{"id":7,"date":"2009-07-23T09:03:09","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T13:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/privacy\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2026-03-31T11:53:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T15:53:54","slug":"about-privacy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/privacy\/about-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"About Privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        About Privacy\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>As a statutory corporation, Carleton University enjoys a high degree of self-regulation and autonomy. However, Carleton is also a publicly funded institution. It has a responsibility to be transparent in its governance and accountable &#8211; both to its public and private funders and to the Carleton community. As a result, Ontario universities were brought under the provisions of the <em class=\"myprefix-text-italic\">Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act<\/em> in 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carleton University is also accountable under other pieces of Canadian privacy legislation for the following operations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Financial transactions conducted as part of the operations of ancillary units such as the book store and food services. These are regulated in part by the federal\u00a0<em class=\"myprefix-text-italic\">Personal Information and Protection of Electronic Documents Act<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Delivery of healthcare by Health and Counselling Services or the Paul Menton Centre for Students with Disabilities. These activities and files are mostly regulated by <em class=\"myprefix-text-italic\">Ontario&#8217;s\u00a0Personal Health Information Protection Act<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Commercial electronic messages sent by the university are subject to Canada&#8217;s Anti-Spam Legislation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a statutory corporation, Carleton University enjoys a high degree of self-regulation and autonomy. However, Carleton is also a publicly funded institution. It has a responsibility to be transparent in its governance and accountable &#8211; both to its public and private funders and to the Carleton community. As a result, Ontario universities were brought under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/privacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/privacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/privacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/privacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/privacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/privacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":653,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/privacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/privacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/privacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}