At the
Canadian Injured Worker’s Society your privacy is extremely important to
us. Please be assured that all information collected from our members is kept
confidential and will not be shared with anyone except the Board of Directors
of the CIWS and the webmaster of the CIWS forum.
Upon receipt of your
application you will be assigned a membership id number which you may use to
post on our forum, or to vote with at meetings. Only Directors, or those
running for executive positions within the CIWS are required to disclose their
identity.
Please review our statement from our
Membership
application (below) that each member is required to sign. This is to safeguard
against anyone disclosing anything they learn on our site.
I agree
that I have read the by-laws of the Canadian Injured Workers Society, and that
I agree to abide by them. I am not in a conflict of interest regarding the best
interests of injured workers or the goals of the society. I hereby also declare
I will never reveal information from these forums to any Worker’s
Compensation Agency or any other agency or anyone who will divulge information
gathered here to a Worker’s Compensation Agency. I agree that the
webmaster, President or elected officials of the Canadian Injured Workers
Society have the right to remove, edit, move or close any topic at any time
should they see fit from or on the CIWS web site. I agree to abide by the forum
rules as posted on the main CIWS web site. I agree with the society’s
mission statement as stated above and I agree with the principles within it.
Anyone who fabricates information, including but not limited to a WCB Claim and
claim number, will be charged with fraud. No one may request admittance if they
intend on sharing someone else’s private information without express
written consent of that member. Written shall mean hand written and include a
signature.
For further information please refer to the CIWS
Bylaws.
We,
at CIWS are very conscientious of the privacy laws in place in Canada,
including PIPEDA, The Personal Information and Protection and Electronic
Documents Act. (for further information on this legistlation we suggest you go
to the following link:
http://www.privcom.gc.ca/legislation/index_e.asp
Additional information on forum conduct, a related topic, may be found at the
top of the main CIWS forum page.
Copyright:
Fair
use policy regarding information originating in the U.S.:
This site may contain copyrighted material the use of
which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. In
such cases we may be making such material available in our efforts to advance
understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy,
scientific, and social justice issues, etc., and it is not published for profit
of any kind. Where possible we provide accurate citation and a web link back to
the original material. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such
copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law.
For more information go to:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml.
If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own
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