Growes Industries DOES NOT sell any of your information to third parties.
We believe that our customers should be treated with openness, and honestly. We respect your privacy and are committed to maintaining the accuracy, confidentiality, security and privacy of your personal information.
This privacy policy is based upon and adheres to the 10 privacy principles set out in the Canadian Federal Government’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and outlines the manner in which we collect, use, disclose and manage your personal information.
For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, “personal information” means any information about an identifiable individual, such as your name, address, email address, birth date, age, gender, ethnic origin, opinions, evaluations, comments, and occupation. It does not include business contact information such as an employee’s name, title, business address, business telephone number, or business email. We invite you to review our Privacy Policy and revisit it periodically. All changes will be reflected in the most current version that is posted on our website.
Accountability
We are accountable for all personal information under our control. Any enquiries on compliance with applicable privacy legislation, including PIPEDA we can be contacted at:
Growes Industries
Attn: George Rowe
823 Red Maple Court, Whitby, Ontario L1N 7V7
T: 1-905-244-2786
Purposes
We will let you know the reason for collecting your personal information at or before the time your information is collected. Personal information may be collected for purposes such as:
Phone: When you contact us by phone to request a quotation, make a purchase or to request to receive our promotional materials, we collect your name, mailing address, phone number and credit card information. We use this information to process your order and send you our promotional materials. We may also use your phone or fax number, email or mailing address to contact you if we have any questions about your order.
Online: When you make a purchase online at growes.ca, we collect your name, address, phone number, email address and credit card information. We use this information to process your order. If you have also requested that you would like to receive our promotional materials, we use your name, address and email address (if applicable) to fulfill this request.
In-Store: When you visit a store, we ask you for your name, address, phone number and email address. We use this information to send you our promotional materials (if you opt in) and to facilitate returns without a receipt. For prepaid merchandise in the store, we require to see identification of the person picking up the order. We do this to protect our Customers and ourselves from fraud, and ask our Customers to inform the people they have picking up the order that this will be required.
Consent
We ask for your consent for all personal information collected, used, and disclosed prior to or at the time of collection. How we obtain your consent will depend on the circumstances and sensitivity of the information collected. We may seek your consent, orally, electronically, or in writing.
Sometimes, but only regarding non-sensitive personal information, your consent may be implied. For example, by entering one of our on-line contests, your consent to our use of your personal information to administer the contest is implied by your completion of the on-line entry form. Also, with non-sensitive personal information (i.e. name, address, phone number and e-mail address) only, we may use it to send you information about us, our products, business and upcoming events until you advise us that you no longer wish to receive such information. However, when using this “opt-out” method of consent, we will provide you with a clear and simple process for having your name and contact information removed from such communications.
Keep in mind that you may withdraw your consent at any time to any of the uses or disclosures contemplated in this Privacy Policy, subject to legal or contractual restrictions and reasonable notice. Please note, however, that withdrawing your consent to some of the contemplated uses or disclosures may render it impossible for us to continue to provide material to you which you have previously requested.
Information we collect and use
We collect your personal information in a number of different ways. For example, we collect information from you when you make a purchase online or in-store, register for a contest or promotion, or complete an online survey conducted by us. We will limit the amount and type of personal information collected from you to that which is necessary for the purposes we have communicated to you. We retain your personal information only for so long as necessary to fulfill our stated purposes.
When you visit our website, we may place a “cookie” on your computer. A cookie is a file written on your computer’s hard drive that records certain technical information about your internet usage, such as your IP address, browser type, or domain name. Also, if you submit personal information to the Growes Industries website (such as your name, interests or preferences), we may use cookies to keep track of this information so that you will not have re-enter this information during future visits. We also use cookies to customize the delivery of our content and advertisements. You may set your internet browser preferences to notify you when you receive cookie or to decline acceptance of cookies. If you decline acceptance of cookies, you may experience less than optimal performance on our website.
