Terms of Use

This website is owned and operated by the Critical Materials and Industrial Resilience Institute (CMIRI). By accessing or using this website, you acknowledge that you have read and agree to the terms of use below. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please refrain from using this website.

CMIRI reserves the right to modify this legal notice and disclaimer at any time and without written notice by posting such modifications on its website.

Unless expressly authorized by CMIRI, any reproduction, modification, or distribution of the material or content of the website, in whole or in part, is strictly prohibited.

Compliance with Laws

In addition to complying with this notice and disclaimer, you agree to use the site only for lawful purposes and in a manner consistent with local, state, and international laws and regulations.

Links to third-party sites

This site may contain links to third-party sites that are not created, maintained, owned, or controlled by CMIRI. CMIRI has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the information, data, opinions, advice, statements, content, privacy policies, or practices of third-party sites. A link to a third-party site is provided for the convenience of users of this site, and its inclusion does not imply affiliation with or endorsement of the third-party site by CMIRI, which disclaims any responsibility for such sites. Please be aware that by following a link or visiting these third-party sites, you will leave the CMIRI site.

Access to your personal information

Once we have properly identified you, you may request to view the personal information we hold about you, as permitted or required by law. A written request from you is required.

The right to withdraw refers to the option offered to Internet users to request that their personal information no longer appear, for example, on a mailing list.

Privacy Officer

If you have any questions about the processing or updating of your personal information, or if you wish to share any concerns in this regard, please contact us by email. Nicole Blanchard, Privacy Officer, will contact you within thirty (30) days of receiving your message.

Intellectual Property and Ownership Rights

This site is owned, operated, and maintained by CMIRI. All material on the site, including but not limited to all content, data, files, text, graphics, icons, site design, company names, trademarks, and logos, is and shall remain the exclusive property of CMIRI. Any unauthorized use or reproduction, modification, or distribution of material is strictly prohibited. All information contained on the site is protected by the copyright laws of Canada and other countries.

Privacy Notice

CMIRI does not collect any personal information about visitors to this site other than that specifically and knowingly provided by visitors. This personal information will not be transferred to a third party, except (i) if indicated at the time of collection, (ii) if required by law. CMIRI collects and stores statistics on the number of visits to the site and the types of browsers used for internal purposes only.

Use of technology on the site

The site uses cookies to make your visit to the site more user-friendly.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the site each time the visitor visits the site. Most major websites use cookies. Since the browser provides this information to the website each time it is visited, cookies serve as a kind of label that identifies a visitor when they return to the site. The domain name indicated in CMIRI cookies will clearly identify their affiliation with CMIRI and, where applicable, with its third-party service provider.

What are web beacons?

Web beacons (also known as clear gifs) work in tandem with cookies to help website operators understand how visitors interact with their sites. They typically consist of a transparent graphic image (usually 1 pixel x 1 pixel) that is placed on a site. A web beacon allows the site to measure the actions of the visitor who opens the page containing the web beacon. It makes it easier to track and record the activities of a recognized browser, such as the path of pages visited on a site.

How do we use cookies and web beacons?

The website uses cookies to help identify and track visitors, their use of the site, and their site access preferences across multiple site requests and visits to the CMIRI site. The site and advertisements that CMIRI may occasionally run on third-party advertising networks may also use web beacons for these purposes. The basic idea is to collect aggregate data on how people use the CMIRI site. This strategy is usually referred to as “web analytics,” and cookies and web beacons are the tools by which a site owner collects this analytical data.

CMIRI will use web analytics data solely to determine overall usage trends for its website, as described above. To do so, the website uses its own internal analytics software or sends this information to a third-party service provider that assists the Company in analyzing this data. CMIRI has entered into agreements with its third-party service providers whereby they will keep the information confidential and not use it for any purpose other than to maintain the services they provide. Cookies and web beacons can be linked to personally identifiable information, allowing website operators, including our third-party analytics providers, to track the online activities of certain individuals. CMIRI does not do this, and its third-party service providers are not permitted to correlate CMIRI data with other data.

CMIRI uses information provided by cookies and web beacons to better understand how visitors use the website and to improve their interactions with the website. CMIRI may make aggregate data obtained through web analytics (including from our third-party analytics providers, if applicable) available to the public. If such data is made available, it will be anonymized beforehand.

How can you control the use of cookies?

You have the option to accept or decline cookies. Visitors to the website who do not want cookies placed on their computer by CMIRI or its third-party service providers should set their browser to decline cookies before visiting the website.

Some features of the website may not function properly without the use of cookies.

Denial of Access

CMIRI reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to terminate your access to the site, in whole or in part, with or without notice, with or without cause, including, but not limited to, for a breach of these Terms of Use. If you have any questions about this notice and disclaimer, please contact us by email at info@cmiri.ca.