Privacy Policy

Privacy Statement

This is the Students for Herd Immunity's Privacy Statement. This Privacy Statement governs the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information collected whenever you interact with us, including when you engage in any of our health promotion programs and services (“the Programs”), and when you visit and use our Students for Herd Immunity website (“the Website”).

This Privacy Statement explains the purpose for collecting Personal Information from you and the steps we take to secure that Personal Information. This Privacy Statement also explains how we can be contacted if a question arises about our privacy practices.

Students for Herd Immunity understands and is committed to protecting your Personal Information. Students for Herd Immunity is based in Canada and complies with applicable privacy laws. Students for Herd Immunity will always exercise due diligence in the collection, use, disclosure, storage, and retention of Personal Information in the provision of the Programs.

Students for Herd Immunity will continue to review this Privacy Statement to ensure it remains current with changing laws and regulations while meeting the evolving needs of the Programs and Website. In the event of any amendment to the Privacy Statement, a notice will be posted within this page. If you continue to use the Website or the Programs following an amendment to the Privacy Statement, you will be deemed to have consented to the updated Privacy Statement.

In this Privacy Statement, the terms "we", "our" and "us" refer to the Students for Herd Immunity. The terms "you", "user", and "your" refer to a user of the Website, a Program participant, and anyone who contacts us. If a Program participant is under age 18, consent of their legal guardian is required before any Personal Information of the minor may be sent to us. Neither the Programs nor the Website are directed at children under age 13.

Collection and Use of Personal Information

For the purposes of this Privacy Statement, the following terms will have the following meanings:

“Business Contact Information” means your business position, name or title, business address, business telephone number, business email address, and business fax number.

“Personal Information” means information about an identifiable individual but does not include "Business Contact Information" or general, statistical, or aggregated information that does not allow for the direct identification of an individual. Personal Information includes name, email address, school name, school location, and phone number, and images or photographs of an identifiable individual.

Our purpose is to promote the uptake of vaccine education through a health promotion and resource program for teachers, parents, and students. The Website provides opportunities for students, parents, and teachers to learn more about vaccines and for students to join the Programs, including the Ambassador Program, designed to train students to be health advocates in their own communities and tackle vaccine hesitancy at a grassroots level. Students learn about the basic science of vaccines, the problem of vaccine hesitancy, the social factors underlying vaccine hesitancy in marginalized communities, and key presentation skills.

Students for Herd Immunity limits the information we collect about you to what we need for the provision of the Programs and for internal business purposes only. These purposes include:

To review and verify your application for the Programs
To share contact information with volunteers, for the purpose of providing the Programs
To provide you support by means of e-mail, web, or telephone
For outreach initiatives, including updating our Website and posting on our social media accounts, solely for the purpose of furthering our mission statement
To prevent, detect, and investigate potentially prohibited or illegal activities, fraud, complaints and security breaches
To manage the Programs, including volunteer or employee training, dispute resolution, and legal compliance
To contact you to inquire about the Programs, notify you of opportunities that may be of interest, or share updates and developments with you. Specifically, Students for Herd Immunity will send out information through our mailing lists if you register on the Website. This information most often includes new opportunities for students, teachers, and parents interested in learning more about vaccines and immunization programs. Students for Herd Immunity may also occasionally send out surveys through our mailing lists. These surveys are primarily for our own evaluation purposes, to help us better understand how we can improve our programming and resources. Results from these surveys will only be used for internal analysis and reporting of these results to external sources will always be in aggregate and anonymous.

We will first obtain your consent if we wish to use your Personal Information for any other purpose. You are free to withdraw consent for use of your Personal Information at any time by unsubscribing from our email lists and/or by contacting us at info@studentsforherdimmunity.com.

Students for Herd Immunity recognizes the importance of respecting privacy and adheres to the following key principles:

Students for Herd Immunity is responsible for Personal Information under its control
Consent will be obtained for the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information, except where consent is not required by applicable law
The collection of Personal Information is limited to that which is related to the purposes identified by Students for Herd Immunity
Personal information will not be used or disclosed for purposes other than those for which it was collected, except with the consent of the user, as required by law or to enforce Students for Herd Immunity's legal rights or to prevent prohibited or illegal activities
Reasonable efforts will be made to ensure that Personal Information is as accurate, complete, and up-to-date as is necessary for the purposes for which it is used
Personal Information will be protected by reasonable and appropriate physical, organizational, contractual, and technological security measures, having regard to the sensitivity of the Personal Information
Information is available to the public regarding Students for Herd Immunity's policies and procedures relating to the handling and management of Personal Information
Individuals may request access or updates to their Personal Information

Disclosure and Retention of Personal Information

Students for Herd Immunity does not sell or trade Personal Information to third parties. Release of your Personal Information occurs only: as set out in this Privacy Statement; where we have your consent; to our suppliers, third-party service providers or agents who assist us in serving you; or where we are required or permitted to do so by law.

Students for Herd Immunity may use information from the Website, such as IP address, time spent on each page and other analytical data for statistical reporting, Website evaluation, and service improvement. This information is anonymized before analysis and will never be linked with any other information that could be used to identify you.

Students for Herd Immunity reserves the right (and you authorize us) to share or disclose your Personal Information when we determine, in our sole discretion, that the disclosure of such information is necessary or appropriate, including to enforce our rights against you or to prevent prohibited or illegal activities. Further, Students for Herd Immunity may disclose Personal Information if a law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena or court order legally requires or authorizes us to do so.

Additionally, Students for Herd Immunity reserves the right to disclose and to transfer Personal Information to a third party in the event of a proposed or actual purchase, sale, merger, amalgamation, or any other type of acquisition, disposition, or financing of all or any portion of Students for Herd Immunity or any of the assets of Students for Herd Immunity.

Students for Herd Immunity will retain your Personal Information only for the time it is required for the purposes stated. Should you choose to cancel or delete your Website account, your Personal Information will be kept for a minimum of one year in order to provide you with access to it in compliance with legislation.

Protecting Information

We protect your Personal Information with appropriate safeguards and security measures. Only those employees, volunteers, and/or contracted services involved in processing data have access to this information. Any employee or volunteer found in violation of our security or Privacy Statement is subject to disciplinary action.

We may use or store Personal Information in a location different than where you live. Personal Information may be subject to law enforcement access by the countries where it is stored in accordance with those countries’ laws.

When we transfer Personal information to another country or to a service provider, we use contractual and other measures to provide the same level of protection as when your information is handled by Students for Herd Immunity in Canada.

Email Addresses

When you send us an email or when you ask us to respond to you by email, we learn your exact email address and any information you have included in the email. We use your email address to acknowledge your comments and/or reply to your questions, and we may store your communication and our reply in case we need to correspond further.

Cookies

Cookies are small amounts of program code that a site places in a file associated with the web browser on your computer. The Website uses cookies to collect non-identifiable information that allows the user to interact with the Website in an effective way and improves the usability of the Website. The Website uses temporary cookies (also known as “session cookies”), which means that the information collected is temporary in nature and is deleted as soon as you close your browser.

External Links

The Website may contain links to other websites. Students for Herd Immunity is not responsible for the privacy practices of these websites. You should be aware that such third-party websites may collect data or solicit Personal Information from you. As we do not control such websites, we are not responsible for their privacy practices, or for the collection, use or disclosure of any data or Personal Information such websites may collect. Please read the website privacy statements and terms of use carefully prior to providing Personal Information to any website.

Contact Us

If you have any questions, comments or concerns regarding this Privacy Statement, please use the “Contact Us” page to discuss your needs or concerns or email us at info@studentsforherdimmunity.com.

Last Updated: May 18, 2022