Policies and Procedures

Your privacy is important to us. Pure Luxury Magazine, its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, “Pure Luxury”, “us”, “we”) are committed to maintaining the privacy, security and accuracy of the personal information they collect, use and disclose in accordance with applicable legislation. CONSENT By submitting personal information to Pure Luxury or its agents, you agree that we may collect, use, and disclose such personal information with accordance with this privacy polity, the privacy preferences you have made known to us and as permitted or required by law. Subject to legal and contractual requirements, you may refuse or withdraw your consent to certain of the identified purposes at any time by contacting us in writing. If you refuse or withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide you or continue to provide you with certain services or information that may be of value to you.

Who are we? Pure Luxury is a media platform focusing on the print and media sectors. Pure Luxury has the geographic platform and complete service offering needed to cover the entire North American market. Pure Luxury is Canada’s leading publisher of exclusive high-end consumer magazine. This Privacy Policy applies to our collection, use and disclosure of personal information regarding the clients and consumers of our products and services, including our online and print publications.
What personal information do we collect? Canadian privacy legislation defines personal information broadly as information about “an identifiable individual” or as information that allows an individual to be identified. The types of personal information that we may collect from you from time to time include: your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, your forwarding address (e.g. during a vacation), previous address(es), payment information (for billing purposes), delivery instructions, and individual customer service preferences. In addition, from time to time, we may ask you to provide us with more detailed information regarding your interests, occupation, and background through surveys, contests, etc.
Why do we collect your personal information? We collect your personal information for the purposes listed below:
(a) To provide the product, service or information you requested If you are a customer of one of our publications, we use your name and address (postal and/or e-mail) in order to deliver the product, service or information you requested and to follow up with you about the transaction (i.e., send a bill, notify you that your subscription is expiring, etc.). If you enter into a contest offered through one of our websites or printed publications, we use your personal information to administer the contest on our own behalf or on behalf of our sponsors.
(b) To process payment Your credit card number, debit card number, or banking information for pre-authorized payments is used only for processing payments and for presenting you with payment options – not for marketing purposes.
(c) To send you information From time to time we may send you further information about the publication, its offers, or other products produced under its name.
(d) Other purposes In addition, from time to time, we may use your personal information for the following purposes: to detect and protect Pure Luxury and other third parties against error, fraud, theft and other illegal activity, and to audit compliance with Pure Luxury policies and contractual obligations; to understand your needs and preferences, including to contact and communicate with you and to conduct surveys, research and evaluations; to obtain audited statements regarding numbers of subscribers per publication; for any other purpose we may indicate to you from time to time.
To whom do we disclose your personal information? We may disclose your personal information to the following third parties in the following circumstances:
(a) Disclosure to Service Providers We may disclose your personal information to other companies that provide services on our behalf, including label printers, invoice printers, fulfillment contractors, auditors, our software developers (including website developers and hosts), data processing, document management and office services. In addition, we may disclose your personal information to an organization or individual retained by Pure Luxury to evaluate your creditworthiness or to collect debts outstanding on an account or to our auditors. We will only provide those companies the information they need to deliver the service and they are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.
(b) Disclosure to Trading Partners From time to time our magazines or websites may make their list of customers available to other carefully screened organizations (such as other magazines, book publishers, banks or charities) that want to let you know about a product or service that might interest you. The material to be sent to you is reviewed by us before the names and addresses (including e-mail addresses) are released to ensure the organization is reputable and material is appropriate and not misleading.
(c) Disclosure in Business Transfers Pure Luxury may be involved in the sale or transfer of some or all of its business. As part of that sale or transfer, Transcontinental may disclose your personal information to the acquiring organization, but will require the acquiring organization to agree to protect the privacy of your personal information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy.
(d) Law Enforcement and Legal Disclosure Pure Luxury may disclose your personal information to a government institution that has asserted its lawful authority to obtain the information or where Pure Luxury has reasonable grounds to believe the information could be useful in the investigation of unlawful activity, or to comply with a subpoena or warrant or an order made by a court, person or body with jurisdiction to compel the production of information, or to comply with court rules regarding the production of records and information, or to Transcontinental’s legal counsel.
