Aver Media LP, is committed to maintaining the accuracy, security and privacy of Personal Information in accordance with
applicable legislation. This Aver Media LP Privacy Policy is
a statement of principles and guidelines concerning the protection
of Personal Information of our clients, service providers and
other individuals.
Consent
BY SUBMITTING PERSONAL INFORMATION TO AVER MEDIA LP OR ITS SERVICE
PROVIDERS AND AGENTS, YOU AGREE THAT WE MAY COLLECT, USE AND
DISCLOSE SUCH PERSONAL INFORMATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS PRIVACY
POLICY AND AS PERMITTED OR REQUIRED BY LAW. Subject to legal
and contractual requirements, you may refuse or withdraw your
consent to certain of the identifi ed purposes at any time by
contacting the Aver Media LP Privacy Officer. If you refuse
or withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide you
or continue to provide you with certain services or information
which may be of value to you. If you provide Aver Media LP or
our service providers and agents with personal information of
another individual, you represent that you have all necessary
authority and/or have obtained all necessary consents from such
person to enable us to collect, use and disclose such personal
information for the purposes set forth in this
Privacy Policy
1. What Personal Information do we collect?
2. Why do we collect your Personal Information?
3. To whom do we disclose your Personal Information?
4. Where do we store your Personal Information?
5. How may you obtain access to your Personal Information?
6. How do we protect your Personal Information?
7. Privacy and our Website
8. Changes to the Privacy Policy
9. Further Information
What Personal Information do we collect?
Canadian privacy legislation defines “Personal Information”
broadly as information about an identifiable individual or
as information that allows an individual to be identified. For
the purposes of this policy, Personal Information means information
about an identifiable individual as defined from time to time
in applicable privacy legislation. Generally speaking Personal
Information does not include what is considered business contact
information: your name, title or position, business address,
telephone number, facsimile number, or e-mail address. The types
of Personal Information that Aver Media LP may collect about
you includes your name, home address, telephone number, personal
email address, billing and account information, information
about a clients technical or communication needs and other
information incidental to providing technical, creative and
strategic services (including Personal Information about directors,
officers, employees, parties-in-interest, decision makers,
experts, other professional advisors, and our clients business
partners, investors, shareholders, competitors and customers
whom are individuals).
Why do we collect your Personal Information?
In general, Aver Media LP collects, uses and discloses Personal
Information about our clients and service providers in order
to provide our clients with professional services. More specifically,
we collect, use and disclose your Personal Information for the
following purposes:
to establish and manage client relationships, and
avoid conflicts of interest. This may include the sharing of
Personal Information by and between Aver Media LP personnel
and affiliated companies and partnerships for such purposes;
to consider whether Aver Media LP should establish
a commercial relationship with clients, suppliers and other
third parties, including to evaluate credit standing and to
match credit bureau or credit reporting agency information;
to establish and maintain commercial relationships
with clients, suppliers
and other third parties, including to |
issue invoices, administer
accounts, collect and process payments, and to fulfill contractual
obligations;
to understand and respond to client, supplier
and other third party needs and preferences, including to
contact and communicate with such parties and to conduct surveys,
research and evaluations; to develop, enhance,
market, sell or otherwise provide Aver Media LP products
and services;
to market, sell or otherwise provide products
and services of third parties with whom Aver Media LP has
a commercial relationship;
to distribute our newsletters, conference information
and other material to individuals on our mail and e-mail lists,
including via third party mailing houses and e-mail service
providers;
to develop and manage our knowledge-management
precedent systems and databases;
to develop and manage Aver Media LP business
and operations;
to detect and protect Aver Media LP and other
third parties against error, negligence, breach of contract,
fraud, theft and other illegal activity, and to audit compliance
with Aver Media LP policies and contractual obligations;
to engage in business transactions, including
the purchase, sale, lease, merger, amalgamation or any other
type of acquisition, disposal, securitization or financing
involving Aver Media LP.;
as permitted by, and to comply with, any legal
or regulatory requirements or provisions; and
for any other purpose to which you consent.
