Privacy Policy

Updated: November 2, 2010

Climb For Change ("CFC") is operated and presented to users in all locations by Climb For Change Social Enterprises Inc. of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. This Privacy Policy covers use of information collected by CFC.

We are committed to providing a fun, entertaining, and safe website for people of all ages. We are dedicated to safeguarding any personal information collected on the CFC website. We ensure that our privacy policy and our information practices adhere to applicable Canadian federal and provincial privacy legislation, other applicable data privacy laws and all other applicable legislation.

To help ensure a rewarding online experience for our visitors, we provide you with this Privacy Policy that describes the information practices of the CFC website (www.climbforchange.com) including how we collect, use and disclose personal information.

1. The Information We Collect

As described in this Privacy Policy, we directly collect from users during our initial registration process a user’s email address, the user’s account name, and the user’s password.

The CFC website requires users to provide a valid email address in order to register on the website. We use this information to send the user a message that can be used to activate the CFC account, to notify the user about our privacy practices, to send the user communications about the user’s CFC accounts or about features of our Web site, and for the other purposes described in this Privacy Policy. This email address is correlated with the account user name.

We may also request a user name and email address when a user submits a form through the "Contact Us" portion of the CFC website so that we may respond to the inquiry. We collect the e-mail address for the sole purpose of responding directly on a one-time basis to a specific inquiry.

For some of our online activities - such as polls or surveys - we may ask users to provide information that is not personally identifiable, such as country of residence or a visitor's favorite color. We also enable users to chat online through our website. If you use the email/chat function within this website and disclose personally identifiable information, you should be aware that such information could be read, collected or used by other users. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit through the email/chat function. Finally, we may offer blogs or other Public Forums (as defined in the Terms of Use governing the website (the "Terms of Use")), as well as other features in which you may provide us with Submissions (as defined in the Terms of Use), but we take measures, including live moderation, so that users cannot communicate personal information through these Public Forums. If you use a Public Forum on this website, and disclose personally identifiable information, you should be aware that such information could be read, collected or used by other users. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these Public Forums.

Additionally, when visitors come to our site, we may passively collect certain non-personally identifiable computer information, such as the type of computer operating system (e.g., Windows XP or Mac OS), the user's IP Address, the web browser (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer) being used, the frequency with which guests visit various parts of our sites, and information regarding the Internet service provider, in order to make our sites more interesting and useful to you and for various purposes related to our business. We may collect this non-personally identifiable information through the use of software technologies such as unique identifiers or "cookies." Cookies are small text files that we place in visitors' computer browsers to store their preferences. You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser (like Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer) settings. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies. If you turn cookies off, you won't have access to many features that make your Web experience smoother, and some of our services may not function properly.

If personal information is not provided to us, then CFC may not agree to CFC membership and may not be able to provide access to certain content and functionality on the CFC website, or to provide other information, products or services which may be requested.

1. How We Use, Disclose, and Store the Information We Collect

In addition to the purposes described in Section 1, we may actively collect and use email addresses and user names to track usage and to ensure users are following the site's Terms of Use. In addition, we may use an email address and user name to ban a user temporarily or permanently from the CFC website if that user engages in inappropriate conduct on the site. We also may use information in the aggregate to analyze site usage, as well as to offer products, programs, or services.

We may disclose information where we are required to do so by law, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena, or where we disclose information to service providers or other group companies who provide support for the operations of our website and who do not use or disclose the information for any other purpose.

1. Security

The security of your personal information is important to us. We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use the information we collect online.

1. Contact Us

If you have questions or wish to send us comments about this Privacy Policy, please send an e-mail with your questions or comments to contact@climbforchange.com.

Please be assured that any personal information that you provide in communications to the above e-mail will not be used to send you promotional materials, unless you so request.

1. Effective Date

The privacy policy set out above is effective as of November 1, 2010, and applies to all information previously obtained by CFC. We reserve the right to change the privacy policy at our sole discretion. CFC users will be informed of any such change by us posting a new privacy policy on the CFC website and the effective date of any change of privacy policy will be clearly marked. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.