Friday, April 18, 2025

Privacy Statement

Saddle Lake Cree Nation is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Saddle Lake Cree Nation site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Saddle Lake Cree Nation site, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

Saddle Lake Cree Nation collects personally identifiable information, such as your email address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Saddle Lake Cree Nation also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Saddle Lake Cree Nation. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by Saddle Lake Cree Nation for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Saddle Lake Cree Nation site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Saddle Lake Cree Nation public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Saddle Lake Cree Nation does not read any of your private online communications.

Saddle Lake Cree Nation encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Saddle Lake Cree Nation so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Saddle Lake Cree Nation is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Saddle Lake Cree Nation and Saddle Lake Cree Nation family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

Saddle Lake Cree Nation collects and uses your personal information to operate the Saddle Lake Cree Nation Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Saddle Lake Cree Nation also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Saddle Lake Cree Nation and its affiliates. Saddle Lake Cree Nation may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Saddle Lake Cree Nation does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Saddle Lake Cree Nation may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Saddle Lake Cree Nation may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Saddle Lake Cree Nation, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Saddle Lake Cree Nation does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Saddle Lake Cree Nation keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Saddle Lake Cree Nation, in order to determine what Saddle Lake Cree Nation services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Saddle Lake Cree Nation to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Saddle Lake Cree Nation Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Saddle Lake Cree Nation or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Saddle Lake Cree Nation; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Saddle Lake Cree Nation, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Saddle Lake Cree Nation Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Saddle Lake Cree Nation pages, or register with Saddle Lake Cree Nation site or services, a cookie helps Saddle Lake Cree Nation to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Saddle Lake Cree Nation Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Saddle Lake Cree Nation features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Saddle Lake Cree Nation services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

Saddle Lake Cree Nation secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Saddle Lake Cree Nation secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

Saddle Lake Cree Nation will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Saddle Lake Cree Nation encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Saddle Lake Cree Nation is protecting your information.

Contact Information

Saddle Lake Cree Nation welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Saddle Lake Cree Nation has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Saddle Lake Cree Nation at spark@tsag.net. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.

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