| The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act ("PIPEDA") governs the collection, use and disclosure of personal information by private sector and not-for-profit organizations in the course of commercial activities.
ROME READER ("We", "our", "us") respects your right to privacy. We protect your personal information and adhere to all legislative requirements with respect to protecting privacy.
Personal information includes, but is not limited to, your name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address, etc,. We do not rent, sell or trade our mailing lists.
Purpose for the Collection of Personal Information
We use personal information to keep you informed and up-to-date on activities of the organization including mailing list, customer support, and newsletters. We may also request demographic information from you.
Collection of Information
a) When a user subscribes to ROME READER we may collect some (or all) of the following personal information:
- Company Name
- Full Name
- Email Address
- Address
- City
- Phone
- Fax
- State / Province
- Zip / Postal Code
- Country
b) When submitting a comment by email to the ROME READER general mailbox info@arkipelago.com the following personal information:
c) ROME READER also collects non-personally identifiable information that becomes available as a result of the user's visit to the ROME READER website. This information includes some (or all) of the following:
- The user's IP Address (A number automatically assigned to your computer when you visit the website. Our server logs the user's IP address.)
- The user's Internet Service Provider (ISP)
- The user's Web browser.
- Non-personal information about a user's visiting habits MAY also be automatically collect through the use of "cookies". Cookies are computer files that are placed in a user's hard drive to remember any preferences the user may have when surfing the web. They can also tell us how often particular pages are visited.
Use Personal Information
Your personal information is not shared to sold to third parties. If we intend to collect, use or disclose your personal information for any reason other than one of those described in this privacy policy, the purpose of that collection, use or disclosure will usually be described to you in advanced and you will be given an opportunity to refuse or revoke your consent.
Storage and Safeguarding of Personal Information
Personal information is stored in our database and in hard copy files. We will protect any personal information that you share with us. Only authoritized ROME READER personnel have access to this information.
Retention of Personal Information
Personal information will only be retained for so long as we use it or are legally required to keep it.
About Our Forums
ROME READER may feature forums (such as message boards and chat rooms) which enable our users to communicate with each other. ROME READER will try to moderate and is not responsible for the content that you or any user posts on any forum(s). All personal information you post in a forum becomes public information and may be viewed, collected and used by any visitor to the site, and may expose you to unsolicited messages. This is beyond our control. Therefore, ROME READER strongly recommends that you do not post on any forum private information about yourself or other individuals.
Termination
Without limiting the foregoing, ROME READER shall have the right to immediately terminate your access to this site in the event of any conduct by you which we, in our sole discretion, considers to be unacceptable, or in the event of any breach by you of any of these Terms of Service and/or this Privacy Policy.
Updating / Deleting your Information
When collected, ROME READER enables our users to update/correct personal information previously submitted which the user states is erroneous to the extent such activities will not compromise privacy or security interests. To update or delete your information, please go to the Log-In function and update or delete your personal information accordingly from our database. Please note that it may be impossible to delete a user's entry totally without some residual information because of backups and records of deletions.
Links
Our web site may include links to other web sites whose privacy politicies we do not control. Once you leave our servers (you can check where you are by looking at the URL in the location bar on your browser), use of any information you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the web site you are visiting. That policy may differ from ours. If you cannot find the privacy policy of any of these web sites via a link from the web site's homepage, you should contact the web site directly for more information. ROME READER is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites.
Cookies
We use cookies only as a method of tracking our web traffic statistics and as such cannot track the personal information or web habits of any individual who visits our site. We do not use or share information transferred through cookies with third parties for marketing or other purposes.
If you have any questions or concerns about these practices or the ROME READER web site you can contact us at info@arkipelago.com or mail us at the following address:
Arkipelago
260 King Street East
Suite B101
Toronto, Ontario
M5A 4L5
CANADA
For more information on PIPEDA, visit http://www.privcom.gc.ca/
© 2006 Arkipelago. All rights reserved.
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