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deerheart sanctuary Privacy Policy

Last updated on June 20, 2004

Introduction

deerheart sanctuary respects the privacy of visitors to this website.

Your personal information is collected, used and disclosed by deerheart sanctuary in accordance with this Privacy Policy. You can visit this site without telling us who you are or revealing any information about yourself.

We only collect personal information about you when you specifically and knowingly provide it on our site, for example when you register for any of the programs offered by deerheart.

deerheart sanctuary has formulated this Privacy Policy, in accordance with the guidelines established by the Canadian Standards Association Model Code on Privacy and with reference to the principles enumerated in the Federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).

The purpose of the Privacy Policy is to specify the guidelines which govern the collection and use of personal and other data via this web site www.deerheart.com. We will make every effort to ensure that the personal information we hold is secure and used in a responsible and respectful manner.

By using our website, you are expressly consenting to and have knowledge of the collection, use and disclosure of information as outlined by this Privacy Policy. If we make any changes to our policy, such changes will be posted here so you will always be informed of our current information handling practices.

Definitions

For your clarification, we have defined below, a number of the terms which are used within this Privacy Policy.

Cookies: A cookie is a small piece of information that is placed on a visitor's hard drive by a web server. It acts essentially as an identification card as it is unique to that visitor, and can only be read by the web server that placed it on the drive. It also may allow a computer to remember things about the visitor's past interaction with the web site.

Personal information: Any personally identifiable information about an individual.

Third party: An individual or organization other than deerheart sanctuary itself.

Information Collected

By electing to register for any programs offered at deerheart sanctuary, or for volunteer service at deerheart sanctuary, you will be providing us with specific, personally identifiable information. This information may include but is not limited to the following:

Name
Address
e-mail address
Telephone number
Fax number
and other information as defined within application procedure.

Use and Disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information

Uses of Information - first-time applicants:

Personally identifiable information about you will only be used for the specific purposes for which it has been collected. These purposes include the evaluation of your application for admission to the program for which you have applied, the awareness of any medical conditions that may prevail, and any other special requirements while you are taking part in the program.

Only the registrars, will have access to the full range of information you have provided. Other than these individuals, personal information submitted via the online application forms on this web site, is maintained in complete confidence and safeguarded against disclosure to or access by third parties, except where required by law.

Retention and Disposal of Personally Identifiable Information

The information you provide is retained by deerheart sanctuary for their records indefinitely.

Please notify deerheart sanctuary if you no longer want to have your information retained by us. The process of fulfilling a deletion request will only reach back to records in current use - please note that some residual information may remain in archived backups.

Security

deerheart sanctuary strives to provide you with the most secure transmission environment possible. deerheart sanctuary takes every precaution to protect its users' information from loss, misuse and alteration.

Accuracy of the Information and Individual Access to It

Please contact deerheart sanctuary if your contact details have changed to ensure that you are kept up to date with new program information.

You have the right to access your file and request rectification of any personal information in the file that may be obsolete, incomplete or incorrect. To change your information, have your information removed from our databases, or simply confirm the information that we hold about you, contact deerheart sanctuary via the contact page. deerheart sanctuary will need to validate the identity of anyone making such a request to ensure that we do not provide your information to anyone who does not have a right to that information. Normally we will respond to access or rectification requests within 30 days.

Log Files

deerheart sanctuary does not use log files

Cookies

deerheart sanctuary does not use cookies.

External Links

This site may contain links to other web sites. deerheart sanctuary is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites, and encourages users to review such policies on these (and all) third party sites.

Acceptance of this Policy

By using this site, users signify agreement with the deerheart sanctuary Privacy Policy.

Amendments to this Policy

deerheart sanctuary reserves the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of this Privacy Policy from time to time. A user's continued use of this web site following such changes to these terms signifies acceptance of those changes.

Any changes to our online Privacy Policy will not change our commitment to the safeguarding of your personal information, or the manner in which we use it.

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