| Municipal Equipment & Operations Association Inc. (“MEOA”) respects your right to personal privacy. When we collect your personal information (“Personal Information”), you can be confident that we’ll handle and store it in a secure manner to protect your information from unauthorized access or disclosure.
This code describes our privacy practices. By purchasing a product or service, participating in our web sites, or otherwise providing us with your Personal Information, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Code. These terms and conditions are subject to change from time to time, so you should review them for changes periodically. Please note that anonymous data from which you cannot be identified is excluded from the restrictions described in this Privacy Code.
Why do we collect your Personal Information?
Our goal at Municipal Equipment & Operations Association Inc. (“MEOA”). is to provide our customers with the highest quality services. In order to process and record your purchases, and to ensure that you receive quality customer services, we collect certain Personal Information directly from our customers.
You can visit the MEOA site without identifying yourself or providing any Personal Information. At certain times, however, we ask you to provide information that will enable us to complete a transaction, provide you with important product information, enhance your visit or follow up later. Your participation is completely optional.
For example, we request information when you:
• purchase a product or service;
• register as a member of one of our programs;
• complete a survey;
• subscribe to a newsletter or mailing list;
In these instances, we may ask for your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, information about a product you have purchased, billing or credit card information, or other information. We may also keep records of previous purchases made by you, information we have provided to you, and details
of any enquires, complaints or compliments made by you and our response, if any (referred to as your “Personal History”). Your Personal Information and Personal History will be added to our customer database.
We do not collect use Automatic Information Collection on our Websites.
What do we do with your Personal Information?
The primary purpose of our collection of this information is to be able to provide products and services to you, to provide you with customer support services, to seek your opinion from time to time, and to compile marketing and other statistics for use by MEOA.
Your Personal Information and Personal History will be kept confidential and used to enrich your customer relationship with MEOA. For instance, we may inform you of product upgrades, special offers, updated information and other new MEOA products and services we feel may be of interest to you. When you visit our web site, we want to help you find information quickly and to personalize your visits.
We protect your Personal Information.
We will not share your Personal Information with anyone outside Municipal Equipment & Operations Association Inc. (“MEOA”). except to the extent necessary to fulfill the purposes described. When we employ other companies and
individuals to perform functions on our behalf – such as delivering products, sending postal or electronic mail, analyzing data, taking product orders, providing marketing assistance, processing credit card payments and providing other forms of service – and where we collect Personal Information with third
parties, we ensure by contractual means that these third parties may not use your Personal Information for any other purpose without your knowledge and consent.
Legal, Government & Other Disclosures
MEOA reserves the right to co-operate with government officials in any investigation requiring either information or reports about lawful or unlawful activities. This includes any Personal Information or Personal History information. We reserve the right at any time to collect, use or disclose any information:
We reserve the right at any time to collect, use or disclose any information:
1.to satisfy any law, regulation or government request;
2. if such disclosure is necessary or appropriate for site or system operation or protection;
3. to protect the rights, property or safety of Municipal Equipment & Operations Association Inc. (“MEOA”)., its customers/site visitors or others.
This may include exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
MEOA web site may contain links to other sites. MEOA and its affiliates are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such sites and expressly disclaim all liability associated with your use of and the content on such other sites.
Municipal Equipment & Operations Association Inc. (“MEOA”). operates under Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act. For more information about your personal privacy rights under this Act, contact the Privacy Commissioner of Canada at www.privcom.gc.ca or by calling 1-800-282-1376.
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