Privacy Policy
Date of Last Revision: Oct 24, 2007

We built Legions Legacies to make it easy to share information with around you. We understand you may not want everyone in the world to have the information you share on Legions Legacies; that is why we give you control of your information. Our default privacy settings limit the information displayed in your profile to your networks and other reasonable community limitations that we tell you about.
Legions Legacies follows two core principles:

1. You should have control over your personal information.
Legions Legacies helps you share your tributes to Canadians who sacrificed for the cause of freedom. You choose what information you put in your tribute and profile, including contact and personal information, and pictures.

2. You should have access to the information others post.
There is an increasing amount of information available out there, and you may want to know what relates to you, your family, and the community around you. We want to help you easily get that information.
Sharing information should be easy. And we want to provide you with the privacy tools necessary to control how and with whom you share that information. If you have questions or ideas, please send them to privacy@legionslegacies.com.

Legions Legacies's Privacy Policy

Legions Legacies's Privacy Policy is designed to help you understand how we collect and use the personal information you decide to share, and help you make informed decisions when using Legions Legacies, located at www.legionslegacies.org and its directly associated domains (collectively, "Legions Legacies" or "Website").

By using or accessing Legions Legacies, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

The Information We Collect

When you visit Legions Legacies you provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected by us and Web Site use “tributes” collected by us as you interact with our Web Site.

When you register with Legions Legacies, you provide us with certain personal information, such as your name, and your email address.

When you enter Legions Legacies, we collect your browser type and IP address. This information is gathered for all Legions Legacies visitors. In addition, we store certain information from your browser using "cookies." A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's computer tied to information about the user. We use session ID cookies to confirm that users are logged in. These cookies terminate once the user closes the browser. By default, we use a persistent cookie that stores your login ID (but not your password) to make it easier for you to login when you come back to Legions Legacies. You can remove or block this cookie using the settings in your browser if you want to disable this convenience feature.

When you use Legions Legacies, you may set up your personal profile, form relationships, send messages, perform searches and queries, form groups, set up events, add applications, and transmit information through various channels. We collect this information so that we can provide you the service and offer personalized features. In most cases, we retain it so that, for instance, you can return to view prior messages you have sent or easily see your friend list. When you update information, we usually keep a backup copy of the prior version for a reasonable period of time to enable reversion to the prior version of that information.

You post User Content (as defined in the Legions Legacies Terms of Use) on the Site at your own risk. Although we allow you to set privacy options that limit access to your pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot control the actions of other Users with whom you may choose to share your pages and information. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that User Content you post on the Site will not be viewed by unauthorized persons. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of User Content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other Users have copied or stored your User Content.

Any improper collection or misuse of information provided on Legions Legacies is a violation of the Legions Legacies Terms of Service and should be reported to privacy@legionslegacies.org.

If you choose to use our invitation service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for information needed to send the invitation, such as your friend's email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email or instant message inviting him or her to visit the site. Legions Legacies stores this information to send this one-time invitation, to register a friend connection if your invitation is accepted, and to track the success of our referral program. Your friend may contact us at info@legionslegacies.org to request that we remove this information from our database.

Legions Legacies may also collect information about you from other sources, such as newspapers, blogs, instant messaging services, and other users of the Legions Legacies service through the operation of the service (e.g., photo tags) in order to provide you with more useful information and a more personalized experience.

By using Legions Legacies, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed in the United States.

Children Under Age 13

Legions Legacies does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to register.  If you are under 13, please do not attempt to register for Legions Legacies or send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to or on Legions Legacies. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at info@legionslegacies.org.

Children Between the Ages of 13 and 18

We recommend that minors over the age of 13 ask their parents or teacher for permission before sending any information about themselves to anyone over the Internet.

Use of Information Obtained by Legions Legacies

When you register with Legions Legacies, you create your own profile and privacy settings. Your profile information, as well as your name, email and photo, are displayed to people in the networks specified in your privacy settings to enable you to connect with people on Legions Legacies. We may occasionally use your name and email address to send you notifications regarding new services offered by Legions Legacies that we think you may find valuable.

