Privacy Policy
Your privacy and its protection are important to us. We’ve developed this notice to describe how we collect, use and disclose personal information and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used within our sites and services.
Hart College of Cardiac Sonography and Health Care Inc. is an Ontario accredited private career college with its campus in the Greater Toronto Area. We adhere to applicable privacy laws, including the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.
Collection of Personal Information
Hart College collects personal information of students, alumni and other parties, including but not limited to faculty, staff and private citizens as part of the services we provide. Personal information collected by Hart includes certain identifying information, including, but not limited to, names, addresses, dates of birth and certain financial information in order to participate in the activities and offerings within.
We may use the information you provide about yourself to fulfill your requests for our products, programs, and services, to respond to your inquiries about our offerings, and to offer you other products, programs, or services that we believe may be of interest to you. We sometimes use this information to communicate with you, such as to notify you when we make changes to our services, to fulfill a request by you, or to contact you about your account with us. Most of our communications provide an “opt-out” feature.
We may also use your information to update internal systems or transfer your data to another internal system such as an accounting system or curriculum management system. This allows for seamless delivery of services and resources to you across Hart College.
Consent
By using our website, you consent to the collection and use of your information by Hart College.
Hart College will use reasonable efforts to ensure that an individual is advised of the identified purposes for which personal information will be used or disclosed. Purposes will be stated in a manner that can be reasonably understood by the individual. If Hart College proposes to use or disclose personal information for a purpose not previously identified, the new purpose will be identified and documented prior to the new use, and where necessary, an individual’s consent will be obtained.
Hart College will consider the sensitivity of the personal information and the reasonable expectations of individuals in relation to the purposes for use or disclosure of the information by Hart.
Manner of Collection of Personal Information
Hart College collects personal information either directly, indirectly or via website technology.
We collect personal information when individuals communicate with us, apply directly to us or fill out our forms. We also create records of our dealings with individuals that include personal information. For example, we create and maintain a student record for every Hart student.
Hart College may also collect personal information from other relevant sources including, without limitation, secondary schools, colleges, universities and other institutions previously attended, including governing bodies, third-party services and test score providers where the items collected form a part of the application or admission process to a college program.
Use of Personal Information
Personal information is used for academic, administrative, employment-related, financial, statistical and other appropriate purposes of Hart College.
Student information collected by Hart College may be used, among other things, to admit, register and graduate students, record academic achievement, to provide access to information technology systems and to operate academic, financial, recreational, alumni and other Hart programs.
The majority of personal information processing and storage happens in Canada, however, if Hart has a contract with a third party service provider that is based in another country, hart may be required to transfer personal data to that third party’s country or international organization. In transferring personal data, Hart will employ suitable safeguards to protect the privacy and security of the personal information so that it is only used in a manner consistent with the individual’s relationship with Hart and this Notice.
Disclosure of Personal Information
Hart College does not sell, rent, give away, trade or loan any identifiable information regarding its members to any third party other than agents and contractors of Hart College.
Agents and contractors of Hart College who have access to personally identifiable information are required to protect this information in a manner that is consistent with this privacy policy by, for example, not using the information for any purpose other than to carry out the services they are performing for Hart College.
Hart College may release personal information when we believe, in good faith, that such release is reasonably necessary to (i.) comply with law, (ii.) enforce or apply the terms of any of our user agreements, or (iii.) protect the rights, property, or safety of Hart College, our users, or others.
Access and Correction
Individuals have the right to ask for their own personal information and to request a correction of records containing their own personal information. To protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to help verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.
Should you need further assistance, please contact us using the contact information provided below.
Storage and Retention of Personal Information
Hart College takes reasonable steps to protect personal information against loss or theft as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification, regardless of the format in which the information is held, using appropriate administrative and security safeguards. When working with service providers who handle personal information on its behalf, Hart takes reasonable steps to choose service providers that are capable of protecting personal information as per our security and privacy standards.
Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that personally identifiable information that we collect will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this privacy policy. Unfortunately, despite all our efforts, there is always a risk that third parties may unlawfully intercept transmissions. This reality is true of all Internet use. As a result, we cannot ensure the security of any information you transmit, and you transmit all information at your own risk.
Website Privacy
Hart College respects your online privacy. Personal information is collected and used online in certain circumstances. For instance, we collect and use information you submit while using the online chat “help form” in order to appropriately respond to your inquiries.
Cookies
We use “cookies” on this site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor’s hard drive to help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. For instance, when we use a cookie to identify you, you would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site.
Third party vendors, including Google may use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to the Hart College website. Users may opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting the Google advertising opt-out page.
Google Analytics
In order to ensure that the content from the Hart College website remains up to date, user-oriented and comprehensive, our website employs Google Analytics, a web-analysis tool from Google Inc. (Google) that enables us to optimize your experience.
Google Analytics uses cookies that track your preferences during your visit to our website. This allows us to simplify navigation, for example, thereby helping us to make the site more user friendly. The information that is generated in this process (including the IP address) is anonymized, making personal identification impossible. If you do not want to be tracked by Google Analytics cookies you can opt-out by installing a browser add-on.
Please refer to Google’s terms of use and privacy options for more information.
Privacy Notice of Other Websites
Should some of our site(s) and service(s) may contain links to other sites whose information practices may be different than ours. Visitors should consult the other sites’ privacy policies as Hart College makes no warranty or endorsement of material contained within such websites, nor does Hart College assume any responsibility for the linked website or its contents. Our privacy notice only applies to our website. If you click on a link to another website, you should review their privacy notice.
Changes to Hart’s Privacy Notice
Hart College keeps its privacy notice under regular review and places any updates on this web page. This privacy notice was last updated on September 24, 2020.
Accountability
The Hart College Privacy Officer is responsible for supporting Hart’s compliance with this Notice, even though other individuals within Hart may be responsible for the day-to-day collection and processing of personal information.
If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy, the collection and disclosure of your information or practices of our website, you can contact Hart College at:
Hart College of Cardiac Sonography & Health Care Inc.
c/o PRIVACY OFFICER
4168 Finch Ave. E.
Suite PH-38
Scarborough, Ontario M1S5H6
416-894-2316
privacyofficer@hartcollege.ca