Dog Tales Charitable Foundation (“DTCF”, “us”, “we”) is committed to protecting your privacy and the confidentiality of your Personal Information (as defined below). DTCF is guided and governed by applicable privacy legislation, including the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), and substantially similar privacy legislation in specific provinces, which regulates our collection, use and disclosure of your Personal Information.

This privacy policy describes how DTCF collects, uses, and discloses your Personal Information. It applies to all Personal Information that you provide to DTCF, including Personal Information that you provide if you donate, that you send us by email, or if you contact us via the website or subscribe to any newsletters. Please read this policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your Personal Information.

This privacy notice should also be read alongside our Cookie Policy, which describes how DTCF uses cookies to run our website.

This privacy notice is subject to change in response to changes in laws and/or periodic reviews of DTCF’s operations. [At minimum this privacy notice will be reviewed and approved [annually] by the Director and or Board of Directors.

Personal Information

The term “Personal Information” refers to information that identifies you as an individual and is provided to or collected by us. It includes, for example (not all of these are collected by DTCF):

Personal identifiers, such as your name, email address, mailing address, phone number, Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, and signatures.

Demographic data, such as your age, date of birth.

Financial information, such as your bank account information and payment card information.

Internet or other electronic network activity information, such as browser type, Internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, pages viewed on our site.

Professional or employment-related information, such as your professional title and occupation.

Video footage. If ever provided for any reason.

Collection and Use of Personal Information

Provide you with tax receipts.

Communicate with you, including impact updates and responding to your inquiries.

To obtain donor input, including by conducting surveys.

To protect our donors, volunteers, and employees against fraud and other types of harm.

For other legal purposes, including to comply with any applicable law, regulation, or valid court order, to prevent and detect fraud, and to defend and enforce our legal rights.

For other purposes with your express consent.

Personal information collected by DTCF (if physical) will be held on our premises in secured offices, as well as in our cloud-based IT systems. No financial information is kept on file by the charity on premises or through online donor processing software and systems.

Consent

When you make a donation by phone, in person or online, sign up to receive information, buy a ticket to an event, or provide input by email or surveys, you consent to us collecting and using your Personal Information to fulfill the donation or request.

You can opt in to hear from the charity on its activities.

We will obtain consent if your information were to be used for any other purpose.

We do not sell, share or trade donor lists of contact lists of any kind.

Please note that we may not be able to offer you some or all of our activity information if you withdraw your consent. This includes event information.

Protecting Personal Information

Your Personal Information is protected by reasonable administrative, physical, and technical security safeguards that are commensurate with the sensitivity and volume of the information.

These include: Restricting access to your Personal Information to a limited number of people. All employees and Board of Directors of DTCF are responsible for protecting donor privacy, confidentiality and security. This obligation remains in effect even after an employee leaves DTCF.

Sharing Personal Information

DTCF does not disclose Personal Information for purposes other than those for which it was collected, except with your consent or as required by law.

DTCF may be required to share Personal Information with its employees. All DTCF staff are required to sign a confidentiality agreement when they are hired, which requires them to keep all Personal Information confidential. At this time, there is one staff person.

DTCF may transfer Personal Information to our service providers, agents, vendors or other organizations that provide services to DTCF, for the purposes set out in this policy. These services include those related to your donation, cloud services, processing transactions, email services.

Our service providers are given only the information necessary to perform the required activity. We require our service providers and data processors to have appropriate security procedures and controls in place to protect Personal Information in a manner that is consistent with our Privacy Policy and the security practices and regulations applicable in their country of jurisdiction.

When we store your Personal Information or engage a service provider that operates outside of Canada, your Personal Information may be stored, processed, accessed, or used in another country. In that case, your Personal Information may be subject to the law of the jurisdiction in which it is used or stored, including any law permitting or requiring the disclosure of the information to a government, government agency, court, or law enforcement agency of that jurisdiction. DTCF stores data on servers in Canada and the United States. The countries in which our service providers operate are Canada and the United States.

