Security / Privacy Statement

Emerging Zoonoses (EZ) Sentinel Animal Health Surveillance Surveillance Project

The Emerging Zoonoses (EZ) Sentinel Animal Health Surveillance Project website is committed to protecting visitors to this website to by respecting their privacy. This page summarizes the privacy policy and security practices for the Emerging Zoonoses (EZ) Sentinel Animal Health Surveillance Project website (descriptive information on the project) and web application (responsible for the collection of data from sentinels).

Personal Information

The Emerging Zoonoses (EZ) Sentinel Animal Health Surveillance Web Application does not automatically gather any personal information - such as your name, phone number, email address, or street address - when you visit our website.

All information you provide is protected under the federal Privacy Act . Moreover, when local legislation is applicable - such as

• British Columbia Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA)
• British Columbia Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA)

 - we respect the privacy clauses of those laws.

This project has been approved by the University of British Columbia Behavioral Research Ethics Board .

Security

We take precautions to protect your information, both online and offline.

Online, when you submit data via the Emerging Zoonoses (EZ) Sentinel Animal Health Surveillance Web Application, the transactions are secured using a 128-bit SSL (secure socket layer) encryption to encode your information and protect its confidentiality while it is in transit. 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 webpage. For more detail, you can check the SSL Certificate using the following quick guides for Windows^® Internet Explorer^® (IE7) , or Mozilla Firefox^® 3 .

Offline, all data collected will be stored in an encrypted manner. The computers/servers in which we store the information is kept is a secure environment.

Cookies

"Cookies" are used on this site.

A cookie is a string of information that a Web site stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Cookies do not contain personal information. We generally use cookies so that our server can track your browser's activity on our website, and to interact accordingly. In addition, we use cookies to set some time saving preference for returning visitors. For more detail, using the following quick guides for managing cookies on Windows^® Internet Explorer^® (IE7) , or Mozilla Firefox^® 3 .

Unauthorized use of Emerging Zoonoses (EZ) Sentinel Animal Health Surveillance  Website

A web server constantly logs traffic on Emerging Zoonoses (EZ) Sentinel Animal Health Surveillance Website that can identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information or to otherwise cause damage. This log receives and records the Internet Protocol (IP) address of any computer that contacts this site, as well as the date and time of the visit and the pages visited, user agent, referrer, HTTP code and bytes served. This is not unusual, as web servers generally perform logging for error analysis, such as missing files and graphics, dead links, etc. For more detail on web servers, click the icon .

If you have any questions or comments about our privacy policy and practices, or if you are not satisfied that we have adequately respected your privacy, you are encouraged to contact us, or use the anonymous feedback page.