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Terms and Conditions

Last updated: January 22, 2021

Please read these terms and conditions carefully before using Our Service.

Interpretation

The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of these Terms and Conditions:

Affiliate means an entity that controls, is controlled by or is under common control with a party, where “control” means ownership of 50% or more of the shares, equity interest or other securities entitled to vote for election of directors or other managing authority.

Country refers to: British Columbia, Canada

Society (referred to as either “the Society”, “We”, “Us” or “Our” in this Agreement) refers to the Victoria Society for Children with Autism.

Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.

Service refers to the website.

Terms and Conditions (also referred as “Terms”) mean these Terms and Conditions that form the entire agreement between you and the Society regarding the use of the service. This Terms and Conditions agreement has been created with the help of the Terms and Conditions Generator.

Third-party Social Media Service means any services or content (including data, information, products or services) provided by a third-party that may be displayed, included or made available by the service.

Website refers to website, accessible from www.victoriaautism.ca

You means the individual accessing or using the service, or the company or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the service, as applicable.

Acknowledgment

These are the Terms and Conditions governing the use of this Service and the agreement that operates between You and the Society. These Terms and Conditions set out the rights and obligations of all users regarding the use of the Service.

Your access to and use of the service is conditional on your acceptance of and compliance with these Terms and Conditions. These Terms and Conditions apply to all visitors, users and others who access or use the service.

By accessing or using the service you agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions. If you disagree with any part of these Terms and Conditions then you may not access the service.

You represent that you are of a legal age to access the provided services.

Your access to and use of the service is also conditional on your acceptance of and compliance with the Privacy Policy of the Society. Our Privacy Policy describes our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information when you use the service or the website and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you. Please read Our Privacy Policy carefully before using our service.

Links to Other Websites

Our service may contain links to third-party web sites or services that are not owned or controlled by the Society.

The Society has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party web sites or services. You further acknowledge and agree that the Society shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with the use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such web sites or services.

We strongly advise you to read the terms and conditions and privacy policies of any third-party web sites or services that you visit.

Termination

We may terminate or suspend your access immediately, without prior notice or liability, for any reason whatsoever, including without limitation if you breach these Terms and Conditions.

Upon termination, your right to use the service will cease immediately.

Upon receiving your request to support@victoriaautism.ca to remove your user data, the we shall, remove your membership user data within six (6) months, unless required to retain such data for maintaining financial records, statutory or regulatory compliance.

Limitation of Liability

Notwithstanding any damages that you might incur, the entire liability of the Society and any of its suppliers under any provision of these Terms and your exclusive remedy for all of the foregoing shall be limited to the amount actually paid by you through the service.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall the Society or its suppliers be liable for any special, incidental, indirect, or consequential damages whatsoever (including, but not limited to, damages for loss of profits, loss of data or other information, for business interruption, for personal injury, loss of privacy arising out of or in any way related to the use of or inability to use the Service, third-party software and/or third-party hardware used with the Service, or otherwise in connection with any provision of this Terms), even if the Society or any supplier has been advised of the possibility of such damages and even if the remedy fails of its essential purpose.

Some regions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties or limitation of liability for incidental or consequential damages, which means that some of the above limitations may not apply. In these regions, each party’s liability will be limited to the greatest extent permitted by law.

“AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE” Disclaimer

The Service is provided to You “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE” and with all faults and defects without warranty of any kind. To the maximum extent permitted under applicable law, the Society, on its own behalf and on behalf of its Affiliates and its and their respective licensors and service providers, expressly disclaims all warranties, whether express, implied, statutory or otherwise, with respect to the service, including all implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement, and warranties that may arise out of course of dealing, course of performance, usage or trade practice. Without limitation to the foregoing, the Society provides no warranty or undertaking, and makes no representation of any kind that the Service will meet your requirements, achieve any intended results, be compatible or work with any other software, applications, systems or services, operate without interruption, meet any performance or reliability standards or be error free or that any errors or defects can or will be corrected.

Without limiting the foregoing, neither the Society nor any of the Society’s provider makes any representation or warranty of any kind, express or implied: (i) as to the operation or availability of the Service, or the information, content, and materials or products included thereon; (ii) that the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free; (iii) as to the accuracy, reliability, or currency of any information or content provided through the Service; or (iv) that the Service, its servers, the content, or e-mails sent from or on behalf of the Society are free of viruses, scripts, trojan horses, worms, malware, timebombs or other harmful components.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain types of warranties or limitations on applicable statutory rights of a consumer, so some or all of the above exclusions and limitations may not apply to you. But in such a case the exclusions and limitations set forth in this section shall be applied to the greatest extent enforceable under applicable law.

Governing Law

The laws of the Country shall govern these Terms and your use of the Service. Your use of the service may also be subject to other local, state, national, or international laws.

