Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to North Columbia Builders Ltd. (“North Columbia Builders Ltd.”). This Privacy Policy explains how North Columbia Builders Ltd. collects, uses, discloses and retains personal information, including information collected by North Columbia Builders Ltd. through websites and telephone calls and when providing products or services.

01. Your Consent

By providing a North Columbia Builders Ltd. with your personal information, you consent to the collection, use, disclosure and retention of that information by the North Columbia Builders Ltd. and other members of the North Columbia Builders Ltd. in accordance with this Privacy Policy and as otherwise permitted by applicable law. You may withdraw your consent at any time, subject to legal or contractual restrictions and on reasonable notice to North Columbia Builders Ltd., but you might not be able to proceed with your intended interactions or transactions with North Columbia Builders Ltd. or otherwise receive the full benefit of North Columbia Builders Ltd.’s products and services.

02. Personal Information

In this Privacy Policy, “personal information” means information about an identifiable individual, such as an individual’s name and email address, but does not include (to the extent permitted by law) information that is publicly available in a telephone directory or that is business contact information that enables an individual to be contacted at a place of business.

03. Information That North Columbia Builders Ltd. Collects

(a) Information You Provide
You may be asked to voluntarily give your personal information to a North Columbia Builders Ltd. when you interact, orally, in writing or by electronic transmission, with the North Columbia Builders Ltd., including when you request a quote, subscribe to a newsletter, register to receive information or order a product or service offered by a North Columbia Builders Ltd. or use a product or service provided by a North Columbia Builders Ltd.. In those circumstances, you can choose not to provide certain requested personal information, but you might not be able to proceed with your intended interaction or transaction with the North Columbia Builders Ltd. or otherwise receive the full benefit of the desired product or service. Telephone calls between you and the North Columbia Builders Ltd. may be recorded to ensure accuracy and quality assurance, and may be disclosed to third parties to verify the North Columbia Builders Ltd. is compliant with its contractual obligations to third parties. You can choose not to have the telephone call recorded, and communicate by writing or electronic transmission.

(b) Automated Collection
A North Columbia Builders Ltd. may automatically collect certain information regarding your use of the North Columbia Builders Ltd.’s website or online service, such as the dates and times that you access the website or online service, the browsers, operating systems, software and devices that you use to access the website or online service and details of your use of the website or online service.

A North Columbia Builders Ltd.’s websites, online services, email messages and advertisements may use technologies (e.g. cookies, web beacons, tokens, pixels or tags) to collect information that assists the North Columbia Builders Ltd. to improve its products, services, customer communications and advertising and to prevent fraud. A North Columbia Builders Ltd. may use information that it collects through technological means to recognize you as a user of the North Columbia Builders Ltd.’s websites or online services, to facilitate and improve your use of the North Columbia Builders Ltd.’s websites or online services, to confirm that messages have been delivered to and opened by you and to provide you with targeted advertisements. You may choose to decline or disable cookies if your web browser or device permits, but doing so may affect your ability to access or use certain features of a website or online service. More information about cookies used for interest-based advertising is set out in section 4(c) below.

Much of the information that is automatically collected by technological means is non-personal information (because the information does not identify you), and North Columbia Builders Ltd. will deal with that non-personal information as explained below in this Privacy Policy unless applicable law requires otherwise.

04. How North Columbia Builders Ltd. Uses Personal Information

North Columbia Builders Ltd. may use your personal information for purposes relating to or arising from your relationship and transactions with the North Columbia Builders Ltd. and as otherwise set out in this Privacy Policy or permitted by applicable law, including:

• to administer your relationship with North Columbia Builders Ltd., including to create and manage your project with North Columbia Builders Ltd. and to contact and correspond with you regarding those matters;
• to facilitate your interactions and transactions with North Columbia Builders Ltd., including to process your requests, orders and payments;
• to provide products and services to you;
• to process and respond to your inquiries, requests and other communications;
• to provide you with information (including by email and other electronic messages) regarding North Columbia Builders Ltd. and its products and services and related products and services offered by other businesses, to the extent permitted by applicable law;
• to administer and facilitate your participation in contests and promotions related to North Columbia Builders Ltd.;
• to maintain, protect and improve North Columbia Builders Ltd.’s products and services and to develop new products and services;
• to protect and enforce North Columbia Builders Ltd.’s legal rights, interests and remedies and to protect the business, operations and customers of North Columbia Builders Ltd. or other persons; and
• to assist other North Columbia Builders Ltd. Companies to collect, use, disclose and retain your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

