Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy Statement
The Virtual School Society respects each visitor’s right to personal privacy and believes in protecting your privacy. This policy outlines how we manage your Personal Information and safeguard your privacy. To that end, we collect and use information throughout our website and this statement applies soley to information collected on this site.
By providing Personal Information to us and using our services, you agree to the terms of this policy. This policy does not apply to the practices of institutions, companies or other entities that The Virtual School Society does not manage or control and does not apply to information regarding corporations or other non-individuals.
Personal Information means information about an identifiable individual, and includes things such as name, address information, workplace information and any other data assigned to an individual.
The Virtual School Society may collect and use your Personal Information for the following purposes:
- to open and manage your registration at the Vitrual School Society in order to receive notices, an e-newsletter, participate in our community and access resources;
- to provide access to online workshops, programs and other learning events;
- to deliver to you the services of The Virtual School Society and partner institutions;
- to send out information on The Virtual School Society and partner educational institutions with which we do business;
- to verify the identity of persons registering for courses through us;
- to understand your needs and preferences for our services and those of the partner institutions with which we do business;
- to contact learners for purposes connected with their registration at The Virtual School Society and at the partner institutions with which we do business;
- to provide input or conduct surveys related to our services;
- to provide support services and other learning resources.
- for other purposes reasonably consistent with the above purposes.
Disclosure of Personal Information:
The Virtual School Society does not and will not sell, rent, share or disclose your Personal Information without first receiving your permission or as disclosed in this policy. Under certain circumstances, The Virtual School Society will disclose your Personal Information:
- when you have consented to the disclosure;
to fulfill the purpose for which the Personal Information was collected or for a purpose reasonably consistent with that purpose;
- when the services we are providing to you require us to give information to third parties, such as the educational institutions with which you are registered or governmental bodies;
- where it is necessary to establish or collect fees;
if we engage a third party to provide services to us and the third party is bound by confidentiality obligations;
- if the information is already publicly known; or
- when we are required or authorized by law to do so.
Summarized Data:
We may also use your Personal Information to generate Summarized Data for internal use and for sharing with partner institutions with which we do business. Your identity and Personal Information will be kept anonymous in Summarized Data. Summarized Data may be used for research, marketing, or planning purposes.
Consent:
By providing Personal Information to us and by using our services, you voluntarily consent to the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information as specified in this policy. Please remember that you control what Personal Information you provide to The Virtual School Society while visiting the The Virtual School Society website. Ultimately, you are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords and/or any Personal Information in your possession. Always be careful and responsible regarding your Personal Information.
You can visit the The Virtual School Society website without registering or providing any Personal Information at all. Our website contains links to other sites, which are not governed by this policy. You should consider the individual privacy policies of such websites, and make an informed decision whether or not to use these sites based upon their privacy practices.
Like most other commercial websites, our website may monitor traffic patterns, site usage, and related site information. We use this information in order to optimize our website and to assess usage of our website.
The Virtual School Society takes reasonable steps to ensure that your Personal Information is kept safe from loss, unauthorized access, modification, or disclosure.
Changes to this Privacy Policy:
The Virtual School Society may change this policy from time to time and such changes will be effective from the date of revision and posting on our website.
Should you have any further questions or concerns about the privacy of information you provide to The Virtual School Society, please feel free to contact us at the following address:
tdagert@bcedonline.ca
Director of Operations
Phone: 250-753-9706
Policy posted: Nov. 1, 2006
