Terms of Service

Terms Of Service And Conditions Of Use Agreement

These are the terms and conditions – which include a mandatory arbitration provision — that govern your use of Sales Habitat, (referred to “Site”) that display this or a substantially similar notice.

Sales Habitat is a service designed and provided by SalesEvolve Solutions Inc. to help sales professionals, sales leadership and business owners to communicate and interact with other individuals to improve their abilities to win sales opportunities, run a successful sales team, discuss business related matters and increase revenues. Our service provides extensive information and generalized advice designed to help people on a variety of topics to get a better understanding of sales, negotiation, how to progress sales opportunities, tracking sales activity, coaching sales teams, sales operations and training and many other business related topics prominently in a Business-to-Business selling environment. We are strictly a publisher and provider of information and not a legal services provider, human resources advisory service, agent, financial services advisor, auditor, technology services company or any other advisory service. Sales Habitat is not privy to your unique situation, conditions, and circumstances and therefore, you agree to evaluate any information received from Sales Habitat against your current situation and apply it at your own risk.

1. GENERAL RULES AND DEFINITIONS

2. CONTENT ON THE SERVICES

3. USER GENERATED CONTENT: SUBMISSIONS INCLUDING COMMENTS, REVIEWS AND MORE

4. USE OF THE SERVICES

5. REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES AND DISCLAIMERS AND LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY

6. REGISTRATION AND SECURITY

7. FEES AND PAYMENTS

8. COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN Sales Habitat AND USERS

9. COOKIES AND OTHER SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES

10. SOFTWARE LICENSES

11. TERMINATION

12. ARBITRATION AND OTHER PROVISIONS

GENERAL RULES AND DEFINITIONS

1.1 If you choose to use the “Site” including the Forums, Discussion Boards, and Telephone Advice Service, (all the foregoing, including Sites, referred to collectively as the ”Services”), you will be agreeing to abide by all of the terms and conditions of this Terms of Service Agreement between you and us.

1.2 We may prospectively change, add or remove portions of these Terms of Service at any time, which shall become effective immediately upon posting. It is your responsibility to review these Terms of Service prior to each use of the Site and by continuing to use the Site, you agree to any changes.

1.3 IF ANY OF THESE RULES OR ANY FUTURE CHANGES ARE UNACCEPTABLE TO YOU, YOU MAY DISCONTINUE USING ANY OF THE SITES, APPLICATIONS AND/OR FEATURES, AND YOU MAY ALSO CANCEL ANY MEMBERSHIP YOU MAY HAVE ON ANY FEATURE OF A SITE OR APPLICATION ON THAT FEATURE (IF AVAILABLE).

YOUR CONTINUED USE OF THE SERVICES NOW OR FOLLOWING THE POSTING OF NOTICE OF ANY CHANGES IN THESE OPERATING RULES, WILL SIGNIFY YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF SUCH RULES, CHANGES, OR MODIFICATIONS.

You may also cancel a membership on a prospective basis by sending an email notice with the specifics of the membership you seek to cancel to [email protected] and such membership shall be deemed canceled upon our acknowledgement of receipt of your notice, although the terms of this Agreement shall continue to apply with regard to any matters occurring prior to our confirming receipt your notice.

1.4 To the extent that certain Services or features may have different or additional terms and conditions, they too shall apply, except to the extent they are inconsistent with these Terms of Service. We may change, suspend or discontinue any aspect of the Services at any time, including the availability of any Services feature, database, or content. We may also impose limits on certain features and services or restrict your access to parts or all of the Services without notice or liability.

CONTENT ON THE SERVICES

2.1 The contents of the Services, including the Sites and Applications, and all materials published on the Services (including, but not limited to articles, Q&As, news articles, forum postings, discussions, photographs, images, illustrations, audio clips and video clips, also known as the ”Content”) are protected by copyright, and owned or controlled by Sales Habitat, a person or firm that has licensed or authorized us to use such content, or a party to whom attribution is given with regard to the Content. You shall abide by all additional copyright notices, information, or restrictions contained in any Content accessed through the Service.

2.2 The Services and Content are protected by copyright pursuant to Canada and international copyright laws. You may not modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale of, reproduce (except as provided in Section 2.3 of these Terms of Service), create new works from, distribute, perform, display, or in any way exploit, any of the Content or the Services (including software) in whole or in part.

