Privacy Policy
Smith Manoeuvre Services Corporation ("SMSC", "we", "us" or "our") is committed to protecting your privacy and safeguarding your personal information. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you about our practices in matters of privacy and personal information, including how we collect, use and disclose your personal information.
This Privacy Policy generally applies to all personal information collected or generated by SMSC, our website, our client portal, or any person acting as an agent on our behalf ("Authorized Agent"), about our clients and other individuals with whom we do business, which may include potential clients as well as persons registered for an account, in any form.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By submitting your personal information to us, registering for or using any of the services we offer, using our Website or voluntarily interacting with us, you consent to us collecting, using, and disclosing your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy, as revised from time to time. This Privacy Policy defines our standards for the collection, use, disclosure, and storage of your personal information.
Your consent to collection, use, and disclosure of information
SMSC collects, uses, discloses, and stores personal information that you provide and consent to. SMSC may collect, use, disclose, and store any information that you provide on SMSC’s Website or through offline communications you may have with SMSC, with your consent or as permitted or required by law. The manner in which we obtain your consent (i.e., the form we use) depends on the circumstances and the sensitivity of the information collected. Subject to applicable law, your consent may be expressed or implied, depending on the circumstances and the sensitivity of the personal information concerned. If you choose to provide us with personal information, it is assumed that you consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.
Generally, we will seek your consent upon collecting your personal information and require your signature on our consent form. If we wish to use your personal information for a purpose not previously expressed to you at the time of collection, we will seek your consent before using the information for this new purpose.
You may withdraw your consent to our collection, use or disclosure of your personal information at any time by contacting us as described in the “Contact Us” section below. However, before proceeding with the withdrawal of your consent, we may require proof of your identity. In some cases, withdrawing your consent may mean that we will no longer be able to provide certain products or services.
If you provide us with personal information about another individual, it is your responsibility to obtain that individual's consent to allow us to collect, use and disclose their information as described in this Privacy Policy.
The personal information we collect
The personal information we collect generally falls into one or more of the following 2 categories:
1. Through our Website. We may collect information about you or your activities on the Website, specifically:
- Forms: We may collect your name, your email address, your phone number, and any other information you provide in your message when filling out forms such as (but not limited to) “Find an SMCP” or “Become an SMCP”.
- Newsletter registration: We may collect your first name, your last name, and your email address, amongst other information.
- Book purchasing: We collect your credit card information to process book orders. We restrict access to credit card information only to those individuals required to process your order. Credit card numbers are not provided to third parties except in the processing of orders.
- Any other information you choose to submit to us.
Like most websites and other online services, we may collect certain technical information about the devices used to access our Website. This information may include your device’s identification, information about your device, browser and operating system, and the date and time of your visit.
Our Website uses cookies or similar technologies such as beacons or pixels to provide you with a richer browsing experience, improve the performance of our Website and generate statistics. Cookies are files that are installed on your computer's hard drive or browser to collect information such as your preferred language, browsing history, or browser type and version. Their purpose is to optimize your experience on our Website. You can set your browser to block all cookies or to notify you when a cookie is being sent. Browsers include instructions for doing so in their parameters.
We use analytics tools, including user experience analysis, and other third-party technologies, such as Google Analytics, to automatically collect non-personal usage information.
We use Google Analytics to understand how consumers use our services. Google Analytics sends Google anonymous information about our Website’s usage, as generated by cookies. This information is then processed to generate statistics and reports on our Website’s usage only. These reports are used to analyze traffic and plan future orientations, including required upgrades. You can deactivate the communication of anonymous usage data to Google Analytics by installing the appropriate browser add-on module at the following address: . Google Analytics may share anonymous data with other Google services, which may in turn use this data to contextualize and personalize ads on its own advertising network. We reserve the right to perform statistical analyses using the data collected through our Website on an anonymous and cumulative basis for the purpose of measuring interest for our services. We may provide these anonymous and cumulative data analyses to a third party.
2. Through other interactions. For individuals who interact with us, whether in person, by phone, by email, through social media or by any other means, including those who may be interested, we may collect any information that you provide to us.
How we use your personal information
We use your personal information to provide you with services and improve our services. We also use your personal information to meet our legal obligations. We may use your personal information and other information to:
- Communicate with you in compliance with the laws governing our products and services.
- Monitor, improve, and develop our services.
