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Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act

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Confidentiality Warning

211 Ontario strives to ensure confidentiality in email communication. Nevertheless, absent the use of encryption, the Internet is not a secure medium and privacy cannot be ensured. Internet email is vulnerable to interception and forging. 211 Ontario will not be responsible for any damages you or any third party may suffer as a result of the transmission of confidential information that you make to 211 Ontario, or that you expressly or implicitly authorize 211 Ontario to make, or for any errors or any changes made to any transmitted information.

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211 Ontario shall be free to use, for any purpose, any ideas, concepts, know-how or other techniques contained in information provided to 211 Ontario through the Site or sent through email. 211 Ontario shall not be subject to any obligations of confidentiality regarding any such information submitted to it unless specifically agreed to by 211 Ontario, or required by law.

211 Ontario may use comments submitted by users about the Site for promotional purposes. 211 Ontario will seek written permission of the user before publishing his or her personal name, organization or program name or direct comment.  211 Ontario may combine comments and attribute them to pseudonyms without seeking permission of the users.