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About the Family Engagement in Research Training Program Learning Platform: https://ferprogram.ca

Privacy Statement and Data Collection Notice

The Family Engagement in Research Training Program aims to train, mentor, and mobilize the next generation of advocates, champions, and leaders in family engagement in research. The Family Engagement in Research Training Program provides this online learning platform to assist learners to access information, resources and learning materials, and have a supported space to engage with other learners including people with lived/living experience and researchers.

In Canada, personal information collected and used by the Family Engagement in Research Training Program is protected by the McMaster University Privacy Policy https://secretariat.mcmaster.ca/privacy/

The Privacy Policy of the website hosting company also applies to the Family Engagement in Research Training Program learning platform: https://4goodhosting.com/privacy-policy.

The Family Engagement in Research Training Program learning platform uses Moodle^TM learning management system, installed and stored on this private server.

Additionally, as the Family Engagement in Research Training Program team is committed to protecting your privacy as a visitor to this learning platform, you are provided below with the following information about use of personal information by the Family Engagement in Research Training Program, specifically in relation to this website.

What Information Do We Collect?

Consent-based Collection of Information:

At different places on this learning platform, depending upon the feature you use (e.g., the Family Engagement in Research Training Program Discussion Board or answering reflection questions), you may disclose personal information about yourself, for example your name if you make a discussion board post, or any information you write or upload within a reflection or post. You can choose to post or write as little or as much about yourself or your experience as you wish. By voluntarily writing or posting this information you are consenting to it being collected on the learning platform.

Automatic Collection of Information:

If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the learning platform or download information, the web server will automatically gather and store certain information about your visit. This information does not identify you personally and is used in an aggregated way to help improve its technology.

The web server automatically collects and records the following information:

• Your IP address
• Information on what pages you accessed
• Date and time you accessed the learning platform

How Do We Use the Information We Collect?

The information gathered on this learning platform both automatically and with your consent is used by the Family Engagement in Research Training Program in the following ways:

• Respond to your requests
• Monitor, review, measure, and analyse learning utilisation
• Modify and enhance the learning platform, improve content and design
• Monitor and improve our customer service efforts for visitors
• Notify visitors about updates to our learning platform.

Use of Cookies

Many websites now use “cookies” to provide useful features to their visitors by providing customisable and personalised services.

A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive. For example, a website may use cookies to store and sometimes track information about you, your preferences, or the pages you last visited.

Your browser software can be set to reject all cookies. Most browsers offer instructions, in the Help section of the toolbar, on how to reset the browser to reject cookies. You should know, however, that if you reject a cookie, certain functions and conveniences of a site may not work properly.

Security of your personal information

Your personal information will be secured from unauthorised access, use or disclosure. When you submit any information on this learning platform, your information is protected both online and offline. Wherever we collect personal information, that information is encrypted and transmitted in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a closed lock icon at the bottom of your web browser or looking for "https" at the beginning of the address of the web page. Your personal information will only be used when necessary to complete specific tasks, (for example, to respond to your query via email) by authorised members of the Family Engagement in Research Training Program. The computers/servers in which personally identifiable information are stored are kept in a secure environment.

Third Parties

Your email address and personal information will not be sold or traded by the Family Engagement in Research Training Program or any of the Third Parties we use to deliver the Family Engagement in Research Training Program.

Your personal information, collected via this website, will only be disclosed to Third Parties where you have previously consented, or it is authorised by law.

Advertising

The Family Engagement in Research Training Program does not partner with or have special relationships with any advertising server companies, nor does it accept advertising from third parties on our website.

Links to Other Sites

This website includes links to non-affiliated external websites. Please review the privacy policy of any linked site, as the privacy practices of other sites are not under the control of the Family Engagement in Research Training Program.

Website Contact Information

If you have questions about the Family Engagement in Research Training Program learning platform or the privacy information provided here, please contact the Family Engagement in Research Training Program: fer@mcmaster.ca

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Except where stated, the information on this website is subject to copyright. Additionally, copyright in the graphics, design and format of the Family Engagement in Research Training Program Learning Platform and other third parties may not be reproduced or distributed without express permission.

Information on this website must not be used in a commercial context unless written permission has been given by the Family Engagement in Research team.