This Privacy Policy describes how Power Ring manages, processes and stores personal data submitted in the context of providing our services. “Personal data” refers to any information relating to an identifiable individual or business representative.
1. Consent
By filling out a contact form on our website – powerring.ca or other sites owned by powerring.ca, you agree and accept that we may gather, process, store and/or use the personal data submitted in accordance with the rules set forth below.
By giving your consent to us, you also retain the right to have your personal data rectified, to be forgotten and/or to be erased.
2. Collection of information
In general, we collect and maintain two types of data:
1) General account information that you provide us with in order to activate the use of our services. For the most part, this tends to include – contact and payment information as well as email addresses.
2) Data that you provide us with while completing a form on our website, requesting information on our services. The information you submit to us and that we maintain could conceivably be used to distinguish businesses from individuals.
Your data is stored on our website hosting provider, databases and the general third party applications such as MailChimp.com (The Rocket Science Group, LLC), a company registered under the laws of the United States, and having its registered office at 675 Ponce de Leon Ave NE, Suite 5000, Atlanta, GA 30308 USA. Power Ring will not sell, rent, or loan our contact lists or our customer’s data to any outside firms for the purpose of soliciting services apart from Power Ring standard services.
3. Information collection purpose
The principal purpose of collecting your personal data is to offer you a safe, optimum, efficient and personalized experience. To this end, you agree and accept that we may use your personal data to: - provide our services and facilitate performance, including verifications relating to you; - resolve any problems to improve the use of our site; - personalize, assess, and improve content, and materials; - analyze the volume and history of your use of our services; - inform you about our services as well as our partners’ services and/or promotional offers; - prevent, detect and investigate any activities that are potentially prohibited, unlawful or contrary to good practice and ensure compliance with our terms of use and sending policy; - comply with legal and regulatory obligations; - to protect Power Ring services and reputation. We use the personal data submitted to us only in accordance with the applicable data protection legislation. Including CASL, CAN-SPAM, and other Anti-Spam policies. Our employees and third-party providers are under an obligation to respect data privacy.
4. Data tracking
When we send emails to our registered customers, website visitors requesting information, and email newsletter subscribers, we will sometimes track who opened the emails and who clicked on any of the hyperlinks included. We do this to measure the performance of our Email Campaigns, and to improve our offerings to specific customer segments.
5. Third party disclosure
Personal data relating to you collected on our website are destined for Power Ring own use and may be forwarded to Power Ring partner companies so that we may obtain assistance and support in the context of carrying out our services. Power Ring ensures that it has in place clear data protection requirements for all of its third-party providers. Also, Power Ring does not disclose your personal data to third parties, except if:
You (or your account administrator acting on your behalf) requests or authorizes disclosure thereof;
The disclosure is required to process transactions or supply services which you have requested (i.e. to check you are employing best practice in your business);
Power Ring is compelled to do so by a government authority or a regulatory body, in the case of a court order, a summons to appear in court or any other similar requisition from a government or the judiciary, or to establish or defend a legal application or, (4) the third party is a subcontractor of Power Ring in the carrying out of services.
6. Information sharing and disclosure
This data is stored on secure servers, and only a limited number of people are authorized to access your contact lists, in particular for the purpose of providing support services.
The information we collect is available to Power Ring employees who may need to access this information for legitimate business purposes including the provision of customer service, marketing purposes and billing functions. This data may also be available to third parties engaged by Power Ring – for example, third-party services providers who require access to customer accounts.
Power Ring does not, under any circumstances, sell or rent your personal or business data without your written consent or unless ordered by a court of law.
7. Third party links
This Website contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by Power Ring. Please be aware that we, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. Please note that these third party sites’ privacy policies govern the collection and use of the information collected on those sites.
We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy policies of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies only to information collected by this Web site.
8. Security of your information
Privacy and security are of utmost importance to Power Ring, and we strive to ensure that our technical and organizational measures in place respect your data protection rights.
Power Ring has made a substantial investment in the latest server, database, backup and firewall technologies to protect our information assets. These technologies are deployed as part of sophisticated security architecture. We will maintain safeguards to protect the security of these servers and your personally identifiable information.
We use technical, administrative, and physical security measures to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of data used by our system. No data transmissions over the Internet, however, are guaranteed to be completely secure. While we strive to protect your data from unauthorized use or disclosure, Power Ring cannot warrant or guarantee the security of the data that you provide to us.
Power Ring undertakes to take all pertinent precautions in order to preserve the security of the data and, in particular, to protect them against any accidental or unlawful destruction, accidental loss, corruption, unauthorized circulation or access, as well as against any other form of unlawful processing or disclosure to unauthorized persons.
Notwithstanding this, there is no absolute safety from piracy or hackers. That is why in the event a breach of security was to affect you, Power Ring undertakes to inform you thereof without undue delay and to use its best efforts to take all possible measures to neutralize the intrusion and minimize the impacts. Should you suffer any loss by reason of the exploitation by a third party of a security breach, Power Ring undertakes to provide you with every assistance necessary so you are able to assert your rights.
You should keep in mind that any user, customer or hacker who discovers and takes advantage of a breach in security renders him or herself liable to criminal prosecution and that Power Ring will take all measures, including filing a complaint and/or bring court action, to preserve the data and the rights of its users and of itself and to limit the impacts.
9. Privacy policy changes
Any changes to our Privacy Policy will be posted here; please check this page regularly. If you have any questions about the changes, please contact us.
10. Questions on your data
Should you have any questions about how we use the data we collect, please Contact us.
