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Web Site Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting the Grand River Conservation Authority's web site. We are committed to preserving your privacy when you visit our site. Our policy is to collect no personal information about you when you visit our site, unless you choose to make such information available to us.

When you visit our site, the web server automatically records the following information:

The Internet domain and IP address from which you access our site;
The type of browser and operating system used to access our site;
The date and time you access our site; and
The pages you visit.

We use this information to help us make our site more useful to visitors, and to learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology our visitors use. This information is not shared with other organizations.

Like many other web sites, the Grand River Conservation Authority web site uses cookies to improve your use of our online content. For instance, we use cookies to remember and process the items in your shopping cart in our on-line store, and to ensure that you have read important information prior to viewing our river data.

You can set your browser software to decline cookies or to prompt you before a cookie is accepted. Unfortunately, if you choose to decline cookies, some of the features or services on our website may not be available to you.

Personal Information

If you choose to share personal information with us by filling out an electronic form with personal information, subscribing to a newsletter, or sending us a message, the information will only be used for the purposes you authorized. Some of this information may be saved for a designated period of time in order to comply with the Ontario Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act and Grand River Conservation Authority document retention policies. The Grand River Conservation Authority will not disclose personal information to third parties or other government agencies, unless required to do so by law.

If you have questions about the Grand River Conservation Authority's web site privacy policy, please contact , Manager of Resource Science, Information and Policy, Grand River Conservation Authority.