Introduction

1Life – Centre for Counselling and Research Inc. (website address: https://www.1lifecentre.com appreciates your business and trust. We are a Canadian based company located in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, providing counselling services. Please read this Privacy Policy, providing consent in order to have permission to use our services.

Data Collected
DATA STORAGE LOCATION

We are a Canadian based company and operate in Maple Ridge, British Columbia. Our hosting provider Canadian Web Hosting (CWH) company is located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

REGISTRATION DATA

If you register or fill out any form on our website, we store your chosen information and your email address and any additional personal information added to your user profile. All information is emailed to the counselling service provider’s email address and it is stored in an electronic format an/or hard copy at company address for security and historical purposes.

CONTACT FORM

Information submitted through the contact form on our site is sent to our company email, hosted by CWH. CWH adheres to the Canadian privacy policy and you can find more information about this here: Canadian Web Hosting Privacy Policy.

These submissions are only kept for client service and file keeping purposes according to British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors (BCACC) Code of Ethical Conduct and Standards of Clinical Practice they are never used for marketing purposes or shared with third parties.

GOOGLE ANALYTICS

We use Google Analytics on our site for anonymous reporting of site usage. So, no personalized data is stored. If you would like to opt-out of Google Analytics monitoring your behaviour on our website please use this link: Google Analytics Opt-out.

CASES FOR USING THE PERSONAL DATA

We use your personal information in the following cases:

  • Verification/identification of the user during website usage.
  • Sending updates to our users with important information to inform about news/changes.
  • Checking the accounts’ activity in order to prevent fraudulent transactions and ensure the security of our customers’ personal information.
Embedded Content

Pages on this site may include embedded content, like YouTube videos, for example. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if you 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.

Cookies

This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. Cookies generally exist to make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the help section of your browser.

Third Party Access to Your Data

We do not share your data with third-parties in any way. The only time we share data is with your written consent on file with information about who we are sharing the data with.

Security Measures

We use the SSL/HTTPS protocol throughout our site. This encrypts our user communications with the servers so that personal identifiable information is not captured/hijacked by third parties without authorization.

We also use reCAPTCHA v3 from Google. It protects our website from spam and abuse. For more information, please see the Google Privacy Policy.

Third Party Websites

Please be aware that this Privacy Policy, and any other policies in place, in addition to any amendments, does not create rights enforceable by third parties or require disclosure of any personal information relating to members of the Service or Site. 1Life Centre bears no responsibility for the information collected or used by any advertiser or third party website. Please review the privacy policy and terms of service for each site you visit through third party links.

The Release of Your Data for Legal Purposes

At times it may become necessary or desirable to 1Life Centre, for legal purposes, to release your information in response to a request from a government agency or a private litigant. You agree that we may disclose your information to a third party where we believe, in good faith, that it is desirable to do so for the purposes of a civil action, criminal investigation, or other legal matter. In the event that we receive a subpoena affecting your privacy, we may elect to notify you to give you an opportunity to file a motion to quash the subpoena, or we may attempt to quash it ourselves, but we are not obligated to do either. We may also proactively report you, and release your information to, third parties where we believe that it is prudent to do so for legal reasons, such as our belief that you have engaged in fraudulent activities. You release us from any damages that may arise from or relate to the release of your information to a request from law enforcement agencies or private litigants.

Any passing on of personal data for legal purposes will only be done in compliance with laws of the country you reside in.

Amendments

We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we amend this Privacy Policy, we will update this page accordingly and require you to accept the amendments in order to be permitted to continue using our services.