Privacy Policy
This privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”) describes how s5eg8cdkr7.wpdns.site (the “Site”, “we”, “our” or “us”) collects, uses, and discloses your Personal Information (as defined below) when you visit our Site or make a purchase from our Site.
Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your Personal Infromation and how we will treat it. By visiting our Site, or using our services, you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
Collecting Personal Information
When you visit our Site, we collect certain information about your device, your interaction with the Site, and information necessary to process your purchases in accordance with applicable law. Most commonly we will use your Personal Information to fulfil our contractual obligations to you, where it is necessary for our legitimate business interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests and to comply with legal obligations. To the extent we process your personal data for any other purposes, we ask for your consent in advance or require that our partners obtain such consent. We may also collect Personal Information if you contact us for customer support, when you apply to us for a job or work placement, when you subscribe to any publication or newsletter that we may issue or when any personal information is collected from third parties and we are the controller of such information. We may also collect Personal Information for marketing purposes. In this Privacy Policy, we refer to any information that can uniquely identify an individual (including the information below) as “Personal Information”. See the list below for more information about what Personal Information we collect and why.
Device information
- Examples of Personal Information collected: version of web browser, IP address, time zone, cookie information, what sites or products you view, search terms, and how you interact with our Site.
- Purpose of collection: to load our Site accurately for you, and to perform analytics on Site usage to optimize our Site.
- Source of collection: Collected automatically when you access our Site using cookies, log files, web beacons, tags, or pixels.
Order information
- Examples of Personal Information collected: name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers), email address, and phone number.
- Purpose of collection: to provide products or services to you to fulfill our contract, to process your payment information, arrange for shipping, and provide you with invoices and/or order confirmations, communicate with you, screen our orders for potential risk or fraud, and when in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.
- Source of collection: collected from you.
Customer support information
- Purpose of collection: to provide customer support.
- Source of collection: collected from you.
If you fail to provide Personal Information
Where we need to collect Personal Information by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you, and you fail to provide that Personal Information when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with goods or services). In this case, we may have to cancel a product or service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.
Minors
The Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 19. We do not intentionally collect Personal Information from children. If you are the parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us at the address below to request deletion.
Sharing Personal Information
We share your Personal Information with service providers to help us provide our services and fulfill our contracts with you, as described above. For example we use the following types of third parties:
- Business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors for the performance of any contract we enter into with them or you to provide services such as IT and system administration services, email communications, hosting services, backup services, credit card processing, research, development, marketing and customer support.
- Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimization of our Site.
- With academic institutions, recruiters, screening check providers, health service providers, professional and trade associations, law enforcement agencies, recruitment analytics providers, referees and your current and previous employers to evaluate, recruit and hire personnel.
- Professional advisors acting as service providers to us in relation to the Site – including lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance and accounting services.
- Tax authorities, regulators and other authorities who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.
- Credit reference agencies for the purpose of assessing your credit score where this is a condition of us entering into a contract with you.
We may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.
Any third parties that we may share your Personal Information with are obliged to keep your details securely, and to use them only to fulfil the service they provide you on our behalf. When such third parties no longer need your Personal Information to fulfil this service, they will dispose of such details in line with our procedures unless they are themselves under a legal obligation to retain information (provided that this will be in accordance with applicable data privacy laws). If we wish to pass your sensitive Personal Information onto a third party we will only do so once we have obtained your consent, unless we are legally required to do otherwise.
Behavioural Advertising
As described above, we also use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For example:
- We use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site. You can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
- We share information about your use of the Site, your purchases, and your interaction with our ads on other websites with our advertising partners. We collect and share some of this information directly with our advertising partners, and in some cases through the use of cookies or other similar technologies (which you may consent to, depending on your location).
For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.
You can opt out of targeted advertising anytime by:
FACEBOOK – https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads
GOOGLE – https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous
BING – https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized-ads
Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: http://optout.aboutads.info/.
Using Personal Information
We use your personal information to provide our services to you, which include: offering products for sale, processing payments, shipping and fulfillment of your order, and keeping you up to date on new products, services, and offers.
Retention
We retain Personal Information we collect no longer than is reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes that the Personal Information was originally provided or collected in accordance with our internal data retention policies or to comply with our legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting obligations. You can also ask us to erase your Personal Information. For more information on your right of erasure, please see the ‘Your rights’ section below.
We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint, if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect of our relationship with you, to comply with law enforcement requests, maintain security, prevent fraud and abuse, resolve disputes, enforce our legal agreements, or fulfil your request to “unsubscribe” from further messages from us.
We will retain some anonymised information after your account has been closed and we may use this for research or statistical purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
Please note: After you have closed your account or deleted information from your account, any information you have shared with others will remain visible. We do not control data that other users may have copied from the Site. Your profile may continue to be displayed in the services of others (e.g. search engine results) until they refresh their cache.