05. How North Columbia Builders Ltd. Discloses Personal Information

(a) General
Each North Columbia Builders Ltd. discloses your personal information for purposes relating to or arising from your relationship and transactions with the North Columbia Builders Ltd. and as otherwise set out in this Privacy Policy or permitted by applicable law.

(b) Specific Consents
A North Columbia Builders Ltd. may disclose your personal information in accordance with express or implied consents that you give during your interactions and transactions with the North Columbia Builders Ltd..

(c) Law Enforcement/Legal Disclosures
A North Columbia Builders Ltd. may disclose your personal information as required or authorized by applicable law, including to comply with a subpoena, warrant or court or arbitral order or litigation disclosure obligation. A North Columbia Builders Ltd. may disclose your personal information to law enforcement agencies or other independent organizations if the North Columbia Builders Ltd. reasonably believes the disclosure is necessary or appropriate in connection with national security, law enforcement or other issues of public importance, or if the North Columbia Builders Ltd. reasonably believes the disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect and enforce the North Columbia Builders Ltd.’s legal rights, interests and remedies or to protect the rights, interests, business, operations or customers of the North Columbia Builders Ltd. or other persons (including to detect and prevent fraud and other illegal activities, enforce any of the terms of use, terms of service or other agreements that govern access to or use of any of the North Columbia Builders Ltd.’s products or services). A North Columbia Builders Ltd. has no control over, or responsibility or liability for, the use, disclosure or retention of your personal information by the agencies, independent organizations or other persons to whom the North Columbia Builders Ltd. discloses the information in the foregoing circumstances, and the use, disclosure and retention of the disclosed information by those agencies, independent organizations or other persons is not subject to this Privacy Policy.

(d) Business Transactions
A North Columbia Builders Ltd. may disclose your personal information in connection with a proposed or actual business transaction in which the North Columbia Builders Ltd. is involved (such as a corporate amalgamation, reorganization, merger or acquisition, or the sale or transfer of some or all of the North Columbia Builders Ltd.’s business or assets), but the North Columbia Builders Ltd. will require the information recipient agree to protect the privacy of your personal information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy and applicable law.

06. Location of Personal Information

North Columbia Builders Ltd. and its service providers may process, store and use your personal information at facilities in various countries, including Canada, the United States of America and one or more countries in Europe or Asia. The personal information protection laws of those other countries might be different from the laws of the jurisdiction in which you reside, and might permit courts, government, law enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies and security authorities to access your personal information without notice. By providing your personal information to a North Columbia Builders Ltd., you consent to the transfer of the personal information to facilities located in other countries and the processing and storage of the personal information at those facilities.

07. Retention of Personal Information

North Columbia Builders Ltd. retains your personal information for the period reasonably necessary for the purposes set out or referenced in this Privacy Policy and to comply with North Columbia Builders Ltd.’s legal obligations or enforce or protect North Columbia Builders Ltd.’s legal rights, or a longer period required or permitted by applicable law. North Columbia Builders Ltd. will delete or dispose of your personal information when North Columbia Builders Ltd. is no longer reasonably required to retain the information for the purposes set out or referenced in this Privacy Policy.

08. Protection of Personal Information

North Columbia Builders Ltd. uses reasonable safeguards – including administrative, physical and technical security and safeguarding measures – appropriate to the sensitivity of the personal information in North Columbia Builders Ltd.’s possession or under North Columbia Builders Ltd.’s control to help protect the information from unauthorized access, collection, use, disclosure, disposal or similar risks. Nevertheless, security risks cannot be eliminated and North Columbia Builders Ltd. cannot guarantee that your personal information will not be used, disclosed or deleted in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy.

