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Privacy StatementHow the National Gallery of Canada’s Policy Protects Your Privacy Collection, Use, Disclosure and Retention Collection Use
In order to provide you with these special offers and other advantages, we use your information to:
Disclosure National Gallery of Canada Foundation The National Gallery of Canada created the National Gallery of Canada Foundation as an independent legal entity, and registered charity, to manage its fundraising, sponsorship and donor stewardship. It is with the contribution of members, donors and sponsors that the National Gallery of Canada continues to fulfill its national mandate and achieve its vision. Therefore, it is reasonable to expect that the Gallery will share non-sensitive information from its patrons with its Foundation in order to:
Protection of Children’s Personal Information Please note that a signature from the parent or guardian is required if the participant is under 18 years of age. Websites Any personal information gathered by the Gallery about visitors to our websites is not provided to third parties. If you log in to “My CyberMuse”, you will not receive e-mail you have not requested, and you may update or remove your name from the list or send us your comments and questions by contacting us at cybermuse@gallery.ca. Monitoring Usage and Use of Personal Information The Gallery will not share, sell, rent or trade your personal information to others. The Gallery may compile and provide aggregate statistics about on-line visitors, customers, sales, traffic patterns and related site information to third parties, but these statistics will not include any personally identifying information. When you purchase a product through the on-line boutique, the Gallery may release account information when such release is reasonably necessary to comply with the law, enforce the terms of any Gallery user agreements or protect the rights, property and safety of the Gallery, users of our websites or third parties. When you order a product through the on-line store the Gallery requires your name, billing and shipping addresses, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and credit card information to process the order. Credit card information will only be used on an as-needed basis to process your order and will then be destroyed. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on the hard disk drive of your computer by a website. Cookies are used to establish a user session and allow our computers to correctly provide visitors to our website with the appropriate frames and content. Cookies tell us which pages of our website are visited and by how many people. The use of cookies is an industry standard. When you browse through this website, you do so anonymously. The National Gallery of Canada does not collect personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us by interacting with the site or submitting an inquiry to us. Our servers automatically log information about visits to this website in the normal course of establishing and maintaining web connections. The server logs record statistical information such as visitors’ IP addresses, time and duration of visit, and web pages visited. The usage patterns tracked by cookies remain confidential, and the National Gallery of Canada does not participate in any external site tracking programs. Nor do we share or sell any cookie-generated information about individual users or user patterns with outside agencies. We are committed to protecting your privacy and use cookies to improve our service. Cookies can be enabled or disabled by users however this may limit access to certain areas of our sites. Our cookies will not follow your travels on the World Wide Web. Use of Websites by Children Questions or Comments? Access to Information and Privacy Coordinator If we are unable to resolve your complaint in a satisfactory manner, or you would like more information on the Privacy Act, you can contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada at www.priv.gc.ca. Copyright 2002 The National Gallery of Canada. All Rights Reserved. |