Privacy Policy
Eyes Wide Open Living is committed to protecting your privacy and
safeguarding your personal, information. We support a general policy
of openness about how we collect, use, disclose and protect your personal
information.
The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you of Eyes Wide Open
Living practices relating to our collection, use, disclosure and protection
of your personal information. By purchasing our professional services,
you consent to our collection, use, disclosure and protection of your
personal information in accordance with specific terms and conditions.
The specific terms and conditions are listed below.
This Privacy Policy is designed to meet the compliance standards established
by Canada's Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).
PIPEDA is based on the Ten Principles established by the Canadian Standards
Association's Model Code for the Protection of Personal Information,
which principles were recognized as a Canadian standard in 1996, and
address the ways in which organizations should collect, use and disclose
personal information.
Our Privacy Policy explains how you can contact us if you have a question
about, want to make a change to, or delete, any personal information
that Eyes Wide Open Living may retain about you.
Definition of Personal Information
"Personal information" means any information about an identifiable
individual, other than that individual's name, title, business address
or telephone number (often called, "business card" or "phone
book" information). Personal information includes age, gender,
marital status, health status, financial status, home address, etc.
Such information includes information specifically related to you, our
client, or personal information of others, such as your employees or
clients, that we may encounter in the course of providing our professional
services to you.
What Personal Information Do We Collect?
The information we collect, which may include personal information,
may involve at least some of the following:
- Contact information (such as name, addresses, email address, telephone
numbers)
How Do We Use Your Personal Information?
We use your personal information to:
- Provide you with timely and reliable professional services;
- Do all the things necessary to administer those services;
- Research, develop, manage, protect and improve those services;
- Develop and maintain our relationship with you and communicate with
you;
- Advise you about new products and services that may be of interest
to you; and
- Invoice and collect payment for professional services provided by
us to you.
When Do We Disclose Your Personal Information?
At Eyes Wide Open Living, we are accountable for your personal information.
We will not sell, license, trade or rent your personal information to
others.
In terms of our accountability to you:
- We are responsible for the protection of the personal information
you disclose to Eyes Wide Open Living;
- We have appointed a Privacy Officer, to be accountable for our compliance
with our Privacy Policy;
- With your consent, we may share your personal information with third
parties engaged to assist us in providing the products and services
to you.
These service providers will sign Eyes Wide Open Living Confidentiality
Agreements and will be prohibited from using your personal information
for any purpose other than to provide a specified service to you as
a client of Eyes Wide Open Living. They will be required to protect
the personal information disclosed by Eyes Wide Open Living as we ourselves
would do, and to comply with the general privacy principles described
in this Privacy Policy;
- We reserve the right to disclose personal information to a third party
if a law, regulation, regulatory body, search warrant, subpoena or court
order legally requires or authorizes us to do so; and
Your Knowledge and Consent
Eyes wide Open Living collects personal information about you only when
you voluntarily provide it. Typically, we will seek your consent for
the use or disclosure of your personal information when we collect it.
In certain circumstances, your consent may be sought after the information
has been collected but before we use it (for example, when we want to
use information for a purpose not previously identified).
The form of consent that we seek, including whether it is express or
implied, will largely depend on the sensitivity of the personal information
and the reasonable expectations you might have in the circumstances.
You may withdraw your consent at any time, subject to legal or contractual
restrictions and reasonable notice. Should you wish to do so, please
contact us via email at contact@EWOLiving.com.
Eyes Wide Open Living will inform you of the implications of your withdrawing your consent.
We will not, as a condition of the supply of our professional services
or products, require you to consent to the collection, use, disclosure
or protection of information beyond that which is required to fulfill
the specified and legitimate purposes for which the information is being
collected.
Use or Disclosure of Your Personal Information for Marketing Purposes
Eyes Wide Open Living will never disclose your personal information
to a third party marketing firm. However, within the boundaries of our
regulatory environment, from time to time Eyes Wide Open Living may
make use of your personal information, with great discretion, to communicate
and market our services and products to you. You can choose not to receive
any invitations or direct mail from us by indicating your preference
as outlined below under Contact Us.
Cookies
When you visit our Web site www.EWOLiving.com please note that cookies
are not currently used. "Cookies" are small text files placed
on your hard drive that assist in providing a more customized Web site
experience. For example, a cookie can be used to store registration
information in an area of the Web site so that a user does not need
to re-enter it on subsequent visits to that area. It is Eyes Wide Open
Living Internet Privacy Policy to use cookies only when we deem it necessary
to make navigation of our Web sites easier for our visitors and to facilitate
efficient registration procedures.
If you are concerned about cookies, most browsers permit individuals
to decline cookies. In most cases, a visitor may refuse a cookie and
still fully navigate our Web sites.
In order to properly manage our Web site, we may anonymously log information
on our operational systems, and identify categories of visitors by items
such as domains and browser types. These statistics are reported in
the aggregate to our webmasters. This is to ensure that our Web site
presents the best web experience for visitors and is an effective information
resource.
Links to Third Party Web Sites
There are several places throughout www.EWOLiving.com that may link
to other Web sites that do not operate under Eyes Wide Open Living Internet
Privacy Policy. When you link to other Web sites, Eyes Wide Open Living
Web and privacy policies no longer apply. We encourage you to review
each site's Privacy Policy before you disclose any personally identifiable
information.
How We Protect Your Personal Information
Eyes Wide Open Living will take all commercially reasonable steps to
ensure that your personal information in our possession, collected from
you, is protected against loss and unauthorized access. This protection
applies to information stored in both electronic and hard copy form.
Access to your personal information will be restricted to selected employees
or representatives. In addition, Eyes Wide Open Living will employ generally
accepted information security techniques, such as firewalls, access
control procedures and cryptography, to protect personal information
against loss and unauthorized access.
Retention of Your Personal Information
Eyes Wide Open Living will retain your personal information for as long
as necessary to fulfill the purpose(s) for which it was collected and
to comply with applicable laws and regulations. Your consent to such
purposes(s) will remain valid after termination of our relationship
with you.
Exceptions, Qualifications and Changes to this Privacy Policy
Although not listed in detail in this Privacy Policy, the firm will
rely on any exceptions or qualifications that are set out in the applicable
legislation as permitted by law.
Eyes Wide Open Living reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy
at anytime without notice. The Privacy Policy posted at anytime or from
time to time via the Web site www.EWOLiving.com shall be deemed to be
the Privacy Policy then in effect.
Correcting or Updating Your Information
You can help us maintain the accuracy of your personal information by
notifying us of any changes to your information. To correct or update
your personal information, you may contact Eyes Wide Open Living by
email at: contact@EWOLiving.com.
Contact Us
Should you have any questions about Eyes Wide Open Living Privacy Policy
or should you have reason to believe that Eyes Wide Open Living may
have failed to adhere to this Privacy Policy, you may contact us by
email at: contact@EWOLiving.com.
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