09. Accuracy and Access to Personal Information

North Columbia Builders Ltd. will rely on you to ensure that your personal information that you provide to North Columbia Builders Ltd. is as accurate, complete and up to date as necessary for the purposes for which North Columbia Builders Ltd. uses the personal information. You will promptly notify North Columbia Builders Ltd. of any changes to your personal information using the procedures made available for that purpose by North Columbia Builders Ltd. or by contacting North Columbia Builders Ltd.’s customer service.

You may reasonably request access to your personal information collected by North Columbia Builders Ltd. and information about North Columbia Builders Ltd.’s use, disclosure and retention of that personal information by submitting a written request to North Columbia Builders Ltd. using the contact information noted below. Subject to applicable exceptions and limitations prescribed by applicable law, you will be given reasonable access to your personal information and you will be entitled to verify the accuracy and completeness of your personal information and to have the information revised as appropriate. You may be required to pay a reasonable fee for access to your personal information. North Columbia Builders Ltd. may decline to process a request that is unreasonably repetitive, frivolous, vexatious or impracticable, that infringes or jeopardizes the privacy of other persons, or for other reasons permitted by applicable law.

10. Non-Personal Information

North Columbia Builders Ltd. creates and collects non-personal information (information that is not about an identifiable individual), including personal information that has been aggregated or otherwise depersonalized so that the information no longer relates to an identifiable individual. North Columbia Builders Ltd. may use, disclose, transfer and retain non-personal information for any purpose and in any manner whatsoever. If non-personal information is combined with personal information, then North Columbia Builders Ltd. will treat the combined non-personal information as personal information for the purposes of this Privacy Policy for as long as the non-personal information is combined.

11. Other Websites and Businesses

North Columbia Builders Ltd.’s websites and correspondence (including emails and messages) may include advertisements for products and services offered by independent businesses (that may have a financial relationship with a North Columbia Builders Ltd.) or links to websites operated by independent businesses. North Columbia Builders Ltd. has no responsibility or liability for, or control over, those other websites, online services or businesses, their products or services, or their collection, use, disclosure or retention of your personal information. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the collection, use, disclosure and retention of your personal information by those websites, online services and independent businesses. If you have questions about how those websites, online services or independent businesses collect, use, disclose or retain personal information, please contact the owner or operator of the website, service or business.

12. Other Matters

(a) Disclaimers, Liability Exclusions/Limitations and Disputes: The agreements (including any subscription agreement, membership agreement or terms of service or use) that you accept when you apply, register for, order or use North Columbia Builders Ltd.’s products or services contain important provisions, including provisions disclaiming, limiting or excluding the liability of North Columbia Builders Ltd. and other persons (including service providers) and provisions determining the applicable law and jurisdiction for the resolution of disputes. To the extent permitted by applicable law, each of those provisions applies to any dispute that may arise in relation to this Privacy Policy or North Columbia Builders Ltd.’s collection, use, disclosure and retention of your personal information, and are of the same force and effect as if they had been reproduced directly in this Privacy Policy. Nothing in this Privacy Policy amends any of those other agreements.

(b) Changes to this Policy: A North Columbia Builders Ltd. may change this Privacy Policy from time to time by posting a new version of this Privacy Policy on the North Columbia Builders Ltd.’s website. A North Columbia Builders Ltd.’s collection, use, disclosure and retention of your personal information will be governed by the version of this Privacy Policy in effect at that time. Your continued dealings with a North Columbia Builders Ltd. after any change to this Privacy Policy will signify your consent to the collection, use, disclosure and retention of your personal information as set out in the changed Privacy Policy. Accordingly, you should check the “Last Updated” date of this Privacy Policy (at the top of this Privacy Policy) and review any changes since the last version.

(c) English Language: You and North Columbia Builders Ltd. have each expressly requested and required that this Privacy Policy and all other related documents be drawn up in the English language. Les parties conviennent et exigent expressement que cette Politique de Confidentialité et tous les documents qui s’y rapportent soient rédigés en anglais.