Privacy Policy

Last Updated: August 14, 2026

 

The John Ongaro for Northwood Ward campaign respects your privacy and is committed to handling personal information responsibly.

 

This Privacy Policy explains how information may be collected, used and protected when you visit johnongaro.ca, contact the campaign, subscribe to campaign communications, volunteer, or otherwise interact with the campaign through this website.

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Information We May Collect Depending on how you use this website, we may collect information that you voluntarily provide, including:

• Your name

• Email address

• Telephone number

• Mailing address

• Information submitted through contact, volunteer or campaign forms

• Communications or comments you send to the campaign

 

The website may also automatically collect limited technical information, such as browser type, device type, general geographic information, referring website, pages visited and other website usage information.

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How We Use Your Information
 

Information collected through this website may be used to:

• Respond to questions, comments and requests

• Communicate campaign news, events and updates

• Coordinate volunteers and campaign activities

• Improve the website and understand how visitors use it

• Maintain the security and operation of the website

• Meet applicable legal and regulatory requirements
   

Personal information will not be sold or rented to third parties.
 

Information may be shared with service providers that assist with website hosting, email communications, website analytics or other campaign operations when necessary to provide those services.
 

Email Communications

If you choose to subscribe to campaign emails or provide your email address for campaign communications, we may use that address to send you campaign news and information.

Where applicable, campaign electronic communications will provide a method to unsubscribe. You may also contact the campaign at any time to request that your email address be removed from a campaign mailing list.

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Cookies and Website Analytics

This website may use cookies or similar technologies to help the website function properly and to understand how visitors use the site.

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Third-party services used by the website, including website hosting, analytics, embedded media or social media services, may also use cookies or collect technical information according to their own privacy policies.

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You can control or disable cookies through your web browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect the operation of some website features.

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Links to Other Websites

This website may contain links to external websites, social media platforms or other third-party services.

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The John Ongaro for Northwood Ward campaign is not responsible for the privacy practices, accessibility, security or content of external websites. Visitors are encouraged to review the privacy policies of those services.

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Protecting Your Information

Reasonable administrative and technical measures are used to protect personal information collected through the website.

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However, no website, electronic communication or Internet-based storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

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Retention of Information

Personal information will be retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, campaign administration, or to satisfy applicable legal or regulatory requirements.

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When information is no longer required, reasonable steps will be taken to securely delete, destroy or anonymize it, as appropriate.

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Your Information

You may contact the campaign to ask about personal information you have provided through the website, request a correction, or request that information be removed where appropriate.

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Questions or requests concerning privacy can be submitted through the contact information provided on johnongaro.ca.

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Changes to This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated periodically to reflect changes to the website, campaign activities, technology or applicable requirements.

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The date at the top of this page will indicate when the policy was most recently updated.