Privacy Policy
Who we are
Innovation Factory (IF) is a non-profit business accelerator within the Ontario Centre of Innovation (OCI) Regional Innovation Centre (RIC) network. Based in Hamilton, Ontario, we provide entrepreneurs with business services, training, mentorship and strategic connections to help bring disruptive technologies to market, increase revenues, attract investment, and create jobs.
Our website address is: https://innovationfactory.ca/
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment and your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Femtech Canada does not collect, allow the posting of, or display, comments from visitors on the site.
Media
If you upload images to the website (i.e., a profile picture), you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files stored in your browser. We group the cookies on this site into three categories. You choose which ones to allow when you first visit, and you can change your choice any time using the “Cookie Settings” link at the bottom of every page.
Strictly necessary (always on)
These cookies make the site work and can’t be turned off. They remember your cookie choice for 12 months and keep the site secure.
Third-party Analytics (off unless you allow them)
We use Google Analytics to understand which pages are visited and how people find us. The data is aggregated and we don’t use it to identify you. Kept for up to 2 years.
If you don’t allow analytics cookies, no analytics cookies are stored. Google may still receive basic information without cookies, which helps us estimate overall visits.
Marketing (off unless you allow them)
These cookies help us measure our outreach and campaigns on other platforms. On some event pages, they let LinkedIn measure how our LinkedIn campaigns perform. Kept for up to 6 months.
We may add similar tools from Google Ads or Meta in the future. If we do, they will only run if you allow marketing cookies.
Withdrawing consent
If you turn analytics or marketing off, we delete the related cookies from your browser, and those tools stop running. You can also delete cookies at any time in your browser settings.
Content from other websites
Pages on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
Articles shared on this website from other organizations are not the property of, and are not monetized by, Femtech Canada.
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.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
What rights do you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor form submissions may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
We use third-party services to create forms and applications (i.e., Femtech Canada Network applications) that we use to collect data pertaining to the user and their business. This data is processed and stored by the third-party service to be accessed by our Client Services team and Advisory Board.
Contact Information
For all inquiries regarding your personal information, including requests to access or correct personal information, please send a request to: