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Our privacy policy is that we do not share (or give, loan, rent, sell) your personal information with anyone, nor use it for any purpose ourselves other than to inform you of upcoming shows, and if registering for a class, complete your order and as part of our financial records as required by Ontario and federal Canadian law.  If you have consented to give us your email address for our mailing list, that information is not shared with anyone else (person or business) but is only used by us for the purpose to which you consented, which is to notify you of Canadian Bead Oasis Shows upcoming shows which we promote.  If you register for a class, we store your name and address on invoices in our accounting system history to support which taxes we collected from you; if you use phone or fax ordering, we also store your credit card information off-line; these history records are not shared with anyone except government or our merchant bank on request as per tax laws and banking laws governing record keeping.  It is important for you to understand that no personally identifiable information can be captured or retrieved by our website unless you directly volunteer it to us or to Paypal.  When you access our web site, our server cannot identify "where you're from," nor are we able to identify "who you are." Our website does not passively collect any information, particularly your e-mail address, and does not use "cookies" for storing or collecting any information, except for the shopping cart which operates under Paypal's privacy policy and does use cookies to store the items you have chosen to add to your cart.

Please be aware if you choose to register for a class by using our shopping cart, you are using the Paypal system, which is operated by a US company controlled by eBay and thus is not governed by Canadian regulations.  Paypal has its own privacy policy available on its website at https://www.paypal.com ; you must consent and agree with that Paypal privacy policy as part of your agreement with Paypal before you can use their services.  If you use the shopping cart, Paypal sends your email address, name, shipping address and order details, but no credit card information, to us via unencrypted email.  Paypal does not share your credit card information with us; any payments to us through Paypal are negotiated between yourself and Paypal, and the funds are put into our Paypal account.

If you have any doubts or concerns re the privacy of your information as provided to Paypal, or the differences between US and Canadian privacy regulations, please do not use the shopping cart but instead use phone or fax ordering.  If you have any questions about our privacy policies or the information we retain, please contact us by phone.