CCfV Web Privacy Statement
This statement is intended to cover the usage of CCfV’s website(s) ccfv.ca and challengeunit.ca and any information collected by those websites. We will never ask for or collect health information via our website.
CCfV is committed to providing visitors with websites that respect their privacy. This page summarizes the privacy policy and practices for all websites and web pages owned by the Canadian Center for Vaccinology (ccfv.ca and challengeunit.ca)
Our websites do not automatically gather any personal information from you, such as your name, phone number, or email address. The only way we receive this information is if you voluntarily provide it via on of our online forms. Any information that you choose to provide will be protected in accordance with:
applicable privacy legislation such as PIPEDA
CCfV will only use your personal information for the stated purposes for which it was collected, unless you provide consent otherwise.
Your personal information will only be disclosed to or accessed by CCfV employees with a need to know in relation to the purposes for which it was collected. CCfV will not sell or rent your personal information to any third parties.
Information gathered automatically
We use Microsoft Clarity to capture how visitors use and interact with our website. For more information about how Microsoft collects and uses your data, visit the Microsoft Privacy Statement.
Clarity lets us see aggregate, generic, non-personal identifying information about visitors such as:
The Internet domain and Internet Protocol (“IP”) address from which you access our websites:
The type of browser and operating system used
The date and time you access our websites
The uniform resource locator (URL) of the pages you visit
If you linked to one of our websites from another website, the address of that website
Your general geographic location
We cannot link the information captured to the identity of individual visitors.
We use this information to help us make our websites more useful to our audiences by learning about the number of visitors, and by monitoring traffic patterns and the types of technology our visitors use. We do not track or record information about specific individuals and their visits.
In some cases, the Internet domain or IP address of visitors could allow for individual identification, depending on the naming standards followed by your Internet service provider. If this concerns you, you may wish to ask them about their policies and practices.
Visitor information is not disclosed to anyone except CCfV personnel who need the information for legitimate purposes such as study recruitment.
Information collected in e-mails and web forms
Should you choose to provide us with personal information — as in an email or by filling out an electronic form and submitting it to us through our website — we will use that information to respond to your request. Your information is stored on secure servers.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file containing a unique identification number that is transferred (through your browser) from a website to the hard drive of your computer. The cookie identifies your browser and will NOT let a website know any personal information about you, such as your name and address. Since cookies are only text files, they cannot run on your computer, search your computer for other information or transmit any information to anyone.
CCfV may use cookies to:
Monitor website usage and improve the operation and performance of our websites to make them easier and more convenient to use.
Save passwords and preferences for you so that you will not have to re-enter them the next time you visit a website.
Measure aggregate user traffic and demographic statistics related to the websites (e.g. number of users, average time spent, average age and similar statistics). This information helps us to better understand when to update, change or offer new content and provides us with details as to the performance of third-party advertisements and content.
If you are concerned about the use of cookies, you can refer to the help information in your browser software for information on how to disable cookies. If you wish to delete cookies from your machine, consult your browser’s help files for instructions on how to do so.
Links to other sites
Our websites may contain links to other sites. We are not responsible for the content and the privacy practices of other websites.
If you wish to contact us about your data privacy please email ccfv@iwk.nshealth.ca