Personal information
No personally identifiable information is automatically collected about visitors who simply browse Toward Common Ground’s website or who download information from it. Personal information is gathered only when a visitor knowingly provides this information on a voluntary basis, such as through a form.
Cookies
Toward Common Ground is continually improving towardcommonground.ca to make it useful to you. To do this, we gather statistics about which pages you visit while on the website.
We gather this information by placing a temporary file, called a “cookie”, on your hard drive. This cookie does not collect any information we could use to identify you, such as your name, address, email address, or phone number. It collects information such as:
- Your IP address (a series of numbers that are automatically assigned to your computer when you go online)
- The type of web browser and operating system you use
- The date and time you visited the site
- Which pages you visited
- The order you visited the pages
- How long you spent on each page
- The page you entered the site on
- The last page you looked at before you left
Third-party cookies
When visiting towardcommonground.ca, your browser may receive longer-term cookies from Google, a third-party organization. Consequently, Google may track your online activities across other websites.
If you are concerned about cookies, you can adjust your web browser settings to reject them. Please consult your browser settings and plugins which allow you to configure whether and how you receive cookies.
External links
The Toward Common Ground website has links to other sites that may collect personal information about visitors. This policy does not cover third party data collection practices and Toward Common Ground does not assume any responsibility for the actions of third parties.
Information sharing
Toward Common Ground collects website usage data and personal information (when provided voluntarily by a visitor) strictly for internal purposes. We will not sell, rent, exchange, or otherwise disclose any information that we collect about website visitors to third parties, except as required by law.