PRIVACY STATEMENT

Underwriters Laboratories of Canada (ULC) is committed to respecting the personal privacy of individuals who visit our web site. All personal information you do provide is protected under the federal Privacy Act.

The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for this web site.

Personal Information

We do not automatically gather any personal information from you, such as your name, phone number, e-mail or address. This information is only obtained if you supply it voluntarily.

Registration forms on our site do require users to provide contact information, demographic information for statistical profiles and unique identifiers (for use as account numbers or to verify identity).

If you want to change or modify information previously provided to the ULC you can send email to publications@ca.ul.com.

Order Forms

Contact information from registration/order forms is used to ship purchases and/or information to our customers. This information may also be used to contact the customer about other products and services or to provide updates on the product or services obtained; however, this is not a frequent occurrence. Users may opt out of receiving future mailings by email to publications@ca.ul.com.

Involuntary Data

Web browsers connecting to web servers routinely reveal the IP address of your computer. We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our web site.

Cookie

A "cookie" is a file that may be placed on your hard drive without your knowledge by a web site to monitor your use.

External Links

This site contains links to other sites. If you choose to leave this ULC site via links to other non-ULC sites, ULC is not responsible for the privacy policies or content of those sites, nor is ULC responsible for the cookies those sites might deposit on your hard drive.

Exercise caution when deciding to disclose personal information.

Security

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of information under our control. We take all of the necessary precautions to safeguard customer information stored electronically. In all cases, information is retained in secure facilities, protected from unauthorized access is kept only as long as is reasonably required. Our electronic files are backed up for redundancy, password protected and accessible only by authorized employees, on a need-to-know basis.

Even though we've said it already, the message is important enough to state again. ULC respects your privacy. We will NOT sell or otherwise provide any of your personal information to any third party without your permission unless required to do so by law or in good faith belief if such action is necessary or desirable to comply with the law, protect or defend the rights of property of ULC, this site or its users.