Our Privacy Policy : Canada Fundraising : School Fundraising Programs : Ultimate Fundraising Inc.

Ultimate Fundraising values your business and is committed to providing excellent customer service. One essential component of our customer service is ensuring the privacy of the personal information of its customers including client constituents

As of January 1, 2004, the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act ("PIPEDA") applies to consultant businesses. This federal act balances an individual's right to the privacy of personal information with the need of organizations to collect, use or disclose personal information for legitimate business Contracts with non-profit organizations or other businesses serving the third sector must recognize the value of the act and have instituted a number of measures to protect it.

This document outlines the policies and protections that Ultimate Fundraising has implemented for the security of your personal information. Please read carefully, by using Ultimate Fundraising, you agree to the policies and measures set forth in this statement. Our pledge is to safeguard the privacy rights defined in PIPEDA and all other relevant laws. How are we complying with the privacy principles of PIPEDA?

Accountability: We have designated an individual as the person who is accountable for ensuring we use personal information in an appropriate manner. We have developed and implemented personal information policies and procedures.
Identifying Purposes: We will identify the reasons for collecting personal information before or at the time of collection.
Consent: We will collect, use or disclose personal information only with the individual's knowledge and consent, before or at the time of collection, as well as when a new use is identified.
Limiting Collection: We will limit the amount and type of information we gather to what is necessary for the identified purposes
Limiting Use: We will not use or disclose personal information for purposes other than those for which it was collected, except with consent or as required by law.
Accuracy of Information: We will ensure that personal information will be as accurate, complete, and up-to-date as is necessary for the purposes for which it is to be used.
Safeguards: Personal information will be protected from first party unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use, or modification, by security safeguards appropriate to the sensitivity of the information.
Openness: We will make readily available to individuals specific information about our policies and practices relating to the management of personal information.
Individual Access: Upon request, an individual will be informed of the existence, use, and disclosure of his or her personal information and will be given access to that information. An individual can challenge the accuracy and completeness of the information and have it amended as appropriate.
Challenging Compliance: An individual can address a challenge concerning compliance with the above principles to our Privacy Officer, who is accountable for our compliance with these principles.

We only collect personal information that we require to provide you with the services you have requested. Information collected may include

We will obtain your consent (which may be written, oral or implied) before or at the time your personal information is being collected from you, but only as permitted or required by law

Clients and prospective clients provide most of the personal information collected by Ultimate Fundraising. By providing clients with personal information, we consider that you do so with the knowledge and understanding that it is collected, used, and disclosed for the identified purposes.

Ultimate Fundraising’s web page links to other third party web sites. While we will not share your personal information with any third party, we cannot speak for and make no representation of the privacy policies of these third party web sites. We advise you to use caution and to review the privacy policy of any third party web site you visit. Most contains a number of effective security measures on to protect your privacy. We cannot, however, guarantee that other individuals or entities will not defeat these measures and gain unauthorized access to your personal and/or demographic information.

Ultimate Fundraising reserves the right to change or alter our privacy policy at any time and without warning. Please review this statement periodically, as any changes to our policy will appear on this document.

Ultimate Fundraising web site may make use of cookies. Cookies are benign packets of information that are placed on your hard drive automatically by a server. Ultimate Fundraising uses cookies only to facilitate the use of our services and in no way damage or represent a threat to your computer, information, or privacy. By placing a cookie on your computer, the server can recognize that you have returned to a particular page, and can reload any changes that you have made, saving you time. Our use of cookies allows us to provide you faster and more accurate service. However, though they usually accept them automatically, most browsers give you the option to accept or decline cookies, or to be notified when one is placed on your computer.

Any information you submit to Ultimate Fundraising is used to improve your user experience and the quality of services offered. Personal information that is collected may be used for

Your personal information is kept in strict confidence. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect your information from unauthorized access. We restrict access to your personal information to those individuals who we have determined need to know in order to provide products or services to you. Ultimate Fundraising retains indefinitely any and all information that you provide us in order that we may provide convenient, practical and efficient customer service or to meet any legal, regulatory or tax requirements. You may update your account profile at any time, and close your account or remove any information you see fit at your discretion.

Any data that you submit will be stored and processed, in whole or in part, in Canada. If you use Ultimate Fundraising outside of Canada, you understand and agree that your information may be transferred out of your country and into Canada.

Certain services of Ultimate Fundraising will require that you provide personal information such as your e-mail address, contact information, billing information, credit card information, and other information from which your identity may be determined. Ultimate Fundraising may also ask you to provide more general information not unique to you, such as postal code, gender, age, preference, and interests. At no time will you be required to provide such information. By using Ultimate Fundraising services, you understand and agree that if you choose to provide

Ultimate Fundraising may supply third parties with your contact information should the following examples apply:

Ultimate Fundraising is committed to keeping personal information as accurate, complete and up-to-date as necessary taking into account its use and the interests of the individual

You have a right to submit a written request to access your personal information that is in our possession and make corrections to it. Such a request is to be made to our Privacy Officer at the address listed below. We will respond to your request within 30 days or advise you if additional time is required to respond to your request. We will amend personal information that is demonstrated to be inaccurate or incomplete.

Requests for further information, access to personal information or complaints about Ultimate Fundraising Optimum handling of personal information should be referred to Pat Van Hesteren, General Privacy Officer as follows: