Website Privacy Policy
LAST UPDATED: SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
Groundfire Counselling & Community Work is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Groundfire Counselling & Community Work site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Groundfire Counselling & Community Work site, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Groundfire Counselling & Community Work (hereafter “GCCW”) collects personally identifiable information, such as your email address, name, home or work address, or telephone number when you fill out contact forms or access services. GCCW may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your postal code, age, gender, preferences, interests, and favourites.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Squarespace via the GCCW site. This information can include your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times, and referring website addresses. This information is used by GCCW for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the GCCW site.
GCCW encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from GCCW so that you can understand how those websites collect, use, and share your information. GCCW is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the GCCW site and GCCW clients.
GCCW collects and uses your personal information to operate the GCCW website and deliver the services you have requested. GCCW may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from GCCW and its affiliates. GCCW may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
GCCW does not sell, rent, or lease its client lists to third parties. GCCW may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (email, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, GCCW may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to GCCW, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
GCCW does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
GCCW keeps track of the websites and pages our customers visit within GCCW, in order to determine what GCCW services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver relevant customized content within GCCW to clients whose behaviour indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
GCCW websites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
(a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on GCCW or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of GCCW; and (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of GCCW, or the public.
The GCCW site uses only essential cookies to help you personalize your online experience. All third-party or non-essential cookies are automatically disabled by GCCW. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize GCCW pages, or register with GCCW site or services, a cookie helps GCCW to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same GCCW website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the GCCW features that you customized.
GCCW secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. GCCW secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
GCCW will occasionally update this Privacy Policy to reflect company and customer feedback. GCCW encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how GCCW is protecting your information.
Groundfire Counselling & Community Work welcomes your comments regarding this Privacy Policy. If you believe that Groundfire Counselling & Community Work has not adhered to this Statement, please contact us at any time. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.
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