PROJECT UP INC.
PRIVACY POLICY
1.General
This privacy policy (the "Privacy Policy") describes the policy of Project Up Inc. ("Project Up" or the "Company", "we", "us" or "our") regarding the collection, use, storage, sharing and protection of your personal information. This Privacy Policy applies to the http://www.cvxpress.com website (the "Website") and all related applications, services and tools where reference is made to this Privacy Policy (the "Services"), regardless of how you access the Services, including access through mobile devices. Project Up is the data controller.
Scope and consent:
By using the Website and related Services, you give explicit consent to Project Up for the collection, use, disclosure and retention of your personal information by us, as described in this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use.
Project Up may change this Privacy Policy from time to time without notice. We advise you to read it regularly. Substantial changes to our Privacy Policy will be announced on our Website. The amended Privacy Policy will be effective immediately after it is first posted on our Website.
This Privacy Policy has been developed to meet the standards set out in Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act ("PIPEDA") and similar provincial legislation. The Privacy Policy describes the principles Project Up will use to protect the privacy of personal information it possess about you, and institutes fair and principled information management practices with respect to personal information collected, used or disclosed by us. The Privacy Policy informs customers, clients and the general public how Project Up manages personal information.
Principles of PIPEDA
PIPEDA requires a common sense “reasonable person” approach to requesting, authenticating and retaining personal information as a part of Project Up’s business activities. We, at Project Up, understand how sensitive confidentiality, particularly in a time when there have been highly-publicized cases where breaches of such confidentiality have led to the unauthorized release of and access to confidential information of individuals. At Project Up, we strive to understand what customers and clients deem to be reasonable and then implement such principles in this Privacy Policy.
Project Up has implemented each of the privacy principals set out in Schedule 1 of PIPEDA. These privacy principles represent comprehensive and practical information management practices. These practices are intended to provide the necessary assurances that personal information obtained and utilized by Project Up, in the course of its business activities, will be held in confidence and be maintained in a safe and secure environment. For full disclosure of these privacy principles, you are encouraged to read Schedule 1 of PIPEDA in its entirety.
2. What personal information do we collect?
You can visit our Website without registering for an account. When you decide to provide us with your personal information, you agree that such information is sent to and stored on our servers. We collect the following types of personal information:
Information we collect automatically:
Information you provide to us: We collect and store any information you enter on our Website or that you provide to us when you use our Services. This information includes, but is not limited to:
Information from other sources:
We may receive and/or collect additional information about you from third parties and add this to our account information. This information includes, but is not limited to: demographic data, navigation data, additional contact data and additional data about you from other sources, such as public authorities, to the extent permitted by law.
3. How we use and disclose your personal information
You agree that we may use your personal information for the following purposes:
Project Up is authorized by PIPEDA to use personal information, without the knowledge or consent of an individual, in circumstances including where:
PIPEDA further authorized the Company to disclose personal information without the knowledge or consent of an individual in circumstances including if such disclosure:
Transfer of your personal information to third parties:
We may disclose your personal information to third parties in accordance with this Privacy Policy and applicable legislation and regulations. As further described under Section 6, we will not disclose your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent. We may share your personal information with:
Without limitation to the foregoing, we shall not disclosure (in our efforts to respect your privacy and to keep the website free of malicious persons or parties) your personal information to third parties without a court order or formal request from the government in accordance with applicable law, unless we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to prevent impending injury or financial damages or to report alleged illegal activities.
Information you share on the Website:
Our Website allows users to share postings and other information with other users, thereby making this shared information accessible to other users. Since our Website also enables you to directly contact a customer or provider, we recommend that you consider how you share your personal information with others. You are solely responsible for the personal information you share through our Website and therefore we cannot and do not guarantee the privacy or security of the information shared by you with other users.
In case you visit our Website from a shared computer, we strongly recommend that you log off after each session. If you do not want the shared computer to remember you and/or your credentials, you will need to remove cookies and/or the history of your website visits.
