Privacy Policy

browser provides. This collection facility is commonly referred to as a usage log or a traffic log. The Canadian Hard of Hearing Association’s web site collects detail information such as IP address, browser, date, time and page accessed. This information is used in the general administration of our web site, diagnosing problems with the server and monitoring traffic patterns. The detail information collected is used only by The Canadian Hard of Hearing Association’s staff for internal purposes. Email address information is not collected by our usage logs. You will not be contacted by the The Canadian Hard of Hearing Association’s personnel based on any entries in the usage log. No detail information collected in our usage logs will ever be given to any third-party. In addition to collecting detail information, The Canadian Hard of Hearing Association’s may summarize the detail information and prepare aggregated information such as counts and flow patterns. This information is critical for the purposes of service monitoring, site improvement and content analysis. The Canadian Hard of Hearing Association’s may periodically publish this summary data. Summary data will never contain any references to or information provided by an individual. The Canadian Hard of Hearing Association’s monitors all unsuccessful access attempts to our servers. We reserve the right to disable any account or IP address/range which repeatedly makes unsuccessful access attempts or, in our judgement, is attempting to bypass our security.

This information is used only by The Canadian Hard of Hearing Association’s staff for communicating with our visitors. None of the information in our visitor database is ever knowingly released to any third-party without prior authorization by the visitor.

The Canadian Hard of Hearing Association does not use cookies for any purpose at this time. If, at a future time, we decide to utilize cookies, The Canadian Hard of Hearing Association will change this privacy statement and place a notice directly on our home page. We do not use Web Bugs as a means of tracking visitors or providing information to third parties. We believe this practice is at best deceitful and have a firm policy prohibiting the use of Web Bugs on our site.

The Canadian Hard of Hearing Association may periodically offer visitors to publish their Email address on our web site. Any offer will contain a statement of intended use and availability. You will be given the choice of adding your name to the list. At no time are you ‘automatically’ added to a list without your consent. After you have placed your name on a list, you may request to have your information removed at any time.

In the event that illegal activity (such as but not limited to ‘hacking’, harassment or violation of standing law or statue) using The Canadian Hard of Hearing Association’s equipment or facilities are detected, the offender waives the protection offered in our privacy statement. Any data collected on the offender may then be made available to their domain administrators or any law enforcement agency with applicable authority.

The Canadian Hard of Hearing Association believes that it is in compliance with all applicable privacy laws, regulations and guidelines. We consider those laws, regulations and guidelines to be minimum standards. We will continually monitor customer and visitor comments and suggestions. This feedback will be used to adjust our privacy statement to better address the needs and desires of our viewers.