Privacy Policy

About your Privacy on the CMC-Canada Website

We at CMC-Canada (the Canadian Association of Management Consultants) are committed to a voluntary privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") for the users of our website ("Site"). The objective of this Privacy Policy is to ensure that information that could be used to identify you ("Personal Information") be managed in a responsible and transparent manner. This outlines the information, including Personal Information, CMC-Canada will collect and how that information will be used and the terms you agree to when accessing this Site.

This Privacy Policy relates to your privacy as a user or visitor of the Site. The privacy of our users is important to CMC-Canada. We may request Personal Information from time to time in order to enable you to participate in and enjoy various CMC-Canada offerings. We are committed to advising you on how we use your Personal Information and all Personal Information provided to us is optional. Unless you authorize us to do otherwise, we will ensure that the Personal Information that you provide to us will be protected and not disclosed to any third parties in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Please read our disclaimer before using or accessing this Site.

Protecting Your Personal Information
We will keep your Personal Information in secure data storage in order to safeguard it from unauthorized access. We will keep your Personal Information only as long as necessary or relevant for the identified purposes or as required by law. Technical measures to protect your privacy include the use of passwords as indicated on the Site and the support of encryption technology in order to ensure the privacy and integrity of your Personal Information.

We want to provide you with a unique, individualized, personalized Internet experience and ensure that you receive from us information that is specific and relevant to your needs and interests. The information that you voluntarily provide to us will enhance your experience on the Site.

Some features and services on the Site will ask you to provide information such as your name, e-mail address, or your interests. It is your option to utilize these services and features. You may also choose to limit the information that you provide, however, this may limit what personalized services we can offer you.

We may use a browser feature called a "cookie" to collect information about you and your use of the Site. Cookies are small data files that web sites write to your hard drive when you visit them in order to "track" your visit to the site. By themselves, cookies cannot be used to disclose the individual identity of any site user cookies identify your browser - but not you - to our servers when you visit our Site. Unless you specifically tell us, we will not know who you are, even though we assign your browser a cookie. If you opt not to accept cookies you may not be able to use some of the features on the sites.

Occasionally, CMC-Canada or one of our advertisers may host a contest or promotion where it will be your option to enter and your option to provide the requested information. Persons under the Age of Majority in their province or territory of residence must obtain parental or legal guardian permission before providing any information for such contests or promotions.

How your Personal Information is used
Part of our commitment to you is to tell you how we use and won't use the Personal Information that we collect:

We use the Personal Information that you give us to provide personalized features and services such as the Consulting Resources, Member Directory or Profiles.
We analyze traffic and use of the Site in order to determine which features and services people like and don't like so that we can improve what we do.
We prepare aggregated user statistics or information summaries in order to describe our services to third parties such as prospective business partners and advertisers and for other lawful purposes. An advertiser or vendor on our Site will never have direct access to your Personal Information unless you provide such information to them directly.
We may also use information you have given us to present Web page advertisements that we hope will be of particular interest to you.

CMC-Canada will be collecting credit card Information. The credit card information and information concerning the service or product purchased and the price of such service or product will be disclosed to the relevant credit card company for the purposes of processing the transaction request and by providing this information, visitor consents to the disclosure of that information in the manner described. However, we may have to disclose Personal Information when legally obligated to do so (such as under law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena or court order), or where the personal safety of users of the Site or other members of the public are at risk, or if the rights or property of CMC-Canada, the service providers of the users of the Site are at risk.

Control of your Personal Information and Association Information
You control your Personal Information and Association Information. When you do opt to supply Personal Information or association information in order to use features and services on the Site, that information represents the Personal Information in your 'file', or the association information in your association 'file'. You may access this file at anytime to:

Change the Personal Information or association information already provided;
Opt out of services or change the services you use (for example you or your association can decide not to be listed in a directory).

When requested to input any Personal Information or association information, you may decline to do so. However, failure to input any Personal Information or association information may prohibit you from using some or all of the features of this Site.

Non-Confidential Use of Your Postings
Any non-personal communication, comments, ideas or material you post or transmit to us is, and will be treated as, non-confidential and non-proprietary. By transmitting or posting any communication or material to this Web site you grant us a license to use such information, including without limitation, an unrestricted, irrevocable license to use, reproduce, display, modify, transmit, distribute, publish, broadcast or post, your communication for any purpose. You also agree that we are free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques that you send us for any purpose. However, we will not release your name or otherwise publicize the fact that you submitted materials or other information to us unless: (a) you grant us permission to do so; (b) we first notify you that the materials or other information you submit to a particular part of a site will be published or otherwise used with your name on it; or (c) we are required to do so by law.

By accessing this web site, you consent to our collection of the above-described information and its use for the purposes stated herein and the permitted disclosure as described herein. If you do not want this information collected, used or disclosed as specified herein, please do not submit it to us. If you have already submitted this information and would like for us to remove it from our records, please contact us.

A few final words
The Site is a Web site on the Internet but not the Internet itself. We cannot guarantee that information that you voluntarily disclose and send on this medium will be kept private. Though we have employed such security features as described above to protect your privacy, we take no responsibility for your use of the Internet to send confidential information.

Contact Us
If you have any questions regarding our privacy policy or believe that CMC-Canada has failed to adhere to this Privacy Policy, please contact our designated Privacy Officer, Mary Blair, Managing Director, at consulting@cmc-canada.ca or 1-800-268-1148, extension 7.