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