Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Policy in Plain English:

1. We will not rent or sell your personal information to anyone.
2. The site collects aggregate data to determine traffic flow and internal page "popularity" so that we can improve the website and its usability. We make no effort to correlate a specific IP address to a specific user.
3. Advertising is served based on the content on the page rather than the user accesing the page. Should we go to a third party ad server, this may change in the future - but as based on their policy. We will still not internally be tracking you.
4. Cookies are used to maintain a session ID to prevent them from being URL-encoded. (Periodically, we see requests sent from search engines - which cannot accept cookies - with broken URLS because of the session ID. We are working on that as well.) This point is mainly relevant to those people entering events as the session ID allows you to stay logged in and continue entering data until you deliberately choose the "Logout" button.
5. When you create an account to enter data or for the upcoming personalization features, your name and contact information is stored in our database, largely to ensure that real people are creating accounts not automated functions, but also so that we can contact you in the event of issues with your event information, or to let you know about user requests that have come in through the site. We do intend to do a quarterly newsletter in the future, and reserve the right to contact you with that or other relevant information and changes to the site, as long as your account stays active.
6. Your password (and password challenge answer) are stored in the database in an encrypted format, meaning we cannot actually retrieve it for you, only change it to something else.

In Not-so-plain English:

This is the Privacy Policy for canadaeventscalendar.ca. It holds for all pages on this site, and only on this site - pages reached via one of the external links are not obligated to hold to our priniciples, and you should check their individual Policies - this includes pages hosted at our site but not run by our staff (practitioner and supplier pages).

Information collected

Visitors to canadaeventscalendar.ca

We currently collect basic information at the webserver level, e.g. hostname, browser type, date/time of access, whether the page request was successful. We make no attempt to correlate this data with specific users, and only use this data for the purposes of site maintenance and improvement. For instance, we may discover that an area of the site is being ignored, and may choose to alter the content so that it is more useful to the visitors.

Posting Listings

Certain basic information is mandatory in order to post events listings to the network. This information allows us to verify that there is an actual individual posting content to the site as opposed to a script, bot, or other mechanical agent, and to ensure that someone is held responsible for any content posted.

Your membership information is not distributed to any third parties, including those who have websites within our network, unless approved by you or mandated by law. We will not sell or otherwise distribute your information. We reserve the right to contact you if necessary, about the state of the site, and new developments.

Contestants and Reviewers

Periodically, we collect personal information for the purposes of running contests. We reserve the right to contact contestants after the period of the contest to let them know about new developments on CanadaEventsalendar.ca, but we will not contact them on behalf of advertisers, nor will we sell that information.

We also have a form to collect information in order to select eligible people for product reviews. This form collects personally identifiable information, but assigns each user a randomly generated id. It is only by this unique identifier that any reviewers will be identified to anyone outside of pixcode Inc. and/or pixcode personnel. Personal information will not be sold or shared to any third parties.

Mailing List Unsubscription Policy

By subscribing to any lists or groups on canadaeventscalendar.ca, you agree to send any unsubscribe requests directly to us, and not to a third party. We will remove you immediately, but we will not be matching our list of subscribers to "do not mail" lists elsewhere on, or off, the Internet.

Cookies

Visitors to canadaeventscalendar.ca

Cookies may be given on the forum pages so that you can track which topics you have read, and which ones are new since the last time you visited with that particular computer. They are not used for any other purposes.

Members

Cookies are used to issue you a randomly-generated session id upon log in, which is good until you close your browser. This prevents you from having to enter your user name and password each time you access a protected page. Your user name and password are used to attribute your posts to the forum and your content edits to your pages. If you have sub accounts (multiple users from the same company, all assigned to one master account) you can see what content changes have been made by which sub user.

We may use this information internally to make sure our offerings are the most useful to you, and if we notice that certain features are not being used as frequently as expected, we may contact you for suggestions to make them more useful.

This information will not be sold or otherwise distributed.

Complaints

If you have received mail that ostensibly originates with canadaeventscalendar.ca, please check the headers to ensure that it actually is being sent by our staff. Spammers often try to disguise their email as originating from legitimate sources to trick you into opening it.

Attachments & Email

Email sent by our staff (except to our mailing lists) will be sent as plain text (not HTML) and will not contain any attachments that you are not expecting. Most often, we will send a link to a location where you can pick up a file, rather than attach it directly.

Contacting Us

If you do not agree with our Policy, and/or have abuse to report, please contact us:

CanadaEventsCalendar.ca
200 Spadina Avenue
Suite 201
Toronto, ON
CANADA
M5T 2C2