Privacy Policy

Who we are

CV/Arts is a common name for the nonprofit Society Comox Valley Arts. CV/Arts provides access to arts and cultural resources to everyone of all ages and backgrounds, and our mission is to champion the artistic vitality of the Comox Valley, BC.

Our website address is: https://comoxvalleyarts.com.

Media

Suggested text: If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics for tracking visitors and aggregating information about the traffic to our website. The Google Analytics privacy policy can be found here. You can learn more about how to opt-out of tracking in Google Analytics here.

Paying Members

For business analytics and payment subscription records for Comox Valley Arts, we use a paid membership Pro plugin.

We use Stripe for payment transactions processing for all Comox Valley Arts membership payments. Stripe’s privacy policy is found here.

To comply with accounting and legal requirements, we keep data on financial transactions in the systems above for a minimum of 7 years.

Who we share your data with

The security and reliability of our service is our number one priority. We invest in the training of our staff and our infrastructure to ensure that best practices are followed in everything that we do.

WordPress is the platform chosen to build our website and the details on the security of the WordPress core itself can found on  wordpress.org/about/security 

Prevention is best when it comes to security, and as a first step, we follow all WordPress Code Standards in the plugins that we use.

In addition, we have an extensive array of professional plugins installed on the website to monitor and prevent potential security vulnerabilities in our services.

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

To comply with accounting and legal requirements, we keep data on financial transactions in the systems above for a minimum of 7 years.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site (paying members), you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.