Privacy Policy

ASSOCIATION OF NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSES OF GREATER VANCOUVER PERSONAL INFORMATION PROTECTION POLICY

PREAMBLE

The Personal Information Protection Act governs the collection, use, disclosure and retention of personal information about individuals by private sector organizations in British Columbia. While the Act exists to protect the privacy rights of individuals, it must balance those rights with the need of organizations to access, use and disclose personal information in order to conduct business and/or provide services.

POLICY

The Association of Neighbourhood Houses of Greater Vancouver (ANH) is committed to using reasonable efforts to ensure the protection and accuracy of the personal information that is in the control of ANH. The Association is also committed to collecting only that information about identifiable individuals that it reasonably requires for its purposes.

SCOPE

ANH is responsible for any and all personal information that it collects, uses, discloses and/or retains, provided that the information remains under its control, about its employees, members, volunteers, program participants, independent contractors and donors. For the purposes of this policy, personal information means information about an identifiable individual and includes (but is not limited to) the individual’s name, address, phone number, gender, age Social Insurance or other identifying numbers, marital status, ethnic origin, income and income source, and file some information retained in an individual’s employee or volunteer file. Personal Information does not include any ANH employee’s name, title, business address and business contact numbers.