The KANPE Foundation is a philanthropic organization that collects, uses and discloses information in order to provide our services related to fundraising, event participation, volunteering and contests. We attach great importance to the protection of personal information and adhere to strict ethical standards when handling it.
Our Privacy Policy is designed to inform you about our practices regarding the collection, use, disclosure and retention of personal information. By providing us with your personal information via our website, registration forms, newsletter subscriptions, contests, etc., by e-mail, in person or by telephone, you consent to the processing of that information in accordance with our Privacy Policy. You also authorize The KANPE Foundation, its partners and service providers to process your personal information for the purposes specified in the Policy.
Please note that our Privacy Policy does not apply to third-party websites accessible via links on our site. The KANPE Foundation is not responsible for these third-party sites and you should consult their own privacy policies before submitting your personal information.
WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE DO
The KANPE Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in 2010 by Dominique Anglade and Régine Chassagne, two Canadians of Haitian origin. “Kanpe” means “to stand up” in Haitian Creole. KANPE works with the best local Haitian experts and organizations to accompany underserved rural communities in Haiti on the road to self-sufficiency, by strengthening six pillars: health, agroforestry, education, entrepreneurship, leadership and local infrastructure.
WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
As part of our activities and services, we collect and process various types of personal information, such as:
- Professional and/or personal contact information (first name, last name, address, e-mail address, date of birth, telephone number),
- biographical information (job title, employer, professional and/or personal background, photos, video or audio content),
- marketing and communication preferences (food preferences, comments, survey responses),
- information on contribution history, participation in organizational events, billing and financial information (billing address, banking information, payment data),
- information on training courses and programs in which you are or have been enrolled, information on your professional background, networks, social involvement, professional affiliations and family ties,
- recruitment information (CV, education, work history, professional affiliations),
- website usage and other technical information (visits to our websites, interaction with advertising and online content, data collected by cookies and other tracking technologies),
- information provided by or on behalf of our customers, and any other personal information provided.
If you provide us with personal information about others, please ensure that you have their consent and that you inform them of this disclosure.
We take steps to ensure that we do not knowingly collect information from children or persons under the age of 14. If you are a minor under the age of 14, please do not provide us with any personal information without the express consent of a parent or guardian. If you are a parent or guardian and are aware that your children have provided us with personal information, please contact us. If we learn that we have collected personal information from minors without verifying parental consent, we will take steps to delete that information from our servers.
HOW DO WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
We collect your personal information in a number of ways during our interactions with you, including :
- When you register for events, training and newsletters.
- When you participate in benefit events.
- When you make a donation to our organization, regardless of the type of donation.
- When you register as a volunteer for our organization or during a recruitment process.
- When you enter a contest.
- We also collect publicly available information, including on our website and social networks.
HOW DO WE USE PERSONAL INFORMATION?
We may use your personal information in the following ways, with your consent or in accordance with another appropriate legal basis. In each case, we specify the purposes for which we use your personal information:
- To operate our business, administer and provide our services, including fulfilling our contractual obligations to you.
- To facilitate the use of our websites and to ensure that content is relevant and optimally presented for you and your device.
- For marketing and business development purposes, including to provide information about new services, developments in our organization and industry, as well as invitations to training, competitions and events, if you have opted to receive such information.
- For research and development purposes, including to better understand our customers’ service and marketing needs, and to improve our organization, services and offerings.
- For recruitment purposes, to process job applications and assess whether candidates meet the requirements of the positions for which they apply to the KANPE Foundation.
- To meet our legal, regulatory or risk management obligations.
- To prevent fraud and/or conduct other background checks, which may be required at any time by law, applicable regulation or best practice. If false or inaccurate information is provided, or if fraud is identified or suspected, we may pass this information to fraud prevention organizations and record it, either by us or by these organizations. When processing special categories of personal information, we may also rely on important public interest reasons (prevention or detection of crime) or on legally founded claims.
- To enforce our rights, meet our legal or regulatory obligations to disclose information, or protect the rights of third parties.
- To secure payment of sums due to us, collect overdue payments and, if necessary, engage collection agencies or take other legal action, including legal proceedings.
- In connection with a reorganization or change in our organization, if we undertake a reorganization such as a merger, acquisition or partial divestiture of our business, we may need to transfer some or all of your personal information to a third party (or its advisors) as part of the due diligence process or transfer to such reorganized entity, for the same purposes set forth in this Privacy Policy or as part of the analysis of any proposed reorganization. In such a situation, we will take all necessary measures to ensure the protection and security of your personal information.
WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE PERSONAL INFORMATION?
The KANPE Foundation is a non-profit organization registered under charity number 83465-7066-RR0001. As a result, the personal information we collect may be shared with and processed by entities affiliated with The KANPE Foundation. We may also share personal information with certain third parties, including :
- Volunteers and clients of The KANPE Foundation, in connection with the recruitment of human resources, volunteers and the solicitation of financial or other contributions.
- Third-party service providers and/or partners, such as those who provide us with donation solicitation, database analysis, Web site, application development, hosting, maintenance and other services. These third parties may access or process personal information in connection with the services they provide to us. We limit the information we provide to these service providers to that which is reasonably necessary for them to perform their functions, and our contracts with these service providers require them to maintain the confidentiality of such information.
