PRIVACY STATEMENT
This Is Blueprint Management Ltd. (“Blueprint”, “we” or “us”) is committed to protecting your privacy and safeguarding your personal information. The purpose of this privacy statement is to inform you about our privacy practices, including how we collect, use and disclose your personal information, with respect to our website thisisblueprint.com and all of our other websites on which this privacy statement is posted.Please review this privacy statement carefully. By submitting your personal information to us, by registering for or using any of the services we offer, by using our websites, or by voluntarily interacting with us, you consent to our collecting, using and disclosing your personal information as set out in this privacy statement, as revised from time to time.
WHAT’S IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY?
Meaning of Personal Information
Your Consent to Collection, Use and Disclosure
Personal Information We Collect
How We Use Your Personal Information
How We Share Your Personal Information
Opting Out of Communications and Remarketing
Retention of Personal Information
Information Security
Accessing and Updating Your Personal Information
International Transfer and Storage of Information
Third Party Websites and Services
Children’s Information
Privacy Statement Updates
Contact UsMeaning of Personal Information
“Personal information” means information about an identifiable individual. This information may include, but is not limited to, your name, mailing address, e-mail address and telephone number.Personal information does not include any business contact information that is solely used to communicate with you in relation to your employment, business or profession, such as your name, position name or title, work address, work telephone number, work fax number or work electronic address.Personal information also does not include information that has been anonymized or aggregated in such a way that there is no serious possibility it can be used to identify an individual, whether on its own or in combination with other information.
Your Consent to Collection, Use and Disclosure
We collect, use and disclose your personal information with your consent or as permitted or required by law. How we obtain your consent (i.e. the form we use) will depend on the circumstances, as well as the sensitivity of the information collected. Subject to applicable laws, your consent may be express or implied, depending on the circumstances and the sensitivity of the personal information in question. If you choose to provide personal information to us, we assume that you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information as outlined in this privacy statement.Typically, we will seek your consent at the time your personal information is collected. Where we want to use your personal information for a purpose not previously identified to you at the time of collection, we will seek your consent prior to our use of such information for this new purpose.You may withdraw your consent to our collection, use or disclosure of your personal information at any time by contacting us using the contact information in the “Contact Us” section below. However, before we implement the withdrawal of consent, we may require proof of your identity. In some cases, withdrawal of your consent may mean that we will no longer be able to provide certain products or services.If you provide personal information about another individual to us, it is your responsibility to obtain the consent of that individual to enable us to collect, use and disclose his or her information as described in this privacy statement.
Personal Information We Collect
The personal information we collect on our websites is generally in one or more of the following categories.Newsletters and other interactions.For individuals who sign-up on our websites to receive newsletters or other communications, we may collect your e-mail address and any other information you provide at the time of registration. If you interact with us by phone or e-mail or any other contact information provided on our websites, we may collect information from such interactions.Tracking tools. We may use common online tracking tools, such as cookies, web beacons or similar technologies, to track your preferences and activities on our websites and across third party websites. These tools may collect a variety of information, including the number of times that you access a site, the number of times that you view a particular page or other item on a site, or your username and password if you are a registered user on a site. We use these tools to make your visits to our websites more efficient, to help us better understand our website visitors and improve our websites and services, and to provide you with advertising content that we think will be of interest to you.You can control the use of cookies on your computer. Most browsers are designed to accept cookies, but they can be modified to block them. See your browser’s help files for more information. You should note, however, that without cookies some of our website’s functions may not be available.We may work with advertising partners to show you ads that we think will be of interest to you. These ads may be served on our websites or across third party websites and are based on browsing history and other information collected on our websites or across third party websites using cookies, web beacons or similar technologies. This type of advertising is sometimes referred to as “online behaviour advertising” or “remarketing”. For information on how to opt out of remarketing, please see the “Opting Out of Communications and Remarketing” section below.
