Canadian Society of Ophthalmic Registered Nurses
Société canadienne des infirmières et infirmiers en ophtalmologie
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Privacy Policy

CSORN respects the privacy of visitors to our website. To that end, we have developed this Website Privacy Policy to educate visitors to our website about the collection of information by CSORN as a result of the services available on our website. Our Privacy Policy is based on the principles outlined in Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, and applicable provincial legislation. If you do not agree to the terms outlined in this Privacy Policy, we ask that you notify us in writing about your concerns (send us an e-mail at ). Alternatively, you have the option of not continuing to visit our site.

Collection and Use of Personal Information

While visiting the CSORN web site, you may be invited to provide us with personal information. You ordinarily are not required to register or provide personal information in order to access our website, although certain sections of our website may require registration. The type of information that we collect will depend on the services that you use on our website. Below is a summary of the personal information that we collect, including the purposes for which it is collected:

Customer Questions, Comments or Suggestions: Our website enables you to provide us your questions, comments or suggestions about our products or services. If you send us such a comment and ask us to respond, then we may collect your name, email, mailing address and telephone number so that we may address your comment and provide you with a timely response.

Surveys: We may occasionally post surveys on our website and the information derived from these surveys helps us to improve our service to our customers. Your participation in any such survey is strictly voluntary.

Forum/Bulletin Boards: Our member sections contain user-interactive bulletin boards that require online registration. Persons wishing to participate in discussions are asked to provide certain personal information. Some of the information requested for this purpose is optional, but other information, such as an email address, is mandatory because it will be needed to notify and identify users.

Purchases: We may offer individuals the opportunity to purchase merchandise or services online. In connection with those purchases, customers may be asked to submit personal information, such as billing addresses and credit card information, that is required to complete the transaction. We also offer a membership program, through which purchasers of our products/services may receive discounts on their online purchases. Membership registration may involve the submission of personal information to us and assignment of a user ID and password. Credit card data and registration information will be protected by Secure Sockets Layer ("SSL") or other encryption mechanisms.

Use of Your Personal Information: We only use your personal information for the purposes stated above, and we do not sell or disclose your personal information without your consent.

Disclosure of Personal Information: Canadian law dictates that we may disclose personal information without consent for law enforcement and national security purposes, for debt collection, to a lawyer representing our organization, and in an emergency situation in which an individual's life, health or security is threatened.

Use of Cookies

The CSORN website only uses session cookies in password protected areas of the web site for authentication purposes. Session cookies are deleted immediately upon closing the current browser window. We DO NOT use persistent tracking cookies or any third-party tracking service for web site analytics.

A cookie is a small piece of information that a website stores on your computer for later retrieval. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to alert you when one is being sent. However, some parts of the CSORN web site, and affiliated web sites, may not work properly if you choose not to accept cookies. For additional information on cookies, see the Help instructions on your browser.

Confidentiality

Throughout the site, visitors are given an opportunity to provide us with feedback. When you provide us with feedback, we will not share your name with others. We will only use the information provided by you in order to respond to your feedback.

Visitors should be aware that information that is voluntarily given in bulletin board discussions, email exchanges or the like may be used by other parties to generate unsolicited email or other contacts. CSORN encourages users to show caution, and recommends all parents to instruct their children in the safe and responsible use of the Internet.

We will amend our records and, where appropriate, advise third parties regarding any changes to ensure the accuracy and completeness of your personal information.

Subject to Change

This Privacy Policy is subject to change at any time.

Contact Information

If you wish to request access to information, or have any question about the CSORN Privacy Policy, or wish to receive a full copy of CSORN's Customer Privacy Policy and Procedures, please contact our Chief Privacy Officer for CSORN at .

Terms of Use

The owner of this web site, CSORN, requires that all visitors to this site agree to these terms and conditions. If you do not agree, you should not use this site. By accessing the site, you indicate your acknowledgment and acceptance of these terms and conditions.

Rules of Use
You agree that you will not engage in prohibited conduct while using this Site. By way of illustration and not limitation, prohibited conduct includes the following:

  1. attempt to access any area of the Site that you are not authorized to access or to access the Site by means other than through the interface that is provided by CSORN;
  2. interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Site or any application or link;
  3. take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the Site's infrastructure;
  4. reverse engineer or otherwise attempt to discover any source code relating to the Site or any application;
  5. send any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, corrupted files, or any other information that may damage the Site (including any application) or other information, data, or the operation of CSORN or a third party's computer systems or property;
  6. use the Site (including any application) for any unlawful or harmful purpose or to defame or harass anyone, or use information in any fashion other than in full compliance with applicable law;
  7. use any robot, spider or other automatic device restricted by CSORN; or
  8. use the Site or any application for any commercial use.

