Peace Arch Hospital Auxiliary Society Privacy policy.

We value the support of all our donors, volunteers, customers of our shops, and others who support the Peace Arch Hospital Auxiliary Society in their numerous ways. We know that protecting your personal information is important, and we respect your privacy.

Any abuse of private information is grounds for termination of any staff member or volunteer.

Our privacy policy will be available in the footer of every page on our website, and it highlights our commitment to secure processing and handling of your data.

Analytics

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Certain data is collected to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device model.

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming this website, i.e. if you clicked on a google ad to come here.

  • Your IP address to determine the number of unique users.

This information may include:

  • Clicks

  • Internal Links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

Squarespace collects this data to power our analytics, and to analyze our traffic and activity. All this data is de-personalized and no employee of Squarespace, nor volunteer at Peace Arch Hospital Auxiliary Society is able to determine or contact any individual user from the data.

Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.

These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

Volunteer Application Information

In order to maintain a roster of dedicated volunteers, we have a fairly rigorous screening process that involves a lot of personal identifying information. We require:

  • Full Name

  • Phone Number

  • Email Address

  • Physical Address

  • 2 References (incl. contact info)

  • Criminal Background Check

  • Emergency Contact Info

All of this information is kept on file, and only accessible by Peace Arch Hospital Auxiliary Society admin staff. Your Emergency Contact info is only used in the event of an emergency at one of our events or meetings. Your references will only be contacted by staff and volunteers tasked with processing your application. The results of your criminal background check are used only in processing your application, and are destroyed once your application is complete.