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Thank you for choosing and installing the BE IN CONTROL application or visiting the BE IN CONTROL website (hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Application”). The purpose of the Application is to provide information about contraception based on females needs, particularly their concerns and questions about the use of contraception. This tool is promoting good sexual health.

THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THE APPLICATION IS SOLELY FOR EDUCATIONAL AND ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES AND SHOULD NOT BE INTERPRETED AS MEDICAL ADVICE OR AS A RECOMMENDATION FOR A SPECIFIC TREATMENT, PRODUCT, OR COURSE OF ACTION. THE USE OF THE APPLICATION IS NOT INTENDED TO REPLACE COUNSELLING BY A DOCTOR OR ANY OTHER QUALIFIED HEALTH PROFESSIONAL.

  1. CONFIRMATION OF ACCEPTANCE
    1. These terms and conditions constitute an agreement between you and HPV Awareness Corporation (“HPV Awareness” or “us” or “we”) regarding your access to the Application and use of the Services (the “Agreement”).
    2. This version of the Agreement has been in force since September 29, 2017.
    3. This Agreement constitutes a legally binding agreement and applies once you begin to access the Application, use the Services, or confirm your acceptance hereof electronically. You represent and warrant that you have the legal capacity and are authorized to accept this Agreement, both on your own behalf and on behalf of any person or entity you represent.
    4. If you do not accept all of the provisions of this Agreement, or if you do not have the legal capacity or are not authorized to accept them, you may not access or use any of the Services.
  2. DEFINITIONS
    When used in this Agreement, the following terms mean:
    1. “Agreement” means this Agreement as it may be modified from time to time;
    2. “Application” means the BE IN CONTROL mobile application or the website accessible at www.beincontrolsite.ca offering similar functionalities or, unless indicated otherwise, any other website operated by HPV Awareness or one of its affiliates;
    3. “Confidentiality Policy” means our confidentiality policy available at www.beincontrolsite.ca;
    4. “Document” means any file in any format and or any support;
    5. “Data” means any information created, generated, communicated, or stored through the use of the Application or otherwise in the course of performance of this Agreement;
    6. “HPV Awareness” or “we”, “us” or “our” means HPV Awareness Corporation;
    7. “Privacy Legislation” means the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Document Act (PIPEDA) and similar provincial legislations;
    8. “User” or “you” means you and the person or corporate entity you are authorized to represent.
  3. RIGHT OF USE
    1. You are authorized to use the Application only as expressly provided in this Agreement, in accordance with all applicable laws.
    2. Any access to or use of the Application for purposes of resale or lease to a third party is prohibited. We can suspend your right to access the Application, or unilaterally terminate this Agreement, if you do not comply with this Agreement or if you engage in inappropriate use of the Application.
    3. Framing, mirroring, scraping or data-mining of the Application or the content thereof in any form or manner whatsoever or the use of peer-to-peer transfer or collaborative viewing and display technologies in conjunction with your use of the Application are prohibited.
    4. When accessing or using the Application, you must refrain from any act or activity that could affect the accessibility, security, integrity or functionality of the Application or the systems or networks of HPV Awareness or any of its subcontractors, as well as any unauthorized attempt to access the Data or Documents of other users.
    5. We reserve the right to monitor your use of the Application. We may also from time to time ask for your opinion and comments on the quality of the Application and may use the information you provide in that regard for our own operational and promotional purposes.
  4. ACCESS AND AVAILABILITY
    1. HPV Awareness strives to ensure the highest accessibility of the Application. However, HPV Awareness cannot guarantee uninterrupted access to the Application. HPV Awareness reserves the right to interrupt or cancel access to the Application at any time, without prior notice.
  5. SUPPORT, MAINTENANCE AND UPDATES
    1. If you experience difficulties using or accessing the Application, you can submit your question at info@hpvawareness.org.
    2. HPV Awareness may, in its sole discretion, require the installation of updates or make them available to you. Updates may entail modifications to performance and/or features that may have a negative impact on the Application. HPV Awareness cannot foresee or be held responsible for service interruptions or changes in performance or features following an update.
  6. BACKUP COPIES
    1. HPV Awareness does not make backup copies of Data and Documents entered, transmitted or hosted in conjunction with use of the Application. Accordingly, it is your responsibility to keep viable copies of Data and Documents entered, transmitted or created in conjunction with your use of the Services.
  7. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
    1. Ownership of rights

      The Application (including all content, headers, graphics, icons, and scripts, and the layout, arrangement, coordination, image enhancement and any other information in the scripts, graphics, audio and video clips, images, icons, software, designs, applications, data and any other element available in or through the Services) is the property of HPV Awareness and is protected by Canadian and international copyright, trademark and other laws. Your use of the Application does not give you any property rights or any other right whatsoever in or in respect of the Application.

