This page summarizes our privacy policy and information practices for the Orangeroom.ca. It is intended to provide complete and accurate information to help you make informed decisions when choosing to communicate with our campaign via this site. A detailed outline of privacy issues you may wish to consider is below.
When visiting Orangeroom.ca, your privacy is respected. Our policy is in strict compliance with Canadian privacy laws, as well as Elections Canada requirements. We do not collect personal information unless you choose to send us an e-mail, join our E-Newsletter, donate to the campaign, or otherwise voluntarily provide your name and contact information. Information you provide is held in the strictest confidence, and will not be shared with any third party without your express permission.
Our Web site is hosted on servers that are managed by Iweb, a third party service provider. Any personal information collected on our behalf by Iweb such as server log data (see below), is managed in accordance with this privacy policy, and is protected by applicable law.
If you have questions about your privacy that are not answered below, please don't hesitate to e-mail us at contact us or call 613.236.3613.
Online Donations
Our online donation site made through a secure server managed by Iweb. The information you provide to the NDP is used solely for processing your online donation according to the conditions set out in the Elections Act. More information about the Elections Act is available at www.elections.ca.
Your information will be handled directly by the Donations Department of the New Democratic Party of Canada. If you are uncomfortable donating online, please contact the Donations Department at 613.236.3613.
Personal information received via e-mail is provided only to campaign staff, who require the information to respond to inquiries. We will not provide your e-mail address or other information to any third party without your express permission. We protect your personal information with strong security safeguards, including strict access controls.
We do recommend that you avoid sending sensitive personal information electronically, as we cannot guarantee the security of electronic systems or e-mail. For all such matters, please call us at 613.236.3613, or contact us by postal mail at:
New Democratic Party of Canada
Suite 300 - 279 Laurier Avenue West
Ottawa, Ontario
K1P 5J9
Personal Information
Non-Account Activity. You can watch videos, view photos or read content on Orangeroom.ca without having an Orange room account. You can also contact us about a particular video, photo, blog article, news article, or other content without having an account.
Account-Related Activity. Certain other activities on Orangeroom.ca-like uploading videos, posting comments, flagging videos, reading content or viewing photos-require you to have an Orangeroom.ca account. We ask for some personal information when you create an account, including your email address and a password, which is used to protect your account from unauthorized access.
Usage Information. We may record information about your usage, such as when you use the website, groups, and favorites you subscribe to, the contacts you communicate with, the videos you watch, and the frequency and size of data transfers, as well as information you display or click on in Orangeroom (including UI elements, settings, and other information). If you are logged in, we may associate that information with your account. We may use clear GIFs (a.k.a. "Web Beacons") in HTML-based emails sent to our users to track which emails are opened by recipients.
Content Uploaded to Site. Any personal information or video, photo, blog article or newspaper article, or application content that you voluntarily disclose online (on discussion boards, in messages and chat areas, within your profile pages, etc.) becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by others.
Uses: If you submit personally identifiable information to us through the Orangeroom website, we use your personal information to operate, maintain, and provide to you the general and personalized features and functionality of the Orangeroom Sites, and to process any flagging activity or correspondence you send to us.
Your account name (not your email address) is displayed to other Users when you upload videos, photos, articles, various content or send messages through the Orangeroom website. Any videos, photo, comment, article or other content that you submit to the Orangeroom website may be redistributed through the internet and other media channels, and may be viewed by the general public.
We do not use your email address or other personally identifiable information to send commercial or marketing messages without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out. We may, however, use your email address without further consent for non-marketing, fundraising or administrative purposes (such as notifying you of major Orangeroom changes or for customer service purposes).
We use both your personally identifiable information and certain non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous user usage data, cookies, IP addresses, browser type, clickstream data, etc.) to improve the quality and design of the website and to create new features, promotions, functionality, and services by storing, tracking, analyzing, and processing user preferences and trends, as well as user activity and communications.
We use cookies, clear gifs, and log file information to: (a) store information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the Orangeroom Sites; (b) provide custom, personalized content and information; (c) monitor the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns; (d) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, pages viewed, etc.; and (e) track your entries, submissions, and status in promotions, sweepstakes, and contests.
Information available publicly
When you create an account on the site, some information about your account and your account activity will be provided to other Users of the site. This may include the date you opened your account, the date you last logged into your account, and the number of videos, photos, articles or other content you have uploaded.
Your account name (not your email address) is displayed to other Users when you engage in certain activity on the site, such as you upload videos, photos, articles, or other content or send messages through the NDP Sites.
You may also choose to add personal information that will visible to other Users on your profile page. This may include a profile picture, you name, gender, riding or other details.
If you choose to add certain features to your profile page, then these features and your activity associated with these features will be displayed to other Users and may be aggregated and shared with other Users. Such shared activity may include what videos are your favorites, what videos, photos, articles or other content you rated and what videos, photos, articles, applications or other content you have uploaded.
Any videos, photos, articles, application or other content that you submit to the Orange room Sites may be redistributed through the internet and other media channels, and may be viewed by the general public.
Choice
You may, of course, decline to submit personally identifiable information through the Orange room Sites, in which case you can still view videos, photos and articles and explore the Orange room Sites, but the Orange room may not be able to provide certain services to you.
You may update or correct your personal profile information and email preferences at any time by visiting your account profile page.
IP Tracking
Your Internet Protocol (IP) is a unique Internet "address," assigned to you by your Internet Service Provider (ISP). IP addresses are automatically logged by Web servers, collecting information about a user's traffic patterns. While the IP address does not identify an individual by name, it may, with the cooperation of the ISP, be used to locate and identify an individual using the Web. The IP address is considered personal information because it is an identifying number, and IP addresses are protected by most privacy legislation. The privacy issues surrounding IP addresses are explained further below.
Server logs
Server logs include statistical information, such as visitors' IP addresses, type of operating systems, time and duration of visit, Web pages requested, and identify categories of visitors by items such as domains and browser types. Our servers automatically log information about visits to our Web site in the normal course of establishing and maintaining Web connections. These statistics are reported in the aggregate to our Web and communications staff, and are used to improve our Web site and ensure that it provides the optimal Web experience for visitors.
We do not link server log information to any other data in a way that would enable us to identify individual visitors. However, we may review server logs for security purposes, for example, to detect intrusions into our network. In the event of a criminal investigation, server log data could be used to trace and identify individuals for prosecution.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files maintained by your computer in order to help your browser remember user settings as you navigate the site. For example, NDP.ca uses cookies to remind your browser whether you chose to view the site in English or in French.
Other sites to which we provide links may be governed by different policies. The New Democratic Party of Canada does not assume responsibility for the information practices of these other Web sites, and we strongly encourage all Web visitors to review the privacy policies and statements of all externally-linked sites.
Still have questions?
Questions about this policy may be directed to our Webmaster. Contact our Webmaster by e-mail here, by phone at 613-236-3613 or by postal mail at:
New Democratic Party of Canada
Suite 300 - 279 Laurier Avenue West
Ottawa, Ontario
K1P 5J9
