Thank you for visiting us online at www.stafford.ca. We are committed to protecting your privacy, and it is important for us to outline the way in which we will use the information that you provide. This policy also explains how you can ask questions, review, and update your personal information. Please refer to our privacy policy:
Introduction
Stafford and its affiliates (referred to herein, collectively, as “Stafford”, “our”, “us” or “we”) have created the Privacy Policy to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. This Privacy Policy outlines Stafford’s procedures and practices regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information in connection with its website (the ‘Website’). In this Privacy Policy, “personal information” means information about an identifiable individual, as further defined under applicable Canadian laws, and “including” and its derivatives means “including without limitation”.
Your Consent
By using this Website, you consent to the terms of our Privacy Policy and our processing of Personal Information for the purposes given below. If you have objections to the Privacy Policy, you should not access or use this site.
Your consent for disclosure of your information may be expressed or implied and given in writing by using or not using a check-off box electronically, orally, or by your conduct, such as use of the website.
Modifications
We reserve the right, in our sole and absolute discretion, to modify all or any portion of the Website, and/or this Privacy Policy, at any time without further notice and without incurring any liability or obligation. Your continued access to and/or use of the Website after any such changes constitutes your acceptance of, and agreement to be legally bound by, this Privacy Policy, as revised. It is your sole responsibility to regularly check the Website to determine if there have been any changes to this Privacy Policy and to review such changes.
Privacy Policy
Stafford only collects information that is necessary to serve your interests, provide you with services and to monitor site traffic and trends. As part of our established relationship with you, we will use and retain your personal information for the following purposes:
- To store and process to better understand your needs.
- To store and process to better understand how we can improve our products and services.
- To contact you.
We do not know and do not intend to sell, rent, or market personal data about you to third parties.
Information Protection
We implement a variety of security measures to help maintain the safety of your personal information when you enter, submit, or access your personal information, including physical, organizational, and technological protections. After an inquiry, your private information (emails, phone numbers, etc.) will not be stored on our servers without your express consent.
Personal information may only be accessed by persons within our organization, or our third-party service providers, who require such access to carry out the purposes indicated above, or such other purposes as may be permitted or required by the applicable law.
Although we have taken measures to help protect our Website, computer systems, and any personal information that we have collected from unauthorized use, access, disclosure, misuse, alteration, or destruction, no security measures can provide absolute protection. We cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you provide to us.
Third-Party Links
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer links to third-party websites, products, or services on our Website. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our Website and welcome any feedback about these third-party sites. Any links from this Website to other websites, or references to products, services, or publications other than those of Stafford, do not imply the endorsement or approval of such websites, products, services, or publications by Stafford.
Our Employees’ Responsibility
Our employees are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of all personal information to which they have access. Our employees are informed about our policies for protecting personal information and reinforce the importance of complying with them.
Your Role
You also have a role in protecting the security of your information; for example, you should guard your password and not permit unauthorized use of your account.
Confidentiality
The internet is not a secure means of communication and the privacy, integrity, or authenticity of any communication over the internet between you and Stafford cannot be ensured. Stafford is not responsible for any damages you may suffer if you communicate confidential information over the Internet or if Stafford communicates such information to you at your request.
Additionally, any unprotected email communication over the Internet is not confidential, may be intercepted or lost, and is subject to possible alteration. Stafford is not responsible for and will not be liable to you or anyone else for any damages in connection with an email sent by you to Stafford or an email sent by Stafford to you at your request.
Access and Rectification
You have a right to request access to your personal information and to request a correction to it if you believe it is inaccurate. If you have submitted personal information to Stafford and would like to have access to it, or if you would like to have it removed or corrected, please contact us using the contact information provided below. We will use reasonable efforts to comply with your request; however, in some cases, we may not be able to allow you to access certain personal information in certain circumstances, for example, if it contains personal information of other persons, or for legal reasons. In such cases, we will provide you with a reasonable explanation of why it is not possible to grant access to your personal information.
Privacy Policy Only
This privacy policy applies only to information collected through our Website and not to information collected offline.
Jurisdiction
The site will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Province of Ontario and the laws of Canada applicable therein, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of laws.
How to Contact Us
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, any personal information you have submitted to us, or if you would like to access personal information that you have already provided to us so that you can correct or update it, or request that it be deleted; or to report any violation of this Privacy Policy; please advise us by contacting us by email at info@stafford.ca.
