Website Privacy Terms

University Messages Ltd. ("U.M. Marketing", "we", "our", "us") is fully committed to protecting the privacy of individuals who visit this website and to preserving the confidentiality of any personal information provided by each person who accesses this website.

This policy (the "Privacy Policy") complies fully with all applicable provincial and federal statutes governing privacy and the collection, use and disclosure of personal information about an identifiable individual.

In some instances, we may include an incentive, such as a contest, for completion of a consumer survey. If a contest is offered, we will provide detailed rules and will need to collect additional information to administer the contest. Information collected in the administration of an incentive promotion will be governed by this Privacy Policy.

1. Your Consent

By using this website, and completing any of our consumer surveys, you signify your consent to our collection and use of your email address and the opinions you record during each survey for the purposes described below.

Consumers who fill out an initial survey ("pre-survey") and who consent to being contacted about an optional follow-up survey ("post survey"), may be sent an email explaining the post survey process.

Unless you win a prize, your email address and the opinions you record during the pre-survey or post-survey will be the only personal information we will collect from you.

We will retain that information as long as is required to comply with our legal and contractual obligations concerning the integrity of each survey. Your opinions will not be disclosed to our clients in any form which could identify you.

Your email address and your opinions will be used to prepare reports and provide data collection and analysis services to our clients based on the data and information you provide while using our website. Your email address is provided for tracking purposes and as a means of contacting you should you give us permission to contact you, should you be a potential winner of a promotion, or if required by law.

If you win a contest associated with a customer survey, we will ask you to disclose to us your name, address, and telephone number and other contact information so that we may process your application for a prize and verify your identity as may be required by law. Your identity may be disclosed to third parties, such as may be required to fulfill the prize or if required by law to permit government authorities to verify compliance with legal obligations.

We will not disclose or sell your email address or other contact information to third parties for marketing purposes.

If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, you may not use the areas of this website that may involve the collection, use or disclosure of your personal information.

2. Securing Your Information

We use data encryption and firewalls to maintain the security of any personal information we receive through this website.

Internally, security safeguards are employed to protect personal information against loss or theft. Our employees are required to comply at all times with this Privacy Policy and with other procedures for ensuring the security of any personal information we may obtain from you.

Nevertheless, due to the nature of the Internet and Internet technologies, security and privacy risks cannot be completely eliminated. Accordingly, we cannot guarantee that your personal information will not be disclosed by unauthorized persons in ways not in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

3. Cookies And Tracking Technologies

We use technologies such as: cookies, beacons, pixels, tags and scripts. These technologies may be used in analyzing data, tracking users' movements around our website and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by such companies on an individual as well as aggregated basis. While we respect the privacy of our users, we are not able to respond to Do Not Track signals set by your browser at this time.

4. Communications

We will not communicate with you after you complete a survey unless it appears that you have won a contest or you have given us express consent to do so. You will need to successfully answer a skill testing question to qualify for a prize.

We will retain copies of such communications in order to establish, to the satisfaction of the relevant authorities, that we have complied with the applicable legal requirements.

5. Information Automatically Collected

Non-Identifiable Information - Like many other websites, this website automatically collects certain non-identifiable information regarding website users, such as the Internet Protocol (IP) address of your computer, the IP address of your Internet Service Provider, the date and time you access this website, the Internet address of the website from which you linked directly, the operating system you are using, the sections of this website you visit, the pages read and images viewed, and the content you download from this website. We use this non-identifiable information for website and system administration purposes and to improve this website. We may disclose the non-identifiable information to service providers for system administration purposes and archive it for future use.

6. Web Site Use Agreement

The Website Use Agreement governing your use of this website contains important provisions, including terms and conditions disclaiming, limiting or excluding our liability for your use of the website and provisions determining the applicable law and exclusive jurisdiction for the resolution of any disputes regarding your use of the website. Please read them carefully.

7. Privacy Policy Changes

This Privacy Policy may be changed from time to time in our sole discretion and without any prior notice or liability to you or any other person. Our collection, use and disclosure of your personal information will be governed by the version of this Privacy Policy which was in effect at the time of your visit to this website.

New versions of this Privacy Policy will be posted here. Your continued use of the website subsequent to any changes to the Privacy Policy will signify your consent to the new version.

8. Location of Information

We will store and process your personal information in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

9. Access to Information and Accountability

We are responsible for all personal information under our control. If you have comments or questions about this Privacy Policy, or any other matter relating to your personal information, please contact the U.M. Marketing Privacy Manager at info@umworld.com.

We will respond to any request be you for access to any of your personal information in our possession or control as soon as reasonably possible and in accordance with the provisions of applicable provincial and federal statutes. Certain exemptions to access are prescribed by those statutes.

If you demonstrate that any of your personal information in our possession or control is inaccurate, incomplete or out-of-date, we will revise your personal information accordingly.

March 30, 2017