2.3 You may download or copy the Content and other downloadable items displayed on the Services for your use only, provided that you maintain all copyright and other notices contained therein. Copying or storing of any Content for other than your personal use is expressly prohibited without prior written permission from the President of Sales Habitat or the copyright holder identified in the copyright notice contained in the Content.

2.4 The Content of the Services is owned or licensed to us. Certain Content is furnished by third parties. Neither we nor any of the third parties will be liable for any delays, inaccuracies, errors or omissions in any such Content, or in the transmission or delivery of all or any part thereof, or for any damages arising therefrom, regardless of the circumstances, and regardless of whether we knew or had reason to know of such delays, inaccuracies, errors or omissions.

USER GENERATED CONTENT: SUBMISSIONS INCLUDING QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, FORUM POSTINGS, REVIEWS AND MORE

3.1 You shall not upload to or distribute or otherwise publish on to the Services any libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, abusive, menacing material, or any illegal material.

You agree to be courteous and respectful. You agree that you will not threaten or verbally abuse others, use defamatory, degrading or demeaning language, or act in any manner intended or designed to disrupt discussions in any manner, including use of repetitive messages, meaningless messages or ”spam.” You also agree not to use language that abuses, disparages or discriminates on the basis of race, color, religion, nationality, gender, sexual preference, age, region, disability, etc. Vulgar or hate speech of any kind is grounds for immediate and permanent suspension of access to all or part of the Services and may subject you to legal action.

We recognize that people have a broad range of opinions and preferences and may disagree, but personal attacks and use of vulgar or demeaning terms are a direct violation of these Terms of Service and are grounds for immediate and permanent suspension of access to all or part of the Service and may subject you to legal action and damages.

3.2 The Services shall be used only in a noncommercial manner. You shall not, without the express written approval of the President of Sales Habitat distribute or otherwise publish any material containing any solicitation of funds, advertising or solicitation for goods or services using our Services.

3.3 You acknowledge that any submissions you make to the Services (i.e., user-generated content including but not limited to: comments, forum messages, reviews, text, video, audio and images, as well as computer code and applications) (each, a ”Submission”) may be edited, removed, modified, published, transmitted, and displayed by us or our agents and you waive any rights you may have in having the material altered or changed in a manner not agreeable to you. Submissions made to the Services may also be included in our RSS feeds, APIs and made available for republishing through other formats and media.

3.4 You grant Sales Habitat a perpetual, nonexclusive, world-wide, royalty free, and sub-licensable license to the Submissions, which includes without limitation the right for Sales Habitat, or any third party it designates, to use, copy, transmit, excerpt, publish, distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, create derivative works of, host, index, cache, tag, encode, modify and adapt (including without limitation the right to adapt to streaming, downloading, broadcast, mobile, digital, thumbnail, scanning or other technologies) in any form or media now known or hereinafter developed, any Submission posted by you on or to the Services or any other website owned or operated by Sales Habitat, including any Submission posted on or to the Services through a third party.

3.5 You are solely responsible for the content of your Submissions. However, while we do not and cannot review every Submission and are not responsible for the content of these messages, we reserve the right to delete, move, or edit Submissions in our sole discretion.

3.6 By making a Submission, you are consenting to its display and publication on the Services and for related online and offline promotional uses.

3.7 Any person involved in or affiliated with the production of a work reviewed any of in the Services may not, directly or indirectly submit or cause anyone else to submit a review for that work or competing works.

USE OF THE SERVICES

4.1 You may not access or use, or attempt to access or use, the Services to take any action that could harm us or a third party. You may not access parts of the Services to which you are not authorized. You may not attempt to circumvent any restriction or condition imposed on your use or access or do anything that could disable or damage the functioning or appearance of the Services, including the presentation or display of advertising. Being exposed to advertising is a condition of accessing the Services.

4.2 The Services may contain links to other related websites, resources, and advertisers on the Internet. Since we are not responsible for the availability of these outside resources, or their contents, you should direct any concerns regarding any external link to such sites. A link to another site, resource or advertiser does not imply that it is endorsed or approved by Sales Habitat and we shall not be responsible for any information on any linked sites, resources or any advertising that appears on our Services.

REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES, DISCLAIMERS AND LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY

5.1 You represent, warrant and covenant (a) that no materials of any kind submitted through your account will (i) violate, plagiarize, or infringe upon the rights of any third party, including copyright, trademark, privacy or other personal or proprietary rights; and (ii) contain libelous, slanderous, menacing or otherwise unlawful or inappropriate material; and (b) that you are at least 18 years old. You hereby indemnify,

 

defend and hold harmless Sales Habitat and all officers, directors, owners, agents, information providers, affiliates, licensors and licensees (collectively, the ”Indemnified Parties”) from and against any and all liability and costs, including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees incurred by the Indemnified Parties in connection with any claim arising out of any breach by you or any user of your account of these Terms of Service or the foregoing representations, warranties and covenants. You shall cooperate as fully as reasonably required in the defense of any such claim. Sales Habitat reserves the right, at its own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification by you.

5.2 Sales Habitat does not represent or endorse the accuracy or reliability of any advice, opinion, statement, or other information displayed, uploaded, discussed or distributed through the Services, or by any user, information provider or any other person or entity. You acknowledge that any reliance upon any such opinion, advice, statement, memorandum, or information shall be at your sole risk.

THE SERVICES AND ALL DOWNLOADABLE SOFTWARE AND FORMS ARE DISTRIBUTED ON AN ”AS IS” BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY APPLICABLE LAW, Sales Habitat DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY AND/OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Sales Habitat DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICES, INFORMATION, CONTENT, MATERIALS, PRODUCTS (INCLUDING SOFTWARE AND FORMS) OR OTHER SERVICES INCLUDED ON OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE TO YOU THROUGH THE SERVICES, OUR SERVERS OR ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS SENT FROM US ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. 

Sales Habitat WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND ARISING FROM THE USE OF ANY SERVICE, FROM ANY DATA BREACH (REGARDLESS OF CAUSE OR CULPABILITY) OR FROM ANY INFORMATION, CONTENT, MATERIALS, PRODUCTS (INCLUDING SOFTWARE) OR OTHER SERVICES INCLUDED ON OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE TO YOU THROUGH ANY SERVICE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, EXEMPLARY AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, NOR WILL ANY OF Sales Habitat OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, OR THEIR HEIRS, SUCCESSORS OR AGENTS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY TYPE.

TO THE EXTENT ANY JURISDICTION’S LAWS DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES, BE AWARE THAT SOME OR ALL OF THE ABOVE DISCLAIMERS, EXCLUSIONS, OR LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU, AND YOU MIGHT HAVE ADDITIONAL RIGHTS.

YOU HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT USE OF THE SERVICES IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK.

REGISTRATION AND SECURITY

6.1 As part of the registration or account creation process, you may be asked to create login credentials by selecting a password and providing an email address. We may also ask that you give us certain registration information, all of which must be accurate, and you agree to update such registration information to maintain its accuracy.

Each registration is for a single user only. You are not allowed to share your registration login credentials or give your login credentials to anyone else. We may cancel or suspend your access to the Services if you share your login credentials. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password, which you will not have to reveal to any representative or agent of Sales Habitat. You may not (i) select or use the login credentials of another person with the intent to impersonate that person; (ii) use login credentials in which another person has rights without such person’s authorization; or (iii) use login credentials that are offensive or that we, in our sole discretion, deem inappropriate. Failure to comply with the foregoing shall constitute a breach of these Terms of Service, which may result in immediate suspense or termination of your account.

6.2 Please notify [email protected] of any known or suspected unauthorized use(s) of your account, or any known or suspected breach of security, including loss, theft, or unauthorized disclosure of your password or credit card information.

6.3 You must be 18 years of age or older to register or subscribe to any part of the Services.

6.4 You are responsible for all usage or activity on your account(s), including use of the account(s) by any third party authorized by you to use your login credentials. Any fraudulent, abusive, or otherwise illegal activity may be grounds for termination of your account, at our sole discretion, and we may refer you to appropriate law enforcement agencies.

