Privacy Policy
- Introduction
The skills4future.ca website is committed to protecting the privacy of visitors. You can navigate most of this website without providing any personally identifiable information. However, sometimes we need additional information about you to provide the information or services you want from us. skills4future.ca believes in transparency, and we provide this notice so you can understand your online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used.
- Information We Collect
Personally Identifiable Information (PII): Information that personally identifies another person, such as names, email addresses, and other contact information. This is information that you voluntarily provide, for example, when you sign up for a newsletter or set up a voluntary user profile to post content within our forums or interactive features. We use this information to respond to users’ requests and to fulfill requests for more information about our services.
- User Information Collection and Tracking
skills4future.ca may automatically collect certain information about your visit using cookies, log analysis software, and other aggregate tracking technologies. If you wish, you can set your browser to refuse cookies. However, by rejecting cookies, you may not be able to access some pages or use some features or functions of this website. The information we collect gives us insights into how our site visitors use the site. This data is anonymous and does not contain any personally identifiable information. We use this information to ensure that our website, email messages, and marketing efforts continue to engage our users.
- How we use the information
Skills4future.ca does not sell or disclose your personally identifiable information to third parties except to the extent that its use is consistent with this policy. Specifically, we may use the information you provide about yourself to fulfill requests for products, services, or information, and to respond to your inquiries. We use your contact information to communicate with you about changes to the Site or to contact you about your account with us (if applicable). We use aggregated, de-identified information about the use of our site for administrative and analytical purposes, and to improve the site’s content to better suit our audience.
To the extent required by law, we may disclose personally identifiable information to government authorities under a subpoena or other legal process, and we may also use or disclose your information as permitted by law to protect the rights or property of skills4future.ca website and our users. We may also disclose this information in response to a law enforcement agency request, or when we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or act regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, or violations of our Terms of Use, or as otherwise required by law. Although we take appropriate measures to protect against unauthorized disclosure of personal information, we cannot assure you that it will never be disclosed in a manner inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.
- Disclosure for Google AdSense and Third-Party Advertising
Skills4future.ca uses Google AdSense and other third-party advertising services to serve ads when you visit our website. As required by Google AdSense policies and Canadian data privacy laws (PIPEDA), we make the following disclosures:
Google’s Use of Cookies: Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to this website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
Third-Party Vendors: We also allow other third-party vendors and ad networks to serve ads on our website. You must be aware that the cookies of these other third-party vendors or ad networks may also be used to serve ads on the site.
User Opt-Out: Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings or, alternatively, by visiting The Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.
- Protection
Information security is important to skills4future.ca. Standard physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards are maintained to protect personal information. We cannot guarantee the security of our database, nor can we guarantee that information you provide to us will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us by electronic means. We ask that you do your part by keeping your passwords, Internet access codes, and location confidential.