Application of Policy

This policy outlines how we manage your Personal Information and safeguard your privacy when you visit or use the website and social media pages (collectively, the “Site”) of Platinum Group. “Platinum Group”, “we”, “us” and “our” refer to Platinum Group Metals Ltd. and its subsidiaries.

Platinum Group recognizes the importance of privacy and the sensitivity of Personal Information. Platinum Group believes in protecting your privacy. If you have any concerns, please contact us at the address at the end of this policy.

This policy does not apply to the practices of companies or other entities that Platinum Group does not manage or control. This policy does not apply to information regarding corporations or other non-individuals.

Definitions

The following definitions are used for the purposes of this policy:

Contact Information” is information that is used for the purpose of communicating or facilitating communication with an individual in relation to their employment, business or profession such as the individual’s name, position name or title, work address, work telephone number, work fax number or work email address.

Personal Information” means information about an identifiable individual, excluding Contact Information.

Summarized Data” mean records which have been stripped of information potentially identifying individuals, and which have been manipulated or combined to provide generalized, anonymous information.

Collection of Personal Information

Please remember that you control what Personal Information you provide to Platinum Group while visiting the Site. You can visit the Site without submitting any Personal Information at all.

You may voluntarily provide us with Personal Information through the Site:

  • If you subscribe to our alerts or corporate news;

  • If you submit requests for information to us;

  • If you use the discussion forums and interactive areas of our Site’s social media pages, such as by making postings or contact with other users;

  • If you choose to correspond with us through the contact information on the Site, such as by phone or email.

The Personal Information you provide us may include your:

  • personal name;

  • personal contact information, including email, home address, and telephone numbers;

  • other information related to the subject matter you are communicating with us about;

  • other information you choose to share on the discussion forums and interactive areas of our Site’s social media pages.

Use of Personal Information

Platinum Group may use the Personal Information you provide to us for the following purposes:

  • to send you the alerts and corporate news you subscribed to;

  • to respond to your requests for information;

  • to contact and correspond with you;

  • for you to participate in discussion forums and interactive areas of our Site;

  • subject to compliance with applicable law, to contact you from time to time to inform you about Platinum Group’s current or future development projects, properties, products, or services, other parties’ projects, products and services that we believe will be of interest to you, or to conduct surveys;

  • to administer or improve our Site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, and statistical purposes;

  • as may be otherwise described to you when the information is collected;

  • as required or permitted by law.

Disclosure of Personal Information

We may share your Personal Information with other members of the Platinum Group group of companies.

Platinum Group may disclose your Personal Information in the following circumstances:

  • when you have consented to the disclosure;

  • to fulfill the purpose for which the Personal Information was collected;

  • when your interaction with us requires us to give information to third parties;

  • if we engage a third party to provide services to us (like data processing or storage services) and the third party is bound by confidentiality obligations;

  • in the event that we sell or buy any business or assets or propose to enter into such a transaction, in which case we may disclose your Personal Information to the seller or buyer of such business or assets or for due diligence purposes, as permitted by law;

  • in order to cooperate with legitimate governmental requests, subpoenas or court orders, or in order to enforce or apply our Site terms of use, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Platinum Group, our Site users, or others;

  • as required or permitted by law.

Consent

By providing Personal Information to us you voluntarily consent to the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information as specified in this policy. Without limiting the foregoing, we may on occasion ask you to consent when we collect, use, or disclose your Personal Information in specific circumstances, in which case we may ask for your consent in writing although in some circumstances we may accept your oral consent. Your consent may be implied through your conduct with us if the purpose of the collection, use or disclosure is obvious and you voluntarily provide the information. In addition, we may collect, use and disclose Personal Information without your consent when we are required or permitted by law to do so.

Withdrawal of Consent

Individuals have the right to withdraw their consent to the collection, use, or disclosure of Personal Information at any time, except where that withdrawal would frustrate the performance of a legal obligation by Platinum Group. Upon reasonable written notice given to Platinum Group, all Personal Information held by Platinum Group that is identifiable to that individual will be removed from our records and a notice of the impact of that removal will be provided to the individual. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if you withdraw consent Platinum Group nonetheless reserves the right to retain, collect, use and disclose Personal Information without your consent where we are permitted by law to do so.

Opting-Out

You may wish to opt-out of receiving certain alerts, corporate news, or information and materials from Platinum Group. You may do so by using the unsubscribe link or other mechanism in the email or other electronic mechanism sent to you or by contacting us at the address at the end of this policy.

Site Collection of Data

Like most other commercial websites, our Site may automatically collect the following information:

  • technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform;

  • information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time); pages 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), and methods used to browse away from the page.

