Privacy Policy

Minden Community Food Centre Privacy Policy



Policy Statement: The Minden Community Food Centre is committed to respecting the privacy of our staff, volunteers, donors and clients and is committed to keeping personal information accurate, confidential, secure and private. The Minden Community Food Centre Privacy Policy is based on and complies with Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronics Document Act (PIPEDA), which outlines the Ten Privacy Principles outlined in the Canadian Standards Association Model Code for the protection of Personal Privacy.


Privacy Principles: The ten Privacy Principles are:


  1. Accountability – The Minden Community Food Centre is responsible for all personal information in our possession and will keep personal information in the strictest confidence.
  2. Identifying Purposes – The Minden Community Food Centre obtains and records personal information only for specific purposes that we disclose to you.
  3. Consent – The Minden Community Food Centre collects, uses, or discloses your personal information only with your permission.
  4. Limiting Collection – Information collected from you is for the purposes identified at the time of collection.
  5. Limiting Use, Disclosure and Retention – The Minden Community Food Centre will keep personal information only as long as necessary for the purposes for which it had been obtained.
  6. Accuracy – The Minden Community Food Centre makes best efforts to ensure that all personal information is accurate, complete, and up-to-date. You may seek a correction for any information that you find to be incomplete or incorrect.
  7. Safeguards – Access to your personal information is protected by safeguards appropriate to the sensitivity of that information and the method of collection.
  8. Openness – The Minden Community Food Centre will readily make available to you information about our policies and practices in a form that is simple and easy to understand.
  9. Individual Access – The Minden Community Food Centre will readily make available to you your personal information.
  10. Challenging Compliance – You may make a privacy complaint to the Minden Community Food Centre at any time by contacting the Manager. All complaints will be investigated. Should a complaint be justified, the Minden Community Food Centre will take all appropriate steps required to rectify the situation.
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