Privacy Policy

The Indigenous Editors Association (IEA) takes the privacy of its members, partners, staff, contractors, and volunteers seriously. This Website Privacy Policy explains the steps we are taking to protect the information and privacy of our website, blog, and social media users and the ways we collect, use, and disclose your information. If you have any questions about this policy, please contact us at info@indigenouseditorsassociation.ca.

Contact Information

Because the IEA is committed to protecting your personal privacy, we request contact information only when necessary. Contact information collected by the IEA via any means of its members, partners, staff, contractors, and volunteers is understood to be business contact information. IEA staff, contractors, and volunteers will only use the information when necessary for business purposes. The IEA will never sell your information to a third party.

Some IEA members are given the option to create a profile for inclusion on the Indigenous Professionals Directory, which is publicly visible. Any information you choose to share on your Indigenous Professionals Directory profile will be listed online. You may change the information on your profile or choose to hide or publish your profile. If you require help with your public profile, please contact info@indigenouseditorsassociation.ca.

Website Server and Security

The website is equipped with a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption to ensure a secure connection between the server and an SSL-compatible browser. SSL protocol provides a safe passage for transmitting and authenticating data by encrypting the information. Data cannot be compromised when SSL is in use.

E-Commerce Transaction Information

The IEA website provides for optional credit card payment upon payment of membership registration and membership renewal fees or purchase of IEA products or services (e.g., sponsorship or donation commitments, postings on the Jobs Board) as well as optional automatic membership renewals. To achieve PCI DSS (from the Security Standards Council) compliance requirements, the IEA does not store Sensitive Authentication Data (SAD). This information is stored by our payment service provider.

Cookies

The IEA and our third-party providers collect information using various technologies, including cookies and pixel tags (which are also called clear GIFs, web beacons, or pixels). Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive or in device memory that help us improve our services and your experience. Pixel tags are electronic images that may be used on our website or emails, and track usage of our website and email effectiveness for communication.

The IEA occasionally uses session cookies to track how our visitors use our site, determine sites previously visited, or facilitate the use of secure portions of this site. The IEA only uses those tools necessary to improve your experience by allowing us to remember your preferred settings and information relating to your session, such as the content of a shopping cart, saving login data, enabling features or performing tasks requested by you, and product optimizations that help maintain and improve that service.

Information from the cookies is compiled for statistical analysis on traffic patterns and is used to assess and improve the efficiency of the website. A cookie is a file that may be placed on your hard drive without your knowledge by a website to allow it to monitor your use of the site. The cookies we use do not allow the IEA to identify individuals.

Google Analytics (Cookies)

The IEA uses Google Analytics, and Google Analytics uses cookies stored on your computer to help analyze how users use the IEA website. Information generated by the cookies about your use of the IEA website, including your IP address, will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. The IP address, however, will be shortened before being sent to Google, and Google can then not use it any more to identify you or your computer. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to and shortened by Google.

Google uses the information generated by the cookies for the purpose of evaluating the use of the IEA website, compiling reports on website activity, and providing the IEA with these reports for analytical purposes.

You may prevent or stop the installation and storage of cookies by adjusting your browser settings by downloading and installing the free Opt-out Browser Add-on available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. We inform you that in such case you will not be able to wholly use all functions of our website.

Links to other websites: Our website may contain links to other 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.

Social Networking

When you post information to an IEA social media (e.g. LinkedIn), the information you post is visible to other persons and can be read, collected, used, and disclosed by these other persons, including to send unsolicited messages. The IEA assumes no responsibility or liability for the use, disclosure, or retention of the information you disclose through such means.

Changes to this Policy

The IEA reserves the right to modify this policy at any time. We will notify IEA members, partners, staff, contractors, and volunteers via the IEA website of a new privacy policy.