Legal Agreement #2B
Cookie Policy
Under legal review. This policy is a lawyer-review version and is not yet final.
What this website uses today
| What | Why | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Night or day mode | Remembers your display choice. It’s saved only in your own browser and never sent to us. | Functional (local storage) |
| Form spam protection | Stops automated spam on our forms. | Essential |
| Website login | Keeps SEEN staff signed in to manage the site. Visitors don’t get this cookie. | Essential |
We don’t use analytics, advertising, or tracking cookies today. Before we add analytics, we’ll ask for your permission with a cookie choice on this site, and update this page.
1. Purpose
This Cookie Policy explains how SEEN Access Status Card Inc. uses cookies and similar technologies through the SEEN Access Status Card website, mobile applications, and related digital services.
2. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on a user’s device that help websites and applications function, remember preferences, improve accessibility, and enhance user experiences.
3. Scope
This Cookie Policy applies to all SEEN websites, mobile applications, future member portals, and related digital services.
4. Types of cookies we use
SEEN may use session cookies, persistent cookies, local storage technologies, pixels, tags, software development kits (SDKs), and similar technologies.
5. Essential cookies
Essential cookies support security, account authentication, fraud prevention, accessibility features, session management, and core website functionality.
6. Performance and analytics cookies
Performance cookies help SEEN understand website and application usage patterns, improve accessibility, monitor system performance, troubleshoot issues, and improve user experience.
7. Accessibility technologies
SEEN may use cookies and related technologies to remember accessibility preferences, language settings, display preferences, communication preferences, and accommodation-related settings selected by members.
8. Functional cookies
Functional cookies enable enhanced features such as account login retention, preference storage, accessibility settings, and personalized service delivery.
9. Research and improvement
Anonymous and aggregated usage information may be used to improve services, accessibility features, user experience, operational performance, advocacy initiatives, and future research programs.
10. Advertising and targeting
As of the Effective Date, SEEN does not use disability-related information, accommodation information, verification status, or sensitive accessibility information for advertising targeting purposes.
11. Third-party service providers
SEEN may utilize third-party service providers for hosting, analytics, payment processing, fraud prevention, accessibility services, communication tools, and application performance monitoring.
12. Mobile applications
Mobile applications may use device identifiers, local storage technologies, push notification preferences, and similar technologies that perform functions similar to cookies.
13. Consent
Where required by applicable law, SEEN will obtain consent before placing non-essential cookies or similar technologies on a user’s device.
14. Managing cookie preferences
Users may manage cookie preferences through browser settings, device settings, or SEEN consent management tools where available.
15. Do Not Track signals
SEEN may not respond to all browser-based Do Not Track signals.
16. Data protection
Information collected through cookies and similar technologies is protected using administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards appropriate to the sensitivity of the information.
17. Retention
Cookie-related information is retained only as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this policy.
18. Cross-border processing
Some cookie-related information may be processed by service providers located outside British Columbia or Canada.
19. Relationship to Privacy Policy
This Cookie Policy should be read together with the Privacy Policy. Where information collected through cookies constitutes personal information, it will be handled in accordance with the Privacy Policy.
20. Future technologies
SEEN may introduce new technologies, accessibility tools, digital membership services, mobile application features, and analytics solutions.
21. Contact information
Privacy Officer
SEEN Access Status Card Inc.
Vancouver, British Columbia
Phone: (604) 830-7336
Email: info@seenaccessstatuscard.ca
22. Policy updates
SEEN may update this Cookie Policy periodically. Updated versions will be published through official SEEN channels and become effective on the stated effective date.