Privacy Policy

Canada Wide Media Limited (“Canada Wide”) respects the privacy of our customers and is committed to protecting privacy rights of identifiable individuals. In this regard, Canada Wide has prepared this website privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”) to detail how Canada Wide collects, uses, and discloses any Personal Information collected about you on the bcliving website, www.bcliving.ca (the “Website”).

Canada Wide, and/or its affiliates and subsidiaries, is the owner and operator of various self-owned magazines, books, custom publications, newsletters, directories, and websites, including without limitation, www.canadawide.com, www.bcliving.ca, www.bcbusinessonline.ca  and www.youthink.ca (collectively, the “Affiliates”).

The Privacy Policy has been created to inform our customers and all visitors to the Website of the manner in which Canada Wide maintains the confidentiality of your Personal Information and to demonstrate our commitment to your privacy.

The Privacy Policy for the Website sets out the following:

  • What is “Personal Information”?
  • Our Collection, Use, and Disclosure of Personal Information
  • Your Consent to Our Collection, Use, and Disclosure of Personal Information
  • Use of Technology on the Website
  • Links to Other Websites
  • Security of Personal Information
  • Requests for Access to Personal Information
  • Requests for Correction of Personal Information
  • Contacting or Communicating with Us

What is “Personal Information”?
Your “personal information” as defined at law, including without limitation, as defined under the Personal Information Protection Act of British Columbia, as amended from time to time (the “Act”), means all information about an identifiable individual (“Personal Information”). This Personal Information means information that can identify an individual (for example, your name, home telephone number, personal mobile telephone number, home address, personal email address, personal fax number, social insurance number, driver’s license number, physical description, and credit card or other financial information specifically about you). However, Personal Information does not include business “contact information”, which is defined under the Act as information to enable an individual at a place of business to be contacted for business purposes, such as name, position name or title, business telephone number, business mobile telephone number, business address, business email, or business fax number of an individual.

Our Collection, Use, and Disclosure of Personal Information
Canada Wide collects, uses, and discloses your Personal Information obtained on the Website for itself and on behalf of its Affiliates solely for the following specified purposes:

  • To inform you of the arrival of various new products and services available from Canada Wide and its Affiliates from time to time, including without limitation, various new magazines and custom publications from Canada Wide.
  • To inform you of various contests, discounts, special offers, sales, and promotions offered by Canada Wide and its Affiliates from time to time.
  • To inform you of special events hosted or sponsored by Canada Wide and its Affiliates from time to time.
  • To provide you with any email, print, or other newsletters, online news releases, and publications of Canada Wide and its Affiliates from time to time.
  • To inform you of customer satisfaction surveys and sales surveys of Canada Wide and its Affiliates from time to time.
  • To advise you any of changes or alterations to the terms of service, policies, or features of Canada Wide and its Affiliates from time to time, including without limitation, the terms of use of the Web-site and the Privacy Policy.
  • To respond to your inquiries and communicate with you in connection with Canada Wide, its Affiliates, the Website, and the Privacy Policy.

Canada Wide will share any Personal Information obtained from you on the Website or otherwise only with its Affiliates. You should be aware that Canada Wide will not share or sell your Personal Information to any third parties or organizations other than its Affiliates. Canada Wide may communicate with you by email, mail, and various other means of communication for the specific purposes set out above.

Your Consent to Our Collection, Use, and Disclosure of Personal Information
By using the Website to register with Canada Wide, you expressly acknowledge that you will be providing Personal Information to Canada Wide and its Affiliates from time to time, and therefore you voluntarily consent to collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information by Canada Wide and its Affiliates from time to time for the specific purposes set out in the Privacy Policy. You acknowledge that Canada Wide and its Affiliates may disclose your Personal Information without your consent if required by law and in accordance any applicable exceptions under the Act.

The Website is directed for use by adults and Canada Wide does not knowingly collect, use, or disclose any Personal Information from children without the consent of parents. Canada Wide requests that parents monitor their children’s use of the Website and to contact Canada Wide in the event of any such usage by children.

If you have provided your consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information by Canada Wide and its Affiliates from time to time under this Privacy Policy, you may, at any time, withdraw your consent, unsubscribe, and request to decline to have your Personal Information collected, used, or disclosed for any or all of the specific purposes set out in the Privacy Policy. Please refer to “Contacting or Communicating with Us” of the Privacy Policy below in connection with the withdrawal of your consent.

