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Website Privacy Policy

NIAGARA ON THE LAKE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY PRIVACY STATEMENT

INTRODUCTION

The Niagara on the Lake Horticultural Society (NIAGARA ON THE LAKE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY) is a not-for-profit charitable organization with a volunteer Executive and Board of Directors whose purpose is to provide leadership and assist in the promotion of education and interest in all areas of horticulture and related environmental issues.

Our privacy policies and procedures that have been developed to comply with Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (“PIPEDA”). PIPEDA sets out rules for the collection, use and disclosure of a member’s or volunteer’s personal information, as well as safeguarding that information in the course of its activity as defined in the legislation.

Website Privacy Policy

This privacy policy explains how the NIAGARA ON THE LAKE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY collects, uses and discloses your information when you use our website. The policy also explains how our privacy commitments apply to our website operations.

The only personal information that we collect from your visit is what you voluntarily provide to us for specific purposes.
Our website analytics only use non-identifiable data.
We do not share data about your visit with third parties except to report malicious attacks or as required by law.
We take reasonable efforts to minimize the number of third parties that may track you on our website.
Personal Information - The only personal information that we collect from your visit is what you voluntarily provide to us for specific purposes, such as to ask questions, submit documents, make a payment, provide feedback, use our search tool, or subscribe to our communications.
The NIAGARA ON THE LAKE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY only collects personal information that is authorized and in compliance with Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (“PIPEDA”)

WHAT IS “PERSONAL INFORMATION”

Under PIPEDA, “Personal Information” means any information that is identifiable to an individual, including name, address, telephone number, Social Insurance Number, and date of birth. It also includes, but is not limited to, other information relating to identity, such as, nationality, gender, marital status, financial information and credit history.

As it relates to this description, The Niagara on the Lake Horticultural Society, limits your personal information to your contact details: Name, address, email address and telephone number. We DO NOT retain any credit card information you provide. And in fact that data is processed by WIX our website provider's third party financial vendor named Stripe. Once submitted for payment we have no access to your credit details.

PURPOSES FOR PERSONAL INFORMATION

The NIAGARA ON THE LAKE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY collects only that personal information required to assess the eligibility of an individual to receive the benefits and programs offered by the NIAGARA ON THE LAKE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY and its partners.

The NIAGARA ON THE LAKE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY collects and analyzes website usage data solely for internal purposes. We DO NOT sell, rent, exchange, or otherwise disclose any information that we collect about our website visitors to third parties, except in the case of a malicious attack or as required by law.

Data Collection

NIAGARA ON THE LAKE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY web servers automatically record non-identifiable details about website visits. Web server logs are generated when visitors view and interact with our web pages. NIAGARA ON THE LAKE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY web servers log the data about your visit including:

Date and time of the interaction.
Pages you viewed and documents downloaded on our website and time spent on each page.
URL of the page that directed you to our website, and in some instances, the search term(s) you used to find us.
Language of your browser.
Country (determined by IP address).

If you voluntarily provide information to the NIAGARA ON THE LAKE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY such as through a web form or our search function, information such as the above will be retained by the NIAGARA ON THE LAKE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY in a log alongside the information you provided.

How We Use Your Data

Our website analytics only use non-identifiable data through WIX who log transaction data from website visits to:

fix errors on our website;
defend against malicious attacks;
generate website usage statistics; and
improve service delivery in general.

A cookie is a small text file that a website creates and accesses through your browser when you visit the site. Cookies are used for many purposes, such as to track language preferences, provide customized web page content, and display website navigation history.

You do not have to accept any cookies to access or search the NIAGARA ON THE LAKE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY website. However, there may be minor loss of functionality if you have disabled or deleted all cookies. Please consult your browser settings (and browser extensions or plugins) which allow you to configure whether and how you receive cookies.

Cookies used by the NIAGARA ON THE LAKE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY do not contain personally identifying information, and do not give us access to anything on your device.

Data generated from NIAGARA ON THE LAKE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY cookies are not used to identify visitors, used to track them across the Internet, or shared with third parties. The foregoing does not apply to certain third party cookies associated with embedded content, discussed below.

Third Parties

The NIAGARA ON THE LAKE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY collects and analyzes website usage data solely for internal purposes to improve our site and offerings to our membership. We do not sell, rent, exchange, or otherwise disclose any information that we collect about our website visitors to third parties, except in the case of a malicious attack or as required by law.

LIMITING USE, RETENTION & DISCLOSURE

The NIAGARA ON THE LAKE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY uses and retains personal information for only those purposes to which the individual has consented.

Personal information will be disclosed to only those NIAGARA ON THE LAKE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY Executive, Directors and committees, and/or Board of Directors that need to know the information for the purposes set out in the NIAGARA ON THE LAKE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY Privacy Policy.

SAFEGUARDS

The NIAGARA ON THE LAKE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY utilizes a number of physical, organizational and technological measures to safeguard personal information from unauthorized access or inadvertent disclosure in accordance with its Information Security, Retention and Destruction Policy, including but not limited to:

CONTACT INFORMATION

If you have any questions regarding the Niagara on the Lake Horticultural Association’s Privacy Policy, Information Security, Retention and Destruction Policy, and/or this Privacy Statement, or you wish to make an access to personal information request, please contact the secretary of the Niagara on the Lake Horticultural Society via the Contact page.

Email Communication

If you sign up to receive email news, updates or communications from the NIAGARA ON THE LAKE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, your email address will only be used to provide you with the requested service. If you do not wish to receive email communications from the NIAGARA ON THE LAKE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY regarding new projects, meetings, events and volunteer opportunities, you may Unsubscribe at any point or email us at notlhortsociety@gmail.com

External Sites

This website contains links to websites controlled by other Government of Ontario organizations and to third party websites. We are not responsible for the content and the privacy practices of sites other than our own. We encourage you to examine each site’s privacy policies and to make your own decisions regarding how your personal information is protected as well as the accuracy, reliability and completeness of material and information found there.

Niagara-on-the-Lake Horticultural Society Established 1906

Niagara-on-the-Lake Horticultural Society
Established 1906