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Privacy Statement

Voices For Women is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Voices For Women site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Voices For Women site, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

Voices For Women collects personally identifiable information, such as your email address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Voices For Women also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

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

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Voices For Women public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Voices For Women does not read any of your private online communications.

Voices For Women encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Voices For Women so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Voices For Women is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Voices For Women and Voices For Women family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

Voices For Women collects and uses your personal information to operate the Voices For Women Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Voices For Women also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Voices For Women and its affiliates. Voices For Women may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Voices For Women does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Voices For Women may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Voices For Women may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Voices For Women, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Voices For Women does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Voices For Women keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Voices For Women, in order to determine what Voices For Women services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Voices For Women to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Voices For Women Web sites 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 Voices For Women or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Voices For Women; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Voices For Women, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Voices For Women Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Voices For Women pages, or register with Voices For Women site or services, a cookie helps Voices For Women to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Voices For Women Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Voices For Women features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Voices For Women services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

Voices For Women secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Voices For Women secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

Voices For Women will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Voices For Women encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Voices For Women is protecting your information.

Contact Information

Voices For Women welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Voices For Women has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Voices For Women at dclarke@hsnsudbury.ca. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.