Friends of Forêt-la-Blanche is a non-for-profit organization, duly registered with the Registraire des entreprises du Québec (enterprise number: 1148282180). The organization's mission is to safeguard the ecological integrity of the Forêt-la-Blanche territory through forest awareness, conservation and public engagement.
The purpose of this privacy policy is to inform users about:
This policy complies with the provisions of Bill 25 on the protection of personal information and Bill C-27, the Consumer Privacy Protection Act.
Bill 25 identifies personal information as any information that relates to a person, and allows that person to be identified directly or indirectly.
Users acknowledge that by using our website or signing our forms, they consent:
When you visit and use our website, we may automatically collect and store the following information:
Our website is hosted on Wordpress (WP). For more details on the information collected with the WP Statistics plugin and how it is used, please visit the WP Statistics plugin's privacy page (in English only).
When you fill in the membership form at the Interpretation Centre, we collect the following data (which is kept for 2 years to enable us to contact members and former members to inform them about activities at the ecological reserve or to invite them to renew their membership):
When checking in before going off on the trails. This information (which remains anonymous) is used to compile statistics on trail use in the ecological reserve. No individual data is included in the statistical report. Arrival and departure times are requested for security reasons. Data is kept for one year, and destroyed in April of each year.
The contract is for a period of 5 years and the data is destroyed once it has expired. The following data is collected:
Note: if a tax receipt is requested, the information is kept for 7 years, in accordance with the law.
During volunteer activities, we collect the following personal information for statistical purposes, to send a thank-you e-mail to volunteers and to include their names only in the annual report on the activities of Les Amis de la Forêt-la-Blanche (the data is destroyed each year after the annual report is written):
We only collect data that helps us achieve the objective of this privacy policy. We do not collect additional data without informing you first.
We do not sell or share your personal information with data brokers. Below is a list of our suppliers and why we use their services.
We work with a third party for our online store so that the purchase of annual, semi-annual and daily passes, as well as donations, can be made from our website. Zeffy, an online payment platform, collects payments by credit or debit card. When you make an online transaction from our website, you will be redirected to the Zeffy website. We invite you to take a look at Zeffy's privacy policy. Les Amis de la Forêt-la-Blanche does not have access to your credit card information. Zeffy's reports to which Les Amis de la Forêt-la-Blanche has access include the following data:
We use WordPress to obtain analytics on your use of our platforms and help us improve their functionality. We invite you to take a look at WordPress' privacy policy (in English only).
We may disclose to any member of our organization such user data as he or she reasonably requires to carry out the objectives set out in this policy.
We undertake not to share your data with third parties, except in the following cases:
If you follow hyperlinks from our site to another site, you will be subject to the privacy policy of that other site over which we have no control or responsibility.
We protect your data in the following ways:
In the event of an incident involving personal information, we apply our privacy incident procedure. It stipulates that we will notify the authorities and the persons concerned when such an incident presents a risk of serious harm, and that we will put in place measures to limit the negative consequences.
No security measure is absolute or fully guaranteed. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you believe that the security of any information you have provided to us has been compromised), please contact us immediately.
As a user, you have the right to access any personal data we have collected about you. In addition, you have the right to update or correct any personal data in our possession provided it is acceptable under the law. You may choose to withdraw or change your consent to the collection and use of your personal at any time, provided that such update or correction is acceptable under the law.
Cookies are small files stored on a user's hard disk by the website. They are accessible only when the user visits the website. Their purpose is to store data relating to the user's browsing habits and to enable your browsing preferences and other information to be saved on your computer, so that you don't have to enter the same information and display your personalized content on subsequent visits to these sites. For example, this may include your user preferences, language choices, login information and browsing data. You have the option of accepting or refusing cookies. If you refuse, you may not be able to log in or use other interactive features of our site.
We use them to remember any selections you make on our site so that they can be saved for future visits.
This enables us to improve the design and functionality of our site by collecting data about the content you access when using our site.
You can open your browser in private mode so that cookies are deleted at the end of each session. You can also choose to deactivate cookies entirely in your Internet browser, but this may reduce the quality of your user experience on all websites you visit.
This Privacy Policy may be amended from time to time to maintain compliance with the law and to reflect any changes to our data collection process. We recommend that our website users check our policy from time to time to ensure that they are informed of any updates.
If you have any questions or would like your information deleted or modified in any way, please contact our Privacy Officer.
Robin Stolba
Director, Interpretation Centre, Amis de la Forêt-la-Blanche
819-281-6700
direction@foretlablanche.org
Last update: December 16, 2024