Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

webwise.ca is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you a safe online experience. The website is supported by St. Stephen’s Community House- a non-profit social service agency, East Metro Youth Services- an adolescent mental health and addictions centre, and METRAC who works with individuals, communities and institutions to change ideas, actions and policies with the goal of ending violence against women and youth.

This Privacy Policy applies to webwise.ca and governs data collection and usage. By using our website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

webwise.ca collects non-identifiable submissions unless granted permission, such as your emails, artwork, letters and stories. webwise.ca may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your gender and interests.

Information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by webwise.ca. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by webwise.ca for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the webwise.ca website.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through webwise.ca, public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others.

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

Use of your personal information

webwise.ca collects private information upon granted permission from users. webwise.ca does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. In addition, webwise.ca does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

webwise.ca website 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 webwise.ca; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of webwise.ca; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users Webwise.ca, or the public. When sharing personal information please share at your own discretion and only share what you are comfortable with.

Changes to this Statement

webwise.ca will occasionally update this Privacy Policy to reflect user feedback. webwise.ca encourages you to periodically review this statement to be informed of how webwise.ca is protecting your information.