A Commitment to Your Privacy

This site is owned and operated by the Quality Council of Alberta (QCA). Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. Because we gather certain types of information about our users and members, we feel you should fully understand our policy and the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information.

This privacy statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it.

Types of Information Gathered and How It's Used

The QCA collects three types of information from users of this website and QCA members:

• Personal information (name, e-mail address, mailing address and other contact details) provided in the course of becoming a QCA member. The QCA will never share or use this information for any reason other than to manage your membership or contribution, such as contacting you to request that you renew your membership.
  
  We do not retain credit card information supplied to us. All financial data is collected via a secure web connection, and is stored or transmitted using appropriate security measures at all times.
  
  
• Information that users provide through optional, voluntary submissions. These are voluntary submissions to receive our electronic newsletterand from participation in polls and surveys.
  
  
• Information gathered through aggregated tracking information derived mainly by tallying page views throughout our site. This information allows us to better tailor our content to readers' needs.

Under no circumstances do we divulge any information about an individual user to a third party.

Links

This website contains links to other sites of interest to users and members. The QCA does not control the privacy practices of these other sites. You should make sure that you know when you have left the QCA website and, if the website you visit collects personal information, that you read that site's privacy policy.

Security

The QCA protects your personal information with several security measures. In addition to normal precautions such as physical security and firewalls, we have a strict internal security policy.

Privacy Complaints

If you believe that the QCA has not complied with the provisions of this privacy policy, please e-mail your complaint to at webmaster@qca.org.

Terms of Use

This website is owned and operated by the Quality Council of Alberta (QCA).

Any information, methodologies, studies, video files, audio files, code, photographs, graphics, processes, technologies or other materials (the "Materials") published on this site may be the subject of intellectual property rights reserved by the QCA, its subsidiaries or licensors. Your terms of use do not grant to you a license hereunder to otherwise use, copy, distribute or transfer the Materials.

If no additional terms are provided on a QCA web page, the use of any such Materials is governed by this provision.