      You may not copy, reproduce, republish, download, display, transmit, modify, index, catalogue, decompile, make a mirror image copy or distribute the Application, in any manner whatsoever, in whole or in part, without the written consent of HPV Awareness.
    2. Marks

      Certain names, words, phrases, logos, icons or designs appearing on the Application are trademarks of HPV Awareness. Those trademarks are protected in Canada and other countries. On the Application, the trademarks of HPV Awareness may be accompanied by a symbol such as ®, TM, or some other indication that HPV Awareness is the owner thereof.

      No wording in the Application or anywhere else is to be interpreted as expressly or impliedly giving you a licence or right to use these marks or images, unless otherwise expressly stipulated in this Agreement. Any other use is strictly prohibited.

      Our marks include: the backdrop of the application, the videos, the name of the application, the logo, the menu images, the navigation buttons, and the content.
    3. Software and applications

      HPV Awareness may provide you with software, applications or other tools that you can download in order to facilitate the access and use of the Application. Such software, applications and tools are protected by copyright and may be protected by patent. The downloading, use and updating of same are governed by the specific user agreement, if any, that applies to each of same. By downloading software, an application or other tool, you are confirming your acceptance of such applicable user agreement. You are not authorized to copy, modify, distribute, sell or lease such software, applications and tools in whole or in part. Nor are you authorized to reverse-engineer same or attempt to extract the source code thereof.
  8. CONFIDENTIALITY AND PROTECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
    1. All collection, use and disclosure of your personal information will be made in accordance with the Privacy Legislation and our Confidentiality Policy.
    2. We may modify our Confidentiality Policy from time to time by posting a notice to that effect on the Application. By accepting this Agreement, and each time you use the Application, you will be consenting to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information by us in accordance with the Privacy Legislation and our Confidentiality Policy.
    3. We may collect your Data for research purposes. Your Data will be aggregated with the Data of other used and kept in anonymous form.
  9. OPTIONAL SURVEY
    1. By using the Application, you may be asked to answer a brief survey asking for certain information such as your age, your gender, your city of residence, your ethnicity and the contraceptive method you use to avoid pregnancy. You have not obligation whatsoever to answer the survey. If you chose to answer the survey, your answers will not be associated with your name or other information that could identify you personally.
  10. OTHER SITES
    1. The Application may include links or references to the websites of other resources or businesses operated by third parties (collectively, the “Other Sites”). The Other Sites are independent of HPV Awareness and we have no control over and are accordingly not responsible in any way for their content or related products, services or activities.
    2. Unless otherwise expressly indicated, HPV Awareness neither sponsors nor recommends Other Sites and their content or related products, services or activities. If you access Other Sites and do business with their operators, you do so entirely at your own risk, and you hereby waive any right to make any claim against HPV Awareness in respect thereof.
    3. HPV Awareness reserves the right to require the withdrawal or deletion of any hypertext link to the Application.
  11. DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY
    1. YOU WILL BE ACCESSING AND USING THE APPLICATION WITHOUT ANY REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY ON THE PART OF HPV AWARENESS OTHER THAN AS EXPRESSLY STIPULATED HEREIN, AND YOU HEREBY WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO CLAIM THE BENEFIT OF ANY SUCH OTHER REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY.
    2. YOU HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT HPV AWARENESS ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY AND CANNOT BE HELD LIABLE FOR YOUR USE OF THE APPLICATION OR THAT OF ANY THIRD PARTY, OR FOR ANY INABILITY OR IMPOSSIBILITY TO USE OR ACCESS THE APPLICATION.
    3. HPV AWARENESS EXPRESSLY EXCLUDES ANY WARRANTY, OTHER THAN AS MAY BE EXPRESSLY PROVIDED UNDER THIS AGREEMENT, OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION AS TO THE QUALITY, FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR PERFORMANCE OF THE SERVICES.
  12. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
    1. HPV AWARENESS WILL IN NO EVENT BE LIABLE TOWARDS YOU OR ANY OTHER PERSON WHATSOEVER FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, LOST DATA, DOCUMENTS, REVENUE, PROFITS OR GOODWILL, OR DAMAGE TO REPUTATION, WHETHER OR NOT FORESEEABLE, WHETHER CONTRACTUAL OR EXTRA-CONTRACTUAL, ATTRIBUTABLE OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OR THE UNAVAILABILITY OF THE APPLICATION, NOTWITHSTANDING THAT HPV AWARENESS MAY HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
    2. YOU ACCORDINGLY AGREE TO ASSUME AND, AS THE CASE MAY BE, BEAR THE RISK OF POSSIBLE SHORTCOMINGS OR TEMPORARY UNAVAILABILITY OF THE APPLICATION.
  13. INDEMNIFICATION
    1. YOU HEREBY UNDERTAKE TO INDEMNIFY AND HOLD HPV AWARENESS HARMLESS FROM AND AGAINST ANY CLAIM OF ANY KIND BY ANY THIRD PARTY FOR DAMAGES OR FOR ANY TYPE OF RECOVERY, IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES. YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERTAKE TO INDEMNIFY HPV AWARENESS FOR ANY FEES, COSTS, CHARGES, INDEMNITIES OR EXPENSES THAT HPV AWARENESS MAY HAVE INCURRED IN CONNECTION THEREWITH, INCLUDING THE PROFESSIONAL FEES OF ITS LEGAL COUNSEL AND OTHER ADVISORS.
  14. TERMINATION
    1. HPV Awareness may, at its discretion and at any time, without prior notice and without incurring any liability towards you or any other person, terminate this Agreement or revoke your authorization to access and use the Application.
    2. In particular, but without limitation, such termination will occur if you fail to comply with this Agreement or make any unauthorized use of the Application, or if it becomes necessary to do so in order to prevent or avoid the occurrence of any harm, damage or loss.
    3. You may terminate this Agreement by uninstalling the Application and ceasing to access and use the Application.
    4. If this Agreement or your authorization to access or use the Application in whole or in part is terminated for any reason whatsoever, this Agreement as well as any other agreement then in effect between you and HPV Awareness will continue to apply and bind you in respect of your pre-termination access to and use of the Application and any matter related thereto.
  15. GENERAL PROVISIONS
    1. Amendments

