Omar's Commitment to Protecting Your Privacy

Your privacy is important to Omar's campaign.

The Omar Wisdom Campaign (hereafter the "Campaign"), including persons or organizations acting on our behalf, as well as the Omar's volunteers, or representatives (collectively, the "Campaign", "Candidate", "we" or "us") will respect your privacy by safeguarding any personal information that you choose to provide to us.

Omar's volunteers take special care to keep both confidential and secure all personal information in its possession.

This Privacy Policy applies to all personal information that is collected, used, or disclosed by the Campaign, whether it is collected electronically via our website or other digital platforms (each shall be considered a "site"), either in person or by telephone. This Policy applies to all sites on which it is posted.

What "Personal Information" Do We Collect? 

"Personal information" is information about an identifiable individual and may include personal contact information that we collect such as an individual's name, address, email address and telephone number. We may also collect information regarding your residence, family members, language preference, political views or any other information that an individual may choose to share with us.

Collecting Personal Information
In addition, we may also collect personal information from publicly available data or sources and individuals who interact with the Campaign. The City of Oshawa will provide Omar's Campaign with a list of all eligible voters residing in Ward 1.

We may also collect personal information from residents when they correspond with our Campaign. You may choose to provide personal information on a voluntary basis, such as when corresponding with the Campaign, submitting a form, survey, registering for an event, or signing up on any of our sites.

If you submit your e-mail address and/or personal information through one of our sites, you consent to being added to our e-mail and/or text list. You may unsubscribe from our communications using the link provided in each message.

Usage and Disclosure of Personal Information
We believe it is important to communicate with eligible municipal voters on a regular basis. We will only use your personal information to communicate with you. The Campaign's lists are used for activities such as outreach or to customize the experience of visitors to our site.

Additionally, non-personal information may be collected by the Campaign through the use of cookies, including third-party cookies. Cookies help us to track how individuals are using our site and assist the Campaign in tailoring customized content to visitors or constituents. We may use this information to improve our site or assist with advertising. Any visitor to the Campaign's site may opt-out of the advertising features used by our site or others by adjusting their ads settings, or using a free opt-out tool offered by Canada's Digital Advertising Alliance at youradchoices.ca/en/tools.

Protecting your Personal Information
The Campaign maintains physical, organizational, and technological security systems to safeguard your personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, or misuse, and from loss or unauthorized alteration. This includes encrypting electronic data and limiting who in our organization has access to our data, and utilizing all available digital protections and/or firewalls.

The Campaign's volunteers have been trained in the appropriate use of personal information. This training focuses on best practices for the appropriate collection, use, disclosure, safeguarding, retention and destruction of personal information.

The Campaign will not sell any personal information that you have chosen to provide to us to another individual or third party.

External Links
The Campaign's website may contain links to a limited number of other websites. We are not responsible for the content of these websites and this Privacy Policy does not apply to those websites. We urge you to read the privacy statements on all websites or other electronic platforms before submitting or sharing your personal information.

How to Contact Us
If you no longer wish to receive phone calls, snail mail, e-mail, text messages or other communications from the Campaign, you may opt out using the link provided in any message we send.

If you have any questions, concerns, or complaints about this Privacy Policy or the information we collect, use, or disclose, please contact the Campaign here.