How We Use Your Personal Information
We may use your personal information and other information for purposes such as:
to provide you with our products and services and to support your use of our products and services;
to contact you relating to our products and services;
to monitor and improve our products and services, and to develop new products and services;
to analyze the needs and activities of our customers to help us better serve them;
to conduct research and analysis related to our business, products and services;
to respond to inquiries and other requests;
to collect opinions and comments in regard to our products and services;
to provide you with information that we think may interest you, including in regards to our products and services; and
to investigate legal claims.We may use your personal information and other information for purposes for which we have obtained your consent, and for such other purposes as may be permitted or required by applicable law.How We Share Your Personal Information
We rely on third party services providers to perform a variety of services on our behalf, such as hosting, data storage and processing service providers, and research and analytics providers.If we provide your information to service providers, then we require that the service providers maintain the confidentiality of your personal information and keep your personal information secure. We also require that they only use your personal information for the limited purposes for which it is provided. When our service providers no longer need your personal information for those limited purposes, we require that they dispose of the personal information. In some circumstances, we may permit our service providers to retain aggregated, anonymized or statistical information that does not identify you. We do not authorize the service providers to disclose your personal information to unauthorized parties or to use your personal information for their direct marketing purposes. If you would like more information about our service providers, please contact us using the contact information in the “Contact Us” section below.Additionally, we may use and disclose your information when we believe such use or disclosure is permitted, necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce the terms of the agreements for our products and services; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates or subsidiaries; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or those of our affiliates, you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain. In addition, we may transfer your personal information and other information to a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, brands, affiliates, subsidiaries or other assets.If we otherwise intend to disclose your personal information to a third party, we will identify that third party and the purpose for the disclosure, and obtain your consent.
Opting Out of Communications and Remarketing
If you no longer want to receive marketing-related emails from us, you may opt-out of receiving marketing-related emails by clicking the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of any email you receive from us or may opt-out by contacting us directly using the contact information in the “Contact Us” section below.As described in the “Personal Information We Collect” section above, we carry out remarketing activities in conjunction with our advertising partners to serve you with ads that we think will be of interest to you. You may opt-out of our remarketing activities by using the contact information in the “Contact Us” section below.We will endeavour to respond to your opt-out request promptly, but we ask that you please allow us a reasonable time to process your request. Please note that if you opt-out from receiving marketing-related emails, we may still need to send you communications about your use of our products or services, or other matters.
Retention of Personal Information
We will use, disclose or retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which that personal information was collected and as permitted or required by law.
Information Security
We have implemented physical, organizational, contractual and technological security measures with a view to protecting your personal information and other information from loss or theft, unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification. We have taken steps to ensure that the only personnel who are granted access to your personal information are those with a business ‘need-to-know’ or whose duties reasonably require such information.Despite the measure outlined above, no method of information transmission or information storage is 100% secure or error-free, so we unfortunately cannot guarantee absolute security. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you feel that the security of any information that you provided to us has been compromised), please contact us immediately using the contact information in the “Contact Us” section below.
Accessing and Updating Your Personal Information
We will take steps to ensure that your personal information is kept as accurate, complete and up-to-date as reasonably necessary. We will not routinely update your personal information, unless such a process is necessary. We expect you, from time to time, to supply us with updates to your personal information, when required.You may make a written request to review any personal information about you that we have collected, used or disclosed, and we will provide you with any such personal information to the extent required by law. You may also challenge the accuracy or completeness of your personal information in our records. If you successfully demonstrate that your personal information in our records is inaccurate or incomplete, we will amend the personal information as required.We may require that you provide sufficient identification to fulfill your request to access or correct your personal information. Any such identifying information will be used only for this purpose.
International Transfer and Storage of Information
Your personal information may be stored and processed in any country where we have facilities or in which we engage third party service providers. As a result, your personal information may be transferred to countries outside your country of residence, which may have different data protection rules than in your country. While such information is outside of your country, it is subject to the laws of the country in which it is located, and may be subject to disclosure to the governments, courts or law enforcement or regulatory agencies of such other country, pursuant to the laws of such country.
Third Party Websites and Services
This privacy statement applies only to our websites. This privacy statement does not extend to any websites or products or services provided by third parties. We do not assume responsibility for the privacy practices of such third parties, and we encourage you to review all third party privacy policies prior to using third party websites or products or services.
Children’s Information
Our websites are not intended for children under the age of 16, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 16. Children under the age of 16 should not use our websites and should not provide us with their personal information.
Privacy Statement Updates
This privacy statement is current as of the “updated” date which appears at the top of this page. We may modify this privacy statement from time to time. When changes are made to this privacy statement they will become immediately effective when published in a revised privacy statement unless otherwise noted. We may also communicate the changes through our services or by other means. By submitting your personal information to us, by registering for or using any of the services we offer, by using our website, or by voluntarily interacting with us after we publish or communicate a notice about the changes to this privacy statement, you consent to our collecting, using and disclosing your personal information as set out in the revised privacy statement.
Contact Us
All comments, questions, concerns or complaints regarding your personal information or our privacy practices should be sent to our Privacy Officer as follows:Address:
Attention: Privacy Officer
Suite #300 – 415 West Cordova Street
Vancouver, BC V6B 1E5 CanadaBy e-mail:
Privacy @thisisblueprint.com