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We can be reached by telephone at (+1) 416-340-4800 Ext. 6427

When visitors come to our site, we automatically collect some non-personally identifiable information such as the type of computer operating system, web browser, and domain name of the user's Internet service provider. The information we collect in this respect is used solely for internal review and academic research, and is not shared in any way with any external entities, commercial or otherwise. Aggregated information may, however be published in the course of research.

With respect to cookies: We use cookies to record session information, such as the state of menus within the WebCite system. These cookies do not persist from session to session.

Email addresses collected on the site are used solely for the purpose of notifying the user of the completion status of their WebCite requests. Such addresses are not sold, lent, shared, or otherwise distributed in any way, with any external entities.

If you supply us with your postal address or phone number on-line you will only receive the information for which you provided us your address. Specifically, this information will only be used in the context of contacting a prospective WebCite® Consortium application with respect to this application.

From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will contact you before we use your data for these new purposes to notify you of the policy change and to provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses, we will post the policy changes to our Web site to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our Web site periodically, we will use for these new purposes only data collected from the time of the policy change forward .

Upon request we provide site visitors with access to all information [including proprietary information] that we maintain about them. Consumers can access this information by e-mail us at the above address.

With respect to security: We have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you at our site.

If you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, you may contact us at the above addresses or phone number.