Heritage Music Academy (“HMA”, “HMAI”, “we” or “us”) recognizes the importance of maintaining the trust of our visitors and customers. HMA’s commitment to privacy means that we will only collect, use, store or disclose your personally identifiable information (“personal information”) in accordance with this Privacy Policy. HMA reserves the right to update this Privacy Policy at any time and changes will take effect immediately.
Consent
When you provide your personal information to HMA, you understand and agree to HMA ’s collection, use, storage, disclosure and retention of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy or as otherwise permitted by law. You may withdraw your consent to our use of your personal information at any time, except in limited circumstances.
Types of Personal Information HMA Collects
The information we collect is the information required to establish and maintain a service, donor or program relationship with you. This includes:
- Contact and identification information (name, address, phone number, e-mail)
- Donation information (date of gift, amount of gift, the campaign you contributed to, name of spouse or partner if it was a joint gift).
- Payment information (payment methods and preferences, billing and banking information, credit card number and expiry date or chequing account transit numbers to process your donation).
- Other personal information used for purposes that an individual would consider appropriate in the circumstances. For example, if you have demonstrated an interest in participating in fundraising events, we may send you information regarding other fundraising programs and services.
How We Use The Information We Collect
LoR may use your personal information in a variety of ways to deliver our programs and services, including:
- for processing donations;
- responding to requests for services and/or information;
- keeping you informed about our activities; and
- compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.
How We Share The Information We Collect
Service Providers: As necessary, HMA may share your information with our service providers who provide us with support services, such as collecting donation information, processing credit card payments, and other electronic payments, email delivery, website hosting, and analytics services. These service providers are provided only the information needed to perform their specific function and are prohibited from using this information for any other purposes.
Posting on Our Websites/Social Media Platforms: If you post information on our social media platform(s) or website, the information you post may be seen by other visitors, including your user name and post.
Protecting Lawful Interests: HMA may share your information if disclosure is required by law and is necessary to enforce our agreements or policies, or the disclosure will help us protect the rights, property or safety of HMA, its donors or our partners.
How We Protect Your Information
HMA makes reasonable efforts to ensure that any personal information you provide is maintained in a secure environment. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. While we strive to protect your personal information, LoR cannot warrant the security of any personal information you transmit to us or from our on-line services, and you do so at your own risk.
HMA has implemented and maintains reasonable and appropriate security measures, procedures and practices to protect against the loss and unauthorized access, use, modification, destruction or disclosure of your personal information while it is in our custody or under our control. For example, our employees sign confidentiality agreements and safeguards are in place to ensure that the information is not accessed, disclosed or shared more widely than is necessary to achieve the purpose for which it was gathered. We use password protocols and secure websites to protect personal and other information we receive when an online donation is made. Our software is routinely updated to maximize protection of such information.
We also limit access to your personal information to those employees, contractors and agents who have a business need to know. LoR keeps personal information only as long as it is needed for the reasons it was collected or as required by law, and we make reasonable efforts to ensure that any personal information you provide is maintained in a secure environment.
Collection And Use Of Non-Personal Information
When you visit our website at heritagemusicacademy.ca we may collect non-personally identifying information from you. We collect and use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, anonymously track donors’ movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. We do not link IP addresses to personally identifiable information.
Use By Minors
HMA does not intend for online services or its website to be used by anyone under the age of majority. If you are under the age of majority in the province in which you live, you should use our services with the permission of a parent or legal guardian. If you are a parent or legal guardian and believe we may have collected information about a child, please contact us as described in the “Inquiries About The HMA Privacy Policy” section below.
Links To Third Party Websites
Our website may contain links to other websites. HMA is not responsible for the privacy practices of any other websites. We encourage our donors and volunteers to be aware when they leave our website and to read the privacy policy of every website that collects personally identifiable information.
Accessing Or Correcting Your Information
HMA relies on you to provide us with accurate personal information, and you have the right, under certain circumstances, to access and correct information HMA holds about you. Any such access request must be in writing and provided to us at the email or postal address provided in the “Inquiries About The HMA Privacy Policy” section below. Any such access request may be subject to a small statutory fee to meet our cost in providing you with details of the information we hold about you, where permitted by applicable law.
Deleting Your Account
If you want to cancel or delete your account, you may do so in writing at the email or postal address provided in the “Inquires About The HMAPrivacy Policy” section below. HMA will make every effort to promptly respond to your request. HMA will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services, such as fundraising and grant application services. If you ask HMA to delete your account, we generally retain and use your account information only as long as necessary to fulfill a business or law enforcement need.
Changes To This Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy was last updated on the date noted at the top of this webpage and may be updated from time to time in the future. If we make material changes, we will post the updated Privacy Policy on this page and change the date at the top of this webpage. We will notify you of any modifications to this Privacy Policy that might materially affect the way we use or disclose your personal information prior to the change becoming effective by means of a message on this website or by email.
Inquiries About The HMA Privacy Policy
For any questions, comments or concerns about privacy, please contact HMA at:
Privacy Office, Heritage Music Academy
100-5970 16th Ave
Markham, Ontario L3P 7R1