Terms of use

ChangeEverything.ca is a vibrant and open online community that encourages discussion and change. To create a safe and harassment-free space for discussion, we’ve established these guidelines. When you register and use ChangeEverything.ca (the site) you agree to abide by the site Guidelines, which may be updated from time to time.

Any non-public personal information collected by the site or submitted to the site is governed by Vancity’s Privacy Code.

To get a better sense of what you should or shouldn’t do on this site, please read the Community Guidelines.

Disclaimer: The material posted on ChangeEverything.ca does not represent the views of Vancity, its members, Board of Directors or its staff. This site is a public forum and the opinions contained on the site are strictly those of the registered users who create and upload content. This site is for public discussion purposes only and Vancity is under no obligation to make any changes suggested by users of this site.

Information Collected On This Site

• The information collected on this site is not in any way linked to the information contained within Vancity’s banking system. If you’re a Vancity member or partner using ChangeEverything.ca, your personal information collected on this site won’t be linked to your account or financial information at Vancity.

• Any information collected, used or disclosed by us will be in accordance with our Privacy Code. For the purposes of this site, certain information such as your username, password and email address are required for registration. Any other information you submit to develop your profile is optional. We may collect information about your computer, including your IP address and browser/platform set up so we can understand the kinds of people who use this site. For each user, ChangeEverything.ca logs access times, session lengths, and IP addresses, and these specific logs are purged every 7 days.

• We collect an email address to confirm your registration on the site. We won’t use your email address to contact you for marketing purposes. We might also contact you by email to discuss content that has been flagged as offensive, to award prizes, to ask for permission to feature content in a Learn How section, or to discuss technical issues and best practices (for example, we may contact you if your postings somehow affect the way our site functions).

• We will not sell your information or share it with third parties for marketing purposes. Only in exceptional circumstances, such as when required by law, will we disclose your personal information externally.

Site Content

• Comments or opinions expressed on the site are those of their respective contributors only. The views expressed by outside contributors do not represent the views of Vancity, its management, or employees. Vancity is not responsible and disclaims any and all liability for the content of comments written by outside contributors to the site.

• All content published on ChangeEverything.ca will be publicly available, but subject to the terms and conditions of our Creative Commons license. This includes text, photos and images, audio files and video files. This information may be shared by the members of this community and reproduced elsewhere, in accordance with the Creative Commons license. The content will also be shared via RSS feeds. As a general rule, you shouldn’t post anything that you don’t want to be shared publicly.

• This site is moderated by the Online Community Moderator who reserves the right to exercise editorial control over posted content. By submitting a comment to the site, you understand and agree that we may post your comment in its entirety, in an edited version, or not at all. Any editing will be done primarily for purposes of clarity, length or deletion of offensive, inappropriate, or potentially defamatory material.

• Content deemed to be offensive according to the Community Guidelines will be subject to removal. Additionally, if your posting is flagged as offensive by any member of the community, it will be removed from the site and subject to review by the site moderator. If it’s deemed to be in accordance with the Community Guidelines it will be republished, otherwise it will remain unpublished from the site. Registered users whose posts regularly contravene the Community Guidelines may be restricted from future use of the site.

• You represent and warrant that comments posted by you on the site will not defame, compromise the trade secrets or confidential information of, or violate the copyright or other intellectual property rights of, any third party.

• We may sometimes link to outside websites that are related to the site discussion and that we believe may be of interest to you. These links are not provided for the purposes of marketing or advertising, and we are not responsible for the content or practices of other websites. Vancity receives no compensation for posting any external links on ChangeEverything.ca. We do not endorse any other website that site users may refer to or link to in their posts.

• You represent and warrant that any postings you make to the site will not contravene any applicable law. Should any content or postings contravene any applicable law, Vancity may be required to pass on details to the relevant authorities.

• You agree not to use this site to distribute any computer viruses or computer code designed to disrupt the servers or computer equipment used to host or operate the site itself, or any computer used by a member of the community to access the site.

• You agree not to use the site for any unsolicited advertising, spam, junk mail, chain letters, pyramid schemes or any other solicitation.

• We are not responsible for the security of any postings you submit to the site, nor any damages that result from the content you publish to the site.

• Although this site is hosted by Vancity, the site does not provide a method of communicating with Vancity. To contact us directly, visit vancity.com, call us at 1-888-Vancity (826-2489) or drop by your neighbourhood branch.