Privacy Policy

At the Cosmetology Industry Association of British Columbia, we are committed to providing our members with exceptional service. We respect the privacy rights of visitors to our website and are committed to protecting the information we may collect about you online.

Visitors to the Cosmetology Industry Association of British Columbia web site from outside of Canada are advised that this Privacy Policy is intended to meet the laws and requirements of Canada, which may not necessarily be the same as the laws and regulations of your home country. Any information that you provide to us online will be treated in accordance with the laws and regulations of the province of British Columbia and the laws of Canada which may apply in British Columbia.

This Online Privacy Policy also does not apply to web sites maintained by other companies or organizations to which we link.

When you click on a hyperlink displayed on our web site, you may be leaving the Cosmetology Industry Association of British Columbia web site and entering another web site for which this Online Privacy Policy does not apply. You may not be specifically informed of this fact although in most instances a new browser window will be opened when a hyperlink is redirecting you to a web site which we do not operate or control. This may not always be the case, however. Therefore, before providing any personal information which may be requested from you, you should first verify the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) or the hypertext transfer protocol (http) address displayed by your web browser to confirm whether or not you are still accessing a web site operated by the Cosmetology Industry Association of British Columbia. If not, this Online Privacy Policy will not apply to your visit.

To the extent an online form or an e-mail submitted by a user contains personal information, we will only use such personal information to the extent it is necessary to respond to any comment or question from such user. We will limit access to such personal information and will keep such personal information in a secure system. Although most online forms and e-mail messages submitted by users are deleted after we respond, in certain cases hard copies or data extracts may be kept on file. Any such copy or any such information, to the extent it is personal, will also be stored in a secure location.

The Cosmetology Industry Association of British Columbia maintains log files, which contain Internet Protocol ("IP") addresses. An IP address is a numeric address that is assigned to your computer by your Internet Service Provider. We do not link IP addresses to personal information. In general, we only use log files to monitor traffic on our Web sites and to troubleshoot technical problems. In the event of abuse, however, we may block certain IP addresses.

We reserve the right to make changes in this policy. If we make such changes, we will post the changes and change the date at the top of the policy. Please check back from time to time to ensure you are aware of any changes in our privacy practices.

If you have any questions, complaints, or comments regarding our Privacy Policy statement or practices, please send an e-mail to the following address: membership@ciabc.net