4. Cookies
When you use our Services, we and our service providers may place cookies (data files on your computer, phone or mobile device’s drive) or similar technologies. We use cookies to help us identify you as a user, to provide you a better experience on our Website and to increase trust and safety on our Website. For more detailed information about our use of these technologies, we refer you to our Policy on Cookies.
5. Accessing, Reviewing and Changing Your Personal Information
We cannot modify your personal information or account information. You can modify your own information by logging into your account. When you submit a posting, you may not be able to change your posting or delete any message(s) associated therewith. If you want to close your account (where applicable) with us, please send a request to us at info@cvxpress.com. We will process your request within a reasonable period of time and process your personal information in accordance with applicable law. We may charge a fee to compensate costs; however the fee shall not exceed the amount permitted by law. If your information is factually incorrect or incomplete or irrelevant for the purposes for which we process your information, you can request us to modify or delete your information. Such requests will be handled in accordance with applicable law. If you have any questions, please contact us with the subject line ‘Request Privacy Policy’ by writing to Project Up Inc. Attention: Customer Support, at info@cvxpress.com
6. Protection and retention of your personal information
Project Up uses all commercially reasonably efforts to protect your personal information. We have comprehensive security controls to protect against unauthorized use, alteration, duplication, destruction, disclosure, loss or theft of, or unauthorized access to, your personal information. Project Up makes great effort to keep your personal information secure.
Project Up may use other companies to provide services to you on our behalf, such as the printing of correspondence, storage of your files in a secured environment or to conduct customer satisfaction surveys on our behalf. In such cases, we will have contracts in place holding these companies to the same high standards of confidentiality by which we are governed and requiring that any information provided by us must be kept strictly confidential and used only for the purposes of the contract.
Project Up also has agreements in place with suppliers and third party vendors, which also require that any information provided by us must be maintained in strict confidence.
Project Up strives to ensure the physical, organizational and electronic security of your personal information through the use of secure locks on filing cabinets and doors, and restricted access to our information processing and storage areas. Project Up limits access to relevant information to authorized employees only, and through the use of pass keys and computer passwords and, where necessary, the encryption of electronically transmitted information.
Project Up has procedures in place when destroying, deleting or disposing of personal information when it is no longer required for the purposes as set out in this Privacy Policy, or by law, to prevent unauthorized access to such personal information.
Project Up only keeps your personal information for as long as we need it to meet the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. The length of time we retain your personal information is also affected by: (1) the type of product or service you have from us, and (2) any legal requirements we may have to meet such as regulatory file retention periods or for being able to respond to any concerns you may have even if you are no longer a customer of ours.
7. Opt-out Policy
You can choose not to provide us with some or all of your personal information. This may, however, severely restrict the products and Services the Company can then provide. You can also withdraw your consent to our use of your personal information, as long as you give us notice in writing, addressed to:
Project Up Inc.
9411 Fairmount Drive S.E.
Calgary, Alberta T2J 0R1
Email: info@cvxpress.com
Attention: Privacy Officer
8. Other information
Abuse and unsolicited commercial communications ("spam"):
We do not tolerate abuse of our Website. You do not have permission to add other Project Up members to your mailing list (e-mail or postal) for commercial purposes, even if a member has responded to your posting to solicit your business or retain your services, unless the member has given his or her explicit consent. If you notice that someone is abusing our Website (spam or spoof emails), please notify us immediately at info@cvxpress.com
It is not allowed to use our member-to-member communication resources to send spam or content that violates our Terms of Use in any other way. For your security, we may, but shall not be obligated to, scan messages automatically and check for spam, viruses, phishing and other malicious activity or illegal or prohibited content. We shall be permitted to delete, block or restrict deliver or any messages deemed spam, viruses or similar such messages. We do not permanently store messages sent through these resources.
Third Parties:
Unless explicitly provided otherwise in this Privacy Policy, this Privacy Policy applies only to the use and transfer of information we collect from you. Project Up has no control over the privacy policies of third parties that may apply to you.
Contact:
If you have any questions about Project Up, our Website and/or our Services, please contact us at info@cvxpress.com