Privacy Policy
Protecting your privacy is important to us, Canadian Registry Services..
This Policy explains how we collect, use and disclose the personal and
non-personal information you may provide while using our website and the
services its provides (collectively, the "Services").
Your Consent
- By using our Website or Services, you signify your consent to the collection,
use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this Policy
and any applicable service agreement you have with us.
If you do not consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal
information in accordance with this Policy and the Services Agreements, you may
not use our Website or Services.
Information Automatically Collected
- Non-Personal Information:Our Website
automatically collects certain non-personal information regarding Website users,
such as the date and time they access the Website, the Internet address of the
website from which they linked directly to the Website, the browser or operating
system they are using, and the Website pages read and content accessed or
downloaded. This non-personal information is used for system administration
purposes and to improve Our Website. Non-personal information may be disclosed
to other persons and permanently retained for future use. If non-personal
information is combined with personal information, then the non-personal
information will be treated as personal information.
- Cookies:Our Website may use "cookies", a technology
that installs a small amount of information on a Website user's computer to
permit the Website to recognize future visits using that computer. Cookies
enhance the convenience and use of Our Website. For example, the information
provided through cookies is used to recognize you as a previous user of the
Website (so you do not have to enter your personal information every time),
offer personalized web page content and information for your use, and otherwise
facilitate your Website experience. You may choose to decline cookies if your
browser permits, but doing so may affect your ability to access or use certain
features of Our Website.
Personal Information You Specifically Provide
- Your Personal Information:During your use of the
Websites or the Services, you may be asked to voluntarily provide personal
information (such as your personal name, email address, postal address,
telephone number, fax number, and credit card details, login and password
information). If you choose not to provide certain requested personal
information, you will not be able to use certain features of Our Website or use
certain Services.
- Use of Your Personal Information:Our
Website uses your personal information for the following purposes and as
otherwise permitted by applicable law: (a) to contact and correspond with you
regarding Our Website and the Services; (b) to bill you for the services
requested by you and otherwise to administer your account; (c) to administer the
Websites and the Services; and (d) as reasonably required by the rules,
policies, procedures, and guidelines adopted and amended by domain name
registration authorities from time to time. Our Website
may develop a confidential profile for you, which will be used to provide
services to you and facilitate your use of Our Website. Additionally, each
member of the Website may keep a record of all communications with you.
- Emails and Newsletters:From time to time, members of
the Website may send to you email or other communications containing
information about the Website, the Services, Our Website, and other
matters they believe may interest you. You may also sign up to receive
newsletters from the Website. At any time, you may ask the Website
to stop sending you email, newsletters and other information by sending your
request to our Priivacy Officer at the email address noted below. From
time to time, including as described in the Services Agreements, the members of
the Website may also send to you email containing important information
regarding our Website or Services, which you may not opt out of receiving.
- Disclosure of Your Personal Information by CRSI.ca:Subject
to the provisions of any applicable Services Agreement, Our
Website may disclose your personal information in the following
circumstances and as otherwise permitted by applicable law: (a) Authorized Disclosure:Our Website
may disclose your personal information as permitted by an applicable Services
Agreement.
(b) Disclosure to Authorizing Persons: If you use the
Websites or the Services on behalf of another person or organization, such as
your employer or a domain name registrant (an "Authorizing Person")
or if you identify your organization (an "Organization") when
you subscribe for an account, Our Website may provide your
personal information to your Authorizing Person or Organization. We have no control over, and no responsibility or liability for, the use of
your personal information by your Authorizing Person or Organization, and that
use is not subject to this Policy. If you do not wish your personal information
to be disclosed to an Authorizing Person or Organization, you should not
reference that Authorizing Person or Organization in your account application
form and you will not be permitted to use our Website or Services on behalf
of that Authorizing Person or Organization.
(c) Disclosure to Affiliates, Agents, Suppliers and Service
Providers:Our Website may provide your personal
information to their affiliates, agents, suppliers and service providers for use
in connection with matters relating to your use of Our Website and the Services
or the provision of services to you. The Website requires its affiliates,
agents, suppliers and service providers to agree to use your personal
information only for the purposes for which it is provided to them, and to
protect the privacy of your personal information in a manner that is consistent
with this Policy. If at any time you do not wish your personal information to be
disclosed to certain affiliates, agents, suppliers, service providers, or any
other persons, you may send your request to the our Privacy Officer at the
email address noted below; however, this may affect your ability to use the
Websites or the Services.
