Last modified June 17, 2018
RegisterForChildcare.ca (“RegisterForChildcare.ca, “we” or “us”) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. RegisterForChildcare.ca is a Canadian corporation located in Alberta, Canada. As a minimum standard, our Privacy Policy complies with the requirements of Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (“PIPEDA”) and Alberta’s Personal Information Protection Act (“PIPA”). RegisterForChildcare.ca’s intent is to comply with the privacy legislation within each of the jurisdiction of our partners.
Please read our Privacy Policy carefully so that you can understand the following:
You accept this Privacy Policy when you use our website and all related sites, applications, and services (collectively “RegisterForChildcare.ca”). Updates to this policy will be posted on this page and be effective at time of posting, so please check back frequently.
1911851 ALBERTA LTD. whose registered office is at Edmonton, Alberta controls the personal data collected on RegisterForChildcare.ca.
Information we collect automatically: When you use RegisterForChildcare.ca, we collect information sent to us by your access device. This information includes (but is not limited to) the following: data about the pages you access, your computer IP address, and standard web log data. We do not use tracking cookies.
Information you provide to us: We collect and use personal information you enter on the RegisterForChildcare.ca or in the context of using our site and services. We may collect the following types of information:
We may also collect information about you in other ways, such as through interaction between you and other members (i.e., the childcare providers) of RegisterForChildcare.ca. By collaborating through RegisterForChildcare.ca, you acknowledge that your communication may be overheard, monitored, or recorded without further notice or warning.
How we use your personal information: Our primary purpose in collecting personal information is to provide you with a secure, smooth, efficient, and customized experience. We may use your personal information to:
For a more detailed list of the personal information collected, used or disclosed by us, including the rationale for collecting, using or disclosing each piece of personal information, please contact us directly using the contact information provided below.
Our legal basis for processing your personal information for the purposes described above will typically be through one of the following:
Consent: You provide your explicit consent for us to use your personal information when you create an account with us. When setting up your account as part of child care waitlist registration, you enter your own personal information and agree to our Terms of Service, which includes reading and understanding our Privacy Policy before you are authorized to access our platform. You can withdraw your consent at any time.
Contract: We will process your personal information to perform a contract to which you are a party, or to take steps at your request prior to you entering into a contract.
Legal obligations: Except as set out in this Privacy Policy, we will not disclose any personally identifiable information without your permission unless we are legally entitled or required to do so (for example, if required to do so by legal process or for the purposes of prevention of fraud or other crime) or if we believe that such action is necessary to protect and/or defend our rights, property or personal safety and those of our users/customers etc.
Legitimate interests: Without overriding your data protection rights, we have legitimate interests to use your personal information to operate, improve and protect our services. For example, these interests are to provide you with access to our site and services; to respond to your requests; to protect against unauthorized or malicious activities; or to monitor compliance with our terms of use, contracts and other policies.
In the event our company, or part thereof, is acquired by another company, that company may use your personal data in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
As part of our services, we will share relevant information with childcare centres for the purpose of matching childcare centres with your care needs and preferences.
RegisterForChildcare.ca may ask childcare centres to enter your personal information on your behalf, for example, when transitioning their existing waitlist into RegisterForChildcare.ca. You acknowledge that the childcare centre already has your consent to enter your personal information into RegisterForChildcare.ca on your behalf because you have given them consent by previously providing them with your personal information.
From time to time, email correspondence will take place between you and a participating childcare centre. This information may be transmitted through RegisterForChildcare.ca, or directly between you and the childcare centre. Those childcare centres may keep personal information about you. Please contact them regarding their specific personal information privacy policy.
You may ask a childcare centre to update your personal information on your behalf. In doing so, you are giving the childcare centre consent to update your personal information as well as the information contained in your family profile.
You do not have to accept any offer from any childcare centre and are not obligated to accept any offer from a childcare centre.
We aim for transparency on your options regarding the use of your data, including how you can access and have control over your information.
Accessing your information: We provide you with access to update your information via your account access on our website.
Correcting or updating your information: We aim to keep our information about you as accurate as possible. If you would like to review or change the information you have entered as part of using our services, please contact us as set out below. You may also log into your account to review and revise your information at any time.
Deleting your information: You can delete your information by logging into your account. You can delete your account at any time and choose not to use our services at any time.
We will accommodate your request in accordance with the law, There may be legal reasons why we cannot complete your request, in which case, we will inform you of the legal obligations preventing its completion.
If you need assistance with any of these requests, please contact us directly using the contact information below.
Throughout this policy, we use the term "personal information" to describe information that can be associated with a specific person and can be used to identify that person. We do not consider personal information to include information that has been made anonymous so that it does not identify a specific person.
We store and process your personal information on our computers in North America. We protect your information using physical, technical, and administrative security measures to reduce the risks of loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure and alteration. Some of the safeguards we use are firewalls and data encryption, physical access controls to the data centers that house our servers, and information access authorization controls.
Data retention and deletion: We keep your personal information for as long as is necessary for the purposes for which it is processed, including for legitimate interests described above.
At your request, we will delete or anonymize your personal data so that it no longer identifies you, unless, we are legally required to maintain certain personal data. We will inform you of such situations if applicable.
IP Address and traffic data: We keep a record of traffic data which is logged automatically by our servers, such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address and device information, to monitor for unauthorized access as part of our security measures. We also collect some site, application and service statistics such as access rates, page hits and page views. We are not able to identify any individual from traffic data or site statistics.
For more information on our security procedures, please contact us at the contact information listed below.
The following describes the types of cookies that we use on RegisterForChildcare.ca:
Strictly necessary cookies: These are cookies that are essential to make a website work. Without these cookies, certain features of our website would not function (for example, accessing your secure account on our website).
These cookies do not track where you have been on the Internet and do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing purposes.
Session cookies: These are temporary cookies that identify your device when you access our website. These temporary cookies expire when you close your browser. These cookies facilitate the functioning of our website by permitting us to maintain a persistent “state” for your session, including information relating to childcare waitlist registrations.
We have no access to third party cookies and third party organizations have no access to ours.
Our website may contain links to other websites (for example, websites of participating childcare centres). We are not responsible for data entered into third party websites. Our privacy policy does not apply to those other websites and we do not accept liability for the content of any other website. Please check the privacy policy of each site before submitting any personal information to it; contact the owner if you have any concerns or questions.
RegisterForChildcare.ca may ask you to provide the personal details of your family members for inclusion in your family profile. You acknowledge that you have their consent to their personal data being used in this way. We will not use these details in any manner which is incompatible with this Privacy Policy.
From time to time we may make changes to this Privacy Policy. If we make any substantial changes to this Privacy Policy and the way in which we use your personal data we will post these changes on this page and will do our best to notify you of any significant changes. Please check our Privacy Policy on a regular basis.
If you would like to contact RegisterForChildcare.ca about our Privacy Policy, you can do so by e-mailing privacy@RegisterForChildcare.ca