Restrictions on Use
The text, images, graphics, sound files, animation, video and/or their arrangement on this CSORN web site are all subject to intellectual property right protection and such material from this Site and any other world wide web site owned, operated, licensed or controlled by CSORN, or any of its related, affiliated or subsidiary companies/organizations (collectively "CSORN") may not be copied, distributed, republished, uploaded, posted or transmitted in any way without the prior written consent of CSORN. Modification or use of the materials for any other purpose violates CSORN intellectual property rights. Neither title nor intellectual property rights are transferred to you by access to this Site, but remain with CSORN who owns full and complete title to the material in this Site.

Submissions
Any personal data (for example, your name, address, telephone number or e-mail address) you transmit to the Site by electronic mail or otherwise will be used by CSORN in accordance with the Site's Privacy Policy. All other remarks, suggestions, ideas, graphics, or other information communicated to CSORN through or by reason of this site (collectively the "Submission") will forever be the property of CSORN. CSORN will not be required to treat any Submission as confidential, will not be liable for any ideas for its business (including without limitation, product or advertising ideas) and will not incur any liability as a result of any similarities that may appear in future CSORN operations. Without limitation, CSORN will have the exclusive ownership of all present and future existing rights to the Submission of every kind and nature everywhere. CSORN will be entitled to use the Submission for any commercial or other purposes whatsoever without compensation to you or other persons sending a Submission. By access to this site you acknowledge that you are responsible for whatever material you submit, and you, not CSORN, have full responsibility for the message, including its legality, reliability, appropriateness, originality and copyright. CSORN does not warrant or make any representation regarding the use of the materials contained in this site in terms of correctness, accuracy, reliability or otherwise. The material in this site may include technical inaccuracies or typographical errors and CSORN may make changes or improvements at any time.

No Warranties or Representations
THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS SITE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ALL WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESSS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. CSORN NEITHER WARRANTS NOR REPRESENTS THAT YOUR USE OF ANY CONTENT MATERIAL WILL NOT INFRINGE THE RIGHTS OF ANY THIRD PARTIES, NOR THAT THE FUNCTIONS CONTAINED IN THE MATERIAL WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THIS SITE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES IT AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. CSORN DOES NOT WARRANT OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OF OR THE RESULT OF THE USE OF THE MATERIAL IN THIS SITE IN TERMS OF THEIR CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE. YOU (AND NOT CSORN) ASSUME THE ENTIRE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION ARISING FROM THE USE OF INFORMATION OR APPLICATIONS ON THIS SITE. ACCORDINGLY, BY USING THIS INFORMATION YOU AGREE THAT CSORN (INCLUDING ITS AGENTS, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS AND EMPLOYEES) ARE NOT LIABLE FOR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND. ADDITIONALLY, WITH REFERENCE TO ANY DISCUSSIONS, CHATS, POSTINGS, TRANSMISSIONS, BULLETIN BOARDS, FORUMS, AND THE LIKE THAT MAY BE ON THE SITE, CSORN ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY ARISING FROM ANY INFRINGING, THREATENING, FALSE, MISLEADING, ABUSIVE, HARASSING, LIBELOUS, DEFAMATORY, VULGAR, OBSCENE, SCANDALOUS, INFLAMMATORY, PORNOGRAPHIC, OR PROFANE MATERIAL OR ANY MATERIAL THAT COULD CONSTITUTE OR ENCOURAGE CONDUCT THAT WOULD BE CONSIDERED A CRIMINAL OFFENSE, GIVE RISE TO CIVIL LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE VIOLATE ANY LAW, CONTAINED IN ANY SUCH LOCATIONS ON THE SITE. Please note that some jurisdictions may not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so some of the above exclusions may not apply to you.

Miscellaneous
These terms and conditions will be governed and interpreted pursuant to the laws of the Province of Ontario, Canada, notwithstanding any principles of conflict of laws. This is the entire agreement between the parties relating to the use of this site. CSORN can revise these terms and conditions at any time by updating this posting. This site may be linked to other sites which are not maintained by CSORN. CSORN is not responsible for the content of those sites.

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Parents
CSORN strongly encourages all parents to supervise their children's on-line activities and regularly monitor their children's use of the Internet. Parents should consider using parental control tools and other services to assist them in supervising their children's on-line use or on-line disclosure of their name, address or other personal information without parental consent.

CSORN reserves the right to change this policy at any time. Please check this page periodically for changes.

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