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Website Created By:
Secret Location

Executive Producer:
James Milward

Project Manager:
Ashlee Lougheed

Creative Director & Lead Designer:
Pietro Gagliano

Technical Director:
Ryan Andal

Art Director:
Jory Krüspe

Graphic Designer:
Kai Salminen

Lead Developer:
Gino Fazari

Backend Developer:
Adam Drake

Frontend Developer:
Jenn Hartnoll

Information Architect:
Steve D. Miller

Production Coordinator:
Adam Park

Assitant Editor:
Michael Kazanowski

Television Production:
War Torn Productions Inc.

Special thanks to:
Allison Chai, Carole Bezuidenhout, Chris Harris, Marcia Douglas, Nick Crowe, Sarah Jane Flynn, and Zach Feldberg.

Archival footage and photos courtesy of Stan Adam, Sheridan Atkinson, Alfred Babin, Michael Boughn, Ron Bourgon, George Burrows, Bruce Cadoret, Andy Carswell, Fred Chapman, Vi Connolly, Fred Cooper, Duff Couillard, Queenie Cunroe, Arthur Dean, Ken Dean, Rudy Deutsch, Liam Dwyer, John Feduck, Ivan Feldberg, Joseph Friedman, Joseph Gautreau, Hub Gray, Father Robert Greene, Pauline Harris, Werner Hirschman, Lou Howard, Louise Johnson, Ray Lewis, George Macdonell, Ralph MacLean, John Marchand, Bud McLean, Tish McSwain, Charles Miller, Jim Moffat, Mary Mouti, Ed Page, Kim Reynolds, Val Rimer, Faye Schulman, Frank Showler, Mr. Sorbach, John C. Stokes, Lloyd Swick, Al Wallace, Linda Wigley, Bob Wigmore, Joe Wilson, Larry Wulff, City of Toronto Archives, Library and Archives Canada, Rare Books and Special, Collections, McGill University Library, Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

SECRET LOCATION PRODUCED THE SITE WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF
Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund
History Television Canada
War Torn Productions Inc.
The Historica-Dominion Institute

Secret Location Inc. (referred to herein as "We", "Our" or "Us") is committed to protecting your personal information when you ("You" or "Your") visit our website. Your visit is subject to this Privacy Policy and Our Terms and Conditions. Our Policy regarding the collection, use and disclosure, if any, of personal information incorporates the 10 principles set out in Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act.

HOW WE COLLECT AND USE YOUR INFORMATION:

Sharing by email

If You decide to share a story on Our website with someone, We ask for Your email address, the recipient’s email address and the recipient’s name. This information is used only to send the email with the shared link to the recipient and is not stored or saved by Us.

IP addresses

When You visit our website, Your browser type and IP address will be collected by trusted third parties, for web traffic reporting, statistics, analysis and other similar purposes.

Cookies

Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that We transfer to Your computer's hard drive through Your Web browser to enable Our systems to recognize Your browser and tell Us how and when pages in Our website are visited and by how many people. Our cookies do not collect personal information.

We use cookies on some pages in order to optimize and tailor Your use of this website. The cookies recognize return visitors to the website and will load certain preferences set and saved on prior visits, such as saved videos.

The "help" portion of the toolbar on the majority of browsers will direct You on how to prevent Your browser from accepting new cookies, how to command the browser to tell You when You receive a new cookie, or how to fully disable cookies.

Private Logging

Every time You visit a web page, You send information to the web server. Most web servers routinely maintain access logs with a portion of this information, which can be used to get an overall picture of what pages are popular, what other sites link to this one, and what web browsers people are using.

These logs are used to produce site statistics; the raw log data is not made public. Log data may be examined by developers and administrators in the course of solving technical problems.

PRIVACY PRINCIPLES

1. ACCOUNTABILITY.

We are responsible for maintaining and protecting personal information under Our control. To this end, we have designated a Privacy Officer who is accountable for Our compliance with this Policy and all applicable privacy laws.

