Privacy

Protecting the privacy and the confidentiality of personal information, over the Internet, on the telephone, or through our offices is fundamental to the way the New Brunswick Chamber of Commerce (the "New Brunswick Chamber") conducts its affairs. The New Brunswick Chamber operates on the basis of a Privacy Policy and related procedures that guide the handling of the personal information collected. This privacy statement has been created to demonstrate the New Brunswick Chamber’s firm commitment to protecting the privacy of its members, partners and potential Web site visitors.

Privacy Statement
This policy deals only with personal information handled by the New Brunswick Chamber of Commerce. Personal information is information about an identifiable individual, excluding business contact information. The following explains how the New Brunswick Chamber handles personal information. The New Brunswick Chamber reserves the right to change this policy and it may be updated periodically. These changes may affect the use of personal information. Accordingly, please check for changes regularly.

Purposes for Collection, Use and Disclosure of Personal Information
The purpose for which the New Brunswick Chamber collects personal information will be identified at or before the time the information is collected. Personal information may be collected for such purposes as:
• administering New Brunswick Chamber membership and providing member services;
• registering for New Brunswick Chamber events, for example the Annual General Meeting;
• purchasing various products or services including, but not limited to carnet, document certification, or publications; and
• processing and administering the above or other purposes as necessary.
The New Brunswick Chamber will not use personal information for any other purpose than identified at or before the time of collection.

Member Services
The New Brunswick Chamber may collect employee contact information from its members in order t
• send out newsletters and other relevant information
• inform members of upcoming New Brunswick Chamber events
• send out invoices and otherwise administer New Brunswick Chamber membership

This contact information is voluntarily provided by New Brunswick Chamber members. Members may, at any time, be taken off of New Brunswick Chamber mailing lists at their request.

Consent
The New Brunswick Chamber seeks consent for all personal information it collects, uses and discloses through information provided to individuals prior to collection, or at the time of collection. For information which is considered to be more sensitive, for example credit card numbers, the New Brunswick Chamber will ask for a signature as a sign of consent.

If information is voluntarily provided, this is interpreted as consent to the collection, use and disclosure of personally identifiable information as described in this Privacy Policy. The New Brunswick Chamber will not use personal information for any purpose other than that for which consent has been provided. Should the New Brunswick Chamber require use of personal information for a new purpose, consent will be sought for that new use.

Limits for Collecting, Using, Disclosing and Keeping Personal Information
The New Brunswick Chamber does not collect, use or disclose personal information of individuals except when individuals give consent and provide the information on a voluntary basis. There may be occasions where more specific personal information is necessary for the New Brunswick Chamber to proceed with a request for information, or provide a product or service; for example in cases of membership, or feedback forms. In such cases, the New Brunswick Chamber will describe the information required. In all such cases, the New Brunswick Chamber limits the amount and type of information collected to only the personal information that is required to provide the individual with the requested information, product, or service. The New Brunswick Chamber collects only information that is voluntarily provided by the individual and undertakes that such information will be kept strictly confidential.

The New Brunswick Chamber may disclose personal information collected by it without the knowledge or consent of the individual, for example to its lawyers; for purposes relating to an investigation under, the enforcement of or the administration of a law or where required by law to disclose the information. The New Brunswick Chamber will not use or disclose personal information without the knowledge or consent of the individual except as authorized by applicable law.

The New Brunswick Chamber retains personal information only as long as is necessary to provide the individual with the requested product, service or information. For example, if personal information is given to register for an event, the personal information will only be used for this event and will then be deleted or destroyed. In some cases, however, legal reporting or retention requirements necessitate that the New Brunswick Chamber retains information for a specific amount of time. In general, the New Brunswick Chamber retains personal information for a period not longer than seven years, in secure storage.

The New Brunswick Chamber does not sell or trade any personal information with third parties. Information may be transferred to third parties where information processing is outsourced by the New Brunswick Chamber in the course of its activities or administrative procedures in specific cases. Where personal information is transferred to a service provider for processing, the New Brunswick Chamber requires service providers to respect this Privacy Policy. Service providers are restricted from using or disclosing personal information transferred to them for any purpose other than the provision of services to the Chamber. Any personal information that the New Brunswick Chamber retains is kept in such a manner as to ensure its security and confidentiality at all times.

