At McDougall Minerals, we are committed to maintaining the privacy and security of personal information we may collect from time to time.
This Privacy Policy explains how McDougall Minerals may collect, use and disclose your personal information.
1. Personal Information We Collect and How We Use It
You are under no obligation when you visit www.mcdougallminerals.com (our “Website”) to provide any personal information to McDougall Minerals, however you may not be able to take advantage of some of our Website’s features without providing some personal information. We may receive and store certain types of information when you interact with our Website. For example, like many web sites, our Website uses “cookies,” and we obtain certain types of information when your Web browser accesses our Website.
We may also collect personal information about you when we interact with you outside of our Website. For example, when you communicate with us, we will collect the personal information necessary to process your request or respond to you. If we collect personal information from or about you, we will only use such personal information for the following purposes:
- to improve your experience with our Website or our services to you generally;
- to communicate with you about our services, products or your transactions with us;
- to respond to any of your communications;
- to process and administer any transaction that you have entered into with us;
- to comply with legal and governmental requirements; and
- to offer you targeted products and services which we believe will be of interest to you.
If we intend to use your personal information for any purpose not specifically identified above, unless such purpose is self evident at the time you have provided your personal information, we will inform you of the purpose and, to the extent possible, give you options about how the personal information that you provide us may be used.
We will keep your personal information as accurate, complete and up-to-date as necessary for the purposes for which it is to be used. To update or amend your personal information, please contact us as described below.
2. Disclosure of Your Personal Information
Subject to the circumstance described below, we do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to third parties. However, we may share personal information with our affiliates and service providers solely for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
Any third party service providers will be subject to contractual or other appropriate means to ensure compliance with this Privacy Policy and all applicable privacy laws. We may use third party service providers located outside of Canada, including in the United States. Please contact us as described below if you would like to obtain information about our practices with non-Canadian service providers.
In the event that we, or any of our subsidiaries or business units, or any of our assets, are acquired by one or more third parties as a result of an acquisition, merger, sale, reorganization, consolidation or liquidation, your personal information may be one of the transferred assets. The entity acquiring your personal information shall be required to only use and disclose your personal information in compliance with this Privacy Policy.
3. Legal Disclosure
Please note that McDougall Minerals will fully cooperate with any court order or other legal process and will provide your personal information to the extent required in any legal proceeding. We also release account and other personal information when we believe such release is appropriate to protect us from fraud or other harm, to enforce our contractual rights against you or to otherwise protect our rights, property or safety of us, our Website users or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
4. Security
We use industry recognized physical, technical and organizational security safeguards to protect the personally identifiable information that you have provided to us from loss, misuse and unauthorized access and alteration.
5. Links to Other Sites
We may add external links to other related web sites. We will certainly try to link to web sites that maintain the same high regard for privacy on the Internet as we do; however, we are not responsible for the content that may be on such linked sites. Additionally, the existence of any external link does not suggest that McDougall Minerals endorses the linked company, product or service.
6. Privacy Policy Changes
While your personal information will only be used and disclosed for the purposes identified at the time of collection or described in this Privacy Policy at the time of collection, we may change this policy at any time and from time to time. Any such change may impact how we may use and disclose any personal information collected following such change, so please review this policy periodically. We retain the flexibility to update this policy.
7. Contacting us and Accessing your Personal Information
If you wish to contact us about our privacy practices, wish to access or amend your personal information or want to find additional information about the policies and practices we utilize for services providers which are located outside of Canada, please contact us – the best way is to contact me via email or the Contact Us page.
