal processes.

Use of cookies

The CHIPS Month Canada website uses “cookies” to help personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a webpage server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize CHIPS Month Canada pages, or register with CHIPS Month Canada site or services, a cookie helps CHIPS Month Canada to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same CHIPS Month Canada website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the CHIPS Month Canada features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the CHIPS Month Canada services or websites you visit.

Security of your personal information

CHIPS Month Canada secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. CHIPS Month Canada secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this statement

CHIPS Month Canada will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. CHIPS Month Canada encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how CHIPS Month Canada is protecting your information.

Contact information

CHIPS Month Canada welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy and any concerns you may have with respect to your personal information. If you believe that CHIPS Month Canada has not adhered to this Statement, please contact CHIPS Month Canada via our Contact Us form. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy any problems and respond to your issues.