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Newsletter Registration
If you choose to register for our newsletter, we will ask for your name and email address.
The information you provide will be used to:
- Correspond with you; and
- Contact you about new offerings that we think you will be interested in; and
- Send you a newsletter or other updates about our activities; and
- Request feedback from you; and
- Notify you of updates to our product and service offerings; and
- Resolve disputes and troubleshoot any problems; and
- Compile anonymous statistical data for our own use; and
- Prevent fraudulent activity on our website; and
- Analyze trends to improve our website and offerings.
General Website Information
We automatically receive your computer’s internet protocol (IP) address, providing us with non-identifiable information about your browser and device. This allows us to gain a better understanding of the visitors using our website, so that we can create a better user experience in the future.
We also use the information to:
- Resolve disputes and troubleshoot any problems; and
- Compile anonymous statistical data for our own use; and
- Prevent fraudulent activity on our website; and
- Analyze trends to improve our website and offerings.
Forms
This website includes several forms that allow you to contact us, including surveys, event registration forms, etc . Any information you provide through these forms will only be accessed by authorized CASCADES staff for the purpose of provision of the specified service. 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.
Third-Party Services
Some pages on this website use third-party plug-ins to enhance the user experience. This includes event maps, sortable tables and social media share buttons. These plug-ins may collect non-identifiable information about your site visit and provide targeted advertisements. To learn more about Interest-Based Advertising, or to opt-out, visit the Network Advertising Initiative Opt Outpage.
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.
Updates
We may modify this privacy policy from time to time without notice. Please continue to check this page for updates.
Questions?
For questions and feedback about the protection of privacy on this website, please contact us by completing our user satisfaction survey or by email at cascades@utoronto.ca
General questions or concerns related to the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act can be directed to the University of Toronto’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Office.
Intellectual Property Policy
Links to: https://new.cascadescanada.ca/intellectual-property/
Intellectual Property
“Intellectual Property” means all intellectual property rights recognized by law, including but not limited to intellectual property rights protected through legislation.
Materials created by CASCADES are shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) and you may use these materials according to the terms and conditions of the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
Where our materials are being reproduced (for example, in a screenshot) or cited a as reference, this should be done using the citation style of choice and listing the document authors, CASCADES (Creating a Sustainable Canadian Health System in a Climate Crisis) as publisher, the access date and URL.
Suggested attribution
Example: Nowlan J, Machane S, Miller FA. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Estimation in Canadian Healthcare [Internet]. CASCADES (Creating a Sustainable Canadian Health System in a Climate Crisis). [Cited DATE]. Available from https://new.cascadescanada.ca/resources/greenhouse-gas-emissions-estimation-in-canadian-healthcare-playbook/]
Where our materials are being adapted (e.g. modified to make a tailored version for implementation in a specific setting), a note should be added that includes:
- “Adapted from CASCADES’ [document title]; view the original here.”
- A link to the original publication
- Indication that the new version is also shared under a Creative Commons attribution, non-commercial, share-alike licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Example: Adapted from CASCADES’ Greenhouse Gas Emissions Estimation in Canadian Healthcare; view the original here. (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Let us know!
While it is not a requirement under the license, we would be grateful if you would let us know where and how you share or adapt our materials so we can see and learn from how they are used.
The fine print
Under the terms and conditions of our Funding Agreement, the University of Toronto (UofT) grants Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) a non-exclusive, unconditional, irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free right to exercise all Intellectual Property Rights that vest in UofT for any public purpose except commercial exploitation in competition with UofT, including the right to use, produce, publish, translate, reproduce, adapt, modify, disclose, share, distribute, and broadcast the Intellectual Property.
Any intellectual property developed jointly by CASCADES and its Partners is jointly owned by the Partners. Inventorship is determined according to Canadian patent law, whether the Intellectual Property is patentable or not.
ECCC has a non-exclusive right to use any intellectual property created by UofT including materials and products created in partnership with others.