Updated: November 26th, 2024

The St. Lawrence Remedial Action Plan, as a subdivision of the St. Lawrence River Institute of Environmental Sciences (“River Institute”), is subject to follow all River Institute policies and procedures.

St. Lawrence River Remedial Action Plan Privacy Policy (Data Collection)

This policy applies to all users who communicate directly with (“River Institute”, “we”, or “us” ) or interact with services such as forms, widgets, and popups.

Data We Collect

Data provided to us. We collect personal information directly provided to us through our services. These services include contact forms, newsletter subscriptions, and image upload forms. Information we collect includes: your name, email address, and any other information provided through message fields. Data We Collect Automatically. When our services are accessed, logs and usage data may be collected. This includes information about you or your devices such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, hardware, search terms, clicked links, and pages visited. IP address information is automatically deleted after 90 days of its collection. Although we do not collect location information directly, this may be derived from provided data such as your IP address.

How We Use Information

We use information about you to:
• Develop new services.
• Communicate with you about offers and events we think will be of interest to you.
• Monitor and analyze trend usage and activities in relation to our services.
• Send you notices, updates, and other administrative messages.

How Information About You Is Shared

• When you send information via a web-form, the intended recipient of the message will be able to see the content of the form, your name, your email address, date and time of submission.
We do not share, sell, or give away your personal information to third parties unless one of the following circumstances occurs:
• We may share information in response to a request for information if we believe disclosure is in accordance with, or required by, any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, including, but not limited to, meeting national security or law enforcement requirements. To the extent the law allows it, we will attempt to provide you with prior notice before disclosing your information in response to such a request.
• In an emergency. We may share information if we believe that it is necessary to prevent imminent and serious bodily harm to a person.
• To enforce our policies. We may share information if we believe your actions are inconsistent with our policies or to protect the rights, property, and safety of ourselves and others.
• Aggregated or de-identified. We may share information about you that has been aggregated or anonymized such that it cannot reasonably be used to identify you. For example, we may show the total number of times a post has been shared without identifying who the visitors were.

Analytics Partners

We may use third party analytics providers (such as Google Analytics) to collect and summarize information on traffic and usage of our Services.

Other Information

Information Security. We take measures to help protect information about you from loss, theft, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. For example, we use HTTPS while information is being transmitted. We also enforce technical and administrative access controls to limit which of our employees have access to non-public personal information. Data Retention. We store the information we collect for as long as it is necessary for the purpose(s) for which we originally collected it. We may retain certain information for legitimate business purposes or as required by law. Changes to This Policy. As a proactive organization, the River Institute regularly reviews PIPEDA to remain abreast of important changes. As such, we may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we do, we will let you know by revising the date at the top of the policy. If we make a change to this policy that, in our sole discretion, is material, we will provide you with additional notice on the front page of the Services. We encourage you to review the Privacy Policy whenever you access or use our Services or otherwise interact with us to stay informed about our information practices and the ways you can help protect your privacy. By continuing to use our Services after Privacy Policy changes go into effect, you agree to be bound by the revised policy. Contact. Please direct any questions regarding our privacy policy to our Privacy Officer: Christina Collard 613-936-6620 x 222 ccollard[at]riverinstitute.ca