This Cookie Policy explains how Saskatchewan Union of Nurses ("SUN," "we," "us" and "our") uses cookies and similar technologies in connection with our website, SUN Shop and SUN Link, including its browser and mobile-app versions (together, the "Services"). It explains the purposes of these technologies and the choices available to you.
Read this policy together with our Privacy Policy for information about our broader personal-information practices.
What are cookies and similar technologies?
Cookies are small text files stored by your browser. Local storage and session storage are other ways a website or embedded service can store information in your browser. Similar technologies include pixels and identifiers used to recognize a browser, device or interaction.
Session storage generally lasts for a browsing session, subject to browser behavior. Persistent cookies remain until they expire or are removed. Local storage generally has no automatic expiry and can remain until it is cleared by the service, browser or user.
First-party cookies are associated with the website you visit. Third-party cookies are associated with another domain, such as an embedded-video provider. Storage on a SUN domain may still support a third-party service. Information collected through these technologies may be personal information, including where an identifier can be linked with other information.
Why do we use these technologies?
The tools used in connection with our Services include Google Analytics for understanding user traffic, Microsoft Application Insights for application health monitoring, and embedded YouTube videos. SUN also uses email engagement tracking in Mailchimp communications and offers SUN Link sign-in through email/password, Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Apple. The technologies used can differ between the website, shop, browser-based SUN Link and the mobile app.
Application health monitoring and user-traffic analytics serve different purposes. Describing a tool as health monitoring does not mean that every cookie or identifier it uses is necessary for you to access the Services.
Sign-in and requested service functions
SUN Link supports email/password sign-in and sign-in through Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Apple. Authentication can involve cookies, browser storage, session information or app-held identifiers, depending on the sign-in method and how the feature operates. These can help complete authentication, maintain an authorized session and protect account access.
Storage used for a sign-in, cart, checkout or other function you request serves a different purpose from optional audience measurement or embedded content. Choosing to sign in or purchase does not by itself give consent to optional tracking. A provider’s involvement in authentication does not mean that all of its cookies or other processing are necessary for SUN’s Services.
If you choose an external sign-in option, the provider’s own privacy practices and controls also apply to its processing. Signing out of SUN Link or clearing SUN-related storage may not sign you out of the provider’s separate account. See the sign-in and authentication section of our Privacy Policy for more information.
SUN Link supports private submissions to SUN staff. It does not offer posts or comments visible to other members and does not access your device contacts. The handling of private submissions and authentication information is explained in the Privacy Policy; those features do not themselves authorize optional tracking.
Embedded videos and advertising
SUN’s advertising-related use through the Services is limited to embedded content. We do not operate our own targeted-advertising or retargeting program through these Services.
Embedded YouTube content can connect your browser or app with Google/YouTube. Depending on the service and settings, the provider may process identifiers and interactions and link them with information it already holds. You should not assume that information is anonymous merely because you have not provided your name to SUN.
For information about provider practices, see Google’s Privacy Policy, Google’s cookie information and Microsoft’s privacy information.
How can I control cookies?
A cookie banner and Cookie Preference Center are planned but are not yet available. You can currently use your browser’s privacy controls to block or clear cookies and other website storage. Some features may stop working when storage is blocked. For questions about tracking or your choices, email privacy@sun-nurses.sk.ca.
Our planned consent setup will keep optional Google Analytics and embedded YouTube content off until you accept the relevant category. Once implemented, the settings will allow you to accept or reject optional categories, reopen your choices and withdraw consent. This describes the planned controls; it does not mean that they are currently operating.
Storage genuinely needed to provide a service you request may be treated differently from optional analytics and embedded content. Browser controls can still block storage, although that may affect functionality. Some tools can send information without setting cookies, so blocking cookies alone may not stop all collection.
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Additional advertising-choice information is available from AdChoices in Canada, DAA WebChoices and Your Online Choices. These tools cover participating providers and do not necessarily stop all collection or all advertising.
SUN Link and choices on different devices
SUN Link is available in a browser and as a mobile app. Browser controls apply to browser content; they do not automatically control native-app storage, monitoring tools or identifiers. Contact privacy@sun-nurses.sk.ca with questions about tracking in SUN Link.
Browser-based choices generally apply to the browser and device where you make them. You may need to make choices again after changing browser or device, clearing storage, using private browsing or when a saved choice expires. A choice in one Service should not be assumed to apply automatically to another Service or the mobile app.
Email, SMS and communication choices
SUN uses email engagement tracking in Mailchimp emails. Depending on enabled settings, pixels and tracked links may record an email opening or link interaction. Website cookie controls should not be assumed to control tracking within an email.
SUN also uses Mailchimp to send SMS alerts to SUN members about union labour issues. Message frequency varies with union labour issues. SUN does not charge a fee for these alerts; your mobile carrier’s message and data rates may apply. SMS participation requires separate, express and verifiable permission. Providing a cell number for membership contact purposes or making a cookie choice does not by itself provide that permission.
Reply STOP to unsubscribe from SUN’s SMS alerts. Email and SMS subscription choices are separate from each other and from website cookie choices. Blocking browser storage does not itself unsubscribe you from messages, and an SMS opt-out does not itself change website preferences.
If you follow a link in an email or SMS, the destination may use cookies or other technologies described in this policy. Where link tracking is enabled, the messaging provider may also record the link interaction separately from activity on the destination website.
See the SMS section of our Privacy Policy for mobile-information handling, sharing restrictions, support and other SMS choices. For questions about tracking or related privacy requests, email privacy@sun-nurses.sk.ca. Cookie choices do not subscribe you to email or SMS communications.
How long does information remain?
Browser storage duration depends on the technology, its settings, browser behavior and whether it is refreshed by a return visit or interaction. Clearing browser storage does not necessarily delete information already received by a service provider. For questions about retention of your personal information, consult our Privacy Policy or email privacy@sun-nurses.sk.ca.
Updates to this policy
We may update this policy when our technologies, purposes, providers, controls or applicable requirements change. The date at the top indicates when this policy was last updated. Where a change requires a new choice or consent, publishing an updated policy does not by itself constitute your consent.
Contact us
For questions about cookies, tracking, your choices or privacy requests, email privacy@sun-nurses.sk.ca.
Saskatchewan Union of Nurses2330 2nd Avenue
Regina, Saskatchewan S4R 1A6
Canada
Phone: 1-306-525-1666
Fax: 1-306-522-4612
