VANCOUVER FREE PRESS PUBLISHING CORPORATION ONLINE PRIVACY STATEMENT

Vancouver Free Press Publishing Corporation respects the privacy of all of its online visitors and is committed to protecting such privacy in accordance with this Privacy Statement.

This Privacy Statement is to inform you how Vancouver Free Press Publishing Corporation gathers and uses your personal and non-personal information when you visit the website. Vancouver Free Press Publishing Corporation reserves the right to change this Privacy Statement at any time by notifying visitors to this website of the existence of a new Privacy Statement. We urge you to read this Privacy Statement carefully and to check back periodically as it may change form time to time.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

We do not collect personal information about you unless you specifically and knowingly provide such information to us. We collect personal information when you choose to provide it to us when registering for a Vancouver Free Press Publishing Corporation service such as when you choose to enter a Vancouver Free Press Publishing Corporation contest or promotion. In the above-mentioned instance, personal information collected may include your name, address, phone number, age, and e-mail address or other information specifically identified on a web page.

Personal Information is only used by Vancouver Free Press Publishing Corporation for the purposes stated at the time of collection or as otherwise set out in this section.

If you have participated in an online activity, your personal information will only be used for the purposes of that online activity, unless you otherwise provide us with your consent.

OTHER INFORMATION COLLECTED

Non-personal information may also be extracted or compiled from the information we collect. Such information may be used to generate statistics and aggregate reports for internal use by Vancouver Free Press Publishing Corporation and its affiliates, subsidiaries, licensees, successors, assigns, suppliers and advertisers. In this instance, these statistics and reports will contain only aggregated and no personally identifiable information. Your identity will be kept strictly anonymous.

Vancouver Free Press Publishing Corporation may use web server logs as well as 'cookies' - simple text files that web browsers place on computer hard drives when sites are visited - to help us measure the number of visits, which pages have been viewed, average amount of time spent on the website and other such statistics relating to use of our site. This information, by itself, doesn't tell us your email address or who you are, no personal information is stored within the server logs or the cookies, nor do cookies damage files or read information from a user's hard drive. Please note certain features on our sites may not function if you do not accept cookies. We do not link the any data collected to any personal information submitted online.

INFORMATION DISCLOSURE

In some instances, we work with outside parties to administer contests, promotions and other online activities. This may involve the collection of personal information. In such cases, we will only share you information when you have specifically given us your consent to disclose it for a designated purpose.

There may also be instances in which we are required by law to provide personal information without your consent. Such instances include emergency situations, or where required by governmental or other legal order.

Other than as indicated above, we will not sell, rent, share or otherwise make available your personal information to any outside parties without your consent. In such a case, we will tell you for what purpose such information will be disclosed and we will ask for your consent to distribute the information. If we receive no response, we will assume that you do not want your information to be sold, rented, shared with or otherwise made available to outside parties

PRIVACY OF CHILDREN

We will not knowingly collect or retain any personal information of visitors to our websites who are under the age of 13, unless we obtain parental or legal guardian consent. Such information will never be sold, rented, shared or otherwise made available to outside parties without parental or legal guardian consent unless we are required to do so by court, governmental or other legal order.

It is possible that some information presented on our website is not suitable for children and we encourage and support the efforts of parents and legal guardians of children to monitor their children's Internet usage and to caution them against providing personal information to any website without their permission.

MORE INFORMATION

Vancouver Free Press Publishing Corporation is committed to maintaining and protecting your privacy as a visitor to this website. However, we remind you that the Internet is not a secure medium. As such, your privacy cannot be guaranteed when you communicate online or otherwise visit any website. The nature of Internet communications means that your communications may be susceptible to data corruption, interception and delays.

For more information about Vancouver Free Press Publishing Corporation's privacy regime or contact Vancouver Free Press Publishing Corporation via the 'Contact' link on the Site.

For more information about the use of this website, read the Terms and Conditions page here.