Our commitment to privacy: Ontario Lacrosse Festival knows that protecting
the privacy and confidentiality of your personal information is
important to consumers. Collection, use and disclosure of personal
information by the Ontario Lacrosse Festival are governed by the Personal
Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (the "Act"), and any
applicable provincial legislation.
This Privacy Code explains what personal information is collected from
its customers and how it is used. It also explains how you can ask
questions, make suggestions, and complain about our privacy practices.
This Privacy Code applies to personal information (see below) collected
by the Ontario Lacrosse Festival, including its websites. Be aware that our
websites may contain links to other websites provided and maintained
exclusively by third parties not subject to this Privacy Code. Please
review the privacy policies on any external websites to determine their
information handling practices.
What is personal information?
Personal information is any information about an identifiable
individual. Personal information does not include the name, title,
business address or telephone number of an employee of an organization. Ontario Lacrosse Festival is responsible for personal information under its
control. Our employees are informed about the importance of privacy and
receive periodic information to update them about our Privacy Code and
related policies.
What personal information do we collect, and why?
Ontario Lacrosse Festival collects personal information for specific,
limited purposes. Information is collected by fair and lawful means. We
collect personal contact information (for example, name, address, email
address and telephone numbers) if you: sign up for a newsletter;
register on an online forum or website, purchase any product from Ontario Lacrosse Festival; This information is used to fulfill your request,
provide targeted advertising, and respond to your inquiries. From time
to time it may be used to provide reward points or apply credit, as
applicable in the circumstances. We retain your subscriber ID and
passwords so that upon request by you and receipt of identification we
may remind you of them. If you enter a contest or other promotion, we
use your personal contact information to administer the contest or
promotion including contacting, announcing and promoting prizewinners.
We collect demographic information, as well as purchase history and a
list of promotions offered to you ("history"), in order to gain a better
understanding of your interests so that we may develop better products
and services, and to determine eligibility for our products and
services. We may also use demographic, personal contact and history
information from time to time to contact you about changes, enhancements
or other notices related to goods or services you requested and which
the Ontario Lacrosse Festival provides.
If you use any of our websites, we may assign an internet cookie. An
internet cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your
internet browser and that can collect and store information. We use
cookies to better understand how you use our websites, to make sure our
products and dynamic content are served correctly and to improve the
performance of our websites. For example, a cookie may recall a set of
preferences you have set for our website and record items that you have
registered for. Storing cookies on your web browser allows us to present
you with custom web pages and other content that are tuned with your
preferences. For example, if you are a registered user, you may see a
welcome page with your name on it. These activities are invisible to
you, and are generally intended to improve your internet surfing
convenience. Unless you have set your preferences so that you will be
alerted when a cookie is being stored on your computer, you won't know
about it. If you are concerned about cookies, it is possible to turn
them off in your web browser preferences. However, please be aware that
by disabling cookies, you may not be able to use all portions of our
websites, particularly pages requiring registration. We may place
advertising or other links on our sites that originate from outside
advertisers. If you view these ads, the advertisers may assign a cookie.Ontario Lacrosse Festival does not control these cookies, nor is it
responsible for any marketing or other use of your name by these
advertisers. We generally use your personal information for the purposes
of: managing, administering, collecting or otherwise enforcing
accounts; maintaining business records for reasonable periods of time
and generally managing and administering our business; and meeting
regulatory, legal, insurance, audit, security and processing
requirements.
Occasionally, we ask our customers to complete market research surveys.
Survey results are aggregated and shared with our advertisers, sponsors
and affiliates in a manner that does not disclose personal information.
Other than as permitted or required by law, purposes for the collection,
use or disclosure of personal information, which are not set out in
this Privacy Code, will be set out at the time of collection. You will
be given a reasonable opportunity to opt-out of any additional purposes
no later than the time of collection.
This Privacy Code was last updated on June 22, 2010