This agreement was written in English (Canadian).
Date of last revision: July, 2010.
This policy contains eight sections:
1. Introduction
2. Information We Receive
3. Sharing information on Mybrethren.ca
4. How We Use Your Information
5. How We Share Information
6. How You Can Change or Remove Information
7. How We Protect Information
8. Other Terms
1. Introduction
Questions. If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy policy, contact our privacy team through our support page.
Scope. This privacy policy covers all of Mybrethren.ca. It does not, however, apply to entities that Mybrethren.ca does not own or control, such as applications and websites using Platform. By using or accessing Mybrethren.ca, you agree to our privacy practices.
No information from children under age 13. If you are under age 13, please do not attempt to register for Mybrethren.ca or provide any personal information about yourself to us. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from a child under age 13, please contact us through our support page.
Parental participation. We strongly recommend that minors 13 years of age or older ask their parents for permission before sending any information about themselves to anyone over the Internet and we encourage parents to teach their children about safe internet use practices.
2. Information We Receive
Information you provide to us:
Information About Yourself. When you sign up for Mybrethren.ca you provide us with your name, email, gender, and birth date. During the registration process we give you the opportunity to connect with your brethren . You will also be able to add a picture of yourself. In some cases we may ask for additional information for security reasons or to provide specific services to you. Once you register you can provide other information about yourself by connecting with, for example, your current city, hometown, family, relationships, networks, activities, interests, and places.
Content. One of the primary reasons people use Mybrethren.ca is to share content with others. Examples include you events, uploading photo's, upload or record a video, share a link, create an event or a group, make a comment, write something in a discussion group, write a note, or send someone a message. .
Transactional Information. We may retain the details of transactions or payments you make on Mybrethren.ca.
Information we collect when you interact with Mybrethren.ca:
Site activity information. We keep track of some of the actions you take on Mybrethren.ca, In some cases you are also taking an action when you provide information or content to us.
Access Device and Browser Information. When you access Mybrethren.ca from a computer, mobile phone, or other device, we may collect information from that device about your browser type, location, and IP address, as well as the pages you visit.
Cookie Information. We use "cookies" (small pieces of data we store for an extended period of time on your computer, mobile phone, or other device) to make Mybrethren.ca easier to use, to make our advertising better, and to protect both you and Mybrethren.ca. For example, we use them to store your login ID (but never your password) to make it easier for you to login whenever you come back to Mybrethren.ca. We also use them to confirm that you are logged into Mybrethren.ca, and to know when you are interacting with Mybrethren.ca service and websites, our widgets and Share buttons, and our advertisements. You can remove or block cookies using the settings in your browser, but in some cases that may impact your ability to use Mybrethren.ca.
3. Sharing information on Mybrethren.ca.
Name, Contact Information, Personal Information and Profile Picture. Mybrethren.ca is designed to make it easy for you to find and connect with others. For this reason, your name, contact information, personal information and profile picture do not have privacy settings. If you are uncomfortable with sharing your profile picture, you should delete it (or not add one). You can also control who can find you when searching on Mybrethren.ca.
Posts by Me. Posts to discussion group are open for all members to view.
4. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect to try to provide a safe, efficient, and customized experience. Here are some of the details on how we do that:
To manage the service. We use the information we collect to provide our services and features to you, to measure and improve those services and features, and to provide you with customer support. We use the information to prevent potentially illegal activities, and to enforce our Privacy policy. We also use a variety of technological systems to detect and address anomalous activity and screen content to prevent abuse such as spam. These efforts may on occasion result in a temporary or permanent suspension or termination of some functions for some users.
To contact you. We may contact you with service-related announcements from time to time. You may opt out of all communications except essential updates on your account notifications. We may include content you see on Mybrethren.ca in the emails we send to you.
To serve personalized advertising to you. We don’t share your information with advertisers without your consent. (An example of consent would be if you asked us to provide your shipping address to an advertiser to receive a free sample.) We allow advertisers to choose the characteristics of users who will see their advertisements and we may use any of the non-personally identifiable attributes we have collected (including information you may have decided not to show to other users, such as your birth year or other sensitive personal information or preferences) to select the appropriate audience for those advertisements. For example, we might use your interest in soccer to show you ads for soccer equipment, but we do not tell the soccer equipment company who you are. You can see the criteria advertisers may select by visiting our advertising page. Even though we do not share your information with advertisers without your consent, when you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement there is a possibility that the advertiser may place a cookie in your browser and note that it meets the criteria they selected.
Downloadable Software. Certain downloadable software applications and applets that we offer, such as our browser toolbars and photo uploaders, transmit data to us. We may not make a formal disclosure if we believe our collection of and use of the information is the obvious purpose of the application, such as the fact that we receive photos when you use our photo uploader. If we believe it is not obvious that we are collecting or using such information, we will make a disclosure to you the first time you provide the information to us so that you can decide whether you want to use that feature.
Memorializing Accounts. If we are notified that a user is deceased, we may memorialize the user’s account. In such cases we restrict profile access to confirmed friends, and allow friends and family to write on the user’s Wall in remembrance. We may close an account if we receive a formal request from the user’s next of kin or other proper legal request to do so.
