1. PRIVACY POLICY

The Sam Nestico Campaign is committed to respecting your privacy. The purpose of this privacy policy is to explain how we handle personal information to ensure its confidentiality, security and accuracy.

2. WHAT IS “PERSONAL INFORMATION”?

“Personal information” is information about an identifiable individual. It includes contact information such as your name, address, phone number and financial information.

3. HOW DO WE OBTAIN YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION AND WHAT DO WE OBTAIN?

We obtain personal information in a few different ways.

• When you visit our website for the purpose of becoming involved with the campaign, as a volunteer or donor.
• When you subscribe to our communications, such as email updates, newsletters or text message alerts.
• If you register at an event.
• If you complete a registration or donation form either electronically or on paper.
• If you complete any other form on this website, including online petitions.
• It is also possible that your information could be provided to us by a volunteer or friend who thinks you would be interested in getting involved with the Sam Nestico Campaign.

The information we collect may include:

• Contact and identification information, such as your name, address, telephone numbers, e-mail address and social media contacts.
• Donation information such as date and amount of your donation.
• Financial information that we need to process your donation e.g. payment methods and preferences, billing and banking information (e.g. credit card number and expiry date).
• Information you share about your voting preferences or issues that you have communicated to us about.

4. HOW DO WE USE AND SHARE PERSONAL INFORMATION?

We use your personal information to communicate with you about the campaign and its activities, as well as to provide you with news and information. We use your financial information to process your contributions. If you have been a contributor in the past, we may contact you again to seek your financial support.

We will not, without your consent, use your personal information for any purpose other than as described in this privacy policy, except where permitted or required by applicable legislation. As one example, under the Ontario Elections Act, we are required to provide Elections Canada with our donors’ names, addresses and contribution amounts. This could also include when we believe in good faith that we are lawfully authorized or required to do so to protect the safety of our team or the public.

We do not sell personal information under any circumstance.

5. HOW DO WE PROTECT PERSONAL INFORMATION?

The security of your personal information is important to us.

We use physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to prevent unauthorized use, sharing, loss and theft of information.

Our security practices are continually evolving to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of our systems and information in our possession. We use up-to-date security safeguards to protect our networks and websites.

For example, for information provided online, our website contains security measures in order to protect against the unauthorized disclosure, loss, misuse, or alteration of the information under our control. We also implement measures such as SSL encryption on sensitive information including passwords and credit card information. Our server is located in a locked and secure environment.

6. WHAT ABOUT ANTI-SPAM LEGISLATION?

Most of the messages sent by the Sam Nestico Campaign are exempt from the application of Canada’s anti-spam law which applies to commercial electronic messages sent to electronic addresses. This is because the electronic messages that we send are generally either those soliciting donations, which are specifically exempt under the law, or are messages of a political, not a commercial, character. If we do send any messages to which the law applies and for which there are no exemptions, we will ensure that we have consent to do so, as required by the law, and that any other legal requirements e.g. an unsubscribe mechanism, are met.

As a best practice, we have an unsubscribe mechanism for our electronic messages, even where the law does not require us to do so.