Privacy Policy

What we do with your information

Family Foundations Institute (FFI) privacy policy to highlight and outline the various uses of your information.

Policy Introduction

Last updated: May 8, 2019

Family Foundations Institute (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates https://famfi.ca (the “Site”). This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from the Site.

We use your Personal Information only to provide and improve the delivery of communications about our various programs and resources through the Site. By using the Site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

Information Collection and Use

While using our Site, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to your name, email address, shipping/billing address, gender, age, and phone number. We refer to this information as “Personal Information”.

Additionally, when you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the Site, we collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers, email address, and phone number). We refer to this information as “Order Information.”

Log Data

Like many site operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site (“Log Data”).

This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics.

We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site – you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/

You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Cookies

Cookies are files with small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a web site and stored on your computer’s hard drive.

Like many sites, we use “cookies” to collect information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit https://www.allaboutcookies.org.

How Do We Use Your Personal Information?

When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, we may use your Personal Information to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information about our programs and resources. This Personal Information is stored and accessed securely through Mailchimp, Typeform, Google, and Microsoft.

We use the Order Information that we collect generally to fulfill any orders placed through the Site (including processing your payment information, arranging for reservations, and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations).

We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).

Sharing Your Personal Information

We do not sell or share your Personal Information with any services or organizations other than those mentioned below.

We do not share your Order Information.

We share your Personal Information with Google Analytics to help us understand how our audience uses the Site.

We share your Personal Information with WordPress to help us understand how our audience uses the Site.

We share your Personal Information with Guest Speakers only upon request.

Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Do Not Track

Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.

Data Retention

When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is effective as of May 8, 2019 and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page.

We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Service after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.

If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you either through the email address you have provided us, or by placing a prominent notice on our website.

Contact Us

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at info@famfi.ca or by mail using the details provided below:

203 Reycraft Avenue
Glencoe, ON N0L 1M0