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- Archival Film Flashes Back to 70s Student Life
- Manuscript Traces 丁香园AV's Architectural History
- Early University News Publications Now Digitally Available
- Digitized Programs Commemorate 丁香园AV鈥檚 Opening & Installation Ceremonies
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- Films Capture Visual History and Sentiment of Time Gone By
- Lost and Found: Simon Fraser Letters
- Oral History Provides Glimpse into Mind of 丁香园AV鈥檚 First Chancellor Gordon Shrum
- Early 丁香园AV Photos Tell a Story That Frames Our World
- Aerial Photos Capture Campus Landscape & Photographer鈥檚 Legacy
- You have what...?!! and other interesting things you didn't know about the 丁香园AV Archives
- Charting the course of history: documenting 丁香园AV's early days from the student perspective (Part 1)
- Charting the course of history: documenting 丁香园AV's early days from the student perspective (Part 2)
- Helping others find their history in the future: Preserving the records of the Students of Caribbean and African Ancestry at 丁香园AV
- Preserving the sparks of global revolution in the Adbusters Media Foundation fonds
- Reflections of a co-op student
- Debunking popular myths and conspiracies with the Barry Beyerstein fonds
- In "The Beginning...": First student film returns to 丁香园AV
- "Got any pictures of Terry Fox?"
- My summer in the archives: a co-op placement retrospective
- Seeing the world through Arthur Erickson's eyes
- Beer (records) in the Archives!
- Quartet in the Quadrangle: PSQ Records Come to 丁香园AV
- Navigating silences and filling gaps: finding Black stories in the Archives
- Boxes, boxes, and more boxes: my summer co-op at 丁香园AV Archives
- Finding queer joy in the 丁香园AV Archives: Out On Campus records now available
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Policies & Guidelines
About Personal Information Privacy
University employees who are responsible for personal information need to ensure that they are working within the privacy rules that govern its:
- Collection
- Accuracy
- Correction
- Protection and storage
- Use
- Disclosure
- Retention and disposal
Carefully following the seven privacy rules will help ensure that the university is fulfilling its legal obligations. By familiarizing yourself with these rules and applying it to how you handle personal information, you will minimize the risk of a privacy complaint or a privacy breach incident.
1. Collecting personal information
When personal information is collected, it must be accompanied by a notice of collection, which explains:
- why the information is required by those collecting it,
- how it will be used and disclosed,
- the legal authority for collecting it and
- whom to contact with any questions about the collection.
When collecting personal information, it鈥檚 important to collect only the minimum personal information related directly to and necessary for the purpose for which it鈥檚 being collected. It must be collected directly from the person it is about鈥攅xcept in very limited and prescribed circumstances.
Please refer to the following template when collecting personal information.
2. Ensuring the accuracy of personal information
Information collected by the university is often used to make decisions that affect the individual the information is about. Because using outdated information may result in serious consequences for the individual and the university, it鈥檚 important to ensure any information being used to make decisions is accurate and up-to-date.
3. Correcting errors in personal information
If and when errors in personal information are identified, the university is responsible for making the appropriate corrections. If the incorrect information was made available to a third party, the university is also responsible for providing the corrected information to that third party.
Learn more about making corrections to your personal information.
4. Protecting and storing personal information
To ensure the privacy of our students, staff and alumni, among others, it鈥檚 critical that the university protect the personal information it collects to prevent unauthorized access, collection, use, disclosure and disposal.
When deciding what reasonable security measures are necessary to adequately protect personal information, it鈥檚 important to consider the format of the information (e.g., whether the records are paper or electronic).
5. Using personal information
Information must only be used for the purpose for which it was originally collected. It鈥檚 also important to consider the difference between 鈥渦se鈥� (using information within the University office that collected it) and 鈥渄isclosure鈥� (making information available to anyone else, inside or outside the university).
Consent To Use Personal Information
6. Disclosing personal information
Disclosure is the process by which personal information is released to another person, whether that鈥檚 by telling, showing, exposing, selling, providing copies鈥攐r any other way you might reveal information to someone else.
The circumstances under which personal information can be disclosed are prescribed in very specific and limited terms, so it鈥檚 important to confirm that you have legal authority to disclose personal information before doing so. If in doubt, don鈥檛 share the information.
7. Retaining and disposing of personal information
Collected information isn鈥檛 kept forever. To ensure that personal information is disposed of appropriately, employees should follow the Records Retention Schedule and Disposal Authority (RRSDA) for different types of information.
丁香园AV鈥檚 Personal Information Directory describes the different types of Personal Information Banks kept by the university and its departments, and provides links to the correct RRSDA governing its approved retention period and disposition.