Privacy Policy
Last Updated: October 28, 2026.
Privacy Policy
Introduction
Your privacy is important to Westmill Industries Ltd. (“Westmill”, “we”, “us” or “our”). This Privacy Policy explains how Westmill collects, uses, discloses and retains personal information in connection with our business activities, including through our website, marketing activities, and other communications.
Table of Contents
- Application
- Your Consent
- Personal Information
- How Westmill Collects Personal Information
- How Westmill Uses Personal Information
- How Westmill Discloses Personal Information
- Your Right to Withdraw Consent
- Location of Personal Information
- Protection of Personal Information
- Accuracy and Access to Personal Information
- Retention of Personal Information
- Non-Personal Information
- Other Websites and Businesses
- Social Media
- Other Matters
- Contacting Westmill
1. Application
This Privacy Policy applies if you are an individual client (not an organization) who uses our services, a user who visits our website, a job applicant who applies for a career opportunity with us or an individual who otherwise interacts with us.
In some cases, at the time of collection of your personal information, we may provide you with additional information regarding the processing of your personal information.
2. Your Consent
By providing Westmill with personal information, you consent to the collection, use, disclosure and retention of that information by Westmill in accordance with this Privacy Policy and as otherwise permitted by applicable law.
You may withdraw your consent at any time, subject to legal or contractual restrictions and on reasonable notice to Westmill, but then you might not be able to proceed with your intended interactions or transactions with Westmill or otherwise receive the full benefit of Westmill’s services. Please refer to Section 7 of this Privacy Policy to learn about your options for withdrawing your consent.
3. Personal Information
In this Privacy Policy, “personal information” means information about an identifiable individual (a natural person), but does not include (to the extent permitted by applicable law) information that is publicly available in a telephone directory, business contact information that enables an individual to be contacted at a place of business, and other kinds of information that are not subject to regulation by personal information protection or privacy laws.
4. How Westmill Collects Personal Information
(a) Information You Provide
You may be asked to voluntarily give your personal information to Westmill when you interact with Westmill, including when you subscribe to receive marketing communications or request information from us.
For example, Westmill may collect:
- contact information, communications preferences and correspondence between us;
- contact information, employment information (such as education and employment history) and government-issued identification (such as driver’s license information) when you apply for an employment opportunity with Westmill; and
- optional information you provide when you make an inquiry or contact us.
In those circumstances, you can choose not to provide certain requested personal information, but then you may not be able to receive the full benefit of Westmill’s services.
(b) Automated Collection
Westmill may use technologies to automatically collect certain information regarding your use of the Westmill website, such as the dates and times that you access a Westmill website, general geographic location, the browsers, operating systems, software, devices and networks that you use to access the website and details of your use of the website.
Westmill’s website, email messages, and advertisements may also use technologies (e.g. cookies, web beacons, tokens, pixels or tags) to automatically collect information that assists Westmill to improve its services, customer communications and advertising, and to prevent fraud.
Some of the information automatically collected by technological means is non-personal information (because the information does not identify you), and Westmill will deal with that non-personal information as explained below in this Privacy Policy unless applicable law requires otherwise.
(c) Information from Other Sources
Westmill may collect personal information from various third party sources (including providers that perform background checks on job applicants) and from publicly available sources (including criminal and educational history, and database service providers).
5. How Westmill Uses Personal Information
(a) General
Westmill may use personal information for various purposes in connection with its relationship and transactions with you and as otherwise set out in this Privacy Policy or permitted by applicable law, including:
- to provide services, including to identify and locate you;
- to contact and correspond with you regarding your transactions and your use of Westmill’s website;
- to facilitate your interactions and transactions with Westmill;
- to process and respond to your inquiries, requests and other communications (including to process your job application);
- to provide you with information (including by email) regarding Westmill and its services;
- to maintain, protect and improve Westmill’s website and services and to develop new websites, and services;
- to develop, deliver and improve Westmill’s advertising and marketing; and
- to protect and enforce Westmill’s legal rights, interests and remedies and to protect the business, operations and customers of Westmill or other persons.
Westmill may transfer your personal information to its service providers to assist Westmill in the provision of its website and services to you, to provide services to Westmill and to assist Westmill to use your personal information (e.g. document retrieval or search assistance, analytic services, email delivery, payment processing and data hosting) as set out in this Privacy Policy and as otherwise permitted by applicable law.
Westmill may combine your personal information collected by Westmill through various sources.
Westmill may use your personal information to create non-personal information, and Westmill may then use, disclose, transfer and retain the non-personal information as set out below in this Privacy Policy.
(b) Information Collected by Technological Means
Westmill may use information collected by technological means to recognize you as a user of Westmill’s website, to facilitate and improve your use of Westmill’s website, to confirm that messages have been delivered to and opened by you and to provide you with targeted advertisements. Westmill may use web beacons, pixels or gif tags and action tags to confirm that email messages have been delivered and opened. You may opt out of receiving emails or other commercial electronic messages in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Information provided by cookies may be collected and processed by Westmill or by its third party service providers, including Google.
