THE TORONTO REVIEW OF BOOKS TERMS AND CONDITIONS
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Use by minors
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Keeping the Website safe
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TORONTO REVIEW OF BOOKS PRIVACY POLICY
The Toronto Review of Books (“TRB”) is committed to protecting your privacy and the confidentiality of any personal information, which You provide to us. This Privacy Policy describes TRB’s policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information with respect to the torontoreviewofbooks.com website (the “Website”). By accessing the Website and providing your information you indicate your acceptance of this Privacy Policy.
1. Collection of personal information
You may provide personal information to TRB and its agents to receive information, to purchase products, to receive information about or become involved in promotions or other initiatives undertaken by TRB. This personal information may include details such as your name, address, mobile number, e-mail address and answers to certain questions. If you purchase products, you may provide TRB and its agents with credit card details and other information, which will allow TRB and its agents to process the transaction. TRB may also request your preferences for receiving further marketing or promotional material.
The choice of how much information you provide to TRB is yours and of course if you want to use TRB’s services or otherwise participate in TRB programs and events, TRB will require certain information from you in order to provide the services or conduct the programs and events.
2. How does TRB use the Personal Information?
The personal information you provide to TRB through the Website may be used by TRB and its agents for the following purposes:
- to provide you with products you have requested
- to provide you with information or other communications about TRB
- to involve you in promotions and other initiatives undertaken by TRB
- to include your name and details on our website if you register
If you choose to provide your personal details to TRB you agree that your personal information may be displayed or included as set out above. You also agree that your personal details may accordingly be identified, recovered and displayed by Internet search engines. In certain circumstances we may give you the option to keep your information private. Where we do so, we will endeavour to ensure that your information will not be available to Internet search engines.
Some of the functions and services relating to the purpose for which you have provided personal information may be outsourced to third party external service providers. When we contract external services providers, we may provide them with your personal information, but only insofar as it allows them to fulfill that contract (such as for a marketing mail out).
TRB may use your personal information for direct marketing or promotional activities. If TRB does undertake such activities, you will be provided with an opportunity in each marketing communication to decline to receive any further communications from TRB.
3. Security of your information
TRB takes reasonable steps to ensure the security of all information it collects, including that the information is protected from misuse and loss and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. For example, your personal information is maintained in a secure environment, which can be accessed only by authorised personnel. However, no data transmission over the Internet or information stored on servers accessible through the Internet can be guaranteed to be fully secure. Note that TRB does not store credit card information.
4. Disclosure of Personal Information
Personal information collected through the Website will only be disclosed to third parties in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Information may be provided to third parties where any functions or services relating to the purpose for which the personal information is collected are being outsourced or you would reasonably expect TRB to disclose it to a third party for a particular purpose. TRB will not use or disclose your personal information except in accordance with this Privacy Policy unless you have consented to the use or disclosure, or where disclosure is necessary to prevent injury to life or health, to investigate any suspected unlawful activity or where the use or disclosure is required or authorized by law.
5. Access and correction of personal information
Access to personal information
You may request access to your personal information collected through the Website at any time. Please send an email to jessica@torontoreviewofbooks.com. However, there may be some legal or administrative reason why access is denied or amendment refused. If this is so, we will provide you with the reason why.
Correction of personal information
If you believe any of your personal information held by TRB is not accurate, complete or up-to-date, TRB will take reasonable steps to correct the information. To request that your personal information be corrected or updated, please send an email to jessica@torontoreviewofbooks.com.
TRB is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of any other website that is linked to the Website, or for the privacy practices of any third party social media or other service providers that you can access through the Website. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of those websites or service providers.
7. Your visit to the Website
The Website uses cookies (small data files that we store on your computer) to collect anonymous traffic data and also to improve your experience with the Websites (e.g. to keep you logged in if you request this). You can remove or block cookies using the settings in your browser, but this may impact your ability to use the Website.
This information does not in itself identify individuals and is used to measure the number of visitors to our site and how it was navigated. This information assists us to make the Website more useful to you.
8. Changes to this Privacy Policy
This privacy policy may change from time to time particularly as new rules, regulations and industry codes are introduced. Any changes to the Privacy Policy will be posted on the TRB website. If we consider that the changes are material we will notify you by email.
9. How to contact TRB
If you have any concerns or questions, please contact TRB at jessica@torontoreviewofbooks.com.