Social Media – We may offer you the opportunity to engage with our content on or through third-party social networking websites, plug-ins and applications. When you engage with our content this way, you may allow us to have access to certain information associated with your social media account, (e.g. name, username, e-mail address, photos) in accordance with your social media privacy settings to deliver the content or as part of the operation of the website, plug-in or application. We may use this information to confirm your identity and to personalize your experience on our website or mobile app and on the third-party social networking websites, plug-ins and applications.
** Cookies are small files that may be placed on your hard drive by a website without your knowledge in order to monitor your use of the site. Growes Industries uses “persistent” and “session” cookies to monitor usage of its websites. The cookies we use do not allow us to identify individuals. They are compiled into statistical information on traffic patterns and are used to assess and improve the efficiency of the site.
- Session cookies—Are cookies that are used on some portions of the Secretariat’s websites to store information within a session. During your visit to our site, your browser exchanges information with our Web server. Session cookies facilitate this exchange by reminding the server which computer is making the request. No personal information is kept in session cookies, and they are stored only in your browser’s temporary (i.e., cache) memory. When you log out of your session, the cookie is no longer valid; it is discarded when you close your browser.
- Persistent cookies—Are more permanent cookies that can be reread when you return to the site. The information in them is written onto your hard drive and remains there until the expiry date of the cookie or until you delete the file. They are used for tracking traffic patterns to and from our websites and can also be used on some portions to find out how visitors access, navigate and use the site. More information on tracking can be found in the next session.
How we use your Personal Information
We may use your personal information in any of the following ways:
a) To provide you with products, services, or information that you have requested from us. This would include promotional emails, contest, in-store events, and flyers.
b) To better understand your interests or preferences, so that we may recommend particular products, offers or services that are consistent with these interests and preferences.
c) Service Providers – We may disclose or otherwise make available personal information about you to service providers that help with our business operations. Examples are shipping vendors, billing and refund vendors, vendors who operate our Websites and fulfillment services, payment card processors, marketing service providers and companies that help us improve our product and service offerings and our websites. Your personal information may be stored and processed by our service providers in Canada or other locations where the service providers maintain facilities. We require service providers to keep your information secure. In addition, service providers may not use or disclose personal information for any purpose other than providing the services on our behalf or as otherwise required by applicable law.
Accuracy
We will make every reasonable effort to keep your information accurate, complete and up-to-date. If you become aware of errors in your personal information, we will be more than happy to update your personal profile with the correct information. We will correct the information in our records and make reasonable efforts to communicate the error to any appropriate parties that were misinformed.
Security and Safeguards
The security of your personal information is important to us. We take technical, contractual, administrative, and physical security steps to protect any personal information you provide to us. We instruct our employees with access to your personal information to only use it accordingly with the principles set forth in this Privacy Policy and the laws applicable to each specific business.
In certain areas, such as when you provide credit card information to us, it is processed using reputable/certified third-party payment gateway service providers such as PayPal or Stripe. Credit card data during transmission is sent by using standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology and tokenization of credit card data.
Our hosting provider’s computer servers that store personal information are kept in a secure environment and are backed up on a regular, scheduled basis.
Should we ever experience a system breach that exposes customer data we will report all violations to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and notify our customers of the nature of exposure and possible risk.
Openness
This Privacy Policy will govern and be posted on our website at growes.ca
If you have any questions regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact George Rowe.
Individual Access
We will give you access to your own personal information in our customer file if you request it. You will also be informed about what your information was used for, and where it was used.
In certain situations, we may not be able to provide you with access to your personal information. For example, if we would have to reveal personal information about another individual or any of our confidential information. In such cases, we will provide you with the reasoning as to why we are not able to carry out your request.
Challenging Compliance
We will investigate all complaints regarding compliance with our Privacy Policy. Resolving such complaints and any concerns related to them is important to us. We were committed to treating our customers and vendors with the utmost respect and providing you with the highest level of service. If a complaint is found to be justified, we will take appropriate measures to resolve the complaint. We will inform any individual of the outcome of the investigation regarding his or her complaint.