Feronia Inc. respects your right to privacy protection while using this website. This Privacy Policy explains what personal information we collect when you visit the website and how we use, disclose, and safeguard your personal information. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, “personal information” shall be interpreted in a manner that conforms with the minimum requirements of applicable provincial and federal privacy legislation.
COLLECTION AND USE OF INFORMATION:
Generally, Feronia Inc. does not require you to provide personal information in order to access, open or browse this website. However, if you wish to utilize certain features of the website, obtain information about Feronia Inc. or register for a mailing list, you will be asked to provide certain personal information in order to process your request. Such personal information is intended only for Feronia Inc. (or one of its affiliates) who is responsible for its processing. The choice to provide us with your personal information, either directly or through a third party, is always yours. Upon your request, Feronia Inc. will remove your name from any mailing list you have registered for.
Feronia does not sell, disseminate, exchange or disclose personal information to third parties unless we are legally obligated or entitled to do so, have your written authorization to do so or in event of a proposed or actual financing, insuring, sale, securitization, assignment or other disposal of all or part of our business or assets (including accounts) for the purposes of evaluating and/or performing the proposed transaction. Our successors and assigns may collect, use and disclose your personal information for substantially the same purposes as those set out in this Privacy Policy. In the event a proposed transaction does not go through, we will require, by contract, the other party or parties to the transaction not to use or disclose your personal information in any manner whatsoever for any purpose, and to return or destroy such personal information.
Certain non-personal information may be recorded by the standard operation of Feronia Inc.’s servers. In order to help administer this website and enhance your online experience, the servers may gather information pertaining to the date and time of your visit, the pages of the website that you visited, your path through the website, your IP address, the type of browser and operating system you are using, and the third-party web sites or advertisements linked to or from the website that you visited. type of browser or operating system being used or your IP address. For this purpose, we may use cookies, clear gifs, frames, server log analysis and other technology. Information pertaining to your visits to the website that is collected through these technologies will be anonymous unless you provide, or have provided, us with personal information. Any information collected through the use of these technologies will be handled according to this Privacy Policy.
We may use this information to improve the quality of the website and to better understand how users interact with the website. In addition, we may use this information to comply with any requirements of law or for internal purposes. We may also use this information for system administration and troubleshooting, ensuring user compliance with our terms of service, investigating security breaches and compiling anonymous non-personal information such as how many users visited the website.
Except as otherwise permitted or required by law, your personal information will be retained for so long as is reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected.
SECURITY:
Security for all personal information is important to us. We strive to take reasonable technical measures to prevent loss or unintended use of information transmitted to us at the time of collection or storage. To ensure that your personal information is protected, we utilize security safeguards that are on par with the industry standard. We use modern technologies in an effort to ensure that your personal information is not compromised.
USE OF COOKIES:
Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to an individual's computer hard drive for identification purposes. The use of cookies also allows us to capture standard web traffic information, such as the time and date you visited our website, your IP address, language preference, and your browser information. This information may be used for customization the next time you visit this website. Your web browser may permit you to be notified when you are receiving a cookie, giving you the choice to accept it or not. By not accepting cookies, some pages of this website, which use cookies, may not fully function and you may not be able to access certain information on this website. In no circumstances do the cookies capture any information that can personally identify you.
USE OF IP ADDRESSES:
An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer by your internet service provider whenever you are surfing the internet. When you access our website, our servers may record your IP address. We may use IP addresses for system administration and troubleshooting, ensuring user compliance with our terms of use, investigating security breaches and compiling anonymous non-personal information such as how many users visited the website. Feronia Inc. does not link IP addresses to any information that is personally identifiable.
QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS:
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, you may contact us at info@feronia.com or via postal mail at:
181 Bay Street, Suite 1800
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5J 2T9
MODIFICATION OF THIS POLICY:
Feronia Inc. reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to modify, alter, or otherwise revise this Privacy Policy at any time without notice, and you agree to be bound by such modifications, alterations, and revisions. Any changes to our privacy standards and information handling practices will be reflected in this Privacy Policy in a timely manner. Please check this page periodically for any modifications.
WEBSITE GOVERNED BY THE PRIVACY POLICY:
Our website is governed by the provisions and practices stated in this Privacy Policy. Our website may contain links to third party websites that are not governed by this Privacy Policy that may collect personal information. Please be aware that this Privacy Policy will no longer apply once you leave our website and that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of third party websites. We therefore suggest that you closely examine the respective privacy policies of third party websites to learn how they collect, use and disclose your personal information.
GOVERNING LAW:
This Privacy Policy and all related matters are governed solely by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the applicable federal laws of Canada.
Feronia Inc.’s website is hosted by a service provider located in and governed by the law of the United Kingdom. You agree and acknowledge that, as a result, your personal information may be processed, used, stored and accessed in the United Kingdom and may be subject to the laws of that country, which laws may be different than the laws of Canada, including granting access to information rights given to foreign governmental authorities under certain circumstances.
Effective June 24, 2015