Use of Technology on the Website
In order to enhance your shopping and personalize your interactive experience, the Web-site uses “cookie” technology. A “cookie” is a small bit of data that gets stored your computer. Like many commercial Websites, we automatically collect other information by way of electronic means, using “cookies” which are small files placed on your hard drive that assist us in providing our products and services. This information includes the address (or “URL”) of the Website that you came from before visiting the Website, which web pages you visit on the Website, which browser software you use to view the Web-site, your IP address, and any search terms you have entered on the Website or in order to access the Website. This data is not used individually, but is aggregated and only used to tailor the Website to better meet your interests and preferences. Most browsers automatically accept “cookies”, but you can usually refuse “cookies”, or selectively accept “cookies”, by adjusting the preferences in your browser. If you turn “cookies” off, there may be some features of our site that will not be available to you.

In addition, Canada Wide uses third-party advertising companies, including without limitation, Google AdSense, which uses Google DoubleClick DART “cookies” to enable certain interest-based advertisements on the Website and the Affiliates. These third-parties may use information that is not Personal Information about your visits to the Website, the Affiliates, and other websites in order to provide interest-based advertisements about goods and services which may be of interest to you. You may opt out of the use of Google DoubleClick DART “cookies” at any time by opting out at http://www.google.ca/intl/en/privacy_ads.html.

Log Files
Like many other websites, www.bcliving.ca makes use of log files. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol ( IP ) addresses, type of browser, Internet Service Provider ( ISP ), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses, and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.

Cookies and Web Beacons
www.bcliving.ca does use cookies to store information about visitors preferences, record user-specific information on which pages the user access or visit, customize Web page content based on visitors browser type or other information that the visitor sends via their browser.

DoubleClick DART Cookie
.:: Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on www.bcliving.ca.
.:: Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to users based on their visit to www.bcliving.ca and other sites on the Internet.
.:: Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following URL - http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html

Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our site. Our advertising partners include ....

Google Adsense
These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to the advertisements and links that appear on www.bcliving.ca send directly to your browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies ( such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons ) may also be used by the third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and / or to personalize the advertising content that you see.

www.bcliving.ca has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices. www.bcliving.ca's privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.

If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers' respective websites.

Links to Other Websites
The Website may contain links to other websites that may or may not be the Affiliates of Canada Wide from time to time. Any such links are not intended to be referrals by Canada Wide and are posted for the purposes of convenience only. You acknowledge that Canada Wide has no responsibility, liability, or obligation to control or maintain the websites you visit via such links. You should ensure that you familiarize yourself with the applicable privacy policies and terms of use of all other websites before using the same.

Security of Personal Information
Canada Wide and its Affiliates are committed to adopting and maintaining appropriate measures and safeguards to ensure the confidentiality of your Personal Information and to protect against any loss or theft, as well as unauthorized access, copying, use, modification, or disclosure. Canada Wide exercises care in the secure transmission of your Personal Information; however, no transmission of Personal Information over the Internet is 100% secure. Canada Wide is unable to guarantee that Personal Information collected, used, or disclosed through the medium of the Internet cannot be intercepted by third parties.

Requests for Access to Personal Information
The Act permits individuals to submit written requests to us to provide them with: • their Personal Information under our custody or control; • information about how their Personal Information under our control has been and is being used by us; and • the names of the individuals and organizations to whom their Personal Information under our control has been disclosed by us. Canada Wide will respond to requests in the time allowed by the Act and will make a reasonable effort to assist applicants and to respond as accurately and completely as reasonably possible. All requests may be subject to any fees and disbursements the law permits us to charge.

Requests for Correction of Personal Information
The Act permits individuals to submit written requests to us to correct errors or omissions in their personal information that is in our custody or control. Canada Wide will: • correct the personal information and, if reasonable to do so, send correction notifications to any other organizations to whom we disclosed the incorrect information; or • decide not to correct the personal information, but annotate the personal information that a correction was requested but not made.

Contacting or Communicating with Us
If you have any questions with respect to the Privacy Policy concerning the handling of your Personal Information, wish to withdraw your consent to the collection, use, or disclosure of your Personal Information, or if you wish to request access to, or correction of, your Personal Information under our care and control, please contact our Privacy Officer at:

Privacy Officer
Canada Wide Media Limited
4th Floor, 4180 Lougheed Highway,
Burnaby, B.C.
Canada V5C 6A7

If you are dissatisfied with our handling of your personal information, we invite you to contact our Privacy Officer in writing, setting out the reasons for your concern. If, after our Privacy Officer has reviewed and responded to your concern, you remain dissatisfied, you may wish to contact the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia at:

P.O. Box 9038, Stn. Prov. Govt.,
Victoria, B.C.,
Canada V8W 9A4
Telephone: (250) 387-5629
Fax: (250) 387-1696
Email: info@oipc.bc.ca
Web Site: www.oipc.bc.ca