Bioregional Earth is an emerging story for regenerating the planet, helping to design a pathway for generations now and into the future.
To carry out our work, it's important to communicate with you. And we're committed to respecting our relationship with you, whether close or distant.
This privacy policy and terms of use reflects our best efforts to maintain this respect, while ensuring we can communicate broadly, personally and accurately in the most cost-effective way possible. It explains how we collect, use and safeguard your personal information. It also explains how you may use material from this website. If you do not agree to these policies and terms, please do not use this website. If you have any questions, please email us at info@bioregionalearth.org.
Information We Collect and How We Use It
Personal Information
"Personal information" is any information that can be used to identify (or infer the identity of) a specific person, including, for example, your name, address, age, gender, etc. In some cases, your device's IP address can be considered personal information, as it may give some indication of your geographic location.
We may ask you for personal information in a variety of ways, including website forms, surveys, mail-in forms, over the phone and in person.
There are a range of reasons why we may ask you for this information, including: to process a donation or registration; to fulfill your subscription to an e-newsletter; to register you for an event; or to provide other information about us which might interest you. We may also contact you by mail, email or phone about opportunities to participate or donate in support of our work. We do not sell your personal information to third parties.
Your choice to provide us with your personal information is at your discretion. You may always elect to withhold information. In some cases, we will require your personal information in order to fulfill something you've asked of us.
A note to children: Remember to be smart when you're online. Do not give out your full name, email address, home address, telephone number or any other personal information that would enable someone to contact you either online or offline. If you are under 13 years of age, do not enter any personal information on this website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent. If we become aware that personal information for someone under the age of 13 has been entered without parental consent, the information will be removed immediately.
Cookies and Data Technology
We use cookies and other technology on our website to make it easier to use and so that we can learn about how you use it. Information collected this way may include (but is not limited to) your IP address and internet service provider, the type of web browser and operating system you used and which of our website pages you visited. We may use links in our emails to track open and click-through rates to help us learn what emails appeal to you most.
In some cases, interacting with our website or emails provides us with "anonymous" data, such as IP address, link clicks, page visits, the time spent on a page, etc. We use Google Analytics on our website to learn where you are, when you're using our site and what content you find most interesting. This anonymous data helps us keep our website content relevant.
Aggregate Data
In some cases, we may aggregate your information with others peoples' in order to do reports and summaries. This is done in an aggregated, anonymous manner. For example, we may show the total number of people who participated in an event.
Use of Third Parties
In many cases, we don't actually collect and store personal information in our systems, but instead use a third party. For example, we may use Survey Monkey to send out a survey or Eventbrite to provide an online registration form for an event.
Such services have resources dedicated to maintaining security and confidentiality, and we ensure that any third-party partner has written policies about never sharing your information with anyone other than with Bioregional Earth.
Donation and Payment Card Information
You may need to provide your credit card or debit card information to make your donation.
If you make an online donation or make your donation in person at an event, we won’t store your payment card information. Instead, it's collected and processed by a third-party service provider which either processes your single gift or stores your data to be processed each month if you make a recurring monthly donation. All partners that handle payment card data must be certified as payment card industry compliant.
Links to Other Websites
Our website contains links to websites owned and operated by other organizations. They may have their own privacy policies and terms and conditions and are not governed by this policy and terms. We encourage you to carefully review the privacy policy and terms of use of each website you visit.
Retention of Your Information
Unless otherwise permitted or required by applicable laws or regulations, we will retain your personal information only as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purpose of satisfying tax collection, legal, accounting or auditing requirements.
What You Need to Know About Consent
By providing personal information to us, you allow "deemed" consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your information in accordance with this policy.
When you provide contact information to us for one purpose, we may contact you using that information for other areas of our work. For example, if you sign up for our e-newsletter or make a donation, we may email you about an upcoming event we feel you may be interested in attending.
We respect your right to control your personal information —please contact us immediately (see our contact information at the end of this policy) if you want us to stop using it in any particular way. We will fulfill your request in the timeliest way possible.
Please note: We may be unable to provide you with certain information or services if you do not give us specific personal information. For example, we cannot send you an e-newsletter if you don't share your email address.
Accessing, Correcting and Deleting Personal Information & Updating
If you would like to stop receiving email from us at any time, click the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our e-newsletter, or reply to an email or send an email to info@bioregionalearth.org.
Upon reasonable request and notice, you may view and have corrections made to the personal information we hold about you, subject to any legal or contractual restrictions. If you are aware of any inaccuracies in the personal information we hold about you or to remove all of your information from our databases, please contact us at info@bioregionalearth.org.
We may not accept a request to change information if we believe that the change would violate a law or legal requirement or result in incorrect information.
