Privacy Policy
How VanStro collects, uses, shares, protects and retains personal information under Canadian privacy law.

1. Our Commitment
VanStro Global Supply Inc. ("VanStro", "we", "our") is committed to protecting your personal information in accordance with the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), Québec's Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector, as amended by the Act to modernize legislative provisions as regards the protection of personal information (Law 25), and other applicable Canadian privacy laws. This Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, with whom we share it, and the rights you have.
An "independent local dealer" is an independently owned and operated dealer participating in the VanStro network. After this definition, we use "local dealer."
2. Privacy Officer
Our Privacy Officer is responsible for compliance with this Policy. You may contact the Privacy Officer at support@vanstro.ca or by mail at 856 Century Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3H 0M5.
Important: privacy rights requests and consent withdrawal should be directed to the Privacy Officer at support@vanstro.ca.3. Information We Collect
We collect personal information that you provide directly and information generated automatically as you interact with the Website:
- Identification and contact information: name, email address, telephone number, mailing address, company name, and role.
- Transactional information: products and services you inquire about, quotations issued, orders placed, payment status, and delivery records.
- Technical information: IP address, browser type, device identifiers, operating system, referring URL, pages visited, and timestamps.
- Communication records: messages you send to us, customer service tickets, and meeting notes.
- Marketing information: subscription preferences, event registrations, and survey responses, where you provide them.
- Applicant information: information submitted for employment or other opportunities, such as your resume or curriculum vitae, employment and education history, qualifications, profile summary, position and work-type preferences, expected salary, availability, location, work authorization, references, portfolio links, and interview or assessment notes. Please do not provide sensitive personal information that we have not requested.
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4. Purposes of Use
We use personal information for the following purposes:
- Responding to inquiries, preparing quotations, fulfilling orders, and providing customer service.
- Managing dealer and supplier relationships, including credit and onboarding processes.
- Receiving and evaluating applications, verifying qualifications and references where permitted, communicating with applicants, arranging interviews or assessments, making recruitment or engagement decisions, and keeping records for legal, administrative, and future-opportunity purposes where permitted.
- Improving the Website, our products, and our services through analytics and research.
- Complying with legal obligations and protecting our legal rights and the safety of others.
- Sending marketing communications about products, promotions, and events, where you have consented to receive them.
5. Legal Basis and Consent
We collect, use, and disclose personal information only with your knowledge and consent, except where authorized or required by law. Consent may be express or implied depending on the sensitivity of the information. You may withdraw consent at any time, subject to legal or contractual restrictions and reasonable notice, by contacting our Privacy Officer.
6. Disclosure to Third Parties
We disclose personal information only as necessary to fulfill the purposes set out above, to the following categories of recipients:
- Service providers retained to perform functions on our behalf, such as payment processing, shipping and logistics, IT hosting, design software, customer relationship management, recruitment administration and applicant assessment, under contractual obligations of confidentiality and data protection.
- With your consent or where otherwise permitted by law, the local dealer selected for your order, to the extent reasonably necessary to arrange fulfillment, pickup, delivery, returns or post-sale assistance.
- If you separately request installation or another dealer service, an installer or other service provider when the disclosure is necessary for the service you requested or is otherwise permitted by law.
- Government authorities, regulators, or law enforcement, where required by law or to protect our legal rights.
- Successors in connection with a corporate transaction, such as a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, subject to confidentiality protections.
Forms identify whether information is submitted to VanStro, to a local dealer or to both before you submit it.
7. Cross-Border Transfers
Some service providers or other recipients we use may process personal information outside Canada. When personal information is transferred outside Canada, it may be accessed by foreign courts, law enforcement, and national security authorities under the laws of the receiving country. We use contractual safeguards and security measures designed to protect personal information. Contact the Privacy Officer for information about the processing of personal information outside Canada.
8. Retention
We retain personal information only as long as necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, to fulfill our legal and contractual obligations, and to resolve disputes. Applicant records are retained for the recruitment or engagement process and, if disclosed at or before collection, for a defined period to consider the applicant for future opportunities, subject to legal requirements. The applicable period or criteria will be communicated at or before collection. When no longer required, personal information is securely destroyed or deleted, or anonymized where permitted by applicable law and for a serious and legitimate purpose, in accordance with our retention schedule.
9. Safeguards
We maintain physical, organizational, and technical safeguards appropriate to the sensitivity of personal information, including access controls, encryption in transit, secure storage, staff confidentiality undertakings, and regular security reviews. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure; we cannot guarantee absolute security.
10. Your Rights
Subject to applicable law and its exceptions, you may have the following rights with respect to your personal information:
- Access: request confirmation that we hold personal information about you, obtain access to it and, where required, receive information about its use and disclosure.
- Correction: request correction of inaccurate, incomplete or equivocal personal information.
- Withdrawal of consent: withdraw consent to the collection, use, or disclosure of your information, subject to legal or contractual restrictions and reasonable notice; withdrawal may affect our ability to provide a requested product, service or opportunity.
- De-indexation or cessation of dissemination: where Québec law applies and its statutory conditions are met, request that dissemination of personal information cease or that a hyperlink providing access to it be de-indexed or re-indexed.
- Deletion: ask us to delete personal information. This is not an absolute right; we may decline or limit the request where retention or processing remains permitted or required by law, including for legal, contractual, security, recordkeeping or dispute-management purposes.
- Portability: where Québec law applies, request computerized personal information collected from you in a structured, commonly used technological format. This right is subject to the statutory conditions and exceptions, including that disclosure must not raise serious practical difficulties and must not disclose personal information created or inferred from information about you.
- Automated decisions: if a decision based exclusively on automated processing is made about you, receive notice and, on request, information required by applicable Québec law, submit observations and request review by a person able to review the decision.
- Complaint: file a complaint with our Privacy Officer. You may also contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada or the applicable provincial regulator. In Québec, the regulator is the Commission d’accès à l’information du Québec (CAI).
To exercise these rights, contact our Privacy Officer. We will respond within the period required by applicable law. For an access or correction request governed by Québec law, the general response period is 30 days after receipt, subject to any lawful extension. We may need to verify your identity and may request information reasonably necessary to process the request.
Important: VanStro will respond within 30 days after receiving a valid request, subject to identity verification.11. Children's Privacy
The Website is not directed to children under the age of majority in their province or territory of residence. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, please contact our Privacy Officer and we will take appropriate steps.
12. Automated Decision-Making
We do not currently make decisions about you based exclusively on automated processing of personal information. If we introduce such a process, we will provide notice no later than when we inform you of the decision and, on request, provide the information required by applicable law, including the personal information used, the principal factors and parameters that led to the decision, and the right to have the personal information used corrected. Where Québec law applies, you may submit observations to a member of our personnel who is in a position to review the decision.
13. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Policy from time to time. The updated Policy will be posted on the Website with a revised Effective Date. We encourage you to review this Policy periodically.
Contact Us
Questions about this page or any of our legal terms may be directed to: VanStro Global Supply Inc. 856 Century Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3H 0M5, Canada Email: support@vanstro.ca Phone: 1-855-VANSTRO (1-855-826-7876) Website: vanstro.ca
