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PCI GEOMATICS Privacy Policy

Last Updated: October 25, 2020

This Privacy Policy describes how PCI Geomatics Enterprises, Inc. (“PCI,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) processes personal information in connection with our website at www.catalyst.earth (our “Website”) and our provision of products and services. It also describes your rights and choices with respect to personal information in our control.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Collection and Use of Personal Information
Disclosure of Personal Information
Our Website
Legal Basis for Processing
Third Party Sites
Security of Personal Information
Retention of Personal Information
Your Rights
Updates to our Privacy Policy
Contact Us

COLLECTION AND USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Account information. If you choose to purchase or register for our products and services, we will collect your name, address, email address and telephone number as well as information about the product or services you have purchased or registered for. Where we provide products or services to a business or other entity, we also collect the name and contact information of employees or representatives of that business or entity. We use this information to provide our products and services and otherwise manage our customer relationships including collecting amounts owing to us, enforcing our agreements, maintaining records, providing customer support and technical assistance and responding to requests and inquiries.

Payment information. We collect payment information in order to process payments for our products and services. This information may include bank account information or payment-card information (including payment card number, security code, expiration date) as well as the name and billing address of the individual making the payment.

Technical support. If you contact us for technical support, we will collect your name and contact details and information about the nature of the support required, including a description of the issue and the relevant software product and platform to which it relates. We may also collect diagnostic and technical information, such as system and registry data about software installations and hardware configurations, and error-tracking files. We use this information to provide technical support and to improve our products and services.

Your data. In the course of using our products and services you may upload certain information and data, including text, sound, video and image files. We will not access or use this information unless specifically requested by you (for example, in connection with a request for technical support).

Usage data. We automatically collect information about your use of our products and services including hardware information, operating system, information about your graphics card, the commands and tools you are using, application up time, error report information, and similar reports. We use this information to analyze and improve the quality, security, and integrity of the products and services we offer, to develop new products and services, to enforce our customer agreements and provide customer service.
Inquiries: If you contact us to request information about our products or services, or with other inquiries, we will collect your name and contact information, and any other information you choose to provide at the time of your request. We use this information to respond to your request or inquiry. We may also use this information to improve our products and services, or develop new products and services.

Feedback. We may collect and use feedback about our products and services to better understand our customers and users, to improve our products and services and to develop new products and services.

Marketing. We may use the personal information we collect to better understand our customers and for marketing purposes, including to personalize our marketing efforts. You can opt-out of our marketing communications at any time by following the instructions provided in the communication (where available), or by contacting us as set out below. Please note that if you opt-out of our marketing communications you will continue to receive transactional and account-related messages from us.

Our Website. We may also collect certain information automatically when you visit our Website. Please see Our Website section below.

DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Service Providers: In connection with providing our products and services, we may transfer personal information to third parties who provide services on our behalf. For example, we use service providers store our data, process payments, provide customer relationship management services and perform analytics. Personal information may be maintained and processed by us or our third-party service providers in Canada, the US or other jurisdictions. Our service providers are only authorized to use the personal information we provide to perform services for us. For more information, please contact us as set out in the “Contact Us” section below.

Sale of Business: We may transfer personal information as an asset in connection with a prospective or completed merger, acquisition or sale (including transfers made as part of insolvency or bankruptcy proceeding) involving all or part of PCI or as part of a corporate reorganization or other change in corporate control.

Legal: PCI and our service providers may disclose your personal information in response to a search warrant or other legally valid inquiry or order (which may include lawful access by Canadian, US or other foreign governmental authorities, courts or law enforcement agencies) or as otherwise permitted or required by law.

OUR WEBSITE

Visiting our Website: We collect the IP (Internet protocol) addresses of all visitors to our Website and other related information such as page requests, browser type, operating system and average time spent on our Website. We use this information to help us understand our Website activity and to improve our Website.

Analytics: Our Website uses “cookies” and similar tracking tools like web beacons for analytics. A cookie is a tiny element of data that our Website sends to a user’s browser, which may then be stored on the user’s hard drive so that we can recognize the user when they return. We use cookies to remember your preferences, to authenticate you, to assess the effectiveness of our advertising and to understand what drives users to our Website. You may set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie or to not accept certain cookies. However, if you decide not to accept cookies from our Website, you may not be able to take advantage of all of the Website features.

LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING

We rely on one or more of the following legal grounds (as appropriate) to process personal information:

  • To enter and perform a contract with you or to perform any steps you require from us before entering into a contract.
  • To pursue our legitimate business interests in establishing, managing or concluding our relationship with you.
  • Where you have specifically consented to us processing your personal information.
  • To comply with our legal obligations and establish, exercise or defend our legal rights.

Where personal information is processed with consent, you may (subject to contractual and legal restrictions) refuse to provide your consent, or choose to withdraw your consent, to our processing of your personal information by contacting us as described below. Note that if you refuse to consent, or withdraw your consent, to certain processing of your personal information, we may not be able to provide certain of our services.

THIRD PARTY SITES

Third Party Links: Our Website may contain links to other websites that PCI does not own or operate. We provide links to third party websites as a convenience to the user. The linked websites have separate and independent privacy policies, notices and terms of use. We encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

Social Media: We may offer you the opportunity to engage with PCI content on or through third-party social networking websites. When you engage with us or our content on or through third-party social networking websites you may allow us to have access to certain information associated with your social media account (e.g., name, username, email address, profile picture, gender). We may use this information to personalize our marketing efforts.

SECURITY OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We have implemented reasonable administrative, technical and physical safeguards in an effort to protect against unauthorized access, use, modification and disclosure of personal information in our custody and control. However, please note that no security measures can offer absolute security and we cannot guarantee that your personal information will not be stolen or accessed without authorization.

RETENTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Personal information is maintained on our servers or those of our service providers and is accessible by authorized employees, representatives and agents who require access for the purposes identified in this Privacy Policy. We have personal information retention processes designed to retain personal information for no longer than necessary for the purposes for which such information was provided or to otherwise meet legal requirements.

YOUR RIGHTS

You may request access, updating or correction of your personal information (subject to limited exceptions prescribed by law) by submitting a written request to our Privacy Officer (see “Contact Us” below). You may also have the right, in specified circumstances, to object to our use of your personal information, to request the deletion of your personal information or restrict its use, to request a copy of the information you have provided to us to use for your own purposes, or to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. If you have any questions about these rights, or you would like to exercise any of them, please contact us as described below. We may request certain personal information for the purposes of verifying your identity.

UPDATES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy may be updated periodically to reflect changes to our personal information practices. The revised Privacy Policy will be posted on our Website. We strongly encourage you to please refer to this Privacy Policy often for the latest information about our personal information practices.

CONTACT US

Please contact our Privacy Officer Mimay Mallillin at [email protected] if you have any questions, comments or complaints about this Privacy Policy or our personal information practices, if you would like more information about our use of service providers, or if you would like to make a request relating to personal information in our control.

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