Privacy
Our approach to privacy is to ensure the responsible use of information and safeguarding human dignity while optimizing the beneficial use of data for decision-making.
At Selkirk College, privacy risk management is a cross-organizational process. Selkirk College's practice is to minimize adverse outcomes for individuals' and adhering to a societal standard.
Selkirk College is committed to:
- Compliance with all federal and provincial statues and legislations governing privacy
- Ensuring the privacy of student and employee information
- Optimizing beneficial use of data while minimizing negative outcomes
- Best practice measures and procedures to ensure effective management of the information within the College’s custody and control
- Supporting ethical decision making
- Minimizing embarrassment, stigmas, discrimination, economic loss, and physical harm
- Collecting and using personal information only for the purposes of which it was initially collected and if required for related purposes subsequent to this policy and requirements of the College and Institution Act and the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act
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Working under the guidance of the Office of the Information & Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia
- For the solid basics on privacy, follow this Lesson Plan
To read Selkirk College's full Protection of Privacy policy, please refer to Policy 6550.
For all requests for information use this form.
For questions and concerns about privacy, please contact Selkirk College's Privacy Officer at privacy@selkirk.ca