6. How We Share Information
Mybrethren.ca is about sharing information with others Freemasons while providing you with privacy settings that you can use to restrict other users from accessing some of your information. We share your information with third parties when we believe the sharing is permitted by you, reasonably necessary to offer our services, or when legally required to do so. For example:
When you make a payment. When you enter into transactions with others or make payments on Mybrethren.ca, we will share transaction information with only those third parties necessary to complete the transaction. We will require those third parties to agree to respect the privacy of your information.
To help your friends find you. By default, we make certain information you have posted to your profile available in search results on Mybrethren.ca to help other Freemason find you. We also partner with email and instant messaging providers to help their users identify which of their contacts are Mybrethren.ca users, so that we can promote Mybrethren.ca to those users.
To help improve or promote our service. Sometimes we share aggregated information with third parties to help improve or promote our service. But we only do so in such a way that no individual user can be identified or linked to any specific action or information.
To provide you with services. We may provide information to service providers that help us bring you the services we offer. For example, we may use third parties to help host our website, send out email updates about Mybrethren.ca, remove repetitive information from our user lists, process payments, or provide search results or links (including sponsored links). These service providers may have access to your personal information for use for a limited time, but when this occurs we implement reasonable contractual and technical protections to limit their use of that information to helping us provide the service.
To advertise our services. We may ask advertisers outside of Mybrethren.ca to display ads promoting our services. We may ask them to deliver those ads based on the presence of a cookie, but in doing so will not share any other information with the advertiser.
To offer joint services. We may provide services jointly with other companies, such as the classifieds service in the Mybrethren.ca Marketplace. If you use these services, we may share your information to facilitate that service. However, we will identify the partner and present the joint service provider’s privacy policy to you before you use that service.
To respond to legal requests and prevent harm. We may disclose information pursuant to subpoenas, court orders, or other requests (including criminal and civil matters) if we have a good faith belief that the response is required by law. This may include respecting requests from jurisdictions outside of the Canada where we have a good faith belief that the response is required by law under the local laws in that jurisdiction, apply to users from that jurisdiction, and are consistent with generally accepted international standards. We may also share information when we have a good faith belief it is necessary to prevent fraud or other illegal activity, to prevent imminent bodily harm, or to protect ourselves and you from people violating our policies and agreements. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, courts or other government entities.
Transfer in the Event of Sale or Change of Control. If the ownership of all or substantially all of our business changes, we may transfer your information to the new owner so that the service can continue to operate. In such a case, your information would remain subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Policy.
7. How You Can Change or Remove Information
Editing your profile. You may change or remove your profile information at any time by going to your profile page and clicking “Edit My Profile.” Information will be updated immediately.
Deactivating or deleting your account. If you want to stop using your account you may deactivate it or delete it. When you deactivate an account, no user will be able to see it, but it will not be deleted. We save your profile information (connections, photos, etc.) in case you later decide to reactivate your account. Many users deactivate their accounts for temporary reasons and in doing so are asking us to maintain their information until they return to Mybrethren.ca. You will still have the ability to reactivate your account and restore your profile in its entirety. When you delete an account, it is permanently deleted from Mybrethren.ca. You should only delete your account if you are certain you never want to reactivate it. You may deactivate your account on your account settings page or notify our support.
Limitations on removal. Even after you remove information from your profile or delete your account, copies of that information may remain viewable elsewhere to the extent it has been shared with others, or it was copied or stored by other users. However, your name will no longer be associated with that information on Mybrethren.ca. (For example, if you post something to another user’s profile and then you delete your account, that post may remain, but be attributed to an “Anonymous Mybrethren.ca User.”) Additionally, we may retain certain information to prevent identity theft and other misconduct even if deletion has been requested. If you have given third party applications or websites access to your information, they may retain your information to the extent permitted under their terms of service or privacy policies. But they will no longer be able to access the information through our Platform after you disconnect from them.
Backup copies. Removed and deleted information may persist in backup copies for up to 90 days, but will not be available to others.
Non-user contact information. If a user provides your email address to us, and you are not a Mybrethren.ca user but you want us to delete your address, you can do so by contacting our support. However, that request will only apply to addresses we have at the time of the request and not to any addresses that users provide to us later.
8. How We Protect Information
Steps we take to keep your information secure. We keep your account information on a secured server behind a firewall. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card numbers and passwords), we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). We also use automated and social measures to enhance security, such as analyzing account behavior for fraudulent or otherwise anomalous behavior, may limit use of site features in response to possible signs of abuse, may remove inappropriate content or links to illegal content, and may suspend or disable accounts for violations of our policies and agreements.
Report Violations. You should report any security violations to our support.
9. Other Terms
Changes. We may change this Privacy Policy Unless stated otherwise, our current privacy policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account. If we make changes to this Privacy Policy we will notify you by publication here and within the service on the Mybrethren.ca Site Governance Page. You can make sure that you receive notice directly by subscribing to our Site Governance RSS feed.
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