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Privacy Policy

The Vancouver Island Construction Association’s Privacy Policy is a statement of principles and policies regarding the protection of personal information provided by VICA. The objective of The VICA Privacy Policy is to promote responsible and transparent personal information management practices in a manner consistent with the provisions of the Personal Information Protection Act BC.                                                           

Section 1: Accountability

The Vancouver Island Construction Association is responsible for personal information under its control and will designate one or more persons who are accountable for VICA’s compliance with the following principles.

Section 2: Identifying Purposes for Collection of Personal Information

VICA will identify the purposes for which personal information is collected at or before the time the information is collected.

Section 3: Obtaining Consent for Collection, Use or Disclosure of Personal Information

The knowledge and consent of an individual are required for the collection, use, or disclosure of personal information, except where exempted in the VICA Privacy Policy and/or applicable law. In certain circumstances personal information can be collected, used, or disclosed without the knowledge and consent of the individual.

Section 4: Limiting Collection of Personal Information

VICA will limit the collection of personal information to that which is necessary for the purposes identified by VICA. VICA will collect personal information by fair and lawful means.

Section 5: Limiting Use, Disclosure, and Retention of Personal Information

VICA 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 or permitted by law. VICA will retain personal information only as long as necessary for the fulfillment of those purposes.

Section 6: Accuracy of Personal Information

Personal information will be as accurate, complete, and up-to-date as is necessary for the purposes for which it is to be used.

Section 7: Security Safeguards

VICA will protect personal information by security safeguards appropriate to the sensitivity of the information.

Section 8: Openness Concerning Policies and Procedures

VICA will make readily available to individuals specific information about its policies and procedures relating to the management of personal information.

Section 9: Access to Personal Information

VICA will inform an individual of the existence, use, and disclosure of his or her personal information upon request and will provide the individual access to that information except where inappropriate. An individual will be able to challenge the accurateness and completeness of the information and have it amended as appropriate.

Section 10: Challenging Compliance

An individual will be able to address a challenge concerning compliance with the above principles to the designated person or persons accountable for VICA’s compliance with the VICA Privacy Policy.

Website Privacy Policies

Usage Tracking

Our site may automatically record some general information about your visit which we use for statistical analysis to help make our site more useful to visitors. This information might include the:

  • Internet domain for your Internet service provider, such as ‘company.com’ or ‘service.ca’ and the IP address of the computer accessing the website,
  • type of browser you are using, such as Internet Explorer or Google Chrome;
  • type of operating system you are using, such as Windows or Macintosh;
  • date and time you visit our site and Web pages that you visit on our site, along with the address of the previous website you were visiting, if you linked to us from another website.

Cookies

We also use “cookies” that identify you as a return visitor and which can help us tailor information to suit your individual preferences. A cookie is a piece of data that a website can send to your browser, which may then store the cookie on your hard drive. The goal is to save you time and provide you with a more meaningful visit and to measure website activity. Cookies do not contain any personally identifying information. Many browsers, however, allow you to disable cookie collection if you wish, or inform you when a cookie is being stored on your hard drive.

Periodically our site may allow the use of third party cookies or similar technologies to measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns. It is not the practice of the VICA to provide any personally identifiable information to these third-parties.

Online transactions

We protect the security of your transactions on our website by Web server certificates that offer secure communications by encrypting all data going to and from the VICA website.

External Links

This policy discloses the privacy practices for our website. However, our site contains links to other sites. Once you link to another site, you are subject to the privacy and security policies of the new site. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of all websites you visit.

All comments, questions, concerns or complaints regarding your Personal Information or our Privacy Policy and Practices, should be forwarded to our Privacy Officer as follows.

In writing:

Attn: Privacy Officer
Vancouver Island Construction Association
1075 Alston Street, Victoria, BC  V9A 3S6