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Our Privacy Policy

UPDATED: September 28, 2023

At S.P.R.S. protecting your privacy is very important to us. Our goal is to treat the personal information you provide to us with the utmost respect, and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy explains how personal information about you may be collected, used, or disclosed as a consequence of your activities on this Site. We urge you to read it carefully.

By accessing, using and/or downloading materials from or sending or posting materials to, this Site, you agree on your own behalf and on behalf of each entity on whose behalf you act, to the terms of this Privacy Policy and to the practices for the collection, use or disclosure of your personal information as described here.

Please note that this Site is also governed by the Terms and Conditions of Use. We urge you to review the Terms and Conditions of Use before proceeding further on this Site.

WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT? ANONYMOUS BROWSING
You can visit this Site without telling us who you are or revealing any information about yourself, including your email address. In this case, our Web server may collect the name, address, the IP address and domain you used to access this Site, the type and version of browser and operating system you are using, and the web site you came from and visit next. This information is used by us and our business partners to measure the number of visits, average time spent, page views, and other statistics about visitors to this Site in general. We may also use this data to monitor site performance for systems administration purposes, to make this Site easier and more convenient to use and to report information in aggregate form to our advisers (e.g. how many visitors log in to this Site).
COOKIES

Cookies are small pieces of data stored by your Internet browser on your computer’s hard drive, which permits us to recognise you when you access this Site. If you are browsing, a cookie is used to help us measure the number of visits, average time spent, page views, and other statistics relating to your use of this Site. If you are searching, a cookie is used to carry the search request data from the request page to the results page. This cookie, by itself, doesn’t tell us your email address or who you are. We may use cookies to recognize you on subsequent visits and make your on-line experience more convenient, unless prohibited by law. We may also use Facebook tracking pixels for web optimization. Please note portions of this Site will not function if you do not accept cookies.

S.P.R.S. tracks its website usage via Google Analytics to help inform its programming and marketing activities. If you wish to be excluded from Google Analytics data collection, you can download its Opt-Out Browser Add-On, which is accessible here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

In addition, we use Microsoft Clarity to capture user interactions on our websites such as, how the page is rendering, mouse movements, clicks, scrolls, and so on. Microsoft utilizes the system built by the Digital Advertising Alliance to enable opt-out experiences for customers. You can opt out of Clarity telemetry by selecting Microsoft here. If you install the Protect My Choices app for your browser, you can ensure your opt-out preference is saved.

Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter own and operate data centers around the world. To find out more about their data center locations and privacy policies, please see the following links:

https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/index.html
https://clarity.microsoft.com/terms
https://www.facebook.com/policy.php
https://twitter.com/en/privacy
https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875
https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

Where personal information is stored outside of Canada, it is subject to the laws of that foreign jurisdiction, and may be accessible to that jurisdiction’s government, courts, or law enforcement or regulatory agencies.

PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTION, USE AND DISTRIBUTION TO THIRD PARTIES GENERALLY

There are times when we may ask you for or you may choose to provide information about yourself or your business to assist us in meeting your various needs. This information may be used for the following purposes: answering your questions, providing you with services you have requested, giving producers and developers of the Site information that is useful in determining appropriate new features, content and services, to provide advertisers with aggregate, not individual, information about our customers, or informing you of additional services or products provided by S.P.R.S. or by our business partners, that may interest you.

To provide these services, we may need to ask you directly to provide, among other things, your name, mailing address, postal code, email address and phone number (“Registration Information”). You may also elect to purchase one of our services or products. Purchasing services\products with us may require us to gather additional personal information (including credit or debit card information, where appropriate).

At times, we also conduct on-line surveys to better understand the needs, profiles, and experience of our visitors. You will be given the option to participate in such surveys. Unless you request to receive the results of the survey via email, no personal information is requested during such surveys and all information is used on an aggregated basis only. If, during the registration process, you indicate you would like us to keep you updated on new site developments and information about our services or products from S.P.R.S., we will send you these updates by email.

If you contact S.P.R.S. we may keep a record of that correspondence. We do not collect the email addresses of those who communicate with S.P.R.S. via email. We use the information provided only so that we may respond to the email. We do not knowingly solicit information from children and we do not knowingly market our services to children.

When you provide personal information to us, we may communicate and disclose it to third parties for the purpose of fulfilling, servicing and completing your requests and the transactions related to it. These third parties may be in the Canada or in other parts of the world. By registering with S.P.R.S., you agree that your information may be shared with third parties for the purpose of fulfilling, servicing and completing your requests and transactions related to it.

We may also aggregate statistics that we gather about the visitors to the Site, sales, traffic patterns, and services and provide these statistics to third parties; however, when we do, these statistics will not include any personal information that identifies individuals.

We may also use, disclose and communicate your personal information if required to do so by law including by an order of any court. Although we use all reasonable means to ensure that the information you provide to us is not used by third parties for purposes other than those described in this Privacy Policy, S.P.R.S. is not responsible for any improper use of your personal information that is beyond our reasonable control.

CHANGES TO THE WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY

S.P.R.S. reserves the right to modify or supplement this Privacy Policy statement at any time without notice and accordingly you should review the Website Privacy Policy regularly. You will find the date of the last revision of the Website Privacy Policy at the top of the page.

Please look at the top of this Privacy Policy to check the date that it was updated and to confirm that you are familiar with the terms of the most recent update. Your continued use of this Site will constitute your acceptance of the new terms and their application to your use of this Site and the personal information disclosed for such use, including personal information previously furnished us, as if they were the initial terms, and your consent to the use of your personal information as described in this privacy policy and elsewhere at our Website.

WEBSITE LINKS
This Site may contain links to other sites, including those of our business partners, vendors and advertisers. While we try to link only to sites that share our high standards and respect for privacy, please understand that we are not responsible for the content of, or the privacy practices employed by, other sites.
HAVE QUESTIONS?
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, we’ll do our best to answer them. Here’s how to contact us: E-mail: hello@sprs.ca Address: 9763 – 60 Avenue Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6E 0C4