Respecting the privacy and confidentiality of your personal information is important to Ageing Design Montréal (ADM). This Privacy Policy explains how ADM collects, uses and discloses your personal information on its website (the “Website”).
 
The purpose of this Policy is to inform visitors of this Website on how ADM protects the privacy and confidentiality of your personal information and the circumstances under which ADM uses your personal information.
 

What is Personal Information?
Personal information is information about an identifiable person, not including business contact information (i.e. information that would allow an individual to be contacted at their place of business, or product-related information). For example, personal information includes such things as your name, date of birth, personal e-mail address and credit card information.

 
What is The Purpose of Collecting, Using and Disclosing Personal Information?

ADM collects, uses and discloses your personal information with your knowledge and consent. This is done for the sole purposes as stated above or explained at the time the information will be collected. The following are some of the reasons for which ADM may collect, use and disclose your personal information on its Website:
 
• To facilitate communications with you
• To facilitate the processing of your registration to the Conference
• To process any of your requests for information
• To allow you to subscribe to an e-mail distribution list, thus ensuring that you will receive our monthly newsletters regarding the event
• To administer the volunteer application programme process
• To administer the application process of the bursary programme for participants from developing countries
• To produce identification badges for the Conference
• To prepare the Conference programme
 
ADM will not sell, trade, lend or otherwise voluntarily disclose to any third parties any personal information that you have provided for any purpose not stated by this Privacy Policy. ADM may share your personal information with third parties to assist us in administering activities on this website, such as administration or maintenance of the site, data processing and contest participation. Information may also be provided to third party professionals for otherwise legitimate and reasonable purposes, for which we have obtained your prior consent.
 
In certain circumstances, ADM may disclose your personal information to a government institution that has asserted its lawful authority to obtain said information and where it has established reasonable grounds to believe the information could be used in the investigation of an unlawful activity, or to comply with a subpoena, a warrant or a court order rendered by a person or body with jurisdiction to compel production of information or to comply with court rules regarding a production of records and information, or to our own legal counsel.
 
When you provide ADM with your personal information, such as to sign up for our newsletter or to participate in a contest, you are consenting to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information for these purposes in accordance with the principles that are outlined in the Privacy Policy.
 
If you have given us your consent, you may at any time withdraw your consent upon giving us reasonable notice.
 

E-Mail List

The Website allows you to provide us with your e-mail address in order that we may send you information and updates about the event. To properly administer the e-mail list, we require your name, e-mail address, mailing address and language preference. We may also require other information, such as your date of birth or the preferences you indicated if you expressed an interested in becoming a volunteer.

 
Links to Other Sites

This Website contains links to other websites. When you click on one of those links, you are contacting an internet resources independent of ADM. ADM has no responsibility, nor liability for, or control over those websites, or internet resources or their collection, use and disclosure of your personal information. Please refer to the privacy policy and terms of use contained in any linked site you choose to go to, and familiarize yourself with that its terms and conditions of use.
 

How Do We Protect Your Personal Information

The VDM Website endeavours to maintain appropriate procedural and technological measures and storage facilities to prevent any unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information. We exercise care in the secure transmission of your information, however no transmission of information over the internet is perfectly secure. We cannot guarantee that information disclosed through the internet cannot be intercepted by a third party. However, ADM takes all the appropriate and reasonable precautionary measures needed to protect any personal information that is submitted through this website. This extends to the disposal or destruction of data.

 
Contacting Us About Your Privacy

You may request access to your personal information and information about our collection, use and disclosure of information by contacting us at info@vdm-adm.ca. ADM is committed to keeping records that are as accurate and complete as possible. You can help us maintain the accuracy of your information by notifying us of any changes to your personal information.