Privacy Statement & Commitment

This privacy statement describes how RCCG The Eagles Ark (“we”, “us”, “our”, “TEA”) collects, uses, stores, discloses and protects the personal information you provide to us when you use our services (“Services”) and is in accordance with the guidelines and principles of the Alberta Personal Information Protection Act (“PIPA”) and the principles of the Canadian Standards Association Model Code for the Protection of Personal Information. 

Services include when you:

  • Download and use our mobile application (“TEA App”);
  • Visit our website at www.rccgtea.org (our “site”);
  • Relate with us in other ways including events, programs, advertising.

TEA is committed to ensuring that that the privacy of our members, volunteers, employees, directors, officers, visitors to our website and any other persons about or from whom TEA collects personal information is protected.   This website and mobile application (“site”) policy statement reflects our commitment to seeing that visitors to our website are comfortable with providing us with personally-identifying information. This website or mobile application (individually referred to as the “site”) is owned and operated by TEA.  We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Statement.

Type of Information Collected

Personal Information

We collect personal information and personally identifiable information from you when you use our services.  This information may include your name, birthday, email address, phone number, mailing address, pictures, and may be collected when you provide information to us or contact us via email or other means of communication: when you submit information to us during some volunteer work you participate in or seek information about. During public events, your pictures may be taken and used on our website or app. We may also use cookies and other relevant technology to remember your choices when you use our services.

Non-Personal Information

TEA may collect certain non-personal information from you, including but not limited to your IP address, the domain name from which you accessed the service, the date and time on which you accessed the service, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

TEA may also use Google Analytics to gather information about visits to our services. If you would like to opt out, please install an appropriate web browser plug-in, extension or add-on.

We may use cookies to collect your non-personal information. A cookie is information that a website puts on a user’s computer. Cookies store limited information from a web browser session on a given website that can then be retrieved in the future. They are also sometimes referred to as browser cookies, web cookies or internet cookies.  You may change your device’s settings to reject cookies but kindly note that this may restrict your usage of certain features of our website. 

Usage of Your Data

TEA is committed to protecting the information you provide to us.  We will not use or disclose your information to anyone except as stated in this Statement.  Access to your personal information would be restricted to agents, contractors and employees of TEA on a need-to-know basis as may be relevant to provision, operation and improvement of our services. 

Disclosure of Information

TEA will not share or disclose your personal information with third party organizations outside of TEA.  There may be some circumstances under which TEA may need to disclose your personal information such as when disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary and required by the law or any legal process.  

Accessing Your Information & Opting-Out

You may access Personal Information you provide to us or modify such Personal Information.  We are committed to maintaining accurate information.  You may also opt-out of receiving notifications from TEA and ask that we do not publicly use your pictures on our website or app by contacting us at tech@rccgtea.org.

Storage and Retention of Information

Personal information you share with us may be hosted by third parties (Subsplash) who have entered into agreements with us that require them to observe our Privacy Policy.

Changes to Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Statement from time to time, without prior notice. We will post any updates to the Privacy Statement on the site. And may notify you of these changes by email or other forms of communication.    Please send any enquiries you have about our privacy statement to tech@rccgtea.org.