Privacy Policy

Business Advisory Centre Durham is pleased to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, by disclosing our information practices, ensuring visitors that the information collected and distributed within this Web site will be used for only the stated reason. Business Advisory Centre Durham respects the privacy of the visitors to our Web site. Your personal information is collected for the purpose of responding to your inquiries.

This privacy policy applies to visitor information and the use of www.bacd.ca only. Business Advisory Centre Durham is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of the Web sites to which it links.

1. Information Collection
Business Advisory Centre Durham is the sole owner of the information collected on this Web site. We will not sell, share or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. Business Advisory Centre Durham collects information from our users at four points on our Web site.

a) Become a Business Advisory Centre Durham E-News Subscriber
The Business Advisory Centre Durham subscriber list resides in a secure listserv. Therefore, email addresses are never copied into an email address line for other recipients to see. Only Business Advisory Centre Durham and Taalwood Media Services (our Web development firm) have access to view the email addresses of our subscribers.

Information Requested
1/ Email Address (Required)
Provides us with a means to communicate monthly Business Advisory Centre Durham's events and news.

b) Ask the Expert
When asking a question of Business Advisory Centre Durham, contact information is collected

Information Requested
1/ Name
2/ Email Address (Required)
When making a general inquiry, Business Advisory Centre Durham collects certain information in order to ensure the appropriate follow-up. Email address is required and used as a means of communicating.

c) Seminar Registration
When registering for a seminar, Business Advisory Centre Durham collects specific information in order to ensure proper registration and confirmation.
1/ Name (Required)
2/ Contact Phone Number (Required)
3/ Company Name — (Optional)
4/ Email Address (Required)
5/ Number of Attendees (Required)

d) Send a business card
When sending a business card of the Business Advisory Centre, specific information is required to ensure proper follow-up and delivery.
1/ Name of Sender (Required)
2/ Email Address of Sender (Required)
3/ Name of Recipient (Required)
4/ Email Address of Recipient (Required)

2. Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing information about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our Web site. The use of cookies is limited to the Business Advisory Centre Durham.

3. Web Activity (Log) Files
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information. On occasion, Business Advisory Centre Durham log file data (such as the number of subscribers we serve) may be used for promotional purposes. Information that personally identifies you will be kept strictly confidential.

4. Sharing
We will share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.

5. Security
This Web site takes every precaution to protect our users' personal information. When users submit sensitive information via our Web site, your information is protected both online and off-line.

We also do everything in our power to protect user-information off-line. All of our users' information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job are granted access to personally identifiable information. Our employees must use password-protected screen-savers when they leave their desk. When they return, they must re-enter their password to regain access to your information. Furthermore, ALL employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices.

If you have any questions about the security on our Web site, you can send an email to info@bacd.ca.

6. Newsletter
Established subscribers will receive regular emails on special events and seminars. Out of respect for the privacy of our users, we present the option to not receive these types of communications. Please see our choice and opt-out below.

7. Choice/Opt-Out
Our users are given the opportunity to 'opt-out' of having their information used for purposes not directly related to our site at the point where we ask for the information.

8. Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our Web site so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under circumstances, if any, how we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.

Any questions or concerns regarding the privacy policy of Business Advisory Centre Durham should be submitted in writing to:

Business Advisory Centre Durham
Rossland Garden Shopping Centre, Suite 200
3000 Garden Street
Whitby, Ontario
L1R 2G6