Privacy Policy

A legal disclaimer

Dexture Sarrazin Campaign – Papineau-Cameron Municipal Election

Effective Date: August 22, 2026

The Dexture Sarrazin campaign respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information entrusted to us by residents, supporters, volunteers and others who interact with our campaign.

We collect and use personal information only for legitimate campaign and electoral purposes and take reasonable steps to protect that information from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, loss or destruction.

1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Depending on how you interact with our campaign, we may collect information such as:

Your name
Mailing address
Email address
Telephone number
Information about your interest in volunteering
Your communication preferences
Information you voluntarily provide when contacting the campaign
Information relating to campaign events you choose to attend
Information relating to donations or contributions, where applicable
Information contained on the municipal voters' list provided to the campaign in accordance with Ontario's Municipal Elections Act, 1996

We will not knowingly collect sensitive personal information unless it is voluntarily provided and reasonably necessary for a legitimate campaign purpose.

2. HOW WE USE PERSONAL INFORMATION

Personal information may be used to:

Communicate with residents and supporters
Respond to inquiries and requests
Provide information about the campaign
Organize volunteers
Organize campaign events
Conduct lawful election-related communications
Manage campaign activities
Comply with Ontario municipal election and campaign-finance requirements
Maintain campaign financial records where required by law

We will not sell, rent or trade personal information.

We will not use personal information collected by the campaign for commercial marketing purposes.

3. MUNICIPAL VOTERS' LIST

If the campaign receives a voters' list from the municipal clerk, it will be handled in accordance with Ontario's Municipal Elections Act, 1996.

The voters' list will be used only for electoral purposes. Access to the voters' list will be limited to the candidate and authorized campaign workers who require access for legitimate campaign purposes.

Campaign workers who are provided with access to the voters' list will be required to comply with applicable legal requirements and campaign confidentiality requirements.

The campaign will not sell, distribute or otherwise use the voters' list for commercial purposes.

At the conclusion of the campaign, voters' list information will be returned or destroyed as required by law.

4. CAMPAIGN VOLUNTEERS

Campaign volunteers may have access to personal information only where necessary to perform an authorized campaign function.

Volunteers are expected to:

Keep personal information confidential
Use information only for authorized campaign purposes
Not copy or distribute information unnecessarily
Not use campaign information for personal, business or commercial purposes
Return or securely destroy information when their campaign role ends

Where required, volunteers will be provided with written instructions or confidentiality acknowledgements regarding their responsibilities.

5. EMAIL COMMUNICATIONS

If you provide your email address to the campaign, we may use it to communicate with you about campaign activities, events, policies and election-related information.

You may request that we stop sending you campaign communications at any time by contacting the campaign.

6. WEBSITE INFORMATION

Our website may collect basic technical information when you visit, including information such as your IP address, browser type, device information, pages visited, and the date and time of your visit.

This information may be used for website security, administration and basic website analytics.

Where third-party services such as website hosting, analytics, email services, event registration or social-media platforms are used, those services may collect information in accordance with their own privacy policies.

7. COOKIES

Our website may use cookies or similar technologies to improve website functionality, security and performance.

You may be able to control cookies through your web browser settings.

8. SOCIAL MEDIA

Our campaign may maintain accounts or pages on platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and other social-media services.

Interactions with those platforms are also subject to the privacy policies and terms of service of the respective platforms.

The campaign cannot control how those platforms independently collect or process information.

9. DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We will not disclose personal information to third parties except where:

You have provided consent;
The disclosure is necessary for an authorized campaign purpose;
The disclosure is necessary to provide a campaign service or function;
The disclosure is required by law; or
The disclosure is necessary to comply with Ontario's Municipal Elections Act, 1996 or other applicable legal requirements.

Where campaign service providers have access to personal information, the campaign will take reasonable steps to ensure that the information is used only for authorized campaign purposes.

10. INFORMATION SECURITY

We take reasonable administrative, technical and physical safeguards to protect personal information.

These measures may include:

Password-protected accounts
Restricted access to campaign information
Secure electronic storage
Limiting access to volunteers based on their campaign responsibilities
Secure disposal of paper records
Secure deletion of electronic records when information is no longer required

No electronic system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. However, the campaign will take reasonable steps to reduce the risk of unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction of personal information.

11. RETENTION OF INFORMATION

Personal information will be retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or where retention is required by law.

Campaign financial records will be retained in accordance with applicable Ontario municipal election requirements.

Information contained in the municipal voters' list will be returned or destroyed in accordance with the Municipal Elections Act, 1996.

12. ACCESS AND CORRECTION

If you believe that the campaign holds personal information about you and would like to:

Ask what information we have;
Request correction of inaccurate information; or
Ask how your information is being used;

you may contact the campaign using the contact information below.

We will make reasonable efforts to respond to your request.

13. CHILDREN

The campaign does not knowingly collect personal information from children for campaign purposes.

Parents or guardians who believe that a child has provided personal information to the campaign may contact us and request that the information be removed.

14. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time to reflect changes to our campaign practices or applicable legal requirements.

The most current version of this Privacy Policy will be posted on the campaign website.

15. CONTACT US

Questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy may be directed to:

Dexture Sarrazin Campaign

Papineau-Cameron Municipal Election

Email: me@dexture.ca

By interacting with the Dexture Sarrazin campaign, you acknowledge that you have had an opportunity to review this Privacy Policy.

Campaign information will be maintained separately from any information accessed or obtained through municipal employment or municipal systems. Municipal records, systems, equipment and confidential information will not be used for campaign purposes.