Our Privacy Policy Regarding Your Personal Information
Source For Sports® is committed to protecting your privacy. That’s why we’ve developed this Privacy Policy regarding our use of personal information collected in connection with our contests, electronic newsletters, surveys flyers and other communications including personal contact with one of our member stores.
You should also know that Canadians have certain rights to privacy under The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), which addresses the collection, storage and use of personal information by organizations in the private sector.
We Are Committed to and Guarantee your Privacy
Source For Sports® will not sell, distribute, barter, transfer or otherwise share any personally identifiable information obtained about our users to a third party, unless required by law. We do not sell lists.
Who is Source For Sports®?
Source For Sports® is a national buying group of sporting goods stores across Canada. Each store is independently owned and is a member of Sports Distributors Of Canada Ltd. Source For Sports.com is wholly owned and operated by Source For Sports® and Sports Distributors Of Canada Ltd.
When do we collect personal information and how will we use this information?
Source for Sports® does not automatically collect any personally identifiable information. Such information is submitted voluntarily by visitors to our web site and to our member stores, for such reasons as entering contests, taking part in promotions, answering surveys and/or subscribing to newsletters, flyers or other informational or promotional vehicles. Source for Sports® collects your name, address, city, postal code, phone number and email address. Your submission of this information is completely voluntary. This information will be used by Source For Sports® and/or its members to communicate with you for the purpose with which it was collected. These communications, unless otherwise stated, support our marketing, promotion, charity and information programs. The information is also used to conduct prize drawings and to notify the winners of the various contests we run. By submitting personal information to Source For Sports® you agree to its use for the purposes stated within this policy.
Who Can Access Your Personal Information Collected By Source for Sports®?
Your personal information is strictly controlled and accessible only by employees who require this information to better serve you and/or improve our performance both in-store and on this web site.
We do use a reputable service provider that assists us with this web site and other important programs that allow us to serve you. These third parties will be required to sign an agreement of confidentially that states that all customer information remains confidential.
Source for Sports® has no control over any information shared with another web site prior to or after entering Source for Sports.com from said web site or portal. We do track all traffic to and from our web site and we guarantee that we will not share your personal information with a third party unless you give us permission to do so.
Source for Sports® executes contests and promotions in our stores and on Source for Sports.com that are sponsored by a third party. You will be informed if we will share your information with a third party and you will have the option to choose whether or not you wish to participate in said contest or promotion.
Links
Source for Sports.com contains links to other web sites and is not responsible for any information submitted on these sites. Source for Sports® is not responsible for the privacy practices of any of the sites that may be linked to Source for Sports.com. This policy refers only to Source for Sports.com and its member stores across Canada.
Your Consent
All information submitted to Source for Sports.com or to one of our member stores is completely voluntary. Any time you submit your information when entering a contest, promotion, answer a survey or enrol for any of our promotional tools you are giving consent to the collection and use of your personal information by Source for Sports® for the purposes set out in this policy.
Any information that has been submitted or collected will be retained by Source for Sports® until the purpose for which it was collected has been fulfilled. We offer the opportunity for individuals to determine if we hold any personal identifiable information as well as making available the opportunity to review and/or correct this information. Source For Sports® takes all necessary precautions to protect the security of your information.
These requests must be made to our Privacy Commissioner, who can be contacted at source@sourceforsports.com
The effective date of this privacy policy is December 16, 2003. Source For Sports® reserves the right to update this policy without warning or notice.
