RILY.CO PRIVACY POLICY (CANADA)
Last modified: August 2022
INTRODUCTION
RILY.CO ("Company" or** "We"**) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it by complying with this policy.
This Privacy Policy (this "Privacy Policy") applies to RILY.CO (the "Website") as well as in-person interactions and phone and email. The Website is operated by 2700384 Ontario Inc. ("we," "us" or "our"). By accessing or using the Website, you agree that your information will be handled in accordance with this Privacy Policy, as may be amended from time to time. If you do not agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Site. The Privacy Policy is part of and incorporated into the Terms & Conditions for this Website (the "Terms").
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time and when we do so, we will update the date above. We reserve the right to change, modify, add or remove portions of this Privacy Policy from time to time and in our sole discretion. The most current version of the Privacy Policy will govern our collection, use, and disclosure of information about you. If we make material changes to the Privacy Policy, we will notify you by email or by posting a notice on the Site. Your continued access to the Website Services will indicate your acceptance of our updated Privacy Policy. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date, active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.
PURPOSE OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY
The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you about how we collect, use, and disclose the information collected from and about you and other users of the Site. This Privacy Policy also describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide to us through the Site. We will only use your Personal Information (as later defined) in accordance with this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise required by applicable laws. We take steps to ensure that the Personal Information that we collect about you is adequate, relevant, not excessive, and used for limited purposes.
DEFINITIONS
Privacy laws in Canada generally define "personal information" as any information about an identifiable individual, which includes information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person. Personal information does not include business contact information, including your name, title, or business contact information.
This policy applies to information we collect, use, or disclose about you:
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On this Website.
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In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.
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Through mobile and desktop applications you download from this Website, which provide dedicated non-browser-based interaction between you and this Website.
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When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services if those applications or advertising include links to this policy.
The Website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, services, social networks, or applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow the third party to collect or share data about you. If you follow a link to a third-party website or engage a third-party plugin, please note that these third parties have their own privacy policies and we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. We do not control these third-party websites, and we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.
This policy DOES NOT apply to information that:
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We collect offline or through any other means, including on any other Company or third-party website.
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You provide to or is collected by any third party, through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website.
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices for collecting, processing, and storing your information. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you indicate that you understand, accept, and consent to the practices described in this policy. This policy may change from time to time.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU
We collect and use several types of information from and about you, including:
- Personal information, that we can reasonably use to directly or indirectly identify you, such as your name, mailing address, email address, telephone number, Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, cookie IDs, and device identifiers, user name or other similar identifier, billing and account information, and any other identifier we may use to contact you ("personal information").
We provide an opportunity for any user to unsubscribe from our mailing lists (which we use for e.g. circulating newsletters or requesting product reviews) or opt-out of contact for marketing and/or customer service purposes on an ongoing basis by accessing our Website, using the unsubscribe mechanism at the bottom of our emails, or emailing: hello@rily.co.
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Non-personal information, that does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity or directly relate to an identifiable individual, such as anonymous usage statistics including frequency of messaging and interaction with other users, clickstream data other log file data, social analytics and tracking measurements, demographic information, or statistical or aggregated information. Statistical or aggregated data does not directly identify a specific person, but we may derive non-personal statistical or aggregated data from personal information. For example, we may aggregate personal information to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific Website feature.
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Technical information, including your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, or information about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details.
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Non-personal details about your Website interactions, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), clickstream to, through and from our Website (including date and time), products you viewed or searched for, page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), methods used to browse away from the page, or any phone number used to call our customer service number.
HOW WE COLLECT INFORMATION ABOUT YOU
We use different methods to collect your information, including through:
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Direct interactions with you when you provide it to us, for example, by filling in forms or corresponding with us by phone, email, or otherwise.
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User contributions. You may also provide information for us to publish or display on public Website areas or transmit to other Website users or third parties.
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Automated technologies or interactions, as you navigate through our Website. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.
Information You Provide to Us
The information we collect directly from you on or through our Website may include:
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Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of subscribing to our Website, posting material, and requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website.
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Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
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Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
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Details of transactions you carry out through our Website and of the fulfillment of your orders. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order through our Website.
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Your search queries on the Website.
You may also provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, "posted") on public areas of the Website or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, "User Contributions"). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we limit access to certain pages/you may set certain privacy settings for such information by logging into your account profile, please be aware that no security measures are perfect. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that unauthorized persons will not view your User Contributions.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT THROUGH COOKIES AND OTHER AUTOMATIC DATA COLLECTION TECHNOLOGIES**
As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use cookies or other automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
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Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
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Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
We may also use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). To learn more or to opt-out of tailored advertising please visit Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada Opt-Out Tool at https://youradchoices.ca/en/tools for information on how you can opt out of behavioral tracking on this Website and how we respond to web browser signals and other mechanisms that enable consumers to exercise choice about behavioral tracking.
