Terms of Use and Privacy Policy

Website Privacy Policy

It is the policy of the Museum that all personal information, such as your name, personal postal and email address, or personal telephone number is private and confidential. Because your privacy is important to us, the Museum maintains privacy policies to protect your personal information.

By using this site, you consent to the terms of our privacy policy for the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information for the purposes set out below. The Museum does not collect, use or disclose your personal information for any purpose other than those identified below, except with your consent or as required by law.

Information that We Collect

1. Site Activity Data

Each time a user visits www.ontrmuseum.ca, our web server collects and logs certain information. These access logs are maintained for a reasonable period of time. These logs include, but are not restricted to your machine’s TCP/IP address, your username (as applicable), date, time and files accessed. These logs also contain information about referrer information if you utilized an external link to visit any of this site’s web pages. These logs are used solely for performance, site administration and security reviews. They are not sold or shared in any way to third party organizations.

2. Cookies

Portions of the Museum website may use cookies for security and authentication purposes. This information is used solely to maintain your computer’s session on the www.ontrmuseum.ca server. This information is not shared or sold to third party organizations for any purpose.

3. Personal Information

Personal information, such as your name, mailing address and email address, or telephone number is collected only when you voluntarily provide it on any electronic correspondence submitted via www.ontrmuseum.ca. This information is received when you send an email through the site or make other specific contact, such as completing an online sign order form, a feedback form, or subscribing to email updates.

The personal information you provide to the Museum will only be shared with the individual equipped to handle your request and is used only to respond to your inquiry.

Your personal information will not be sold to any third party or outside organization.

E-Mail Subscriptions

If you subscribed to the Museum’s E-mail list to receive periodic news and events updates and longer wish to be contacted, please send a note to webmaster so that we may remove your address from our mailing list. Please include your name and E-mail address so we can accurately process your request.

Revisions to this Policy

Any changes to the Ontario Regiment Museum’s terms of use and privacy policy will be communicated on this website. Policy changes will not alter how we handle previously submitted personal information. If you have any questions about our copyright or privacy policies or wish to update any of the personal information you have provided, please contact the webmaster.

Cookie Policy

The Museum uses cookies on the Sites. By using the Sites, you consent to the use of cookies.

Our Cookies Policy explains what cookies are, how we use cookies, how third-parties we may partner with may use cookies on the Sites, and your choices regarding cookies.

What are cookies

Cookies are small pieces of text sent by your web browser by a website you visit. A cookie file is stored in your web browser and allows the Service or a third-party to recognize you and make your next visit easier and the Service more useful to you.

Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies.

How the Museum uses cookies

When you use and access the Sites, we may place cookies files in your web browser.

We use both session and persistent cookies for the following purposes: to enable certain functions of the Service, to provide analytics, to store your preferences, and to customize your experience.

In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies to report usage statistics of the Sites, provide access to the email newsletter, gift shop, and donations pages.

What are your choices regarding cookies

If you’d like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser.

Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use all of the features we offer, you may not be able to store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.