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Last Updated: December 31, 2007
This web site is owned, operated, and maintained by Phyllis Wheaton, referred to as "this website" in the
following document.
WE RESPECT YOUR PRIVACY
This website respects the privacy of our employees, our suppliers and
our clients and ensures that the personal information we collect
remains secure and protected. There are times where personal
information must be shared with an interested third party. In such
circumstances, this website will not release any personal information
without first advising of its intended use and obtaining the permission
to do so from the affected individual.
We do not automatically gather any personal information from you, such
as your name, phone number, email, or address. This information is only
obtained if you supply it voluntarily, usually through contacting us
via email or registering in a secure portion of the site. By choosing
to provide us with your Personal Information, you are consenting to its
use in accordance with the principles outlined in this Privacy Policy
and as outlined at the time you are asked to provide any Personal
Information.
Any personal information you do provide is managed according to the
Alberta Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. This
means that, at the point of collection, you will be informed that your
personal information is being collected, the purpose for which it is
being collected and that you have a right of access to the information.
Our policy is designed to meet or exceed the requirements of Canadian
Federal and Provincial privacy laws. We constantly self-evaluate our
practices and procedures to maintain the highest standard in this
regard.
This website will make every effort to ensure personal information
remains current and is updated internally and with third party
suppliers in a timely manner. Individuals are expected to update this
website with any changes to their personal information. The information
will only be updated when required for the intended, previously
described purposes.
Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job have access to personal information.
We have secure databases where we store data. We also may store your
personal information in paper document files in our offices.
The processes of our business include sharing your personal information with others to carry out our placement services.
Email transmission can be accessed by other Internet users. If you want
to keep certain information confidential you may contact us by
telephone, in person, or via mail.
This website has set mandatory retention time limits based on
Provincial Employment and Labour Standards and third party suppliers
are instructed to follow the same guidelines. Appropriate safeguards
relevant to the sensitivity of the information will be employed.
This website will use your Personal Information to contact you for
support purposes. If you wish to be removed from our contact database,
please email us at
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WE MONITOR WEB-SITE TRAFFIC
Like most web servers on the Internet, this website' servers maintain
access logs that record web browser activity. These logs associate an
Internet Protocol (IP) address with each request for content from the
servers.
When you visit this web site, our web server automatically collects a
limited amount of standard information essential to the operation and
evaluation of the web site. This information includes:
- the page from which you arrived,
- the date and time of your page request,
- the IP address your computer is using to receive information,
- the type and version of your browser, and
- the name and size of the file you request.
This information helps us assess our information services and is used
only for this purpose. It is collected in compliance with section 33 of
the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (FOIP) Act.
This information is collected in order to help make our site more
useful to visitors, to learn about the number of visitors to our site,
and to learn about the types of technology our visitors use. We do not
track information about individuals and their visit. We will not
identify users or their browsing activities, except as required by a
law of Alberta or Canada or if we are compelled to produce this
information for a legal proceeding.
For security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available
to all users, this computer system employs software programs to monitor
network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change
information, or otherwise cause damage.
Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, no other attempts
are made to identify individual users or their usage habits.
WE MAY USE 'COOKIES'
Our web servers are able to use "cookie" technology to keep track of the web browsers with which they are communicating.
During a cookie transaction, a web server will hand a web browser some
data prescribed by the web site's developers. The web browser will
return that data with its next request for content from the web site.
Using this technology, it is possible for an application running on a
web server to distinguish one web browser's activity from another.
When We Use Cookies
This website' web servers will make use of such cookies when required
to identify ongoing sessions with individual online visitors. Examples
include:
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To associate a particular visitor with his or her own permit, application, etc.
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To prevent abuse of online surveys and questionnaires.
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To provide customized content and user-interface features to visitors who have specifically requested such services.
How We Use Cookies
In all cases, the cookie data this website' web servers may hand your
browser contain only "session" identifying information. No other
personal information is passed to your browser, where it may be stored
on your own computer.
Cookie-related data is not permanently stored on this website' web
servers. Information stored temporarily in our cookie collection never
includes a visitor's name or address or sensitive data.
Further, this website does not match for its records any
session-identifying cookie information with the Internet Protocol (IP)
addresses described above in the information on monitoring Web-Site
Traffic.
This website is committed to the security of personal information it
may collect online or offline. this website has taken reasonable
precautions to protect this personal information from loss, misuse or
alteration. Any third parties who may have roles in managing such
information on behalf of the this website are also committed to the
same principles.
WE LINK TO OTHER WEB SITES
This website includes links to web pages or sites operated by third
parties. We endeavor to make it clear that certain links will take you
away from our site and to destinations over which we have no control.
Our public website privacy statement does not apply to the sites of
third parties to which we link. Instead, we encourage you to review the
policies of these sites yourself upon your arrival.
Individual Access
This website will release your personal information to you upon
request, along with the use and disclosure of any personal information.
Specific requests for information can be directed to the Privacy
Officer via the
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email address. The information
will be released within 30 days of receipt of the request. Should this
website not be able to comply with the request, justifiable reason will
be given to the requestor.
This website considers the following reasons justifiable reasons to refuse access to personal information.
- Solicitor-client privilege
- Litigation privilege
- Security and ongoing fraud investigations
- Proprietary or trade secret information
- Sensitive medical information that could be obtained through other means
- Requests that would prove prohibitively costly to provide
- Requests that could reasonably be expected to threaten the life or security of another individual
This list is not exhaustive and other reasons may be considered justifiable.
Challenging Compliance
You have the right to file a challenge about this website' compliance
with Privacy legislation. This website will consider all requests
serious and will investigate any complaints thoroughly. To make a
challenge please send all relevant details and specifics to this
website' Privacy officer at
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NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES
This website will occasionally update this privacy statement. When we
do, we will also revise the "last updated" date at the top of the
privacy statement. For material changes to this statement, this website
will notify you by placing prominent notice on the web site.
For questions or comments regarding this public website privacy statement please contact us by email:
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