Raelian Church
Privacy and Personal Information Protection Policy*

This “Policy” informs you of our practices regarding the collection, use, disclosure, retention and destruction of your personal information (PI) in accordance with the Act Respecting the Protection of Personal Information in the Private Sector (ARPPIPS) – Act 25.

A PI must relate to a physical individual and make it possible to identify him or her or to confirm his or her identity. For example, your name, personal e-mail address, address, telephone number, or access codes. This is to obtain our services via our Web sites: rael.org, raelcanada.org, elohim.net, and our various event and activity registration forms.

By submitting PI to us, you consent to the processing of your PI as set forth in this Policy. And you authorize the Raelian Church Team and its product and service providers to process your PI for the purposes set out below.

What information do we collect?

A) PI automatically collected

When you visit and use our websites, we may automatically collect and store the following information:

  • Location;
  • The pages consulted on our websites.

This communication is necessary for the server to transmit a file compatible with the computer equipment you are using.

This information is kept and used by the Raelian Church Team for technical and statistical purposes in order to record the number of visits, the most frequently visited pages, the technology used by visitors, the referring sites, and the country of origin of visitors.

B) PI collected non-automatically

When you visit and use our websites, we may also collect and process various types of PI about you in the course of carrying out our activities and services:

  • Identity information, such as first and last name;
  • Contact details, such as a personal e-mail address;
  • Acceptance of cookies.

We use cookies to understand how you interact with our site. By accepting, you consent to their use for statistical purposes for our websites.

Information about the use and details of your visits to our websites, your interaction with our online content, or information collected through cookies.

And any other PI voluntarily provided by e-mail, in particular via the “contact” or “contact us” sections of information request forms.

If you are a minor under the age of 14, please do not provide us with any PI without the express consent of a parent or a tutor.

How do we collect your personal information (PI)?

We collect your PI when you:

  • Request information via our “contact” or “contact us” forms on our websites;  
  • Subscribe to our newsletter via the e-mail input field on our Web sites;
  • Registering for parties, celebrations, or universities of happiness via our Web sites or other means;
  • Act of apostasy or membership and commitment forms to the structure of the International Raelian Movement.

We only collect PI that helps us achieve the purposes set out in this Policy.

How do we use your personal information (PI)?

Your PI will be used in accordance with applicable PI protection legislation and the consent you have given.

We may therefore use your PI in the following circumstances and for the following purposes:

  • To provide, administer and perform the services we offer;
  • To respond to requests for information from visitors to our Web sites;
  • To send newsletters and communications to people who have sent us their e-mail address to subscribe. The person concerned may unsubscribe at any time;
  • To satisfy and comply with legal, regulatory or risk management obligations.

We will use PI only to achieve the primary purpose for which it was collected and for legitimate purposes compatible with that primary purpose.

With whom do we share personal information (PI)?

We may share your PI, in addition to our members of the Raelian Church and the structure of the International Raelian Movement, with certain third parties, including the following:

  • Third-party service providers who help us establish, manage and maintain our relationship with you, and provide products and services to us, including those who host our websites, online registration or survey forms;
  • These third parties may access or process PI in connection with the services they provide to us. We limit the information we provide to these service providers to that which is reasonably necessary for them to perform their functions, and our written contracts with these service providers require them to take reasonable and lawful steps to maintain the confidentiality of such information;
  • Governmental, regulatory or law enforcement agencies when we are required to disclose such information or if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to comply with applicable laws.

The Raelian Church Team Web sites may contain hyperlinks to other sites. Information exchanged on these sites is not subject to this Policy, but to that of the relevant external site, if one exists. As such, we are not responsible for and have no control over their privacy policies and practices. In such cases, we invite you to consult their policies and practices before disclosing your PI to these third parties.

How long do we keep personal information (PI)?

We will retain your personal information for the purposes for which it was provided to us and for any compatible or related authorized purposes. We will therefore cease using your personal information and destroy it as soon as the purposes in question have been fulfilled.

How do we protect personal information (PI)?

We recognize that information security is an integral part of PI confidentiality.

We maintain reasonable physical, technical or procedural safeguards to protect your PI from unauthorized access, use, disclosure or destruction and against any other infringement of the protection of such information that does not comply with current legislation.

We have a comprehensive cyber security policy and tools in place to protect our visitors’ information. We use, among other things, double authentication for newsletter registration, password managers for access to personal files, a virtual private network, a firewall and more, in accordance with best practices.

However, despite our precautions, information transmitted over the Internet and stored in systems connected to the Internet cannot be 100% secure. We therefore cannot ensure the security or integrity of such information, or guarantee it beyond what is reasonably practical.

What rights does an individual have with regards to his or her personal information (PI)?

As a user, you have the right to access your PI collected as a result of your consent, to update or correct any PI in our possession provided that such request is admissible under the law.

You may choose to withdraw or modify your consent to the collection and use of PI at any time, provided that it is legally acceptable to do so and that you have informed us within a reasonable period of time.

If you are not satisfied with the way in which your request for access or rectification of your PI has been handled, in particular in the event of no response or an unsatisfactory response, you may submit a request to the Commission for Access to Information for a review of the disagreement (https://www.cai.gouv.qc.ca/english).

How do we use cookies?

When you use our Web sites, we may set a cookie on your computer. Cookies are small data files created by your Web browser and stored on your computer.

These cookies may have several functions, including improving the operation of our Web site. We use other cookies for statistical purposes only. You can choose to be notified each time a cookie is sent.

You can also choose to disable cookies entirely in your web browser, but this may reduce the quality of your user experience.

We may use third-party cookies on our site for the following purposes:

  • Cookies are used for statistical purposes only;
  • For more information about the cookies we use, please consult our Cookie Policy, which forms part of this Policy.

How to contact us?

If you have any questions about this Policy or how we handle your PI, or to exercise your rights, please contact our Privacy Officer by e-mail at the following address rp@rael.org.

How do we update this Policy?

We may change the content of our websites and the manner in which we use cookies without notice and, accordingly, this Policy. Our cookie policy may be changed at any time in accordance with the law.

Date: December 2024

* SOURCE:
Technologies BlueEden Inc., CY-Clic et Dubé Latreille Avocats Inc., hereafter “L’Équipe MesProcédures.ca“