Squamish Chamber Privacy Policy
The Squamish Chamber of Commerce would like to thank you for visiting our web site. We believe that strong electronic privacy is vital for the ongoing success of the Internet as a service, commercial, and entertainment medium. Respecting the privacy and choices of our online visitors and members is an important issue to us. We hope that the information provided below will address any questions or concerns you may have about privacy issues.
Visiting Our Web Site
Visitors and members may view the Squamish Chamber of Commerce web site anonymously, to obtain information about our Chamber, programs, events, services and members without providing any personal information. However, you may be asked to register or login to provide information that personally identifies you in certain circumstances, such as when you sign up for an event, make a payment or to update your business profile. Supplying such information to us is optional, but without doing so some areas of the site are restricted.
Information You Provide Us
We use the information that you provide us for responding to your requests, and to communicate with you directly. The primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you efficient service.
If you choose to send us an email or complete a form online, the Squamish Chamber of Commerce staff and Board Members will have access to such information in order to contact you for customer service purposes. We also track information on what pages you access for our own statistical purposes. Information submitted by you, such as survey information and/or comments or feedback, may be stored for internal reporting purposes and is not shared with people or organizations outside of the Squamish Chamber of Commerce. We will ask your permission to use your name or other detailed information you submitted prior to distribution.
Opt Out
The Squamish Chamber of Commerce recognizes that users may not wish to be contacted or to receive mailers, Chamber news or related broadcasts. The Squamish Chamber of Commerce allows you to opt out of any e-mail marketing that may result from use of the site. When you receive an email, you will be given instructions on how to remove yourself from that list. However if you choose to have your email address/s displayed on the website for public viewing, we cannot guarantee that you will not receive outsider solicitation.
Release of Information
The Squamish Chamber of Commerce will release any information that is required to be released by law or court order.
Security of the Information we use secure socket layer (SSL) encryption to protect the transmission of information you submit to us when you use our secure online forms. All the information you provide us through these forms is stored securely offline. If you send us an email or complete the Contact US Form, you should know that email is not necessarily secure against interception unless you are using a security-enabled web browser.
The above policies are effective as of April 1, 2008. The Squamish Chamber of Commerce reserves the right to change this policy at any time. The use of information that we gather now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at this time. Users wishing to see the changes may do so by visiting our web site privacy policy statement frequently.
Links
This site may contain links to other sites not owned or managed by Squamish Chamber of Commerce. Squamish Chamber of Commerce is not responsible for the privacy practices of such websites.
Automatic Information
When you visit our Web site, our Web server automatically recognizes and stores the name of the domain from which you access the Internet (for example, aol.com, if you are connecting from an America Online account), the date and time you access our site, and the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the Web site from where you came. This information enables us to run site usage tools and create statistics about our site. These statistics help us to better understand how our site is being used and what we can do to make it more useful to visitors. This information is not stored in a personally-identifiable format.
Use of "Cookies"
"Cookies" are small files that are placed on your hard drive that assist us in providing customized services. We may use cookies to allow you to let enter your password less frequently during a session. No other personal information is stored in this cookie.
From time to time, the Squamish Chamber of Commerce may send a "cookie" to your computer. A cookie is a small piece of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Cookies do not damage your system. We use cookies to identify which areas of the Squamish Chamber of Commerce websites you have visited or customized, so the next time you visit; those pages may be readily accessible. This information may be used to personalize our services to you.
You can choose whether to accept cookies by changing the settings of your browser. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies, or allow your browser to show you when a cookie is being sent. If you choose not to accept these cookies, your experience at our site and other Web sites may be diminished and some features may not work as intended.
Questions or Concerns
The Squamish Chamber of Commerce welcomes your questions and comments regarding this Online Privacy Policy. If you believe that the Squamish Chamber of Commerce has not adhered to this policy please notify us by email at admin@squamishchamber.com and we will make every effort to identify and remedy the problem.