FEES AND PAYMENTS

7.1. We reserve the right at any time to charge fees for access to portions of the Services or the Services as a whole. However, in no event will you be charged for access to the Services unless we obtain your prior agreement to pay such charges. Thus, if at any time we require a fee for portions of the Services that are now free, we will give you advance notice of such fees. You may cancel your account at any time. All new fees, if any, will be posted prominently on the Site and, when appropriate, at other locations on the Service. You shall pay all fees and charges incurred through your account at the rates in effect for the billing period in which such fees and charges are incurred, including, but not limited to charges for any digital products or services offered for sale through the Services by us or by any other vendor or service provider. All fees and charges shall be billed to and paid for by you. You shall pay all applicable taxes relating to use of the Services through your account.

COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN Sales Habitat AND USERS

8.1 Unless you expressly indicate on your registration form that you do not want to receive such information, we, our owners and assigns, may send you emails and electronic newsletters and allow certain third-party vendors to provide you with information about their products and services.

8.2 We reserve the right to send electronic mail to you for the purpose of informing you of changes or additions to the Service or otherwise, subject to any right we may grant for you to opt-out.

8.3 We reserve the right to disclose information about your usage and demographics, provided that absent what we regard as good cause, we will not ordinarily reveal your personal identity in connection with the disclosure of such information. Advertisers and/or Licensees on our Services may collect and share personal information about you only if you indicate your acceptance or provide them such information. We may transmit non-personally identifiable website usage information to third parties in order to show you advertising for Sales Habitat’s or affiliate’s website when you visit other sites or use Applications. For more information, please read our Privacy Policy.

8.4 We may contact you via e-mail regarding your participation in user surveys, asking for feedback on current Services or prospective products and services. Such information is used to improve the Services and better understand our users, and any information we obtain in such surveys is generally not shared with third parties, except under terms designed to maintain confidentiality or in aggregate form.

COOKIES AND OTHER SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES

9.1 We use ”cookies” and other similar technologies. A cookie is a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer when you visit a website. When you visit the website again, the cookie allows that site to recognize your browser. These technologies allow us to manage access to and use of the Sites and Services, recognize you and provide personalization, and help us understand how people use our Sites and Services so that we can provide better site experiences and tools in the future. Some website features or services may not function properly if your computer does not accept cookies or uses ad blocking software. For more information, please see our Privacy Policy.

9.2 Do Not Track. Some browsers offer a “do not track” (“DNT”) option. Because no common industry or legal standard for DNT has been adopted by industry groups, technology companies, or regulators, we do not respond to DNT signals. We will make efforts to continue to monitor developments around DNT browser technology and the implementation of a standard.

SOFTWARE LICENSES

10.1 You shall have no rights to the proprietary software and related documentation, or any enhancements or modifications thereto (”Software”), provided to you in order to access the Services. You may not sublicense, assign or transfer any licenses granted by Sales Habitat, and any attempt at such sublicense, assignment or transfer shall be null and void. Except with the written consent of an executive officer of Sales Habitat you may not copy, distribute, modify, reverse engineer, or create derivative works from the Software.

Refund, Cancellation and Subscription Policies

11.1 Subscription Policy

As a customer of Sales Habitat, you acknowledge that all subscription fees are charged automatically on a recurring basis until you the customer cancels your subscription (both month-to-month, semi-annual, and annual plans). You may cancel your account at any time by discontinuing use of the Services and emailing us at: [email protected]. Upon termination, we will endeavor to send you an automated confirmation via email that the cancellation was processed and suspend your access on a timely basis. In our absolute discretion, we may, but shall not be required to comply with requests or directives from any actual or purported representative, agent, attorney, executor, administrator, trustee or other person with respect to your account or use of any of the Services, yet we shall have no liability to you or any other person if we act or fail to act, even if the request or directive was unauthorized.

Before you cancel, please ensure you download relevant data you need (ie customer information or reports). We cannot guarantee that your data is recoverable after you have deactivated your account.

11.2 Annual Subscriptions

If you choose an annual plan, you are entering into a one-year subscription contract that expires 12 months after signup. If you have multiple users under your annual plan, you may reassign a subscription from one user to another and the new user will inherit the remaining time of the previous user. If you chose to terminate a subscription for an individual user or for your entire organization, you will not receive a refund. Upon termination of your account, you shall continue to pay the remaining, unpaid portion of your subscription(s) until the subscription fee has been paid in full according to your payment schedule.

