Creative Manitoba Privacy Policy
Respecting your privacy is important to us.
This website is owned and operated by Creative Manitoba Inc. Our website addresses are www.creativemanitoba.ca and www.creativemanitoba.com. The personal information collected on this website or via our associated website(s) is collected in accordance with applicable privacy legislation and is governed by our Privacy Policy. The information we collect is used or disclosed to facilitate the lawful provision of our Service. This cannot be done without your personal information.
This Privacy Policy provides our policies and procedures for collecting, using, and disclosing your information. This Privacy Policy governs your access to the website, regardless of how you access it, and by using our Services you consent to the collection, transfer, processing, storage, disclosure and other uses described in this Privacy Policy. All of the different forms of data, content, and information described below are collectively referred to as “information.”
1. THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND STORE
We may collect and store the following information when you access the website:
Information you provide
When you register an account, we collect some personal information, such as the user’s name, phone number, personal email address, student email address, and the university or post-secondary institution that the user attends. Every new user will also complete a survey when signing up for the website and the data generated from that survey will be used as part of the user’s profile to help the website provide personalized suggestions. Any events, deadlines, or calendar data that users input into the website will be stored within our database as well. You may be able to turn some of these features off through your website, browser, or settings menu on your device.
Cookies
Like many websites, we use “cookies” to enhance your experience and gather information about visitors and visits to our website. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your tablet, mobile device, or computer’s hard drive through your Web browser or application that enables the site’s or service provider’s systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. For instance, we use cookies to help us remember and process items that you may order or persons that you may connect with. They are also used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current website activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services. We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about website/service traffic, and website/service interaction so that we can offer better website/service experiences and tools in the future. We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our website/service visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business.
2. HOW WE USE PERSONAL INFORMATION
Personal Information
In the course of using the website/service we may collect personal information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Information”). Personal Information is or may be used:
(i) to provide and improve our website/service,
(ii) to administer your use of the website/service,
(iii) to better understand your needs and interests,
(iv) to personalize and improve your experience, and
(v) to provide or offer organization updates and announcements.
If you no longer wish to receive communications from us, please follow the “unsubscribe” instructions provided in any of those communications, or update your account information.
Analytics
We also collect some information (ourselves or using third party services) using logging and cookies, which can sometimes be correlated with Personal Information. We use this information for the above purposes and to monitor and analyze use of the website/service, for the website/service’s technical administration, to increase our website/service’s functionality and user-friendliness, and to verify users have the authorization needed for the website/service to process their requests.
3. INFORMATION SHARING AND DISCLOSURE
Service Providers, Business Partners and Others
We may use certain trusted third-party companies and individuals to help us provide, analyze, and improve the website/service (including but not limited to web analytics, website/service usage, payment processing, and improvement of the website/service’s features). These third parties may have access to your information only for purposes of performing these tasks on our behalf and under obligations similar to those in this Privacy Policy. Other users of the website/service may also see certain non-private information about you, including photographs, location, shared friends, and ratings, as it is the nature of the website/service to connect users with other users based on shared preferences, shared friends, shared experiences, personal or physical attraction, and other similar personal traits which the website/service shares in order to help generate connections.
Third-Party Applications
We may share your information with a third-party application with your consent, for example when you choose to access our website/service through such an application. We are not responsible for what those parties do with your information, so you should make sure you trust the application and that it has a privacy policy acceptable to you.
Compliance with Laws and Law Enforcement Requests; Protection of Our Rights
We may disclose to outside parties files stored by us and information about you that we collect when we have a good faith belief that disclosure is reasonably necessary to
(a) comply with a law, regulation or compulsory legal request;
(b) protect the safety of any person from death or serious bodily injury;
(c) prevent fraud or abuse; or
(d) to protect property rights.
Business Transfers
If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction, but we will notify you (for example, via email and/or a prominent notice on our website) of any change in control or use of your Personal Information.
Non-private or Non-Personal Information
We may disclose your non-private, aggregated, or otherwise non-personal information, such as usage statistics of the website/service.
4. CHANGING OR DELETING YOUR INFORMATION
If you are a registered user, you may review, update, correct or delete the information provided in your registration or account profile by changing your “account settings” through the website/service. If your information changes, or if you no longer desire to use the website/service you may update or delete it by making the change on your account settings or by contacting us. In some cases, we may retain copies of your information if required by law.
5. DATA RETENTION
We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you access to the website/service. If you wish to cancel your account or request that we no longer use your information to provide you access to the website/service you may delete your account by following instructions on the website/service. We may retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. Consistent with these requirements, we will try to delete your information quickly upon request. Please note, however, that there may be a delay in deleting information from our servers and backed-up versions may exist after deletion.
6. SECURITY
The security of your information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as a credit card number) on our order forms, we encrypt the transmission of that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL).
We follow generally accepted standards to protect the information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure, however. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you have any questions about security on our website, you can contact us at info@creativemanitoba.ca
8. OUR POLICY REGARDING CHILDREN
The website/service is not directed to persons under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect information from persons under the age of 18. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that their child has provided us with information without the parent or guardian’s consent, they should contact us at info@creativemanitoba.ca. If we become aware that a person under the age of 18 has provided us with information, we will take steps to delete such information from our files.
9. CONTACTING US
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@creativemanitoba.ca
10. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Policy may change from time to time. By continuing to use the website/service after those changes become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Privacy Policy.
