At the Canadian Association for University Continuing Education (CAUCE), we are committed to protecting the privacy of our members, non-members, vendors, and sponsors. This privacy statement provides information about online practices and how we collect, use, and dispose of your personal information.
Cookies
The CAUCE website uses cookies to track usage and measure aggregate web statistics, including monthly visitors, number of repeat visitors, most popular web pages and other information. CAUCE also uses cookies to facilitate your online visit by maintaining data that you provide for online activities, so you do not need to resubmit certain information. Cookie information may be used to detect and resolve website issues, for system maintenance, and to better understand how our visitors use our site and services so that we can make them better.
You can erase or block this information by changing the settings on your computer. If you erase or block this information, you may not be able to utilize some features of the CAUCE Website.
Restricted Access Web Pages
Some areas of this website are restricted to CAUCE members only and require a login using your organization name, member ID or email and password. It is used to verify that a person is authorized to use a particular website resource.
Information collection
Personal Information
Most of the personal information we use is collected on this Website when you voluntarily submit it for the purpose of registering for the Website, updating your user profile, or completing an event registration form. Information collected includes, but is not limited to:
- The information that you provide to subscribe to website services (including institutional user names and passwords, individual usernames and passwords);
- Any other contact information you or your institution shares with CAUCE (e.g. name, job title, organization, department, email address, physical address, telephone numbers, URL)
- Professional information, such as your employment background and related information
- Transactional information for the services or events you are interested in or attend
- Information you may provide in response to a survey via an app or email, on the telephone, or otherwise
Information Collected from Your Computer
CAUCE may collect and use the following kinds of information about your activity: information about your use of the CAUCE website, your computer, or other electronic devices when you visit, including page hits, browser type, your Internet Protocol (IP) address, domain name
Using your information
CAUCE collects your personal information to provide you with the services you request and those which we believe will optimize your membership and/or use of the CAUCE website. We use the information you provide about yourself when using our online services (e.g. meeting registrations, etc.) to complete the specific service transaction. For meeting registrations, a list of attendee names, titles, institutions, and addresses is made available to meeting attendees, sponsors, and exhibitors; no other information is shared with outside parties except to the extent necessary to conduct relevant business or as required by law
CAUCE may use the information it collects to:
- administer the Website;
- personalize the Website for you;
- enable your access to and use of any Website services;
- publish information about you and/or your institution on the password-protected, members' only section of the Website;
- send you CAUCE approved organizational and professional interest communications including e-marketing and surveys
Disclosure of Information
CAUCE may share your information with third parties on a confidential basis to enable a third party to perform specific tasks, such as maintaining a membership database or sending email alerts or newsletters on our behalf. These third-party providers will be obligated to protect the privacy of our members and subscribers. They will not utilize your information for any other purpose but to provide the service we contract.
Information is accessible only to CAUCE Secretariat staff and, when deemed necessary we may share certain information with volunteer executives and committees, and members so that the activities can be carrying out.
In addition to the disclosures necessary for the purposes identified elsewhere, CAUCE may disclose your contact information to the extent that it is required to do so by law, in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings, and to establish, exercise or defend its legal rights.
Securing your data
CAUCE will take reasonable technical and administrative precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your contact information. CAUCE will store all the contact information you provide on secure servers within Canada. CAUCE will notify you in the event of a breach of our security safeguards that could lead to a real risk of significant harm.
Opting out of email lists
People who subscribe to email lists via the Website will receive periodic updates from CAUCE by email. You may opt-out of receiving future information via email at any time by updating your email notification preferences in the member portal.
If you opt-out, we may still send you emails about your membership and membership status, your accounts, information about and invitations to conferences or events, and our prior business dealings with you.
In compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act, GDPR, and CASL, all email sent from CAUCE from our organization will clearly state who the email is from and provide clear information on how to contact the sender. In addition, all email messages will also contain concise information on how to remove yourself from our mailing list so that you receive no further email communications from us.
How long do we keep your personal information?
We will retain your personal information only as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this statement, or as is required by applicable law, and then we will delete it.
Links to other websites
The CAUCE website contains hypertext links to other websites. The appearance of a link to CAUCE on other organizations' websites does not imply endorsement of those organizations on the part of CAUCE. CAUCE is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.
Changes to this Privacy Statement
CAUCE reserves the right to update this privacy policy at any time, without notice to you. While CAUCE will attempt to notify you of any changes to this policy as soon as it is available, the updated statement is effective when the new version is posted to the CAUCE site.
Contacting CAUCE
If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy or the treatment of your contact information, please email CAUCE.Secretariat@usask.ca.
