Canadian Bible Society
Privacy Policy
The Canadian Bible Society is committed to preserving and safeguarding your right to privacy. The Canadian Bible Society adheres to the requirements of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act ("PIPEDA"). PIPEDA regulates the manner in which the Canadian Bible Society collects, uses, discloses and otherwise manages your personal information. The Canadian Bible Society may, in its sole discretion, modify the Policy at any time with or without notice to you. The revised Policy shall be posted on the Canadian Bible Society website located at www.getbibles.com and every other Canadian Bible Society website (individually and collectively, the "Website"). You should review the Policy on a regular basis for any such changes. You agree that your continued use of the Website after the revised Policy has been posted constitutes your consent to such revised Policy. The Website may contain links to other non-Canadian Bible Society websites. The Canadian Bible Society is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of such other websites.
Website. The Canadian Bible Society may collect information about you when you register to become a member of the Website. In addition, the Canadian Bible Society keeps a record of the email addresses of those who communicate with us via the Feedback tool. The information collected may include your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, date of birth, gender, facts regarding your consumer habits and preferences.
Complaints. The Canadian Bible Society may collect information about you if you contact Canadian Bible Society with a consumer complaint or request. The information collected may include your name, address, telephone number, email address, date of birth and facts regarding the complaint or request.
Marketing Research. In addition, the Canadian Bible Society may collect information about you if you participate in any Canadian Bible Society marketing research. The information collected may include your name, address, telephone number, email address, date of birth, gender, and facts regarding your consumer habits and preferences.
Consent. Generally, the Canadian Bible Society will obtain the consent of individuals at the time personal information is collected or disclosed. The Canadian Bible Society will make reasonable efforts to ensure that when personal information is collected that you understand why it is collected.
Limiting the Collection of the Personal Information. The Canadian Bible Society will limit the collection of personal information to that which is required to provide the necessary service or conduct the necessary activity and will only collect personal information through fair and lawful means.
Withdrawal of Consent. You may withdraw your consent to the collection, use or disclosure of personal information at any time subject to any specific contractual provisions and the requirement to provide reasonable notice.
Cookies are simple text files that web browsers place on computer hard drives when sites are visited. Cookies cannot damage files, nor can they read information from a user's hard drive. The Canadian Bible Society uses cookies to help us measure the number of visits, average time spent, page views and other statistics relating to use of our Website. Our Cookies pose no security risk to you as they contain no personal information, only a special string that tells the service that you are a past user of the Website. No personal information is stored within the Cookies. Please note that certain features on the Website may not function if you do not accept Cookies. Therefore, please accept any Cookies that the Canadian Bible Society sends to your computer. You can turn off the Cookie warning by selecting preferences or options from your browser's menu, and turning off the warning toggle.
The Canadian Bible Society understands the importance of protecting your personal information and will implement safeguards to protect personal information against unauthorized access including the use of the latest Internet security protocols to protect personal information collected through the Website. However, you should be aware that the Internet is not a secured medium. Therefore, the Canadian Bible Society does not represent or warrant the complete security of the personal information provided by you to the Canadian Bible Society through the Website. You understand that you are providing such information to the Canadian Bible Society at your own risk.
Employees of the Canadian Bible Society who will be involved in the collection of personal information will be educated with respect to the importance of maintaining the confidentiality of personal information.
The Canadian Bible Society will use care in the disposal and destruction of personal information in order to prevent unauthorized parties from gaining access to the information.
The Canadian Bible Society uses your personal information for one or more of the following purposes: (1) identify who you are; (2) improve the content of the Website; (3) personalize the content or layout of the Website for consumers; (4) notify consumers of updates to the Website; (5) contact consumers for marketing purposes; (6) improve its products and services; or (7) process your consumer complaint or request.
Your personal information will not be used to place you on any mailing lists, except with your prior consent. Under no circumstances will we sell our customer lists, trade or rent your personal information to third parties.
The Canadian Bible Society will take all reasonable steps to update or correct your personal information when necessary.
The Canadian Bible Society will keep your personal information only as long as necessary for the identified purposes or as required by law.
Upon written request and subject to the exemptions stipulated by law, the Canadian Bible Society will inform individuals of the existence, use and disclosure of your personal information and provide access to that information. If you request disclosure of your personal information you may be required to provide sufficient information to permit the Canadian Bible Society to provide an account of the existence, use and disclosure of the information.
The Canadian Bible Society may charge an administration fee for providing access to the personal information in accordance with your request. The Canadian Bible Society will respond to the request for personal information within thirty (30) days and if the Canadian Bible Society is not able to produce the information within this time frame will provide an explanation and will indicate when the information will be produced.
The Canadian Bible Society is responsible for personal information under its control and has designated a Privacy Officer who is accountable for the Canadian Bible Society's compliance with this Privacy Policy and PIPEDA. If at any time you have any questions or complaints about this Privacy Policy or your personal information and how it is being used, collected or disclosed (including if you wish to request to update or correct any personally identifiable information you have provided), or you wish to withdraw your consent to "Use of Personal Information", please do not hesitate to contact us at info@getbibles.com, or write to us at:
Canadian Bible Society
Attn: Privacy Officer
117 Germain Street
Saint John, New Brunswick
E2L 2E9
Fax: 506-634-0454