Privacy Policy

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Privacy Policy

PERSONAL INFORMATION PROTECTION POLICY

2490955 AB Inc.O/A The Happy Hound Spray & Play, the Happy Hound Small Dog Luxury Daycare, and Best Life Photography (The Happy Hound) is committed to safeguarding the personal information entrusted to us by our clients. We manage your personal information in accordance with Alberta’s Personal Information Protection Act and other applicable laws. This policy outlines the principles and practices we follow in protecting your personal information.

This policy applies to The Happy Hound. The policy also applies to any person providing services on our behalf. A copy of this policy is provided to any client on request.

WHAT IS PERSONAL INFORMATION 

Personal information means information about an identifiable individual. This includes an individual’s name, home address, email address, and phone number, etc.

WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

We collect only the personal information that we need for the purposes of providing services to our clients, including personal information needed to:

• open and manage an account

• enrol a client in a program or book services

• guarantee a service

• send out reservation information or request information

• provide warranties for products and services

• contact clients about appointments

• follow up with clients to determine satisfaction with products and services

• notify clients of upcoming events of interest

• administer our loyalty program

• grant credit

• provide updates or records of transactions

• communicate about products, services or changes to such

• communicate about services, opportunities or otherwise communicate about daily business activities relevant to clients of The Happy Hound.

We normally collect client information directly from our clients. We may collect your information from other persons with your consent or as authorized by law. We inform our clients, before or at the time of collecting personal information, of the purposes for which we are collecting the information. However, we don’t provide this notification when a client volunteers information for an obvious purpose (for example, producing a credit card for an in-store purchase when the information will be used only to process the payment).

USE OF SERVICE PROVIDERS OUTSIDE OF CANADA

Our service providers in the U.S.A. collect, use or disclose your personal information for the following purposes:

• open and manage an account and for all related activities, services or communications related to the account and services requested or managed through the account.

• follow up with clients to determine satisfaction with products and services

• notify clients of upcoming events of interest

• administer our loyalty program

• grant credit and administer transactions

CONSENT

We ask for consent to collect, use or disclose client personal information, except in specific circumstances where collection, use or disclosure without consent is authorized or required by law. We may assume your consent in cases where you volunteer information for an obvious purpose.

We ask for your express consent for some purposes and may not be able to provide certain services if you are unwilling to provide consent to the collection, use or disclosure of certain personal information. Where express consent is needed, we will normally ask clients to provide their consent orally (in person, by telephone), in writing (by signing a consent form, by checking a box on a form, or electronically (by clicking a button).

A client may withdraw consent to the use and disclosure of personal information at any time, unless the personal information is necessary for us to fulfil our legal obligations. We will respect your decision, but we may not be able to provide you with certain products and services if we do not have the necessary personal information.

We may collect, use or disclose client personal information without consent only as authorized by law. For example, we may not request consent when the collection, use or disclosure is reasonable for an investigation or legal proceeding, to collect a debt owed to our organization, in an emergency that threatens life, health or safety, or when the personal information is from a public telephone directory.

HOW DO WE USE AND DISCLOSE PERSONAL INFORMATION?

We use and disclose client personal information only for the purposes for which the information was collected, except as authorized by law. For example, we may use client contact information to deliver goods. The law also allows us to use that contact information for the purpose of collecting a debt owed to our organization, should that be necessary.

If we wish to use or disclose your personal information for any new business purpose, we will ask for your consent.

HOW DO WE SAFEGUARD PERSONAL INFORMATION?

We make every reasonable effort to ensure that client information is accurate and complete. We rely on our clients to notify us if there is a change to their personal information that may affect their relationship with our organization. If you are aware of an error in our information about you, please let us know and we will correct it on request wherever possible.

In some cases we may ask for a written request for correction. We protect client personal information in a manner appropriate for the sensitivity of the information. We make every reasonable effort to prevent any loss, misuse, disclosure or modification of personal information, as well as any unauthorized access to personal information.

We will notify the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta, without delay, of a security breach affecting personal information if it creates a real risk of significant harm to individuals.

We retain client personal information only as long as is reasonable to fulfil the purposes for which the information was collected or for legal or business purposes.

We render client personal information non-identifying, or destroy records containing personal information once the information is no longer needed.

We use appropriate security measures when destroying client personal information, including shredding paper records and permanently deleting electronic records.