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    Centre for Suicide Prevention 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 Centre for Suicide Prevention website and governs data collection and usage. By using the Centre for Suicide Prevention website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

    Collection of your Personal Information

    Centre for Suicide Prevention collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Centre for Suicide Prevention also collects 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 Centre for Suicide Prevention. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by Centre for Suicide Prevention for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Centre for Suicide Prevention website.

    Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Centre for Suicide Prevention public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Centre for Suicide Prevention does not read any of your private online communications.

    Centre for Suicide Prevention encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from Centre for Suicide Prevention so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. Centre for Suicide Prevention is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the Centre for Suicide Prevention and Centre for Suicide Prevention family of websites.

    Use of your Personal Information

    Centre for Suicide Prevention collects and uses your personal information to operate the Centre for Suicide Prevention website and deliver the services you have requested. Centre for Suicide Prevention also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Centre for Suicide Prevention and its affiliates. Centre for Suicide Prevention may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

    Centre for Suicide Prevention does not sell, rent, or lease its customer lists to third parties. Centre for Suicide Prevention may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about an offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique, personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Centre for Suicide Prevention 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 Centre for Suicide Prevention, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

    Centre for Suicide Prevention does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

    Centre for Suicide Prevention keeps track of the websites and pages our customers visit within Centre for Suicide Prevention, to determine what Centre for Suicide Prevention services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Centre for Suicide Prevention to customers whose behaviour indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

    Centre for Suicide Prevention 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 Centre for Suicide Prevention or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Centre for Suicide Prevention; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Centre for Suicide Prevention, or the public.

    Use of Cookies

    The Centre for Suicide Prevention website uses “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a webpage 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 webserver 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 webserver that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Centre for Suicide Prevention pages, or register with Centre for Suicide Prevention site or services, a cookie helps Centre for Suicide Prevention recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, including billing addresses and shipping addresses. When you return to the same Centre for Suicide Prevention website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Centre for Suicide Prevention features that you customized.

    You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Centre for Suicide Prevention services or websites you visit.

    Security of your Personal Information

    Centre for Suicide Prevention secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Centre for Suicide Prevention 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 encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

    Changes to this Statement

    Centre for Suicide Prevention will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect organization and customer feedback. Centre for Suicide Prevention encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Centre for Suicide Prevention is protecting your information.

    Contact Information

    Centre for Suicide Prevention welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Centre for Suicide Prevention has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Centre for Suicide Prevention on the contact page of this website. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.

    For more information, see Centre for Suicide Prevention’s Privacy Policy.