Privacy Policy

Who we are

Mailing Address

304-16 McAdam Avenue, North York, Ontario M6A 0B9.

Our website address is: greensquaremeter.org

Cookies

If you enter contact information on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

Forms

This website includes forms that allow you to contact us. Any information you provide through these forms will only be accessed by authorized University of Toronto staff. Should you choose to include your email address or phone number, we may contact you in response to your enquiry.

Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, which uses cookies to record non-identifiable information about your site visit. We use this information to monitor aggregate usage trends and identify opportunities to improve this website.

Google uses this information to track and examine the use of Google Analytics and to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services. It may also use the data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. You may wish to read Google’s privacy policy or opt out of Google Analytics.

Email and Marketing 

From time to time GSM will contact individuals at organisations to let them know about our events, and programmes. The legal basis for such processing of data and sending mailouts is our legitimate interests in our work, and raising awareness to those who are identifiable as benefiting from our work.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

External Sites

This website may include links that direct you away from our site. We are not responsible for the content on any of these pages, and encourage you to read their privacy policies.

Data-sharing partnerships 

GSM  will require all partners who will be recipients of GSM’s personal data to comply with this policy or a policy that affords a similar level of data protection. Partnership agreements will specify the nature of personal data that is to be shared and the purpose for sharing. GSM will ensure that representatives of the partner organization sign confidentiality agreements. Where GSM receives personal data about a data subject from a partner, GSM will uphold this policy. 

How long we retain your data

If you enter contact information and its metadata are retained indefinitely. 

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

Visitor content may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Updates

We may modify this privacy policy from time to time without notice. Please continue to check this page for updates