Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre recognizes the importance of privacy and the sensitivity of personal information. We are committed to protecting any personal information we hold. This Privacy Policy outlines how we manage your personal information and safeguard your privacy.
Alberta enacted its own private sector law, the Personal Information Protection Act (“PIPA”) which applies in Alberta. This Act gives you rights concerning the privacy and the confidentiality of your personal information. PIPA excludes not-for-profit organizations registered under the Societies Act, except when they carry on commercial activities, such as buying or selling membership lists. Fundraising is not a commercial activity. Nevertheless, Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre wishes to be responsible for the personal information we collect and hold. To ensure this accountability, we have developed this policy, and trained our staff about our policies and practices. This policy applies to employees, volunteers and other individuals we deal with.
Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre provides education on civil liberties and human rights law for Albertans. In doing so, it publishes materials and mails out a newsletter to the public. ACLRC also provides legal information and referrals. In some cases, this requires us to collect your personal information.
Personal information is any information that identifies you, or by which your identity could be deduced. In some cases, if we did not collect and use your personal information we could not provide you with legal information.
We collect information only by lawful and fair means and not in an unreasonably intrusive way. Wherever possible we collect your personal information directly from you.
In most cases, we shall ask you to specifically consent, if we collect, use, or disclose your personal information. Normally, we ask for your consent in writing, but in some circumstances, we may accept your oral consent. Sometimes, your consent may be implied through your conduct with us.
We use your personal information to provide legal information to you, and to include you in receiving our newsletter. Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre does not disclose your personal information to any third party to enable them to market their products and services. For example, we do not provide our client mailing lists to other non-profit organizations.
Under certain circumstances, Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre will disclose your personal information:
Since we use your personal information to provide newsletter and legal information to you, it is important that the information be accurate and up-to-date. If, any of your information changes, please inform us so that we can make any necessary changes.
Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre takes all reasonable precautions to ensure that your personal information is kept safe from loss, unauthorized access, modification or disclosure. Among the steps taken to protect your information are:
You may ask for access to any personal information we hold about you. Summary information is available on request. More detailed requests which require archive or other retrieval costs may be subject to fees. We normally will respond to an access request within 30 calendar days.
If Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre holds information about you and you can establish that it is not accurate, complete and up-to-date, Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre will take reasonable steps to correct it.
Your rights to access your personal information are not absolute. We may deny access when:
If we deny your request for access to, or refuse a request to correct information, we shall explain why. Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre does not use your Social Insurance Number as a way of identifying or organizing the information we hold upon you.
Whenever it is legal and practicable, we may offer the opportunity to deal with general inquiries without providing your name (for example, by accessing general information on our website).
You should be aware that e-mail is not a 100% secure medium, and you should be aware of this when contacting us to send personal or confidential information.
Since Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre regularly reviews all of its policies and procedures, we may change our Privacy Policy from time to time.
If you have any questions, or wish to access your personal information, please write to our Privacy. Contact at:
University of Calgary, Faculty of Law 2500 University Drive N.W. Calgary, AB T2N 1N4 If you are not satisfied with our response, the Alberta Information Privacy Commissioner can be reached at: Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (Calgary) Please note you must make an appointment with the office in Calgary Suite 2460, 801 6 Avenue SW Calgary AB, T2P 3W2 Phone: (403) 297-2728 Fax: (403) 297-2711 Toll Free: 1-888-878-4044 Email: generalinfo@oipc.ab.ca
If you apply to Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre for a job, we need to consider your personal information, as part of our review process. We normally retain information from candidates for 12 months after a decision has been made, unless you ask us not to retain the information. At that time, the record will be destroyed. If we offer you a job, which you accept, the information will be retained in accordance with our privacy procedures for employee records.
Our website contains links to other sites, which are not governed by this privacy policy. On our website, like most other websites, we may monitor traffic patterns, site usage and related site information in order to optimise our web service. We do not collect personal information about our site users. We may provide aggregated information to third parties, but these statistics do not include any identifiable personal information.
2500 University Drive NW
Calgary, AB T2N 1N4
(403) 220-2505
aclrc@ucalgary.ca