Privacy Policy

Confidentiality and Privacy Procedure

Purpose

Students’ privacy is a primary concern to York Construction Academy (YCA). YCA’s goal is to provide students with the highest level of service, confidentiality, and security. Accordingly, we have developed this policy in order to demonstrate how YCA collects, uses, communicates, discloses and makes use of personal information.

This policy describes the standardized practices for the protection of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) YCA collects and/or uses and so it is in compliance with government regulations and best practices for information security.

Privacy Policy Statement

The Following Outlines Our Privacy Policy:

• Before or at the time of collecting personal information, YCA will identify the purposes for which information is being collected.
• YCA will collect and use personal information solely with the objective of fulfilling those purposes specified by YCA and for other compatible purposes, unless consent is obtained of the individual concerned or as required by law.
• YCA will only retain personal information as long as necessary for the fulfillment of those purposes.
• YCA will collect personal information by lawful and fair means and, where appropriate, with the knowledge or consent of the individual concerned.
• Personal data should be relevant to the purposes for which it is to be used, and, to the extent necessary for those purposes, should be accurate, complete, and up-to-date.
• YCA will protect personal information by reasonable security safeguards against loss or theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.
• YCA will make information readily available to students about our policies and practices relating to the management of their personal data.
• YCA is committed to conducting business in accordance with these principles in order to ensure that the confidentiality of personal information is protected and maintained.

Online Forms / Website Privacy Policy

When filling out an online form on *yorkacademy.ca, students will be asked to provide personal information such as name, e-mail and phone number. Forms may contain mandatory or optional fields which are the minimum information needed to complete your inquiry.

If student is uncomfortable providing any of this information over the internet, alternative methods of service, such as phone calls, a letter or an e-mail to our school, are available.

This privacy policy describes our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of your information when you use our service, and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

We use your personal data to provide and improve our services. By using our services, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this privacy policy.

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of this privacy policy:

• Account means a unique account created for you to access our services or parts of our services.
• Affiliate means an entity that controls, is controlled by or is under common control with a party, where “control” means ownership of 50% or more of the shares, equity interest or other securities entitled to vote for election of directors or other managing authority.
• Company (referred to as either “the Company”, “We”, “Us” or “Our” in this Agreement) refers to York Construction Academy, 155 Champagne Drive, Unit 8A, North York, Ontario, M3J 2C6, Canada.
• Cookies are small text files that are saved on your computer or device that are created when websites are loaded in an internet browser. Whether for a single visit (using a “session cookie”) or for several follow-up visits (using a “persistent cookie”), they are frequently used to “remember” you and your preferences (See: Tracking Technologies and Cookies below for more details).
• Country refers to: Ontario, Canada
• Device means any device that can access our online services such as a computer, a cellphone or a tablet.
• Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
• Service refers to the website: yorkacademy.ca.
• Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the company (YCA). It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the company to facilitate the service, to provide the service on behalf of the company, to perform services related to the service or to assist the company in analyzing how the service is used.
• Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the service or from the service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
• Website refers to York Construction Academy, accessible from yorkacademy.ca
• You means the individual accessing or using the service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the service, as applicable.

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using our service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

• Email address
• First name and last name
• Phone number
• Usage data

Usage Data

Usage data is collected automatically when using the service.

Usage data may include information such as your device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When you access the service by or through a mobile device, we may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device you are using, your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile internet browser you are using, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our service or when you access the service by or through a mobile device.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our service. The technologies we use include:

• Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on your device (see: Definitions above). You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some parts of our service. Unless you have adjusted your browser settings so that it will allow cookies, our service may be not fully operational.
• Web Beacons. Certain sections of our service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).

Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser.

We use both session and persistent cookies for the purposes set out below:

• Necessary / Essential Cookies: Type: session cookies. Administered by: us. Purpose: these cookies are essential to provide you with services available through the website and to enable you to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these cookies, the services that you have asked for cannot be provided, and we only use these cookies to provide you with those services.
• Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies: Type: persistent cookies. Administered by: us. Purpose: these cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the website.
• Functionality Cookies: Type: persistent cookies. Administered by: us. Purpose: these cookies allow us to remember choices you make when you use the website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience and to avoid you having to re-enter your preferences every time you use the website.

Use of Your Personal Data

YCA may use your personal data for the following purposes:

• To Provide and Maintain Our Service: Including to monitor the usage of our service.
• To Manage Your Account: To manage your registration as a user of the service. The personal data you provide can give you access to different functionalities of the service that are available to you as a registered user.
• For the Performance of a Contract: The development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items or services you have purchased or of any other contract with us through the service.
• To Contact You: By email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application’s push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
• To Provide You With: News, special offers and general information about our other goods, services and events which we may offer that are similar to those which you have already purchased or inquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information.
• To Manage Your Requests: To attend and manage your requests to us.
• For Business Transfers: We may use your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal data held by us about our service users is among the assets transferred.
• For Other Purposes: We may use your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our service, products, marketing and your experience.

