Online Privacy Policy

Barrie Community Foundation ("Barrie Community Foundation") has established this Privacy Policy to explain how it protects and manages the personal information that it collects from you (the customer) online.

Consent for Collection, Use and Disclosure

Your use of the Barrie Community Foundation site and/or your registration for products and services constitute your consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Barrie Community Foundation site.

A customer may withdraw his or her consent for collection, use and disclosure at any time by sending an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Please make sure you tell us what Email address to unsubscribe and put the word "unsubscribe" in the subject line. Note that, if you do, Barrie Community Foundation may suspend its provision of products and services to you. When you unsubscribe, if you fall within the guarantee period for any Barrie Community Foundation product and you request a refund, the guarantee will be honored.

Accountability

Barrie Community Foundation collects, at the time of your registration and your sign-on to its web site, certain “personal information” (information that personally identifies you) including but not limited to your name, email address, home or work address, telephone number, and information about your computer hardware and software (e.g., IP address, operating system, browser type, domain name, URL, access times, and referring web site addresses).

Purposes for Collecting Personal Information

Barrie Community Foundation collects and uses personal information for the following Identified Purposes:

• to understand customer needs regarding Barrie Community Foundation’s services;
• to develop and provide our web site and our products and services for our customers;
• to fulfill your requests for products, services or information;
• to communicate with customers and site visitors, when necessary, and to inform customers of upgrades, as well as of other products and services available from Barrie Community Foundation, its affiliates and third parties;
• to allow customers to access limited-entry areas of Barrie Community Foundation’s site;
• to personalize some of our services and products for you and to deliver targeted advertisements and offers from Barrie Community Foundation and third parties;
• to bill accounts and maintain payment records;
• to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or government request;
• to respond to a legitimate claim, or to address our reasonable belief, that you are violating the rights of any third party or any of the agreements or policies that govern your use of the Barrie Community Foundation site or any product or service;
• to protect the services, products or rights of Barrie Community Foundation, including but not limited to the security or integrity of the Barrie Community Foundation site; and
• to identify and resolve technical problems concerning Barrie Community Foundation's site, products and services.

Barrie Community Foundation also uses personal information in an aggregate form (i.e., not individually attributable to you) for its business analysis, operational, marketing and other promotional purposes.

If we hire other companies to provide some products or services on our behalf, then we will only provide those companies the personal information they need for the Identified Purposes, and we will limit their rights to use and further disclose your personal information as appropriate in the course of their work for us.

Limiting the Collection of Personal Information

Barrie Community Foundation limits its collection of personal information to only that information which is necessary for the Identified Purposes. Barrie Community Foundation does not direct its site to, nor does it knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of thirteen.

When you visit the Barrie Community Foundation web site, a cookie may be placed on your computer or the cookie may be read if you have visited the Barrie Community Foundation site previously. If you choose to not have your browser accept cookies from the PBarrie Community Foundation web site, you may not be able to view all the text on the screens, or to experience a personalised visit, or to subscribe to certain service and product offerings on the Barrie Community Foundation site.

Disclosure, Processing and Retention

Barrie Community Foundation does not sell, rent or disclose your personal information to anyone else, except:

• to someone you have designated to act as your agent, for one or more of the Identified Purposes (listed in Section 2, above);
• to Barrie Community Foundation’s employees, independent contractors, subsidiaries, affiliates, consultants, business associates, service providers, suppliers and agents, acting on Barrie Community Foundation’s behalf for any of the Identified Purposes;
• as necessary if Barrie Community Foundation has reason to believe that disclosure is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference (either intentionally or unintentionally) with Barrie Community Foundation's rights or property, other users of Barrie Community Foundation’s web site, products or services, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities; and
• to respond to judicial process and provide information to law enforcement agencies or in connection with an investigation on matters related to public safety, as permitted by law, or otherwise as required by law.

In addition, as we continue to develop our business, we or our affiliates may sell or buy other businesses or entities, or we may merge with another company. In such transactions, personal information may be one of the transferred business assets. Also, in the event that Barrie Community Foundation or substantially all of its assets are acquired, your personal information may be one of the transferred assets.

Your information may be stored and processed in the Canada or the United States, or in any other country in which Barrie Community Foundation or its affiliates, subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities. By using this web site, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country.

After your account becomes inactive (that is, if you request to be removed from our database), Barrie Community Foundation will keep your personal information in its archives. Your information will then be used only as necessary for tax reasons or to prove Barrie Community Foundation’s compliance with any applicable law.

Accuracy of Personal Information

Barrie Community Foundation will use reasonable efforts to keep customer personal information accurate for the Identified Purposes, and for minimizing the possibility of making inappropriate customer decisions based on such information. Customers are responsible for informing Barrie Community Foundation about changes to their personal information. You can do this by sending an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Barrie Community Foundation will use new or updated personal information it receives from customers to update its own records.

Access to Personal Information

Barrie Community Foundation will afford you a reasonable opportunity to review the personal information in your file by writing to:

Barrie Community Foundation
Box 376
Barrie, ON  L4M 4T5

If Barrie Community Foundation is not able to provide access to some aspect of a customer’s personal information, it will provide reasons for denying access such as; that by doing so would likely reveal personal information about a third party, or that it is confidential commercial information or attorney–client privileged communications, or that the information relates to a breach of an agreement or a contravention of law, or that its disclosure could reasonably be expected to threaten the life or security of another individual.

Customers have the right to request that inaccurate or incomplete information be amended as appropriate, by contacting Barrie Community Foundation or the Privacy Officer as described above. Barrie Community Foundation will promptly correct such personal information.