To whom do we disclose your Personal Information? From time
to time, Aver Media LP may disclose your Personal Information
to:
service providers, including an organization
or individual retained by Aver Media LP to perform functions
on its behalf, such as marketing, data processing, document
management and office services;
an organization or individual retained by Aver
Media LP to evaluate your creditworthiness or to collect debts
outstanding on an account;
a financial institution,
on a confidential basis and solely in connection with the
assignment of a right to receive payment, the provision of
security or other financing arrangements; or
a person who, in the reasonable judgment of Aver
Media LP, is providing or seeking the information as your
agent;
any third party or parties, where you consent
to such disclosure or where disclosure is required or permitted
by law.
Where do we store your Personal Information?
Your Personal Information is stored in secured locations and
on servers controlled by Aver Media LP, located either at
our offices or at the offices of our service providers.
How may you obtain access to your Personal Information?
Upon your written request, subject to certain exceptions,
Aver Media LP will inform you of the existence, use, and disclosure
of your Personal Information and will give you access to that
information. Access requests should be sent to our Privacy
Officer, using the contact information below.
How do we protect your Personal Information?
To help protect the confi dentiality of your Personal Information,
Aver Media LP employs administrative and technological safeguards
appropriate to the sensitivity of your Personal Information.
For instance, we operate secure data networks protected by
industry standard firewall and password protection systems.
In addition, where Personal Information is sent to a third
party for processing, we make sure, through our contracts
with them, that all Personal Information is kept secure.
Privacy and our Website
Cookies - When an individual
visitor accesses the Aver Media LP website (or associated
websites, including adverpartners.com), we may use a browser feature
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called a cookie to
collect information such as the type of Internet browser
and operating system the visitor uses, the domain name of the
website from which the visitor came, date and duration of the
visit, number of visits, average time spent on our website,
pages viewed and number of cookies accumulated. A cookie is
a small text file containing a unique identification number
that identifies the vistors browser, but not necessarily
the visitor, to our computers each time our website is visited.
Unless a visitor specifically informs us (e.g. by registering
for an event or sending us correspondence from the website),
we will not know who the individual visitors are. In addition
to the identified purposes described in our Privacy Policy,
we may use this website information and share it with other
organizations with whom we have a commercial relationship to
measure the use of our website, to improve the functionality
and content of the website and to facilitate usage by a visitor.
Visitors can reset their browsers either to notify them when
they have received a cookie or refuse to accept cookies. However,
if a visitor refuses to accept cookies, he or she may not be
able to use some of the features available on our website.
Online Communications - In order
to provide our website visitors with a service or information,
visitors may voluntarily submit Personal Information to us for
purposes such as asking a question, obtaining information, reviewing
or downloading a publication, participating in a seminar or
other event, and participating in contests and surveys. If you
are known to Aver Media LP as a registered user of an online
service, we may combine and store Personal Information about
your use of our website and the online information you have
provided with certain other online and offline information
we may have collected.
E-Mail Communications - Occasionally,
we may send marketing or promotional e-mail communications to
you with information that may be useful, including information
about the services of Aver Media LP and other third parties
with whom we have a relationship. We will include instructions
on how to unsubscribe and inform us of preferences if you decide
you do not want to receive any future marketing or promotional
e-mails from Aver Media LP.
Links - Our website may contain
links to other websites which are provided as a convenience
only. Visitors are advised that other third party websites may
have different privacy policies and practices than Aver Media
LP, and Aver Media LP has no responsibility for such third party
websites.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
Aver Media LP reserves the right to modify or supplement this
Privacy Policy at any time. If we make a change to this Privacy
Policy, we will post such changes on our website and make such
revised policy and changes available upon request to the Aver
Media LP Privacy Department. However, Aver Media LP will obtain
the necessary consents required under applicable privacy laws
if it seeks to collect, use or disclose your Personal Information
for purposes other than those to which consent has been obtained
unless otherwise required or permitted by law.
Further Information
For information on Aver Media LP privacy practices,
please contact the Aver Media LP Privacy Officer at:
Aver Media LP
Privacy Officer
privacy@averlp.com
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