2. IDENTIFYING PURPOSES

• Unless the purpose is self-evident, We will identify the purposes for which personal information is collected at or before the time the information is collected.
• The proposed purposes will be described in a reasonably understandable manner.

3. CONSENT

• We will collect, use or disclose Your personal information only with Your knowledge and consent, except where required or permitted by law.

4. LIMITING COLLECTION

• Our collection of personal information will be limited to what is necessary for the purposes set out in this Policy or which we otherwise identify at or before the time of collection.
• We will collect personal information by fair and lawful means.

5. LIMITING USE, DISCLOSURE AND RETENTION

• Personal information will not be used or disclosed for purposes other than those for which it was collected, except with Your consent or as required or permitted by law.
• It will be retained only as long as necessary for these purposes or as required by law.

6. ACCURACY

• We will keep Your personal information as accurate, complete and up-to-date as necessary for the purposes for which it is to be used.

7. SAFEGUARDS

• We will protect personal information by security safeguards appropriate to the sensitivity of the information, including through the use of the following measures: physical (e.g., locked filing cabinets, restricted access, appropriate disposal of personal information), organizational (e.g., security clearances, access only on a "need to know" basis), technological (e.g., passwords, encryption) and training of employees.

8. OPENNESS

• Information about Our policies and practices relating to the management of personal information will be made readily available to individuals.

9. INDIVIDUAL ACCESS

• Upon request, We will inform You of the existence, use and disclosure of personal information relating to You and give You access to that information. You have the right to challenge the accuracy and completeness of Your information and have it amended as appropriate.

10. CONTACTING US AND/OR CHALLENGING COMPLIANCE

• For anything to do with this Policy, including questions or comments, or to challenge Our compliance with this Policy, please contact Us as follows:

Privacy Officer
Secret Location Inc.
80 Mitchell Ave., Unit 3
Toronto, Ontario
M6J 1B9
info@warstory.ca

This website may be used for lawful purposes only.

Intellectual Property Rights

This website and its content are protected by the provisions of the Copyright Act and all other applicable intellectual property laws. All rights are reserved by Secret Location Inc. Any copying, reproduction, modification, publishing, transmission, distribution or other use of this content, without the prior written consent of Secret Location Inc. is strictly prohibited.

Opinions expressed on this website are those of their author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Secret Location Inc.

Third Party Links

This website may contain links to external, third party websites. These links are provided solely for your convenience. The inclusion of a link does not mean that Secret Location Inc. approves, endorses or recommends the content on the external website. Secret Location Inc. has no control over and has no responsibility for the content of these external websites, or the privacy practices of such websites.

DISCLAIMER

YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT USE OF THE WEBSITE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. THE WEB SITE AND ALL ELEMENTS THEREOF ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. SECRET LOCATION INC. MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE CURRENCY, ACCURACY OR SUITABILITY OF THE INFORMATION, CONTAINED ON THE WEBSITE FOR ANY PURPOSE. SECRET LOCATION INC. DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. SECRET LOCATION INC. DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE WEB SITE WILL OPERATE OR PERFORM IN A MANNER THAT IS UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, OR THAT THE WEB SITE OR HOST SERVER WILL BE MAINTAINED FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL CODE.

LIABILITY LIMITATION

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE AND REGARDLESS OF LEGAL THEORY, WHETHER IN TORT, CONTRACT, OR OTHERWISE, WILL SECRET LOCATION INC. BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY OTHER PARTY FOR ANY DAMAGES INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, HOWEVER CAUSED, AND REGARDLESS OF CHARACTER, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY DAMAGES RELATING TO LOST DATA, COMPUTER FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION, OR OTHERWISE. THE FOREGOING SHALL BE ENFORCEABLE TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. YOU AGREE TO THIS ALLOCATION OF RISK IN RELATION TO YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE.

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