- Government authorities and law enforcement agencies where required by applicable law. We may disclose personal and other information if we are required to do so by tax or other laws, or if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to comply with applicable laws, respond to a court order, subpoena or government search warrant, or cooperate with such government authorities and law enforcement agencies.
- Acquirers, successors or assigns in connection with a merger, acquisition, debt financing, asset sale or similar transaction, as well as in the event of insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership involving the transfer of personal information to one or more third parties as a business asset.
- We will only use personal information for the primary and legitimate purposes for which it was collected, or for purposes consistent with those primary purposes.
- Our organization uses the services of third-party sites such as Google, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn to promote our content and offers.
- When you visit our website, these third parties may use cookies, web beacons or similar technologies on your hard drive to collect or receive information about your browsing on our website and elsewhere on the Internet. These technologies enable us to deliver relevant advertising targeted to your interests. You have full control over these cookies, and can view and delete them at any time. We recommend that you refer to your browser settings to make the appropriate changes.
If you wish to allow third-party sites to store cookies on your hard drive in order to offer you targeted advertising, you can activate this option.
For more information, please consult our Cookie Policy.
HOW LONG DO WE KEEP PERSONAL INFORMATION?
The personal information we collect will be retained only as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, as well as to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.
If you’d like to get more information on the duration during we conserve your personal information, please contact us using the coordinates provided in the section section “We join”.
WHERE DO WE STORE PERSONAL INFORMATION AND TRANSFERS OUTSIDE QUEBEC?
The personal information are conserved on the servers services to which we subscribe and which are necessary to our operations. We take all necessary measures to guarantee the protection of these data and their access only by authorized people.
HOW DO WE PROTECT PERSONAL INFORMATION?
We adhere to widely accepted industry standards to protect the information you transmit to us, both during transmission and upon receipt. We have implemented appropriate physical, technical and administrative safeguards to prevent accidental destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access, misuse or other unlawful processing of the personal information we hold. We have restricted access to your personal information to those staff members who need it to perform their duties or who have a legitimate reason for accessing it.
However, it is important to note that no method of data transmission over the Internet, nor any electronic storage system, can guarantee 100% security. Consequently, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. Similarly, we cannot guarantee that such information will never be accessed, obtained, disclosed, altered or destroyed by a breach of our physical, technical or administrative safeguards. If you have reasonable grounds to believe that your personal information has been compromised, please contact us using the contact information provided in the “How to contact us” section. In the event of a privacy incident affecting your personal information, we will inform you as soon as possible after becoming aware of the incident. We will take reasonable steps to reduce the risk of harm and to prevent similar incidents in the future.
WHAT RIGHTS DOES AN INDIVIDUAL HAVE WITH REGARD TO HIS/HER PERSONAL INFORMATION?
In certain situations and in accordance with applicable data protection laws, you have the following rights:
Right of access: You have the right to know whether we are processing your personal information and, if so, to request access to this information. Subject to legal requirements and, where applicable, for a fee, you may receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you, together with certain other details.
Right of rectification: We are required to take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we hold is accurate, complete, not misleading and up to date. You have the right to request rectification of any incomplete or inaccurate personal information we hold.
Right to de-index: You have the right to request that your personal information no longer be disseminated or that any hypertext link containing your name and giving access to information concerning you be de-indexed, if such dissemination causes you harm or is contrary to the law or a court order. This is sometimes referred to as the right to erasure or the right to be forgotten.
Right to anonymization: In some cases, rather than destroying your personal information, we may anonymize it in order to use it for serious and legitimate purposes. For example, this may be done to retain information required for possible tax inspection purposes.
Right to information on automated decisions: You have the right to be informed if a decision concerning you is made solely on the basis of automated processing.
Right to information on the use of identification, location or profiling technology: You have the right to be informed when we use identification, location or profiling technologies, as well as the means available to activate or deactivate these functions.
In addition, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection supervisory authority in your country, province or state of habitual residence (for example, the Commission d’accès à l’information in Quebec), in our country of establishment, or in the country where an alleged violation of data protection laws has occurred.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us as indicated in the “How to contact us” section.
HOW DO WE USE COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES?
For detailed information on the cookies we use, please see our Cookie Policy below, which forms an integral part of this Privacy Policy.
HOW TO CONTACT US
If you have any questions, comments or complaints about this Privacy Policy or your personal information, or if you wish to exercise your rights, file a complaint or obtain information about our policies and practices regarding our service providers outside Canada, please contact our Privacy Officer by e-mail at , by telephone (+1 514 526-7399) or by mail at the following coordinates:
The KANPE Foundation
Attn: Jennifer Brown
Privacy Officer
895, de la Gauchetière West
PO BOX 96581
Montreal (QC) H3B 5J8
Canada
HOW DO WE UPDATE THIS PRIVACY POLICY?
We may change the content of our websites and our use of cookies without notice. As a result, our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy may change from time to time in the future. We therefore encourage you to review them each time you visit our website to stay informed about our treatment of personal information.
This policy was last updated on September 14, 2023.