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PRIVACY STATEMENT
COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER
A. Copyright and Terms of Use
This material, including copyright and marks under the Trade Marks Act (Canada), is owned by the Government of Alberta and protected by law.
B. Permission Statement
This material may be used, reproduced, stored or transmitted for noncommercial purposes. However, Crown copyright is to be acknowledged. If it is to be used, reproduced, stored or transmitted for commercial purposes, arrange first for consent by contacting the website manager at the address at the bottom of this page.
C. Disclaimer
Information at this site is provided solely for the user's information and, while thought to be accurate, is provided strictly "as is" and without warranty of any kind. The Crown, its agents, employees or contractors will not be liable to you for any damages, direct or indirect, or lost profits arising out of your use of information provided at this site, or information provided at any other site that can be accessed from this site.
PRIVACY
Thank you for visiting the website of the Office of the Child and Youth Advocate (Alberta) and reviewing our privacy policy. Our privacy policy is clear: We will not collect personal information about you when you visit our website unless you choose to provide that information to us.
Information about your visit to our site
This website does not store “cookies” on your computer. (Cookies are small amounts of information that are distributed to web browsers to assist you when you return to this site or a specific area on the site.)
HOW WE HANDLE YOUR INFORMATION
Here is how we handle information about your visit to our website:
If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the website, read pages, or download information, we will gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. This information does not identify you personally. We automatically collect and may store the following information about your visit:
The Internet domain (for example, "xcompany.com" if you use a private Internet access account) and IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access our website;
- The type of browser and operating system used to access our site;
- The date and time you access our site;
- The pages you visit; and
- If you linked to the Child and Youth Advocate website from another website, the address of that website.
We use this information to help us make our site more useful to visitors – to learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology our visitors use. We do not track or record information about individuals and their visits.
When you visit the Child and Youth Advocate website, the web server automatically collects a limited amount of information essential for the operation and security of our website and the other sites that reside on the server. Some of this information (e.g. browser type) does not identify who you are. Other information, such as your Internet domain name or IP address, may identify you depending, in large part, on the naming standards followed by your Internet service provider. You may wish to ask them about their policies and practices in this regard.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
This website contains links to other sites. We are not responsible for the content and the privacy practices of other websites and encourage you to examine each site’s privacy policy and make your own decisions regarding the accuracy, reliability and correctness of material and information found.
SECURITY
For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, the web server to which this website is hosted upon employs software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.
Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, no other attempts are made to identify individual users or their usage habits.
QUESTIONS?
If at any time you have questions about our privacy policy, please notify us by contacting the website manager, Sharen Osinchuk. You can reach her:
By Telephone at (780) 422-2966
By Mail at
Office of the Child and Youth Advocate
430 108th Street Building
9942 108 Street
Edmonton, AB T5K 2S3
Canada
By E-mail at sharen.osinchuk@gov.ab.ca.
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