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OfficeBooks Inc (“we”/”us”) make the Internet site, www.OfficeBooks.com and our online business management system, OfficeBooks (together the “Service”) available to customers and their end users (“Users”) on the terms of our Privacy Policy and this terms of use, which explains how we collect, store, use and distribute information about Users.
By using the Service, you consent to the use and disclosure of User Personal Information (as defined below) as described in this Privacy Policy. User Personal Information will not be used for any other purpose or disclosed further without Users’ consent. Users can withdraw consent at any time but withdrawing consent may result in a User’s inability to continue using the Service.
Important Exception to Consent. We may disclose User Personal Information to a third party without consent if we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) our rights or property, other Users or anyone else (including the rights or property of anyone else) that could be harmed by such activities. We may disclose User Personal Information when we believe in good faith that such disclosure is required by and in accordance with the law. We may also be required to disclose Personal Information when a User’s actions violate or appear to violate our Terms of Service.
“Personal Information” means information about an identifiable individual, such as Users’ names, e-mail address, telephone number, gender and age. “Non-Personal Information” means information that cannot be used to identify a specific individual and includes information of an anonymous nature such as IP addresses when not combined with the personal information of the computer user to which they relate and information relating to business activity, sales and business addresses. Only Personal Information is governed by this Privacy Policy and you agree that we are not subject to any restrictions in respect of our use or disclosure of Non-Personal Information we collect as a result of your use of the Service.
We collect and use information for the main purpose of providing the Service to you. More specifically, we use Users information for identification and authentication purposes, for service improvement, to handle any service or product orders from you and to address certain issues like malicious use. We may also use information received through the Website and the Service to manage your account, to market to you and to advise you about current and future services. If at any time you decide that you do not want to receive certain communications from us, you can send an email to us at any time.
In order to access the Service, you will be required to become a registered user by opening an account and submitting certain Personal Information to us. This Personal Information will typically include Users names, postal address, cellular number and credit card details .
System Logs. When accessing the Website, we record information on our system logs from your browser like your IP address, cookies and the pages Users have requested.
Your IP address is reported by your web browser whenever you visit a page on the Website. This information is recorded on OfficeBooks with your registration information on our databases. We use this to:
Diagnose problems and any issues reported by other users that are related to the IP addresses controlled by specific parties
Trace back the source of any malicious or illegal use of the Service so that we can more easily track and disable such usage as it arises.
Location geographical location.
Cookies are small files that collect usage data about use of the Website and Service. By going into the options section of your Internet browser, you can instruct your Internet browser to turn off cookies.
Your information is stored in our internal databases or those of our third party providers. If we plan to use Users’ Personal Information in future for any purposes other than those identified above, we will only do so after informing you by updating this Privacy Policy (see further Amendment of this Policy below).
We disclose Personal Information in connection with the following:
Personal Information may be available to the government or government agencies in the countries in which that information is stored and your information may be accessed by those governments or agencies under a lawful order, irrespective of the safeguards we have put in place for the protection of your Personal Information.
Third Party Services. From time to time we may employ trusted third parties to help us manage and improve the Service. Some of the roles they fulfill for us may include hosting, data storage, maintenance of the Website and marketing. These third parties may have limited access to databases of Website user information solely for the purpose of carrying out their functions and they will be subject to contractual restrictions prohibiting them from using the information about our users for any other purpose.
Marketing via third parties. We use Google's remarketing service to advertise OfficeBooks to potential customers who visit our website. The remarketing service delivers our ads through the Google Adwords display network which includes both Google.com pages and sites by trusted publishers. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone's past visits to a website. You can opt out of Google's use of cookies by visiting the Ads Preferences Manager https://www.google.com/ads/preferences/. Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.
Transactional Transfers. We may also disclose your Personal Information in connection with a corporate re-organization, a merger or amalgamation with another entity, a sale of all or a substantial portion of our assets or stock, provided that the information disclosed continues to be used for the purposes permitted by this Privacy Policy by the entity acquiring the information. We may also disclose Personal Information in connection with the negotiation of any of the foregoing transactions (including for due diligence activities in respect of such transactions) provided that any such disclosure is done pursuant to a written confidentiality agreement with the entity with whom we may transact.
We may disclose Personal Information in some other limited circumstances, but we will specifically describe them to you when we collect the information, or when required, such as in the terms of use for new service capabilities.
The security of your Personal Information is important to us. We use commercially reasonable efforts to store and maintain your Personal Information in a secure environment.
Our Commitment. We take technical, contractual, administrative, and physical security steps designed to protect Personal Information that you provide to us. Where there has been a breach of security or confidentiality, we will respond appropriately including making any legally-required disclosures and putting in place measures necessary to restore the integrity of our systems. We also don’t share your email address with any 3rd party without your consent.
Obligations.You are also responsible for helping to protect the security of your Personal Information. For instance, never give out your password, and remember to log out of your account and close your browser window when you have finished using the Website or Service, so that other people using the same computer will not have access to your Personal Information. In addition, if you post Personal Information through the Service that is accessible to other persons, you may receive unsolicited messages from these parties.
We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. If we decide to change this Privacy Policy in the future, we will post an appropriate notice on the Website. Any non-material change (such as clarifications) to this Privacy Policy will become effective on the date the change is posted and any material changes will become effective thirty days from their posting on the Website. Once a new Privacy Policy becomes effective, it will apply to all Personal Information submitted by you or collected about you both before and after the date such new Privacy Policy took effect. The date on which the latest update was made is indicated at the bottom of this document. We recommend that you print a copy of this Privacy Policy for your reference and revisit this policy from time to time to ensure you are aware of any changes. Your continued use of the Website and Service signifies your acceptance of any changes.
You have the right to access the Personal Information we hold about you in order to verify the accuracy of that information. Upon receipt of your written request, we will provide you with a copy of your Personal Information. We will endeavor to deal with all such requests for access in a timely manner.
Having accurate Personal Information about you enables us to give you better service. We will make every reasonable effort to keep your Personal Information accurate and up-to-date.
We will keep User Personal Information for as long as it remains necessary for the operation of the Service or as required by law, which may extend beyond the termination of our relationship with you. In general, once you inform us that you no longer wish to use the Service, we will delete your records from our systems as soon as practicable.
You can help by keeping us informed of any changes such as a change of address or telephone number. If you would like to access your information, if you have any questions, comments or suggestions of if you find any errors in our information about you, please contact us at:
Gregg Senechal
80 Colonnade Rd North Unit 1, Nepean Ontario Canada K2E 7L2
We take compliance with privacy laws seriously and if you have a complaint concerning our compliance we will investigate your complaint and if it is justified, we will take appropriate measures.
Date: Thursday, October 10, 2024