PRIVACY POLICY

Who we are

We are a Residential Landscape Company who has been working out of the Kawartha Lakes area for over 46 years. Our website address is: https://meyerslandscaping.com.

Comments

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Media

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Cookies

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If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

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Embedded content from other websites

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These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Protection of Personal Information for our Employees

Meyer Landscaping is committed to upholding the privacy of private and identifiable information. While Meyer Landscaping is not subject to the protection obligations outlined in the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), this policy is based upon PIPEDA’s 10 Fair Information Principles and is intended to ensure the safety of employee and client personal information.

 

Definitions

As defined by PIPEDA, personal information includes: any factual or subjective information, recorded or not, about an identifiable individual. This includes information in any form, such as:

  • Age, name, ID numbers, income, ethnic origin, or blood type
  • Opinions, evaluations, comments, social status, or disciplinary actions
  • Employee files, credit records, loan records, medical records, existence of a dispute between a consumer and a merchant, intentions (for example, to acquire goods or services, or change jobs).

 

Ten Fair Information Principles

  1. Accountability
  2. Identifying purposes
  3. Consent
  4. Limiting collection
  5. Limiting use, disclosure, and retention
  6. Accuracy
  7. Safeguards
  8. Openness
  9. Individual access
  10. Challenging compliance

 

Policy

Meyer Landscaping will ensure that any private employee information that is collected adheres to the principles outlined below:

  1. Accountability: Meyer Landscaping is responsible for all employee personal information under its control and will ensure its accountability to the 10 Fair Information Principles.
  2. Identifying purposes: Meyer Landscaping will always identify to employees why their personal information is being collected.
  3. Consent: Employee consent is required for the collection, use, or disclosure of employee information, as appropriate.
  4. Limiting collection: Meyer Landscaping will only collect the personal employee information that is required for the administration of pay, benefits, and other human resource activities. This information will always be collected in fair and legal ways.
  5. Limiting use, disclosure, and retention: Unless required by law, all private employee information collected by Meyer Landscaping will only be used for the purposes for which it was collected. Private employee information will only be retained as necessary to serve the purposes for which it was collected.
  6. Accuracy: Meyer Landscaping will maintain personal employee information as accurate, complete, and as up to date as possible. Meyer Landscaping may request periodic updates from its employees to ensure that the information on file is accurate.
  7. Safeguards: Meyer Landscaping will protect any personal employee information it has collected, either by locked filing cabinets, encrypted drives, or any other means necessary to ensure the privacy of the information.
  8. Openness: Meyer Landscaping will disclose its purposes for the collection of employee information and will have this information available upon request from employees.
  9. Individual access: Employees of Meyer Landscaping have the right to view what personal employee information has been retained. Further, employees may challenge the accuracy of this information and make modifications to the information, as necessary.
  10. Challenging compliance: While Meyer Landscaping is not subject to the compliance regulations under PIPEDA, it will endeavour to meet or exceed the principles established by the Act. Should an employee bring forward a way that Meyer Landscaping could improve the safety of personal employee information, they may bring it forward to management.