Our Commitment To
Privacy:
Canon Development Americas, Inc. (“CDA”) is committed to
protecting your privacy. We provide this Statement explaining our online
information practices and the choices you can make about the way your
information is collected and used. To make this Statement easy to find, we make
it available on every page where our information collection practices are
applicable.
Scope:
This Statement covers all areas on which our
privacy statement hyperlink appears (hereinafter referred to in this Statement
as the “Site). The information covered by this Statement is personal information
you provide to us online ("Personally Identifiable Information") but does not
include information provided about your trade, business or profession. This Statement does not apply to our
offline data collection practices.
For information concerning the privacy policies of your local Time-Warner
Cable-affiliated cable operator, please refer to the Time Warner Cable and
Affiliated ISPS Subscriber Privacy Notice.
Consent:
By using this Site, you consent
to our collection, use and disclosure of your Information as described in this
Statement. If you do not agree with
this Privacy Statement, please do not use this Site.
The Information We
Collect:
There are two forms of Information that we collect online: Site
Visitorship Information and Personally Identifiable Information voluntarily
provided to us by Site visitors.
Site Visitorship
Information
As with many online web sites, we routinely gather
Information on Site activity. This information may
include data on how many people visit the Site, the pages they visit, where they
come from, how long they stay, frequency of use, the date and time of use,
number of photo albums, number of photos uploaded on the system, storage in
MB’s, how often a user prints, what functions users use, e.g. rotate, slideshow,
move, copy, and the like.
All Site Visitorship Information is:
• gathered through the
use of web server logs and cookies. A web server log is a file where web site
activity is stored. A cookie is a small piece of information that a web site
sends to a visitor's computer and which is then stored on the visitor's hard
drive. We use cookies to track repeat visits to its Site and to otherwise
facilitate your Site experience. Although we assign a cookie to a visitor's
computer, it does not know who that visitor is unless that person specifically
tells us.;
• used to better design our Site and to share with advertisers to create targeted marketing;
• archived
for future use and may be disclosed to others.
Collection of
Personally Identifiable Information
Personally Identifiable Information
may be collected on certain pages of the Site. If you decide to contact us
online to ask a question, download certain software, place an order for service
or inquire about services, you may be asked to provide certain types of
Personally Identifiable Information (such as your name, email address, postal
address, telephone number, comments, etc.). We ask
for this information in order to assist us in complying with your requests and
to facilitate communications with you.
Personally Identifiable
Information is collected only when Site visitors voluntarily provide it. It is
not necessary to provide any Personally Identifiable Information in order to
simply browse the Site.
How We Use Information:
Personally
Identifiable Information may be forwarded to our business units, subsidiaries or
affiliates that are equipped to handle your request, inquiry or feedback. We use the Personally Identifiable
Information you provide about yourself when placing an online service request to
fulfill and complete that service request and to provide you with information
about other Canon products and promotions that may be of interest to you. Your
Information may be shared with our employees, independent contractors, agents or
other related and unrelated entities and/or business partners acting on our
behalf to fulfill and/or ship an order, an award or rebate; conduct surveys;
collect payments or to provide a product or service you have requested. We share
the Personally Identifiable Information with Time Warner Cable. We do not share this information with non-Canon or non-Time Warner
companies except to the extent necessary to complete your transaction and when
we do share it with others it is subject to their agreement to treat it as
confidential business information with the understanding that it may not be used
for any purpose other than to perform their function.
We use return email addresses to
answer the email we receive as well as to provide you with service updates,
special promotions and offers.
In the course of growing or
restructuring our business, we may purchase the assets of another company or
sell the assets of our company. During these transactions, information about
customers is frequently considered a business asset that is the subject of such
a purchase or sale. Also, in the unlikely event that we, or substantially all of
our assets, are either acquired or subject to liquidation in bankruptcy,
Information may be transferred as well.
We release Information when we believe
release is appropriate to comply with law, to enforce or apply our
Terms of Use and other agreements, or to protect
our rights, property, or safety and to protect the rights, property or safety of
our Site users or others. This includes exchanging Information with other
companies and organizations relating to criminal activities, other activities
prohibited by law and for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Other
Sites:
The Site may contain hyperlinks
to and from other Internet sites, including other Canon or Time Warner Cable
Company sites, and sites operated by our trading partners, service providers,
and content providers. When you click on a link to one of these sites, you are
leaving the Site and contacting another web site. These sites may have different privacy
practices from the ones described here. Since this Privacy Statement applies
solely to this Site, please remember to read the privacy statements of the other
sites you visit. We are not responsible for nor do we have control over those
sites or their collection, use or disclosure practices.
Our Commitment To Data
Security:
We work hard to ensure that our systems are secure and that
they meet industry standards. We use reasonable security methods to protect and
ensure correct use of the data that resides on our servers. However, since no
data transmission over the Internet can be completely secure, we cannot
guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us, and you transmit
such information at your own risk. We will continue to assess new technology to
evaluate its ability to provide additional protection of your
Information.
Our Commitment To Children's Privacy:
Protecting
the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that reason, we never
collect or maintain information at our Site from those we actually know are
under 13.
We encourage parents and
guardians to spend time online with their children and to participate with them
in the various interactive activities available on the Internet, on other web
sites and on our Site, as well.
Right to Change Internet Privacy Statement:
We reserve the right to change this Statement at any time.
Changes will be effective immediately upon posting on the Site. Your
continued use of the Site subsequent to the posting of any changes signifies
your consent to those changes.
You may request access to your Personally Identifiable Information
retained by us. You may modify, correct, change or update this record or cause
this record to be removed from our database by contacting us in writing at the
address below. You can correct factual errors in your Personally Identifiable
Information by sending us a request that credibly shows error. To protect your
privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity
before granting access or making corrections.
How To
Contact Us:
Should you have any questions or concerns about this
Statement, please mail your inquiry to Canon Development Americas, Inc. -
Customer Privacy, 110 Innovation Drive, Irvine, California
92612.
Please Note: The laws and regulations in different countries impose different (and
even conflicting) requirements on the Internet and data protection. We are
located in the United States, as are the servers that make this Site available
worldwide. All matters relating to this Site are governed by the laws of the
State of New York, in the United States. If you are located outside the United
States and you contact us, please note that any information you provide will be
transferred to the United States and by submitting the information you authorize
this transfer and submit to the jurisdiction of courts located in New York,
agree to be bound by the laws and regulations of the State of New York while
using this Site and to be bound by the decisions of the New York courts and
tribunals.