Privacy Policy

The Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform’s (CAAR) Privacy Officer is Dom Repta. CAAR respects your right to privacy and is committed to maintaining your confidence and trust. CAAR’s Privacy Policy has been updated, and our programs reviewed to ensure that we are compliant with Canada 's Personal Information and Protection and Electronic Documents Act.

Our website is designed to enable you take action and help save threatened wild salmon. Because of this, many areas of the site require personal identification in order to be effective and considered legitimate by decision makers. This information is required on correspondence with decision makers to authenticate your letters, and to receive a written response.

We provide you with the option to become a Member of CAAR. If you choose to become a member, the personal information you provide is stored in a secure location and is accessible only by designated staff. It will never be sold of traded. We will not disclose this information to others except to send it, along with your message, to the targeted government or corporate officials you have chosen to communicate with through our systems at your request.

When you become a Member of CAAR you will receive updates, action alerts and newsletters from us. We endeavor not to send more than one email alert to you each week. These alerts may contain an appeal for donations. We will generally not send more than 4 action alerts a year that are dedicated specifically to fundraising.

You may make a request to be removed from our membership list. These requests are subject to Section 9 of the Personal Information and Protection and Electronic Documents Act, and may take up to 30 days to be fulfilled .

In each case, you will always have the option of unsubscribing from mailings lists, and on request, CAAR will be pleased to erase all record of your personal information from our secure server.
From time to time, CAAR may trade your name with other carefully screened, like-minded organizations form the social justice or environmental community for limited use. This use includes fundraising appeals. We do this in order to expand our opportunity to serve Canadians and people from around the world. If you don't want your name to be traded, please contact us Be sure to provide your full name, so we can make a notation in our file about your request. .