Privacy Policy
Protecting your privacy is important to Balanced WorkLife. This Policy explains how Balanced WorkLife collects, uses and discloses the personal information you may provide to Balanced WorkLife while using the Balanced WorkLife Website (herein referred to as “our site” and the information and services provided through the website.
1. Your Consent
By using our site, including the use of our Client Spaces, Exceptional Talent Online, and eCommerce sections, you signify your consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this Policy.
2. Information Automatically Collected Through The Website
Non-Personal Information
Balanced WorkLife automatically collects certain non-personal information regarding our site users, such as the date and time you access our site, the Internet address of the website from which you linked to our site, the operating system you are using, and the our site pages read and images viewed. This non-personal information is used for our site and system administration purposes and to improve our site. Non-personal information may be disclosed to other persons and permanently retained for future use.
Cookies
Our site uses “cookies”, a technology that installs a small amount of information on a website user’s computer to permit the website to recognize future visits using that computer. Cookies enhance the convenience and use of our site. For example, the information provided through cookies is used to recognize you as a previous user of our site (so you do not have to enter your personal information every time), offer personalized content and information for your use, and otherwise facilitate your experience using our site. You may choose to decline cookies if your browser permits, but doing so may affect your ability to access or use certain features of our site.
3. Personal Information You Specifically Provide
Your Personal Information
During your use of our site, you may be asked to voluntarily provide personal information (such as your personal name, e-mail address, postal address, telephone number, fax number, age, gender, educational level, occupation and a description of your skills and certifications). If you choose not to provide certain requested personal information, you will not be able to access or use certain features of our site.
Use of Your Personal Information
Balanced WorkLife uses your personal information for the following purposes and as otherwise permitted by applicable law: (a) to contact and correspond with you; (b) to provide our various services; and (d) to otherwise facilitate the provisions of the services available through our site. Balanced WorkLife may also develop a confidential profile for you, which will be used to provide services to you and facilitate your use of our site, and may keep a record of all communications with you.
E-mails and Newsletters from Balanced WorkLife
From time to time, Balanced WorkLife may send to you e-mail or other communications containing information about Balanced WorkLife, our site, and other matters Balanced WorkLife believes will interest you, including the our site Newsletter. At any time you may ask Balanced WorkLife to stop sending you e-mail, newsletters and other information by sending your request to Balanced WorkLife through our contact form. Also, each e-mail or newsletter Balanced WorkLife sends to you will tell you how to decline further unsolicited communications. From time to time, Balanced WorkLife may also send to you e-mail containing important information regarding our site, which you may not opt out of receiving.
Disclosure of Your Personal Information
Balanced WorkLife may disclose your personal information in the following circumstances and as otherwise permitted by applicable law:
(a) Disclosure to Authorizing Persons – If you use our site on behalf of another person (such as an organization seeking services), Balanced WorkLife may provide your personal information to that authorizing person. If you do not wish your personal information to be disclosed to the person on whose behalf you use our site, you may not use our site.
(b) Discussion Forum Disclosures – If you voluntarily submit or post materials to a discussion forum available through our site, certain of your personal information may be automatically included in the posting, including without limitation your user name and email address. Balanced WorkLife has no control over, or liability for, the collection, use, or disclosure of any posted materials or your included personal information by other our site users, and their use and disclosure of the posted materials and your personal information are not subject to this Policy. If you do not wish your personal information to be disclosed to other our site users, you may not post materials to the discussion forum available through our site.
(c) Disclosure to Affiliates, Agents and Suppliers – Balanced WorkLife may provide your personal information to its affiliates, agents, suppliers and service providers. Balanced WorkLife requires its affiliates, agents, suppliers and service providers to agree to use your personal information only for the purposes for which it is provided to them, and to protect the privacy of your personal information in a manner that is consistent with this Policy. If at any time you do not wish your personal information to be disclosed to certain or any other persons, please send your request to Balanced WorkLife’s Privacy Officer; however, this may affect your ability to use our site.
(d) Law Enforcement and Legal Disclosure – Balanced WorkLife may disclose your personal information to a government institution that has asserted its lawful authority to obtain the information or where LegaciesNow has reasonable grounds to believe the information could be useful in the investigation of unlawful activity, or to comply with a subpoena or warrant or an order made by a court, person or body with jurisdiction to compel the production of information, or to comply with court rules regarding the production of records and information, or to its legal counsel. Balanced WorkLife has no control over, or liability for, those persons’ use and disclosure of your personal information, and that use and disclosure is not subject to this Policy.
Depersonalized Information
Balanced WorkLife may use personal information to create non-personal information regarding the use of our site. Balanced WorkLife may then disclose that non-personal information to other persons and permanently retain that non-personal information for future use.
Business Contact Information
To the extent permitted by law, the provisions of this Policy concerning “personal information” do not apply to information (such as your personal name, position or title, business address, business telephone number, business fax number and business email address) that enables you to be contacted at a place of business.
Location of Information
Balanced WorkLife will store and process your personal information in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Securing Your Information
Balanced WorkLife employs reasonable security safeguards appropriate to the sensitivity of the personal information in its possession or under its control in order to protect that information from unauthorized access, collection, use, disclosure, modification or similar risks. Nevertheless, security risks cannot be eliminated and Balanced WorkLife cannot guarantee that your personal information will not be used or disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Policy.
Accessing Your Personal Information
Subject to certain exceptions and limitations prescribed by applicable law, you will be given reasonable access to your personal information within a reasonable time, and will be entitled to challenge the accuracy and completeness of the information and to have it amended as appropriate. You can help Balanced WorkLife maintain the accuracy of your information by notifying Balanced WorkLife of any changes to your personal information.
4. Other Matters
Other Websites
Our site may contain links to other websites or Internet resources. When you click on one of those links you are contacting another website. Balanced WorkLife has no responsibility or liability for or control over those other websites or their collection, use and disclosure of your personal information.
Policy Changes
To accommodate changes in our site, changing technology, and legal developments, this Policy may be changed from time to time in Balanced WorkLife’s discretion and without any prior notice or liability to you or any other person. Balanced WorkLife’s collection, use and disclosure of your personal information will be governed by the version of this Policy in effect at that time. New versions of the Policy will be posted on our site and are available upon request from Balanced WorkLife. Your continued dealings with Balanced WorkLife or your use of our site subsequent to any changes to this Policy will signify your consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with the changed Policy. Accordingly, when you use our site you should check the date of this Policy and review any changes since the last version. You should also bookmark this page and periodically review this Policy to ensure that you are familiar with the most current version.
Former Users
If you stop using our site or your permission to use our site is terminated, Balanced WorkLife may continue to use and disclose your personal information in accordance with this Policy as amended from time to time.