      HPV Awareness may amend this Agreement and the Terms and Conditions from time to time, and we will advise you of any amendment by posting a notice on the Application. By accessing or using the Services after such notice has been posted, you will be confirming your consent to being bound by the Agreement as amended. If you do not consent to the amendment, you must cease all use of the Application.
    2. Assignment

      HPV Awareness may assign its rights and obligations under this Agreement. You, however, may not assign your rights and obligations under this Agreement, or the privileges associated with your user account, in any form or manner whatsoever.
    3. Applicable Law and Resolution of Disputes

      This Agreement, including your right to access and use the Services, as well as any other related matter, are governed by the laws applicable in the Province of Québec. Any dispute between you and HPV Awareness arising out of the Application, this Agreement or any matter related thereto will be submitted to the competent court sitting in and for the judicial district of Longueil, province of Québec.
    4. Entire agreement

      This Agreement replaces and supersedes any other agreement, written or oral, that may have been in effect between you and HPV Awareness with respect to the subject matter hereof.
    5. Language

      The parties hereto confirm that they have requested that this Agreement be drafted in English only. Les parties aux présentes confirment qu’elles ont demandé que cette entente soit rédigée en anglais seulement.
    6. Communication

      We will not send you any information or offers in connection with our services to any email address.
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This Privacy Policy applies to the information provided by you, including personal and non-personal information that HPV Awareness Corporation (“HPV Awareness” or “us” or “we”) may collect, use and disclose from time to time. This Privacy Policy should be read in conjunction with the terms of use (the “Terms of Use”). All capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed to them in the Terms of Use.


HPV Awareness invites you to read the Privacy Policy in order to fully understand your rights and obligations. HPV Awareness reserves the right to modify the Privacy Policy at any time without notice by displaying such modifications on the Application. The modified Privacy Policy applies immediately when it is posted on the Application.


HPV Awareness may collect, use and disclose your personal information from time to time, but always in accordance with the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Document Act (PIPEDA) or any applicable similar provincial legislation (the “Privacy Legislation”).

