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Privacy Policy
PERSONAL INFORMATION POLICY
Our Commitment
It is our commitment to maintain the principles of integrity and
trust with respect to the protection of personal information. As
part of our commitment, we will protect the privacy of personal
information of employees, clients, customers and others individuals
whose personal information we collect, use and disclose. We are
committed to complying with British Columbia’s Personal Information
Protection Act (the “Act”) and all other applicable
privacy laws.
Definitions
“business contact information” means
information that enables an individual to be contacted at work,
including his/her name, title, business address, business telephone
number, fax number and e-mail address.
“employee personal information” means
personal information about an employee that is collected used or
disclosed solely for the purposes reasonably required to establish,
manage or terminate an employment relationship, but does not include
other personal information about the employee.
“personal information” means any information
that personally identifies an individual, but does not include business
contact information or work product information.
”work product information” means information
prepared or collected by an individual or group of individuals as
part of their employment or business responsibilities or activities
related to their employment or business.
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Responsibility
We are responsible for all personal information under our control,
even if it is not in our possession. We have developed policies
and procedures to deal with the proper collection, use and disclosure
of personal information.
We have appointed the following person to answer any questions
or to handle requests for access to personal information or complaints:
Name: Carl Mazur
Toll Free: 1-800-313-8338
Local: 604-270-3290
Email: info@biodenix.com
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Purposes
We collect personal information for the following purposes:
- to individualize your experience on our website;
- to communicate separately with you;
- to facilitate your movements throughout our website;
- to be able to selectively send you communications that may
be of interest to you, either electronically or otherwise;
- other
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Consent
We require the consent of individuals to collect, use or disclose
personal information. Unless required by law or otherwise authorized
by the Act, we will not use or disclose personal information already
collected for other purposes unless we obtain the consent of the
individual to whom it belongs. Generally, we will seek consent to
use and disclose personal information at the same time as we collect
the information. We will affirmatively ask to join our mailing lists
using the forms provided on this website or other means expressly
sanctioned by us.
Subject to contractual or legal arrangements, you may withdraw
or refuse consent provided that we are given reasonable notice.
We will inform you of the consequences of withdrawing your consent,
if any.
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Unsubscribe Policy
We strive to only send e-mails to those who want to receive it.
If you would not like to receive future e-mails from us, reply to
any email with UNSUBSCRIBE as the subject.
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Collection
We will only collect personal information for the purposes we have
identified above and that are reasonable in the circumstances. We
will only collect personal information through methods that are
lawful, will not collect information indiscriminately and will try
to collect personal information directly from the individual concerned
unless authorized by that individual to collect it from a third
party or otherwise as permitted by the Act.
Depending on how you have configured your browser, when you access
our website, a small file - a “cookie” - may be created
by our server and stored on your computer. The cookie contains a
unique session identification number and is used to:
- keep track of your online order;
- ensure that you see the correct products and pricing applicable
to the province in which you are located;
- personalize your experience by alerting you to features and
information that might interest you;
- other
A cookie cannot be used to access or otherwise compromise the data
on your hard drive. If you arrive at our website with your browser
configured to disable cookies, you will not be identified until
you register and sign-in. Please be advised that cookies may be
required to complete certain functions on this website, such as
making purchases or placing orders at our online store.
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Aggregate Information
We collect certain aggregate information, such as tracking the
Internet address of the domains from which you visit our site and
analyzing this data for trends and statistics, tracking your IP
address (the number that is automatically assigned to your computer
when you are using the Web), and tracking your browser type.
We use this aggregate information to help diagnose problems with
our servers, to administer our website, and to gather broad demographic
information. None of this information is connected with your personal
information. We may also generate non-identifying and aggregate
profiles from personal information provided during registration
(such as the total number, but not the names, of clients).
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Use of IP Addresses
An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your
computer whenever you're surfing the Internet. Web servers automatically
identify your computer by its IP address. We may collect IP addresses
for the purposes of system administration, to report aggregated
information to our advertisers, and to audit the use of our website.
When clients request pages from our website, our servers log the
requesting clients' IP addresses. We normally will not link IP addresses
to anything personally identifiable, which means that clients' sessions
will be logged, but client identity remains anonymous to us. We
can and will use IP addresses to identify a client when we feel
it is necessary to enforce compliance with our rules or terms of
service or to protect our service, website, or any person, or where
it is otherwise authorized or required by law.
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Use, Disclosure and Retention
We will only use or disclose personal information for the purpose(s)
for which it was collected.
We may disclose the personal information to:
(i) a person who in our reasonable judgment is seeking the information
as an agent of the individual;
(ii) a company or individual engaged by us to perform functions
on its behalf, such as research or data processing;
(iii) a credit reporting agency;
(iv) a public authority or agent of a public authority, if in our
reasonable judgment, it appears that there is imminent danger to
life or property which could be avoided or minimized by disclosure
of the information; or
(v) where you consent to such disclosure or it is required or authorized
by law.
We may use and disclose employee personal information for a variety
of purposes related to commencing, managing or terminating the employment
relationship.
We do not sell, rent, loan, trade, or lease any personal information
collected at our site, including contact forms, download requests
or email lists.
We will retain personal information only as long as necessary to
fulfil the purposes stated above, as required for legal or business
purposes or as required by law. Subsequently, we will destroy, erase,
or make anonymous such information. However, we will retain for
at least one year personal information that has been used to make
a decision about a client, customer or employee.
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Accuracy of Personal Information
We will make reasonable efforts to ensure that personal information
in our control is accurate and complete. You may request corrections
to your personal information. If your request for a correction is
rejected by us, we will make a notation of such request and rejection
on your file or personal information.
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Safeguarding Personal Information
We will protect personal information in your control against risks
of loss, theft, unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use, modification
or destruction by security safeguards that are appropriate to the
sensitivity and format of the information.
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Access
Upon reasonable written notice from you, we will, within 30 days
or such longer period in the event we obtain an extension, provide
access to all your personal information in our possession and tell
your what the information is being used for and to whom it has been
disclosed.
We reserve the right to charge a reasonable fee for providing access
to personal information.
If we refuse your request for access, we will notify you in writing,
documenting the reasons for refusal, the relevant provision of the
Act on which we rely and resources for redress available to you,
including from the British Columbia Information and Privacy Commissioner.
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Complaints
If you have complaints about how your personal information is being
handled by us, you may file a written complaint with our designated
representative at the contact address listed above. Such complaint
must clearly state the nature of the dispute and contain all necessary
contact information for you.
We will acknowledge receipt of a complaint, investigate such complaint
and notify you of the outcome of the complaint, including any relevant
steps taken.
If a complaint has not been resolved to your satisfaction, you
may seek redress with the British Columbia Information and Privacy
Commissioner.
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Links to Other Sites
We are not responsible for the content or the privacy policies
of websites to which our website may link and our privacy policy
does not apply to those websites. These other websites may send
their own cookies to users, collect data, or solicit personal information.
Please keep in mind that whenever you give out personal information
online (for example, via message boards or chat lines), that information
can be collected and used by people you don't know. While we strive
to protect our clients’ personal information, we cannot guarantee
the security of any information you disclose online, you disclose
such information at your own risk.
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Our Commitment to Children's Privacy
Protecting children's privacy is especially important to us. It
is our policy to comply with applicable laws. We recommend that
children ask a parent for permission before sending personal information
to us or to anyone else online.
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Revisions to this Policy
To ensure that this Policy is up to date and complies with the
Act, we reserve the right to make changes, which will become effective
30 days following our providing notice thereof.
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