Privacy & Integrity
TheTop10 Inc. Privacy Policy
At TheTop10 Inc., your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy applies to all of the products, services, and websites offered by TheTop10 Inc. and its subsidiaries or affiliated companies (collectively, "TheTop10").
To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our privacy practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used by TheTop10.
An overview of the information that TheTop10 may collect
TheTop10 Inc. respects your privacy and never sells, gives or otherwise provides your personally-identifying information to third parties. We strive, both in-house, and in tandem with the various service providers that we partner and work with, to secure our site(s) and protect all data collected to the highest standards currently available.
You are able to take advantage of many TheTop10 services without providing any information that personally identifies you. We only collect personally-identifying information when you voluntarily submit it to us.
Sometimes, we need personally-identifying information in order to provide you with the products and services that you request, such as becoming a member, joining our rewards program or becoming a listed business on TheTop10.ca. Depending upon the service, we may ask you for a variety of personally-identifying information. This might include but is not exclusive to, your name, address, e-mail address or telephone number. We may also ask for other information about you, such as your credit card information (when you are making a purchase) interests or online habits. We consider certain identifying information "sensitive." This includes your credit card number or any other information that would normally be considered confidential.
You may choose not to provide us with any personally-identifying information. In that case, you can still access and use many portions of our website(s); however, you will not be able to access and use those portions of any TheTop10 website that require your personal information.
Many of TheTop10 websites include community features, such as “Ratings” areas, online forums and comment areas. Information that is posted in these areas becomes public information and the use that any third party makes of this information is beyond our ability to control. You should exercise caution before disclosing any personally-identifying information in these public venues. If you elect to submit content that includes information that can be used to identify you, you must assume that the content can and will be displayed on any website on the Internet.
At TheTop10.ca site and through certain promotions, you can submit personally-identifying information about other people. For example, you might submit a business’s name and e-mail address to recommend them for TheTop10. The types of personally-identifying information that we collect about other people or businesses at pages like these may include a personal or business name, address, e-mail address, or telephone number. We will only ask you for the information that we need in order to do what we state or you request.
In some circumstances, we also collect non-personally-identifying information. When you visit a TheTop10 website, we may collect information such as the type of browser you use, your operating system, your IP address, and the domain name of your Internet Service Provider. This information, by itself, does not permit individual identification, meaning that you will remain anonymous. However, if you elect to provide us with personally-identifying information during your visit, that information may be linked to your IP address.
When you visit our website, we may send one or more cookies – small, removable data files – to your computer. We use cookies to uniquely identify your browser, which allows us to enhance and personalize your online experience at TheTop10 websites. For example, cookies allow us to recognize you when you return to a website and present relevant content to you when you visit. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can configure your browser to warn you when cookies are sent, or to refuse all cookies. Some of the features and services of TheTop10 websites may not operate properly if your cookies are disabled.
Cookies, by themselves, do not provide us with any personally-identifying information. However, if you elect to provide us with personally-identifying information during your visit, that information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie.
We work with reputable third parties that provide data tracking and collection technologies in order to:
- Present or serve the advertisements you may see at TheTop10 website;
- Deliver and track e-mail communications;
- Process purchase orders through e-commerce transactions;
- Fulfill membership subscription orders;
These companies may collect information about you on our behalf. We require that these parties agree to process any such information based on our instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
TheTop10 website sometimes may offer contests or promotions that are sponsored by or co-sponsored with identified third parties. By virtue of their sponsorship, these third parties may obtain personally-identifying information that visitors voluntarily submit to them in order to participate in the contest, sweepstakes, or promotion. TheTop10 has no control over the third-party sponsors' use of this information. For certain promotions, only those who provide us with the requested personally-identifying information will be able to participate in the promotion's activities and offerings.
Our website contain links to other sites. By clicking on these links, you will leave the website operated by TheTop10 and this Privacy Policy will no longer apply. These other sites' information practices may be different than ours. You should consult the other sites' privacy notices, as we have no control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties.
We take appropriate physical, electronic, and procedural measures to safeguard and protect your personal information, using a variety of security measures, including encryption, authentication and firewalls to maintain the confidentiality of your personal information. We also take appropriate measures to secure the transmission of sensitive personal information from your computer to the Company's computers. When you transmit sensitive personal information to us, like credit card information, we offer the use of a secure connection to our servers. To the extent you select the secure connection method or your browser supports such functionality, all credit card account information that you supply is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. Regardless of these measures, no system connected to the Internet or data transmission sent over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. We will provide notice if we become aware of any security breach that may affect any sensitive personal information pertaining to you that we have stored on our systems.
TheTop10 employees, agents, and contractors who have access to personally-identifying information are required to protect this information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy and may not use the information for any purpose other than to carry out the services they are performing for TheTop10. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations.
TheTop10 Inc. only collects personal information that is relevant to the purposes for which it will be used. Though we do take appropriate steps to review and update the information that we store to ensure that it is accurate, complete, and current, we also depend on you to update or correct your personal information when necessary.
You may correct or delete any or all of the personal information you have provided to us at any time.
We only use the information we collect for purposes consistent with this policy. If we propose to use your personal information for purposes beyond that explained in this policy, we will provide appropriate notice before doing so and we will provide you with the means to opt out of those uses. We will not use your sensitive personal information for any purposes other than those described in this Policy unless we have obtained your consent.
By using the Sites and Services, you consent to the transfer of your information to our facilities and those third parties with whom we may share it as described in this Privacy Policy.
We take our Privacy Policy seriously and we regularly review our own compliance with this Policy. If you have any questions or concerns about this Policy, or if you think that we have used your personal information in a manner inconsistent with this Policy, please contact us at:
LAW ENFORCEMENT / LEGAL REQUIREMENTS:
We may disclose your personally identifiable information as well as your IP address and other information in order to comply with court orders, subpoenas, or regulatory obligations, or when otherwise required to do so by law. We also may disclose such information in compliance with a law enforcement or other governmental request, or where we believe disclosure is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, or violations of our Terms of Use.
