24 Hours Notice Required for In-Car Cancellations
If for any reason a student cancels or is a No-Show for a scheduled In-Vehicle lesson, that lesson will be forfeited. Additional lessons can be purchased.
This applies to a lesson canceled or a no-show with less than 24 hours’ notice given directly to your Driving Instructor. This fee is at the discretion of Halton Hills Driving School Management.
Privacy Notice
This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices of Halton Hills Driving School. This privacy notice applies solely to information collected by this website, haltonhillsdrivingschool.com. It will notify you of the following:
- What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the website, how it is used, and with whom it may be shared.
- What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.
- The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.
- How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.
Student Responsibility: Students do not hold the school responsible for taking any additional services from an instructor by directly contacting the instructor where services are not paid to the school.
Instructor Dismissal: The school reserves the right to dismiss an instructor without any disclosure due to privacy reasons.
Service Refusal: The school reserves the right to refuse services due to student misconduct (i.e., abusive language, cultural or race bias, assault – verbal or physical).
Information Collection, Use, and Sharing
We only have access to student information that is voluntarily given to us via email or other direct contact from you. This information is collected under MTO guidelines as required under Ontario Highway Traffic Act regulation 473/07.
Students consent to the release of any information provided to the school as required by the Ministry of Transportation, Insurance Bureau of Canada, and M.T.O course inspector.
Student information, including Driver’s License number, address, and phone number, will be provided to the Driving Instructor for the purpose of teaching.
We will not contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy unless you have given us exclusive consent via email.
Your Access to and Control Over Information
We collect your information for the sole purpose of driver education. Your data is retained for driver education, certification, and audit purposes. We can only change this data upon your or your guardian’s request when this request is sent to us by email.
Security
We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline. Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a closed lock icon at the bottom of your web browser, or by looking for “https” at the beginning of the address of the web page.
While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment. No credit card information is stored on any of our computers.
Interpretation and Definitions
Interpretation: The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or plural.
Definitions: For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:
- Account: A unique account created for you to access our Service or parts of our Service.
- Affiliate: An entity that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with a party, where “control” means ownership of 50% or more of the shares, equity interest, or other securities entitled to vote for election of directors or other managing authority.
- Application: Refers to Halton Hills Driving School, the software program provided by the Company.
- Company (referred to as either “the Company”, “We”, “Us” or “Our” in this Agreement): Refers to Halton Hills Driving School.
- Cookies: Small files placed on your computer, mobile device, or any other device by a website, containing the details of your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
- Country: Refers to Ontario, Canada.
- Device: Any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone, or a digital tablet.
- Personal Data: Any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
- Service: Refers to the Application or the Website or both.
- Service Provider: Any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service, or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used.
- Usage Data: Data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
- Website: Refers to Halton Hills Driving School, accessible from https://haltonhillsdrivingschool.com.
- You: The individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.
Collecting and Using Your Personal Data
Types of Data Collected:
- Personal Data: While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
- Email address
- First name and last name
- Phone number
- Usage Data
Usage Data: Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.
Usage Data may include information such as your Device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g., IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.
When you access the Service by or through a mobile device, we may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser you use, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.
We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Service or when you access the Service by or through a mobile device.
Information Collected while Using the Application:
While using our Application, in order to provide features of our Application, we may collect, with your prior permission:
- Information regarding your location
- Pictures and other information from your Device’s camera and photo library
We use this information to provide features of our Service, to improve and customize our Service. The information may be uploaded to the Company’s servers and/or a Service Provider’s server, or it may be simply stored on your device.
You can enable or disable access to this information at any time, through your Device settings.
Tracking Technologies and Cookies
We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service. The technologies we use may include:
- Cookies or Browser Cookies: A cookie is a small file placed on your Device. You can instruct your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept Cookies, you may not be able to use some parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our Service may use Cookies.
- Web Beacons: Certain sections of our Service 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 a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).
Cookies can be “Persistent” or “Session” Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser.
We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:
- Necessary / Essential Cookies: These Cookies are essential to provide you with services available through the Website and to enable you to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that you have asked for cannot be provided, and we only use these Cookies to provide you with those services.
- Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.
- Functionality Cookies: These Cookies allow us to remember choices you make when you use the Website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience and to avoid you having to re-enter your preferences every time you use the Website.
For more information about the cookies we use and your choices regarding cookies, please visit our Cookies Policy or the Cookies section of our Privacy Policy.
Use of Your Personal Data
The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:
- To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.
- To manage Your Account: To manage your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Data you provide can give you access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to you as a registered user.
- For the performance of a contract: The development, compliance, and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items, or services you have purchased or of any other contract with us through the Service.
- To contact you: To contact you by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application’s push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products, or contracted services, including security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
- For Marketing and Promotional Purposes: With your consent, we may use your personal data to inform you about new services, offers, promotions, and other news related to Halton Hills Driving School. You can opt out of receiving such communications at any time.
- To Comply with Legal Obligations: We may use your information to comply with applicable laws, regulations, or legal processes, including responding to court orders or regulatory requests.
- For Security and Fraud Prevention: We use your information to protect the security of our services, prevent fraud, monitor for suspicious activity, and enforce our terms and conditions.
- For Other Purposes with Your Consent: We may use your data for additional purposes if you have provided your explicit consent.
Retention of Your Personal Data
We will retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy. The retention period is determined based on the following criteria:
- The duration of your relationship with us: We keep your personal data while you have an active account with us or continue to use our services.
- Legal requirements: We retain your data as required to comply with applicable laws, regulations, or legal obligations, including data retention laws related to financial transactions, tax purposes, or legal claims.
- Business needs: We may retain data to protect our legal rights, prevent fraud, or enforce our terms and conditions.
Once the retention period expires, we will securely delete or anonymize your personal data. If this is not possible, for example, if your personal data has been stored in backup archives, then we will securely store your personal data and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.
Data Security
We take the security of your personal data seriously and have implemented appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your information from unauthorized access, loss, or misuse. These measures include encryption, access controls, and regular security assessments. However, please note that no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
Third-Party Links
Our website may contain links to third-party websites or services that are not operated by us. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of these third-party websites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party sites you visit.
Children’s Privacy
Our services are not intended for individuals under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 16. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from a child under 16, we will take steps to delete the information as soon as possible.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any significant changes by posting the new policy on our website and updating the “Effective Date” at the top of this page. Your continued use of our services after the changes take effect will constitute your acceptance of the updated policy.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or how we handle your personal data, please contact us at:
Email: info@haltonhillsdrivingschool.com
Phone: 905-703-1424
Address: 294 Queen St East, Unit #203 Acton, ON L7J 1P9
Office Hours:
Monday – Friday 8 AM – 6 PM
Saturday 9 AM – 6 PM
Sunday 9 AM – 4:30 PM
