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Privacy Policy
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Privacy Policy
Toronto Business Toastmasters is committed to protecting the privacy of its users. The following outlines our privacy and data protection policy.
Toastmasters International may have different privacy policies and are not subject to this privacy policy. We recommend that you read the privacy statement of each website to find out how they protect your personal information.
Collection and Use of User Details
When you register at torontobiztm.com, we collect personal details about you.
Personal information such as your name, address, e-mail address and job title is collected via torontobiztm.com’s event, e.g. meeting and membership registration forms.
When you visit the site, we also collect web site usage information and information about your computer and internet connection, including your computer's IP address, the type and version of browser and operating system you use, your internet domain and, if you arrived at torontobiztm.com via a link from another website, the URL of the linking page.
We use this information to:
- Confirm event and meeting registrations and roles
- personalise the content and advertising you will see based on your personal characteristics or preferences
- notify you of relevant new information and features on torontobiztm.com or at Toronto Business Toastmaster's meetings and/or events (if you opt in to receiving such information)
- ensure, as far as is practical, that our site is compatible with the browsers and operating systems used by most of our visitors.
- improve our understanding of guests, members and the general public's speaking needs
- build marketing profiles
- aid strategic development
- manage our relationship with guest, members and sponsors or advertisers
torontobiztm.com is part of Toronto Business Toastmasters, which operates from Toronto, Ontario Canada. Steps have been taken to ensure that high standards of data protection are adhered to in all regional offices for all the forms of processing mentioned above.
User Choices
The registration form provides you with a series of choices regarding promotional activity and other communication with you.
If you want to be kept informed of Toronto Business Toastmasters and/or torontobiztm.com services and offers, as well as technical or functional developments related to our website and on-line services, then you should tick the relevant opt-in box.
You may also indicate whether you wish to receive such information from other public speaking businesses and/or organization,e.g. Toastmasters International.
If you wish, we will occasionally allow other similar, reputable organisations to contact you. If you wish to hear from these companies, please tick the appropriate box on the registration form.
Cookies
A cookie is a small file which is placed on the user's hard drive during an torontobiztm.com visit. This file allows the user to move quickly and easily around our site. It is used to identify returning users and to identify guests, memberss and registrants (a registrant - and guest, members and subscriber - will have the cookie linked to their e-mail address as a way of identifying them). This means that if you are a registrant, guest, member or subscriber, you will not have to login each time you visit. We also use a cookie to track a user's sessions. We use this information to find out what site features are most popular so that we can develop torontobiztm.com in the light of our analysis of people’s usage. We may also use cookies and the information we collect to show you relevant content and advertising.
You can delete cookies from your hard drive at any time. Bear in mind, though, that if you delete these cookies, any settings such as your stored username and password will have to be reset when you log in again.
Unlike many sites, you will be able to use torontobiztm.com even if you set your browser not to accept any cookies. However, certain features and content may not be available to you and you will have to log in every time you visit.
Further information on the use of cookies can be found at:
http://www.cookiecentral.com.
E-mails
torontobiztm.com uses reputable third parties to deliver the e-mails you will receive from our site if you subscribe to our e-mail newsletters or have chosen to receive information about torontobiztm.com products and offers. These third parties use unique identifiers and invisible images (often called "pixel tags" or "clear GIFs") to perform message open sensing, message format sensing, and clickthrough sensing on behalf of torontobiztm.com in order to bring you more relevant information.
To find out more about these technologies as used in the e-mails sent on behalf of torontobiztm.com by Google Inc., please click here. Content and some ad services in these e-mails are provided by torontobiztm.com or another third party ad server.
Adverts
torontobiztm.com may use Google Adsense to deliver the advertisements that are placed within the site. Google Analytics and Google Adsense may note some of the pages you visit on our site through the use of pixel tags (also called "clear gifs"). In the course of serving advertisements to this site, Google may place or recognise a unique "cookie" on your computer on behalf of torontobiztm.com in order to bring to you more relevant information and in order to make sure that you do not receive the same advert many times in the same session. Some of the advertisers on torontobiztm.com do not use Google Adsense software and their adverts are served by Goolge Inc. who may place cookies. To find out more about these sensing methods and to know your choices about not having this information used by Google, please click here.
Security Policy
torontobiztm.com has appropriate measures in place to ensure that users' personal details are not misused, accidentally destroyed, lost or altered within the Toronto Business Toastmasters internet server services.
Occasions will arise when customer information is passed outside Toronto Business Toastmasters to other data processors (i.e. Toastmasters International, fulfillment bureaus, database consultants etc.) but they will only act upon instruction from Toronto Business Toastmasters in order to perform the services required.
Transfer of Personal Data Overseas
Given that the Internet is a global environment, using the Internet to collect and process personal data necessarily involves the transmission of data on an international basis. Therefore, by browsing torontobiztm.com and communicating electronically with us, you acknowledge and agree to our processing of personal data in this way.
Updating Customer Details
It is important to us that we have your correct contact information so that you don't miss out on further correspondence or experience problems with the delivery of products.
You can change your personal information or your e-mail requirements by updating your account information after loging in at:
http://www.torontobiztm.com.
Children Under 13
Toronto Business Toastmasters does not intentionally collect any personally identifiable information from individuals under the age of 16. When necessary, underage users will be told not to submit any personal details and we will make every effort to delete any details of such users where a parent or guardian has informed us that these details have been collected.
Changes to this statement
Due to changes in legislation and best practice or enhancements to functionality and content on torontobiztm.com we may make changes to our privacy policy and will reflect those changes in this statement, so you should check here from time to time.