Safeguarding Personal Information
The New Brunswick Chamber respects the privacy of its members, partners, potential Web site visitors and internet users and will protect that privacy as vigorously as possible. Personal information is stored in electronic and physical files that are secure. Security measures include secure locks on filing cabinets, and using industry standard techniques such as firewalls, encryption, intrusion detection and restricted access to computers. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while the New Brunswick Chamber strives to protect personal information, it cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information transmitted to it or received from it electronically. This is especially true for information transmitted via e-mail. The New Brunswick Chamber has no way of protecting that information until it reaches it. Once a transmission is received, the New Brunswick Chamber makes its best efforts to ensure its security on its servers. Internally, access to personal information is restricted to employees who need access to the information in order to do their jobs. These employees are limited in number, and are knowledgeable about and committed to our privacy policies.

Accuracy of and Access to Personal Information Collected
The New Brunswick Chamber makes every effort to keep personal information as accurate, complete, current and relevant as necessary for the identified purposes. The New Brunswick Chamber does not routinely update personal information.

The New Brunswick Chamber makes readily available to individuals its Privacy Policy and related procedures for managing personal information. Customer access to the Privacy Policy and related procedures is provided on the New Brunswick Chamber of Commerce’s Web site and in written form.

Use of the New Brunswick Chamber of Commerce Web Site
The New Brunswick Chamber of Commerce (the "New Brunswick Chamber") believes that online privacy is important to the success of the Internet and electronic commerce in general and is strongly committed to each visitor’s right to privacy. This statement sets forth New Brunswick Chamber’s Privacy Policy for its Web site located at www.nbchamber.ca and describes the practices that the New Brunswick Chamber follows in respect to the privacy of the users of this site. By accessing and using materials from this Web site or sending or posting materials to it, you (the "user") agrees to the terms of this privacy commitment and to our practices to collect, use or disclose personal information.

This Privacy Statement may be updated periodically to reflect enhancements to the New Brunswick Chamber Web site that may affect the use of personal information. Accordingly, please check back periodically.

Information on this Web Site
Information which includes all facts, data and other information, collectively the "Information" in the pages of this Web site is of a general nature, is intended only for informational purposes, is subject to change without notice, and is not intended to be relied on by visitors as binding legal advice on any particular matter.

Individual information provided to the New Brunswick Chamber to gain access to any feature of this Web site will not be sold or made available to any third party, except where information processing is outsourced by the New Brunswick Chamber in the course of its regular administrative procedures.

The New Brunswick Chamber reserves the right to perform statistical analyses of aggregated user behavior and characteristics, in order to measure interest in and use of the various sections of its site so as to improve design and navigation and to gather information for marketing purposes. Only aggregated data from these analyses, not individual data, will be used for this purpose.

"Cookies" are not attached to the New Brunswick Chamber Web site. A "cookie" is a piece of data that is stored on the hard drive of a computer that contains information about use of the Web site. Other Web sites may contain "cookies" that accumulate information about Web site use, for example a record of the Web sites that an individual has visited.

Accuracy of the Information on this Web Site
The information is believed to be accurate, complete and current when posted, but the New Brunswick Chamber cannot guarantee that it will remain accurate or complete or that it will be current at all times.
The New Brunswick Chamber is not responsible for direct, indirect, special or consequential damages, regardless of the cause, arising out the use of this Web site.

Accuracy of Information on Linked Web Sites
Through the links to other sites found on the New Brunswick Chamber’s Web site, the user may enter domains that are beyond the boundaries of the New Brunswick Chamber and, once there, the New Brunswick Chamber is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these Web sites. The New Brunswick Chamber has no control over the accuracy, completeness or relevance of the information on these sites and provides links to these sites solely for the information and convenience of visitors to our Web site.

Copying Information from this Web Site
The information on the New Brunswick Chamber Web site may be used or copied provided that it is used or copied accurately, or is used in its entirety and/or that the source of the information is clearly identified. Only a member of the New Brunswick Chamber may use the information for commercial purposes. The New Brunswick Chamber is not responsible for the way in which the information may be used or copied. The New Brunswick Chamber reserves the right to change, delete or add information at any time.

For more information about the Chamber's Privacy Policy, contact us at info@nbchamber.ca.