Privacy Policy

The Canada Tibet Committee (CTC) respects your privacy and does not sell, rent or share our e-mail lists or personal data to anyone or any organization. We use a variety of security measures to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of data used by our system.

How we use your personal information

Personal information is used to communicate with you, or to facilitate your participation as a member or volunteer. The CTC is a national organization. National data may be shared with our branches, or by our branches with the National Office, under this Privacy Policy.

Identification, opt-in and unsubscribe information:

To update your mailing: ctcoffice@tibet.ca

To unsubscribe immediately: ctcoffice@tibet.ca

If you received a mailing from us, you have either registered this address for the purpose of receiving information in the future ("opt-in"), are (a) a member of the CTC (b) a recent donor or volunteer, or (c) otherwise have an existing relationship with us.

We respect your time and attention by controlling the frequency of our mailings.

Privacy statement:

Our commitment to your privacy

(This policy is effective November 25, 2007)

We use security measures to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of data used by our system. Security audits are conducted periodically to ensure the integrity of our systems.

Sharing and usage

We do not share, sell, or rent individual personal information with anyone outside of the CTC, without your express advance permission or unless so ordered by a court of law. Information submitted is only available to CTC personnel who manage this information for purposes of communicating with you on matters pertaining to CTC business, or for determining how best to provide that information according to your wishes.

If you have received unwanted, unsolicited email sent via our system or purporting to be sent via this system, please forward a copy of that email with your comments to ctcoffice@tibet.ca for review.

Information collection, use and disclosure

The purpose of the CTC web site is to educate and inform the public about the CTC, its goals, key values, policies and mission. When you visit this site and access information, you are anonymous. We do not require you to provide personal information to view it.

Information gathered on www.tibet.ca falls under the following categories:

• Aggregate site use information
• Online donation information
• CTC membership information
• Discussion boards (blogs), organizing, and automated discussion lists

Aggregate site use information

We record information about the pages viewed by all of our website visitors. This data includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, connection speed, read time, display time and number of clicks.

We use this data, in aggregate form only, to compile statistics and reports for the CTC, and improve the online experience for all visitors. Such uses of this data would typically be to plan site architecture improvements or to measure public interest in our site.

Cookie use

A cookie is a small text file stored on the user’s hard drive that may help you access pages faster and allows our server to recognize you as you navigate within the site. We use cookies to assist with anonymous site traffic analysis, which includes tracking the time/date of visits, pages viewed and referring URLs. Cookies are generally not required to use our site, although some sections of our site may not be available to you if you choose not to accept cookies. You may configure your Web browser to either refuse all cookies, accept them each time they are offered, or accept them at all times. Consult your browser's help files for assistance on changing cookie settings or removing cookie files.

Online donation information

The CTC only reads cookies specifically written for our site and does not use cookies to track a user's internet history on other sites. If you donated money online, we only request the information needed to complete the processing of that transaction.

CTC membership information

As a registered non-profit organization, the CTC requires your assistance in providing us with your personal information to fulfill certain obligations. The information maintained in the database includes:

• Member number;
• Member name, address and telephone number;
• Member e-mail address
• Amount of member donation(s);
• Date on which the member registered as a member of the CTC, and/or made (a) donation(s);
• Date on which any person ceased to be a member.

The information contained in the database can only be used for official CTC business such as informational mailings, internal materials, and other correspondence.

Updating membership data

Membership information provided to the CTC can be up updated by calling our national office in Montreal.

Opting out

If you wish to have any of your personal information removed from our databases, or if you no longer want us to send any further communications to you, please send an e-mail to ctcoffice@tibet.ca.

E-newsletter

Visitors to our site may choose to opt in to receive our email newsletters.

E-Newsletter subscriptions

E-newsletters are sent only to users who choose to provide us with their email address. Our newsletter subscriber database is not sold, rented or otherwise shared with any other parties. Subscribers wishing to update their contact information, or opt out of receiving newsletters, can use our online subscriber services.

Other online services

Visitors using any online collaborative tools including e-mail discussion lists, bulletin boards, etc., are bound by the user-provided content guidelines set out in the applicable Terms of Use. Postings and articles submitted remain property of the CTC and are archived.

Fraud and crime prevention

The CTC reserves the right to co-operate with local, national, or international law enforcement or other authorities in the investigation of improper or unlawful activities and this may require the disclosure of personal information. If such an investigation requires disclosure of personal information on file in our records, we may be required by law to cooperate. We also reserve the right to report improper or unlawful user activities on our site, which may require the disclosure of personal information relating to those individuals conducting such improper or unlawful activities.

Links

This web site contains links to other sites or e-mail addresses. This privacy statement only applies to information collected by our web site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices and/or policies of these or any third parties, nor do we necessarily agree with or endorse the opinions or positions expressed. Links are provided for information only.

Accuracy of, and access to, personal information

We strive to ensure that any personal information we retain and use is as accurate, complete and up-to-date as necessary for the purposes for which we will use it. We do not routinely update personal information except where and as necessary for these purposes. If however our records regarding your personal information are inaccurate or incomplete, we will amend that information at your request.

At your request we will provide to you a statement explaining the extent to which we hold personal information about you, and we will explain how that information has been used by us.

Policy changes and updates

This page will be updated if and when information about the collection and use of your personal data changes, and/or policies regarding the use of the site are changed. Your comments and questions are welcome either by postal mail, telephone or e-mail at:

By E-mail

General and web Information: ctcoffice@tibet.ca

By Mail

Canada Tibet Committee
1425 Rene Levesque West, 3rd floor
Montreal QC H3G 1T7

By Telephone

514.487.0665

Effective date:

25 November 2007