The information we collect automatically is statistical information and may include personal information, and we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways, that you provide to us, or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
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Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
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Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
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Speed up your searches.
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Recognize you when you return to our Website.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
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Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
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Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings that are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
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Web Beacons. Pages of our Website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
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Pixels. A pixel is a piece of code or an electronic image embedded on the Website (but ordinarily not visible to users) that collects information about users' engagement on that web page. The use of a pixel allows us to record, for example, that a user has visited a particular web page within the Website or clicked on a particular advertisement, to deliver branded services, and/or to help determine the effectiveness of promotional or advertising campaigns.
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Server Log Data. When you visit the Site, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website. This data may include information such as your IP Address, browser type, the webpage you were visiting before you came to our Site, the pages of our Website that you visit, the time spent on those pages, information for which you may search on our Website, access times and dates, and other statistics. We use this information to monitor and analyze use of the Website and for general technical administration of the Website, to improve the Site's functionality and convenience, and to better serve our customers' needs and preferences. We also may use server log data to verify that Website visitors meet criteria that we have established as necessary before processing their purchases.
Third Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Some content or applications on the Website, including advertisements, are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our Website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioural) advertising or other targeted content.
You can opt-out of several third party ad servers' and networks' cookies simultaneously by using an opt-out tool created by the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada at https://youradchoices.ca/en/tools. You can also access these websites to learn more about online behavioural advertising and how to stop websites from placing cookies on your device. Opting out of a network does not mean you will no longer receive online advertising. It does mean that the network from which you opted out will no longer deliver ads tailored to your web preferences and usage patterns.
We do not control these third parties' tracking technologies or how they are used. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices please visit https://youradchoices.ca/en/ and optout.networkadvertising.org/. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS PRIVACY POLICY DOES NOT COVER THE COLLECTION AND USE OF INFORMATION BY SUCH ADVERTISING COMPANIES. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For more information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see [Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information].
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:
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To present our Website and its contents to you.
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To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
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To fulfill the purposes for which you provided the information or that were described when it was collected, or any other purpose for which you provide it.
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To provide you with notices about your account/subscription, including expiration and renewal notices.
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To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts with you, including for billing and collection or to comply with legal requirements.
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To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
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To improve our Website, products or services, marketing, or customer relationships and experiences.
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To allow you to participate in interactive features, social media, or similar features on our Website.
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To measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you.
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In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
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For any other purpose with your consent.
We use your Personal Information (in some cases, in conjunction with Non-Personal Information) to communicate with you, to answer your questions, to process and consummate your transactions with us, to deliver Products that you purchased from us, to send you information about Products or services that we think may interest you in accordance with your preferences, to administer promotions, and try to solve any problems that you may encounter relating to the same. We use your Personal Information to personalize your experience on the Website and manage, protect, and improve our Products, services and the Site.
We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers' target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.
By using the Site, you are authorizing us to gather, parse, and retain data related to the provision of the Website and your interactions with us.
By providing us with your email address, you agree to receive emails from us. However, we will not give your email address to another party to promote their products or services directly to you without your consent.
Aggregate Data helps us to understand trends so that we can better consider new Products and services, analyze usage, facilitate payments, or otherwise improve or tailor our offerings. For example, we may collect Aggregate Data about the shopping habits of residents of a particular province (without linking this data to any specific Personal Information about those residents).
If you do not want us to use your information in any of these ways, please use the unsubscribe mechanism at the bottom of our emails and/or email us at hello@rily.co. If you consent to our providing your email address to a third party to receive their separate marketing communications, please contact the third-party to opt-out of their communications.
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:
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To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
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In accordance with applicable law, to a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of RILY.CO's assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by RILY.CO about our customers and users is among the assets transferred.
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To advertisers and advertising networks that require the information to select and serve relevant advertisements to you and others. We do not disclose data about identifiable individuals to our advertisers, but we may provide them with aggregate information about our users (for example, we may inform them that 400 women between 30 and 45 have clicked on their advertisement on a specific day). We may also use such aggregate information to help advertisers target a specific audience (for example, men in a specific location). We may make use of the personal information we have collected from you to enable us to display our advertisers' advertisement to that target audience.
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To third parties to market their products or services to you if you have consented to/not opted out of these disclosures. We contractually require these third parties to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them. For more information, see [Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information].
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To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business (such as analytics and search engine providers that assist us with Website improvement and optimization) and who are contractually obligated to keep personal information confidential, use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them, and to process the personal information with the same standards set out in this policy.
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To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it (for example, if you give us an email address to use the "email a friend" feature of our Website, we will transmit the contents of that email and your email address to the recipients).
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For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
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With your consent.
