Privacy Policy

Introduction

Community Pulse is owned and operated by Village Media. This policy governs the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information by Community Pulse, whether oral, electronic, or written. The application of this policy is subject to the requirements or provisions of any applicable legislation, regulations or agreements (such as collective agreements), or the order of any court or other lawful authority.

Community Pulse reserves the right to amend this policy from time to time.

What is Personal Information?

Personal information is information that can be linked to an individual. For example, your email address is considered personal information, even if it does not include your name. This policy does not cover business contact information such as your name, title, business address and phone number. Nor does it include information that is collected, used, or disclosed solely for journalistic purposes.

How Community Pulse Collects Personal Information

Most of the Personal Information collected by Community Pulse is provided directly by users of the service. For example, when you sign up for Community Pulse, you may be asked to provide your name, email address, postal code and information about yourself. You may also provide information when you respond to surveys or indicate that you would like to take part in community activities.

Community Pulse also uses third party services which collect usage and browsing information and provide aggregate non-personal information about visitors to the site.

What Personal Information Does Community Pulse Collect?

• Name and contact information;
• Postal code and information you provide about yourself;
• Survey responses and participation preferences;
• Correspondence, requests and comments; and
• Any other personal information you may submit.

Purposes for Collection of Personal Information

Community Pulse collects Personal Information for the following purposes:

• To allow users to sign up for and participate in Community Pulse;
• To invite users to take part in surveys, community conversations and other opportunities relevant to them;
• To understand and report on community views;
• To communicate with participants via email;
• To protect the rights, property and safety of Community Pulse, its staff and third parties;
• To detect and investigate security breaches

The Personal Information collected is the minimum required for the stated purposes and will only be stored as long as is necessary to achieve the stated purposes.

Disclosure

Community Pulse does not sell your Personal Information.

Community Pulse does not otherwise disclose your information, unless it is legally required to do so or if disclosure is necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of Community Pulse, its staff, users, or members of the public.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are stored on a user’s computer when they visit a website. They collect and store information about users in order to do things like remember user preferences and tailor advertising. Community Pulse uses cookies to personalize user experience and to compile aggregate, non-personal information about how many people are visiting the site and which pages they viewed. Users can choose to disable cookies at any time, though it may affect some site functionality.

Security

Community Pulse uses password-protected, restricted access services to keep its users’ data secure. Employees who have access to Personal Information are trained on how to keep this information secure. Community Pulse uses industry-standard SSL encryption on the site so that users who visit and interact with the website will have their traffic encrypted, protecting it from third party surveillance.

Accuracy and Access

Community Pulse users can access personal information stored about them and request corrections to this information by sending a written request to the privacy officer at [email protected] or [email protected]. Users may also direct any questions or concerns they have about Community Pulse’s privacy policy or practices to the same email.