11.3 Monthly Subscriptions Cancellation

If you choose a monthly plan, you are entering into an automatically renewing one-month subscription contract that expires on the last day of each month. Your first month’s cost will be prorated to the days remaining in the month. If you decide to cancel a subscribed user or terminate your entire account before the current month has completed, you will still need to pay the entire amount for the remaining days on your subscription, and the user(s) accounts will be removed following the expiration of the contract. Sales Habitat does not offer prorated refunds on canceled subscription plans. 

11.4 We may, in our sole discretion, terminate or suspend your access to all or part of the Services for any reason, including, without limitation, breach or assignment of these Terms of Service, and we may also in our sole discretion, terminate or suspend any person’s access arbitrarily.

ARBITRATION AND OTHER PROVISIONS

12.1 These Terms of Service have been made in and shall be construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of Ontario and the Canada Commercial Arbitration Act, and the Ontario Arbitration Act, 1991. IF AND TO THE EXTENT THAT ARBITRATION MAY BE UNAVAILABLE, ANY ACTION TO ENFORCE THESE TERMS OF SERVICE MUST BE BROUGHT SOLELY ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS, AND MAY NOT BE COMBINED WITH OTHER CLAIMS OR ACTIONS, OR AS ANY FORM OR CLASS ACTION, REPRESENTATIVE ACTION OR SIMILAR ACTION, and must be brought only in the provincial courts in Ontario, Canada. You also agree to be subject to the jurisdiction of such courts in any action brought by us against you for violation of these Terms of Service and/or Conditions of Use.

12.2 Notwithstanding any of the foregoing, nothing in these Terms of Service will serve to preempt the promises made in the Sales Habitat’s Privacy Policy. There may be additional terms and conditions of use related to use of or access to certain of our Services, and in any such circumstances the specific additional terms and conditions shall apply to the extent they are inconsistent with these Terms of Service. 

12.3 Correspondence should be sent to [email protected].

12.4 You agree to report any copyright violations to us as soon as you become aware of them. If you believe a violation of your own intellectual property rights has occurred with respect to material that is contained in the Services, please notify [email protected] and also send a letter to us at Sales Habitat, PO Box 341, 135 Cedar Cres, New Dundee, Ontario, N0B 2E0.

12.5 Any dispute or claim relating in any way to your use of any Sales Habitat Services will be resolved by binding arbitration conducted on an individual basis, and not in any form of class, consolidated or representative action, rather than in court, except that you may assert claims in a small claims court having personal jurisdiction of Sales Habitat if your claims qualify. Canada Commercial Arbitration Act and federal arbitration law apply to this agreement.

There is no judge or jury in arbitration, and court review of an arbitration award is limited. However, an arbitrator can award on an individual basis the same damages and relief as a court (including injunctive and declaratory relief or statutory damages) and must follow the conditions of these Terms of Use as a court would.

At least 21 days prior to initiating an arbitration proceeding, you must send a letter by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, notifying us that you will be requesting arbitration and describing your claim to Sales Habitat, PO Box 341, 135 Cedar Cres, New Dundee, Ontario, N0B 2E0. If we do not resolve the matter to your satisfaction within the 21 day period, at your option you may elect to start the arbitration and have it conducted under the auspices of the ADR Institute of Canada (ADRIC). The ADRIC’s rules are available at www.adric.ca.

Payment of all filing, administration and arbitrator fees will be governed by the appropriate arbitration tribunal’s rules. Neither party may recover additional costs or attorneys’ fees in arbitration except if and to the extent that the arbitrator determines the other party’s claim or defense was vexatious or frivolous. You may choose to have the arbitration conducted by video-conference, or telephone, or based on written submissions, or at a mutually agreed location, subject to the rules of the arbitration tribunal.

WE EACH AGREE THAT ANY DISPUTE RESOLUTION PROCEEDINGS WILL BE CONDUCTED ONLY ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS AND NOT IN A CLASS, CONSOLIDATED OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION. If for any reason a claim proceeds in court rather than in arbitration, we each waive any right to a jury trial. We also both agree that notwithstanding the otherwise applicable provisions requiring arbitration, you or we may bring suit in a court having jurisdiction solely to obtain injunctive relief to enjoin infringement or other misuse of intellectual property rights, or to obtain injunctive relief in circumstances in which an arbitration proceeding cannot effectively and promptly grant such relief. Sales Habitat’s officers, directors, employees, agents and their heirs, successors and assigns shall be deemed third party beneficiaries of this Agreement.

