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Personal
Information Protection
Private
Sector Privacy Legislation
Personal
Information Protection Policy
Lucky Marble Solutions Corp dba i3dTHEMES
Personal Information Protection Policy
At Lucky Marble Solutions Corp (i3dTHEMES), we are committed to providing our clients, customers,
members with exceptional service. As providing this service involves the
collection, use and disclosure of some personal information about our
clients, customers, members, protecting their personal information is one
of our highest priorities.
While we have
always respected our clients, customers, members privacy and safeguarded
their personal information, we have strengthened our commitment to
protecting personal information as a result of British Columbia’s
Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA). PIPA, which came into
effect on January 1, 2004, sets out the ground rules for how B.C.
businesses and not-for-profit organizations may collect, use and disclose
personal information.
We will inform our
clients, customers, members of why and how we collect, use and disclose
their personal information, obtain their consent where required, and only
handle their personal information in a manner that a reasonable person
would consider appropriate in the circumstances.
This Personal
Information Protection Policy, in compliance with PIPA, outlines the
principles and practices we will follow in protecting clients’,
customers’, members’ personal information. Our privacy commitment includes
ensuring the accuracy, confidentiality, and security of our clients’,
customers’, members’ personal information and allowing our clients,
customers, members to request access to, and correction of, their personal
information.
Scope of this Policy:
This
Personal Information Protection Policy applies to Lucky Marble Solutions Corp
(i3dTHEMES).
This
policy also applies to any service providers collecting, using or
disclosing personal information on behalf of Lucky Marble Solutions Corp
(i3dTHEMES.
Definitions
Personal
Information –means
information about an identifiable individual. Personal information does
not include contact information (described below).
Contact
information – means
information that would enable an individual to be contacted at a place of
business and includes name, position name or title, business telephone
number, business address, business email or business fax number. Contact
information is not covered by this policy or PIPA.
Privacy
Officer – means the
individual designated responsibility for ensuring that i3dTHEMES
complies with this policy and PIPA.
Policy 1 – Collecting Personal Information
1.1
Unless the purposes for collecting personal information are obvious and
the client, customer, member voluntarily provides his or her personal
information for those purposes, we will communicate the purposes for which
personal information is being collected, either orally or in writing,
before or at the time of collection.
1.2
We will only collect client, customer, member information that is
necessary to fulfill the following purposes:
- To
verify identity (when requesting login information to access files we
may collect phone number or city, state location);
- To
verify creditworthiness (if an order that is placed is deemed
suspicious, we may try to contact a home phone number if provided);
- To
open and manage an account;
- To
deliver requested products and services
(communication with the user is required to send/receive
products/services)
- To
send out association membership information;
- To
ensure a high standard of service to our clients;
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- Policy
2 – Consent
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2.1
We will obtain client, customer, member consent to collect, use or
disclose personal information (except where, as noted below, we are
authorized to do so without consent).
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2.2
Consent can be provided orally, in writing, or electronically or it can be implied where the purpose
for collecting using or disclosing the personal information would be
considered obvious and the client, customer, member voluntarily provides
personal information for that purpose.
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2.3
Consent may also be implied where a client, customer, member is given
notice and a reasonable opportunity to opt-out of his or her personal
information being used for mail-outs, the marketing of new services or
products, fundraising and the client, customer, member does not opt-out.
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2.4
Subject to certain exceptions (e.g., the personal information is
necessary to provide the service or product, or the withdrawal of
consent would frustrate the performance of a legal obligation), clients,
customers, members can withhold or withdraw their consent for i3dTHEMES to use their personal information in certain ways. A
client’s, customer’s, member’s decision to withhold or withdraw their
consent to certain uses of personal information may restrict our ability
to provide a particular service or product. If so, we will explain the
situation to assist the client, customer, member in making the decision.
