Privacy Notice for MissingPeople.ca
1. Introduction
At MissingPeople.ca, we are committed to protecting your privacy and safeguarding any personal information you provide to us. This Privacy Notice outlines how we manage, use, and protect the data you share with us, especially in the sensitive context of missing persons cases.
2. Information We Collect
Personal Information: Names, contact details, descriptions of missing persons, and any other information provided when reporting a missing person or when seeking assistance.
Usage Data: Information on how you use our website, including IP addresses, browser type, operating system, and other technology on the devices you use to access this site.
3. How We Use Your Information
To Assist in Missing Persons Cases: Your information helps us to coordinate with law enforcement, publicize cases, and provide support to families and friends of missing persons.
To Improve Our Services: We analyze usage data to enhance our website’s functionality, security, and user experience.
Communication: We might use your contact details to send updates about missing persons, changes to our services, or to respond to queries and provide assistance.
4. Sharing of Information
Law Enforcement and Agencies: Information might be shared with police or relevant agencies to aid in the search for missing persons.
Third-Party Services: We might use third-party services for data analysis, hosting, or other operational functions where necessary. These providers are bound by confidentiality agreements.
Legal Compliance: We may disclose information if required by law or in response to valid legal requests like a court order.
5. Data Protection Security Measures:
We implement security measures designed to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of your personal information.
Data Retention: We keep your information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this notice unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
6. Your Rights Access:
Correction: You have the right to correct any inaccuracies in your personal data.
Deletion: You can ask us to delete your personal data.
Objection: You can object to the processing of your personal data where we rely on our legitimate interests as the legal basis for processing.
7. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your experience on our site. You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings.
8. Changes to This Privacy Notice
We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page, and where appropriate, notifications will be made.
9. Contact Us If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice or our privacy practices, please contact us at paul@missingpeople.ca
This privacy notice is designed to provide transparency about our data handling practices, ensuring that those who use our services understand how we protect the privacy of those who come to us for help.
Remember, your trust is paramount, and we strive to uphold the highest standards of data protection.
Previous Policies Still Apply:
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Additional: https://g.ezoic.net/privacy/missingpeople.ca