Important notices
Accessibility
SCC is committed to making our website accessible to everyone, including persons with disabilities, regardless of the technology used.
Our website was developed and is maintained according to the international standard, ISO/IEC 40500:2012: Information technology – W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0.
Contact us if you have:
- questions about accessibility
- trouble accessing information
Copyright
All rights reserved. SCC grants permission to copy and print materials from the website for internal use only. You may not reproduce, modify or redistribute any part of this information:
- in any way
- by any means
- for any purpose (including to sell)
To do so, you must have SCC's prior written permission.
Contact us to request copyright permissions.
External hyperlinks
Some information on the SCC website contains links to external sources of information. These links are provided solely for your convenience. SCC is not responsible for the information on external sites, including:
- accuracy
- reliability
- currency
- quality
- merchantability
- fitness for a particular purpose of products or services
Information on external sites to which SCC’s website links may not be:
- subject to the Privacy Act
- subject to the Official Languages Act
- accessible to persons with disabilities
Research the privacy policies of the sites before you provide any personal information.
Official languages
SCC’s website complies with the Official Languages Act. We provide all information in French and English. The information offered on external websites may be available only in the language(s) used by these sites.
Content posted by external users is posted in the language of choice of the user.
Privacy
SCC is committed to respecting the personal privacy of people who visit our website. All personal information provided is protected under the Government of Canada Privacy Act.
Read our Privacy statement for more information about our privacy practices.
We offer impartial and confidential services
SCC and our employees understand the importance of impartiality and the consideration of any potential conflict of interests in carrying out our business activities. We are committed to providing accreditation services that are objective and impartial. To this end, our processes are designed to uphold confidentiality, effective consultation, non-discrimination and consensus.
SCC offers accreditation services to all applicant and accredited customers, regardless of the size, association membership or number of customers that SCC has already accredited in a given area. The accreditation services offered by SCC are consistently delivered as described within our publicly-accessible policies, business rules and procedures. SCC does not provide consultancy services and will not offer conformity assessment services that our customers perform.
Quality policy
SCC is committed to delivering value-added standardization strategies that support Canada’s competitiveness and well-being, satisfying all applicable requirements and continually improving its quality management system. SCC delivers on this commitment by fostering a collaborative, purposeful, people-focused, and forward-thinking environment; and by supporting and engaging its interested parties.