Deepstar Online has a strong commitment to
providing excellent service to all of its customers and visitors of this website,
including respecting your concerns about privacy. We understand that you may
have questions about how this website collects and uses the information that
you provide to us. We have prepared this statement to inform you of the privacy
principles that govern this website which includes deepstaronline.com and
other Deepstar Online sites included within deepstaronline.com, which are
listed in this privacy statement ("Statement").
This Statement contains numerous general and
technical details about the steps we take to respect your privacy concerns.
We have organized the Statement by major processes and areas so that you can
quickly link to the information of most interest to you.
The bottom line is that meeting your needs and
expectations form the foundation of everything we do - including protecting
your privacy.
If after reviewing this Statement you have any
questions or privacy concerns please send an e-mail to info@deepstaronline.com
or send a letter to:
Deepstar Online
Att: Information Protection
Suite 138, 240-222 Baseline Rd.
Sherwood Park, AB T8H1S8
Browsing
This website does not collect personally identifiable
information from your computer when you browse this website and request pages
from our servers. This means that, unless you voluntarily and knowingly provide
us with personally identifiable information, we will not know your name, your
e-mail address, or any other personally identifiable information. When you request
a page from our site, our servers log the information provided in the HTTP request
header including the IP number, the time of the request, the URL of your request
and other information that is provided in the HTTP header. We collect the HTTP
request header information in order to make our website function correctly and
provide you the functionality that you see on this website, as our servers use
this information to deliver to you the pages on this website. We also use this
information to better understand how visitors use our website and how we can
better tune our website, its contents and functionality to meet your needs.
Information We Collect
When we need to collect personally identifiable
information from you to provide you with a particular service we will ask you
to voluntarily supply us with the information we need. For example, if you would
like to make apurchase, we will ask you for information such as name, address,
telephone number, e-mail address, and credit card number to process your purchase.
We will use your e-mail address to send a confirmation and, if necessary, might
use the other information to contact you for help to process the purchase. We
will also use your e-mail address to notify you about special offers and promotions
as described in the E-Mail section of this Statement, but you can opt out of
e-mails at any time.
Securing the Transmission and Storage
of Information
We treat the information you provide to us as
confidential information; it is, accordingly, subject to our company’s security
procedures and corporate policies regarding protection and use of confidential
information. When we ask you for credit card data it is transferred over a Secured
Sockets Layer (SSL) line provided you are using a SSL enabled browser such as
Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator. We also use SSL on other
select pages where you would enter personally identifiable information. This
ensures that your information is encrypted as it travels over the Internet.
This secure mode is enabled before any such information is transmitted from
your computer. You will know you are in secure mode when the padlock or key
icon in the lower right-hand or left-hand corner of the computer screen appears
in the locked position. In addition, when accessing a secure server, the first
characters of the site address will change from "http" to "https."
After information reaches Deepstar Online it
is stored on a secure server that resides behind firewalls designed to block
unauthorized access from outside of Deepstar Online. Because laws applicable
to personal information vary by country, our store or other business operations
may put in place additional measures that vary depending on the applicable legal
requirements. Information collected on the sites covered by this privacy statement
is generally processed and stored in Canada.
Disclosure of Information to Third Parties
Deepstar Online does use the services of third
parties, such as e-mail service providers and marketing companies that act as
agents on behalf of Deepstar Online. These parties are contractually prohibited
from using personally identifiable information for any purpose other than for
the purpose Deepstar Online specifies. We do provide non-personally identifiable
information to certain service providers for their use on an aggregated basis
for the purpose of performing their contractual obligations to us. We prohibit
the sale or transfer of personal information to entities outside of the Deepstar Online family of companies and hotels for their use without your approval.
Cookies
Our website uses "cookie" technology.
"Cookies" are encrypted strings of text that a website stores on a
user’s computer. Our website requires the use of a cookie throughout the online
purchase process. Without cookies we will not be able to keep information you
enter on multiple pages together. For example, unless deepstaronline.com can
remember the products you selected, we will not be able to update your cart.
Cookies also enable us to customize our website and offerings to your needs
and provide you with a better online experience on deepstaronline.com. In addition,
cookies are used to:
* allow registered users to sign in without
typing their sign in name each time;
* measure usage of various pages on our website to help us make our information
more pertinent to your needs and easy for you to access; and
* provide functionality such as online purchases, and other functionality that
we believe would be of interest and value to you.
The types of cookies that we use are referred
to as "session" cookies and "persistent" cookies. Session
cookies are temporary and are automatically deleted once you leave deepstaronline.com.
Persistent cookies remain on your computer hard drive until you delete them.
We do not use cookies to ascertain any personally identifiable information about
you apart from what you voluntarily provide us in your dealings with Deepstar Online.
Cookies do not corrupt or damage your computer, programs, or computer files.
You may set your browser to block cookies (consult the instructions for your
particular browser on how to do this), although doing so will adversely affect
your ability to perform certain transactions, use certain functionality and
access certain content on our website.
E-Mails about Special Offers and Promotions
and Opt-Out
It is our intention to only send you e-mail
communications that will be useful to you and that you want to receive. When
you create a personal account, or make a purchase and provide your e-mail address,
we will periodically contact you via e-mail and provide information about special
offers and promotions that may be of interest to you. These communications will
relate to Deepstar Online offers and/or the promotions of select, reputable
third parties with whom Deepstar Online has a strategic marketing relationship
because they offer products or services that we believe would be of interest
to you. We may use a third party e-mail service provider to send e-mails. This
service provider is prohibited from using your e-mail address for any purpose
other than to send Deepstar Online related e-mail. If you do not wish to receive
an e-mail with updates and information please unsubscribe here by sending us
an email. In addition, every time you receive an e-mail you will be provided
the choice to opt-out of future e-mails by following the instructions provided
in the e-mail.
Other Sites
Deepstar Online is only responsible for the
privacy policy and content of this website. We are not responsible for the privacy
practices or the use of cookies on websites that you have accessed this website
from and to the non-Deepstar Online websites that you may access from this
website.
Other Deepstar Online Sites Within
deepstaronline.com
Within deepstaronline.com are other Deepstar
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