  1. Consent to Collection, Use and Disclosure

    No personal information will be collected, used or divulged by HPV Awareness without having obtained your prior consent, except if it is authorized by the Privacy Legislation or any other applicable law. Collection, use and disclosure of personal information by HPV Awareness is limited to the extent it is necessary to provide or optimize the Application and to measure the impacts of the actions of the users. We may also collect and use personal information provided by third parties when authorized by law and with your consent. Personal and non-personal information may be collected at different moments by HPV Awareness, including when you call or email us or when you use the Application.

  2. Non-personal Information

    HPV Awareness may share non-personal information with third parties, namely for research and analysis purposes. When doing so, HPV Awareness may aggregate or de-identify the information so that a third party would not be likely to link the data to you, your computer or your device. Aggregation means that the data of many persons are combined so that the data does not relate to any one person and de-identify means that certain pieces of information that may be used to identify a particular person are removed or changed.

  3. Retention of personal information

    We will retain your personal data as long as we reasonably need such data for the purposes for which it was collected or according to the requirements of the Privacy Legislation.

    The personal data we collect is protected by physical and electronic measures as well as appropriate processes. We are making commercially reasonable efforts in order to limit the access to your personal information to the persons who need to have access for the purposes for which the personal data was collected. Your personal data will not be sold to third parties and will not be added to electronic mailing lists without your consent, express or implied.

  4. Access, Accuracy and Correction of Personal Information

    HPV Awareness makes reasonable efforts to ensure that the personal data it collects be as accurate and complete as required by the purposes for which the personal data is used.

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Be In Control was independently developed and produced by HPV Awareness. The program was made possible through the provision of an educational grant from Bayer Inc.

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We would like to thank everyone who contributed to making this tool:

BE IN CONTROL
An App to Explore Your Birth Control Options
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01. The morning after pill, otherwise known as emergency contraception, should be taken no more than 12 hours after having unprotected sex.
2.The birth control pill, otherwise known as ‘The pill’, can protect against sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
3.A contraceptive injection (the shot) typically lasts 1-2 years.
4.Intrauterine systems (IUS) or copper intrauterine devices (IUD) can be alternatives for those affected by estrogen.
5.A diaphragm can be left in your vagina indefinitely after sex.
6.The patch can decrease menstrual cramping.
7.The ring can be kept in place for the entire month.
8.Non-latex condoms exist.
9.You should only use the calendar method if you don’t mind getting pregnant.
10.The pull-out method is a very effective form of birth control.
11.Sterilization (vasectomy and female sterilization) can easily be undone.
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If you want to help us learn more about females’ needs, please take a moment by answering the following questions.
1.What is your age?
2.What is your gender?
3.What province or territory do you live in?
4.What ethnicity are you?
5.Which of the following birth control methods have you heard of?
6.Do you currently use any methods of birth control? If so, which one(s)?
7.I prefer methods of birth control that do not require much planning (for example, a condom).
8.I prefer a birth control method that will stop my period.
9.I am worried about the hormones in birth control.
10.It doesn’t bother me to use a birth control method that goes inside my vagina, for example, the ring, or in my uterus, for example, the IUD or IUS.
11.I am afraid of using some forms of birth control because they sound painful (for example, inserting a copper intrauterine device (IUD) or intrauterine system (IUS) or getting the shot).
12.I am concerned that some of the birth control methods might make it harder for me to get pregnant when I want to.
13.Using the most effective birth control method is important to me, regardless of my other concerns.
14.I prefer a birth control method that will allow me to have my regular period and will also help with cramping and other symptoms.
15.I would like a birth control method that will help reduce my acne.
16.When choosing a birth control method, it is important to me that my sex drive is not affected.
17.It is important to me that my partner helps me choose my birth control method.
18.I believe that the morning after pill, otherwise known as emergency contraception, causes an abortion.
19.I believe that if I have sex while I am on my period I cannot get pregnant.
20.I want my birth control method to be as natural as possible and/or environmentally friendly.
21.I will always choose the birth control method that has the least number of possible side effects.
22.I choose my birth control method based on cost.
23.How useful was this contraception tool for you?
About Us

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HPV Awareness is Canada's leaders in raising awareness about HPV and providing sexual health education in the context of healthy relationships. We are the only organization in Canada providing healthy relationship education programs to every demographic across the country, for more information visit www.hpvawareness.org.



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