This privacy policy sets out how Saskatoon Trades & Skills Centre uses and protects any information that you give to Saskatoon Trades & Skills Centre when you use this website. Saskatoon Trades & Skills Centre is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
Saskatoon Trades & Skills Centre may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from August 5, 2018.
What we collect
We may collect the following information:
- Personal Information
- Source of Income
- Employment History
- Education and Training History
- Other information relevant to student registrations and/or applications
What we do with the information we gather
We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:
- Internal record keeping.
- We may use the information to improve our programs and services.
- We may periodically send promotional email about new programs, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.
- From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail.
- We may use the information to customize the website according to your interests.
- We will never sell your information.
Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
This website uses a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Certificate to encrypt all information entered into our online forms to provide a simple and secure method to collect information.
Your IP address of the device that has contacted the saskatoontradesandskills.ca website will be logged and analysed using security software to safeguard against malicious intent.
How we use cookies
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
Contact forms
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie 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 1 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.
Web Analytics
Reactive Designs is responsible for the Saskatoon Skills and Trades Centre website. Reactive Designs performs web analytics which is the collection, analysis, and reporting of web traffic data. Web analytics are done to help determine how saskatoontradesandskills.ca can be improved to better serve students and other visitors.
For the purpose of performing web analytics, Reactive Designs tracks certain types of information during visits to saskatoontradesandskills.ca. For the purposes of the Privacy Act, this information is treated as personal information. When your computer or other device requests a saskatoontradesandskills.ca web page, information is collected for the purpose of web analytics and security. The type of information collected includes, but is not limited to:
- IP address of the device
- type of browser used
- type of operating system used
- the date and time of the visit
- pages visited and documents downloaded
Reactive Designs carries out web analytics using services from Google. For more information about the Google privacy policy, please visit their website or use the following link:
Links to other websites
Our website contains links to other websites. If you visit other websites by clicking on our links, however, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information, which you provide whilst visiting such sites and this privacy statement does not govern such sites. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.