APAP Inspection Inc. (we, our or APAP Inspection) is committed to respecting your privacy and ensuring the personal information you provide will be protected and processed following the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and all other applicable data protection laws.

This privacy policy explains how APAP Inspection collects, uses, and shares your personal information, how we ensure the privacy and protection of this information, and your data protection rights in connection with this website and our services.

Please read this policy to ensure that you fully appreciate the purpose of APAP Inspection’s processing of your personal information.

Personal information we may collect

We may collect and process the following information:

• Your contact information, including your name, address, telephone number, and email address when you use our services
• Detailed information about your computer or device, browser type, IP address, and browsing activity on our website
• When you participate in any blog, community, or forum we operate on our website, including the information you provide in any communication
• Any additional personal information that you may provide to APAP Inspection, from time to time if you contact us by email, letter, or telephone, through the APAP Inspection website, or by any other means.

Why we use your personal information

We may use the personal information collected to:

• Provide our APAP Inspection services to you
• Manage our relationship with you, which may include notifying you about changes to the APAP Inspection service
• Request that you take a survey or leave a review
• Respond to inquiries from you and other third parties and inquiries from law enforcement agencies in accordance with applicable laws
• Evaluate the usefulness of advertising APAP Inspection may provide to you
• Meet our contractual responsibilities, legal obligations, and applicable industry standards, and
• Allow APAP Inspection to establish, exercise, or defend our lawful rights and legal claims.

The personal information collected and processed by APAP Inspection will be limited to the purposes specified in the privacy policy.

How we collect your personal information

The methods that we may use to collect your information include:

• When you communicate with APAP Inspection through our website, including completing contact forms
• Through the use of cookies as you interact with the APAP Inspection website or mobile application
• When you communicate with APAP Inspection by email, phone, post, and mail
• When you take an APAP Inspection survey
• When you sign up for our newsletter
• When you submit feedback on our services
• Communicating with us through any of our social media channels
• By way of direct marketing communications, and
• Information APAP Inspection may receive from external third parties and gain from publicly available sources.

Our basis for processing personal information

APAP Inspection will only ever process your personal information where we have a legal basis that includes the following;

• Where APAP Inspection has requested you to provide consent to process your data for a particular purpose.
• The processing of your information is required by APAP Inspection to satisfy a contractual arrangement that we have agreed with you.
• If APAP Inspection has a statutory or other legal obligation to process your information to comply with any applicable law.

Who do we share your data with?

APAP Inspection may share personal information with third parties for the following purposes:

• Third-party providers that support APAP Inspection operate our business, including providers of analytics, technology services, marketing, advertising, data storage, and hosting
• Law enforcement agencies and regulators, to meet APAP Inspection’s legal responsibilities and process requests or orders received from those bodies
• Courts, legal counsels, or other parties, where required by APAP Inspection, and in respect of legal proceedings, claims, and complaints in this context
• Where APAP Inspection is sold or amalgamated with another organization, our advisers and any potential purchaser’s adviser, and the new owners of the business.

Your confidentially is of the highest importance to APAP Inspection, we will not sell your information to third parties.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files containing a string of characters that the APAP Inspection website places on your computer or device when you visit our site. APAP Inspection uses cookies to help users browse our website effectively and perform certain functions.

You can disable cookies, though this may limit the functionality of the APAP Inspection website.

You can find more information on how to control, disable and delete cookies by visiting www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

For further details on how we may use cookies, please review our Cookie Policy.

Marketing Communications

APAP Inspection may process your personal information for marketing activities, where you have given consent and opted in. If you wish to opt out of such communications in the future, you can do so at any time by contacting us at Info@apapinspection.ca.

Data security

APAP Inspection attaches great importance to data privacy and your personal information. We ensure appropriate security measures are in place according to the type of processing and regular inspections performed to ensure they remain adequate.

Data retention

APAP Inspection will not retain your personal information for longer than is necessary for the purpose it was collected, which means it will be destroyed when it is no longer needed.

In some cases, APAP Inspection may anonymize your personal information for research or statistical purposes (meaning it is no longer associated with you), in which case APAP Inspection may use this information indefinitely, without notice.

Third-party links

We want your experience of the APAP Inspection website to be the most informative as possible. We may include appropriate links to websites operated by third parties on this website. However, APAP Inspection does not have control over these sites, nor do we assume any responsibility. We suggest that you read the privacy policy of each website you visit before submitting any personal information through these websites.

Children’s privacy protection

APAP Inspection Services are not intended for children. We do not knowingly collect, retain, or target data about children.

Your rights

According to the PIPEDA, and where applicable data protection laws apply, you may:

• Request access to your information that we process
• Request we correct any of your information that is determined to be inaccurate
• Ask that we delete your information, and
• Inform us if you wish to opt out of marketing communications.

If you wish to make a request or have any concerns, please see the “How to contact us” section for our contact details.

If you are unsatisfied with how we have addressed your concerns, you have the right to make a complaint to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner. However, we would like the opportunity to resolve any issue you may have prior to contacting the Privacy Commissioner.

Data transfer

APAP Inspection does do transfer your information outside of Canada. If this were to change in the future we will only transfer your information outside of Canada where suitable levels of protection are in place to ensure the privacy and security of your personal information and appropriate security measures followed that comply with all applicable data protection laws.

Changes to this policy

APAP Inspection may make changes to this policy when needed, for example, compliance with legislative changes.

You should review this policy regularly to ensure you are up to date with any changes.

How to contact us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or want to exercise any of your rights, please contact us at Info@apapinspection.ca.