Retention of Personal Information

Personal information will be retained for the purpose it was collected. We do not keep financial information on file. Donors and subscribers may opt out at any time.

Your Personal Information will be securely destroyed or anonymized (so the information no longer identifies you) on your request. Typically charities are required to keep donor information on file for seven years (not banking) per Canada Revenue Agency guidelines.

Your Privacy Rights

Access and rectification: With some limited exceptions, you have the right to access and update Personal Information held by DTCF. You may also request that DTCF correct, cancel, and stop processing personal information that DTCF holds about you.

Exercising Your Rights

For further assistance, please send us an email to the contact listed below. DTCF will contact you if it needs additional information to confirm your identity in any request for personal information. This may include drivers’ license, passport or other.

Updates

We may make changes to this policy from time to time. Any changes we make will become effective when we post a modified version of the policy on this webpage. If we make any significant changes to the policy, we will post a notice on our website.

By continuing to use our website, donate, or engage in other activities with DTCF after the modified version of the policy has been posted, you are accepting the changes to the policy, subject to any additional requirements which may apply. If you do not agree to the changes in our policy, it is your responsibility to stop activity with us and our website. It is your obligation to ensure that you read, understand and agree to the latest version of this policy. The “Effective Date” at the top of the policy indicates when it was last updated.

CONTACT: If there are any questions regarding this policy or our collection, use or disclosure of your Personal Information, you may contact us using the information below: donations@dogtalescharitablefoundation.com

Cookie Notice

When you visit the Dog Tales Charitable Foundation (“DTCF”, “we”, “us”, “our”) website, located at www.dogtalesfoundation.com (the “Website”), DTCF and authorized third parties use cookies to collect information about you. This Cookie Notice sets out how DTCF and third parties we authorize, use cookies when you interact with our Website.

This Cookie Notice should be read along with our Privacy Policy, which describes how DTCF collects, uses and discloses personal information collected through the Website (and through other means), as well as the rights Website visitors have with respect to their personal information.

What are Cookies?

Cookies are small pieces of data (text file) that are saved on your computer or mobile when you visit a website so that information can be saved between visits, such as your login credentials or language preferences.

Cookies may be temporary (or “session”) cookies, which are only in use while you visit our Website and are deleted when you close your browser, or permanent cookies, which stay on your device’s permanent storage after you leave our Website, and are removed once you delete them manually or your browser deletes them after a period of time.

Cookies that are set by us are called first-party cookies. We also use third-party cookies, which are cookies from a domain different than the domain of the website you are visiting.

What kinds of Cookies are used on the Website?

Our Website uses the following types of cookies:

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the Website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms for information or donations/transactions. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but that will cause some parts of the Website.

Performance Cookies

These cookies gather information about how visitors use the Website and monitor the Website’s performance. For example, performance cookies tell us which pages are popular, monitor traffic to our Website and compile anonymous analytic information. Performance cookies can also be used to identify and remedy operational problems with the Website. We use various tools for these purposes. For instance, we use Google Analytics to learn more about the visitors on our Website and their activities on our Website. To provide this service, Google Analytics may collect certain information about you from your computer, including but not limited to information regarding your visit (such as the pages you visit and length of your visit), information about your device (such as your IP address), how you got to the Websites, and other information about you. Google Analytics has develop an opt-out tool that will prevent Google Analytics from tracking you across all websites, which is available here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.

Functionality Cookies

These cookies are used to run specific functions on our website.

Targeting and Marketing Cookies

Targeting cookies are used to display advertisements that are relevant to you on the Website and elsewhere. Disabling or removing these cookies or opting out of online behavioural advertising may result in you seeing more generic advertisements.

Third Party Website Cookies

When using our Website, you may be directed to other websites to view content hosted on those sites such as an embedded video or news article. These websites may use their own cookies. We do not have control over the placement of cookies by other websites you visit, even if you are directed to them from our Website.

How can I manage my Cookies preferences?

You can manage your cookie preferences in your browser’s settings.

