PRIVACY POLICY Manufacturers Health and Safety Association ("MHSA") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy sets out the MHSA policy with respect to our collection, use and disclosure of personal information. Contact Information MHSA welcomes your comments regarding this Privacy Policy. If you believe that we have not adhered to this Policy, please contact us by e-mail at elaine@mhsa.ab.ca, and we will use reasonable commercial efforts to address any concerns that you may have. Collection of Personal Information In your dealings with MHSA you may provide MHSA with personal information. Personal information for your purposes of this Privacy Policy means information that can be used to personally identify you or is associated with any such information, but does not include the name, title or business address or telephone number of an employee of an organization. Cookies We also may use "cookies" from time to time to help personalize your online experience with us. A cookie is a small text file that is stored on your computer to help us make your visit to our site more "user friendly". Cookies provide us with information about your use of the site that can help us improve the site and your experience with it. Any personal information collected about you through cookies will be treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you have set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you should receive a warning message with each cookie. You may refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser, however you should be aware that our site like most other popular sites may not work well with "cookies disabled". Use and Disclosure of Personal Information Except as part of the sale of all or substantially all of the assets of MHSA, MHSA will not sell, trade or rent your personal information to any third part unless we have your consent. We will only use and/or disclose personal information in order to: 1. understand and meet your needs and preferences; 2. to help us develop, deliver and improve our products, services, content and advertising; 3. to keep you posted on MHSA's latest product announcements, software updates and upcoming events; 4. manage and develop our business and operations; 5. send you important notices, such as communications about changes to our terms, conditions and policies; and 6. meet legal and regulatory requirements. We also reserve the right to use, disclose, sell, trade or rent data aggregated provided that the data is not linked to any specific individual. Except where we are required by law to disclose personal information, we will require any person to whom we provide your personal information to agree to comply with our then current Privacy Policy. We will take reasonable commercial efforts to ensure that they comply with our Privacy Policy, however we will have no liability to you if any person fails to do so. Security of Your Personal Information MHSA takes precautions, including administrative, technical, and physical measures to safeguard your personal information against loss, theft, and misuses, as well as against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. Changes to this Privacy Policy MHSA will occasionally update this Privacy Policy to reflect company and customer feedback or changes to privacy legislation. We encourage you to periodically review his Privacy Policy to be informed of how MHSA is protecting your personal information. Withdrawal of Consent Except as required by law, we will not use or disclose your personal information for any purpose for which you refuse us consent or later withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, you agree that in spite of this withdrawal we may continue to use your personal information previously provided to us to the extent that we are contractually obligated to do so and to the extent necessary to enforce any contractual obligations you may have to MHSA. You also understand that although you can use our site for some purposes without providing us with any personal information about you for some services, including those that require payment or involve an ongoing relationship with MHSA. If you refuse to provide us with the information we require or later withdraw your consent to use and disclose this information, we may no longer be able to provide you with these services. Collection and Use of Non-Personal Information MHSA may also collect non-personal information - data in a form that does not permit direct association with any specific individual. We may collect, use, transfer, and disclose non-personal information for any purpose. The following is an example of non-personal information that we collect and how we may use it: (i) we may collect information such as occupation, language, zip code, area code, unique device identifier, location and the time zone where a MHSA product is used so we can better understand customer behaviour and improve our products, services and advertising. If we combine non-personal information with personal information the combined information will be treated as personal information for as long as it remains combined. Last updated September 1, 2011