2008 Abbotsford Curling Club Privacy Policy

At Abbotsford Curling Club, we are committed to collecting, using and disclosing your personal information responsibly and to maintaining the accuracy, confidentiality, and security of such personal information.

Personal information includes information that tells us specifically who you are, such as your address, telephone number and e-mail address. However, publicly available information, such as a public directory listing of your name, address and telephone number is not considered personal information.

We have adopted the following privacy policy that guides how we collect, use and disclose personal information about our members and prospective members. Our intent is to balance our legitimate business interests in collecting, using and disclosing your personal information against your reasonable expectations of privacy

1.Definitions
In this policy:
a) “Business” means the business of operating the Abbotsford Curling Club, which includes the Web site:
b) “Membership” means a membership in the Abbotsford Curling Club:
c) “we”, “us”, “our”, and the “club’ refer to the Abbotsford Curling Club, located at 2555 McMillan Rd. and www.abbycurlingclub.bravehost.com and www.abbycurlingclub.com
d) “website” refers to the web site found at www.abbycurlingclub.bravehost.com and/or www.abbycurlingclub.com

2. Collection of Personal Information
Our primary purpose in collecting personal information from you and about you is to ensure the provision of high quality products and /or services/ We only collect personal information from and about you that we consider necessary for achieving this purpose and to permit us to conduct the Business diligently.

3. Use of your Personal Information
We may use the personal information we collect from and about you to:
a) Ensure the provision of high quality products and/or services,
b) Inform you about online and offline offers, products, services, updates and events,
c) Enable us to contact you,
d) Establish and maintain communication with you,
e) Assist us in complying with legal and regulatory requirements,
f) Invoice you for products and/or services,
g) Collect unpaid dues,
h) Enable a corporate re-organization, a merger, or acquisition with another entity or sale of the Business.

We may also use your personal information as may be described to you at the time of collection. We may compare and review your personal information for errors and omissions and for accuracy. If you choose to provide us with your financial information, we may use your address and financial information to bill you and to provide associated support. We may use personal information about you, in a non-personally identifiable manner to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to analyze Memberships, to improve our content and product offerings, and to customize our Web site’s content, layout, and services. The uses are to enable us to improve the Business and to better tailor the Business to meet your needs.

4. Discloser of Personal Information
As a matter of policy, we do not sell, rent, or lease any of your personal information to third parties without your explicit consent. However there are a variety of circumstances where we may need to disclose some of your personal information, including the following:
a) We may disclose your personal information to an individual who, in our reasonable judgment, is seeking the information as your agent. For example, we may provide your personal information to your legal representative if we are satisfied that the individual is requesting information on your behalf.
b) We may disclose your personal information as may be required by law.
c) We may aggregate personal information and disclose such information in a non-personally identifiable manner to advertisers and other third parties for marketing and promotional purposes.

5. Access, review, Changes and Destruction of Your Personal Information
You may access, review and/or change the personal information we have in our files by submitting a written request to do so to our Privacy Information Officer at the address below. We ask that you promptly advise us of any changes to your information.
Upon your written request, we will destroy, as soon as reasonably possible and in accordance with our internal policies and applicable law, any and all personal information that we have in our files about you. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we will retain in our files some personal information in order to enable us to collect any unpaid accounts and/or as may be required by law. We will continue to keep records of the history of our club, a list of members who have contributed to the success of our club is important to the Abbotsford Curling Club.

6. Protecting your Privacy
The personal information that is retained by us is kept in a secure environment and we use reasonable procedural and technical safeguards to protect your personal information against loss, theft and unauthorized access or disclosure.  While we employ different security techniques to protect such data from unauthorized access by users inside and outside our club, we cannot ensure perfect security, particularly in relation to our Web site.

7. Amendments to This Policy
We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time by mailing (including regular mail and email) any amended terms to you or by posting the amended terms on the Web site or at the Abbotsford Curling Club. All amended terms shall automatically be effective five days (5) days after the mailing or on the date of posting.

8. Privacy Information Officer, Access, Questions, or Concerns
The Privacy Information Officer for the Club is Linda Kirton
If you wish to access, review and /or change your personal information contained in our files or if you have any questions or concerns about our privacy principles outlines above or about our practices, please contact us at:
Abbotsford Curling Club, PO Box 214, 2555 McMillan Rd., Abbotsford BC V2S 4N9

The Abbotsford Curling encourages all our members to read and understand our Privacy Policy.
 If you do not agree with our statements to contact the above Officer with a short written note to have their information removed from our list. If the Abbotsford Curling club does not hear from you we will collect and use this personal information by the Abbotsford Curling club in accordance with the above Privacy Policy.