If you have questions, concerns or complaints regarding this Cookie Notice, please contact: donations@dogtalescharitablefoundation.com

Website Terms of Use

These website terms and conditions of use (“Terms of Use”) describe the legal conditions that apply to any Internet user visiting the Dog Tales Charitable Foundation (hereinafter referred to as “DTCF”) website (the “Website”).

By consulting the Website, you agree to be bound by and comply fully with these Terms of Use. If you do not wish to agree to these Terms of use, you must not access or use the Website.

We advise you to consult these conditions regularly as they can be modified at any time without warning. Any change to these Terms of Use will take effect immediately after it is published and will be immediately opposable to third parties.

1. Nature of the information

DTCF owns and operates this Website and makes every effort to ensure that the information available on the Website is accurate and up to date. DTCF reserves the right to modify the content of the Website at any time without prior notice. We have compiled the content of the Website with the greatest possible care. However, the Website is provided for informational purposes only, and DTCF cannot guarantee that the content of the Website is correct, accurate, current, updated, and complete, that the Website will function uninterrupted and/or will be free of errors. Visitors who rely on the information contained on the Website do so entirely at their own risk. The information on the Website (including information uploaded by users, if any), is provided on an “as-is” basis, without any form of warranties, whether express or implied. DTCF makes no express or implied warranty of merchantability or fitness of any information contained on its Website for any particular use.

Limitation of Liability: To the extent permitted by law, DTCF, its directors, officers, and employees, will not be liable for any injury, damages or other losses in any way arising from, connected with, or resulting from, directly or indirectly your use, inability to use, or reliance on the Website, including any injury, damages, or other losses in any way arising from, connected with, or resulting from, directly or indirectly: any inaccuracy or omission in the information presented on our Website; any fraudulent or otherwise illegal intrusion by a third party leading to the modification of the information or material provided on our Website; any viruses or other malicious software transmitted via our Website.

2. Intellectual Property

2.1 – Copyright

All information (including all documents available for download) on the Website are the property of DTCF. DTCF is the sole owner of, and retains all rights, title and interest to all information available on the Website. Reproduction of materials available on the Website is permitted only for informational purposes and for personal and private use. Any reproduction or use of the information available on the Website for other purposes (including the mass copying, or “scraping” of any data from our website for any purpose) is expressly prohibited.

2.2 – Trademarks

Unless otherwise stated, all DTCF names, logos, trademarks and trade names mentioned on the Website belong to DTCF and may not be used or reproduced without DTCF’s express written authorization.

3. Protection of Personal Information

For more information about the use of your personal information and how DTCF collects it on this Website, please consult our Privacy Policy.

4. Linked Sites and User-Generated Content

For your convenience, the Website may provide links or references to other Internet sites or resources operated by third parties (collectively “Linked Sites”). Linked Sites are independent from DTCF, and DTCF does not endorse, and assumes no responsibility or liability for or control over any Linked Site, any products, services or content available through a Linked Site, or the collection of your personal information through a Linked Site or by the owner or operator of a Linked Site. Your use of a Linked Site and your dealings with the owner or operator of a Linked Site are at your own risk. By using the Website, you agree that you will not make any claim against DTCF arising from, connected with, or relating to your use of a Linked Site, your dealings with the owner or operator of a Linked Site or any product, service or content available through a Linked Site. We may use any information or other material that you provide to DTCF and you agree to such use. You warrant that the information or material a) does not infringe the intellectual property rights of third parties, and b) is not otherwise unlawful towards third parties. Users may place information on certain parts of the Websites. It is impossible for DTCF to verify the accuracy of this information in advance. DTCF is therefore not responsible or liable for this information.

5. Miscellaneous

DTCF reserves the right to make changes and corrections to the Websites and/or these Terms of use at any time without notice. These Terms of use and the use of the Websites are governed by the laws of Ontario and Canada applicable therein, without reference to conflict of laws principles. Any disputes arising from this or otherwise related to this website will be adjudicated by the courts in the City of Toronto, Ontario.

6. Contact

If you have any questions about these Terms of use, please contact us at: donations@dogtalescharitablefoundation.com.