The Wilderness Tourism Association of BC (WTA) understands the importance of protecting your privacy while spending time on our website. Our privacy policy below outlines how we collect, use, communicate, disclose and otherwise make use of personal information.
Analytics
Our website uses Squarespace Analytics and Google Analytics to learn about our traffic and activity. The following personal data and details of use are collected to power our website analytics:
Information about your browser, network, device, and IP address
Web pages you visited that directed you to our site
Clicks, internal links, pages visited, scrolling, searches, timestamps
Newsletter
If you choose to subscribe to our mailing list via the footer of our website, we may send you marketing emails, which you can unsubscribe from by clicking the link at the bottom of the email. Your contact information is shared with Squarespace and Mailchimp, our email marketing providers, so they can send these emails on our behalf.
Cookies
This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. Squarespace, our hosting platform, uses functional and required cookies so you can effectively navigate our website, as well as analytics and performance cookies (optional) to understand how you interact with our website.
Personal Information
We will collect personal information by lawful and fair means and with your knowledge or consent. When you complete a contact form or application on our website, your personal information is shared with Squarespace and stored securely in our files with Google. At the time of submitting personal information, we will identify the reason for which it is being collected, and it will be used solely for fulfilling those purposes, unless we obtain your consent, or as required by law. We will protect personal information by using reasonable security safeguards against loss or theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification. At your request, we will make readily available any details about our policies and practices relating to the management of your personal information.
The WTA is committed to respecting your privacy in accordance with these principles. We may decide to change this privacy policy from time to time at our sole discretion.
(Last Updated: August 31, 2022)