Privacy/Legal

At Canadian Blood Services we are committed to protecting your personal information.  

We utilize a variety of administrative, physical and technical safeguards to protect your personal information against unauthorized access, use, and disclosure, in accordance with applicable privacy legislation and our privacy and security policies.    

Our comprehensive approach to protecting personal information at Canadian Blood Services includes:

• privacy and security policies requiring secure physical storage, encrypted information transmission, information handling and record retention requirements   
• privacy impact assessments 
• privacy incident management practices to identify, contain, investigate and report privacy incidents and breaches 
• privacy and security training for all our employees 
• agreements with third parties requiring safeguards to protect personal information. 

Your personal information may be collected, used and disclosed by third parties such as service providers, collaborators or researchers in accordance with our privacy notices, as applicable. In some cases, these third parties may collect your personal information directly from you and your personal information may be subject to their privacy policies. All third parties are contractually obligated to protect your personal information and to only collect, use and disclose the personal information they require for the purposes of providing services for, or on behalf of, Canadian Blood Services, or as outlined in our privacy notices, as applicable.

Access to your personal information is also limited to those who need access to it to perform their specific duties in relation to Canadian Blood Services.