GOLIATHTECH - PRIVACY POLICY
GoliathTech, a growing leader in screw pile design and installation in Canada and the United States, is committed to protecting the personal information that its clients and certified installers provide in the course of business relations.
Goal and scope of this policy
This privacy policy explains how we collect, use and disclose the personal information on our clients and certified installers and how this personal information can be consulted and corrected when necessary. This policy also explains how cookies are used on our Website.
By visiting www.goliathtechpiles.com (the “GoliathTech Website” or “Website”), contacting us or agreeing to receive emails from GoliathTech, you accept the terms and conditions of this policy.
This policy does not extend to websites operated by our certified installers. GoliathTech is therefore not liable for their privacy policies, procedures and practices.
Your Consent to Collection, Use and Disclosure
GoliathTech collects, uses, discloses and retains personal information that you provide to us with your consent.
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GoliathTech collects, uses and discloses your personal information with your consent where applicable or as permitted or required by law. 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. Subject to applicable laws, your consent may be express or implied, depending on the circumstances and the sensitivity of the personal information in question. If you choose to provide personal information to us, we assume that you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information as outlined in this privacy statement.
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 or where not provided by the law, we will seek your consent prior to our use of such information for this new purpose.
You may withdraw your consent to our collection, use or disclosure of your personal information at any time by contacting us using the contact information in the “Contact Us” section below. However, before we implement the withdrawal of consent, we may require proof of your identity. In some cases, withdrawal of your consent may mean that we will no longer be able to provide certain products or services.
If you provide personal information about another individual to us, it is your responsibility to obtain the consent of that individual to enable us to collect, use and disclose his or her information as described in this privacy statement.
When you visit our site and the various areas linked to personal accounts, we collect some personal information about you.
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A. The information that you send us
We collect the personal information that you send us when you:
- fill out the on-line estimate form;
- search for a certified installer in your region;
- consider the possibility of joining our franchise network;
- contact us by telephone; or
- send us an email.
Depending on the circumstances, this could be your name, contact information (street address, electronic address, telephone number), the form of payment you used, details on your residential, commercial or agricultural projects, any other information you will disclose to us, etc.
B. Information provided on our Website
We also collect information on your visit to our GoliathTech Website. This information could include your IP address, the date, time and length of your visits as well as the web pages you consulted.
The GoliathTech Website also uses cookies. These are files that are installed on your computer’s hard drive or web browser in order to collect certain information, such as your language of preference, your browsing history and your browser type and version, all for the purposes of optimizing your experience on our Website. These cookies cannot be used to extract information from your hard drive or store your personal information. However, if matched with other data, information collected by cookies could be used to identify an individual user. To know more, please see the Cookies Policy.
Disabling cookies on your browser could adversely affect your browsing experience on the GoliathTech Website. Users may opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting the Google advertising opt-out page.
We use your personal information to provide and improve our services to you. We also use it to meet our legal obligations.
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We use and disclose your personal information mainly:
- to respond to your requests for estimates, searches for a certified installer or interest in joining our franchise network. Applicable legal basis under the GDPR : performance of an agreement;
- to allow us to provide our products and services and to follow up with our clients and certified installers. Applicable legal basis under the GDPR : performance of an agreement;
- to answer questions and information requests. Applicable legal basis under the GDPR : performance of an agreement;
- to optimize the contents and structure of the GoliathTech Website. Applicable legal basis under the GDPR : consent of the user;
- to assess your needs, preferences and degree of satisfaction with our products and services. Applicable legal basis under the GDPR : legitimate interest of GoliathTech;
- to evaluate the records of potential franchisees and supervise the operations of existing franchisees. Applicable legal basis under the GDPR : consent;
- to inform you of our products and services, to the extent permitted by law. Applicable legal basis under the GDPR : performance of an agreement;for the purposes of marketing, advertising or contests, to the extent permitted by law. Applicable legal basis under the GDPR : legitimate interest or consent;;
- for survey and statistical purposes, to the extent permitted by law. Applicable legal basis under the GDPR : legitimate interest of GoliathTech;
- to ensure compliance with the legislation and regulations in force. Applicable legal basis under the GDPR : compliance with the law;
- for any other purposes authorized or required by law. Applicable legal basis under the GDPR : compliance with the law.
When we disclose your personal information to third parties, we take reasonable measures to ensure that the rules set forth in this policy are respected.
We do not market the lists of our clients or Website users to third parties.
We may provide your personal information to our service providers and partners to provide our services. We may also disclose your personal information to meet a legal obligation or to enforce our rights.
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We can share your personal information to our third party services providers as well as our partners. In such cases, we take steps to ensure that the rules set forth in this Privacy Policy are followed and require service providers to maintain the confidentiality and security of your personal information. We also require that the service providers maintain the confidentiality of your personal information and keep your personal information secure. We also require that they only use your personal information for the limited purposes for which it is provided.
When our service providers no longer need your personal information for those limited purposes, we require that they dispose of the personal information. In some circumstances, we may permit our service providers to retain aggregated, anonymized or statistical information that does not identify you.
We do not authorize the service providers to disclose your personal information to unauthorized parties or to use your personal information for their direct marketing purposes. If you would like more information about our service providers, please contact us using the contact information in the “Contact Us” section below.
