Privacy
The Help Fill A Dream Foundation is committed to protecting the privacy of the personal information of our Dream children, their families, our donors, our employees, our members and volunteers, and other stakeholders. The Help Fill A Dream Foundation acts in accordance with the privacy principles found in the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act. These principles address the collection, use, storage and disposal of personal information.
Individual Information
Help Fill A Dream collects information to facilitate the delivery of our programs to children with life threatening illnesses. In the absence of express written permission, disclosure of such personal information to third parties is limited to providing only such information as is necessary to those third parties who need to receive it in order to deliver the program to the children and their families. The personal information and disclosure of that information necessary for the purpose of delivering the program is authorized by the recipient's custodial parent(s) or legal guardian by signed approval at the time of collection.
Donor Information
The consent of donors to the use of personal information is implied when personal donor information, including the donor's name, address and donation amount is collected. Use of a donor's personal information is restricted to soliciting donations via letter, collecting donations, providing tax receipts, and communicating acknowledgements and thanks.
Safeguards
Help Fill A Dream ensures that all personal information collected, retained and destroyed is protected against loss, theft, unauthorized access and inadvertent or inappropriate release.
Procedures have been established to ensure that the personal information is collected used, stored and destroyed in a sensitive manner. This information is considered and treated as highly confidential.
Privacy Officer
Help Fill A Dream Foundation's Privacy Officer can be contacted for any inquiries regarding the appropriate collection, use, disclosure, retention, and destruction of personal information. Program recipients and donors can request access to their own personal information through the Privacy Officer as well.
Contact Information:
Attn.: Privacy Officer
Help Fill A Dream Foundation
902 Hillside Avenue
Victoria, BC V8T 1Z8
Tel: 250.382.3135
Fax: 250.382.2711
Email: hfad@telus.net
Website: http://www.helpfilladream.com