At the Sir Frederick Banting Legacy Foundation (SFBLF), we respect your right to privacy.  We understand that, as a visitor to www.bantinglegacy.ca, you prefer to control your own personal information. For this reason, we may ask you to register or to provide personal information and preferences when you visit certain areas of the website or request information. 

We will guard the personal information you share with us to ensure the content, services, and advertising that we provide on bantinglegacy.ca are always tailored to your current, designated preferences.

When you provide SFBLFs with your name, e-mail address, mailing address, or telephone number, the SFBLF and SFBLF’s representatives may use the provided information to alert you to special events, updated information, diabetes education, new tools, and other SFBLF information. The SFBLF does not offer, or allow the selling of, any user-provided information to third parties. 

The SFBLF respects the rights users give us when opting to receive e-mail communications and enforces internal policies to preserve those rights. It is our objective to earn and retain the long-term ability to communicate with our visitors.

If you do not want the SFBLF or SFBLF’s representatives to contact you, you may “opt out” of this preference at any time, whether you’re online or contacting us directly. As part of your preference flexibility, you’ll always have the option to opt back in and have the SFBLF contact you based on your previous or new preferences.

If you choose not to register or provide personal information, you can still visit the SFBLF website; however, you will not have access to areas that require personal identification.

The SFBLF remembers you by placing a log file (“cookie”) that contains only enough information to identify you upon return visits. A cookie is a small line of text that is stored with your web browser for record-keeping purposes and helps the SFBLF provide better service to you. Your browser has options to accept, reject, or provide you with notice when a cookie is sent.

The SFBLF utilizes visitor log files with our website. Once a visitor enters our site, a cookie follows them through their click-stream path. Examples of information being collected by these cookies include the number of times a user came to our site(s), and the access paths they took to get there.

The SFBLF uses the data collected from website visitor cookies in aggregate form only and does not collect any personally identifiable information. Use of this information helps us better understand what users are seeking and learning at our website and helps us identify potential navigation issues.

How the SFBLF will protect your personal information 

The SFBLF will always protect the personal information that you share with us. We store information internally in a controlled, secure environment. If, for example, you make a purchase online, we route all transactions through SSL (Secure Socket Layers) and will process your credit card number only to secure your current payment. The SSL transaction does not retain your credit card number subsequent to the transaction at hand and will not use the number for marketing purposes.

We occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, including packaging, mailing and delivering purchases, sending postal mail and processing event registration. We will only provide those companies the information they need to deliver the service, and they are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.

If the SFBLF requests general demographic information from you, this information is limited to aggregate reporting purposes only; individual members remain anonymous. Phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and postal addresses are never shared with outside entities for demographic reports.

Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law but only when we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on us related to our website.

Links 

The SFBLF website may contain links to other sites. We assume no responsibility for the content or the privacy policies and practices of such websites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of these linked sites before providing any personal information; their privacy practices may differ from ours.