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Privacy Policy
PROTECTING PRIVACY AT NIRIX INC.
At Nirix Inc., we are committed to protecting your privacy, and to developing technologies that provide a safe
and secure computing experience.
Nirix Inc. offers a wide variety of products, web sites and services, and many of these have their own
privacy statements that describe the specific data collection and use practices of the particular product,
site or service. Links to any of our individual privacy statements are provided on the left-hand side of
this page. We encourage you to review the privacy statements of those sites, services and products that you use.
A Safe Harbour
Use of Your Personal Information
Controlling and Accessing Your Personal Information
Security of Your Personal Information
Use of Cookies and Web Beacons on Nirix Inc. Sites
Contact Information
A SAFE HARBOUR
As a sign of our commitment to consumer privacy, Nirix Inc. is a participant in the
Safe Harbor Agreement between the United States and the European Union, and meets the
Safe Harbor principles published by the U.S. Department of Commerce.
In general, we will ask you when we need information that personally identifies you or
allows us to contact you. For example, personal information is generally requested when
you are asked to register before entering a contest, ordering e-mail newsletters,
joining a limited-access premium site, or when purchasing and registering Nirix Inc.
products.
The amount of personal information you are required to supply will normally be limited to
that which is necessary to supply the service or carry out the transaction that you have
requested. If other information is requested, it will be labeled as optional.
Many Nirix Inc. products, sites and services provide links to sites and services
operated by other companies or organizations. We encourage you to review the privacy
statements of those sites and services that you choose to visit, so that you can
understand how they may collect, use and share your personal information. Nirix Inc.
is not responsible for the privacy statements or practices of sites and services
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USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
The personal information we collect from you will be used by Nirix Inc. and its controlled
subsidiaries and affiliates to provide the service or carry out the transaction you have requested
or authorized. This may include using the personal information for the following purposes:
• To provide you with important information about the product or service that you are using,
including critical updates and notifications;
• To make a site or service easier to use by eliminating the need for you to repeatedly enter the same
information or by customizing the site or service to your particular interests or preferences;
• To improve the product or service and to provide better customer service to users.
The privacy statement of the specific product or service you are
using will disclose how the personal information that is collected will be used.
Nirix Inc. does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Nirix Inc. may, from
time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that
may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail,
name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party.
We occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as packaging,
sending and delivering purchases and other mailings, answering customer questions about products or
services, processing event registration, or performing statistical analysis of our services. We will
only provide those companies the personal information they need to deliver the service, and they
are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.
Nirix Inc. may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief
that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process
served on Nirix Inc. or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Nirix Inc. and
its family of web sites, and, (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of
users of Nirix Inc., its web sites, or the public.
Nirix Inc. accepts credit card payments through the Moneris online Hosted Paypage
system. This is a secure transaction system hosted by Moneris, one of the largest
Merchant Services Providers in Canada. Credit card numbers are not stored on any of Nirix Inc.’s
servers.
Personally identifiable information collected by Nirix Inc. may be stored and processed in the
United States or any other country in which Nirix Inc. or its affiliates, subsidiaries or agents
maintain facilities.
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CONTROLLING AND ACCESSING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Because Nirix Inc. offers a wide variety of different products and services, the personal information
collected by each Nirix Inc. product or service may not all reside in a single location. Therefore
to access or exercise control over the data submitted at a particular site or via a particular
product, you may need to return to that location to learn how to access the data or change your
preferences regarding the use of that data.
Nevertheless, Nirix Inc. does believe that you should be able to exercise control over how the
personal information you provide will be used. If you provide personal information to Nirix Inc.
for one purpose, you will be able to opt-out of that personal information being used for other
unrelated purposes.
Please be aware that the choices you make in one context will not necessarily apply to personal
information you may have provided to Nirix Inc. in the context of other, separately operated,
Nirix Inc. products, sites or services.
Nirix Inc. also believes that you should be able to access the personal information you have provided,
so that you can update or amend the data where it is inaccurate. Different Nirix Inc. sites and
services may have different methods of providing access to the personal information they have
stored. Some Nirix Inc. sites and services have even created tools to allow you to directly access
and change your personal data in real time. For example, personal information you have provided on
the nirix.com web site can be accessed through their Profile Center.
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SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Nirix Inc. carefully protects the security of the personal information you provide. Personal
information we collect is stored in password-controlled servers with limited access, and we protect
this information from loss or misuse, and from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or
destruction. When sensitive personal information (such as a credit card numbers) is transmitted
over the Internet, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer
(SSL) protocol.
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USE OF COOKIES OR WEB BEACONS ON NIRX INC. SITES
Many Nirix Inc. web sites use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A
cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used
to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you or your
computer, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The
purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For
example, if you personalize a Nirix Inc. web page, or register with a Nirix Inc. site or
service, a cookie helps us to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This
simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses,
shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Nirix Inc. web site, the information
you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the features that you
customized. Your browser must be set to accept cookies if you wish to purchase products or IT
Utility Services from Nirix Inc. While some cookies contain personal information, others allow
you to customize a site while remaining anonymous. The privacy statement of the particular site
you are visiting will describe how that site uses cookies.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies,
but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. However, if you
choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the
sites or services you visit.
Nirix Inc. web pages may also contain electronic images known as "web beacons"
- sometimes called single-pixel gifs - that allow Nirix Inc. to count users who have visited
those pages and to deliver co-branded services. Web beacons are not used to access your personally
identifiable information; they are a technique we use to compile aggregated statistics about web
site usage. Some Nirix Inc. sites may also contain web beacons placed there by our advertising
partners, to help us determine the effectiveness of our Internet advertising campaigns.
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CONTACT INFORMATION
At Nirix Inc., we're working hard to protect your privacy, while delivering products that bring you the
speed, power and convenience you desire in your personal computing. Our privacy principles represent our
commitment to ensuring that your personal information is safe and secure. If you believe that Nirix
Inc. has not adhered to these policies, please contact us by
e-mail
or postal mail, and we will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy
the problem.
Nirix Inc. Corporate Privacy Group
Nirix Technology
18203 - 114 Avenue NW
Edmonton, Alberta, T5S 2P6
Canada
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