PRIVACY POLICY

At www.simardugal.com we value and share your concerns about your privacy and security. By visiting us, the user has agreed to read, browse and access all our information subject to the guidelines and terms of use applicable to such services. 

If you visit or shop at www.simardugal.com, you accept the following conditions. Please read them carefully. In addition, when you use any current or future www.simardugal.com service or visit or purchase from any business affiliated with www.simardugal.com, whether or not included in the www.simardugal.com website, you will also be subject to the guidelines and conditions applicable to such service or business.

When you use our Website, we collect and store your personal information which is provided by you from time to time. Our primary goal in doing so is to provide you a safe, efficient, smooth and customized experience. This allows us to provide services and features that most likely meet your needs, and to customize our Website to make your experience safer and easier. More importantly, while doing so we collect personal information from you that we consider necessary for achieving this purpose.

In general, you can browse the Website without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself. Once you give us your personal information, you are not anonymous to us. Where possible, we indicate which fields are required and which fields are optional. You always have the option to not provide information by choosing not to use a particular service or feature on the Website. We may automatically track certain information about you based upon your behaviour on our Website. We use this information to do internal research on our users' demographics, interests, and behaviour to better understand, protect and serve our users. This information is compiled and analyzed on an aggregated basis. This information may include the URL that you just came from (whether this URL is on our Website or not), which URL you next go to (whether this URL is on our Website or not), your computer browser information, and your IP address.

If you choose to buy on the Website, we collect information about your buying behaviour.

If you transact with us, we collect some additional information, such as a billing address, a credit/ debit card number and a credit/ debit card expiration date and/ or other payment instrument details and tracking information from cheques or money orders.

If you choose to post messages on our message boards, chat rooms or other message areas or leave feedback, we will collect that information you provide to us. We retain this information as necessary to resolve disputes, provide customer support and troubleshoot problems as permitted by law.

If you send us personal correspondence, such as emails or letters, or if other users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities or postings on the Website, we may collect such information into a file specific to you.

We collect personally identifiable information (email address, name, phone number, credit card/ debit card / other payment instrument details, etc.) from you when you set up a free account with us. While you can browse some sections of our Website without being a registered member, certain activities (such as placing an order) do require registration. We do use your contact information to send you offers based on your previous orders and your interests.

The Website links to other websites that may collect personally identifiable information about you. The website is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those linked websites.

SHARING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may share personal information with our other corporate entities and affiliates. These entities and affiliates may market to you as a result of such sharing unless you explicitly opt-out.

We may employ third parties’ services to facilitate or outsource one or more aspects of the business, product and service operations that we provide to you on the Site (e.g., search technology, discussion boards, bill collection, affiliate and rewards programs, co-branded credit cards) and therefore we may provide some of your personal information to these internal service providers. These internal service providers are subject to confidentiality agreements with us and other legal restrictions that prohibit their use of your personal information for any other purpose except to facilitate the specific outsourced service. In the event of your direct involvement with the internal service provider, any additional information disclosed by you to them shall be subject to internal service provider’s own applicable privacy policy and the Website shall not be responsible for the same.

We may disclose personal information to third parties. This disclosure may be required for us to provide you access to our Services, to comply with our legal obligations, to facilitate our marketing and advertising activities, or to prevent, detect, mitigate, and investigate fraudulent or illegal activities related to our Services. We do not disclose your personal information to third parties for their marketing and advertising purposes without your explicit consent.

We may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal processes. We may disclose personal information to law enforcement offices, third party rights owners, or others in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to: enforce our Terms or Privacy Policy; respond to claims that an advertisement, posting or other content violates the rights of a third party; or protect the rights, property or personal safety of our users or the general public.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

Use of www.simardugal.com and its contents grants no rights to you in relation to any copyright, designs, trademarks and all other intellectual property and material rights, including www.simardugal.com's Software and all HTML and other code contained in this Site. Any violation of our trademarks, copyrights, designs will be liable for legal action. 

All content included on this Site, such as text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio clips, digital downloads, data compilations, page layouts and software, is the property of www.simardugal.com or its content suppliers. The compilation of all content on this site is the exclusive property of www.simardugal.com. All software used on this Site is the property of www.simardugal.com and/or its software suppliers.

ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS

When you use our Site or send emails or other data, information, or communication to us, you agree and understand that you are communicating with us through electronic records, and you consent to receive communications via electronic records from us periodically. We will communicate with you by email or by an electronic record on our Site which will be deemed adequate service of notice/electronic record.