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2.5
We may collect, use or disclose personal information without the
client’s, customer’s, member’s knowledge or consent in the following
limited circumstances:
- When
the personal information is available from a public source (e.g., a
telephone directory);
- For
the purposes of collecting a debt;
- To
protect ourselves from fraud;
- To
investigate an anticipated breach of an agreement or a contravention of
law
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Policy
3 – Using and Disclosing Personal Information
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3.1
We will only use or disclose client, customer, member personal
information where necessary to fulfill the purposes identified at the
time of collection [or for a purpose reasonably related to those
purposes such as:
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- To
conduct client, customer, member surveys in order to enhance the
provision of our services;
- To
contact our clients directly about products and services that may be of
interest;
3.2
We will not use or disclose client, customer, member personal information
for any additional purpose unless we obtain consent to do so.
3.3 We will not sell client, customer, member lists or personal
information to other parties.
Policy
4 – Retaining Personal Information
4.1
If we use client, customer, member personal information to make a decision
that directly affects the client, customer, member, we will retain that
personal information for at least one year so that the client, customer,
member has a reasonable opportunity to request access to it.
4.2
Subject to policy 4.1, we will retain client, customer, member personal
information only as long as necessary to fulfill the identified purposes
or a legal or business purpose.
Policy
5 – Ensuring Accuracy of Personal Information
5.1
We will make reasonable efforts to ensure that client, customer, member
personal information is accurate and complete where it may be used to make
a decision about the client, customer, member or disclosed to another
organization.
5.2
Clients, Customers, Members may request correction to their personal
information in order to ensure its accuracy and completeness. A request to
correct personal information must be made in writing and provide
sufficient detail to identify the personal information and the correction
being sought.
5.3
If the personal information is demonstrated to be inaccurate or
incomplete, we will correct the information as required and send the
corrected information to any organization to which we disclosed the
personal information in the previous year. If the correction is not made,
we will note the clients’, customers’, members’ correction request in the
file.
Policy
6 – Securing Personal Information
6.1
We are committed to ensuring the security of client, customer, member
personal information in order to protect it from unauthorized access,
collection, use, disclosure, copying, modification or disposal or similar
risks.
6.2
The following security measures will be followed to ensure that client,
customer, member personal information is appropriately protected:
the use of user IDs, passwords,
encryption, firewalls;
restricting employee access to personal information
as appropriate (i.e., only those that need to know will have access;
contractually requiring any service providers to provide comparable
security measures.
6.3 We will use appropriate security measures when destroying client’s,
customer’s, member’s personal information such as deleting electronically stored information.
6.4
We will continually review and update our security policies and controls
as technology changes to ensure ongoing personal information security.
Policy
7 – Providing Clients, Customers, Members Access to Personal
Information
7.1
Clients, Customers, Members have a right to access their personal
information, subject to limited exceptions.
7.2 A request to access personal information must be made in writing and
provide sufficient detail to identify the personal information being
sought.
7.3
Upon request, we will also tell clients, customers, members how we use
their personal information and to whom it has been disclosed if
applicable.
7.4
We will make the requested information available within 30 business days,
or provide written notice of an extension where additional time is
required to fulfill the request.
7.5
A minimal fee may be charged for providing access to personal information.
Where a fee may apply, we will inform the client, customer, member of the
cost and request further direction from the client, customer, member on
whether or not we should proceed with the request.
7.6
If a request is refused in full or in part, we will notify the client,
customer, member in writing, providing the reasons for refusal and the
recourse available to the client, customer, member.
Policy
8 – Questions and Complaints: The Role of the Privacy Officer or
designated individual
8.1
The Privacy Officer or designated individual is
responsible for ensuring i3dTHEMES compliance with this
policy and the Personal Information Protection Act.
8.2
Clients, Customers, Members should direct any complaints, concerns or
questions regarding i3dTHEMES’s compliance in writing to the
Privacy Officer. If the Privacy Officer is unable to resolve the concern,
the client, customer, member may also write to the Information and Privacy
Commissioner of British Columbia.
Contact information for i3dTHEMES Privacy Officer or
designated individual:
Brandon Devnich
C1-100 Aldersmith Pl.
Victoria, BC V9A 7M8
CANADA
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