Privacy

Your privacy is important to us!

We’re dedicated to protecting your privacy and securing your personal and financial information. In line with this commitment, we have established a privacy program that includes policies and procedures designed to safeguard your personal information. This program, overseen by the Affinity Credit Union Privacy Office, is based on the ten fair information principles outlined in Canada’s federal privacy law for the private sector, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). These principles include:

  1. Accountability — We have established internal standards and methods to securely handle your personal data, and our Chief Privacy Officer is in charge of overseeing these processes.
  2. Identifying purposes — We let you know why we gather, use and share your information.
  3. Consent — We always get your consent to gather, use or share your information, unless the law permits or requires us to do so without it.
  4. Limiting collection — We only gather the personal information we need for the purposes we’ve identified.
  5. Limiting use, disclosure and retention — We restrict the use and sharing of personal information, and we only use and keep information for the reasons it was collected, unless you agree to other uses.
  6. Accuracy — We strive to keep your information as precise, complete and current as necessary for its intended use.
  7. Safeguards — We implement suitable safeguards to protect your information from loss, theft, and unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.
  8. Openness — We are transparent about how we handle your information and make our privacy policies accessible.
  9. Individual access — You have the right to request access to your personal information, and we will respond in accordance with applicable law.
  10. Challenging compliance — You have the right to question our adherence to these principles.

Please review our full Privacy Policy for more details on our personal information handling practices and your options to control our use of your information.

Website Privacy Policy

We collect only personal information that is required to improve the services we offer, to improve our site content and, with your permission, to contact you with information about our services. We will not share any personal information obtained on this web site with any other organization without your express knowledge and consent.

Our site collects information based on a visitor’s Internet Protocol (IP) address. Information collected includes the date and time of visit, the type of Internet browser used to access the site, the referring address (the link a visitor uses to access the site). This data is used to create statistics on site usage and improve online services.

Links to Other Websites

Our website features links to other sites that are part of, affiliated with, or have a business relationship with us. When you navigate away from our site to visit one of these other sites, the only information transferred to the new site is the fact that you came from our website (the referring address). This transmission allows other sites to track their own web traffic, but it does not reveal any of your personal information.

Cookies

We use cookie technology to initiate and maintain internet session connections and to compile aggregated statistics about web site usage. In no case is cookie stored information used to access personal information nor is the information made available to other organizations.

To use our online banking services, you must enable your browser to accept cookies. For more information on enabling and disabling cookies, please refer to your browser's Help section.

JavaScript

We use JavaScript for some advanced functions on our website. To fully utilize all the online banking capabilities of the website, please enable JavaScript on your browser. Please refer to your browser's Help section.

Contact the Affinity Privacy Office

You can contact the Affinity Privacy Office if you have any questions or concerns about how we have handled your information, to submit a written request for access to your information or to request an amendment to information we hold about you.

Affinity Privacy Office
Email: privacyoffice@affinitycu.ca
Mail: Affinity Credit Union, PO Box 1330, Saskatoon, SK, S7K 3P4