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Your Privacy
We respect your privacy. We will never give out your email
or Hogwart profile information without your permission. This
Privacy Policy is applicable to this Site and not necessarily
to other Harry Potter web sites on the World Wide Web pages.
When leaving Harry Potter (.ca), please read the privacy policy
applicable to the site you are visiting. If you do not agree
with this Privacy Policy, please do not use that web site.
This site is an unofficial Harry Potter site, and therefore
should only be entered by people who fully understand that
the site holds no connection or relation to J.K. Rowling,
Scholastic Books, Bloomsbury Publishing or Warner Bros. All
imags and material realted to the J.K. Rowling novels is ©
Scholastic Books (US), and Bloomsbury Publishing (UK). All
material related to the "Harry Potter" films is
© Warner Bros. Alternatively if you are looking for official
Harry Potter sites then try the following:
Purpose
Harry Potter (.ca) purpose is to create a friendly central
online community for people around the world to communicate/collaborate
and educate each other on the topic and related topics of
Harry Potter in general, Harry Potter books, Harry Potter
movies and anything else related to Harry Potter.
By accessing and using this Site, you hereby agree to the
terms of this Privacy Policy.
Personal Information
In order to enroll as a member of Harry Potter (.ca) or respond
to your questions or fulfill your requests, it may be necessary
to ask for personal information such as your name and e-mail
address. We may use this information to respond to your requests,
or to contact you via e-mail to inform you of new features
of the website, special promotions and announcements we publish.
If you place an order for a product using a thrid-party provider,
you may need to contact them directly for additional information
required to process or fulfill your order and/or request.
Unless compelled by applicable legislation, we will not provide
any membership profile information to a third party without
your permission, except as necessary to provide you with new
announcements, specials, news and promotions. You also hereby
grant to Harry Potter (.ca) the right to exchange any information
provided by you between Harry Potter (.ca) affiliates (if
applicable) for the purposes mentioned before.
In addition to the personal information that you may provide
us, Harry Potter (.ca) may use technology that lets us collect
certain technical information like your Internet protocol
address, your computer's operating system, your browser type,
traffic patterns and the address of any referring Web sites.
Non-Personal Information Collected Automatically
Harry Potter (.ca) is committed to the protection of the
privacy of its web site visitors. Please note that we may
provide aggregate statistics about our customers, sales, traffic
patterns, and related site information to reputable third-parties,
but these statistics will include no personally identifying
information.
Security
Please note that while there are always risks associated
with providing personal data, whether in person, by phone
or over the Internet, and no system of technology is completely
safe, "tamper" or "hacker- proof", Harry
Potter (.ca) has endeavoured to take appropriate measures
to prevent and minimize risks of unauthorized access to, improper
use and the inaccuracy of your personal information. However
the operators of Harry Potter (.ca) is not responsible for
any security breaches or mis-use of information from malicious
hackers of the web site. We do our best to maintain a safe
environment, but are not held responsible if this environment
is breached.
Accuracy of Collected Data
Harry Potter (.ca) will on its own initiative, or at your
request, replenish, rectify or erase any incomplete, inaccurate
or outdated personal data retained by Harry Potter (.ca) in
connection with the operation of this Site.
Visitor identification
From time to time, information may be placed on your computer
to allow us to identify you (such as personalization of the
content). This information is commonly known as "cookies".
By showing how and when our visitors use this Site, this information
can help us to continue to improve our Site. We will only
use cookies to view information on your hard drive that was
put there by a cookie from this Site. The use of cookies is
an industry standard and many web sites use them. Cookies
are stored on your computer and not on this Site. If you do
not wish to receive cookies, or want to be notified of when
they are placed, you may set your web browser to do so, if
your browser so permits.
Minors
Any membership information submitted for the purpose of enrolling
in the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry of Harry
Potter (.ca) must first accept the terms and conditions. The
terms and conditions are outlined within the registration
process. No person can enroll as a member without their consent
to the terms and conditions. All members who have registered
as a Hogwart member has consented to the terms and conditions.
Where legislated we'll do our best to protect the use of information
provided by individuals. Any abuse of this information by
should be reported to the operators of Harry Potter (.ca).
Acceptance of the terms and conditions within this website
and the membership registration acknowledges the individual
has received consent from a parent or legal guardian.
Content
Harry Potter (.ca) is an unofficial website of Warner Bros.
/ AOL HarryPotter.com. Harry Potter (.ca) is the sole owner
of all content on this site (excluding all copyrighted material
and 3rd party content postings from individuals (ex. Discussion
Forum)).
If at any time our site offers any chat rooms, message boards,
newsgroups, membership registration/profiles etc., we collect
the information that you disclose. Such information will be
used in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Please note that
we cannot be responsible for other parties' use of the personal
information which you make available to such third parties
through any chat room, message board, newsgroup, etc. on our
sites
Use of Personal Information
Harry Potter (.ca) will only use the information collected
within cookies and membership profiles to information and
educate members of news, announcements, promotions and related
communications. We believe in a spam-free universe and will
not use any of the information collected to spam or send information
via emali unrelated to Harry Potter (.ca).
Direct marketing
If we obtained your consent, we also may use your information
for the purposes of:
- direct emarketing of related and/or third-party products
and services and news/updates/announcements and on behalf
of other third-party companies.
- only membership profile information that is publicly used
within the site may be used within our direct marketinc
communications solely for the purpose of personalizing the
communications.
Your participation in our direct marketing activities is
voluntary and is an opt-in option within membership profile
and upon registration as a member of Harry Potter (.ca). As
such, you may request that we and our selected third parties
refrain from sending marketing information to you. If you
ever want to change your preferences regarding our use of
your information to market to you, please visit your membership
profile to opt-out.
Links
Harry Potter (.ca) web site may contain links to other web
sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the
privacy practices of other web sites.
Some of areas of this website, and within membership profiles
contain links to other sites that are not covered by this
Privacy Policy and where information practices may be different
from ours. Visitors should consult the other sites' privacy
notices as we are not responsible for and have no control
over information that is submitted to, or collected by, these
third-party sites.
Third Party Advertising
Harry Potter (.ca) may use third-party advertising companies
to serve ads when you visit Harry Potter (.ca). Third-party
companies may use information (not including your name, address,
email address or telephone number) about your visits to this
and other web sites in order to provide advertisements on
this site and other sites about goods and services that may
be of interest to you. Presently Harry Potter (.ca) does not
use any third-party advertising.
On this site, we sometimes offer content that is sponsored
by or co-branded with identified third parties (e.g., competitions,
sweepstakes, or promotions). These third parties may obtain
personally identifiable information that you voluntarily submit
to them to make use of the offer. We are not responsible for
the collection and use of your personal information by these
third parties. However, you will be informed, at the point
of collection of such personally identifiable information,
if these third parties will obtain such information.
At Harry Potter (.ca), reputable third parties may present
or serve advertisements under different terms regarding use
of information and privacy policies. This Privacy Policy does
not cover any use of information that a third-party ad server
may collect from you.
Harry Potter (.ca) Cookies
By enrolling as a Harry Potter (.ca) Hogwart member, you
agree to accept a "cookie" into your browser and
computer. This cookie contains only information that is used
to remember your log-in username for you and no other personal
information or any information which can be used to identify
you personally.
Changes
We may change this Privacy Policy, or change, modify or withdraw
access to this Site, or the content of these pages at any
time with or without notice.
At anytime you have any questions pertaining to the Harry
Potter (.ca) privacy policy, please feel free to contact
us.
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