Privacy policy & terms of use

Privacy policy

Waitingtobelong.ca is an initiative of Focus on the Family Canada (Focus Canada) and respects the privacy of those who visit our website. We protect your personal information and adhere to all legislative requirements with respect to protecting privacy. We DO NOT rent, sell, or trade personal information. The information collected will be used to improve your user experience, deliver resource materials, provide tax receipts, to contact prize winners and to keep you informed and up to date on the activities of Focus on the Family (Canada) Association, including programs, services, special events, funding needs, opportunities to volunteer or to give and more through periodic contacts.

If at any time you wish to be removed from any of these contacts simply contact us by phone at 1.800.661.9800 or via email at [email protected] and we will gladly accommodate your request.

Focus on the Family Canada does not sell, lease or rent your confidential information. However, we may need to disclose personal information as required by law, such as a law, regulation, court order, subpoena, search warrant, in the course of a legal proceeding or in response to a law enforcement agency request, to enforce our Terms of Service, or site rules; or to protect the safety and security of our visitors and our sites.

The information you provide to us, including any personal information, may be shared with third party service providers with whom we have a contractual agreement that includes strict privacy and confidentiality standards, where such third parties are assisting us with hosting, data storage or processing.

Data collected may be stored on servers outside of Canada. To the extent that any data including personal information is out of the country, it is subject to the laws of the country in which it is held, and may be subject to disclosure to the governments, courts or law enforcement or regulatory agencies of such other country, pursuant to the laws of such country.

Terms of use

Permissions and copyright

Content and design are copyright by Focus on the Family Canada. Copyright is secured automatically upon creation. We encourage you to reproduce and distribute any of Waiting to Belong’s free content, provided that the unaltered content is reproduced in its entirety including full identifying information and that you do not charge for the content in any way.

Please note the photo images on Waitingtobelong.ca web pages are used under license from third parties. As a result, we are not allowed to give access to them.

If you seek permission to use any content created by Waiting to Belong for any use not allowed above, such as commercial use and/or to edit, please contact us at [email protected].

Quality of information

Waiting to Belong is committed to providing information with a level of accuracy and integrity that reflects our Christian values. Waiting to Belong seeks to provide information that is up–to–date, yet there may be recent changes or inadvertent errors in the content. In the event that there is an error in content or if you feel our commitment to quality information is not being followed, you are invited to contact us at [email protected].

External links

The Waitingtobelong.ca website and its related e–newsletters, by nature of the medium, contain hyperlinks to information maintained by other organizations. Focus Canada cannot guarantee the accuracy of this outside information, nor are the external links meant to be endorsements of other organizations and their views. These links are provided for your convenience.