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Privacy Policy

This privacy policy explains the collection, use and disclosure of personal information by the Sales Habitat. By visiting our website or providing us with your personal information, you consent to its collection, use and disclosure in accordance with this privacy policy.

1. Information we collect 

We collect different categories of personal information about you from different sources, including information you provide us directly, usage information about your visits to our Sites and information provided by third parties.

Information Provided By You or Third Parties 

We collect information you provide to us directly when you use our Sites. This includes:

• Account Information: To create an account, we collect your username, email address and/or telephone number, and password. For some Sites you may be required to provide additional information such as your date of birth, gender, age or other personal information. We collect additional information that you choose to add to your account or public user profile, such as a profile picture or information about your hobbies, interests, activities or property (such as the type of vehicle you own). Your username is public, and other account information may be public depending on how your account profile is configured.
• Transactional information: We may collect your name, contact information and payment card information when you purchase a product or service through our Site (such as a subscription or classified advertisement). Payments are processed by third-party payment processors (e.g., Stripe and Braintree), so please refer to the applicable processor’s terms and privacy policy for more information about how payment information is processed and stored.
• Third Party Networks: If you use a third party network (including a social media account) to create an account on our Site, to log-in to our Site, or if you otherwise interact with a third party network through our Site (such as by using a plug-in), we will receive personal information from the third party network, such as your username, email address, gender, public profile information and any other information that you have agreed to share with us, whether explicitly or through your privacy settings. You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third party networks for information about their practices.
• Content you submit: Our Site may offer public forums or communication platforms that allow you to communicate with other users, post information, content, images, photos or videos, post your opinions on surveys, or submit reviews or ratings (collectively, your “Content”). Your Content will be associated with your public user profile. Your Content and public user profile is public, unencrypted and non-confidential. This means that it can be read and used by others, including advertisers. We are not responsible for the information you choose to submit in these public areas. You should exercise caution when deciding to disclose personal information in public areas of our Site. We strongly recommend against sharing any personal sensitive information that could directly or indirectly be traced to any individual, including yourself.
• Other information: We may collect personal information with your consent, where required or permitted by law, or when you choose to provide other information directly to us. For example, we may collect information when you fill out a form, participate in a survey, poll, contest or promotion, apply for a job, request customer support or otherwise communicate with us.

Information We Collect Automatically 

When you use or access our Sites, we may also automatically collect information about you. This includes:

• Geographic Location: We collect geographical location information if the Site you are using is location-enabled and your device transmits location data and/or your IP address. This enables us to provide location-specific information to you.
• Usage Data: We may log information when you access and use our Sites. This may include your IP address, user-agent string, browser type, operating system, referral URLs, device information (e.g., device IDs), pages visited, links clicked, the requested URL, hardware settings, and search terms. See Cookies, tracking technologies and interest-based advertising below.
• Information collected from cookies and similar technologies: We, our service providers and third party advertising partners also collect information about users of the Sites automatically using cookies and other tracking technologies. See Cookies, tracking technologies and interest-based advertising below.

2. How we use the information we collect

We generally use the information we collect about you to operate, manage and maintain our business, to provide our products and services, and to accomplish our business purposes and objectives, including:

• to administer and manage our Site and provide our services, such as to create and administer accounts and facilitate the use and enjoyment of forums and communication platforms;
• to enable geographic-specific features, such as geographic-specific information;
• to provide the product, service, feature or information you have requested and to fulfill your transactions, including to process payments;
• to send you administrative messages, updates, legal notices, technical notices or security alerts;
• to customize your user experience and to personalize the services of Sales Habitat and our ad partners and provide you with content of interest, including by tailoring the advertisements that are displayed to you to make them more useful and relevant to you;
• to conduct research and development, analyze and understand trends and user behaviour and to improve our Sites, products and services;
• to provide customer service, technical and other support;
• to protect the safety of Sales Habitat and our users, including to ensure compliance with our Terms of Use and other policies, block suspected spammers, address abuse, and detect and prevent fraud;
• to provide you with newsletters, information, promotional offers and other advertising about us or our advertising partners;
• to facilitate your participation in a contest or similar promotion, or a survey or poll;
• to meet contractual obligations;
• to facilitate corporate transactions;
• to exercise our rights, defend legal claims and comply with law, legal process and internal policies; and for other purposes with your consent or as permitted or required by law.

