Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy.
What this Privacy Policy Covers
This Privacy Policy covers the Rural Coordination Centre of BC's (RCCbc) treatment of personally identifiable information that may be collected when you are on the site, and when you use our services. This policy also covers RCCbc's treatment of any personally identifiable information that our business partners share with us.
This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that we do not own or control, or to people that we do not employ or manage, including without limitation, any of our affiliates or business partners.
Information Collection and Use
RCCbc collects personally identifiable information when you register for a member account, when you use certain RCCbc products or services.
When you register with RCCbc, we ask for your name, email address, postal code, occupation and other voluntary information. Once you register with us and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
We automatically receive and record information on our server logs from your browser including your IP address, RCCbc cookie information and the page you requested.
RCCbc uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see on our pages, to fulfill your requests for certain products and services, improve our services, conduct research, and to contact you about specials and new products or for service announcements or administrative messages relating to the RCCbc service.
Information found under Resources has been gathered by RCCbc for research and reference purposes. It has not been and can not be reproduced for any purpose, used for commercial use, or modified in any way.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
- RCCbc will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to anyone.
- We will not share personally identifiable information about you to other companies or people unless:
- We have your consent to share this information;
- We need to share the information with companies who work on behalf of RCCbc to provide a product or service to you. Please know that whenever we share your personal information with these trusted business partners, they work under confidentiality agreements. (Unless we tell you differently, these companies do not have any right to use the personally identifiable information we provide to them beyond what is necessary to assist us.);
- We reasonably believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, or as otherwise required or permitted by law;
- We respond to warrants, subpoenas, court orders or legal process or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims; or
- We may transfer information about you if RCCbc is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, we will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
Cookies
RCCbc may set and access RCCbc cookies on your computer.
RCCbc allows other companies that are presenting advertisements on some of our pages to set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to RCCbc's cookies.
Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences
You have the right to access, verify and update your RCCbc Account Information and preferences at any time, including whether you want the RCCbc to contact you about updates.
You may request deletion of your account by contacting us to terminate the account. Please contact us about what information may possibly remain in our archived records after your account has been deleted.
Confidentiality and Security
We limit access to personal information about you to employees who, as part of their job, we believe need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you.
We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect personal information about you.
In the event that you believe that your personal safety is at risk or if you believe that you may be the victim of identity theft or other illegal conduct, please contact the appropriate federal, provincial or local law enforcement agencies directly.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
RCCbc may amend this policy from time to time. If we make any substantial changes we will notify you by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your RCCbc account or by posting a prominent announcement on our pages.
Questions or Suggestions
If you have questions or suggestions, or wish to contact us, please send an e-mail to info@rccbc.ca.
