Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains why the North York Harvest Food Bank collects particular information and how we will protect your personal privacy within our website. We encourage you to read this Privacy Policy. The North York Harvest Food Bank reserves the right at any time and without notice to change this Privacy Policy by posting changes on our site. Any change will be effective immediately upon posting.

Our Commitment

The North York Harvest Food Bank is committed to protecting the privacy of the personal information of its donors, volunteers, employees, and other stakeholders. We value the trust of those with whom we deal, and of the public, and recognize that maintaining this trust requires that we be transparent and accountable in how we treat the information that you choose to share with us.

Defining Personal Information

Personal information is any information that can be used to distinguish, identify or contact a specific individual. This information can include an individual's opinion or beliefs, as well as facts about, or related to, the individual.

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE DO WE RENT, SELL OR TRADE NAMES, PHONE NUMBERS, OR EMAIL ADDRESSES FROM OUR MAILING LISTS.

Privacy Practices

Personal Information

The North York Harvest Food Bank does not automatically gather your personal information. You may anonymously access our website. Personal information is only obtained if you supply it voluntarily, e.g. contacting us via email, subscribing to our e-newsletters, making online donations, or participating in our Virtual Food Drive. In general, it will be obvious when the North York Harvest Food Bank is collecting your personal information because you will have to fill out a form.

If you donate through our Virtual Food Drive application, PayPal processes online donations and transfers them to the North York Harvest Food Bank. PayPal collects personally identifiable information as well as credit card information in order to process your donation. PayPal releases your personally identifiable information but not your credit card information to us. Their privacy policy may be accessed at www.paypal.com.

Information Collected by Technology

The North York Harvest Food Bank collects some non-identifying information about visitors through standard web logs including IP address, browser type (e.g., Mozilla Firefox), and the domain name from which a visitor entered the site (e.g., www.google.com). An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer when you use the Internet. We normally use this information in the aggregate to administer and improve our web site. The North York Harvest Food Bank does not attempt to link this information with the identity of the individual visiting our website, except when necessary to protect our service, site, visitors, or others.

Parts of our site use cookies to facilitate the exchange of information from your Web browser to our Web server. Cookies enable you to use our Virtual Food Drive application. The North York Harvest Food Bank does not use cookies to obtain any personal information about you, including contact information. Your Web browser can be set to detect or reject cookies.

Security

We protect personal information using reasonable administrative and technical measures. Unfortunately, however, no data transmission over the Internet is 100% secure. While we strive to protect your information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of such information.

Other Web Sites

Our site contains links to other Web sites. When you follow one of these links, you are entering another Web site for which the North York Harvest Food Bank has no responsibility. Please read the privacy statements on all such sites as their policies may be different than ours.

Further information on privacy and your rights may be found on the website of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada at www.privcom.gc.ca