Privacy Policy

Website Privacy Policy
Updated April 24, 2025

The Siminovitch Theatre Foundation recognizes the importance of privacy to users of its website (siminovitchprize.com). We are committed to offering a website that respects user privacy and adheres to legislative requirements with respect to privacy. Please take a moment to read this Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) that explains how we collect and use your Personal Information and the choices you have. This Policy describes how The Siminovitch Theatre Foundation (“we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, saves, uses, discloses, protects, and otherwise processes your Personal Information when you visit or use our Platform. “Personal Information” means any information that (either in isolation or in combination with other information) enables you to be identified as an individual or recognized directly or indirectly.

Collection and Use of Personal Information

We may collect, store, and use the name, email address, phone number, cookie data, location information, financial information (such as credit card information and donation details if you make a donation on the website), and other details of your inquiry or communications you provide us with by filling out a contact or inquiry form on our websites. By using this website and/or submitting this information, you are consenting to our use of this information in accordance with this Policy until you revoke your consent in writing.

If we collect personal information as defined by Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (“Personal Information”), we do so in accordance with Canadian privacy laws, and ensure that all third parties (such as service providers) who have contact with your user data have promised to comply with those laws as well.

We may use Personal Information to:

1. administer our programs
2. respond to your inquiries
3. communicate with you for the purposes described in the “Use of Cookies & Tracking Technologies” section below
4. inform you of other services available through the Siminovitch Theatre Foundation
5. send you surveys regarding current program or new programs that we are considering offering
6. communicate information and offers to you
7. understand and analyze our user needs and preferences

The Siminovitch Theatre Foundation will not sell or rent a user’s personal information obtained through the website to any other organization.  We may disclose your Personal Information to our third-party service providers (e.g. website hosts, payment processors, etc.), or in response to a search warrant or other legally valid inquiry or order, or to another organization for the purposes of investigating a breach of an agreement or contravention of law, or detecting, suppressing, or preventing fraud, or as otherwise may be required or permitted by the laws of Canada or any other country with jurisdiction. This may include lawful access by courts, law enforcement, or other government authorities. Your Personal Information may also be disclosed where necessary for the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims and to investigate or prevent actual or suspected loss or harm to persons or property. Where required or permitted by applicable law, we may share information for other reasons we disclose to you.

The Siminovitch Theatre Foundation may collect information about your visit to siminovitchprize.com, as described in the “Use of Cookies & Tracking Technologies” section below. By using or accessing our websites, you consent to us collecting and using this information in accordance with this Policy.

Use of Cookies & Tracking Technologies

The Siminovitch Prize Foundation uses cookies and other similar tracking technologies to gather information about your visit to siminovitchprize.com, distinguish you from other visitors, and to measure the effectiveness or performance of our websites and advertising.

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer or mobile device by a website in order to remember information about your browsing history or your device when you return to that website.

The Siminovitch Theatre Foundation may collect the following information about your visit to www.siminovitchprize.com: your Internet Protocol (IP) address and the general geographic location associated with your IP address (known as IP geolocation), your network provider, information about your computer or mobile device such as your device model or browser type, the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from www.siminovitchprize.com, the date, time and duration of your visit, whether you are a first time or returning visitor, content you viewed and searched your mouse scrolls, clicks, keystrokes entered, recorded images such as forms you populated, and your interests and demographics. The Siminovitch Prize Foundation uses third-party analytics to create reports and statistics on visits to our websites.

You may disable cookies in your browser settings and clear your cache of previously installed cookies. In addition to disabling cookies, you may also install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, which prevents Google Analytics from collecting information about your website visits.

Retention period of your Personal Information

We’ll not retain your Personal Information longer than necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting or other legal requirements). How long we retain your Personal Information depends on the type of data and the purpose for which we process your data.

Your Rights

You have the right to:

• Request access to, or correction of, your Personal Information in our custody or control.
• Request information about how we have used and disclosed your Personal Information.
• Request to have your Personal Information deleted or forgotten from our records.
• Withdraw your consent to our collection, use or disclosure of Personal Information.

If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us as described in the Contact Us section below. Please note that these rights are subject to certain restrictions, and we may take reasonable steps to verify your identity before responding to your request.

Changes to this Policy

The Siminovitch Theatre Foundation encourages you to periodically review this Policy. The date that this Policy was last updated will appear at the top of the Policy. Your continued use of our website after updated terms are posted will constitute your agreement to the updated terms.

No Liability for Third Parties

We disclaim any and all liability for the acts, omissions, and conduct of any third party. Under no circumstances will we, our employees, officers, directors, agents, licensors, or their respective successors and assigns, be liable to you for any injury, loss, damage, or expense arising in any manner whatsoever from:

1. the acts, omissions, or conduct of any third party; or
2. any access, use, reliance upon, or inability to use any third-party materials, content, goods, or services located at, or made available at, our websites, regardless of the cause and whether arising in contract, tort, or otherwise.

The limitations in this section apply even if we knew of or ought to have known of the possibility of such damages.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Policy or the manner in which we or our service providers treat your Personal Information, or to exercise any of your rights or choices with respect to your Personal Information, please contact the Executive Director, responsible for privacy at the address below.

info@siminovitchprize.com

18 King Street East, Suite 1400

Toronto, ON

M5C 1C4