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How do we use your Stories?
Thank you for contributing to the Capital Neighbourhoods virtual exhibition. By
contributing, you are joining a grass roots effort to tell the story of Ottawa.
By submitting your story (text, images, and video) to the Capital Neighbourhoods
website, you are agreeing that you have the right to do so. You may not upload any
illegal, offensive or copyrighted material, or material deemed inappropriate, indecent,
cruel, inhumane, or derogatory by the Bytown Museum at its discretion.
You are allowing the Bytown Museum to include your story in the virtual exhibition
and use it for education and publicity purposes. Any images that you upload to Capital
Neighbourhoods will be shared under the Bytown Museum Flickr account with an
Attribution-Noncommercial license.
After your story is submitted, it will be approved for publishing by the Bytown
Museum before it is publicly accessible.
Capital Neighbourhoods Privacy Policy
The Bytown Museum is dedicated to protecting your privacy as you use our web site.
Our policy is that no personal information will be collected about you unless you
choose to provide it and that any personal information which you provide us will
be safeguarded to the best of our ability and not shared with others for any reason
except as required by law.
Information We Gather
* The Bytown Museum collects personal information that you provide when you register
with Capital Neighbourhoods. This is required so that if you forget your password
you can e-mail us so and we can provide it to you. We do not share any of your personal
data with any third party for any reason, unless we are required to do so by law.
* The Bytown Museum automatically receives and records information on our server
logs from your browser, including your IP address, cookies, and the pages you request.
How we use IP Address Information
* The Bytown Museum may occasionally obtain IP addresses from users depending upon
how you access our web site. IP addresses, browser and session information may be
used for various purposes, including to:
- Diagnose and prevent service or technology problems reported by our users or engineers
that are associated with the IP addresses controlled by a specific web company or
ISP.
- Estimate the total number of users visiting Capital Neighbourhoods from specific
geographical regions.
- Monitor and prevent fraud and abuse.
How we use Cookies
* Our Website may distribute small pieces of information called "cookies" to your
web browser to assist you when you return to specific areas of our site. If you
have concerns about this you may adjust your browser not to accept this information
or to display a warning when a cookie is about to be placed on your browser. Refusing
to accept cookies may affect your ability to access some or all of the Capital Neighbourhoods
website.
Security
No data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed
to be perfectly secure. Therefore, while we try to protect your personal information,
the Bytown Museum does not guarantee the security of information transmitted to
or from the Capital Neighbourhoods website.
If you feel your security has been compromised, please contact
us.
Links
Our site may contain links to other sites, which are not owned or controlled by
the Bytown Museum. Please remember that our privacy policy does not apply to other
sites and that we cannot be responsible for their privacy policies, if any, nor
can we be responsible for the content on those sites.