Before providing you with access to your information, we may ask you for specific information to help us confirm your identity and right of access, and to provide you with the personal information we hold about you, or to make the requested changes. In some cases, applicable law requires us to refuse to provide you with access to some or all of the personal information we hold about you, or that we may have destroyed, erased or made anonymous in accordance with our legal record-keeping obligations and privacy best practices.
Please note that if you request deletion of certain information, we may not be able to provide you with certain services. We will explain the consequences of deletion at that time to assist you in your decision.
If we are unable to provide you with access to your personal information, we will inform you of the reasons why, subject to any legal or regulatory restrictions. Such restrictions may include, for example, information about another individual that would reveal their personal information or confidential business information, or would be prohibitively costly to provide.
Ways to Prevent Us from Collecting "Anonymous" Data
Our website uses cookies and JavaScript-based tracking scripts to collect the anonymous data referred to above. To stop this from happening, adjust your web browser's "cookie," "cache" and JavaScript settings. Please note that doing so may affect the performance of our website, and in some cases may completely prevent you from using some of our pages and forms.
Information We Share
General
In order to communicate with you, we sometimes work with third-party service providers. We require them to take measures to properly safeguard your information and only use it for the purpose specified by us, in a manner consistent with this policy. For example, we may use a third-party email service to send out our e-newsletter.
We may disclose information to other third-party service providers that perform services on our behalf, such as payment processing, information technology, data hosting and processing services.
Finally, we may disclose personal information as necessary to meet legal, regulatory, insurance, audit, and security requirements, and as otherwise with your consent, or as permitted or required by law (including as required by applicable Canadian and foreign laws applicable to us or our service providers).
Email Addresses
We do not sell or exchange email addresses with other organizations.
In some instances, we may promote activities on our website in partnership with other non-profit organizations. In these cases, we give you the clear option of whether you want us to share your email with them.
How We Keep Your Information Secure
We take reasonable steps to protect the personal information in our custody or control using physical, electronic or procedural security measures, including firewalls and encryption, that are appropriate having regard to the nature and sensitivity of the information. We take reasonable measures to limit access to this data to authorized staff and contractors who need to know that information in order to perform, develop or improve our services.
However, please note that no security measures can offer absolute security.
Cross-border Transfer of Information
Some information we collect may be stored and processed on servers located outside your jurisdiction of residence, including outside your province/state and/or country. Please note that the privacy laws in such jurisdictions may differ from Canadian privacy laws. As a result, this information may be subject to disclosure to governments, courts or law enforcement agencies in those areas, according to their laws, without notice to us or you.
Use
Use of this Website
We make no representations or warranties with respect to the contents of this website, which are provided for use "as is" and "as available." We disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including without limitation the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, with respect to this website and any website with which it is linked. We do not warrant the functions, information, or links contained on this website or that its contents will meet your requirements.
Use of Content from this Website
This website contains free information, articles, and videos for the enjoyment and use of our visitors. You may share entire articles, videos, or links to any of our website pages using the social media share links on this website. The contents, and the collection, arrangement and assembly of the contents, are protected by copyright. No material may be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in anyway, except for your personal non-commercial use only, provided you keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices. Teachers and non-profit organizations may make more than one copy to share materials with students and small groups, again provided you keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices. Modification of the materials or use of the materials for any other purpose is a violation of our copyright, trademark, and others' proprietary rights. The use of any such material on any other website or networked computer environment for any purpose is prohibited without prior permission from us. If you wish to obtain permission to use materials from this website in these or any other ways, please email info@bioregionalearth.org.
Jurisdiction
This website is controlled from within the Province of Ontario, Canada. It can, however, be accessed from all other places around the world. Although these places may have different laws from those of the Province of Ontario, by accessing this site, you agree that the laws of the Province of Ontario will apply to all matters relating to your use of this site, without regard to rules relating to conflict of laws. We make no claims that the materials may be lawfully viewed or downloaded outside of Canada. Access to materials may not be legal by certain persons or in certain countries. If you access the site from outside of Canada, you do so at your own risk and are responsible for compliance with the laws of your jurisdiction. Any action relating to these policies must be brought in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and you irrevocably consent to the jurisdiction of such courts.
Policy Updates and Changes
We may change this policy from time to time without notice. Changes will be reflected on this page. We will use information in accordance with the policies under which the information was collected.
Contact Information
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or terms of use, please contact us by email at info@bioregionalearth.org or by mail to: 20200 Marsh Hill Rd, Uxbridge, ON, L9P 1R3, Canada.
This document is available to the public and explains how we collect, use and disclose information, in accordance with this policy, the Personal Information and Electronic Documents Act, the Personal Information Protection Act and other relevant legislation.