Privacy Policy

Gujarati Mandal of Calgary(GMofC) understands the importance of protecting your personal information and has enacted a Privacy Policy governing the collection, use, retention and disclosure of your personal information. Gujarati Mandal of Calgary is committed to the meeting is obligations at law pursuant to the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act.

A summary of the general principles that Gujarati Mandal of Calgary adheres to are as follows:

Accountability: Gujarati Mandal of Calgary is responsible for all personal information under its custody or control. Gujarati Mandal of Calgary shall take all reasonable steps required to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure.
All staff of Gujarati Mandal of Calgary has been trained with regard to the safeguarding of personal information.

Identifying Purposes: Gujarati Mandal of Calgary shall only collect personal information for specified business purposes, which may include the following, namely:
a) to establish or update membership accounts
b) to process the sale of memberships and Mandal Events
c) to provide its membership with information and emails concerning Gujarati Mandal of Calgary.

Consent: Gujarati Mandal of Calgary shall obtain the consent of its members for the collection or disclosure of personal information, except where required or permitted by law.

Limiting Collection: Gujarati Mandal of Calgary shall only collect personal information that is required for the specified legitimate business purposes.

Limiting Use, Disclosure, and Retention: Gujarati Mandal of Calgary shall not use or disclose personal information except with the consent of the individual or where required or permitted by law. Personal information will be retained in accordance with the Gujarati Mandal of Calgary Privacy Policy.

Accuracy: Gujarati Mandal of Calgary has an obligation to ensure that personal information is accurate, complete and up-to-date for the purpose for which it was collected.

Safeguards: Gujarati Mandal of Calgary shall take reasonable steps to protect the personal information under its control from unauthorized use, access or disclosure in accordance with its obligations under the law and its Privacy Policy.

Openness: Gujarati Mandal of Calgary shall make copies of its complete Privacy Policy available to individuals upon request.

Individual Access: Upon request, in the form set out in the Gujarati Mandal of Calgary Privacy Policy, an individual shall be informed of the existence, use and disclosure of his or her personal information and may be granted access to the records of Gujarati Mandal of Calgary that may contain his or her personal information, except where permitted or required by law.

Challenging Compliance: An individual may challenge Gujarati Mandal of Calgary compliance with its obligations under the law.

Links: For your convenience, our website may contain links to other sites. Gujarati Mandal of Calgary is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.

Security Statement: Gujarati Mandal of Calgary believes in providing a safe and secure experience for all of our clients. We provide stringent and effective security measures on our website and database. It is our policy to never send private information, such as your credit card number, via email. In fact, this is a practice we recommend you adopt in all of your Internet activities.
We designed Gujarati Mandal of Calgary to accept membership Online payment and event tickets only from web browsers that permit communication through Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. All Online payments are processed through a PayPal’s SSL Gateway. Credit Card transactions are not kept in our database.

Website data collection: The operating system for our website may automatically record some general information about your visit, such as:

  • The Internet domain for your Internet services provider, such as “company.com” or “service.ca” and the IP address of the computer accessing the website, such as “ppp-55”;
  • The type of browser (such as “Safari version x” or “Internet Explorer version x”) you are using;
  • The type of operating system you are using (such as MacIntosh, Linux or Windows);
  • The date and time you visit our site and the web pages that you visit on our site, along with the address of the previous website you were visiting, if you linked to use from another website.
  • If you are logged into this site, your username will be recorded along with the date and time of your visit, which pages you viewed, etc.

GMofC uses this information statistical analysis, to help us make our site more useful to visitors. We may disclose this information in aggregate only to third parties such as sponsors, clients or advertisers and/or use it for auditing purposes.

The GMofC website may use “cookies” that identify you as a return visitor. A cookie is a piece of data that a website can send to your browser, which may then store the cookie on your hard drive. So, when you come back to visit GMofC’s website again, information can be tailored to suit your individual preferences. The goal is to save you time and provide you with a more meaningful visit and to measure website activity. Browsers allow you to disable cookie collection if you wish, or inform you when a cookie is being stored on your hard drive.

Specifically, we use cookies in order to allow members to access features (i.e. “Remember Me” function) without logging into the website each time.

Page Updated On June 19, 2018, at 4:45 PM MST

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