Privacy Policy
1. Our Commitment to Privacy
Welcome to blood.ca/mystory, a website created to allow recipients of blood, platelets, plasma and stem cells to say “thank you” to their donors and attract new people to donating by sharing their stories. Canadian Blood Services (“Canadian Blood Services” or “us” or “we” or “our”) operates blood.ca/mystory and is firmly committed to protecting your privacy online. Our This Privacy Policy is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect, use and disclose the personal information you provide to us and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our website.
2. Collection of Personal Information
If you choose to share your story on blood.ca/mystory, you will be asked to provide personal information such as your name, your city, your email address, and your story. You may also post personal photos on our website, and provide a link to your personal videos that you have posted on YouTube or other similar websites. We are not responsible for the privacy or security practices of other websites, and we encourage you to read the privacy policy and terms of use for every website before you provide personal information. Please keep in mind that certain personal information you provide in order to share your story, including your name, city, story, photos and links to your videos, will become publicly available to all blood.ca/mystory visitors.
If you decide that you no longer want your story posted on our website, you may contact us at communications@blood.ca to request that we remove this information. Please note that we cannot delete any personal videos that you have posted on YouTube or any other similar websites. You are personally responsible for deleting all videos uploaded to other websites.
3. Use and Disclosure of Personal Information
When you share your story on blood.ca/mystory, your name, city, story, photos and video links are displayed to all blood.ca/mystory visitors. We may use your email address to send you a request to approve the posting of your story on our website.
Canadian Blood Services will not use or disclose the personal information that we collect about you for other purposes, except in limited circumstances where such use or disclosure is reasonably necessary to provide the services, or as permitted by law.
4.Sharing Your Story on Social Media
Blood.ca/mystory is about sharing your experiences with others as a way of saying “thank you” and encouraging individuals to become donors. When you post your story on blood.ca/mystory, Canadian Blood Services may share your story, including your name, city, photos and video links through any social media service. By posting your story on blood.ca/mystory, you are consenting to this sharing of your personal information.
5. Web Analytics & Cookies
When you visit blood.ca/mystory, we may collect information about your browser type and your IP address for the purposes of diagnosing problems with our website and to track website usage.
In addition, we store certain information from your browser using “cookies”. A “cookie” is information that is transferred from a website’s server to your computer’s browser and stored on your computer’s hard drive. This information is available to the website’s server when you return to that site using the same browser. This information can be used to identify the user of the browser visiting the site and record, for example, preferences and usage in general.
Like many websites, we may use cookies to customize the online experience based on an individual’s interests and preferences and in order to streamline the process of entering information by recording frequently entered information.
We may also use cookies to assist returning visitors in other ways. However, we do not use cookies to retrieve information from your computer that was not originally sent in a cookie. In most cases, if you choose, you can set your browser to refuse cookies or alert you to their transfer to your browser.
6. Links
Blood.ca/mystory may include links to other websites and Canadian Blood Services is not responsible for the privacy or security practices of these other websites. This Web Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by Canadian Blood Services through blood.ca/mystory.
7. Security
Canadian Blood Services takes appropriate precautions to protect users’ personal information. To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and to ensure the appropriate use of personal information, we have put in place appropriate technical and administrative safeguards to protect the personal information we collect online.
8. Modifications
We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy any time, without prior notice. Your use of blood.ca/mystory after the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of the Web Privacy Policy as modified. We encourage you to refer to this Privacy Policy on an ongoing basis.
9. Contact Us
Should you have any questions or concerns about your privacy or this Privacy Policy, please contact us at privacy@blood.ca or by telephone at 1-877-262-9191.