Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy was last updated on November 4th, 2025.
The Globe and Mail Foundation (the “Foundation”, “we”, “us”, “our”) recognizes the importance of protecting the privacy of your personal information. We have prepared this Privacy Policy to provide you with information about our privacy practices. Our Privacy Policy applies to personal information that is collected by the Foundation when you visit our website (the “Site”), make donations, request information, attend events or interact with the Foundation.
Certain personal information that falls outside the scope of applicable privacy laws is not covered by this Privacy Policy. For example, personal information collected and used for journalistic purposes is excluded from this policy. Other exceptions can be found in the ‘Exclusions’ section of this policy.
1. Information we may collect
Information That You Provide
When you register, or otherwise interact with our services, you may be asked to provide certain personal information.
You can visit the Site without registering or giving us any personal information.
You may voluntarily provide us with information including your name, email address, phone number, organization, affiliations, and other information about you when using the Site, such as if you:
Make a donation
Request information or respond to surveys
Correspond with us through the contact information on the Site, such as by phone or email
If you provide us with personal information of anyone other than yourself, you are responsible for obtaining all necessary consents from the individuals whose personal information you give us for the purposes described in this policy.
Information Automatically Collected Through Your Use of the Site
When you visit the Site, we may automatically collect, though the use of cookies or similar technological measures:
Technical information, including the internet protocol used to connect your device to the internet, device type, browser type and version, time zone setting, operating systems and platforms;
Information about your visit, including uniform resource locator of the website you arrive from and depart to, Site usage information such as the pages you view, the length of time spent on specific pages, and other visitor engagement information.
More Information About Cookies and Other Similar Technologies:
The Foundation uses cookies and other commonly used technologies such as JavaScript, web beacons, device identifiers, and pixel tags to collect automated information. Cookies are small text files containing a unique identifier that are placed in your browser in order to store information about your web browsing and usage of our sites. For example: user IDs for visitors logged-in to the Site, device IP address and usage data.
For more information on how to disable cookies, see Your Choices.
Our Site uses web analytics services. These providers use cookies to help us analyze how visitors use the sites. For example, with Google Analytics, the information generated by the cookie about your use of the sites (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by a Google server. Google uses this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the sites, compiling reports on site activity for us, and providing us with other services relating to site activity and internet usage. For more information about Google Analytics or to prevent the storage and processing of this data (including your IP address) by Google, you can download and install the browser plug-in available here. You can also obtain additional information on Google Analytics’ data privacy and security at the following links:
https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
https://support.google.com/analytics/topic/2919631
2. How we use Your Personal Information
The personal information we collect may be used for the purposes for which it was collected, as provided in this Privacy Statement, or for other purposes that are disclosed to you. By using this Site, you are giving your consent for us to collect, use or disclose your personal information for these purposes. These purposes include:
Accepting and managing your donations
Providing you with requested information
to make improvements to our Site and to develop new charitable campaigns and initiatives
to measure or understand the effectiveness of our content, campaigns and events
to offer you promotions, offers and discounts
to administer your participation in contests, surveys, promotions, or events
to communicate with you
to maintain and improve the security of our Site and to detect and prevent fraud
to facilitate the general management and administration of the Foundation, including to meet our regulatory, legal, insurance, audit, security and processing requirements
for any other purpose with your consent
3. Your Choices
What you can do if you wish to withdraw your consent or change your personal information:
Email. To unsubscribe from email communications from the Foundation, please click the unsubscribe link or other method indicated in the footer of the communication. Your opt-out applies to the type of communication that you unsubscribe from, and you may continue to receive essential transactional or account-related communications, for instance in respect of ongoing donations or event enrollment.
Cookies. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies but offer a number of ways to control cookie preferences. Typically, users can: disable all cookies (not recommended), require approval each time a site attempts to place a cookie, remove cookies manually, or have them deleted automatically after a certain period. For step-by-step instructions on how to modify cookie preferences, please consult your browser’s support documentation. You can find instructions for commonly used browsers here:
The Foundation does not require you to accept cookies, but disabling cookies on your browser may reduce the functionality of some Services.
4. Security
The Foundation has put in place reasonable physical, electronic, contractual and managerial measures designed to protect the information we collect from loss, theft, and unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use, or modification. Personal information may only be accessed by persons within the Foundation who require such access to carry our purposes as described above.
5. Service providers, disclosures and information stored abroad
In some cases, the Foundation will share personal information with service providers to perform activities on our behalf, such as processing payments, maintaining technology and related infrastructure, delivering communications and services, offering you customer service, providing advertising and analytics services, administering contests, surveys, events, promotions, and hosting our data. Our policy is to require such parties, by contractual or other means, to process personal information consistent with the standards set out in this policy. Your personal information may be transferred to our service providers or affiliates located outside of your province, or outside of Canada (including in the United States and the E.U.), for storage and processing.
Business Partners
Some of our events, contests, promotions, or surveys may be organized together with one or more third parties. We might share your personal information with such third parties for event management, administration, communication, and analysis purposes, and we will inform you if they will have access to your information. In some cases, you will be asked if you want to share select information (for example, your email address) with the third party, in which case your personal information will be subject to the privacy policy of that third party.
6. Data retention and deletion
We retain your personal information for as long as is necessary or relevant for the purpose of collection, or as may be required by applicable law.
Once the applicable retention period has expired, we will either dispose of your information, or under some circumstances, we may anonymize it so that it can no longer be associated with you.
If you would like the Foundation to delete all or some of the Personal Information that you provide, please email us hello@globeandmailfoundation.com. Please note, even if you make such a request, the Foundation may retain your personal information in accordance with applicable laws, or as necessary to continue to provide services to you, or to manage your donations.
7. Access and correction
You have the right to request access to, to update, and to correct inaccuracies in your personal information in our custody and control, subject to limited exceptions under applicable law.
If you require assistance, you can make a request for correction or access in writing by email at hello@globeandmailfoundation.com. We may require personal information from you to verify your identity to process your request.
8. Specific exclusions
Our sites may include links to other third-party websites, plug-ins, services, social networks, or applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow the third party to collect or share data about you. For example, if you navigate away from our sites by clicking on an ad or other link, other parties may also place a cookie in your browser. The Foundation does not control, nor is responsible for the activities or practices of any of these other parties. Any such data use and collection is governed by their privacy policies.
9. Updates to our Privacy Policy
The Foundation may update this policy from time to time to reflect changes in our personal information practices.
10. Contacting the foundation regarding your privacy
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, you may contact the Foundation’s Privacy Officer by email at hello@globeandmailfoundation.com or by mail at:
The Globe and Mail Foundation Privacy Officer
The Globe and Mail Foundation
65 Queen Street West, Suite 303
Toronto, ON Canada M5H 2M5