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PRIVACY POLICY

Our Commitment to Your Privacy:

• All personal information is kept under lock and key with restricted access. If your personal information is kept electronically, it is password protected with only those who “need to know” having access to such password.

Western Canada IC Bus Inc. and its subsidiary companies are committed to respecting the privacy of your personal information. This Privacy commitment describes our policy and practices and how we will collect, use and disclose the personal information of our customers and employees.

What is Personal Information?

• Personal information means information about an identifiable individual. Personal information does not include business contact information (such as an individual’s name, title, business, address, business phone number and fax number) when such information is collected, used or disclosed for the purpose of business communications.

What Personal Information Do We Collect from Our Customers?

We collect and maintain different types of personal information about our customers and employees, including:

• Contact and identification information, such as names, telephone numbers, email addresses
• Product and service related information concerning the products and services that we provide to you, including information with respect to service, maintenance and repair of such products
• Credit and financial information such as your credit history, payment methods and preferences
• Customer relationship information such as customer service requests, feedback and information requested pr provided by or from you

Why Do We Collect Personal Information?

When you first become a customer or client or whenever you acquire or purchase a product from us, we need to collect some of your personal information. Common purposes for which we collect your personal information are to:

• Enables us to acquire for you or set up reasonable lines of credit
• Assist you and assess your on going needs for parts, service, lease or new vehicles
• Ensure your information is accurate and up-to-date
• Protect us both against error and or fraud

Who Do We Disclose Your Personal Information To?

For many purposes we will need to share you personal information with others in order to serve your needs. These other parties commonly are:

• Credit organizations, or Credit reporting agencies
• Professionals working with us such as Insurance companies, lawyers and adjusters
• Financial institutions

How Do We Protect Your Personal Information?

In order for us to protect your personal information and right to privacy we will:

• Not collect, use or disclose your personal information for any purpose other than those that we identify to you
• Keep your personal information only for as long as we need it to fulfill the stated purpose or as required by law
• Maintain your personal information in as accurate, complete and up-to-date a form as possible
• Safeguard your personal information to the best of our ability
• Respond to any request you may make to access or correct the personal information we hold about you

Implied Consent and Express Consent:

Implied consent is when you provide personal information for a product or service. For example, you may provide us with your came, address and phone number in order for us to provide you with our service. * Express Consent is when you provide information to us in writing.

You Can Control Your Personal Information:

We may obtain your express consent or we may determine that consent has been implied by the circumstances.

• We might ask you for your express consent in writing, for example in a signed consent or application form
• We may ask for you express consent in person or over the telephone
• We may determine that by seeking our products or services, your consent has been implied for us to deal with your personal information in a reasonable manner

There are also legal exceptions in which we will not need to obtain your consent or explain the purposes for the collection, use or disclosure of you personal information, for example, this could apply when there is an emergency situation, or if is necessary for your protection or ours.

You can control how we handle your personal information, you do have a choice it the matter. You could refuse to allow us to obtain, use or share your personal or you could also withdraw a previously given consent at any time.

However by doing that, depending on the situation, you may be limiting or even preventing our ability to provide you with the product or service you desire.

For example, if you do not allow us to obtain information about your credit, it is unlikely we will be able to provide you with credit terms.

Employee Privacy Policy:

Reasonable Collection and use of Personal Information:

• Western Canada IC Bus Inc and its subsidiary companies will collect from its employees and use only such personal information as is reasonably necessary for the identified purpose that will be stated (either orally or in writing) at or prior to the time of collection or the personal information.

Type of Personal Information Collected:

• We confirm that at this point in time, we have collected and will continue to collect personal information on our employees relating to, among other things: their past endeavors as relayed to us in the employee’s resume or as disclosed to us by the employee’s references or in the employee’s initial interview(s), results of any testing, bank account information, job performance, salary, dependants and health benefit information.

Use, Retention and Disclosure of Personal Information:

• The use and disclosure of any personal information will be limited to the purpose for which it was collected. If information is to be used or disclosed for a new purpose, consent for the new purpose will be obtained orally or in writing from you the employee. We will retain your (the employee) during the course of your employment with Western Canada IC Bus Inc and/or one of its subsidiary companies, and for a minimum of 7 years thereafter in accordance with federal and provincial legislation. Western Canada IC Bus Inc and /or one of its subsidiary companies reserves the right to determine exactly when to destroy the personal information after the 7 year period, but the personal information when destroyed will be destroyed in such a fashion so as to minimize the risk of its disclosure to any unauthorized person.

• Any employee’s personal information will be provided to the department managers, and such other persons within in Western Canada IC Bus Inc and/or one of its subsidiary companies that in our opinion are required to have the personal information in order to carry out the purpose for which it was collected.

• We will provide your (the employee) personal information to any benefit provider to provide the benefits to the employee.

Oversight or Changes:

• Each employee’s personal information will be either password protected if kept electronically or kept under lock and key if retained in a paper format.

Contact Pat Croutch to update or change employee information @ 403-348-2271.

Western Canada IC Bus Inc.

Interpretation of this Privacy Policy:

This Privacy Policy includes examples but is not intended to be restricted in its application to such examples.

            This policy is not intended to modify current policies and practices or to create new rights or obligations not contained within such policies. This Privacy Policy only applies in respect of those activities that are subject to the provisions of Canada’s federal and provincial privacy laws, as applicable.

Internet and Site Usage:

            Every computer connected to the internet is given a domain name and an IP (Internet Protocol) address, containing a set of numbers. This information reveals nothing personal about the visitor. When a visitor requests a page from within our web site, our web server automatically recognizes that computers IP address and domain name. Such data is used to help determine general usage patters and fine tune layout patterns to ensure our site is as “User Friendly” as possible. This information is not collected or evaluated for individuals and our web servers do not automatically record e-mail addresses.

Gate Keeper

The Gatekeeper of personal information for Western Canada IC Bus Inc and its subsidiary companies is:

PAT CROUTCH

She can be contacted at phone: 403-348-2271

Or by fax: 403-309-7046

Or by mail at: 6784-65^th Avenue, Red Deer, AB. T4P 1A5

Or by e-mail at: Pat.croutch@glover-ace.com

You can review your personal information on reasonable notice, during regular business hours by making that request of the gatekeeper. You have the right to request a correction be made to your personal information. A person in upper management with Western Canada IC Bus Inc will determine whether that correction should be made or how it should be dealt with within 30 days of the request for correction having been made to the gatekeeper.

Unsolicited or Solicited Resumes

            Western Canada IC Bus Inc and/or its subsidiary companies make no commitment to keep your resume or any related personal information provided to the company for any period of time. Western Canada IC Bus Inc however reserves the right to keep your resume and personal information provided to the company for a maximum period of 10 years.

            Your resume and related personal information will be provided to any member of the company that may benefit from reviewing the same.

            We will not disclose the content of your resume and personal information to any third party unless you have consented either orally or in writing to the same.

            Your resume and related personal information will be either password protected if kept electronically or kept under lock and key if provided in paper format.

Your resume and personal information when destroyed will be destroyed in a manner that will minimize the risk of disclosure of the personal information to any unauthorized person.