Legal Statement and Privacy Policy

Copyright and Trademarks and Patents

Unless otherwise noted, product names, designs, logos, titles, text, images, animations, color combinations, button shapes, layout, audio, video, and HTML code within this web site are the trademarks, service marks, trade names, copyrights or other property of Guide Outfitters Association of British Columbia Copyright 2006. Guide Outfitters Association of British Columbia ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. All other unregistered and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Nothing contained on this web site should be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, any license or right to distribute, modify, transmit, use, reuse, or re-post any of Guide Outfitters Association of British Columbia Intellectual Property displayed on this web site without the express written permission of Guide Outfitters Association of British Columbia.

No Warranties and Limits of Liabilities

Information and documents provided on this web site are provided “as is” without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including without limitation warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and noninfringement. Guide Outfitters Association of British Columbia uses reasonable efforts to include accurate and up-to-date information on this web site; it does not, however, make any warranties or representations as to its accuracy or completeness. Guide Outfitters Association of British Columbia periodically adds, changes, improves, or updates the information and documents on this web site without notice. Guide Outfitters Association of British Columbia assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in the content of this web site. Your use of this web site is at your own risk. Under no circumstances and under no legal theory shall Guide Outfitters Association of British Columbia, its suppliers, or any other party involved in creating, producing, or delivering this web site’s contents be liable to you or any other person for any indirect, direct, special, incidental, or consequential damages arising from your access to, or use of, this web site.

Communications With This Web Site

You are encouraged to communicate with this site where applicable. You are prohibited from transmitting any unlawful, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, pornographic, or profane material or any material that could constitute or encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any law. Guide Outfitters Association of British Columbia will fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing Guide Outfitters Association of British Columbia to disclose the identity of or help identify or locate anyone transmitting any such information or materials. Although Guide Outfitters Association of British Columbia is under no obligation to do so and assumes no responsibility or liability arising from the content of any such locations nor for any error, defamation, libel, slander, omission, falsehood, obscenity, pornography, profanity, danger, or inaccuracy contained in any information within such locations on this web site. Guide Outfitters Association of British Columbia assumes no responsibility or liability for any actions or communications by you or any unrelated third party within or outside of this web site. Guide Outfitters Association of British Columbia reserves the right to modify or remove any and all information posted to its web sites.

Privacy Policy

In accordance with the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, the Guide Outfitters Association of BC (GOABC) has established operational procedures to safeguard their collection of personal information.

Authority

GOABC has the legal authority to collect this information under Part 3, Section 6 of the Act which states, “No personal information may be collected by or for a public body unless… that information relates directly to and is necessary for an operating program or activity of the public body.”

Purposes

GOABC collects personal information for the purpose of fulfilling its mission statement of “preserving a strong and stable guide outfitting industry.”

• Providing liability insurance.
• Providing coverage to members with the GOABC indemnity bond.
• Providing marketing assistance through Mountain Hunter™ magazine, Mountain Hunter™ Record Book & Achievement Awards, the Auction Profile/Directory, the online directory.
• Liaising with government on the behalf of members.
• Communicating with the media on issues related to hunting and wildlife management.
• Issuing and monitoring a Hunting Guide Certification Program.

Authorized Contact Person

The authorized contact person for GOABC’s Privacy Policy is:

Scott Ellis, Executive Director
Guide Outfitters Association of BC
Suite 103, 19140 – 28th Avenue
Surrey, BC, V3Z 6M3

Storage & Retention

Hard-copy information is stored at GOABC’s office in Surrey, which is alarm protected. Computers are password protected. The server back-up hard drives are switched weekly. The one hard drive is stored off site.

Information is kept at the discretion of the Executive Director. Documents that are judged to be of a sensitive nature are destroyed in-house or destroyed by Iron Mountain (document destruction company).