Legions Legacies may send you service-related announcements from time to time through the general operation of the service.

Legions Legacies may use information in your profile without identifying you as an individual to third parties. We do this for purposes such as aggregating how many people in a network like a band or movie and personalizing advertisements and promotions so that we can provide you Legions Legacies. We believe this benefits you. You can know more about the world around you and, where there are advertisements, they're more likely to be interesting to you. For example, if you mention a battle in your tribute, we might serve you an advertisement highlighting a book available through Amazon. But we don't tell the Amazon who you are.

We may use information about you that we collect from other sources, including but not limited to newspapers and Internet sources such as blogs, instant messaging services, Legions Legacies developers and other users of Legions Legacies, to supplement your profile. Where such information is used, we generally allow you to specify in your privacy settings that you do not want this to be done or to take other actions that limit the connection of this information to your profile (e.g., removing photo links).

Sharing Your Information with Third Parties

Legions Legacies is about sharing information with others. We allow you to choose the information you provide to the online community through Legions Legacies. Our network architecture and your privacy settings allow you to make informed choices about who has access to your information. We do not provide contact information to third party marketers without your permission. We share your information with third parties only in limited circumstances where we believe such sharing is 1) reasonably necessary to offer the service, 2) legally required or, 3) permitted by you.

Links    

Legions Legacies may contain links to other websites. We are of course not responsible for the privacy practices of other web sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by Legions Legacies.

Third Party Advertising

Advertisements that appear on Legions Legacies are sometimes delivered (or "served") directly to users by third party advertisers. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. These third party advertisers may also download cookies to your computer, or use other technologies such as JavaScript and "web beacons" (also known as "1x1 gifs") to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. Doing this allows the advertising network to recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement in order to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. In this way, they may compile information about where individuals using your computer or browser saw their advertisements and determine which advertisements are clicked. Legions Legacies does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third party advertisers. Third party advertisers have no access to your contact information stored on Legions Legacies unless you choose to share it with them.

This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by Legions Legacies and does not cover the use of cookies or other tracking technologies by any of its advertisers.

Changing or Removing Information

Access and control over most personal information on Legions Legacies is readily available through the profile editing tools. Legions Legacies users may modify or delete any of their profile information at any time by logging into their account. Information will be updated immediately. Individuals who wish to deactivate their Legions Legacies account may do so on the My Account page. Removed information may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time but will not be generally available to members of Legions Legacies.

Where you make use of the communication features of the service to share information with other individuals on Legions Legacies, however, (e.g., sending a personal message to another Legions Legacies user) you generally cannot remove such communications.

Security

Legions Legacies takes appropriate precautions to protect our users' information. Your account information is located on a secured server behind a firewall. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number or your password), we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). (To learn more about SSL, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer). Because email and instant messaging are not recognized as secure communications, we request that you not send private information to us by email or instant messaging services. If you have any questions about the security of Legions Legacies Web Site, please contact us at privacy@legionslegacies.org.

Terms of Use, Notices and Revisions

Your use of Legions Legacies, and any disputes arising from it, is subject to this Privacy Policy as well as our Terms of Use and all of its dispute resolution provisions including arbitration, limitation on damages and choice of law. We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use at any time. Non-material changes and clarifications will take effect immediately, and material changes will take effect within 30 days of their posting on this site. If we make changes, we will post them and will indicate at the top of this page the policy's new effective date. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or through notice on our home page. We encourage you to refer to this policy on an ongoing basis so that you understand our current privacy policy. Unless stated otherwise, our current privacy policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account.

Contacting the Web Site

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us at privacy@legionslegacies.org.  You may also contact us by mail at:

BC/Yukon Command - The Royal Canadian Legion
3026 Arbutus Street
Vancouver, B.C.  V6J 4P7

Phone:
(1) 604.736.8166 Telephone
(1) 604.736.1635 Fax

Email:
admin@pacificlegion.org