We may share your personal information in the following situations:

• With Service Providers: We may share your personal information with service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our service and/or to contact you.
• For Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
• With Affiliates: We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honour this privacy policy. Affiliates include any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.
• With Business Partners: We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services or promotions.
• With Other Users: when You share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside.
• With Your Consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.

Retention of Your Personal Data

YCA will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy. We will retain and use your personal data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

YCA will also retain usage data for internal analysis purposes. Usage data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our services, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including personal data, is processed at the company’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to, and maintained on, computers located outside of your province, state, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this privacy policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

YCA will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy and no transfer of your personal data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

Deleting Your Personal Data

You have the right to delete or request that we assist in deleting the personal data that we have collected about you.

You may also contact us to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us.

Please note, however, that we may need to retain certain information when we have a legal obligation or lawful basis to do so.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Business Transactions

If YCA is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, your personal data may be transferred. We will provide notice before your personal data is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

Law Enforcement

Under certain circumstances, YCA may be required to disclose your personal data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Other Legal Requirements

YCA may disclose your personal data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

• Comply with a legal obligation
• Protect and defend the rights or property of the company
• Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the service
• Protect the personal safety of users of the service or the public
• Protect against legal liability

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Our Procedure For Preventing & Handling Privacy Data Breaches:

A privacy data breach involves the inappropriate or illegal gathering, use, disclosure, retention, or destruction of personal information belonging to students, alumni, faculty, and staff. To prevent such breaches, YCA secures all private information, ensuring only authorized personnel have access and that employees are trained in data protection. Personal information is never sent by fax, and thorough checks are performed before disposing of any documents. In the event of a breach, immediate actions include removing exposed data, shutting down affected systems for analysis, recovering improperly accessed records, and compiling lists of potentially compromised information. Affected individuals and responsible parties are identified, and detailed records of all actions taken are maintained.

Children’s Privacy

Our service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, we take all steps to remove that information from our servers.

If we need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your information and your country requires consent from a parent, we may require your parent’s consent before we collect and use that information.

Third Party Services

Our website (yorkacademy.ca) uses Cloudflare’s services to enhance the security and performance of our website, which may involve the processing of your IP address and other technical data. Cloudflare adheres to strict privacy standards and provides robust security measures to safeguard your information. For more information about how Cloudflare processes your data, please refer to their privacy policy.

Our website uses Google Analytics 4 to analyze website traffic and improve our services, which involves the collection of anonymized data about your interactions with our site. This data helps us understand user behavior while respecting your privacy.

Our website uses Google Fonts to enhance the visual design of our pages. Google Fonts is a web service provided by Google Inc. that allows us to access a variety of fonts hosted on their servers. When you visit our site, your browser establishes a connection to Google’s servers, which may result in the collection of your IP address and other usage data. We ensure that any data collected is handled in accordance with applicable privacy laws and our commitment to protecting your personal information.

Our website uses Google reCAPTCHA to enhance security and protect against spam and automated abuse. reCAPTCHA is a service provided by Google Inc. that analyzes user interactions to determine whether they are human or automated. When you use this service, certain data, including your IP address and interaction information, may be collected by Google. We handle all data in compliance with applicable privacy laws and our privacy policy.

Our website employs Google Tag Manager to manage and deploy marketing tags and track website performance. Google Tag Manager may collect data about your interactions with our site, which helps us analyze user behavior and improve our services. We ensure that any data collected through this service is processed in compliance with applicable privacy laws and our privacy policy. For more details on how Google handles your information, please refer to Google’s privacy policy.

Our website uses Meta Events Manager to collect and analyze event data from our platforms, helping us improve user experience and optimize our services. This data may include interactions with our site and advertisements. All information is processed in accordance with our privacy policy, and we ensure that any data shared with Meta is anonymized and handled in compliance with applicable data protection laws.

Our website uses Meta Pixel to track conversions and optimize our advertising efforts on Meta platforms. By implementing this service, we may collect data about user interactions and behaviors, which helps us measure the effectiveness of our ads. We are committed to handling all collected data in compliance with applicable privacy laws and our privacy policy. For further details on how Meta processes your information, please refer to Meta’s privacy policy.

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.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update our privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page: yorkacademy.ca/privacy-policy.

You are advised to review this privacy policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this privacy policy are effective when they are posted.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, you can contact us by visiting this page on our website: yorkacademy.ca/contact