Who we are
Our website address is: http://tourdeguelph.ca.
Privacy Promise: It is the policy of the Foundation and all affiliated fundraising properties including Tour de Guelph, not to sell, share or rent our donor list with anyone. When you make a gift to the Foundation, whether it be online, by mail, in person, or in support of a fundraising event, you can rest assured that your personal information remains private. We strictly protect the security of your personal information and honour your choice for its intended use. We take all possible measures to protect your data from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. You may access your personal information at any time to ensure that it is correct and current, or to edit it if you so desire. Periodic mailings or e-mails about The Foundation of Guelph General Hospital’s services or upcoming events may be sent to you if you provide us with your postal address. If you do not wish to receive these communications, please let us know by sending an email to foundation@gghorg.ca or by calling 519-837-6422. Persons who supply telephone numbers on-line may receive telephone contact from us with information regarding requests that have been made online. Our website may contain links to other websites. Upon entering other sites, you are subject to the privacy and security policies of those sites. This policy identifies the privacy practices of only The Foundation of Guelph General Hospital’s website and websites managed by The Foundation of Guelph General Hospital including Tour de Guelph. If you wish to receive a copy of our privacy policy, please contact us at foundation@gghorg.ca.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
A “Cookie” is a data file that is created and stored on your computer’s hard drive when you visit our Services, and it allows our Services to identify your web browser, for example. Cookies facilitate user preferences, allowing a website to remember the user. Cookies can also be used in order to allow for our Site to function properly.
How We Use Cookies
We use Cookies to track how our users access and use the services offered on our website, to learn when and how users visit the website, to learn which search terms are used, and to learn which websites direct you to the Services. We also use cookies to help display certain information about FrontStream services and to improve your enjoyment and convenience when using or visiting the website; for example, by remembering your contact and other information when you access or use the Services. We also use Cookies to facilitate login and access actions to enter a user account.
• Specifically, we use strictly necessary cookies, which allow you to access and use our Services, and which allow us to deliver those Services to you. For example, when you visit our website and login to your user account, we use Session Id cookies and Javascript check cookies.
• We use performance cookies that allow us to track site usage. This allows us to learn more about how users use the Services so that we make changes and improvements, as necessary.
• We use targeting cookies that measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns and to track sites you’ve visited so that we can measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns.
• We also allow third parties to place their cookies within our Services. For example, some of the companies that use our Services add custom code that allows them to add performance and targeting cookies to the pages they offer to their users.
Most web browsers automatically accept cookies. You can decide if and how your web browser will accept a cookie by configuring your preferences or options in your browser. You may refuse to accept Cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your web browser. If you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of our Site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, we will issue Cookies when you direct your browser to our Site.
Change settings from within your browser
To do this you may change your settings from within your browser by going to the “help” function on most browsers. If you choose to have your browser refuse Cookies, then it is likely that some areas of the website will not function properly when you use or visit them.
The instructions for these vary from browser to browser and they may change from time to time as new versions are released. Here are some links to instructions for the most common browsers:
Microsoft Internet Explorer
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Mozilla Firefox
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Google Chrome
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Safari
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For other browsers, try searching for “managing cookies in [browser name].”
If you have any questions or concerns about our use of cookies and other tracking technologies, please send us an email at PrivacyOfficer@frontstream.com.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.