WorkSafeBC Online - Certificate of Recognition (COR)

WorkSafeBC recognizes the privacy concerns of visitors to our Internet site. We recognize the importance of protecting the privacy of any personal information collected about our visitors. As a general policy, we do not automatically collect any personal information (such as name, address, or email address) from visitors to our site. The type of information we may collect is non-personal information used to optimize our web pages for your computer (for example, the identity of your Internet browser, the type of operating system you use, and the domain name of your Internet service provider). We may also use non-personal information to determine the total number of visitors to our web site.

We only collect personal information about visitors to our site when visitors knowingly and voluntarily submit the information.

Whenever we do collect such information, the following applies:

We will notify you when we are collecting personal information, and will let you know the intended use of the information.
We will only use personal information for the purposes disclosed at the time of collection, or for uses consistent with those purposes.
We will not transfer personal information to third parties, except as required or authorized under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.
We may use the collected information to respond to your specific requests. We may also use it in aggregate form without personal identifiers to make our site better and more responsive to our visitors' needs. This statistical compilation of non-identifiable information may be used by WorkSafeBC or be provided to others for WorkSafeBC's marketing, advertising, or research purposes. WorkSafeBC complies with privacy laws by maintaining safeguards to ensure the security, integrity, and privacy of such information.

Cookies are pieces of information a web site sends to your browser. WorkSafeBC only uses memory resident cookies to assist with site navigation. You must accept cookies to use our online services.

This site may be linked to other sites within our organization, or to sites operated by others. WorkSafeBC is not responsible for the content or practices of third-party sites that may be linked to this site.

WorkSafeBC reviews its privacy policy periodically, and it may be subject to change.

NOTE: Only persons authorized by the Workers' Compensation Board (WorkSafeBC) may access this web site. Access by others is prohibited and unauthorized. Access to this site is monitored and unauthorized access may result in prosecution.

Keeping your information secure is important to WorkSafeBC. Our registration process and security system ensures that only you will be able to access your account information.

You are responsible and accountable for all use of your User Name and password, and you must take prudent measures to protect your User Name and password. You are responsible for changing your password immediately after a new password has been issued to you by WorkSafeBC. You may only use your User Name and password to perform activities related to your business with WorkSafeBC and you may only perform authorized functions. Any unauthorized attempt to access or modify computer system information or to interfere with normal systems operations, whether on WorkSafeBC computer systems or networks that are accessible from WorkSafeBC, may result in the suspension or termination of your access and possible legal action being taken.

Information sent to WorkSafeBC will only have legal effect after it has been submitted and properly received, and is accessible to WorkSafeBC.

If you receive information from WorkSafeBC through this service and suspect that it is incomplete, inaccurate, corrupted in transmission, or not intended for you, you must notify WorkSafeBC and request clarification. The information must not be relied upon until clarification is received from WorkSafeBC.

If you are notified that information that you sent to WorkSafeBC is incomplete, inaccurate, or corrupted, you must take corrective action as may be reasonably required in the circumstances.

WorkSafeBC reserves the right to disable the service as required, for the purposes of routine maintenance, or as an emergency termination of electronic computer connections to protect resources from illegal access or other damage. In the case of an unanticipated service failure WorkSafeBC will make best attempts to restore the service to normal operating conditions as quickly as possible. Temporary disruption of the service will not constitute termination of the Agreement or relieve you from your general obligations to report to WorkSafeBC.

The user of this service acknowledges that information provided by the user to WorkSafeBC and by WorkSafeBC to the user through this service is subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act of BC ("FIPPA"). Consequently, the parties will treat all information received or accessed under this agreement as confidential and will not disclose it in any manner except as may be required under FIPPA. The user recognizes that WorkSafeBC may be required to release information received from the user pursuant to FIPPA and agrees that if such disclosure may cause any harm to the user, the user will provide details of that harm to WorkSafeBC in accordance with s. 21 of FIPPA.

WorkSafeBC accepts no responsibility for any loss or damage of any kind that the user of this service may suffer as a result of its use. By using this service, the user specifically accepts all legal and general liability for any loss that may arise from such use.