Last Updated: February 5, 2010
Please read this policy, and if you have any questions, contact us at info@auroran.com.
By using the website, you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this policy.
TheAuroran.com is committed to protecting your privacy. This privacy policy tells you about our online collection, use and disclosure of personal information. The terms of this policy apply to all personal information collected by TheAuroran.com on the website, TheAuroran.com, and any other country-specific TheAuroran.com websites which are linked to TheAuroran.com.
This website is operated by TheAuroran.com, and may be accessed in Canada and abroad. For personal information protection purposes, TheAuroran.com is the controller and, unless otherwise noted, is also the processor of the personal information. Information collected may be retained as long as it is reasonably required, for the purposes it was collected.
PRIVACY ISSUES
CONSENT TO COLLECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
When you visit this website, certain kinds of non-personal information, such as the website that referred you to us, your IP address, browser type and language, and access times, may be collected automatically as part of the website's operation. We also may collect navigational information, including information about the pages you view, the links you click, and other actions taken in connection with the website. Demographic information (e.g., your occupation, hobbies, gender, or interests) may also be collected and may be linked to your personal information.
We only collect personal information about you after you have provided us with your consent to collect that specific information. By voluntarily providing this information to us, you consent to the collection and use of your personal information as set out in this privacy policy.
Personal information includes:
1. information collected when you register, including your member name and password, your name, your mailing address, email address, and phone number.
2. information collected when you make a purchase, including your credit card number and billing address.
3. information collected if/when you sign-up as a contributor, including (i) banking and other financial institution information required in order for us to compensate you; (ii) your social insurance number required in order for us to prepare tax information slips; and (iii) a copy of your photo identification (for example, your driver’s license).
You may always choose not to provide personal information, but if you so choose, certain products and services may not be available to you.
USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
The website, namely TheAuroran.com, collects and uses your personal information to:
• create and manage your membership account;
• process your transactions;
• provide customer service;
• perform research and analysis aimed at improving our products, services and technologies;
• display content that is customized to your interests and preferences;
• run contests, select entrants, and choose prize winners;
• run Interactive Areas;
• compensate you and to prepare tax information slips, if you are contributor to TheAuroran.com;
• identify your uploaded content as your content, if you are a contributor to TheAuroran.com; and,
• communicate with you about your transactions, new products and services. We may send transaction-related communications such as welcome letters, membership update reminders, and purchase confirmations. We may also send you surveys or marketing communications to inform you of new products or services or other information or offers that may be of interest. These surveys or marketing communications may come from TheAuroran.com.
Personal information collected by the website, TheAuroran.com, may be stored and processed in Canada, and, by providing us with your personal information, and using our websites or services, you consent to any such transfer of information. If you would like to exercise any of your personal information protection rights (including the right to have your personal information deleted), please contact us.
DISCLOSING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Except as set out in this privacy policy:
We may disclose your personal information to third-party service providers, who perform services on our behalf. For example, we may hire other companies to handle the processing of payments, to provide data storage, to host websites, to fulfill orders and shipments, to assist in marketing, to conduct audits, etc. Those third-party service providers (a) shall be permitted to obtain only the personal information they need to provide the service, (b) must protect personal information to the same extent as TheAuroran.com, and (c) shall be prohibited from using it for any other purpose.
We may disclose your personal information to a third-party account holder, provided that the third party account holder, namely TheAuroran.com/The Auroran/PROMINICHE uses your personal information for the same purposes, and protects it to the same degree, as set out in this privacy policy. Personal information disclosed to TheAuroran.com/PROMINICHE may be available to the Canadian government, or its agencies, under a lawful order made in a court of competent jurisdiction in Canada.
If you have entered into, and/or won an on-site TheAuroran.com contest, we, or a contest sponsor, may publish your name, and town of residence. Information about our customers, including personal information, may be disclosed as part of any merger, acquisition, or sale of the company, and/or its assets, as well as in the unlikely event of insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership, in which personal information would be transferred as one of the business assets of the company. We will notify you of such an occurrence as described in the "Changes to This Privacy Policy" section below. We reserve the right to disclose your personal information if required or permitted to do so by law.
ACCESSING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
If you would like to review or revise information that you previously provided to us, you may access and change your personal information in the member "Profile" section of the website. You may also contact Customer Service at 905.222.2022, or by email at service@TheAuroran.com for assistance.
PERSONAL INFORMATION PREFERENCES
The website, TheAuroran.com, respects your right to make choices about the use and disclosure of your personal information. If, at any time, you decide that you do not want to receive surveys or marketing communications from us, please let us know by contacting us at: 905.222.2022 or by email at service@TheAuroran.com.
If you choose not to receive marketing communications, please be advised that you will continue to receive transactional or account communications (e.g., confirmation emails and account balance statements).
USE OF COOKIES AND OTHER TECHNOLOGIES
TheAuroran.com may use "cookies" to enable you to sign in to our services, and to help personalize your online experience. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard drive. Cookies contain information, including personal information, which can later be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. The information that cookies collect includes the date and time of your visit, your registration information, session identification number and your navigational history and preferences.
Cookies offer you many conveniences. By allowing us to identify registered users when they return to the website, it allows users to retrieve previous merchant search results and view their account details. Cookies also save users time by eliminating the need to repeatedly enter the same information.
In some cases, our third-party service providers may use cookies on our websites. We have no access to, or control over, these cookies. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by the website TheAuroran.com only, and does not cover the use of cookies by third parties.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to sign in, or use other interactive features of our websites and services that depend on cookies, but you will be able to perform basic navigation through the website.
SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
The security of your personal information is important to us. We follow generally accepted industry standards to help protect your personal information including, without limitation:
• limiting access to your personal information to those of our employees, and commission sales persons, who require it to provide services to you;
• encrypting credit card information on our order forms using secure socket layer (SSL) technology, as ruled by PayPal and all credit card usage.
No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
If a password is used to protect your account and personal information, it is your responsibility to keep your password confidential.
INTERACTIVE SERVICES
Our websites may include interactive areas or services.
If you use an Interactive Area, you should be aware that these areas are open to the public, and any personal information you post, or provide at registration, may be viewable by others. We are not responsible for personal information you submit in connection with the Interactive Areas.
CHILDREN
We do not intend to solicit, or collect personal information, from anyone under the age of 18, without parental consent. If you are under 18, you shall not use, or enter information, on this website, including without limitation, any Interactive Areas of the website without parental consent. Please contact Customer Service at 905.222.2022 or by email at service@TheAuroran.com, to obtain the necessary parental consent forms.
LINKS
We may link to websites, including those of our subsidiaries and third-party content providers, who have different privacy policies and practices from those disclosed here. We assume no responsibility for the policies or practices of such linked websites, and encourage you to become acquainted with them prior to use.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right to change the terms of this privacy policy at any time. When we make changes, we will revise the "last updated" date at the top of the policy. If there are material changes to this statement, or in how the website, TheAuroran.com, and PROMINICHE will use your personal information, we will notify you by prominently posting a notice of such changes here or on our home page.
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