You may choose to decline or disable cookies if your web browser or device permits, but doing so may affect your ability to access or use certain features of a website. Information about how Google uses cookies and how you can limit or disable certain kinds of cookies on your personal computer or mobile device is available here: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ and https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/.
(c) Interest-Based Advertising
Westmill may use interest-based advertising services (sometimes called “remarketing” or “retargeting”) provided by third party vendors (such as Google) to display advertisements on third party websites and social media sites visited by users of Westmill’s website. Advertising vendors (such as Google) use cookies, pixels or tokens – unique identifiers of a web browser on a specific computer that are installed on the computer when it accesses Westmill’s website – to display ads based on the computer’s past access to Westmill’s website. You can opt-out of Google’s use of cookies as indicated in section 4(b) of this Privacy Policy. You can also opt out of a remarketing vendor’s use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative’s consumer opt-out page (https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1).
6. How Westmill Discloses Personal Information
(a) General
Westmill discloses your personal information for purposes relating to or arising from your relationship and transactions with Westmill and as otherwise set out in this Privacy Policy or permitted by applicable law.
(b) Specific Consents
Westmill may disclose your personal information in accordance with express or implied consents that you give during your interactions and transactions with Westmill.
(c) Business Partners and Other Third Parties
In some circumstances, Westmill may share your personal information with other third parties. Westmill will only disclose your personal information to such third party, if Westmill has your consent to do so, if you have provided your consent to the third party, or if Westmill is legally required or permitted to do so. Westmill will not sell your personal information.
(d) Law Enforcement/Legal Disclosures
Westmill may disclose your personal information as required or authorized by applicable law, including to comply with a subpoena, warrant or court or arbitral order or litigation disclosure obligation. Westmill may disclose your personal information to law enforcement agencies or other independent organizations if Westmill reasonably believes the disclosure is necessary or appropriate in connection with national security, law enforcement or other issues of public importance, or if Westmill reasonably believes the disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect and enforce Westmill’s legal rights, interests and remedies or to protect the rights, interests, business, operations or customers of Westmill or other persons (including to detect and prevent fraud and other illegal activities, to enforce any of the terms of use, terms and conditions, or other agreements that govern access to or use of any of Westmill’s websites and services). The use, disclosure and retention of the disclosed information by those agencies, independent organizations or other persons is not subject to this Privacy Policy.
(e) Business Transactions
Westmill may disclose your personal information in connection with a proposed or actual business transaction in which Westmill is involved (e.g. a corporate amalgamation, reorganization, merger or acquisition, or the sale or transfer of some or all of Westmill’s business or assets), but Westmill will require the information recipient to agree to protect the privacy of your personal information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy and applicable law.
Westmill has no control over, or responsibility or liability for, the use, disclosure or retention of your personal information by the persons and organizations to whom Westmill discloses your personal information as set out above.
7. Your Right to Withdraw Consent
You may withdraw your consent to Westmill’s collection, use, disclosure and retention of your personal information as set out in this Privacy Policy at any time, subject to legal or contractual restrictions and reasonable notice. To withdraw your consent, you may contact us at the contact information set out at the end of this Privacy Policy.
If you withdraw your consent to the collection, use, disclosure and retention of your personal information for purposes that are integral to the provision of Westmill’s website and services, then you might not be able to proceed with your intended interactions or transactions with Westmill or otherwise receive the full benefit of Westmill’s website and services.
If you withdraw your consent to the collection, use, disclosure and retention of your personal information for additional purposes that are not integral to the provision of Westmill’s products and services (e.g., to send advertising and marketing messages to you) then withdrawing your consent for those purposes will not affect the provision of Westmill’s website and services.
8. Location of Personal Information
Westmill and its service providers may process, store and use your personal information at facilities in Canada, the United States and other countries. The personal information protection laws of those other countries might be different from the laws of the jurisdiction in which you reside, and might permit courts, government, law enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies and security authorities to access your personal information without notice. By providing your personal information to Westmill, you consent to the transfer of the personal information to facilities located in other countries and the processing and storage of the personal information at those facilities.
9. Protection of Personal Information
Westmill uses reasonable safeguards – including administrative, physical and technical security and safeguarding measures – appropriate to the sensitivity of the personal information in Westmill’s possession or under Westmill’s control to help protect the information from unauthorized access, collection, use, disclosure, deletion or similar risks. Nevertheless, security risks cannot be eliminated and Westmill cannot guarantee that your personal information will not be accessed, used, disclosed or deleted in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. Westmill implements a combination of measures to protect your personal information, including:
- Internal policies and procedures that define the roles and responsibilities of our employees throughout the information life cycle and limits their access to such information on a “need-to-know” basis;
- If information is collected or stored in electronic format, technical safeguards such as encryption, firewalls, passwords, antivirus software and similar measures;
- A designated Privacy Officer to monitor Westmill’s compliance with applicable privacy laws;
- Employee privacy and data security training;
- Procedures for receiving, investigating and responding to complaints or inquiries regarding Westmill’s information handling practices; and
- Framework governing the retention and destruction of personal information.
