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Privacy Policies

Accessibility Notice

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Privacy Statement

The SAIL Fund (“SAIL Fund”, “We”, or “Us”) values and respects your privacy. This “Privacy Statement” summarizes what personal information we collect, and how we use and disclose this information. By using our website (the “Site”), you (“You”, “you”, “Your” or “your”) are providing your consent to the terms of our Privacy Statement. If you do not agree with any terms of this Privacy Statement, please do not use this Site or submit any personal information to us. Of course, should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at info @ sailfund.ca.

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Statement at any time. We will reflect any such modifications to this Privacy Statement on our Site. Your continued use of the Site after any such changes constitutes your acceptance of this Privacy Statement, as revised.

What Personal Information We Collect

Personal information is information about an identifiable individual (“Personal Information”). The SAIL Fund collects Personal Information when you voluntarily provide it through using our Site, or when you provide it to us through other means. For example, we may collect Personal Information when you:

contact us through email, telephone, mail; or other correspondence;
register for a conference; or
apply to participate in one of our programs or to receive services from us, such as applying to the SAIL Fund to receive our services, including education on entrepreneurship, funding and related activities as further described on our Site.

The Personal Information we may collect will depend on the nature of your request or application, and may include your full name, contact information, such as your email address and any other information required for us to perform “know-your-customer/client” (KYC) as may be required) and our services, or any other Personal Information that you choose to submit to us. Please refrain from providing us with any proprietary or confidential information, including ‘pitch decks’ and/or descriptions of your creations and/or inventions, as e-mail and other forms of electronic communication, including contact form submission (“Submission”), are inherently not a secure and/or confidential means of communication. No Submission shall create a business relationship between the SAIL Fund and you.

Consent

We only collect, use and disclose Personal Information with your consent. Your knowledge and consent are required for us to collect, use or disclose your Personal Information, except in certain limited circumstances. By using this Site, you are giving your consent for us to collect, use or disclose your Personal Information. If you do not want us to collect and use your Personal Information, then you should discontinue using our Site. You should also understand that, in many cases, our collection, use, or disclosure of Personal Information is a valid condition of service, which means that we need your Personal Information in order to provide a particular service, such as providing you SAIL Fund services. If you do not wish to consent to the collection, use or disclosure of your Personal Information, we may not be able to do certain things, such as process your application for the purposes of rendering services to you.

The collection of Information through Technological Means

When you visit our Site, we may collect information that is automatically sent to us by your web browser. This information may include your domain name, and your numerical IP address. We may also collect other information, such as the type of browser you use, which pages you view and the files you request.

We collect this information to better understand how visitors use our Site, to improve the content of the Site and to improve your interaction with the Site by making it easier for you to get back to the pages you have looked at the next time you visit. The amount of information that is sent by your web browser depends on the browser and settings you use. Please refer to the instructions provided by your browser if you want to learn more about what information it sends to websites you visit, or how you may change or restrict this.

The SAIL Fund may use “Cookies” and other similar devices on this Site to enhance functionality. These devices may track information which includes, but is not limited to: (i) IP address; (ii) the type of web browser and operating system used; and (iii) the pages of the Site visited. If you wish to disable cookies, refer to your browser help menu to learn how. If you disable cookies, you may be unable to access some features on this Site.

How the SAIL Fund Uses and Discloses Personal Information

The Personal Information we collect may be used by the SAIL Fund for the purposes for which it was collected, as provided in this Privacy Statement, or for other purposes that are disclosed to you. By using this Site, you are giving your consent for us to collect, use or disclose your Personal Information for these purposes.

For example, we may use your Personal Information to: process your registration for a conference or your application to receive services; determine whether you are eligible to receive services; manage, operate, oversee and administer our programs and services; support and monitor the participants who use our services; to share it with third party agencies and organizations that may have oversight on our programs; to share it with our academic, governmental and non-governmental organizations, that assist us with carrying out our activities, purposes, or to carry out any other purpose permitted or required by law. We also may disclose your Personal Information for any other purpose that we tell you about and to which you consent.

