At INSTITUTE OF METACOGNITIVE PROGRAMMING INC., (“IMCP”) we are committed to maintaining the accuracy, confidentiality and security of your personal information.
This Privacy Policy describes the personal information that IMCP may collect from or about you, a person who interacts with IMCP on our website or through our coaching services or otherwise. It also describes how we use, and to whom we disclose, that information. It is IMCP’s policy to comply with the privacy legislation within each jurisdiction in which we operate. Sometimes the privacy legislation or a person’s right to privacy are different from one jurisdiction to another. This Privacy Policy covers only those activities that are subject to the provisions of Canada's federal and provincial privacy laws, as applicable. Consequently, the rights and obligations contained in this Privacy Policy may not be available to all persons or in all jurisdictions. If you are unsure if or how this Privacy Policy applies to you, please contact our Privacy Officer for more information.
This Privacy Policy was last updated April 23, 2024.
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, personal information is any information about an identifiable individual such as your name and e-mail address, but is not aggregated information that cannot be associated with a specific person. We do not knowingly collect personal information from persons under the age of 13 years.
As a general rule, IMCP collects personal information directly from you. In circumstances where the personal information that we collect about you is held by a third party, we will obtain your permission before we seek out this information from such sources (such permission may be given directly by you or implied from your actions).
From time to time, we may use the services of third parties in our activities and operations and may also receive personal information collected by those third parties in the course of the performance of their services for us or otherwise. ****Where this is the case, we will take reasonable steps to ensure that such third parties have represented to us that they have the right to disclose your personal information to us.
Where permitted or required by applicable law or regulatory requirements, we may collect information about you without your knowledge or consent.
We may collect information related to your visit to our website or use of our service including the through your participation in our services or through the internet protocol (“IP”) address and domain used to access our services and website. We may also be provided with the type and version of your browser, the website, portal or platform from which you came to access our services, the pages at which you entered and exited, affiliate log-in credentials, any website page that is viewed by that IP address and what country you are from. If you use a mobile device with location services enabled, we may collect and process information about your actual location through GPS signals, nearby Wi-Fi access points or cell towers. We use this information to monitor our services as well as website's performance (such as number of visits, average time spent, page views) and for our business purposes.
In addition, we collect the personal information that you submit to us, such as your name, username, email address and any other contact or other information that you choose to provide by using the “contact us” portion of the website.
In the course of providing personalized services to you we may collect personal information you provide to us such as your biographical or biological details (name, sex, age, race), nationality, religion, marital status, education, medical or criminal history, financial information, identifying numbers, for example, Social Insurance Numbers and birthdate, contact details (personal address, phone number, social media handles etc.), political affiliation, marital status, career aspirations and employment history and such other personal opinions and views amongst other information. We do not knowingly collect, nor do we seek to collect, personal health information but may provide generalized health information which will not, in any manner, constitute medical advice.
Where you request information from us, we may use the e-mail address that you provide to send you information about offers on our services that we believe may be of interest to you. If you have asked us to put you on an e-mail mailing list to provide you with certain information on a regular basis, or if we send you information about our offers on products and services by e-mail, you may ask us to remove you from the list at any time (using the unsubscribe instructions provided with each e-mail and on our website).
When you visit our website or log in to the service, we place a “cookie” during the sign in process on the hard drive of your computer or device to track your visit. A cookie is a small data file that is transferred to your hard drive through your web browser and that can only be read by the website that placed the cookie on your hard drive. The cookie acts as an identification card and allows our website to identify you and to record your login status and preferences. The cookie allows us to track your visits to affiliate websites so that we can better understand your use of our service and so that we can customize and tailor the service to better meet your needs.
Most web browsers’ default setting is to accept cookies. However, web browsers enable you to change this setting to have your web browser either notify you prior to a website placing a cookie on your hard drive so that you can decide whether or not to accept the cookie or automatically prevent the placing of a cookie on your hard drive. If cookies are not accepted, you may not be able to access certain pages on the website. IMCP partners may use other tracking technology such as a web beacons, software installations or otherwise which may also not function if cookies or the other third-party software technology is not accepted.
IMCP may allow third-party companies to serve ads or collect certain anonymous information when you visit our website or use our services. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information (e.g., click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements likely to be of greater interest to you. These companies typically use a cookie or third-party web beacon to collect this information. To learn more about this behavioral advertising practice or to opt-out of this type of advertising, you can visit networkadvertising.org.