Disputes Resolution

If you have any concern or dispute about the Service, you agree to first try to resolve the dispute informally by contacting the Society.

Severability and Waiver

Severability

If any provision of these Terms is held to be unenforceable or invalid, such provision will be changed and interpreted to accomplish the objectives of such provision to the greatest extent possible under applicable law and the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect.

Waiver

Except as provided herein, the failure to exercise a right or to require performance of an obligation under these Terms shall not effect a party’s ability to exercise such right or require such performance at any time thereafter nor shall the waiver of a breach constitute a waiver of any subsequent breach.

Changes to These Terms and Conditions

We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to modify or replace these Terms at any time. If a revision is material we will make reasonable efforts to provide at least 30 days’ notice prior to any new terms taking effect. What constitutes a material change will be determined at our sole discretion.

By continuing to access or use sur service after those revisions become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised terms. If you do not agree to the new terms, in whole or in part, please stop using the website and the service.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about these Terms and Conditions, you can contact us by email at support@victoriaautism.ca, or use the contact form available on our website.

Privacy Policy:

Last updated: January 15, 2021

This Privacy Policy outlines our policies on the collection, use and, disclosure of your personal information as dictated by Canadian and International Law.

We use your personal data to provide and improve our services. By using these services, you agree to the collection and use of your information in accordance with the privacy policy. This Privacy Policy has been created with the help of the Privacy Policy Generator.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Document:

  • Membership means a unique membership created for your personal or family use.
  • VSCA refers to the Victoria Society for Children with Autism (“The Society”), as does “we”, “us”, “our”.
  • Personal Data is any information unique to an individual.
  • Service refers to the services provided by VSCA on this website (“the site”), http://www.victoriaautism.com.
  • Service Provider is any individual or company who processes data on behalf of VSCA.
  • Usage Data is collected automatically, and generated by engagement with the service.
  • Website/site refers to www.victoriaautism.ca
  • You/Your refers to the individual accessing the service on their own or another’s behalf (the “user”).

Personal Data Collection and Usage

Types of Data:

Personal Data

Date submitted by the user may include:

  • Email address
  • Full names
  • Phone number
  • Address
  • Children names and birthdays
  • Additional details at user’s discretion
  • Aggregate User Data

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when accessing the site.

Usage Data may include information such as your Internet Protocol address (IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages that you visit on our site, the time and date of the visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When you access the website using a mobile device, certain information may be collected automatically. This may include the type of mobile device, your mobile device’s unique ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser you use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our site.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our site and store certain information. Tracking technologies used may include beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve our services. The technologies we use may include:

  • Cookies or Browser Cookies.A cookie is a small file placed on your device. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted Your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our Service may use Cookies.
  • Flash Cookies.Certain features of our site may use local stored objects (or Flash Cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences or your activity on our site. Flash Cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as those used for Browser Cookies. For more information on how you can delete Flash Cookies, please read “Where can I change the settings for disabling, or deleting local shared objects?” available at https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/disable-local-shared-objects-flash.html#main_Where_can_I_change_the_settings_for_disabling__or_deleting_local_shared_objects_
  • Web Beacons.Certain sections of our service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Society, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics.

Cookies can be “Persistent” or “Session” Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser. You can learn more about cookies here: All About Cookies by TermsFeed.

For more information about the cookies we use and your choices regarding cookies, please feel free to contact us.

Use of Your Personal Data

The company may use personal data for the following purposes:

  • To provide and maintain our services, including to monitor the usage of our services.
  • To manage your account:to manage your registration as a site user. The personal data you provide can give you access to members-only services.
  • To contact you:To contact you with news or information relating to your membership or the services we provide. You can opt out at any time.
  • To manage your requests: to attend to and manage requests you submit to the Society.
  • For other purposes: We may use your information for other purposes, such as data analysis and to evaluate and improve our service and your experience.

We may share your personal information in the following situations:

  • With Service Providers:We may share your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our site, and to contact you in order to provide services which you have opted into (eg. Newsletters).
  • With Your consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.

Retention of Your Personal Data

The Society will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your personal data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The Society will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including personal data, is processed at the Company’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. Personal information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

The Society will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to a third party without your consent.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Law enforcement

Under certain circumstances, the Society may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Other legal requirements

The Society may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

  • Comply with a legal obligation
  • Protect and defend the rights or property of the Society
  • Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with our services
  • Protect the personal safety of Users of our service or the public
  • Protect against legal liability

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of your Personal Data 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 protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you are concerned about the security of your data, please contact us to arrange alternative membership options.

Links to Other Websites

Our services may contain links to websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our site prior to the change becoming effective and update the “Last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us by email at support@victoriaautism.ca, or use the contact form available on our website.