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A
C C O U N T A
B I L I T Y
Our
President
& CEO is responsible for our privacy compliance, for protecting
all personal
information held by us or transferred to third party, e.g. a
Veterinarian, and for ensuring we
adhere to this
Policy and to safe information handling practices.
I
D E N T I F I C A T I O N P U R P O S E S
We identified
the specific personal information we will collect from you, the reasons for
collecting it, and how we will use it.
C O N S
E N T
We obtain your consent
before or at the
time we collect your personal information, as well as when we
identify a new use for it.
L I M I
T I N G C O L L E C T I O N
We will not collect
your personal information
indiscriminately; we will not deceive or mislead you about the
reasons for collecting your personal information.
L I M I
T I N G U S E , D I S C L O S U R E
, A N D R E T E N T I O N
We use or disclose
your personal
information only for the purpose for which it was collected, unless
you consent, or the use or disclosure is authorized by the
Personal
Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act
(PIPEDA).
We keep your personal information only as long as
necessary.
At your request,
we will destroy, erase, or render
anonymous your personal information as long as it is no longer required for an identified
purpose or a legal requirement.
A C C U
R A C Y
We strive to
minimize the possibility of using incorrect information when making
a decision about you or when disclosing your personal information to
a third
party such as a Veterinarian.
S
A F E G U A R D S
We strive to protect
your personal information against loss
or theft.
We safeguard
your personal information from unauthorized access,
disclosure, copying, use, or modification.
We protect
your personal
information regardless of the format in which it is held.
O P E N N E S S
We publish
this Policy so you may be informed about our practices for
the management of your personal information.
I N D I
V I D U A L A C C E S S
When requested,
we will:
> inform you if we have any
personal information about you,
> explain how it is or has been
used,
> provide you
with the name of any third party to which it was provided,
> give you access to
your information,
> correct
or amend any personal information if its accuracy and completeness
is challenged and found to be deficient,
> provide a copy of the
information requested, and
> provide
reasons for not granting access.
C
O M P L A I N T S
We will take
any complaint very seriously and investigate each with responsibility.
We will take appropriate measures to
adjust this Policy and/or our information handling practices
when a
shortcoming is identified.
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