Apartment Outpost Privacy Policy


Apartment Outpost understands how important your privacy is to you and is committed to protecting and safeguarding the personal information, which you have entrusted us with. This privacy policy outlines the manner in which The Apartment Outpost collect, use, disclose and manage your personal information. This privacy policy is based upon and adheres to the Ten Privacy Principles set out in the federal government's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act ("PIPEDA"). This policy will govern and be posted upon each of the websites owned or controlled by The Apartment Outpost. When we refer to "personal information" within this policy, we mean any information about an identifiable individual, such as your name, address, e- mail address, birth date and gender.

We recommend that you review this policy in its entirety and revisit it periodically, as it may change from time to time. All changes will be posted on The Apartment Outpost Website.

1. What We Collect and Use

We collect, maintain and use different types of personal information including the following:

  • Information that helps us identify you and facilitates better communication such as, name, address, telephone number, e- mail address
  • Credit and financial information you have provided to us, including credit history, payment history
2. Purposes for Collection, Use and Disclosure

We will identify the purposes for which we collect, use or disclose personal information at or before the time of collection. The purposes will be limited to those related to our business and to those that a reasonable person would consider appropriate. In some cases, the purposes will be implied. Typically, we collect, use and maintain your personal information in our business for the following purposes:

  • To provide you with services or information that you have requested from us.
  • To assist in administering, or processing transactions made on accounts established with us.
  • To evaluate, maintain, monitor and improve our customer relationship with you and provide you with offers, promotional materials and other marketing information about our products and services.
  • To promote and market products and services offered by The Apartment Outpost that we think may be of interest to you;
  • On the Apartment outpost website, we may use this personal information to personalize the content or layout to enhance the experience of your visit ;
  • To conduct or have conducted market research to enable us to improve the products and services we offer;
  • To administer promotions and contests conducted by us for which you have registered to participate;
  • To process customer complaints/feedback;
  • To meet our legal obligations and to protect the business interests of The Apartment Outpost; If we intend to use this personal information for purposes not previously identified, we will identify this new purpose before such use.
3. Consent

We will obtain your consent for the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information except where inappropriate. How we obtain your consent (i.e. the form we use) will depend on the circumstances, as well as the sensitivity of the information collected. We may seek your consent orally or in writing. In certain cases, your consent may be implied. For instance, 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.

Typically, we will seek your consent at the time your personal information is collected. Where we want to use your personal information for a purpose not previously identified to you at the time of collection, we will seek your consent prior to our use of such information for this new purpose.

Understand, you may withdraw your consent at any time to any of the uses contemplated in this Privacy Policy. Simply, contact a representative of our Privacy Office at the following e-mail address to have your consent withdrawn: apartmentoutpost@gmail.com. Please note, however, that withdrawing your consent to some of the contemplated uses may render it impossible to continue to provide a service which you have currently requested.

4. Information

We Collect and Use your personal information in a number of different ways.

For instance, we collect information from you when you register for personalized access to our site.. We may also collect your personal information when you request information from us to process a complaint that you have registered with us. We may acquire your name and address from list vendors to whom you have given your consent to send promotions or product information. We also have relationships with other companies, such as our sponsor, advertisers, event promoters and the various other sites and assosciations to which we belong with whom we conduct joint marketing activities such as contests through which we may obtain your name and address and other information about you with your consent. Typically, the other parties involved are identified and information about their privacy practices is disclosed.

We will limit the amount and type of personal information collected from you to that which is necessary for the purposes it was collected. Further, we will retain your personal information for so long as is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected and/or only for so long as we have your consent to use it.

5. Collection on The Apartment Outpost Site

When you visit The Apartment Outpost site, we may place a "cookie" on your computer. A cookie is a file written to 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 Apartment Outpost site (such as your name, interests or preferences), we may use cookies to keep track of such information so that you will not need to re-enter this information during subsequent visits. We use cookies to customize delivery of The Apartment Outpost site content and advertisements. You may set your Internet browser preferences to notify you when you receive a cookie or decline acceptance of cookies. If you decline acceptance of cookies, however, you may experience less than optimal performance of The Apartment Outpost site.

While using The Apartment Outpost, we (through certain third party service providers) may collect information about which pages you visit, as well as your IP address or domain name. We may use this information, for example, to tailor your experience on the Apartment Outpost or to assess the amount of traffic to the Apartment Outpost site. We may so provide this information on an aggregated, anonymous basis to our marketing partners and/or advertisers. This aggregated information does not contain personally identifiable information.

The Apartment Outpost site contains links to other third party sites. The Apartment Outpost is not responsible for the privacy policies or content on such sites.

6. Disclosure of Personal Information

Except as set out below, we will not sell, rent, transfer, or disclose your personal information to any third party without your consent:

(i) We may disclose certain personal information to third parties for the purpose of administering, processing, or fulfilling an order or service you have requested on our behalf, or process market research information collected, such as mailing houses, contest administration, etc. We will insist that any such third parties maintain the confidentiality of the personal information we provide them and implement appropriate safeguards to prevent its unauthorized disclosure;

(ii) Where you have given us your consent to do so, we may provide nonsensitive personal information (such as name, address and other contact information) to our advertisers so that they might send you offers and information relating to those products and services that may be of interest to you;

7. Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us. The Apartment Outpost takes technical, contractual, administrative, and physical security steps to protect the personal information that you provide to us. We instruct our employees with access to your personal information that it is to be used only in adherence with the principles set forth in this privacy policy and the laws applicable to each specific business.

When using the The Apartment Outpost website, if you provide credit card information to us, we work to help protect the security of your credit card information during transmission by using industry standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology.

8. Access to Your Information

We will give you access to the information we retain about you. We will make every reasonable effort to keep your information accurate and up-to-date. Upon your request, you shall be informed of the existence, use and disclosure of your information. You may verify the accuracy and completeness of your information, and may request that it be amended, if appropriate. Simply send us an e-mail at apartmentoutpost@gmail.com, and we will look after your request.

If you have any questions, comments, complaints or suggestions about this privacy policy or wish to withdraw your consent to our use of your personal information for any of the purposes contemplated herein you can contact our Privacy Office either via e- mail at apartmentoutpost@gmail.com.



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