Privacy Statement

Furry Tales Rescue is committed to respecting the privacy of our volunteers, adopters, fosters and supporters by adhering to the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act.

The purpose of this online privacy policy is to inform you about Furry Tales Rescue’s practices relating to the collection, use and disclosure of personal or financial information which may be collected by us through your filling out Furry Tales Rescue forms or through our website. By filling out the forms on our website, you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal or financial information and, in accordance with the following terms and conditions.

Personal Information

For the purposes of this Privacy Statement, “personal information” means information about an identifiable individual, including name, contact information, address, family and pet information, references, hours of work, employer, and other information on volunteering, fostering and adoption forms.

Identifying Purposes

Furry Tales Rescue only collects personal and financial information necessary to provide attentive and responsible rescue, adoption and fostering of cats in need.

Third Party Use

Furry Tales Rescue will use the personal information obtained from prospective volunteers, foster or adopters only for the purposes for which it was collected and will not disclose the information for other purposes.

Furry Tales Rescue reserves the right to disclose personal information to a third party if a law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena or court order legally requires or authorizes us to do so.

Furry Tales Rescue will not sell or rent any of your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes and only shares your personal information with third parties as described in this policy.

All personal and financial information provided to Furry Tales Rescue will be maintained in a secure manner to ensure that its use is limited to the purposes for which it was collected.

Other personal information will be retained by Furry Tales Rescue for whatever periods are required by legislation governing our operation and/or the information provided, after which time (unless consent is given to keep information for a longer period) the information will be destroyed in a secure manner.

Safeguards

Furry Tales Rescue a makes all reasonable efforts to ensure that personal information collected from you is protected against loss and unauthorized access by maintaining physical, electronic and procedural safeguards in compliance with applicable Canadian and provincial regulations. This protection applies in relation to information stored in both electronic and hard copy form. Access to your personal information is restricted to selected volunteers. In addition, Furry Tales Rescue employs generally accepted information security techniques to protect personal information against loss and unauthorized access.

Challenging Compliance

Individuals may challenge Furry Tales Rescue’s compliance with this policy by contacting Furry tales Rescue. If an individual has a concern regarding Furry Tales Rescue’s compliance with its Personal Information Protection Policy and Guiding Principles, a written account of the non-compliance, including timing, dates and location, is to be forwarded to Furry Tales Rescue. A reply to any challenge will be provided and if Furry Tales Rescue is non-compliant, immediate action will be taken to correct the non-compliance.