Privacy Code

Our commitment to privacy: TMGTV Inc., a subsidiary of Toronto Star Newspapers Limited a wholly owned subsidiary of the Torstar Corporation, knows that protecting the privacy and confidentiality of your personal information is important to consumers. This Privacy Code governs SHOPTV Canada, TMGTV Productions, and Torstar Media Group Television. Collection, use and disclosure of personal information by TMGTV Inc. and its affiliates are governed by the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (the “Act”), and any applicable provincial legislation. This Privacy Code explains what personal information is collected from its customers and how it is used. It also explains how you can ask questions, make suggestions, and complain about our privacy practices. This Privacy Code applies to personal information (see below) collected by TMGTV Inc., including its websites. Be aware that our websites may contain links to other websites provided and maintained exclusively by third parties not subject to this Privacy Code. Please review the privacy policies on any external websites to determine their information handling practices.
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This Privacy Code is available to the public in electronic form at and in paper form from TMGTV Inc, One Yonge Street -- 9th floor, Toronto ON M5E 1E6. If you have any additional concerns or questions, we encourage you to contact us and we will address your concerns to the best of our ability.

Please read this Privacy Code carefully, and check back periodically as we update it from time to time. By submitting your personal information to TMGTV Inc.,  you signify your agreement to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Code.

What is personal information? Personal information is any information about an identifiable individual. Personal information does not include the name, title, business address or telephone number of an employee of an organization. Information used solely for journalistic purposes is exempted from the Act.
TMGTV Inc. is responsible for personal information under its control. Our employees are informed about the importance of privacy and receive periodic information to update them about our Privacy Code and related policies. In addition, Torstar Corporation, TMGTV Inc.'s parent company, has appointed a Chief Privacy Officer to oversee personal information-handling practices of TMGTV Inc. and its affiliates.

Children: If you are under 18, be sure to obtain your parent or guardian's permission before you send any personal information to us, or anyone else, over the Internet. We encourage parents to get involved with their children's online usage and to be aware of the activities in which they are participating.

What personal information do we collect, and why? TMGTV Inc.collects personal information for specific, limited purposes. Information is collected by fair and lawful means.

• We collect personal contact information (for example, name, address, email address and telephone numbers) if you: sign up for a newsletter; register on an online forum or website, or to attend a paid event; purchase any product from TMGTV Inc.; or provide it to us when you attend a trade or consumer show. This information is used to fulfill your request and respond to your inquiries.
• If you enter a contest or other promotion, we use your personal contact information to administer the contest or promotion including contacting, announcing and promoting prizewinners.
• We collect purchase history and a list of promotions offered to you ("history"), in order to gain a better understanding of your interests so that we may develop better products and services, and to determine eligibility for our products and services.
• We may also use personal contact and history information from time to time to contact you about changes, enhancements or other notices related to goods or services you requested and which Torstar Media Group Television provides. In addition, we may use this information to send you offers or information from us, our affiliates and from selected sponsors or advertisers ("Marketing Offers"). If you do not wish to receive Marketing Offers, you may opt-out at any time by following the procedure set out in our opt-out policy (see below).
• We collect credit card information if you: register on a paid website; enter a paid contest; register to attend a paid event; purchase any product from TMGTV Inc. This credit card information is used for the purpose of fulfilling your order.
• If you choose to opt-out of any use of your personal information in accordance with our opt-out policy, we keep your contact information on a list so that your request can be honoured. If you complain to any of our departments, we collect your contact information and the nature of your complaint, for the purpose of investigating and responding to you.
• If you are a freelancer, or other service provider, we collect your social insurance number for tax reporting purposes and your contact information in order to pay you. We may also collect financial information (for example, banking details and credit history) to assess your credit risk, sales data to prepare royalty reports and other information to help us evaluate your services.
• Purposes for the collection, use or disclosure of personal information, which are not set out in this Privacy Code, will be set out at the time of collection. You will be given a reasonable opportunity to opt-out of any additional purposes no later than the time of collection.

We also collect certain non-personal information, like internet cookies and data for market research:

• Internet Cookies: An internet cookie is a small piece of information that a website stores on your internet browser. We use cookies to better understand how you use our websites, to make sure our ads and dynamic content are served correctly and to improve the performance of our websites. For example, a cookie may recall a set of preferences you have set for our website and record items that you have registered for. Storing cookies on your web browser allows us to present you with custom web pages and other content that are tuned with your preferences. For example, if you are a registered user, you may see a welcome page with your name on it. These activities are invisible to you, and are generally intended to improve your internet surfing convenience. Unless you have set your preferences so that you will be alerted when a cookie is being stored on your computer, you won't know about it.

