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Alberta-Pacific Internet Privacy Statement
Alberta-Pacific is committed to providing visitors with a web site that respects your privacy and protects the personal information that you may share with us. Generally, you can browse through our website without giving us any information about yourself. Alberta-Pacific does not collect information that personally identifies individuals except when individuals provide such specific information on a voluntary basis. In all such cases, Alberta-Pacific will collect only information that is voluntarily provided by the user and undertakes that such information will be kept strictly confidential.
This privacy statement is intended to let you know what information we gather and how we use it.
Information We Gather
Personal information means any information that may be used to identify an individual, including, but not limited to, a first and last name, email address, a home, postal or other physical address, other contact information, title, birth date, gender, occupation, industry, personal interests, other information when needed to provide a service you requested. All personal information held or collected by Alberta-Pacific is protected under the Alberta Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA).
When you browse our website, you do so anonymously. We don't automatically collect personal information. We do log your IP address (the Internet address of your computer) so that we know which parts of our website you visit and how long you spend there. But we do not link your IP address to any personal information.
Like many other websites, the Alberta-Pacific website may use a standard technology called a "cookie" to collect information about how you use the site.
Please see Cookies and Tracking Technology below for more information.
What We Do With the Information
When personal information is collected, we will inform you at the point of collection the purpose for the collection. Alberta-Pacific will not transfer your personal information to third parties without your consent.
Alberta-Pacific does reserve the right, however, to perform statistical analyses of user behaviour and characteristics, in order to measure interest in and use of the various sections of it?s site so as to improve design and navigation, plan site enhancements and measure overall site effectiveness. These statistics do not include any personally identifying information.
Cookies and Tracking Technology
Cookies
Users should be aware that certain non-personal information and data may be automatically collected by Alberta-Pacific through the operation of what are called "cookies". "Cookies" are small text files that identify an individual computer's browser entering a web site. A cookie file can contain information such as a user ID that the site uses to track the pages you've visited, but the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Some parts of Alberta-Pacific's website use cookies to track user traffic patterns. We do this in order to determine the usefulness of our website information to our users and to see how effective our navigational structure is in helping users reach that information. Through cookies, a web site can recognize repeat users, facilitate the user's access to and use of the site and allow a site to track usage behaviour that will allow content improvements. Alberta-Pacific uses cookies only for the above-mentioned purposes.
If you prefer not to receive cookies while browsing our website, you can set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies and refuse the cookie when your browser alerts you to its presence. You can also refuse all cookies by turning them off in your browser. Note that it is possible that some aspects of Alberta-Pacific?s site may be unavailable to you if you choose this option. If you have no problem accepting cookies, but wish to be informed of their appearance, you may turn on a warning prompt by modifying the cookie warning section in your browser.
Automatic Logging of Session Data
To help us serve you better, we continuously and automatically collect generic, non-personal information about visits to our Web site. The following points describe the nature of the information collected in our Web server logs: - We collect anonymous visitor information like IP addresses, browser types, return visits from past guests, referring pages, pages visited along with the order in which they were visited, and time spent on the Web site We collect such non-personally identifiable information for the following purposes: (1) to obtain anonymous statistical analysis of Web page traffic patterns for our Web site (2) to administer our Web site and servers and (3) to improve our overall site effectiveness .
- As mentioned above, we use cookies only for more accurate anonymous traffic analysis. The data that we collect is never stored in any individual user profile; the data collected serves only to update aggregate counts allowing us to monitor traffic on our Web site.
Third Party Sites
Alberta-Pacific?s website contains links to third party web sites. Alberta-Pacific does not share your personal information with those websites and is not responsible for the contents and activities of any linked site or any link contained in the linked site.
Alberta-Pacific is not responsible for the privacy practices of web sites operated by third parties that are linked to our site. Once you have left our website, you should check the applicable privacy policy of the third party website to determine how they will handle any information they collect from you. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Alberta-Pacific will amend this policy from time to time. If we make any substantial changes in the way we use your personal information we will make that information available by posting a notice on this site.
Questions
If you have questions or concerns about our collection, use, or disclosure of your personal information, please email us at Privacy_Officer@AlPac.ca
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