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Privacy
Statement
Protection
of Personal Information at the CBC
The CBC Privacy Coordinator is accountable for the CBC’s policies
and practices, with respect to the management of personal information,
and is the individual to whom complaints and inquires can be forwarded.
Edith
Cody-Rice
Privacy Coordinator
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
250 Lanark Ave.
Ottawa, Ontario
K1Y 1E4
Tel. (613) 724-5353
Fax (613) 724-5453
View: CBC Privacy Policy
View: CBC Privacy Standards
Privacy on the Internet
This privacy statement is applicable to all CBC web-sites.
The CBC respects the privacy
of its Internet users and will protect that privacy as vigorously
as possible.
CBC does not collect information
that personally identifies individuals except when individuals provide
such specific information on a voluntary basis. There may be occasions
where specific personal information is requested before an individual
can enter certain sections of a CBC site. For example, registration
is needed to enter the Fantasy Pool of the Hockey Night in Canada
site or to participate in any CBC online forum. This kind of registration helps us to ensure that content
standards on these sections of the site are rigorously upheld or
that contact can be made with prize winners. Information requested
in order to personalize the CBC.ca homepage or any other CBC site
section would be a similar example.
In all such cases, CBC will
collect only information that is voluntarily provided by the user
and undertakes that such information will be kept strictly confidential.
Individual information provided to the CBC to gain access to
any CBC site will not be sold or made available to a third party.
CBC does reserve the right,
however, to perform statistical analyses of user behaviour and characteristics,
in order to measure interest in and use of the various sections
of its sites so as to improve design and navigation and to gather
marketing information. Only aggregated data from these analyses,
not individual data, will be used for this purpose.
As well, users should be
aware that certain non-personal information and data may be automatically
collected by the CBC through the operation of what are called "cookies".
"Cookies" are small text files that identify an individual computer's
browser entering a web site. They allow the site to track that browser's
movement through the site over several sessions. Through cookies,
a web site can recognize repeat users, facilitate the user's access
to and use of the site and allow a site to track usage behaviour
that will allow content improvements. The CBC uses cookies only
for the above-mentioned purposes and will not use them to identify
users or to track non-CBC usage.
If you do not want a cookie
placed on your computer by the CBC, you may disable cookies altogether
by modifying the Preferences section of your Netscape or Internet
Explorer browser (under Edit/Preferences/Advanced). Note that
it is possible that some aspects of CBC sites may be unavailable
to you if you choose this option.
If you have no problem accepting
cookies, but wish to be informed of their appearance, you may turn
on a warning prompt by modifying the cookie warning section in Edit/Preferences/Advanced.
Third Party Advertising
The ads appearing on this Web site are delivered to you by DoubleClick,
our Web advertising partner. Information about your visits to this
site, such as number of times you have viewed an ad (but not your
name, address, or other personal information), is used to serve
ads to you. For more information about DoubleClick,
cookies, and how to "opt-out", please visit http://www.doubleclick.net/us/corporate/privacy.
Third Party Cookies
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advertisements to this site, our third-party advertiser may place
or recognize a unique cookie on your browser.
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