PRIVACY STATEMENT & WEBSITE TERMS

Your Right to Privacy

VOTE Socialist values your right to privacy. Our collection and use of any personal information you provide is guided by the idea that individuals have a right to privacy, while organisations have an obligation to be transparent.

Under Canadian privacy laws, you have the right to:

• Know why we’re collecting personal information and how we will use it;

• Understand when, why and with whom we may share your information;

• Be confident your information is accurate, up-to-date, and handled securely;

• See your personal information on request and correct it if necessary; and

• Opt out of digital communications (emails) easily;

• File a complaint with the Privacy Commissioner if you feel we’ve mishandled your information.

Our Responsibilities

We take our obligations seriously, and will always do our best to:

• Obtain consent for the use of your personal information;

• Collect personal information only by fair, transparent and legal means;

• Keep your personal information only as long as is necessary;

• Publish and maintain a clear, up-to-date, and easily understood privacy policy.

Our Purposes for Collecting Personal Information

We use your personal information for three reasons:

• To respond to requests to get involved with VOTE Socialist;

• To ensure we have your consent to receive our mass communications;

• To process donations and membership fees.

Sharing with Third Parties

Our use of online tools and plug-ins for collecting your personal information, communicating with members and supporters, and processing donations means that in some cases your personal information may be accessible to other organisations that provide and maintain these tools.

We do our best to keep data sharing to a minimum, to collect as little personal information as possible, and to periodically review third party privacy policies to ensure our partners are using personal information in a fair, transparent, and reasonable way.

Our Use of Cookies

A “cookie” is an anonymous piece of code that a web server stores on your local computer via your browser. Your browser shares this information to other web servers as you surf the net.

VOTE Socialist uses cookies to help us see how many visitors used the website, which posts or pages are getting the most attention, and other details that help us understand our audience so that we can improve what we have to offer.

The cookies used by our website do not contain any personal information.

Opt-Out Options

If you ever decide you’d like to stop receiving communications from VOTE Socialist, you can opt out by following the “unsubscribe” link in the footer of our emails.

Fonts

votesocialis.ca uses font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including:

• Information about your browser, network, or device

• Your IP address

Online Privacy Policy Only

This privacy policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect at votesocialist.ca. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.

Google Analytics Privacy Notice

Our website uses Squarespace and Google Analytics to collect information about the use of our website. Analytics collects information from users such as age, gender, interests, demographics, how often they visit our website, what pages they visit, and what other websites they have used before coming to our website. We may use the information we get from Google Analytics to analyze traffic, remarket our products and services to users, improve our marketing, advertising, and to improve our website. We may have enabled Google Analytics advertising features such as remarketing with Google Analytics, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit our website, not your name or other identifying information. Altfhough Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit our website, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google also uses specific identifiers to help collect information about the use of our website. For more information on how Google collects and processes your data, visit https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/

You can prevent Google Analytics from using your information by opting out at this link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Where to Direct Your Privacy Questions

If you have any questions or concerns about our use of your personal information, want to view or correct our records, or want to withdraw your consent for our collection of your personal information, please email VOTE Socialist at votesocialist2022@gmail.com.  We will do our best to respond to your questions and concerns as soon as possible.

Website Terms

Reservation of Rights

We reserve the right at any time and in its sole discretion to request that you remove all links or any particular link to our website. You agree to immediately remove all links to our website upon such request. We also reserve the right to amend these terms and conditions and its linking policy at any time. By continuing to link to our website, you agree to be bound to and abide by these linking terms and conditions.

License

Unless otherwise stated, votesocialist.ca & votesocialist2022.ca and/or its licensors own the intellectual property rights for all material on VOTE Socialsit website. All intellectual property rights are reserved. You can view and/or print pages from votesocialist.ca & votesocialist2022.ca for your own personal use subject to restrictions set in these terms and conditions.

Please do not:

Republish material, including photos, from votesocialist.ca & votesocialist2022.ca
Sell, rent or sub-license material, including photos, from
Reproduce, duplicate or copy material, including photos, from
Redistribute content, including photos, from votesocialist.ca & votesocialist2022.ca (unless content is specifically made for redistribution).

Consent

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its Terms and Conditions.

Photo Rights & Credits

Some of the photos used on votesocialist.ca and votesocialist2022.ca were captured at various direct actions in Vancouver by members of VOTE Socialist and do not necessarily indicate endorsement of the party by the subjects or organizers. Please contact info@votesocialist.ca if you would like a photograph removed.