Your Privacy
This document explains our policy regarding any personal information you might supply to us when you visit this site. Our goal is to protect your information.
Consent
By accessing or using the Alberta Sign Association Web site, you agree to the terms of the Alberta Sign Association’s Online Privacy Policy, as outlined below. If you do not agree to these terms, please do not access or use this site.
Collection of Personal Information
When you engage in certain activities on this site, such as registering or ordering products, Alberta Sign Association may ask you to provide certain information about yourself by filling out and submitting an online form. It is completely optional for you to engage in these activities. If you elect to engage in these activities, however, Alberta Sign Association may require that you provide us personal information, such as your name, mailing address, e-mail address, and other personal identifying information. When ordering products on the site, you may be asked to provide a credit card number.
When you submit personal information to Alberta Sign Association you understand and agree that Alberta Sign Association may transfer, store, and process your customer profile.
Alberta Sign Association collects this information in order to record and support your participation in the activities you select. If you order a product, for example, the information is used to mail to you the items ordered and to provide you with any benefits that may be made available to registered users. Alberta Sign Association also uses information that you provide as part of our effort to keep you informed about special offers, and other Alberta Sign Association products and services.
Your personal information is password-protected to prevent unauthorized access to it. We recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone.
Use of Cookies on our site.
When you visit Alberta Sign Association, you can surf the site anonymously and access important information without revealing your identity. However, in order to provide a better service, we may use “cookies” to track your visit.
A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer’s hard disk so that the website can remember who you are.
A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the “lifetime” of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number.
Two types of cookies are used on this website:
Session Cookies
Which are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site
Persistent cookies
Which remain in the cookie file of your browser for much longer (though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie).
Cookies can help a website to arrange content to match your preferred interests more quickly. Most major websites use cookies. Cookies cannot be used by themselves to identify you.
Find out more about cookies.
How we use Cookies on our Site and what Information we collect.
Session Cookies
- To allow you to carry information across pages of our site and avoid having to re-enter information.
- Within registration to allow you to access stored information.
- To apply discounts dependant on your point of entry into the site.
Persistent Cookies.
- To allow you to maintain a shopping basket.
- To help us recognise you as a unique visitor (just a number) when you return to our website and to allow us to tailor content to match your preferences. This also prevents you from having to ‘Log In’ every visit.