Some or all of the personal information we collect may be stored or processed in jurisdictions outside of Canada. As a result, this information may be subject to access requests from governments, courts, or law enforcement in those jurisdictions according to laws in those jurisdictions.

Children and Youth

The Site is targeted primarily for use by adults. The SAIL Fund does not target or create special areas for use by children. Accordingly, the SAIL Fund does not knowingly collect age identifying information, nor does it knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of 13 years. HOWEVER, THE SAIL FUND HEREBY ADVISES ALL VISITORS TO THE SITE UNDER THE AGE OF 13 NOT TO DISCLOSE OR PROVIDE ANY PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION ON THE SITE. In the event that the SAIL Fund discovers that a child under the age of 13 has provided personally identifiable information to it, the SAIL Fund will delete the child’s personally identifiable information from the SAIL Fund’s files.

How We Protect Personal Information

The security of your Personal Information is important to us. We protect your Personal Information by maintaining physical, organizational and technological safeguards appropriate to the sensitivity of such Personal Information. Personal Information may only be accessed by persons within the SAIL Fund who require such access to carry out our purposes as described above.

We retain Personal Information that we collect only as long as necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or to meet legal requirements. We securely destroy Personal Information when it is no longer needed.

Data Shared with Partners and Impact Partner Organizations

If you are a participant in one of our programs, we may collect your personal data from partner organizations and impact partner organizations, or directly from you, to monitor and assess the impact of our programs and to draw lessons for future programmatic design and improvement purposes. We will not use the data for any other purposes without obtaining explicit consent from the partner organizations, impact partner organizations and you.

Data Sharing

We do not share personal data with third parties except in the following circumstances:

With your consent and the consent of the partner organization or impact partner organization (as applicable).
To get services from third parties. These service providers are contractually obligated to protect the data and use it only for the purposes specified by us.
When required by law or to comply with legal processes.

Data Retention

We retain personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected or as required by law. Once the data is no longer needed, we will securely delete or anonymize it.

Access and Correction

You have a right to access your Personal Information and to request a correction to it if you believe it is inaccurate. If you have submitted Personal Information and would like to have access to it, or if you would like to have it corrected, please contact us using the contact information provided below.

When the Privacy Policy applies

This Privacy Policy applies to all of our services and products offered by SAIL Fund.

SAIL Fund products and services may contain links to third-party websites, products and services. Our products and services may also use such third party products and services. Information collected by third parties is governed by their privacy practices. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with these privacy practices.

If you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy or if you’d like to make a complaint about a possible breach of local privacy laws, please contact us. All such inquiries will be addressed and replied to where appropriate as soon as possible. We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. When we change the policy in a material way, a notice will be posted on our website along with the updated Privacy Policy.

For inquiries regarding your personal information, consent or our privacy policy, please contact:
Email: info @ howtosail .ca

Cookie Notice

“Cookies” are small files or records that are placed on a user's computer to distinguish the user from other visitors on the Site. The use of cookies is a standard practice among websites to collect or track information about a user’s activities while using the Site. Generally, a Cookie may enable a website owner to track how a visitor navigates through the website and the areas in which visitors show interest. This is analogous to a traffic report: it tracks trends and behaviors but does not identify individuals. Information gathered in this fashion may include date and time of visits, pages viewed, time spent on the Site, and the website visited just before and just after a visit to the Site. Cookies can be set to expire: (i) on a specified date; (ii) after a specific period of time; (iii) when a transaction has been completed; or (iv) when a user turns off his/her Internet browser. A Cookie that is erased from memory when a visitor’s Internet browser closes is called a “session” cookie, whereas Cookies which expire based on a time set by the Web server are called “persistent” cookies. The Website may use both “session cookies” and “persistent cookies,” (or permanent cookies) as well as session tracking technology which analyzes user behavior when on the Site. Internet browsers are typically set to accept Cookies by default. You can choose to have your browser warn you every time a Cookie is being sent to you or you can turn off Cookie placements. If you refuse Cookies, there may be parts of the Site which may not function properly.