BERNINA Canada and its affiliates know that you care about how information about you is used. We appreciate your trust and will use information about you carefully and sensibly. This notice describes our privacy policy. By visiting BERNINA Canada and its affiliates, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this statement and consent to our collection, use and disclosure of your personal information as set out below.
What Personal Information About Users Does BERNINA Canada and its Affiliates Gather?
The information we obtain from users helps us personalize and continually improve your experience using BERNINA Canada and its affiliates. Here are the types of information we gather:
Information You Give Us: We may receive and store any information you voluntarily provide on our website or give us in any other way. You provide most such information when you register; provide account details; participate in a contest or questionnaire; purchase products from www.berninaonline.ca, return or exchange products; or communicate with customer service. You can choose not to provide certain information, however, you might not be able to take advantage of certain features of our website. We use the information you provide for such purposes as customizing your experience, improving our website, communicating with you, ensuring that purchases that you make are handled properly, and preventing counterfeiting. If at any time, you decide you do not wish to receive communications from us or you no longer wish to receive our services, you may advise us by providing written notice to the Privacy Officer at [email protected].
Automatic Information: We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. Examples of the information we may collect and analyze include the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information, such as browser type, version and time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system, and platform; the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through, and from our website, including date and time; cookie number; pages you viewed; and the telephone number used to call our customer service number. We may also use browser data such as cookies, Flash cookies (also known as Flash Local Shared Objects), or similar data on certain parts of our website for fraud prevention and other purposes. During some visits we may use software tools such as JavaScript to measure and collect session information, including page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page
Use of Cookies
BERNINA Canada and its affiliates may store cookies on your computer to facilitate and customize your experience. Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that enable our systems to recognize your browser and to provide certain features. We use cookies because they save you time while navigating the site and help us track and target user interests in order to provide a better, more customized experience. Cookies also allow us to collect Automatic Information from you, like which pages you visit and what links you click. Most browsers automatically accept cookies, however, it is possible to change your browser settings so that your browser declines cookies. The “help” portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. Additionally, you can disable or delete similar data used by browser add-ons, such as Flash cookies, by changing the add-on’s settings or visiting the website of its manufacturer. If you decline to accept cookies it is possible that some data processing, transaction processing services, document management and office administration) to you or to carry out one or more of the uses described above. These service providers are prohibited from using your personal information for any purpose other than to provide this assistance and are required to protect personal information disclosed by BERNINA Canada and its affiliates and to comply with the general privacy principles describes in this Privacy Policy.
BERNINA Canada and its affiliates reserve the right to disclose personal information to a third party if a law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena or court order legally requires or authorizes us to do so.
BERNINA Canada and its affiliates also reserve the right to disclose and/or transfer personal information to a third party in the event of a proposed or actual purchase, sale (including a liquidation, realization, foreclosure or repossession), lease, merger, amalgamation or any other type of acquisition, disposal, transfer, conveyance or financing of all or any portion of BERNINA Canada and its affiliates or of any of the business or assets or shares of BERNINA Canada and its affiliates or a division thereof.
How is Your Personal Information Used?
BERNINA of Canada and its affiliates may use your personal information for a number of different business purposes, for example to:
- fulfill orders and requests for products, services or information
- process returns, exchanges and layaway requests
- detect and protect against fraud and error
- establish and manage your accounts with us
- track and confirm online orders
- track and analyze your purchases and preferences to better understand your product and service needs
- market and advertise products and services
- communicate things like special events, promotions and surveys
- tailor our online content or in-store offerings to you based on your interactions with us and your
preferences
- conduct research and analysis
- operate, evaluate and improve our business
- for other purposes as described in this Privacy Policy
How Secure Is Information About Me?
We protect the security of your sensitive information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you enter on certain pages of the site that handle sensitive information.
It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and your computer. It is recommended that you do not share your password(s) with anyone and are sure to sign off when you have finished using a shared computer.
Which Information Can I Access?
If you request access to your personal information, subject to certain exceptions, BERNINA Canada and its affiliates will inform you of the existence, use and disclosure of your personal information and will provide you with a summary of that information. If we are not able to disclose all the personal information we hold on you, we will give you a reason for our inability to do so, unless prohibited by law.
You have the right to ensure that any information BERNINA Canada and its affiliates maintain is correct and complete. Upon request, we will supply you with a copy of all personal information we have on record for you.
To make a request, please send written notice to the Privacy Officer at [email protected]. Please include the following information in your request: Name, contact details, the nature of your request, including whether you wish to view and/or edit information or inquire regarding the use and/or disclosure. We will require acceptable proof of your identification before providing a response.
Are Children Allowed to Use BERNINA Canada and its Affiliates?
Children (persons under the age of 18) are not eligible to use the site unsupervised and we ask that children do not submit any personal information to us. If you are under the age of 18, you may only use BERNINA Canada and its affiliates in conjunction with and under the supervision of a parent or guardian.
We will never knowingly collect the personal information of minors.
Conditions of Use, Notices, and Revisions
If you choose to visit BERNINA Canada and its affiliates your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this notice. Including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of the law of the province of Ontario. If you have any concern about privacy at BERNINA Canada and its affiliates, please contact us at [email protected] and we’ll try to resolve it.
Our business may change or adapt and our Privacy Policy may change also. You should check our site frequently to see recent changes. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account. We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy and such changes will take effect immediately upon being posted to the site, however, we stand behind the promises we make and will never materially change our policies and practices to make them less protective of customer information collected in the past without the consent of affected users.