Privacy Policy
The CWB is concerned that the privacy and rights of its Web site users is respected. The Canadian Wheat Board only obtains information such as your name, phone number, e-mail or street address, if you supply it. We do not automatically gather any personal information during your visit to our Web site. When you send us e-mail, we will use your name and e-mail address only to respond to the concerns you directed to our attention. Your e-mail may be shared with appropriate people within the CWB to help us respond to your concerns and improve our Web site.
The CWB has restricted the use of cookies only to those situations where it enhances performance and /or functionality of the Web site. Our Web site does not use cookies to track how visitors use this Web site or to determine previously visited Web sites. CWB.ca uses cookies for our Web site poll in order to prevent a visitor from voting more than once. A cookie is used from time to time to inform users of Web site outages or upcoming CWB events. We also use cookies for our e-business section on our Web site. The use of cookies enables visitors using e-business to more easily communicate and interact with our site. For example, we will place a cookie on a visitor's computer when he/she visits the site. The next time that person visits our Web site using the same computer, our server will recognize the cookie and the visitor.
When you visit our Web site, we may collect various types of technical data, which will be used to develop general Web site statistics such as browser information, what pages were frequently visited, and how long visitors were on a page. We do not track any information that will personally identify visitors to our Web site.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a tiny element of data that a Web site can send to your browser, which may then be stored on your hard drive so we can recognize you when you return. You may set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie or to not accept cookies. All browsers are configured differently, so you should check the Internet options within your browser software for enabling/disabling cookies. Please note, however, that rejecting cookies while visiting our Web site may result in certain parts of the Web site not operating correctly or as efficiently.
CWB.ca also provides links to other Web sites such as Environment Canada and our grain industry partners. Although we initially visit the sites or services that are so linked, we do not control the contents or links that appear on these sites. In addition, these sites or services, including their contents and links, may be constantly changing. These sites and services may have their own privacy policies and customer service policies, or no policy (policies) at all. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third party sites or services before providing any of them with your personal information.
We reserve the right to change this privacy policy at any time. If we make any substantial changes to our privacy policy we will notify you by posting an announcement on our Web site.
Any questions about our privacy policy? E-mail us at questions@cwb.ca
The CWB's address is 423 Main Street, P.O. Box 816, Station Main, Winnipeg,
Manitoba, Canada, R3C 2P5. The CWB can also be reached by phone at (204) 983-8594,
fax (204) 983-4678 or by e-mail at questions@cwb.ca .
Our Web site address is www.cwb.ca. Farmers or elevator managers can phone
the CWB at 1-800-275-4292.