As noted above, we may use service providers to help us operate and improve the Website and/or transact business (including, without limitation, maintenance services, database management providers, payment processors, or web analytics consultants, etc.). These service providers may also collect or have access to Personal Information from our Site. Such service providers are not authorized to use the Personal Information for any purpose other than to provide the administrative services for which they are responsible. Please let us know via hello@rily.co if you want a list of such service providers.
In addition, the feature of our purchase process that auto-populates addresses when you begin typing them into our order form implements functionalities that are enabled by Google Maps APIs. By using those features or functionalities, you are bound by Google's Privacy Policy with respect to those features or functionalities. Google's Privacy Policy can be found www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners.
We may also disclose your personal information:
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To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request, in accordance with applicable law.
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To enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
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If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of RILY.CO, our customers, or others.
TRANSFERRING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may transfer personal information that we collect or that you provide as described in this policy to contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business (such as analytics and search engine providers that assist us with Website improvement and optimization) and who are contractually obligated to keep personal information confidential, use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them, and to process the personal information with the same standards set out in this policy.
We may process, store, and transfer your personal information in and to a foreign country, with different privacy laws that may or may not be as comprehensive as Canadian law. In these circumstances, the governments, courts, law enforcement, or regulatory agencies of that country may be able to obtain access to your personal information through the laws of the foreign country. Whenever we engage a service provider, we require that its privacy and security standards adhere to this policy and applicable Canadian privacy legislation.
You are welcome to contact us to obtain further information about Company policies regarding service providers outside of Canada. See [Contact Information and Challenging Compliance].
By submitting your personal information or engaging with the Website, you consent to this transfer, storage, or processing.
CHOICES ABOUT HOW WE USE AND DISCLOSE YOUR INFORMATION
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
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Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe's website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this Website may not be accessible or may not function properly. For more information about tracking technologies, see [Information We Collect Through Cookies and Other Automatic Data Collection Technologies].
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We do not control third parties' collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of several third party ad servers' and networks' cookies simultaneously by using an opt-out tool created by the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada. You can also access these websites to learn more about online behavioural advertising and how to stop websites from placing cookies on your device. Opting out of a network does not mean you will no longer receive online advertising. It does mean that the network from which you opted out will no longer deliver ads tailored to your web preferences and usage patterns.
DATA SECURITY
The security of your personal information is very important to us. We use physical, electronic, and administrative measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. As such, although we do our best to protect your Personal Information, we cannot promise, ensure, or warrant the security of any information that you may provide to us. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Website like message boards, which any Website visitor can view.
DATA RETENTION
Except as otherwise permitted or required by applicable law or regulation, we will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. Under some circumstances we may anonymize your personal information so that it can no longer be associated with you. We reserve the right to use such anonymous and de-identified data for any legitimate business purpose without further notice to you or your consent.
CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 13
Our Website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on this Website or on or through any of its features/register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at 1(877) 809-0094.
ACCESSING AND CORRECTING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
It is important that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal information changes. By law you have the right to request access to and to correct the personal information that we hold about you.
If you want to review, verify, correct, or withdraw consent to the use of your personal information you may also send us an email at hello@rily.co to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect. We may charge you a fee to access your personal information, however, we will notify you of any fee in advance.
We may request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and your right to access, and to provide you with the personal information that we hold about you or make your requested changes. Applicable law may allow or require us to refuse to provide you with access to some or all of the personal information that we hold about you, or we may have destroyed, erased, or made your personal information anonymous in accordance with our record retention obligations and practices. If we cannot provide you with access to your personal information, we will inform you of the reasons why, subject to any legal or regulatory restrictions.
If you are concerned about our response or would like to correct the information provided, you may contact our Privacy Officer at hello@rily.co.
If you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or might have been copied or stored by other Website users. Proper access and use of information provided on the Website, including User Contributions, is governed by our terms of use.
WITHDRAWING YOUR CONSENT
Where you have provided your consent to the collection, use, and transfer of your personal information, you may have the legal right to withdraw your consent under certain circumstances. To withdraw your consent, if applicable, contact us at hello@rily.co. Please note that if you withdraw your consent we may not be able to provide you with a particular product or service. We will explain the impact to you at the time to help you with your decision.
CONTACT INFORMATION AND CHALLENGING COMPLIANCE
We welcome your questions, comments, and requests regarding this privacy policy and our privacy practices. Please contact us at:
Attn: Rily.co Privacy Officer
At: 26 Sousa Mendes St., Toronto, ON M6P 0B2
and/or via email at: hello@rily.co
We have procedures in place to receive and respond to complaints or inquiries about our handling of personal information, our compliance with this policy, and with applicable privacy laws. To discuss our compliance with this policy please contact our Privacy Officer using the contact information listed above.