Privacy Policy
The domain name www.parlcent.org belongs to the Parliamentary Centre.
We, at Parliamentary Centre, take our privacy obligations seriously and have created this privacy policy to explain how we treat your personal information. We are committed to respecting the privacy and confidentiality of personnel, board members, members, donors and supporters of its activities. Personal information is information we hold which is identifiable as being about you.
Our postal address is:
155 rue Queen Street, Bureau/Suite 710
Ottawa, Ontario
K1P 6L1
Tel:: (613) 947-4999
Fax: (613) 943-3292
Our collection, use and disclosure of your personal information is regulated by the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (Canada), or similar privacy legislation applicable in your Province, as amended from time to time. You can find more information about your privacy rights at the web site of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC), http://www.priv.gc.ca. (External link) This privacy notice applies solely to information collected by this website. It will notify you of the following:
- What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the website, how it is used and with whom it may be shared.
- What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.
- The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.
- How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.
Information Collection, Use, and Sharing
We only have access to and collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We will not disclose, sell, resell, lease, or license your personal data to any third-party web sites, without your consent. We will use your information to respond to you regarding the reason you contacted us.
External links
Our website may contain links to other websites. Those links are provided for convenience and may not remain current or be maintained. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of linked websites and we suggest you review the privacy policies of those websites before using them. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.
Security
We work very hard to protect your information against unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction, and take all reasonable measures to do so. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.
Wherever we collect sensitive information, that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a lock icon in the address bar and looking for “https” at the beginning of the address of the Web page.
While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.
Requesting access or correcting your personal information
Subject to applicable local laws and regulations, you may have some or all of the following rights with respect to your personal data:
- to access your personal data and to rectify any inaccuracies within that personal data;
- to request for the erasure of your personal data residing with us;
- to request your personal data in a portable, machine-readable format; and
- to withdraw your consent to our processing of their personal data.
If you wish to contact us with a request relating to personal information we hold about you, please contact us using the contact details set out above, including your name and contact details. We may need to verify your identity before providing you with your personal information. In some cases, we may be unable to provide you with access to all your personal information and where this occurs, we will explain why. We will deal with all requests for access to personal information within a reasonable timeframe.