Control of your personal information At Pure Luxury, we want you to be able to maintain control over how we use your personal information. In particular: You may have the right to “opt out” of some or all of the identified purposes, uses and disclosures listed in sections 3 and 4 above. You always have the option to instruct us not to use your name, address, e-mail address, etc. beyond providing you with the product, service or information you requested. See “Contact Us” below. E-mail communications will always include an identification of the sender and an “Unsubscribe” option.
Where is your personal information stored? Your personal information is stored in secured locations and on servers controlled by Pure Luxury, located either at our offices or at the offices of our service providers.
How do we protect your personal information? We make every reasonable effort to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of personal information under our control. Our security policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary. Only authorized employees and suppliers have access to your personal information. Where information is sent to a third party for processing, we make sure, through our contracts with them, that all your information is kept secure. We keep your information for the time we are providing you with a product or service, and for a reasonable time thereafter in the event that you wish to resume service. We operate secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems. Credit card information is processed using industry-standard encryption and security.
Privacy and our websites Pure Luxury sometimes collects personal information through its website. In this section, we provide you with additional information regarding such collection. Cookies – When an individual visitor accesses the Pure Luxury website, we may use a browser feature called a “cookie” to collect information such as the type of Internet browser and operating system the visitor uses, the domain name of the websites from which the visitor came, date and duration of the visit, number of visits, average time spent on our websites, pages viewed and number of cookies accumulated. Unless a visitor specifically informs us, we will not know who the individual visitors are. In addition to the identified purposes described in our Privacy Policy, we may use this website information and share it with other organizations with whom we have a commercial relationship to measure the use of our websites and to improve the functionality and content of the websites. Visitors can reset their browsers either to notify them when they have received a cookie or refuse to accept cookies. However, if a visitor refuses to accept cookies, he or she may not be able to use some of the features available on our websites. Online Communications – In order to provide our website visitors with a product, service or information, visitors may voluntarily submit personal information to us for purposes such as asking a question, obtaining information, subscribing to, reviewing or downloading a publication, participating in contests and surveys. If you are known to Pure Luxury as a registered user of an online service, we may combine and store personal information about your use of our websites and the online information you have provided with certain other online and offline information we may have collected. E-Mail Communications – Occasionally, we may send marketing or promotional e-mail communications to you with information that may be useful, including information about the products and services of Pure Luxury and other third parties with whom we have a relationship. We will include instructions on how to unsubscribe and inform us of preferences if recipients decide they do not want to receive any future marketing or promotional e-mails from Pure Luxury. Also, if you send us an email message, we may retain that message and your email address, as well as any response we send you. Advertisers – If you submit some of your personal information on Pure Luxury website to request information from a third party (such as an advertiser), we are not responsible for any use of your personal information by such third party. Hence, we suggest that you first learn more about such third party’s privacy policies prior to submitting your personal information by visiting its website or contacting it by postal mail or telephone. Opinion Polls – Opinion polls on our websites are anonymous. We do not correlate votes submitted via such polls with names or individual email addresses, unless otherwise disclosed at the point of collection. Searches – For your convenience, search functions are sometimes provided on our websites. We keep logs of the words searched to learn more about what kind of information our visitors are seeking, and thus improve our services. Hyperlinks – For your convenience, Pure Luxury’s website sometimes contain hyperlinks to websites managed by third parties. By activating these hyperlinks, you will leave Pure Luxury’s website for those of the third parties, which may have different privacy policies and practices than Pure Luxury. Pure Luxury cannot be held liable for the use of such third party websites. Advertising to Children – We believe that none of Pure Luxury’s website appeal directly to children of 13 years old or less. We do not knowingly direct our advertising at children under the age of 13, except as permitted by law. Individuals Under 18 – No personal information should be submitted or posted on our websites by individuals under 18 years of age without their parent’s or guardian’s permission. We may request name, address, phone number, email address and date of birth from an individual under 18 years of age for contest participation so that we may notify him or her if selected as a winner. In the event we do so, we will request their parent’s or guardian’s consent prior to collection.
Changes to the Privacy Policy Pure Luxury reserves the right to modify or supplement this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make a change to this Privacy Policy, we will post such change on our websites and make such revised policy.