Canadian Xpress® has adopted the Canadian government's privacy legislation, the
Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act
which came into effect on January 1st, 2004 &
Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation Act
as well as the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which is in effect as of May 25th 2018, as the basis for our own Canadian Xpress® Privacy Policy. It sets out the principles that govern the collection, use and disclosure of our Pilots' personal information.
This page informs you about our privacy practices so that you to understand how and for what purposes we collect personal information about our Pilots. By registering as a Canadian Xpress® pilot, you give your consent to Canadian Xpress® to collect, use and disclose your personal information as indicated below.
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| When you join Canadian Xpress®, you consent to the following: |
- The collection of personally identifiable and demographic information about you that allows us to confirm your real identity.
- Receive regular e-mail bulletins notifying you of any new features, aircraft, events, contests, etc. We may use your alternate E-mail address and home address to ensure that you receive important information about your account or information you have requested.
- The bundling information to better design our web site and to share with our partners. This aggregate information cannot be used to learn anything about any particular individual.
- In conjunction with regular contests held at Canadian Xpress®, we may disclose your personal information to our contest sponsors (if Canadian Xpress® is not the sole sponsor of the contest) responsible for awarding/delivering contest prizes. Any such disclosure is made on a confidential basis with the pilot's express consent and only the information required to award the winning prizes is disclosed.
- Publishing the full name and call-sign of any pilot who is a winner in any of our contests on (but not limited to) Facebook, Twitter and other flight simulator related forms of media.
- To meet legal and regulatory requirements. For example, we may collect information in response to a court order, or to satisfy a request by Canadian Law Enforcement agencies.
- Your information may be shared among Canadian Xpress® staff to help us to better serve our pilots and to provide them with services which combine services from different parts of our organization.
- Upon account closure, we will remove all your personal data including your e-mail address and remove you from any Canadian Xpress®-owned mailing lists.
- Upon account closure, monthly challenge winners names and call-sign only, will remain published on our web site.
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| Canadian Xpress®, we will not: |
- Share your personal information or demographic data unless, we believe, in good faith, that such release is necessary to comply with the law or protect the rights, property, or safety of Canadian Xpress®, our users, or the public.
- Share any personal information such as (but not limited to) e-mail addresses, etc. with outside parties that is not already publically available in the VATSIM Statistics Center, VATSpy, etc.
- Knowingly collect information from children under the age of 13.
- Materially change how we use your personally identifiable information without placing a prominent notice on our web site first.
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| Cookies |
- Our web site uses cookies for the purpose of identifying you as a unique visitor, for session operability, and for web site statistics during your visit. Our web site will not function unless your browser is set to accept cookies.
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| Links |
- Be aware that when you click on ad banners or links to other sites, you may be redirected to other sites not operated by Canadian Xpress®. You are responsible for information that you provide to these sites. We recommend that you review the privacy policy of any site that requests personal information. Note that this policy does not cover the privacy practices of these linked sites.
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| General Information Collected |
- When visiting our site, some general information is collected including IP address, operating system, browser software, and Internet Service Provider.
- The information we collect is aggregated to reflect the population as a whole rather than focused on individuals. We use it to help us better understand the people who visit our web site. In addition, we may disclose some of this aggregate information to advertisers to inform them of the number of people who have seen and clicked on their advertisements.
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| Account Closure |
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If at any time, you no longer wish to give your consent to Canadian Xpress® to collect, use and disclose your personal information as indicated in our privacy policy or you wish to opt-out of our mailing lists, you may close your Canadian Xpress® account by clicking here.
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| Questions |
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If you have any questions or concerns regarding our Privacy Policy, please feel free to send them by e-mail to .
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