The Box Tops for Education Canada Online Privacy Policy
At Box Tops for Education Canada, we are very sensitive to the privacy concerns
of our consumers and want you to be aware of how we treat personal information.
This Privacy Notice explains the manner in which we collect, use, disclose and otherwise
manage your personal information.
Collection and Use of Personal Information
How Does Box Tops for Education Canada Use Cookies, Web Beacons and
Similar Technologies?
When Might Box Tops for Education Canada Provide Other Parties with
Your Personal Information?
How Does Box Tops for Education Canada Protect the Security of Your
Personal Information?
Links to Other Sites
Changes In Our Privacy Notice
How to Contact Us or Withdraw Consent
Collection and Use of Personal
Information
We collect personal information from you (such as your name, e-mail address or phone
number) only when you voluntarily provide it to us. Depending on the purpose for
which the information was provided, we may use the information to communicate with
you regarding our products, services and promotions, to provide you with other information
that you request, and/or to improve our product and service offerings.
Here are the ways in which we obtain personal information from our consumers, the
types of information we obtain, and how we use the information:
- If you contact one of our Consumer Services Representatives by phone, postal mail,
e-mail or through one of our web sites, we may ask you for personal information
such as your name, address, phone number or e-mail address so that we can respond
to your questions or comments. We may retain this information for a reasonable period
of time to better assist you the next time you contact us, for training purposes,
or for internal research and analysis purposes.
- You may be asked to provide personal information if you:
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register for a sweepstakes, contest or other game by mail, on one of our web sites
or on a promotional partner’s web site;
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participate in a survey, a consumer research panel or similar type of activity either
online or offline;
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ask to receive an online newsletter or other information from Box Tops for Education
Canada; or
- otherwise participate in features of our web sites (or a promotional partner’s web
sites) that ask for personal information.
Your participation in these activities (and therefore your provision of personal
information) is entirely voluntary. We may use and then retain your personal information
for a reasonable period of time in order to administer the sweepstakes or contest,
to fulfill your request, or to provide better products and services to our consumers.
- If you purchase or otherwise request a product, publication or promotional offering
from us or take advantage of a rebate or similar offer, you may be required to provide
your contact and/or payment information (such as a credit card number) in order
for us to process your request. We may use and then retain this information for
a reasonable period of time for internal research and analysis purposes, to improve
our product or promotional offerings, or to make it available for future transactions
with you.
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How Does Box Tops for Education
Canada Use Cookies, Web Beacons and Similar Technologies?
We may employ cookie technology, web beacons and similar devices on our web sites
to facilitate site administration and navigation and to provide an enhanced online
experience for the consumer. Information tracked through these mechanisms includes
but is not limited to (1) a user’s IP address (e.g., yahoo.com - 192.168.1.1), (2)
the type of web browser (e.g., Microsoft Explorer) and operating system (e.g., Windows
or Linux) being used, (3) the pages of the web site a user visits, and (4) other
web sites a user visited before visiting our site.
Cookies do NOT contain your name or your e-mail address. Most browsers accept cookies
automatically, but can be configured not to do so or to notify the user when a cookie
is being sent. If you wish to disable cookies, refer to your browser help menu to
learn how to disable cookies. Please note that if you disable cookies, you may be
unable to access some customized features on our web sites.
Web beacons are 1x1 single-pixel graphics that allow us to count the number of users
who have visited a particular web page or to access certain cookies. We may use
web beacons on our web sites to count users and to recognize users by accessing
our cookies. Being able to access our cookies allows us to personalize our web site
and improve your experience at our web site. We may also include web beacons in
HTML-formatted e-mail messages that we send to determine which e-mail messages were
opened. Like cookies, web beacons do NOT collect or contain your name or your e-mail
address.
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When Might Box Tops for Education
Canada Provide Other Parties with Your Personal Information?
We may share your personal information with other parties if you consent to us sharing
such information with third parties. Except as expressly set forth in this Privacy
Notice or as required by law, we will not sell, transfer or otherwise disclose any
of your personal information to any third party without your consent.
We may provide your personal information to third parties who provide services on
our behalf. These parties may use the information solely in conjunction with the
specific services they provide for us (e.g., fulfillment of an order, responding
to your question or comment, providing a sweepstakes prize, deployment of a consumer
survey, investigation of a complaint, etc.).
We reserve the right to transfer any information we have about you in the event
that we sell or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets to a third party.
If such a sale or transfer occurs, we will ensure that the third party uses the
information in accordance with this Privacy Notice.
We also reserve the right to disclose any personal information as needed if such
information is requested by law enforcement agencies or if we are required to do
so by law, regulation, subpoena, court order, or by a government entity. We also
may disclose personal information to third parties if we have reason to believe
that disclosing such information is necessary to conduct investigations of possible
breaches of law, to cooperate in any legal investigation, or to identify, contact
or bring legal action against someone who may be violating the Terms of Use of one
of our websites.
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How Does Box Tops for Education
Canada Protect the Security of Your Personal Information?
We provide reasonable administrative, physical and technical security measures to
protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use and disclosure.
We will maintain the strict confidentiality of all personal information we collect,
and will only disclose such information to Box Tops for Education Canada employees
and third parties as set forth in this Privacy Notice or as required by law. We
will only keep your personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for
the purposes described above or as otherwise required by law.
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Links to Other Sites
Our web sites may contain links to the web sites of other Box Tops for Education
Canada affiliates and to web sites that are owned and operated by other third parties,
both within and outside of Canada. These other web sites may have their own privacy
policies and are not governed by this Box Tops for Education Canada Privacy Notice.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of web sites owned
and operated by any such parties. Other web sites may collect and treat information
collected differently, so we encourage you to carefully read and review the privacy
policy for each web site you visit.
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Changes in Our Privacy Notice
We reserve the right to change this Privacy Notice at our discretion at any time.
Please check back from time to time to ensure that you are aware of any updates
or changes in this Privacy Notice. Your personal information will be used and/or
disclosed in accordance with the Privacy Notice posted at the time we collected
your personal information. Should we need your consent to use your information in
a manner other than was identified at the time of collection, we will contact you
by e-mail or otherwise to inform you of the change to our Privacy Notice.
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How to Contact Us or Withdraw Consent
If you would like to withdraw your consent to the collection, use and/or disclosure
of your personal information, if you would like to access and/or correct your personal
information, or if you have questions or comments about this Privacy Notice, call
us at 1-888-799-2444 or write to: Box Tops for Education Canada, PO Box 3075, Wallaceburg,
ON, N8A 9L3.
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Last updated: September 2005
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