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Ten Privacy Principles
Whizdom International Freight Services Inc. is committed to maintaining
the accuracy, confidentiality, and security of your personal information.
As part of this commitment, the following Ten Privacy Principles
govern our actions as they relate to the use of customer information.
The principles have been built upon the values set by the Canadian
Standards Association's Model Code for the Protection of Personal
Information and Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic
Documents Act.
Principle 1 - Accountability
Principle 2 - Identifying Purposes
Principle 3 - Consent
Principle 4 - Limiting Collection
Principle 5 - Limiting Use, Disclosure and Retention
Principle 6 - Accuracy
Principle 7 - Safeguarding Customer Information
Principle 8 - Openness
Principle 9 - Customer Access
Principle 10 - Handling Customer Complaints and Suggestions
Principle
1 - Accountability
Whizdom International Freight Services Inc. is responsible for maintaining
and protecting the personal information under its control. Whizdom
International Freight Services Inc. has designated an individual
who is accountable for compliance with the Ten Privacy Principles.
Principle 2 - Identifying
Purposes
The purposes for which personal information is collected will be
identified before or at the time the information is collected.
Principle 3 - Consent
Knowledge and consent are required for the collection, use or disclosure
of personal information except where required or permitted by law.
Principle 4 - Limiting Collection
The personal information collected must be limited to those details
necessary for the purposes identified by Whizdom International Freight
Services Inc.
Principle 5 - Limiting Use,
Disclosure and Retention
Personal information may only be used or disclosed for the purpose
for which it was collected unless you have otherwise consented,
or when it is required or permitted by law. Personal information
may only be retained for the period of time required to fulfill
the purpose for which it was collected or as required by law.
Principle 6 - Accuracy
Personal information must be maintained in as accurate, complete
and up-to-date form as is necessary to fulfill the purposes for
which it is to be used.
Principle 7 - Safeguarding
Customer Information
Personal information must be protected by security safeguards that
are appropriate to the sensitivity level of the information.
Principle 8 - Openness
Whizdom International Freight Services Inc. will make information
available to our customers concerning the policies and practices
that apply to the management of their personal information.
Principle 9 - Customer Access
Upon request, a customer shall be informed of the existence, use
and disclosure of their personal information, and shall be given
access to it. Customers may verify the accuracy and completeness
of their personal information, and may request that it be amended,
if appropriate.
Principle 10 - Handling
Customer Complaints and Suggestions
Customers may direct any questions or enquiries with respect to
the privacy principles outlined above or about our practices by
contacting:
Whizdom International Freight Services Inc. Privacy
Officer
820 Bradford Street
Winnipeg, MB
R3H 0N5
Phone: (204) 633-9400
Fax: (204) 694-2777
Email: privacy@whizdominternational.com
If you have questions or concerns regarding
our organization's privacy policy and practices, you should first
contact Whizdom International Freight Services Inc. directly.
If you do not receive acknowledgment of your inquiry or your inquiry
has not been satisfactorily addressed, you should then contact the
Privacy Commissioner's Office at http://www.privcom.gc.ca
(or 112 Kent Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 1H3), who will then serve
as a liaison with Whizdom International Freight Services Inc. to resolve
your concerns.
What information does Whizdom International
Freight Services Inc. collect? How does Whizdom International Freight
Services Inc. collect this information, and how is it used?
- We collect personal information such as names, addresses, e-mail
addresses and some demographic information when submitted by you
through our customer registration process, surveys and/or other
information gathering processes.
- Your e-mail address is used only to send you information you've
requested (such as electronic newsletters), to administer surveys,
and/or to respond to communications from you. Demographic information
is only used in summary form to assist us in identifying our audiences
and their interests, or to help us develop conclusions about survey
results. We do not use this information for other purposes.
- We also use "cookies," or small pieces of information
that we store on users' computers (see definition below), to recognize
returning visitors and monitor traffic through our site. Cookies
identify you as a unique visitor to our site, enabling us to effectively
aggregate site usage statistics to improve our Web site and make
it more user-friendly.
- If, at any time, you want to correct, update or delete any
of the information we have collected from you, or you do not want
to receive any further information from us, let us know by contacting
us at privacy@whizdominternational.com.
Please be sure to include in your message the means by which such
information was submitted (e.g. our registration or other information-gathering
processes) and the e-mail address you used so that we can verify
your request.
What is a "cookie"?
A cookie is a small file containing an ID number that is stored on
users' computers. It is transferred to your hard drive by a Web server,
and can only be read by that server. A cookie will not transmit information
that you did not provide to us. Cookies are used, for example, to
help identify unique visitors to a Web site and/or to help the user
access their own data from a Web server data base.
Does Whizdom International Freight Services
Inc. distribute individually identifiable information that it gathers
to third parties?
No, we do not sell, trade, or disclose to third parties any customer
identifiable information.
How does Whizdom International Freight
Services Inc. store my personally identifiable information?
Whizdom International Freight Services Inc. stores information in
secure databases which can be accessed only by password.
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