3. Cookies, tracking technologies and interest-based advertising

We, our service providers and third-party advertising partners use technologies that automatically collect information about Site visitors and their visits to the Sites, including as described below.

We automatically collect information about how you access, navigate and leave our Site, including the website you came from before visiting our Site, what browser type and operating system you are using, the internet protocol (IP) address you are accessing the Site from, your mobile device ID or Advertising ID if you visit our Site from a mobile device, the pages of our Site that you are navigating through, the date and time of your visit, how long you spend on our Site or certain pages of our Site, and what website you go to after visiting our Site. This information may be used to determine how many visitors visit our Site or certain areas of our Site, how long they remain on our Site, whether they use the hyperlinks we provide or respond to advertising and to tailor our advertisements to you. We may share this information with partners who referred you to our Site, and with advertising partners, who may use the information to optimize the traffic they send to us and for delivering targeted ads to you when you visit other websites.

We, our service providers and third-party advertising partners collect information about Site visitors using cookies and other tracking technologies (including browser cookies, pixels and Adobe Flash). We use these technologies to remember your preferences and facilitate your navigation of our Site. We and our service providers and third-party advertising partners also use these technologies to track your activities on our Site and other websites, including the websites and web pages that you visited, the ads or content that you clicked on, any items you may have purchased and the search terms you used, in order to deliver tailored advertising to you. We may also share a unique identifier linked to you (such as a hashed or encrypted version of your email address or telephone number) with advertising partners so that you may be served with tailored advertising on our websites or other third party websites. However, you may opt out of network advertising programs that track your activities across multiple websites to deliver personalized advertising content to you by visiting Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada Opt-Out Page, Your Online Choices from the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance, NAI Opt-Out Page and the Ad Choices Opt-Out Page.

If you would prefer not to accept cookies, most browsers will allow you to: (i) change your browser settings to notify you when you receive a cookie, which lets you choose whether or not to accept it; (ii) disable existing cookies; or (iii) set your browser to automatically reject any cookies. You may also set your e-mail options to prevent the automatic downloading of images that may contain technologies that would allow us to know whether you have accessed our e-mail and performed certain functions with it. See the section “Your Choices” below for information about your choices about how we use and share your information.

We use Google Analytics to help us understand how our Site visitors use the Site, and as well as certain features of Google Analytics Display Advertising to advertise online, sell advertising and to develop content. You can opt out of your usage data being included in our reports from Google Analytics and customize Google’s Display Network ads. Please visit Google’s Ad Settings and Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. Please visit How Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps for a description of how Google uses information sent by our browser and for ways you can control the information sent to Google.

Most modern web browsers provide the option to send a “do not track” signal to the websites you visit, indicating that you do not wish to be tracked. At this time, there is no generally accepted standard for how a website should respond to this signal, and we do not take any action in response to this signal. Our third party partners, such as web analytics companies and third party ad networks, collect information about your online activities over time and across the Sites and other online properties. These third parties may not change their tracking practices in response to “do not track” settings in your web browser and we do not obligate these parties to honor “do not track” settings.

4. How we share your information

We may share information we collect about you in the following circumstances.

Advertising partners

We share information with our third-party advertising partners as described in the Cookies, tracking technologies and interest-based advertising section above.

Service Providers

We may use service providers (including affiliates acting in this capacity) to provide services to us or to you on our behalf. For example, our service providers may host our Site, analyze data collected from our Site, provide customer service on our behalf, administer our promotions, facilitate and process transactions and payments, provide marketing or promotional assistance, distribute emails and other communications, post our advertisements (including online through targeted advertising campaigns), and collect your feedback on our Site and advertisements. We share your personal information with our service providers solely for the purposes of providing services to you and to us. They are not permitted to use your personal information for other purposes. Some of our service providers are located outside of Canada, including in the United States. While your personal information is located outside of Canada, it will be subject to legal requirements applicable to our service providers, for example, lawful requirements to disclose personal information to national security agencies or government authorities in certain circumstances.

