Privacy Policy
Vantage Communications Ltd. respects your privacy. This statement of our Privacy Policy
explains what information we gather from you and how we use that information. We
consider the information you have shared with us strictly confidential and will
use that information only as specified in this Privacy Policy or to the extent
necessary to comply with applicable law.
Information We Gather and How We Use It
We collect certain information from you in order to provide you with the best
user experience possible.
We use your IP address to identify you, to gather demographic information that
helps us understand how you and our other customers use our Web site, and to
administer our Web site. If you purchase items through the Marketplace, your IP
address is used to help match you with your shopping cart.
Our registration form requires you to give us contact information (like your
name and email address), demographic information (like your postal/zip code,
age, occupation and income level, etc.) and profile information (like your
investment experience). We use your contact information to contact you about our
Web site and provide you with information and promotional material from our
partners and advertisers. We use various other portions of your information to
comply with the Toronto Stock Exchange, New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock
Market regulations regarding the distribution of real-time information, to
target advertising, and to personalize our Web site by showing you content that
we think you might be interested in and displaying the content according to your
preferences.
We sometimes conduct or sponsor surveys and contests on our Web site. If you
elect to participate, we may ask you for contact, demographic and other
information as part of these offerings. We would use this information to analyze
and report on the results of surveys, to provide you with the results of the
surveys and contests, and to send you information about our company and
promotional material from our partners and advertisers. Participation in
surveys, contests and e-blasts are completely voluntary.
From time to time we may supplement information that you provide to us with
information received from third parties.
Information We May Disclose
We share demographic, profile and other general information about you and our
other customers with our advertisers on an aggregate basis. This means that we
tell our advertisers general information about the characteristics of our
customer base such as how many female visitors and registered users we have
within a certain postal code, but we do not specifically identify a particular
female visitor or provide her contact information to our advertisers.
Our advertisers may ask us to mail or e-mail you promotional information
tailored to your interests. We will send you this information on behalf of our
advertisers. From time to time we may use third parties (pursuant to a
confidentiality agreement) to assist us in e-mail broadcasts and list
management. You may opt-out of receiving these mailings by editing your account
settings.
We may disclose your contact information or other specific information about you
to third parties in conjunction with advertising, contests or new service
offerings that you elect to participate in.
We may share your contact information with our strategic partners and certain
other companies. These selected entities may send you information by e-mail or
regular mail, or may contact you by telephone.
We may from time to time sell or transfer your contact and demographic
information to affiliates and non-affiliates of the Company.
As we continually look for ways to improve our business, we may buy or sell a
company. If we buy or sell a business, the names collected will likely be
transferred as a part of the sale. Information about registrants will be used in
the aggregate. However, if we buy a business, we will honour the requests that
customers made of that business regarding e-mail communications. In the event
that we sell a business, we will do everything in our power to ensure that the
e-mail communications requests you made of us are honoured.
We may release your contact and other information to third parties when we
believe that such release is reasonably necessary to (i) comply with law, (ii)
cooperate with state and federal regulatory agency investigations, (iii) comply
with the terms of the Subscriber Agreements with the TSX, Nasdaq and the New
York Stock Exchange, (iv) enforce the terms of our User Agreement or License
Agreement, or (v) protect the rights of Vantage Communications Ltd. or others.
Cookies
Our Web site uses cookies which deposit certain record keeping information in
your hard drive. We use cookies to save your password so you don't have to
re-enter it each time you visit our site, keep track of your preferences,
deliver content specific to your interests, make sure you don't see the same ad
repeatedly, keep track of your shopping cart and order status, and for other
similar purposes. These cookies can't read other data from your hard drive or
read cookie files created by other sites or applications.
Our Web site contains display ads sold by us or by outside advertising agencies.
These ads may contain cookies which will be deposited in your hard drive if you
click on the ads. Information generated from cookies deposited on your hard
drive by our advertisers is collected by our advertisers and we do not have
access to this information.
Most browsers are set to accept cookies unless you reconfigure your browser to
refuse them or to notify you when you have received one. If you do not accept
cookies, you will not be able to use certain features of our site.
Subscriptions and Purchases
You may subscribe for a fee to certain services through our Web site or purchase
publications and merchandise through the Marketplace. If you subscribe for
services which require payment of a fee or place an order with us through the
Marketplace, we will need your contact information and certain financial
information such as your credit card number. Any financial information we
collect will be used solely to bill you for the services and items you have
purchased and to electronically deliver or ship items to you.
Public Forums
Chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups are available to you
through our Web site. Please remember that any information disclosed in these
areas becomes public information. If you post personal information online that
is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited responses. You should
exercise caution when deciding to disclose any of your personal information in a
public forum.
Security
Our Web site has certain security measures in place in effort to protect the
loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.
Links to Other Web Sites
Our Web site contains links to other sites. Vantagewire.com is not responsible
for the privacy practices or the content of such sites. You may wish to review
the privacy policies of these sites.
Third Party Advertising
We use Commission Junction, Google Adsense and other third-party advertising
companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use
information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone
number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide
advertisements on this site and other sites about goods and services that may be
of interest to you.
Third Party Cookies
In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertiser
may place or recognize a unique 'cookie' on your browser.
Your Options
You may choose not to register for real-time quotes. Access to delayed quotes
does not require registration.
You may opt-out of receiving communications from us and/or our partners. Your
options include:
Opting to not receive promotional materials from our advertisers and/or,
Opting to not receive any newsletters, notices about new services or any other
content from Vantagewire.com.
You may opt-out during the registration process or after registering by
selecting the "delete account" option in your Account Profile, or by contacting
us by e-mail at:
support@vantagewire.com. Every e-mail we send to you will provide you with
instructions on how to unsubscribe so that you will not receive any future
e-mails.
Correct or Update Your Information
You may correct or update any information previously provided to us by visiting
us the Account Profile section of the site, or by contacting us by by e-mail
Contacting Us
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this
site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact our head office at:
Vantage Communications Ltd.
Suite 510 - 1199 West Pender Street
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada
V6E 2R1
support@vantagewire.com
Additional Information
Please also refer to the Terms &
Conditions and Disclaimer
for additional privacy related information.
For general information about Internet privacy issues, you may wish to also
visit the Web site hosted by the US Federal Trade Commission at
http://www.ftc.gov/privacy.
We may from time to time revise this Privacy Policy.
This statement of our
Privacy Policy was last revised on March 1, 2008.
