Three pieces of legal text should be reviewed:
1. Copyright
2. Website terms & Conditions
3. Security & Privacy
1. Copyright
Copyright © 2003 MasStor All rights reserved. ?Use of this site indicates you accept the Internet Disclaimer Statement as contained herein.
2. Website Terms & Conditions
Use of Information: You may use the information available on this site (the "Information"),but:
1. only if "© 2003 MasStor " or "Copyright 2003 MasStor" appears plainly in all copies; and 2. you may not modify the Information without our written consent.
We reserve all other rights in the Information.
Reliance on Information: To the best of our ability, we put Information on our site that we believe is accurate when posted. We do NOT, however, warrant the Information's accuracy, adequacy, or completeness. Local statutes, regulations, and customs directly affect many of the areas in which we provide consulting services, so the Information is necessarily general.
No liability for errors or omissions:
WE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN THE INFORMATION. WE MAY CHANGE THE INFORMATION AT ANY TIME WITHOUT NOTICE, AND WE MAKE NO COMMITMENT TO UPDATE THE INFORMATION. WE PROVIDE THE INFORMATION "AS IS," WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD-PARTY RIGHTS, TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR FREEDOM FROM COMPUTER VIRUS.
Outside links: We may provide links to other Web sites as a service. WE MAKE NO REPRESENTATION WHATSOEVER ABOUT ANY OTHER WEB SITES THAT YOU MAY ACCESS THROUGH THIS ONE. OUR LINKING TO ANOTHER WEB SITE DOES NOT MEAN THAT WE ENDORSE OR ACCEPT ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR THAT WEB SITE'S CONTENT OR USE OR THAT WE ARE AFFILIATED IN ANY WAY WITH THAT SITE'S OWNER. WE DO NOT INVESTIGATE, VERIFY, MONITOR, OR ENDORSE ANY OTHER WEB SITE.
No liability for damages: WE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGE, LOSSES, OR EXPENSES, WHETHER DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL, BASED ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH:
1. THE USE OF THE INFORMATION OR ANY INFORMATION ON A LINKED WEB SITE;
2. THE INABILITY TO USE SUCH INFORMATION; OR ?3. ANY FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE, ERROR, OMISSION, INTERRUPTION, DEFECT, DELAY IN OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION, COMPUTER VIRUS, OR LINE OR SYSTEM FAILURE, EVEN IF THE CLAIMANT TELLS US OR OUR REPRESENTATIVES OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, LOSSES, OR EXPENSES.
Trademarks:
The "MasStor" name and the names of our solutions and services referred to in this site are our trademarks. All other product and company names belong to their respective owners.
Submissions:
We will become the sole owners of any information you submit to us via this site. We may use any ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques you may provide to us through this site, for any purpose. We have no duty to keep such information confidential -- except as we agree to in advance in writing, or as required by law.
3. Security & Privacy
Privacy notice:
We do not sell, give, or trade our customer list, prospect list, or mailing lists to any person or company.
At MasStor ("MasStor"), protecting your privacy is very important to us. Our goal is to treat the personal information you furnish us with the utmost respect, and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Please read on for details about our practices for handling and securing your personal information.
By accessing, using and/or downloading materials from 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.
• What information do we collect?
• Communication of your personal information to business partners and third parties ?• How do you access and update your information?
• How is your information secured and protected?
• What if we change our Privacy Policy?
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 e-mail address. In this case, our Web server may collect the name of the IP address you used to access the Internet 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 certain sites to recognize you when you access such sites. We do not use cookies or any other mechanism to capture or maintain information from you without your consent.
Personal information collection
There are times when we may ask you for or you may choose to provide for information about yourself and your business to assist us in meeting your various needs. This information may be used for the purpose of providing you with products or services you have requested, servicing your account, improving our services, developing and/or informing you of additional products or services provided by MasStor or our business partners that may be of interest, or answering questions you may have.
To provide these products or services, we may need to ask you directly to provide, among other things, your name, mailing address, postal code, e-mail address and phone number. 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 of not participating in such surveys. Once you provide us such information about yourself, your browsing on this site will no longer be anonymous to us. Please note that we do not knowingly solicit information from children and we do not knowingly market our products and services to children.
Communication of your personal information to business partners and third parties
When you provide information to us, we may communicate and disclose your information with our business partners, distributors and other third parties for the purpose of fulfilling and completing your requests and the transactions related thereto. These business partners and third parties may be in Canada, the United States, or in other parts of the world.
Occasionally, we will send you e-mail communications with information, which may be useful to you, including information about our products and services or about offerings from MasStor and our business partners. We will include instructions in our e-mail messages on how to unsubscribe if you later decide you do not want to receive any future e-mails or other marketing contacts.
We may also aggregate statistics that we gather about our customers, sales, traffic patterns, and products and services and provide these statistics to third parties; however, when we do, these statistics will not include any personal information that identifies individuals. All reasonable measures have also been taken so that the information you provide to us will not be used by our business partners or third parties for purposes other than those indicated herein.
We may also use, disclose and communicate your personal information if required to do so by law including by an order of any court.
How do you access and update your information?
A copy of the personal information you provide to us and which we retain is kept on our servers located in Laval, Quebec, Canada. You can notify us to update the personal information you have provided to us, or you may request that we modify or delete information we have gathered during your visit by sending us e-mail at info@MasStor.ca.
How is your information secured and protected?
Where MasStor considers it appropriate, MasStor uses authentication tools among other methods to protect certain web-based personal information. E-mails you send us are not necessarily secure when they are transmitted to us.
We instruct our employees with access to your information that it is to be used only in adherence with the principles set forth in this Privacy Policy and the laws applicable to each specific business. Employees who misuse customer information may be subject to disciplinary action.
What if we change our privacy policy?
MasStor reserves the right to modify or supplement this Privacy Policy statement at anytime. If we make any material change to this Privacy Policy, we will update this site to include such changes and post a notice on our home page with a link to the updated Privacy Policy. Please read any such notice and the new policy statement. Your continued use of this site after we post such notice will constitute your acceptance of the new terms and their application to your use of this site and the information disclosed for such use, including information previously furnished us, as if they were the initial terms. However, we will seek your consent if we want to use your personal information for purposes other than those you have agreed to previously.