The following online privacy policy is to protect and secure the personal information you provide to our organization online.
Awareness:
Kawartha Lakes Pregnancy Centre provides this online policy to make sure you are aware of our security practices and to inform you of the way your information is collected and used. We also provide you with the opportunity to remove your name from our mailing list, if you desire to do so.
The website security padlock symbol in the address bar lets you know that information between your web browser and the server is encrypted so that other people (like hackers and the web server) cannot snoop on what information is being sent back and forth.
Information we Collect:
We collect, use, disclose, and protect the personal information of our website users. There are two different ways in which we collect information from visitors on our website:
- From persons interested in requesting information or materials from our organization we only collect your name and email address.
- From our online donations, we collect name, email address, city, province, postal code, and telephone number, and the credit card number and expiration date.
We will only use your personal information in accordance with our policy unless otherwise required by applicable law. We take steps to ensure that the personal information that we collect about you is adequate, relevant, not excessive, and used for limited purposes.
Privacy laws in Ontario define “personal information” as recorded information about you as an individual, which includes information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person. For our purposes, the information about you that we
will be gathering through our website is your name and email address, and anything that you choose to disclose to us in your email.
The Website may include links to third-party websites (Canada Helps for donations), plug-ins, services, social networks, or applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow the third party to collect or share data about you. If you follow a link to a third-party website or engage a third-party plugin, please note that these third parties have their own privacy policies and we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies
We do not control these third-party websites, and we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit. When Kawartha Lakes Pregnancy Centre provides links or references to other websites, no inference or assumption should be made and no representation should be inferred that Kawartha Lakes Pregnancy Centre is connected with, operates or controls these websites. Any approved link must not represent in any way, either explicitly or by implication, that you have received the endorsement, sponsorship or support of any Kawartha Lakes Pregnancy
Centre site or endorsement, sponsorship or support of the ministry of Kawartha Lakes Pregnancy Centre, including its respective employees, volunteers, agents or directors.
How is the information used?
The Kawartha Lakes Pregnancy Centre uses your information to understand your needs with the aim of providing you the best service. We may use your information to issue you an income tax receipt for a donation. If you so desire, we may also use this information to update you on projects and activities of the organization. Credit card numbers are used only for donations on the Canada Helps Website and are not retained for any other purposes. We also provide you the opportunity to remove your name from our mailing list, if you desire to do so. Please review the corresponding section of this privacy policy below.
No sharing of personal information:
Kawartha Lakes Pregnancy Centre never sells, rents, leases, or exchanges your personal information with other organizations. We assure you that the identity of all who contact us through this Website will be kept confidential. Use of personal information will be limited to the internal purposes of the Kawartha Lakes Pregnancy Centre and only to further the activities and purposes of the organization.