BC Academic Health Council ("BCAHC") takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy.

What this Privacy Policy Covers

• This Privacy Policy covers BC Academic Health Council's treatment of personally identifiable information that BC Academic Health Council collects when you are on the BC Academic Health Council site, and when you use BC Academic Health Council's services. This policy also covers BC Academic Health Council's treatment of any personally identifiable information that BC Academic Health Council's business partners share with BC Academic Health Council.

• This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that BC Academic Health Council does not own or control, or to people that BC Academic Health Council does not employ or manage, including without limitation, any BC Academic Health Council affiliates or business partners.

Information Collection and Use

• BC Academic Health Council collects personally identifiable information when you register for a BC Academic Health Council account, when you use certain BC Academic Health Council products or services.
• When you register with BC Academic Health Council, we ask for your name, email address, postal code, occupation Once you register with BC Academic Health Council and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
• BC Academic Health Council also automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser including your IP address, BC Academic Health Council cookie information and the page you requested.
• BC Academic Health Council 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 BC Academic Health Council service.
• Information found under Resources has been?gathered by BCAHC 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

• BC Academic Health Council will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to anyone.

• BC Academic Health Council 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 BC Academic Health Council 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 BC Academic Health Council is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, BC Academic Health Council will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

Cookies

• BC Academic Health Council may set and access BC Academic Health Council cookies on your computer.

• BC Academic Health Council 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 BC Academic Health Council's cookies.

Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences

• You have the right to access, verify and update your BC Academic Health Council Account Information and preferences at any time, including whether you want BC Academic Health Council to contact you about updates.

• You may request deletion of your BC Academic Health Council account by contacting us to terminate the account. Please contact our privacy officer 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

• BC Academic Health Council 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 BC Academic Health Council account or by posting a prominent announcement on our pages.

Questions or Suggestions

• If you have questions or suggestions, or wish to contact our Privacy Officer, please contact us.

Last updated September 1, 2008