SeaChoice respects your right to privacy and is committed to maintaining your confidence and trust. Our privacy policy complies with the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act.

Our website is designed to enable you to take action to improve the sustainability of seafood procured in, and imported into, Canada. Because of this, some areas of the site require personal identification in order to be effective and considered legitimate by decision makers. This information is required on correspondence with decision makers to authenticate your letters and to receive a written response.

We use cookies and other technology on our website to make it easier to use and so that we can learn about how you use them. Information collected this way may include (but is not limited to) the type of web browser and operating system you used, which of our website pages you visited and how you arrived at our site. We use links in our newsletters to track open and click-through rates to help us learn what topics appeal to you most.

In some cases, interacting with our websites, social media accounts or emails provides us with “anonymous” data, such as IP address, link clicks, page visits, the time spent on a page, etc. We use Google Analytics on our website to learn where you are, when you’re using our site and what content you find most interesting. This helps us stay relevant.

Any personal information you provide is stored in a secure location and is accessible only by designated staff. It will never be sold or traded. We will not disclose this information to others except to send it, along with your message, to the targeted government or corporate officials you have chosen to communicate with through our systems at your request.

When you subscribe to SeaChoice, you will receive updates, action alerts, newsletters and notice of our reports and publications. To subscribe, you will need to provide your email address, and then click on a link in a confirmation email in order to confirm your subscription. When you provide your email address to SeaChoice you consent to receive updates, action alerts, newsletters and notice of our reports and publications. You may unsubscribe at any time.

You may make a request to be removed from our list. These requests are subject to Section 9 of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act and may take up to 30 days to be fulfilled. You always have the option to unsubscribe and on request, SeaChoice will be pleased to erase all record of your personal information from our secure server.

We may change this policy from time to time without warning. Changes will be reflected on this page.

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@seachoice.org.