Privacy Policy

The CHCA is committed to protecting our students’ privacy.  We have taken necessary measures to ensure that we keep the information we gather from you secure and confidential. We make sure that every online communication meets our high standards of privacy and security.  We protect your privacy by limiting employee access to and use of your data.

Our contact details

Centre for Hospitality & Culinary Arts
George Brown College
300 Adelaide Street East
Toronto ON M5A 1N1
416-415-5000
[email protected]

Links

Our site includes links to other websites whose privacy policies we don’t control. Once you leave our servers (you can check where you are by checking the URL in the location bar on your browser), use of any information you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the site you are visiting. That policy may differ from ours. If you can’t find the privacy policy of any of these sites via a link from the site’s homepage, you should contact the site directly for more information. The Chefs’ House is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites.

Email lists

The Website allows you to provide us with your email address so that we may send you information and updates about activities and events at The Chefs’ House and George Brown College’s Centre for Hospitality & Culinary Arts. To administer the email lists, we will collect your name, email address, and (optionally) geographical location for communication purposes.

Cookies

The CHCA on Thinkific uses online tracking and re-marketing services to advertise on third party websites to previous visitors to our site. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page or a site in the given display networks. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to our website. Any data collected will be applied per our privacy policy and the privacy policies of the service providers. Cookies are small files stored on your computer to help websites, including ours, function. Some cookies generated by your web browser contain data required for your registration and progress through our courses.

It is important to note that no personal identifying information is gathered or transmitted with any cookie generated by using our website.

You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using their respective Ad Preferences pages. You can opt-out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.

If we alter our privacy policy in any way, we will post those changes here.  If you have questions, want more information or would like to provide us with suggestions, please don’t hesitate to contact us at 416.415.5000 or email us at [email protected].

How do we protect your personal information?

We endeavour to maintain appropriate procedural and technological measures and storage facilities to prevent any unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information. We exercise care in the secure transmission of your data. However, no transmission of information over the internet is one hundred percent secure. We cannot guarantee third parties cannot intercept that information disclosed through the internet. However, George Brown College takes all reasonable precautions available to protect any personal information that is provided to it through the Website, including, disposal or destruction of this information.

Contacting us about your privacy

You may request access to your personal information and information about our collection, use and disclosure of information by contacting us at [email protected]. George Brown College attempts to keep records as accurate and complete as possible. You can help us maintain the accuracy of your information by notifying us of any changes to your personal information.

This Privacy Policy may be changed from time to time at our sole discretion and without any prior notice. New versions of this Privacy Policy will be posted here. Your continued use of this Website, subsequent to any changes to the Privacy Policy, will signify that you consent to George Brown College’s collection, use and disclosure of your personal information per this or any revised Privacy Policy.

If you have any questions around Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy, you may contact our Freedom of Information & Privacy Coordinator at the following address: [email protected].