Automatic decision-making
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (“EEA”), you have the right to object to processing based solely on automated decision-making (which includes profiling), when that decision-making has a legal effect on you or otherwise significantly affects you.
We DO NOT engage in fully automated decision-making that has a legal or otherwise significant effect using customer data.
Our processor Moneris uses limited automated decision-making to prevent fraud that does not have a legal or otherwise significant effect on you.
Services that include elements of automated decision-making include:
- Temporary denylist of IP addresses associated with repeated failed transactions. This denylist persists for a small number of hours.
- Temporary denylist of credit cards associated with denylisted IP addresses. This denylist persists for a small number of days.
Your Rights
Under Data Protection Law, you have the right free of charge to request:
- Access to your Personal Information.
- Rectification or deletion of your Personal Information.
- A restriction on the processing of your Personal Information.
- Object to the processing of your Personal Information.
- A transfer of your Personal Information (data portability) in a structured, machine readable and commonly used format.
- Withdraw your consent to us processing your Personal Information, at any time.
If you wish to exercise any of the above rights, please contact us and we will respond to such queries in accordance with applicable law and will keep you informed on the process.
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your Personal Information (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that Personal Information is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
Security
We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your Personal Information is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Our information security policy is supported by a variety of processes and procedures, and we store information in access controlled premises or electronic databases requiring logins and passwords. All our employees, officers or contractors and third party providers with access to Personal Information are subject to access controls and confidentiality obligations, and we require our third-party data storage providers to comply with appropriate information security industry standards. We have put in place procedures to deal with any personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
However, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure, and as such the transmission of your Personal Information to our Site which is at your own risk. You can help us to keep your information secure by ensuring that any user name or password in relation to our online services is kept strictly personal to you and not be made available to any other person. You should stop using your username and password and notify us immediately if you suspect that someone else may be using your user details or password.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file, which means a small amount of information that’s downloaded to your computer or device when you visit our Site. We use a number of different cookies, including functional, performance, advertising, and social media or content cookies. Cookies make your browsing experience better by allowing the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login and region selection). This means you don’t have to re-enter this information each time you return to the Site or browse from one page to another. Cookies also provide information on how people use the website, for instance whether it’s their first time visiting or if they are a frequent visitor.
Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies. We use persistent cookies and session cookies.
Persistent cookies
A persistent cookie is stored on a user’s device in between browser sessions which allows the preferences or actions of a user across the website (or in some cases across different websites) to be remembered. We use persistent cookies to save your login information for future logins to the Site.
Session Cookies
A session cookie allows our websites and services to link your actions during a browser session. We use session cookies to enable certain features of our Site, to better understand how you interact with our Site and to monitor aggregate usage by users and web traffic routing on the Site. Unlike persistent cookies, session cookies are deleted from your computer when you log off from our Site and then close your browser.
We use the following cookies to optimize your experience on our Site and to provide our services.
Cookies Necessary for the Functioning of the Store
Reporting and Analytics
You can control and manage cookies in various ways. Please keep in mind that removing or blocking cookies can negatively impact your user experience and parts of our Site may no longer be fully accessible.
Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can choose whether or not to accept cookies through your browser controls, often found in your browser’s “Tools” or “Preferences” menu. For more information on how to modify your browser settings or how to block, manage or filter cookies can be found in your browser’s help file or through such sites as www.allaboutcookies.org.
Additionally, please note that blocking cookies may not completely prevent how we share information with third parties such as our advertising partners. To exercise your rights or opt-out of certain uses of your information by these parties, please follow the instructions in the “Behavioural Advertising” section above.
Do Not Track
Please note that because there is no consistent industry understanding of how to respond to “Do Not Track” signals, we do not alter our data collection and usage practices when we detect such a signal from your browser.
Changes
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons.
INFORMATION
BC MEDEQUIP Home Health Care Ltd. will not sell, rent, or give your name or address to anyone.
We do our very best to update our Site and ensure the information is correct. If there is a discrepancy between the information on this Site and BC MEDEQUIP’s verbal or paper-based information, the verbal/paper-based information shall prevail.
BC MEDEQUIP is not responsible for the availability or content of any external sites linked to this Site.
Any further questions about our privacy and information policies, please contact service@bcmedequip.com.
Contact
For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at service@bcmedequip.com or by mail using the details provided below:
BC MEDEQUIP Home Health Care Ltd., 265 Schoolhouse Street, Coquitlam, BC V3K 4Y1, Canada
If you are not satisfied with our response to your complaint, you have the right to lodge your complaint with the relevant data protection authority. You can contact your local data protection authority or our supervisory authority.
Last updated: May 12, 2025