The Vancouver Island Music Academy ("VIMA") is committed to respecting and protecting your privacy. The Vancouver Island Music Academy privacy policy ("Policy") outlines the collection, use, retention, management and disclosure of your personal information. Please note that "personal information" means any information about an identifiable individual, such as name, home address, home phone and fax numbers, email address, birth date, age, proof of age, and credit card information. This Policy follows the privacy principles set out in the federal government's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act. Please note that by visiting the Vancouver Island Music Academy web site and/or by providing personal information to Vancouver Island Music Academy, you accept the terms and practices described in this Policy, as amended from time to time. The Vancouver Island Music Academy will keep this Policy up to date to ensure that it is relevant and remains current with changing laws, regulations, and technologies. Please review this Policy in its entirety and revisit it for changes periodically.
The Vancouver Island Music Academy collects personal information primarily to register and communicate with students and parents. Personal information may be used in the collection and/ or enforcement of payment of tuition and/or other fees to the Vancouver Island Music Academy. The Vancouver Island Music Academy does not engage in list exchanges, or allow personal information collected by the Vancouver Island Music Academy to be provided to any other organization. The Vancouver Island Music Academy also uses personal information for its risk management and related purposes. Personal information may be disclosed by the Vancouver Island Music Academy for certain emergency and other purposes as permitted and/or required by applicable laws. At any time, you may ask the Vancouver Island Music Academy to stop sending you email and/or other information. Like many other web sites, the Vancouver Island Music Academy's web site automatically collects certain non-identifying information regarding web site users. The Vancouver Island Music Academy uses common Internet tracking tools associated with standard Internet protocols and web-based systems. This information is typically stored in log files. Log files are transaction records maintained by web servers and used for recording and reporting information, such as: service provider IP addresses, browser versions, referring web sites, search terms used, average number of web pages requested, most visited web pages, average duration of visit, peak traffic times and total visitor traffic. This aggregated information does not identify you and thus does not constitute personal information. We do not report on individual user sessions. We use aggregated information gathered from your visit for web site and system administration purposes in order to help the management of our systems and to better serve our users. The Vancouver Island Music Academy web site may use "cookies", a technology that installs information on a web site user's computer to permit the web site to recognize future visits using that computer. A cookie is generally used to enhance your browsing experience. Cookies do not give the Vancouver Island Music Academy access to any data or software on your hard drive. You can choose to set your browser to detect and reject cookies, to accept cookies from all sites, or to prompt you whenever a site wants to send you a cookie. Check your browser's "Help" files to learn how to do this. If you choose to refuse cookies, you may not be able to access some of the interactive features on our web site and moving around the Vancouver Island Music Academy web site could be much slower.
The Content provided on the Site is and remains at all times the property of Vancouver Island Music Academy or its licensors or suppliers. All names, marks, logos and other identifications of the Vancouver Island Music Academy or its licensors or suppliers and all rights are reserved. You should assume that everything you see or read on the Site may not be used except as provided in these Terms and Conditions or in the text on the Site without the written permission of the Vancouver Island Music Academy. You may access and view the Site and Content, and make use of the Services solely for your own personal, non-commercial use. No whole or part of the Content may be otherwise used for any purpose whatsoever without express written approval of the Vancouver Island Music Academy prior to each use. Except as set forth above, you may not republish, copy, reproduce, transmit, frame, hyperlink, upload, post or distribute in any way, or create derivative forms of this Content. Modification of Content, use of Content for any other purpose, or use of Content on any other website or network computer is strictly prohibited
By giving personal information to the Vancouver Island Music Academy, you consent to the use, retention and disclosure of personal information collected by the Vancouver Island Music Academy in accordance with this Policy. The Vancouver Island Music Academy will only use your personal information for the original purpose for which it was collected, and any new use of that information is subject to your consent. How we obtain your consent will depend on the circumstances and sensitivity of the information collected. If at any time you would like to be removed from our mailing lists, please contact us.
The Site may contain links to third party websites. We provide access to third party websites as a convenience to you. The Vancouver Island Music Academy does not endorse the content contained in any third party website. We shall not be held responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused by or in connection with the use of or reliance on any such content, goods, or services available on or through any third party website, and we do not make any representations, warranties and conditions, express or implied, including, without limitation, implied warranties of title, non-infringement, accuracy, merchantability, and fitness for a particular purpose. The Vancouver Island Music Academy does not make any representation, warranty or condition, implied or statutory that the operation of any third party website will be uninterrupted, free of error, viruses or any other harmful components. The content, goods and/or services available on or through any third party website is not under the Vancouver Island Music Academy’ control and if you choose to access any third party website, you do so entirely at your own risk.
The Vancouver Island Music Academy will not use or disclose personal information for purposes other than those for which it was collected, except with the consent of the individual or as required by law. Personal information will be retained only as long as required for the purposes identified in this Policy and/or at the point of collection.
The Vancouver Island Music Academy attempts to ensure that personal information is as accurate, complete and up-to-date as is necessary for the purposes for which it is being used. Please notify us of any change to your personal information.
Personal information is safeguarded by the Vancouver Island Music Academy through technological and other security safeguards appropriate to the sensitivity of the information.
The Vancouver Island Music Academy has contracts with third-party (PayPal), on-line transaction specialists, through which your credit card information is secured. Encryption technology is used to ensure the safe collection and transfer of sensitive credit card information. Your personal credit card number is submitted to these on-line transaction specialists and not to the Vancouver Island Music Academy
Please contact the Vancouver Island Music Academy if you have any questions, concerns or complaints about privacy at the Vancouver Island Music Academy or in connection with this Policy, or if you would like to withdraw your consent to the use of your personal information. Notwithstanding any withdrawal of consent, the Vancouver Island Music Academy will still be permitted to collect, retain, use and disclose personal information in order to collect payments of amounts owing to the Vancouver Island Music Academy and for its risk management and related purposes
