AFS Interculture Canada and your Privacy
AFS Interculture Canada understands and appreciates that applicants, participants and volunteers may be concerned about their privacy and the confidentiality and security of their information held by the AFS network.
AFS Interculture Canada is committed to upholding the confidentiality and security of your personal information. The information below explains what we do with the data we collect from you and applies to information submitted anywhere on this site.
Information collected
AFS Interculture Canada collects information, including but not limited to user names, email addresses, from our users at several different points on our website, in particular in Find an AFSer, Feedback Forum, the AFS Mail Lists, Starting the Process, Tell A Friend and the Research Network in the Global Classroom section. All provisions of information by users are voluntary.
AFS Interculture Canada does not collect personally identifiable information about individuals except when specifically and knowingly provided by such individuals. Furthermore the disclosure of such information as part of the Find an AFSer, Feedback Forums and AFS Mail List makes apparent the disclosure of such contact information.
AFS Find an AFSer allows you to post your name, e-mail address and other comments permitting other friends and families to contact you. You may at your own discretion delete, update or correct this information at any time by going into your entry and logging on with your User ID (your e-mail address) and with the password you selected.
AFS Interculture Canada does not utilize cookies
Use and Disclosure of Information
We sometimes use non-personally identifiable information that we collect to improve the design and content of our site, to enable us to personalize your Internet experience, analyze trends, gather broad demographic information, administer the site, and for AFS purposes that may include, but not limited to, for AFS Partners to contact the AFS Returnees from their countries.
AFS Interculture Canada will not sell, rent, share, trade or give away any personally identifiable information to any third parties outside our partner organizations and those working directly with them in connection with AFS activities. However, when you voluntarily disclose personally identifiable information (such as your first and last name, e-mail address etc.) in Find an AFSer or the AFS Mail Lists, that information can be collected and used by others and may result in unsolicited messages from other posters. AFS is not responsible for who may contact you by using this information. AFS INTERCULTURE CANADA RECOMMENDS THAT YOU DO NOT PROVIDE YOUR TELEPHONE NUMBER AND HOME ADDRESS USING Find An AFSer.
Otherwise, we will only disclose information we maintain when required to do so by law, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena. We also may disclose such information in response to a law enforcement request.
Security
AFS Interculture Canada maintains strict standards and security procedures to prevent unauthorised access to personal information and to ensure the correct and proper use of such information. Access to personal information held electronically is protected from unauthorised access through the use of log-in name and secure password. This restriction of access ensures that such information is only available and displayed to the intended person.
Encryption technology is used to ensure that information is protected when being transmitted over the Internet. AFS Interculture Canada cannot ensure the security of any information transmitted over the Internet and individuals do so at their own risk. However, once we receive a transmission, we take all reasonable steps to ensure that personal information is secure on our systems and those of our agents.
Links to other sites
Our website contains links to other websites and this statement has no application to these other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these other websites.
Complaints
If any applicant, participant or volunteer wishes to lodge a complaint regarding the way in which AFS Interculture Canada is handling their personal information, they should contact AFS Interculture Canada in the first instance.
How to contact AFS Interculture Canada
If you have any questions or require further information about the AFS Interculture Canada privacy policy, please contact us.
AFS Interculture Canada
1425, boul. Rene Levesque West
Suite 1100
Montreal (Quebec)
H3G 1T7
Tel: (514) 288-3282 or Toll free : 1-800-361-7248
Fax: (514) 843-9119
Email: info-canada@afs.org
