Individual information provided to Your Media,
which is owned and operated by the CWA Canada
union, will not be sold or made available to a third party.
Your Media collects only information that is voluntarily provided by a site visitor and undertakes that such information will be kept strictly confidential unless we have your implied or express consent to post your name and other information in the form of credit or attribution on those pages where your submission via Show & Tell email, fax or letter, will be published.
Web site usage / Information collection
The Your Media web site automatically obtains information from you about the name of your Internet service provider, the browser and type of computer you are using, the web site that referred you to us, the pages you request and the date and time of those requests. We use this information on an aggregate basis to generate statistics and measure site activity to improve the usefulness of the site to our visitors. For example, we use this information to track which pages are most popular among visitors as a whole. We do not track the pages you or any individual visitor may look at during a visit to our site and we do not collect any other information without your knowledge and permission. We do not collect or store personally identifiable information, such as your name, mailing address, email address or phone number, unless you provide that information.
Your Media's enM@SSE program
Cookies
Although the Your Media web site does not employ cookies, its enMASSE e-activism
program does. Through cookies, enM@SSE recognizes members, facilitates
their access to and use of the program, and tracks usage behaviour
for the purpose of improving content.
If you do not want a cookie placed on your computer by enM@SSE, you can disable cookies altogether by modifying the Preferences settings of your Internet browser. Note that it is possible that some aspects of enM@SSE, such as auto Log In for members, may be unavailable to you if you choose this option.
If you have no problem accepting cookies, but wish to be informed of their appearance, you may turn on a warning prompt by modifying the cookie warning section in your browser's Preferences settings.
Sharing Information
Get Active maintains a membership database that contains information about you if you elect to become a member of enM@SSE. As a third-party provider, Get Active is committed to protecting the privacy of those members and subscribers, and will not utilize your information for any other purpose but to provide the services for which they were contracted.
Opting Out
People who sign up with enM@SSE, Your Media's e-activism program, are given the opportunity in every mailing to unsubscribe by using the procedure specified in the message.
Outside Links
This site contains hypertext links to other sites. Your Media is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site, and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personal information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this web site.
you believe that Your Media has violated your privacy;
you wish to alter information about yourself that you know is in Your Media's possession; or
you have any complaints regarding the privacy policy.
Alternatively, you can communicate with the webmaster by regular mail or fax.
Address: Your Media, 7B-1050 Baxter Rd., Ottawa ON K2C 3P1
Fax: (Attention: Your Media) 613-820-8188
Source Protection
In the event that Your Media is asked or ordered
to reveal a source, it will not readily do so. CWA Canada,
the union that owns and operates this web site, will employ reasonable
legal and financial resources to protect a source's identity.
Your Media is not a forum for irresponsible, malicious or unfounded claims. As a publishing medium, we apply standard journalistic principles to all content and analysis. Articles appearing anywhere in Your Media have been edited for clarity, length and legality. Your Media is particularly on guard against libel or defamation.
(Your Media is not responsible for the content of other web sites to which it might have hyperlinks. However, we will not knowingly link to another site that contains objectionable, malicious or illegal content.)