Cookies, Tracking Technologies, Online Interest Based Advertising

The Site uses cookies and other technologies that are similar to cookies. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we (or a third party) may set on your device to store and sometimes track information about you and your use of the Site. Similarly, we, our third-party service providers, or advertisers may use “web beacons,” “pixel tags” or other tracking technologies designed for analytic purposes. To learn more about cookies and similar technologies, and how they can affect your privacy, visit allaboutcookies.org.

First party cookies are cookies set by the website you are visiting. Only that website can read them. In addition, a website may use third party services, which also set their own cookies, known as third party cookies. Persistent cookies are cookies saved on your computer and that are not deleted automatically when you quit your browser, unlike a session cookie, which is deleted when you quit your browser. For information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them see our Cookie Policy .

Cookies and other technologies allow us to distinguish you from other users of the Site and help to provide you with a personalized experience when you use the Site as well as to improve the Site. We may also use third party cookies and other tracking technologies from our third party service providers to monitor and manage your use of the Site, and to help analyze the use of the Site and the effectiveness of our advertisements.

Third party cookies and other tracking technologies from our third party service providers may also be used to track across time, sites, and devices. For example, these technologies can be used to analyze your online traffic patterns, to store information during your session, to target advertising or content to you, and to collect information about you and your usage of our Site for other marketing and business purposes. Data about your activities online may be collected for use in providing advertising tailored to your individual interests, either by us, or third parties. We may work with third parties such as network advertisers and ad exchanges to serve advertisements across the internet and may use third party analytics service providers to evaluate and provide us and/or third parties with information about the use of these ads on third party websites and viewing of ads and of our content.

We use the third party service Google Analytics. To learn more about how Google Analytics collects and processes data, see: Google's Privacy & Terms at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites and Safeguarding your data at https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245. You can opt out of Google Analytics by using the Google Analytics opt out browser add on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. To learn more about how to opt out of Google’s advertising services, visit Google’s Ads Settings at https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated

We use the third party service Facebook Pixel to use cookies, web beacons, and other storage technologies to collect or receive information from the Site and elsewhere on the Internet and use that information to provide measurement services and target ads.

You can adjust your privacy preferences regarding the use of cookies and similar technologies through your browser. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, you can turn off cookies using your browser’s settings menu; however, this may eliminate our ability to provide a personalized or user-friendly experience. Please note that disabling cookies may impair your user experience and disable certain features of the Site.

If you wish to take steps to opt-out of tracking by certain online advertisers, you can visit the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page at https://www.aboutads.info/choices or the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page at www.networkadvertising. org/optout_nonppii.asp

Linked Websites

Our Site may contain links to other websites, which are not governed by this policy. You should read the individual privacy policies of these other websites, and make an informed decision whether or not to use these other websites based upon their privacy practices.

Access to and Correction of Personal Information

Individuals have the right to know what Personal Information Platinum Group has collected about them, how that information is being used and to whom it has been disclosed, as well as to verify and amend that information if it is incorrect. Upon receiving a written access and/or correction request, and where the identity of the requestor can be confirmed, information held by Platinum Group that is identifiable to the requestor, as well as information on all use and disclosures of that information, will be released to the requestor within the legally prescribed period, except where that release is not required or is prohibited by law, and if necessary Platinum Group will correct the Personal Information of the requestor. If we deny your request for access to, or refuse a request to correct Personal Information, we will explain why.

Jurisdiction

Platinum Group is based in British Columbia, Canada and the information (including any Personal Information) we collect is maintained and processed in Canada and other countries where our servers and third party service providers may be located or operate. You understand and agree that we may store and process the information you provide to us in Canada and other countries. As a result, this information may be subject to access requests from governments, courts, or law enforcement in Canada and foreign countries according to their laws.

Is My Personal Information Secure?

Platinum Group uses reasonable industry measures to protect against the unauthorized access, disclosure, modification or destruction of Personal Information we collect. While we are committed to ensuring the security of Personal Information, no protection measure can provide a 100% guarantee of security. Consequently, we do not warrant or guarantee the security of the Personal Information or of any email communications or information sent by you to us. If you wish to send us confidential information, please notify us first to make arrangements.

Retention of Personal Information

Personal Information will be retained in accordance with this policy for as long as may be necessary or relevant for the identified purpose of collection, or as may be required or permitted by law, after which time it will be made anonymous or destroyed unless you further consent to its continued retention.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may change this policy from time to time and such changes will be effective from the date of revision.

Need More Information?

Should you have any further questions or concerns about the privacy of information you provide to Platinum Group or this policy, including our use of affiliates or third party service providers outside Canada to process personal information, please feel free to contact any of the following people:

 

Platinum Group Metals Ltd.
Suite 838, 1100 Melville Street
Vancouver, BC, V6E 4A6, Canada
info@platinumgroupmetals.net
1-866-899-5450