Privacy Statement

MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA). This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) Web site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) does not read any of your private online communications.

MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) and MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) collects and uses your personal information to operate the MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) Web site and deliver the services you have requested. MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) and its affiliates. MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA), and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA), in order to determine what MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA); and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA), or the public.

Use of Cookies

The MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) pages, or register with MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) site or services, a cookie helps MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) is protecting your information.

Contact Information

MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) has not adhered to this Statement, please contact MCEA – Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) atinfo@municipalengineers.on.ca. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.

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