Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy outlines the way the website collects, uses, maintains and discloses information collected from users (“User” or “Users”) and applies to this website, County.StPaul.ab.ca (“the site”). We cannot be held liable for the privacy practices of other websites. When using The Site we are committed to protecting your privacy at all times. The County of St. Paul has implemented all reasonable controls — including SSL Security — to enhance the security of any information that we collect. However, we cannot guarantee the complete security of stored information. This privacy policy applies to information collected through The Site and does not include information collected offline.

Collection

When you visit The Site we automatically log your IP address, browser type, access time, click path and other information used to conduct website evaluations, to monitor our website and visitor traffic, to provide you with tailored advertising based on your interests or based on your visit to our website, and to keep track of other online usage data such as referral sources and the websites visited immediately before and after using The Site. The Site uses cookies to track this data. Cookies are small files stored on your computer’s hard drive which identify your web browser and IP address when you enter The Site. If you have your cookies turned off in your web browser, The Site will not identify your IP address.

Log files such as those described in the above paragraph, are not tied to personally identifiable information and we will not use this data to identify personal information through other third parties. Any aggregate statistical information not tied to a person would not be considered personal information.

Information that Users Provide

The County of St. Paul collects Personal Information from users when users provide it. For example, a user might provide Personal Information when they email us, call us, order online, sign up for an e-mail newsletter, submit comments, submit a resume or job application, participate in a promotion, survey or other feature of The Site, communicate or interact with The County of St. Paul through The Site or a social media site such as Facebook or Twitter. If users do not want their Personal Information collected by The County of St. Paul, they should not submit it.

Children & Minors

The Site is not directed to, or suitable for, persons under 18. The County of St. Paul does not knowingly collect Personal Information from anyone under 18 years of age on The Site. If we becomes aware that The County of St. Paul has unknowingly collected personally identifiable information from a person under the age of 18, The County of St. Paul will delete this information from records or, if that is not reasonable, The County of St. Paul will take reasonable available steps to de-identify the information. Those who are not the age of majority in the jurisdiction in which they reside should not provide The County of St. Paul with Personal Information on This Site.

Use

Any information that we collect is used for the purposes of administering our programs, to process orders, administering the The Site, to improve customer service, to personalize your web experience, to improve our website, to analyze The Site statistics and usage, and to provide you with tailored marketing and advertising. The Site uses trusted third-party marketing agencies and vendor re-marketing tracking cookies, web beacons, and other storage technologies to collect or receive information from The Site and elsewhere on the internet. This includes the Google Adwords tracking cookie and other tracking or retargeting codes now known, or hereafter devised. By using these third-party services, we are able to show ads, which may include social media ads, based on Users’ interests, previous visits to our websites, or based on specific actions Users have taken on The Site. This allows us to advertise The Site to those who have shown interest, or based on other aggregate demographic or behavioural data. Any data that is collected will not be intentionally tied to personally identifiable information and will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and third-party privacy policies.

Opt-out

Users who wish to opt-out of receiving interest-based ads can visit https://www.aboutads.info/choices and also have the following options:

• Google: By visiting their Google Ads Settings/Preferences page or by changing their browser cookie settings. Users can also opt-out of Google Analytics by installing Google’s opt-out browser add-on
• Facebook: By visiting this Facebook Help Center outlining ways to manage ad preferences
• Web browser: By visiting their applicable web browser’s help pages to find out how to turn off cookies.

The Site does not currently take actions based on Do Not Track signals as a simple, uniform technology has not yet been developed. To learn more about Do Not Track visit https://allaboutdnt.com/ To learn more about opting-out of receiving interest-based ads, Users can visit the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada website at https://youradchoices.ca/ or by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance Consumer Choice Page at www.aboutads.info/choices.

Disclosure

Everyone at The County of St. Paul takes your privacy and information very seriously. We do share aggregate information about your use of our site with internal stakeholders and with our trusted social media, marketing, advertising, web hosting and analytics partners. When you provide your information to sign up for emails or to submit online forms, you are providing your information to The County of St. Paul. We will not share, sell, trade or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information other than to those parties described above. This does not include trusted third parties outlined previously, or any of those who provide services to us in the operation of our website, who assist us in conducting our business, who provide us with marketing services and/or technologies or assist us in servicing you, so long as these third parties agree to keep all information confidential. This also does not include information shared when a legal obligation exists, such as in the case of judicial and/or court proceedings.