Privacy Policy

About This Policy

This privacy policy is for the website sacla.ca and is served by Southern Alberta Community Living Association (SACLA). It governs the privacy of its users who choose to use it. The policy sets out the different areas where user privacy is concerned and outlines the obligations and requirements of the users, the website, and the website owners. Furthermore, the way this website processes, stores, and protects user data and information will also be detailed within this policy. This policy may be updated without notice; however, significant changes will be communicated through the website. If you have any questions regarding this policy, please contact us.

The Website

This website and its owners take a proactive approach to user privacy and ensure that necessary steps are taken to protect users’ privacy throughout their visiting experience. This website complies with all relevant Canadian national laws and requirements for user privacy, including the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).

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 with 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.

Contact Forms

Users contacting this website and/or its owners do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use. Every effort has been made to ensure a safe and secure form to email the submission process, but users are advised that they use such form to email processes at their own risk. This website and its owners use any information submitted to provide further information about the products/services they offer or to assist you in answering any questions or queries you may have submitted. This includes using your details to subscribe you to any email newsletter program the website operates, but only if this was made clear to you and your express permission was granted when submitting any form to email process, or whereby you the consumer have previously purchased from or enquired about purchasing from the company a product or service that the email newsletter relates to. This is by no means an entire list of your user rights in regard to receiving email marketing material. Your details are not passed on to any third parties.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies for your convenience. These cookies will last for one year. If you visit our login page, a temporary cookie will be set to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after one day.

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. We do not share your data with any other third parties, except as required by law.

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, we 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 We Send Your Data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service to ensure the security and integrity of our site.

Third-Parties Data

Google reCAPTCHA

Our website may use Google reCAPTCHA to protect against spam and abuse. Your interactions with reCAPTCHA will be disclosed to Google, which means your IP address and other data collected by reCAPTCHA are sent to Google’s servers in the United States for processing. SACLA does not collect or have access to the information collected by reCAPTCHA and Google. For more information, please visit Google’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

Microsoft Clarity

We partner with Microsoft Clarity and Microsoft Advertising to capture how you use and interact with our website through behavioral metrics, heatmaps, and session replay to improve and market our products/services. Website usage data is captured using first- and third-party cookies and other tracking technologies. For more information, visit the Microsoft Privacy Statement.

Google Signals

Google Signals collects session data from sites and apps that Google associates with users signed into their Google accounts who have Ads Personalization turned on. This data enables cross-device remarketing and key events export to Google Ads. For more information, visit Google’s Privacy Policy.