- Analyze our clients’ needs and activities to help us serve them better.
- Conduct research and analysis relating to our business, products and services.
- Respond to inquiries and other requests.
- Provide you with information that may be of interest to you, including information about our products and services.
- Combat fraud and investigate legal claims.
- Meet our legal obligations.
We may use your personal information and other information for purposes for which we have obtained your consent, and for other purposes that may be permitted or required by applicable law. We do not use the information we collect to advertise third-party products and services or targeted advertising for SMSC products and services on third-party websites or service offerings.
How we share your personal information
We may provide your information to our service providers and partners. We may also disclose your information to meet legal obligations or assert our rights. When we provide your personal information to our service providers or partners, we take steps to ensure that the rules set out in this Privacy Policy are followed and require that service providers maintain the confidentiality of your personal information and ensure its security. We also require that they use your personal information only for the purposes for which it was provided.
When our service providers no longer need your personal information for these limited purposes, we require that they destroy it. In certain circumstances, we may allow our service providers to retain aggregated, anonymous or statistical information that does not identify you.
We do not authorize service providers to disclose your personal information to unauthorized parties or to use your personal information for direct marketing purposes. If you would like more information about our service providers, please contact us by using the contact information in the "Contact Us" section below.
In addition, we may use and disclose your personal information when we believe such use or disclosure is authorized, necessary or appropriate, including the following cases:
- Under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence.
- To comply with a legal process.
- To respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence.
- To enforce the terms of our product and service agreements.
- To protect our business or that of our affiliates or subsidiaries.
- To protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or those of our affiliates, you or others.
- To allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages we may suffer.
In addition, we may transfer your personal information to a third party in the event of a reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or any other disposal of any or all of our business, brands, affiliates, subsidiaries or other assets.
Should we intend to disclose your personal information to a third party, we will identify that third party and the purpose of the disclosure, and obtain your consent.
Unsubscribing from communications
We may send you marketing emails. If you no longer wish to receive marketing emails from us, you can opt out of receiving marketing emails by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of every email you receive from us. You may also unsubscribe by contacting us directly using the contact information in the “Contact Us” section below.
We will make every effort to respond to your request to unsubscribe promptly, but please allow a reasonable amount of time for us to process your request. Please note that if you opt-out of receiving marketing emails, we may send you communications about our products or services, or other topics.
Retention of personal information
We will only use, disclose or retain your personal information for as long as is deemed necessary to fulfill the purposes for which the personal information was collected and as permitted or required by law.
If you would like more information about how long your personal information will be retained, please contact us by using the contact information in the “Contact Us” section below.
Information security
We have implemented physical, organizational, contractual and technological security measures to protect your personal information and other information from loss or theft, unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification. We have taken steps to ensure that the only personnel authorized to access your personal information are those whose duties reasonably require such information.
Despite the measures described above, no method of transmitting or storing information is 100% secure or error-free. As such, we cannot guarantee absolute security. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you believe that the security of any information you have provided to us has been compromised), please contact us immediately by using the contact information in the “Contact Us” section below.
Your rights with respect to your personal information
You have the right to access and rectify your personal information. We will take reasonable steps to ensure that your personal information is accurate, complete and up-to-date. We will not routinely update your personal information unless such a process is necessary. We expect you to provide us with your updated personal information from time to time, when necessary.
You may request in writing to see the personal information we collect, use or disclose about you, and we will provide you with such personal information to the extent required by law. You may also challenge the accuracy or completeness of your personal information in our records. If you successfully demonstrate that your personal information in our records is inaccurate or incomplete, we will amend the personal information as required.
In addition, under certain circumstances, you have the following rights:
- Withdrawing your consent. You may at any time withdraw your consent to the disclosure or use of the personal information collected.
- In certain cases, you may request that the personal information held about you no longer be disclosed.
- In certain cases, you may request information about the use of any automated decision system and the impact it may have on you.
Third-party websites and services
This privacy policy applies solely to our products and services. It does not extend to websites or products or services provided by third parties. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of such third parties and encourage you to review the privacy policies of these third parties before using their websites, products or services.
Updates
SMSC reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. We consider that continued use of our services constitutes an acknowledgement of the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy in effect at that time and an acceptance to be bound by them and to comply with them.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
Smith Manoeuvre Services Corporation
Email: [email protected]
