Privacy Policy
Trindent Management Consulting (“Trindent”), is committed to respecting personal privacy. We recognize and respect every individual’s right to privacy and acknowledge our obligation to preserve the confidentiality of personal information. Despite precautions, however, Trindent cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will not obtain access to your personal information. This privacy policy outlines how Trindent manages your personal information and safeguards your privacy.
What is “Personal Information?”
Personal information is any information that identifies you, or by which your identity could be deduced. It does not include the name, business address, or business telephone number of an employee of an organization.
Why Do We Collect Personal Information from You?
Trindent uses your personal information to fulfill your requests for information, to process your requests to participate in events, to evaluate any job applications or other employment-related inquiries submitted, or for other business purposes as you may initiate or request.
We may keep any of your personal information on file and use it to contact you for recruiting or other purposes. Trindent also uses personal information to perform statistical analysis of user behavior in order to measure interest in specific areas and information posted on our website.
What Personal Information Do We Collect?
Trindent collects personal information on certain areas of the website when users register, request publications or other information, sign up for events, apply for jobs, and participate in user posting areas such as comments, discussion forums, and surveys.
The personal information collected may consist of information that you provide such as names, mailing addresses, e-mail addresses, telephone and facsimile numbers, and, for recruiting purposes, any other personal information on your résumé.
How Do We Use Your Personal Information?
We use your personal information to:
- Develop and maintain our relationship with you and communicate with you;
- Advise you about new firm services that may be of interest to you; and
- Invoice and collect payment for professional services and products provided by us to you.
Disclosure of Your Personal Information
Trindent shall not intentionally disclose or transfer (and shall take reasonable steps to protect the confidentiality and security, as well as prevent the unauthorized or accidental disclosure of) your personal information to third parties (i.e. persons or entities that are not affiliates of Trindent), whether for such third parties’ marketing purposes or otherwise, subject only to the following exceptions:
- Trindent may disclose your personal information to third parties in the event that such disclosure is required by laws, rules, or regulations of any nation, state, or other applicable jurisdiction;
- Trindent may disclose your contact information to third parties as appropriate for Trindent to make transmissions or deliveries to you;
- Trindent reserves the right to disclose and/or transfer personal information to a third party in the event of a merger or acquisition of Trindent so that you may continue to receive the same professional services from the new entity or third party. In this case, the use of your personal information by the new entity would be limited to the purpose(s) for which we originally used the information;
- Trindent may disclose your personal information if, in connection with submitting the information, you consent to such disclosure; and
- Trindent may disclose your contact information in response to inquiries by bona-fide rights owners in connection with allegations of infringement of copyright or other proprietary rights arising from information you have posted on the website or otherwise provided to Trindent.
Updating Your Information
Since we use your personal information to provide services to you, it is important that the information is accurate and up-to-date.
If, during the course of your dealings with us, any of your information changes, please inform us so that we can make any necessary changes.
Consent
Trindent collects personal information that is specifically and voluntarily provided by visitors to Trindent’s website.
Use or Disclosure of Your Personal Information for Marketing Purposes
Trindent will not disclose your personal information to a third party marketing firm. However, within the boundaries of our regulatory environment, from time to time Trindent may make use of your personal information, with great discretion, to communicate and market our services and products to you. If you tell us that you no longer wish to receive information about our services, or about new developments, we will not send any further material.
Cookies and Clear Gifs
Cookies are pieces of data assigned by our web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive for later retrieval. This helps us recognize you the next time you visit our site.
We will not use cookies to record information that will enable anyone to contact you via telephone, email, or regular mail.
We may also use clear gifs. Clear gifs are used to tag the pages you visit on our site to help us improve the design and content of our site. All of this information is considered confidential and is only available for our use.
On our website, like most other commercial websites, we may monitor traffic patterns, site usage, and related site information in order to optimize our web service. We may provide aggregated information to third parties, but these statistics do not include any identifiable personal information.
Links to Third Party Websites
There are several places throughout Trindent’s website that may link to other websites that do not operate under this Privacy Policy. When you link to other websites, Trindent’s privacy practices no longer apply. We encourage visitors to review each website’s privacy policy before disclosing any personal information.
How We Protect Your Personal Information
Trindent will employ generally accepted standards of technology and operational security in order to protect your personal information from loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. Only authorized Trindent personnel are provided access to personal information and these employees are required to treat this information as confidential.
You should also be aware that email is not a 100% secure medium, and you should consider this when contacting us to send personal or confidential information.
Retention of Your Personal Information
We keep your personal information as long as is reasonably necessary for us to complete our dealings with you, or as may be required by law, whichever is longer.
Mailing list information, discussion posts, and email are kept for only the period of time considered reasonable to facilitate the visitor’s requests.
Résumés are disposed of when they are either no longer under consideration or are considered dated by our Human Resources department(s).
Choices
Children
Trindent understands the importance of protecting children’s privacy, especially in an online environment.
The Trindent website covered by this privacy statement is not intentionally designed for, or directed at, children 13 years of age or younger. It is Trindent’s policy never to knowingly collect or maintain information about anyone under the age of 13.
Openness
Trindent will make specific information about its policies and practices relating to the management of personal information readily available. All enquiries about this privacy policy or the firm’s personal information management practices are to be referred to the Privacy Officer.
Contact Us
We welcome your inquires or comments about our privacy statement and any queries or concerns that you may have about the Trindent website. You may direct these to our Privacy Officer at media@trindent.com.
Request for Access
If you have any questions or wish to access your personal information, please write to our Privacy Officer at: 1 Yonge Street, Suite 1801, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5E 1W7.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
Trindent reserves the right to modify or amend this Privacy Policy at any time.