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Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters Privacy Policy
Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters (“CME”) respects your privacy and is
committed to protect the personal information that you share with us. Generally,
you can browse through our website without giving us any information about
yourself. When we do need your personal information to provide services that
you request or when you choose to provide us with your personal information,
this policy describes how we collect and use your personal information.
Information Collection
Personal information means any information that may be used to identify an
individual, including, but not limited to, a first and last name, email address, a
home, postal or other physical address, other contact information, title, birth date,
gender, occupation, industry, personal interests, and other information when
needed to provide a service you requested.
When you browse the website, you do so anonymously, unless you have
previously indicated that you wish CME to remember your login and password.
We don't automatically collect personal information, including your email address.
We do log your IP address (the Internet address of your computer) to give us an
idea of which part of our website you visit and how long you spend there. But we
do not link your IP address to any personal information unless you have logged
in to our website. Like many other commercial websites, the CME website may
use a standard technology called a cookie to collect information about how you
use the site. Please go to “Cookies and Tracking Information” below for more
information.
CME collects personal information when you use certain CME products or
services, when you register to attend a seminar or participate in an online survey,
when you ask to be included in an email or other mailing list, or you submit an
entry for a sweepstakes or other promotions, or when you submit your personal
information to CME for any other reason.
Notice
When personal information is collected, we will inform you at the point ofcollection the purpose for the collection. CME will not transfer your personal
information to third parties without your consent, except under the limited
conditions described under the discussion entitled “Information Sharing and
Disclosure” below.
If you choose to provide us with your personal information, we may only transfer
that information, within CME or to CME's third party service providers with your
permission.
We will always give you the opportunity to opt out of receiving direct marketing
or market research information. This means we assume you have given us your
consent to collect and use your information in accordance with this Policy unless
you take affirmative action to indicate that you do not consent, for instance by
clicking or checking the appropriate option or box at the point of collection. In
some cases, when applicable, we will provide you with the opportunity to opt in.
This means we will require your affirmative action to indicate your consent before
we use your information for purposes other than the purpose for which it was
submitt
Cookies and Tracking Technology
A cookie is a small data file that certain Web sites write to your hard drive whenyou visit them. A cookie file can contain information such as a user ID that the
site uses to track the pages you've visited, but the only personal information a
cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off
your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Some parts of CME's
website use cookies to track user traffic patterns. We do this in order to
determine the usefulness of our website information to our users and to see how
effective our navigational structure is in helping users reach that information.
If you prefer not to receive cookies while browsing our website, you can set your
browser to warn you before accepting cookies and refuse the cookie when your
browser alerts you to its presence. You can also refuse all cookies by turning
them off in your browser, although you may not be able to take full advantage of
CME's website if you do so. In particular, you may be required to accept cookies
in order to complete certain actions on our website. You do not need to have
cookies turned on, however, to usenavigate through many parts of our website,
except access to certain of CME's web pages may require a login and password.
How We Use Information Collected
CME uses information for several general purposes to fulfill your requests forcertain products and services, to personalize your experience on our website, to
keep you up to date on the latest news, events, current issues, announcements,
special offers or other information we think you'd like to hear about either from us
or from our business partners, and to better understand your needs and provide
you with better services. We may also use your information to send you, or to
have our business partners send you, direct marketing information or contact you
for market research.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Your personal information is never shared outside CME without your permission,except under conditions explained below. Inside CME, data is stored in controlled
servers with limited access.
CME may send your personal information to other companies or people under
any of the following circumstances when we have your consent to share the
information; we need to share your information to provide the product or service
you have requested; or we want to keep you up to date on the latest news,
events, current issues, announcements, special offers or other information we
think you'd like to hear about either from us or from our business partners (unless
you have opted out of these types of communications). We will also disclose your
personal information if required to do so by law, to enforce our Terms of Use
(Important Notices) or in urgent circumstances, to protect personal safety, the
public or our websites.
Your Ability to Review and Delete Your Account and Information
You may request deletion of your CME account or any of your personalinformation held by us by sending an email to cme.privacy@cme-mec.ca
Data Security
CME safeguards the security of the data you send us with physical, electronic,and managerial procedures. In certain areas of our websites, CME uses industrystandard
SSL-encryption to enhance the security of data transmissions. While we
strive to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure the security of the
information you transmit to us, and so we urge you to take every precaution to
protect your personal data when you are on the Internet. Change your passwords
often, use a combination of letters and numbers, and make sure you use a
secure browser.
Children and Privacy
Our websites do not target and are not intended to attract children under the ageof 13. CME does not knowingly solicit personal information from children under
the age of 13 or send them requests for personal information.
Third Party Sites
CME's website contains links to other sites. CME does not share your personalinformation with those websites and is not responsible for their privacy practices.
We encourage you to learn about the privacy policies of those companies.
Our website may contain links to websites operated by other companies. Some
of these third-party sites may be co-branded with a CME logo, even though they
are not operated or maintained by CME. Although we choose our business
partners carefully, CME is not responsible for the privacy practices of web sites
operated by third parties that are linked to our site. Once you have left our
website, you should check the applicable privacy policy of the third party website
to determine how they will handle any information they collect from you.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
CME will amend this policy from time to time. If we make any substantialchanges in the way we use your personal information we will make that
information available by posting a notice on this site.
Questions or Suggestions
If you have questions or concerns about our collection, use, or disclosure of yourpersonal information, please email us at cme.privacy@cme-mec.ca.
This document was last updated January 31, 2003.