Mountain Madness Tours
Personal Information Protection Policy
Mountain Madness Tours is committed to safeguarding the personal information entrusted to us by our clients. We manage your personal information in accordance with Alberta’s Personal Information Protection Act and other applicable laws. This policy outlines the principles and practices we follow in protecting your personal information.
This policy applies to Mountain Madness Tours and any person providing services on our behalf.
A copy of this policy is provided to any client on request.
What is personal information?
Personal information means information about an identifiable individual. This includes an individual’s name, Country, Province / State, City, phone number, age, email address etc.
What personal information do we collect?
We collect only the personal information that we need for the purposes of providing services to our clients, including personal information needed to:
- Contact you with information about your tour
- Process payments for our services
- Determine our clients’ demographics to aid future marketing decisions
- Contact you after the tour to see if you’d like to return one day
- Send out Birthday emails
- Send out Email Newsletters (if subscribed)
- Gather information about your Allergies, Medical history and Emergency Contacts to aid us and others in emergencies.
We normally collect client information directly from our clients. We may collect your information from other persons with your consent or as authorized by law.
We inform our clients, before or at the time of collecting personal information, of the purposes for which we are collecting the information. However, we don’t provide this notification when a client volunteers information for an obvious purpose (for example, entering credit card details for an online purchase when the information will be used only to process the payment).
How do we collect, store and manage your personal information?
Benjamin Robert Johnson, Operating as Mountain Madness Tours, is a Sole Proprietor and is the only employee with access to your personal information. We have no plans to grow larger than this or employ others that will need access to your personal information.
We use several reputable companies to collect, store and manage your personal information.
- iONLINE https://ionline.ca Manages and keeps our website clear of viruses that could compromise your personal information
- Adventure Engine https://adventureengine.biz Manages our online booking system where you enter personal information for the payment of our services
- monday.com is a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software company that collects (via the contact us form on our website) stores and enables us to manage your personal information in a safe, secure and organized way.
- Smart Waiver, https://www.smartwaiver.com is the company we use to collect, manage and store your personal information required for our Waiver.
- Mail Chimp, https://mailchimp.com is the company we use to send you quarterly email newsletters if you subscribed to this during the online booking process or via our website.
The above companies are reputable, widely used by other tourism businesses, and are secure ways to store and manage your personal information. Passwords on these accounts are changed once per month to further safeguard your personal information. Please click on the above links to read their Privacy Policies.
Consent
We ask for consent to collect, use or disclose client personal information, except in specific circumstances where collection, use or disclosure without consent is authorized or required by law. We may assume your consent in cases where you volunteer information for an obvious purpose.
We ask for your express consent for some purposes and may not be able to provide certain services if you are unwilling to provide consent to the collection, use or disclosure of certain personal information. Where express consent is needed, we will normally ask clients to provide their consent
A client may withdraw consent to the use and disclosure of personal information at any time, unless the personal information is necessary for us to fulfil our legal obligations. We will respect your decision, but we may not be able to provide you with certain products and services if we do not have the necessary personal information.
We may collect, use or disclose client personal information without consent only as authorized by law. For example, we may not request consent when the collection, use or disclosure is reasonable for an investigation or legal proceeding, to collect a debt owed to our organization, in an emergency that threatens life, health or safety, or when the personal information is from a public telephone directory.
How do we use and disclose personal information?
We use and disclose client personal information only for the purposes for which the information was collected, except as authorized by law. The law also allows us to use that contact information for the purpose of collecting a debt owed to our organization, should that be necessary.
If we wish to use or disclose your personal information for any new business purpose, we will ask for your consent.
How do we safeguard personal information?
We make every reasonable effort to ensure that client information is accurate and complete. We rely on our clients to notify us if there is a change to their personal information that may affect their relationship with our organization. If you are aware of an error in our information about you, please let us know and we will correct it on request wherever possible.
In some cases we may ask for a written request for correction.
We protect client personal information in a manner appropriate for the sensitivity of the information. We make every reasonable effort to prevent any loss, misuse, disclosure or modification of personal information, as well as any unauthorized access to personal information.
We will notify the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta, without delay, of a security breach affecting personal information if it creates a real risk of significant harm to individuals.
We retain client personal information only as long as is reasonable to fulfil the purposes for which the information was collected or for legal or business purposes.
We render client personal information non-identifying, or destroy records containing personal information once the information is no longer needed.
We use appropriate security measures when destroying client personal information, including shredding paper records and permanently deleting electronic records.
Access to records containing personal information
Clients of Mountain Madness Tours have a right of access to their own personal information in a record that is in our custody or under our control, subject to some exceptions. For example, organizations are required under the Personal Information Protection Act to refuse to provide access to information that would reveal personal information about another individual. Organizations are authorized under the Act to refuse access to personal information if disclosure would reveal confidential business information. Access may also be refused if the information is privileged or contained in mediation records.
If we refuse a request in whole or in part, we will provide the reasons for the refusal. In some cases where exceptions to access apply, we may withhold that information and provide you with the remainder of the record.
You may make a request for access to your personal information by writing to Benjamin Robert Johnson, Owner, Operator of Mountain Madness Tours.
You must provide sufficient information in your request to allow us to identify the information you are seeking.
You may also request information about our use of your personal information and any disclosure of that information to persons outside our organization.
You may also request a correction of an error or omission in your personal information.
We will respond to your request within 7 calendar days, unless an extension is granted.
Questions and complaints
If you have a question or concern about any collection, use or disclosure of personal information by Mountain Madness Tours or about a request for access to your own personal information, please contact Benjamin Robert Johnson in the first instance:
Owner Operator
Mountain Madness Tours
info@mountainmadnesstours.com
+17808859813
If you are not satisfied with the response you receive, you should contact the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta:
Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta
Suite 2460, 801 - 6 Avenue, SW
Calgary, Alberta T2P 3W2
Phone: 403-297-2728
Toll Free: 1-888-878-4044
E-mail: generalinfo@oipc.ab.ca
Website: www.oipc.ab.ca