If you are concerned about cookies, it is possible to turn them off in your web browser preferences. However, please be aware that by disabling cookies, you may not be able to use all portions of our websites, particularly pages requiring registration.
We may place advertising or other links on our sites that originate from outside advertisers. If you view these ads, the advertisers may assign a cookie. TMGTV Inc. does not control these cookies, nor is it responsible for any marketing or other use of your name by these advertisers.

• Market research: Occasionally, we ask our customers to complete market research surveys. Survey results are aggregated and shared with our advertisers, sponsors and affiliates in a manner that does not disclose personal information.

To whom does TMGTV Inc. disclose personal information, and why? TMGTV Inc. may disclose your personal information under the following circumstances:

• In order to provide you with Marketing Offers (see above), TMGTV Inc. may disclose your personal contact information to affiliates and selected sponsors and advertisers. If you do not wish to receive Marketing Offers, you may opt-out at any time by following the procedure set out in our opt-out policy (see below).
• TMGTV Inc. may transfer your personal information to service providers acting on its behalf in order to perform processing and other specialized services, for example, prize fulfillment of our contests, collection of overdue accounts, product delivery, or credit card processing.
• When TMGTV Inc. needs to disclose your personal information to unrelated parties, for example, if we find you have violated any stated terms of service or conditions of purchase, or if we need to comply with applicable laws and lawful governmental requests, other legal and regulatory authorities and other legal reasons.
• TMGTV Inc. may disclose your personal information to parties connected with the contemplated or actual financing, insuring, sale, assignment or other disposal of all or part of our business or assets, including for the purposes of determining whether to proceed or continue with such transaction or business relationship or fulfilling any records or other reporting requirements to such parties. We will require such parties to treat your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Code and to use and disclose it only for the purposes for which it was collected.

Consent and opt-out policy: In general, TMGTV Inc. seeks consent to use your personal information in accordance with our opt-out policy. Except as set out in this section, TMGTV Inc. obtains your express opt-in consent to use or disclose sensitive personal information.
If you do not wish to receive Marketing Offers, you may opt-out at any time by doing any of the following:

• follow the instructions at the bottom of any email Marketing Offer you receive.
• inform your telemarketer at the time you are called with a Marketing Offer.
• call Customer Service at and request that your personal information not be used for Marketing Offers.
• email Customer Service at and request that your personal information not be used for Marketing Offers.
• please provide us with your name, address and phone numbers, to ensure that your information record can be properly suppressed from future Marketing Offers. Please allow approximately 2-4 weeks for processing of your request and request that your personal information not be used for Marketing Offers.

We reserve the right to use and disclose your personal information without consent where required or permitted by law, for example, if we have reasonable grounds to believe the information could be useful when investigating a contravention of a federal, provincial or foreign law, in order to protect or defend our legal interests, or to comply with applicable laws and lawful governmental requests.

Safeguards: TMGTV Inc. maintains personal information in a combination of paper and electronic files. We take technical, contractual, administrative and physical security measures to protect your personal information. When you provide credit card information to use, we work to help protect the security of your credit card information by using industry standard secure sockets layer (SSL) encryption technology.
Please be aware that email is not a secure medium, and any personal information you send to us by email could be intercepted. If your communication is very sensitive, or includes information such as your credit card number, you should not send it electronically unless the email is encrypted or your browser indicates that the access to our website is secure. Materials posted to online forums such as bulletin boards or chat rooms are public, not secure and may be viewed by anyone. Any personal information you post may be collected and used by anyone and may result in unsolicited messages from other internet users.

How to access and correct your personal information: TMGTV Inc. provides you with the means to access, update, edit or delete any subscriber or registration information you have provided at any time by sending your request by email to . Alternatively, you may call Customer Service at and we will make the changes upon receipt of appropriate evidence.

We will give you access to the information we retain about you within a reasonable time, upon written request, satisfactory identification and proof of entitlement. In some cases, we may not provide access to personal information in our possession or control. If we deny your request, we will advise you in writing of the reason for the refusal and you may challenge our decision.

How to challenge our privacy practices. TMGTV Inc. encourages you to contact us with any questions or concerns you have about your privacy or this Privacy Code. If you have a question concerning Torstar Media Group Television Privacy Code, would like a copy, or if you have a complaint, please contact Customer Service at:

TMGTV Inc.

Hamilton, Ontario

Phone:
Email:

Customer Service can successfully deal with many issues. If you prefer, or if after contacting Customer Service, your concerns or questions have not been resolved to your satisfaction, you can contact Torstar Corporation's Chief Privacy Officer in writing as follows:
Torstar Corporation




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This Privacy Code was last updated on March 12, 2008