Below is a list of our third party service providers who may process your personal information:
Additionally, we may use and disclose your information when we believe such use or disclosure is permitted, necessary or appropriate:
- under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence;
- to comply with legal process;
- to respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence;
- to enforce the terms of the agreements for our products and services;
- to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates or subsidiaries;
- to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or those of our affiliates, you or others; and
- to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
In addition, we may transfer your personal information and other information to a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, brands, affiliates, subsidiaries or other assets.
If we otherwise intend to disclose your personal information to a third party, we will identify that third party and the purpose for the disclosure, and obtain your consent.
If you no longer want to receive marketing-related emails from us, such as our newsletter, you may opt-out of receiving marketing-related emails by clicking the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of any email you receive from us, or, if you created an online account when you registered to receive our emails, you may log-in to your account and make changes to your communication preferences. You may also opt-out by contacting us directly using the contact information in the “Contact Us” section below.
We will endeavour to respond to your opt-out request promptly, but we ask that you please allow us a reasonable time to process your request. Please note that if you opt-out from receiving marketing-related emails, we may still need to send you communications about your use of our products or services, or other matters.
We will use, disclose or retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which that personal information was collected and as permitted or required by law.
If you would like more information about how long your personal information will be retained, please contact us using the contact information in the "Contact Us" section below.
We have implemented physical, organizational, contractual and technological security measures with a view to protecting your personal information and other information from loss or theft, unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification. We have taken steps to ensure that the only personnel who are granted access to your personal information are those with a business ‘need-to-know’ or whose duties reasonably require such information.
Despite the measure outlined above, no method of information transmission or information storage is 100% secure or error-free, so we unfortunately cannot guarantee absolute security. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you feel that the security of any information that you provided to us has been compromised), please contact us immediately using the contact information in the “Contact Us” section below.
Your personal information is currently hosted in Quebec, Canada.
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Your personal information may be stored and processed in Quebec, Canada and in any country where we have facilities or in which we engage third party service providers, notably in. As a result, your personal information may be transferred to countries outside your country, state, province of residence, which may have different data protection rules than in your country. While such information is outside of your country, it is subject to the laws of the country, state, province in which it is located, and may be subject to disclosure to the governments, courts or law enforcement or regulatory agencies of such other country, pursuant to the laws of such country. However, our practices regarding your personal information will at all times continue to be governed by this Privacy Policy and by applicable laws, and, if applicable, we will comply with the GDPR requirements providing adequate protection for the transfer of personal information from the EU/EEA to third country, such as standard contractual clauses.
You have some rights regarding your personal information. To learn more about your rights, please click here.
We will take steps to ensure that your personal information is kept as accurate, complete and up-to-date as reasonably necessary. We will not routinely update your personal information, unless such a process is necessary. We expect you, from time to time, to supply us with updates to your personal information, when required.
However, to make sure that the information we hold on you is accurate and up to date, please inform us immediately of any change in your personal information.
On written request and subject to proof of identity, you may consult the personal information that we have collected, used or disclosed, and ask that any necessary corrections be made, where applicable, as authorized or required by law.
In addition, under certain circumstances, you have the following rights:
- Withdrawal of your consent. You may withdraw your consent to the disclosure or use of the personal information collected;
- If applicable, you may have the right to request that personal information held about you no longer be disclosed;
- Where applicable, you may have the right to request information about the use of any automated decision system and the impact it may have on you.
Finally, under the GDPR, you may be entitled to additional rights, including: (i) the right to withdraw consent to processing where consent is the basis of processing; (ii) the right to object to unlawful data processing, under certain conditions; (iii) the right to delete Personal Information about you, under certain conditions; (iv) the right to demand that we restrict processing of your Personal Information, under certain conditions, if you believe we have exceeded the legitimate basis for processing, processing is no longer necessary, or believe your Personal Information is inaccurate; (v) the right to data portability of Personal Information concerning you that you provided us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, under certain conditions; (vi) the right to object to decisions being taken by automated means which produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you, under certain conditions. If you want to learn more about your rights under the GDPR, you can visit the European Commission's page on Data Protection at: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/reform/rights-citizens_en.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant data protection authority.
We may require that you provide sufficient identification to fulfill your request regarding your personal information. Any such identifying information will be used only for this purpose.
In certain circumstances, in France, you can also define directives concerning your personal information in case of death.
Our products and services are not intended for minors in their country and we do not voluntarily collect personal information from such minors. If you are a minor under the laws of your jurisdiction, please do not provide us with any personal information without the express consent of a parent or guardian.
If you are a parent or guardian and you know that your children have provided us with personal information, please contact us. If we learn that we have collected personal information from minor children without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to delete that information from our servers.
Third Party Applications and Services
This privacy statement applies only to our products and services. This privacy statement does not extend to any Applications or products or services provided by third parties. We do not assume responsibility for the privacy practices of such third parties and we encourage you to review all third party privacy policies prior to using third party Applications or products or services.
This privacy policy may be amended without notice, and was last updated on December, 2022. We reserve the right to change this policy from time to time. When we make changes to this policy, they will be effective immediately when notice of the change is made available to you on our website.
Any request regarding your personal information and any question or comment you may have respecting our privacy policy must be sent to the Privacy Officer by mail, fax or email using the following contact information:
By mail:
Privacy Officer
477 Bd Poirier
Magog, Québec J1X 7L1
Canada
By email: info@goliathtechcorp.com
