Online Privacy Policy of Hitcalls.com

About Your Privacy

    This website, located at http://www.hitcalls.com (the Website), is owned and operated by High Intellectual Technologies Inc., carrying business as Hitcalls.com (HIT or we, us, or our). Your use of the Website and the goods and services offered on or through the Website (collectively, the Services), is governed exclusively by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the laws of Canada applicable therein.

    HIT greatly values the privacy of its customers and visitors. That being said, any personal information you disclose to HIT shall be treated in full compliance with the provisions of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (Canada) (PIPEDA). HIT has devised this online privacy policy and has implemented information management practices so as to fully comply with the requirements of PIPEDA.

Why Do We Gather Information?

    It is our goal to provide you with a unique and personalized Internet experience, and ensure that you receive information from us that is specific to your needs and interests. When you voluntarily provide us with personal information, HIT can enable you to participate in and benefit from the use of the Website and Services.

What Information Is Gathered?

    During registration, you will be required to give certain contact information (such as your name, address, postal code, telephone, fax number and e-mail address) and payment information (such as credit card number, cardholder name and expiration date). To obtain the Services, you will also be required to provide us with certain payment information (cardholder name, credit card number and expiration date).

    Other online features and services, such as online surveys, will ask you to provide contact information, demographic information (age, sex or income level) and personal interests.

    Information about your use of the Website (such as the date and time of your visit, the web pages that you have accessed, the Services and other features of the Website that you have used) may also automatically be collected.

How is Information Used?

    We use customer contact information from the registration process to send you information about our company and promotional information from some of our partners. Contact information may be used to contact you when necessary.

    Demographic information is collected to tailor your experience at our site, showing you content that we think you might be interested in, and displaying the content according to your preferences. We may also use information you have given us to present Web page advertisements that we hope will be of particular interest to you and e-mail advertisements with respect to our Services. Each such e-mail advertisement will provide you with the opportunity to opt-out from any future delivery of e-mail advertisements.

    Any financial information that may be collected will only used to effect the purposes of the Website and its policy and to provide and bill you for Services that you have purchased through the Website.

    We monitor and analyze traffic and use of the Website in order to determine which features and services are popular or useful for visitors, so that we can improve our services. We also may prepare aggregated user statistics or information summaries to describe our services and their popularity to our partners and prospective advertisers and for other lawful purposes.

    Some non-sensitive personal information collected may be shared with some of HITs service providers and HIT affiliates and subsidiaries that assist us in carrying out the purposes set forth on the Website and on the policy, delivering Services and providing you with personalized content and advertising. Any such service providers, affiliates and subsidiaries with whom we share any information are committed to maintaining the privacy of your information as outlined in this Privacy Policy.

    We may use a browser feature called cookies to store some personal information. We use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests, to save your user ID and/or password so you dont have to re-enter it each time you visit our site, and for other purposes. Cookies, by themselves, cannot be used to disclose your individual identity. This personal information identifies your browser, but not you, to our servers when you visit our site. If you opt not to accept cookies you may not be able to use some of the features on the Website.

Storage

    We will keep your personal information in secure data storage in order to safeguard it from unauthorized access, disclosure, modification and/or destruction. We will keep your personal information for as long as it remains necessary or relevant for the identified purposes or as required by law.

Correcting or Updating Your Personal Information

    At your request, we will provide you with reasonable access to your information that is in our records, and use reasonable efforts to allow you to update/correct personal information which you state is incorrect, to the extent the updating/correction will not compromise our privacy or security interests. Please be advised that it may be impossible to completely delete your information without some residual information because of backups. To exercise these options, please send an email to privacy@hitcalls.com.

Links to Other Websites

    Please note the Website contains links to other sites on the Internet. We cannot guarantee that any information that you may voluntarily disclose on the Internet outside our site is kept private. We also take no responsibility for private information that you disclose while on the Internet. If you have any questions regarding privacy of your information on other sites on the Internet, we suggest that you contact those sites directly.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

    We may change this privacy policy from time to time, and you are advised to check this page periodically for any changes. Your continued use of the Website and/or Services will constitute your acceptance of such changes.

Final Comments On Our Privacy Policy

    HIT is expressly committed to maintaining your privacy in accordance with the ten privacy principles outlined by the Canadian Standards Association, and also embodied in PIPEDA.

    To learn more about the Internet and your privacy here are some useful resources: Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (This site is Trustee certified)