May 2004

The Canadian Sablefish Association’s (CSA) Privacy Officer is Leslie Budden Send queries or comments to sablefish@shawlink.ca about CSA’s Privacy Policy or any other matter related to your personal information.

CSA respects your right to privacy and is committed to maintaining your confidence and trust. CSA’s Privacy Policy has been updated, and our programs reviewed to ensure that we are compliant with Canada's Personal Information and Protection and Electronic Documents Act.

Our website is designed to enable you take action and help protect wild Sablefish and their ecosystems. Because of this, some areas of the site require your personal identification in order to be effective and considered legitimate by decision makers. This information is required on correspondence with decision makers to authenticate your letters, and to receive a written response.

Wildcanada.net and CSA collect this information in a database, and save it on Wildcanada.net’s password protected, secure online server. We do this so that when you return to CSA’s Action Centre or Wildcanada.net's sites to take action again, we can "auto-fill" the portion of the letter that requires your contact info. You can disable this function by "unchecking" the field marked "Remember me on this computer"* or by disabling your "cookies."

*This could represent a security or privacy risk if you share a computer or use public computers. We will delete all your personal information immediately upon request.

On every CSA action letter you are provided the option to become a member of the CSA action network and to become a Network Participant in Wildcanada.net. If you choose to become a member of the CSA network, the personal information you provide is stored on Wildcanada.net’s password protected, secure online server and is accessible only by designated staff of the Canadian Sablefish Association. It will never be sold or traded. We will not disclose this information to others except to send it, along with your message, to the targeted government or corporate officials you have chosen to communicate with through our systems at your request. If you choose to become a Wildcanada.net Network Participant the personal information you provide is protected by a privacy policy that is trusted by CSA. This policy is available on Wildcanda.net’s website: http://www.wildcanada.net/join.

When you join the CSA network you may receive periodic updates, action alerts and newsletters from us. We endeavor not to send more than one email alert to you each week. These alerts may contain an appeal for donations.

You can view and change the information that CSA has retained by emailing sablefish@shawlink.ca. These requests are subject to Section 9 of the Personal Information and Protection and Electronic Documents Act, and may take up to 30 days to be fulfilled.

You will always have the option of unsubscribing from mailing lists.

CSA requires that all of our conservation partners, and other organizations that we share personal information with, have in place a Privacy Policy that complies with Canada's Personal Information and Protection and Electronic Documents Act.

CSA may contact you by mail using the information you have provided us in the future for fundraising, conservation, information, voter education and general outreach purposes.

If you have questions about CSA's security features, or about CSA's Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us by sending an email to: sablefish@shawlink.ca

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