CIPPIC Privacy Policy
General
CIPPIC collects, retains, uses, and discloses personal information (e.g., name and address) only as necessary to provide the services requested by individuals contacting us, or as specified below. We do not use this information for any other purpose and do not share it with anyone else.
Newsletter List
CIPPIC publishes the CIPPIC Bulletin, a newsletter detailing CIPPIC's recent activities and projects. We maintain a mailing list of individuals who have indicated they are interested in hearing more about our activities. This mailing list contains the name and contact information of such individuals. We use the CIPPIC Bulletin mailing list only to mail the CIPPIC Bulletin and to send notices about our activities to individuals on the mailing list. If you are interested in receiving the CIPPIC Bulletin or other CIPPIC notices, we ask for your address (postal, fax, and/or email) so that we can send it to you. You can also read the CIPPIC Bulletin on our web site, at http://www.cippic.ca.
Co-operating Lawyers List
CIPPIC maintains a list of lawyers who have volunteered their services to us and to our clients. This list includes the lawyers' names, contact information and areas of expertise. We do not share this list with anyone. Individuals approach us for legal advice from time to time. In appropriate cases, and with the consent of the co-operating lawyer, we may refer the individual to the co-operating lawyer.
Alumni List
CIPPIC maintains a list of "CIPPIC alumni". CIPPIC alumni include individuals who have volunteered or interned at CIPPIC. This list includes alumni names and contact information. We use this information to distribute the CIPPIC Bulletin and other notices, and as a resource in our ongoing advocacy and client advice efforts. We do not share this list with anyone.
Contact Lists
CIPPIC maintains a list of contacts that we have developed over time in the context of our work. The list includes the contacts' names, contact information and area of expertise. We use this list as a resource in our advocacy and client advice efforts. We do not share this list with anyone.
CIPPIC Supporters List
CIPPIC maintains a list of individuals who have indicated that they are supportive of CIPPIC's activities. This list contains the name and contact information provided by such individuals, and any information provided regarding their interests and activities that pertain to CIPPIC's mandate. CIPPIC may use this list to distribute notices about clinic work, to invite supporters to join a regular email news service or to take action on an issue, or as a base for offering memberships. Any such use will be infrequent. We may also use the list to indicate aggregate numbers of supporters to funders or others who question who we represent. We do not share this list with anyone.
Activist Networks
CIPPIC maintains a list of individuals who have indicated their interest in acting with CIPPIC on particular projects. CIPPIC uses these lists to distribute information and urgent action bulletins, and as a resource in our advocacy efforts. We do not share this list with anyone.
CIPPIC Web Site
CIPPIC operates a web site at http://www.cippic.ca. We maintain logs of users that view our web site. We aggregate data from this log to assess how the public uses our web site, and to better identify issues Canadians are seeking to better understand. We periodically delete logs of users that view our web site. We do not track individual users of our web site, and we do not enable cookies. Please note that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of other web sites to which we provide links, nor are we responsible for the security of network traffic beyond our server.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
If we change our privacy policy, we will post a notice about such changes on our web site homepage, explaining the change and its implications for you. If we want to use your personal information for a purpose beyond those described above, we will contact you in order to obtain your prior consent.
Changing or removing your information on CIPPIC lists
If you have any questions, or wish to update, correct, remove or access the information CIPPIC may have about you, please contact us at the address below.
Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic57 Louis Pasteur Street
Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5
- Tel: 613-562-5800 x.2553
- Fax: 613-562-5417
- Email: cippic@uottawa.ca
This page last updated: June 2, 2007