{"id":245,"date":"2025-08-21T13:44:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T17:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/registrar\/?page_id=245"},"modified":"2025-11-13T12:46:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T17:46:29","slug":"policies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/registrar\/about\/policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Policies"},"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-max  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n                    \n                    \n            \n    <div class=\"cu-wideimage relative flex items-center justify-center mx-auto px-8 overflow-hidden md:px-16 rounded-xl not-prose  my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 bg-opacity-50 bg-cover bg-cu-black-50 py-24 md:py-28 lg:py-36 xl:py-48\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/carleton.ca\/registrar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/198\/2025\/08\/high-angle-uncompleted-checking-boxes-1600x700.jpg); background-position: 50% 50%;\">\n\n                    <div class=\"absolute top-0 w-full h-screen\" style=\"background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.700);\"><\/div>\n        \n        <div class=\"relative z-[2] max-w-4xl w-full flex flex-col items-center gap-2 cu-wideimage-image cu-zero-first-last\">\n            <header class=\"mx-auto mb-6 text-center text-white cu-pageheader cu-component-updated cu-pageheader--center md:mb-12\">\n\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold mb-2 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] cu-pageheader--center text-center mx-auto after:left-px\">\n                        Our Policies\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                            <\/header>\n        <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"w-full max-w-xl mx-auto overflow-hidden bg-white rounded-lg shadow-lg cu-stackedlist cu-component not-contained not-prose\">\n    <h2 class=\"px-6 py-4 text-base font-semibold border-b rounded-t-lg md:text-xl bg-gray-50 text-cu-black-800\">\n        Table of Contents\n    <\/h2>\n    <div class=\"grid cu-scrollto cu-stackedlist--toc cu-stackedlist--1 md:grid-cols-1\">\n            <div class=\"space-y-1\">\n                    \n            <div class=\"pl-4 text-cu-red-700\">\n                <div class=\"flex gap-2 pb-3 text-base md:text-lg\">\n                    <span class=\"font-light text-cu-black-700\">\n                        1.\n                    <\/span>\n\n                    <a href=\"#privacy-policy\" class=\"font-medium hover:underline\">\n                        Privacy Policy\n                    <\/a>\n                <\/div>\n\n                            <\/div>\n                    \n            <div class=\"pl-4 text-cu-red-700\">\n                <div class=\"flex gap-2 pb-3 text-base md:text-lg\">\n                    <span class=\"font-light text-cu-black-700\">\n                        2.\n                    <\/span>\n\n                    <a href=\"#record-retention\" class=\"font-medium hover:underline\">\n                        Record Retention\n                    <\/a>\n                <\/div>\n\n                            <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"privacy-policy\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Privacy Policy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We recognize and respect the importance of your privacy at Carleton University. Personal information is collected in accordance with Sections 38(2) and 41(1) of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA), R.S.0 1990, c.F.31 as amended. The provided information will only be used to support your student record and will only be shared as needed to support your inquiries. Carleton University is fully compliant with FIPPA and endeavors at all times to treat your personal information in accordance with this law. Please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/fippa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">visit\u00a0Carleton\u2019s FIPPA website<\/a>\u00a0for more information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you choose to authorize the release of your personal academic information to a third party, you will need to complete a third-party release form. <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/registrar\/third-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">See the the\u00a0Release of Information to a Third Party webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"record-retention\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Record Retention<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>All documents submitted to the University by way of an application for admission, residence, financial awards, appeals or petitions become the property of the University. All original documents submitted form an official part of the student record and only copies of the original will be open to access. Carleton University currently retains electronic student files for all students in compliance with the University\u2019s privacy policy. Original documents that have been digitized for inclusion in the student\u2019s file are destroyed in compliance with the University\u2019s privacy policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Privacy Policy We recognize and respect the importance of your privacy at Carleton University. Personal information is collected in accordance with Sections 38(2) and 41(1) of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA), R.S.0 1990, c.F.31 as amended. 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