This is the privacy policy (“Privacy Policy“) of Nicola Mining Inc.(“Nicola Mining“) and governs use of personal information by Nicola Mining, whether such information is collected via Our Website (“Site“) or otherwise.
This Privacy Policy explains what Personal Information we obtain from you in your use of the Site, and the steps we take to secure that Personal Information. This Privacy Policy also explains how you can contact us if you have a question about our privacy practices. Nicola Mining will not collect, use or disclose your Personal Information in a way that is incompatible with applicable federal or provincial legislation or this Privacy Policy. In this Privacy Policy, the terms “we”, “our” and “us” refer to Nicola Mining. In this Agreement, the terms “you”, “user”, and “your” refer to a visitor of the Site.
By submitting Personal Information to us or by otherwise using any of our services or our Site, you hereby consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
If you do not agree with some or all of this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Site or our services.
We recommend that you take the time to read this Privacy Policy so that you understand how we handle Personal Information. This Privacy Policy may also change. We will include a “last revised” date on the Privacy Policy as displayed on the Site. We strongly encourage you to refer back to the Privacy Policy periodically.
1. How We Collect and Use Personal Information
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, the following terms will have the following meanings:
“Personal Information” means information about you as an identifiable individual, but does not include “Business Contact Information”. Personal Information includes your name, home address, home telephone number, and personal e-mail address.
“Business Contact Information” means: your business position, name or title, business address, business telephone number, business email address and business fax number.
At or before the time your Personal Information is collected through the Site, Nicola Mining will identify how your Personal Information will be used or disclosed. Without limiting the foregoing, Nicola Mining may collect your Personal Information for the following purposes:
- Sharing Information. Your Personal Information may be collected from you and used by Nicola Mining so that we can share information about Nicola Mining, the Site, or our services with you.
- Service Analysis. When you use our Site, a cookie may be placed within the memory of your internet access device. A cookie is a small piece of information that a website can store via your internet access device for later retrieval. We may use permanent cookies or server-side artifacts to help us track use of our services by users, including casual visitors to the Site—such as (without limitation) the number and frequency of visits to our pages and which parts of our Site are visited. Similarly, we may also collect IP addresses of users who visit the Site, and use such information to evaluate Site performance and Service quality.
We may also use your Personal Information for such other purposes as may be introduced to this Privacy Policy from time to time upon notice being given to the user. For greater certainty, you hereby agree that sufficient notice includes making the Privacy Policy available on the Site.
2. Our Disclosure of Personal Information
We will not sell, license, trade or rent your Personal Information. Nicola Mining may disclose Personal Information if a law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena or court order legally requires or authorizes us to do so.
Additionally, Nicola Mining reserves the right to disclose and/or transfer Personal Information to a third party in the event of a proposed or actual purchase, sale, lease, merger, amalgamation or any other type of acquisition, disposal or financing of all or any portion of Nicola Mining or of any of the businesses or assets or shares of Nicola Mining, provided that such third party represents that it will continue to use the Personal Information for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy and in accordance with applicable privacy protection laws.
3. Retention of Personal Information
We routinely destroy Personal Information that is no longer required for the purposes described herein, in accordance with applicable laws.
4. Accuracy of Personal Information
Nicola Mining takes reasonable steps to ensure that any Personal Information in our custody is accurate and up-to-date for the purposes for which the Personal Information is to be used by Nicola Mining. In most instances, we rely on users of the Services to notify us of any changes to their Personal Information.
5. How We Protect Your Personal Information
Nicola Mining uses reasonable and appropriate measures designed to help you secure your Personal Information against accidental or unlawful loss, access or disclosure. Only staff and service providers who have a legitimate business purpose for accessing the Personal Information collected by us are authorized to do so. Unauthorized use of Personal Information by anyone affiliated with Nicola Mining is prohibited and constitutes grounds for disciplinary action.
6. Links to Third Party Sites
The use of our Services may lead you to third party websites. Those organizations are separate and distinct from Nicola Mining, and have their own separate privacy policies. We are not responsible in any way for how any third party collects, uses or discloses your Personal Information, so it is important to familiarize yourself with the privacy policies of these websites before providing your Personal Information to them.
7. Individual Access
Upon written request to info@nicolamining.com you will be informed of the existence, use and disclosure of your Personal Information, and will be given access to that Personal Information. Nicola Mining provides an opportunity for individuals to challenge the accuracy and completeness of the Personal Information and have it amended as appropriate.
8. Contacting Us
Accountability with respect to your Personal Information is important to Nicola Mining. In the event that you have any questions, including how Personal Information is managed by Nicola Mining), complaints or concerns about this Privacy Policy, or if you have reason to believe that we may have failed to adhere to it, please contact us by sending an email. Questions regarding your rights and responsibilities under this Privacy Policy, can be directed to info@nicolamining.com.
Last Revised: March, 2015