10. Accuracy and Access to Personal Information
Westmill will rely on you to ensure that the personal information you provide to Westmill is as accurate, complete and up to date as necessary for the purposes for which Westmill uses the personal information. You will promptly notify Westmill of any changes to the personal information you provide to Westmill using the procedures made available for that purpose by Westmill or by contacting Westmill’s Privacy Officer using the contact information noted below.
You may reasonably request access to your personal information collected by Westmill and information about Westmill’s use, disclosure and retention of the personal information, by submitting a written request to Westmill’s Privacy Officer using the contact information noted below. Subject to applicable exceptions and limitations prescribed by applicable law, you will be given reasonable access to your personal information and you will be entitled to verify the accuracy and completeness of your personal information and have the information corrected as appropriate. You may be required to pay a reasonable fee for access to your personal information. Westmill may decline to process an access request that is unreasonably repetitive, frivolous, vexatious or impracticable, or if Westmill reasonably believes that the requested access would infringe or jeopardize the privacy of other persons, or violate any applicable law or legal requirement, or for other reasons permitted by applicable law.
Depending on the jurisdiction in which you reside, you may also be entitled to request the rectification of your personal information if our collection, disclosure or retention is not authorized by law.
11. Retention of Personal Information
Westmill will retain your personal information for the period reasonably necessary for the purposes set out or referenced in this Privacy Policy and to comply with Westmill’s legal obligations or enforce or protect Westmill’s legal rights, or a longer period required or permitted by applicable law. Westmill will delete or dispose of your personal information, or anonymize the information, when Westmill is no longer reasonably required to retain the information for the purposes set out or referenced in this Privacy Policy.
12. Non-Personal Information
Westmill may use your personal information to create and collect non-personal information (information that is not about an identifiable individual), including personal information that has been aggregated or otherwise anonymized so that the information no longer relates to an identifiable individual. Westmill may use, disclose, transfer and retain non-personal information for any purpose and in any manner whatsoever. If non-personal information is combined with personal information, then Westmill will treat the combined non-personal information as personal information for the purposes of this Privacy Policy for as long as the non-personal information is combined with the personal information.
13. Other Websites and Businesses
The Westmill website and correspondence (including emails and messages) may include advertisements for products and services offered by independent businesses or links to websites operated by independent businesses. Westmill has no responsibility or liability for, or control over, those other independent businesses, their websites, products or services, or their collection, use, disclosure or retention of your personal information. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the collection, use, disclosure and retention of your personal information by independent businesses or through independent websites or online services. If you have questions about how those independent businesses or their websites or online services collect, use, disclose or retain personal information, please contact the owner or operator of the independent businesses, websites and services.
14. Social Media
When you use certain aspects of the Westmill website or other services to post information to social media sites, the personal information that you post or share in connection with the social media sites is visible to other persons and can be read, collected, used and disclosed by other persons, including to send unsolicited messages. Any information provided to a social media sites and other sites is governed by their own privacy policies. You are solely responsible for the personal information that you choose to post or share in those situations. Westmill has no control over, or responsibility or liability for, the use, disclosure, and retention of the personal information that you disclose in those situations, and the use, disclosure, and retention of the disclosed information is not subject to this Privacy Policy.
15. Other Matters
(a) Disclaimers, Liability Exclusions/Limitations and Disputes: The agreements (including any website terms of use, terms and conditions or other agreements) that you accept when you apply or use Westmill’s website and services, contain important provisions, including provisions disclaiming, limiting or excluding the liability of Westmill and other persons (including service providers) and provisions determining the applicable law and jurisdiction for the resolution of disputes. To the extent permitted by applicable law, each of those provisions applies to any dispute that may arise in relation to this Privacy Policy or Westmill’s collection, use, disclosure and retention of your personal information, and are of the same force and effect as if they were reproduced directly in this Privacy Policy. Nothing in this Privacy Policy amends any of those other agreements.
(b) Changes to this Privacy Policy: Westmill may change this Privacy Policy from time to time by posting a new version of this Privacy Policy on the Westmill website. Westmill’s collection, use, disclosure and retention of your personal information will be governed by the version of this Privacy Policy in effect at that time. Your continued dealings with Westmill after any change to this Privacy Policy will signify your consent to the collection, use, disclosure and retention of your personal information by Westmill as set out in the changed Privacy Policy. Accordingly, you should check the “Last Updated” date of this Privacy Policy (at the top of this Privacy Policy) and review any changes since the last version.
(c) Notices to You: You consent to Westmill sending you emails (to the email addresses you provide to Westmill) regarding this Privacy Policy and related matters and as otherwise permitted by applicable law.
16. Contacting Westmill
If you have any comments or questions about this Privacy Policy or how Westmill handles your personal information, please contact Westmill’s Privacy Officer by phone, mail or email at:
Phone number: 1-877-607-7010
Email: kenny@westmill.com
Mailing address: Westmill Industries Ltd., Attention: Privacy Officer, 30640 Marshall Road, Abbotsford, British Columbia V2T 6J7