(d) Disclosure to Registration Authorities and Public
Directories:Our Website may disclose your personal
information as reasonably required by the rules, policies, procedures, and
guidelines (including domain name dispute policies and rules) adopted and
amended by domain name registration authorities (such as the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers and the Canadian Internet
Registration Authority) from time to time, including making certain of your
personal information publicly available on searchable databases (including WHOIS
databases) relating to domain name registrations. The information disclosed for
those purposes (not all of which is personal information) includes the domain
names sought to be or registered by you; the names, postal addresses, email
addresses, voice telephone numbers and fax numbers of the technical and
administrative contacts for the registered domain names; the full hostnames and
internet protocol (IP) addresses of at least two nameserver hosts (one primary
and at least one secondary) for each registered domain names; the corresponding
names of those nameservers; the original creation date of the registration; and
the date on which the registration expires. The Website has no control
over, and no responsibility or liability for, the use or disclosure of your
personal information disclosed to comply with the rules, policies, procedures,
and guidelines of domain name registration authorities, and that use and
disclosure is not subject to this Policy.
(e) Disclosure in Business Transfers: Each member of
the Website may be involved in the sale or transfer of some or all of
their businesses. As part of a sale or transfer, Our Website may disclose your personal information to the acquiring organization, but
will require the acquiring organization to agree to protect the privacy of your
personal information in a manner that is consistent with this Policy.
(f) Disclosure for Law Enforcement Purposes: Each
member of the Website may disclose your personal information if the
disclosure is required by law (including to a government institution or agency
that has asserted its lawful authority to obtain the information, or to comply
with a subpoena or warrant or an order made by a court, person or body with
jurisdiction to compel the production of information, or to comply with court
rules regarding the production of records and information), to its legal
counsel, or where they have reasonable grounds to believe the information could
be useful in the investigation of unlawful activity. The Website has no
control over, or liability for, those persons' use and disclosure of your
personal information, and that use and disclosure is not subject to this Policy.
- Depersonalized Information:Our Website may use personal information to create non-personal information regarding
the use of the Website and the Services. Our Website may
then disclose that non-personal information to other persons and permanently
retain that non-personal information for future use.
- Business Contact Information: To the extent permitted
by law, the provisions of this Policy concerning "personal information" do not
apply to information (such as your personal name, position or title, business
address, business telephone number, business fax number and business email
address) that enables you to be contacted at a place of business.
- Location of Information:The Website will store
and process your personal information in Vancouver, Canada. However, the
disclosure of your information in accordance with this Policy and applicable law
may result in your personal information being transferred outside of Canada,
including to the United States. The laws of other countries regarding the
collection, use, and disclosure of personal information may be different from
the laws of Canada.
- Securing Your Information:The Website employs
reasonable security safeguards appropriate to the sensitivity of the personal
information in its possession or under its control in order to protect that
information from unauthorized access, collection, use, disclosure, modification
or similar risks. Nevertheless, security risks cannot be eliminated and the
Website cannot guarantee that your personal information will not be used
or disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Policy.
- Accessing Your Personal Information: You may request
access to your personal information and information about CRSI.ca's
collection, use and disclosure of that information by sending your request to
our Privacy Officer at one of the addresses noted below. Subject to
certain exceptions and limitations prescribed by applicable law, you will be
given reasonable access to your personal information, and will be entitled to
challenge the accuracy and completeness of the information and to have it
amended as appropriate. You can help the Website maintain the accuracy of
your information by notifying the Website of any changes to your personal
information.
Other Matters
- Other Websites: Our Website may contain links to
other websites or Internet resources. When you click on one of those links you
are contacting another website. The Website has no control over, and no
responsibility or liability for, other websites or their collection, use and
disclosure of your personal information.
- Former Users: If you cease using Our Website and the
Services, or your permission to use Our Website and the Services is terminated,
the Website may continue to use and disclose your personal information in
accordance with this Policy as amended from time to time.
- Services Agreements: The Services Agreements contain
important provisions, including provisions disclaiming, limiting, or excluding
the liability of the Website for your use of Our Website and the
Services and provisions determining the applicable law and exclusive
jurisdiction for the resolution of any disputes regarding your use of the
Websites and the Services. Each of those provisions applies to any disputes that
may arise in relation to this Policy and the collection, use and disclosure of
your personal information, and are of the same force and effect as if they had
been reproduced directly in this Policy.
- Policy Changes: To accommodate changes in Our Website
and the Services, changing technology, and legal developments, this Policy may
be changed from time to time in the Website's discretion and without any
prior notice or liability to you or any other person. The Website's
collection, use and disclosure of your personal information will be governed by
the version of this Policy in effect at that time. New versions of the Policy
will be posted on the Website and are available upon request from the Our Website.
Your continued dealings with the Website or your use of the
Websites or the Services subsequent to any changes to this Policy will signify
your consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information
in accordance with the changed Policy. Accordingly, when you use Our Website or
the Services you should check the date of this Policy and review any changes
since the last version. You should also bookmark this page and periodically
review this Policy to ensure that you are familiar with the most current
version.
- Contacting our Privacy Officer:The CRSI
Privacy Officer may be contacted by the following methods: (a) by telephone at
(416) 303.5851, (b) by email at admin@crsi.ca
- English Language: The parties have expressly requested
and required that this Policy and all other related documents be drawn up in the
English language. Les parties conviennent et exigent expressement que ce
Politique et tous les documents qui s'y rapportent soient rédigés en anglais.
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