Women Encouraged (“Women Encouraged“) operates www.womenencouraged.ca and may operate other websites. It is Women Encouraged’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, “Women Encouraged” refers only to the operators of www.womenencouraged.ca and it’s linked websites. Women Encouraged is not in any way affiliated with www.womenencouraged.com or the proprietor of that website.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Women Encouraged collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Women Encouraged’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Women Encouraged’s visitors use our website. Women Encouraged may at some point, release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Women Encouraged also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged-in users and for users leaving comments on womenencouraged.ca blogs/sites. Women Encouraged only discloses logged-in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Women Encouraged’s websites choose to interact with Women Encouraged in ways that require Women Encouraged to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Women Encouraged gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up at womenencouraged.ca to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Women Encouraged are asked to provide additional information, including, as necessary, personal and financial information required to process various transactions. In each case, Women Encouraged collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Women Encouraged. Women Encouraged does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described in this privacy policy. Visitors may always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that doing so may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
Women Encouraged may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. Women Encouraged may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Women Encouraged does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described in this policy.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Women Encouraged discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know such information in order to process it on Women Encouraged’s behalf or to provide services available at Women Encouraged’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of the website user’s home country; by using Women Encouraged’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them.
Women Encouraged will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Women Encouraged discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Women Encouraged believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Women Encouraged, third parties, or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of a Women Encouraged website and have supplied your email address, Women Encouraged may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, new information, solicit your feedback, or keep you up to date with what’s going on with Women Encouraged, our events, and our products. If you send us a request (for example via email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users.
Women Encouraged takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Women Encouraged uses cookies to help Women Encouraged identify and track visitors, their usage of Women Encouraged website, and their website access preferences. Women Encouraged visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Women Encouraged’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Women Encouraged’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If Women Encouraged, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Women Encouraged goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Women Encouraged may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Ads
Any ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Women Encouraged and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most future changes are likely to be minor, Women Encouraged may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and at Women Encouraged’s sole discretion. Women Encouraged encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a womenencouraged.ca account, you may also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