Aggregate or de-identified information

We may use your personal information to create aggregate statistics and de-identified data. We may use, share and sell this information for any purpose.

With your consent

We may share your personal information with third parties with your consent. For example, if you provide us with your contact information, such as an e-mail address, for the purposes of signing up for information, newsletters, contests, or marketing offers from a third party, or for receiving business offers or service quotes from a third party, we may share your personal information for that purpose. Once shared, your personal information will be subject to the privacy policy of that third party.

Business Transactions

We may disclose your personal information to third parties in connection with the proposed or actual financing, securitization, insuring, merger, sale, assignment or other disposal of all or part of Sales Habitat or our business or assets. These third parties may use the information for the purposes of evaluating and/or completing the proposed transaction and thereafter as a successor of our interests.

Other

We may disclose your personal information in other circumstances where permitted or required by law or other legal process. For example, we may disclose your personal information: (a) to collect a debt owed to us; (b) as necessary to comply with a subpoena, warrant, court order or other legal process; (c) if disclosure is requested by an investigatory body, law enforcement official or governmental authority which has lawful authority to request the disclosure of the information in respect of an investigation or other legal process; or (d) if we have reasonable grounds to believe that the information relates to a breach of an agreement or contravention of a law, or to protect the personal safety of our users or defend our rights or property.

5. How we store and protect personal information

The security of your information is important to us. While we have implemented safeguards to protect the information we collect, no website or internet transmission is completely secure, and we cannot and do not guarantee the security of your personal information. We urge you to take steps to keep your personal information safe, such as choosing a strong password and keeping it private, as well as logging out of your user account, and closing your web browser when you have finished using a Site on a shared or unsecured device.

We maintain personal information on our servers (or those of our service providers). Certain accounts you create on our Sites are password protected. If you create an account on the Site, you are responsible for maintaining the strict confidentiality of your account password, and you shall be responsible for any activity that occurs using your account credentials, whether or not you authorized such activity. Please notify us of any unauthorized use of your password or account or any other breach of security. In identified parts of our Sites, we use SSL-encryption in an effort to protect data transmissions. Our policy is to limit access to sensitive personal information to employees, representatives and service providers who require access in connection with their job or service responsibilities.

If you correspond with us by email, text message, or using web forms like a “contact us” feature on the Sites, you should be aware that your transmission might not be secure or considered confidential. A third party could view the information you send in transit by such means or we could disclose the information you send in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We will have no liability for disclosure of your information, including due to errors or unauthorized acts of third parties during or after transmission.

6. Links to external content

Our Site may link or direct you to other websites, services or external content provided by third parties.  We do not exercise any control over these third party websites or services. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of such third party websites or services.  We recommend that you read the privacy policy for any third party website that you visit or service that you use.

7. Children

Our Sites are not directed to and we do not knowingly request or collect personal information from children – persons under 13 years of age, or another age if required by applicable law – without prior verifiable parental consent. If we become aware that we have unknowingly collected personal information about a child without verifiable parental consent, we will delete this information from our records or, if that is not reasonable, we will take reasonable available steps to de-identify the information.

8. Accessing or correcting your personal information

We encourage you to keep your personal information accurate and up to date. If you have an account with us, you can access and correct certain of the information in your account or public user profile by logging in to your account or profile and making the necessary edits.

You may request access to or correction of your personal information in our custody or control by contacting us as set out below. We may take reasonable steps to authenticate your identity before providing you with access to your personal information or making corrections. Please also note that in some cases we may not be able to provide you with the personal information you have requested (for example, if the information is subject to solicitor-client privilege or contains personal information of others that cannot be severed).

Other Websites

Our website may contain links to other sites. This privacy policy only applies to this website so when you link to other websites you should read their own privacy policy.

How to Contact The Sales Habitat

We will update this privacy policy from time to time in response to changing legal, regulatory or operational requirements. We will provide notice of any such changes (including when they will take effect) in accordance with law. Your continued use of the website and our services after any such updates take effect will constitute acceptance of those changes.

If you have any questions about our privacy policy or information we hold about you please contact:

Compliance Manager – Sales Habitat

PO Box 341,
135 Cedar Cres
New Dundee, Ontario N0B 2E0
Tel: 1-519-804-1388
E: [email protected]

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