Terms and conditions

Subscriptions to the Parks Canada Mainland Nova Scotia newsletter

The following information pertains to the Parks Canada Mainland Nova Scotia newsletter. All email communications are done in accordance with Canada's anti-spam legislation (CASL), the Privacy Act and other applicable laws. Your consent is required for your email address to be used to provide you with information for promotional purposes. Subscribers provide consent to receive emails from Parks Canada about special events, promotions and more.

Secure collection and storage of personal information

The information you provide is collected under the authority of section 8 of the Parks Canada Agency Act to administer the Parks Canada Mainland Nova Scotia Newsletter. You have the right to the protection of, access to, and correction of your personal information, which is described in Personal Information Bank Public Communications (PSU 914). Information specific to accessing your personal information can be found below.

Personal information as defined in section 3 of the Privacy Act, is recorded information about an identifiable individual. Parks Canada Mainland Nova Scotia newsletter subscriber information is collected using secure, encrypted web pages and stored on secured servers in Canada. We use SSL to encrypt data going between your web browser and our website. This means that any information you send to us cannot be viewed by anyone else. You will notice a little “closed lock” icon beside the address bar above or at the bottom of your browser when connected securely to us. You will also know that you are on a secure page when the web address begins with "https:"

You have the right to file a complaint with the Privacy Commissioner of Canada regarding the institution’s handling of your personal information.

Use of personal information

To respect your privacy and protect you, we only collect the personal information necessary to administer Parks Canada Mainland Nova Scotia newsletter. Your personal information will only be used to send you promotional emails and/or information updates from Parks Canada Mainland Nova Scotia. In critical situations, your information could also be used to send you informational emails that would greatly impact your visit to our places (e.g. closures).

The information you provide may be used and/or disclosed internally for policy analysis, research and/or evaluation purposes. However, these additional uses and/or disclosures of your personal information will never result in an administrative decision being made about you.
The Parks Canada Mainland Nova Scotia newsletter is administered by Parks Canada Mainland Nova Scotia with the help of a third-party email marketing platform (Cyberimpact). Your personal information will only be kept on this platform as long as required for use. Your information will not be disclosed to other parties for any other purposes outside of administering the newsletter.

Personal information collected

When giving your consent to receive communications from Parks Canada Mainland Nova Scotia, the Parks Canada Mainland Nova Scotia newsletter database captures the following data for each subscriber:

• Email address
• Date subscribed
• Time subscribed
• Preferred official language
• Sign-up source
• Postal code (optional)
• Locations of interests
• IP address (used for proof of consent)

Any additional data captured by an online transaction with Parks Canada will not be captured in the Parks Canada Mainland Nova Scotia newsletter database.

Sharing the Parks Canada Mainland Nova Scotia newsletter

If you believe someone would be interested in receiving future newsletters, provide them with a link to the sign-up page (https://parks.canada.ca/voyage-travel/promotion/nouvelle-ecosse-nova-scotia/minute).

Accessing your personal information

Subscribers can access their personal data with the following methods:

1. Email: Send an email to mnscomms-commsnec@pc.gc.ca using the subject line ‘Parks Canada Mainland Nova Scotia newsletter- request to access information’ to request access to the information the Parks Canada newsletter database captures about you. The email should include the original subscriber email address.
2. Other: Communicate your request to Parks Canada Mainland Nova Scotia by phone at 902-426-5080.

Updating your personal information

There are multiple ways for subscribers to update their personal information (email address, Canadian postal code, preferred official language and locations of interest).

1. From a Parks Canada Mainland Nova Scotia newsletter in your inbox: Follow the “Update my profile” link in the footer and submit the form with your edits. The newly inputted information will replace any existing data in our database.
2. From the newsletter sign-up page: Enter your information on the sign-up page. The new information entered will overwrite pre-existing data in our database. If you’ve changed your email address, this method will not unsubscribe your original subscription.
3. Email: Send an email to mnscomms-commsnec@pc.gc.ca using the subject line ‘Parks Canada Mainland Nova Scotia newsletter- request to update information’ to request that your info be updated. The email should include the original subscriber email address and changes to be made.
4. Other: Communicate your request to Parks Canada Mainland Nova Scotia by phone at 902-426-5080.

Unsubscribing

Subscribers can unsubscribe at any time and there are several ways to do so.

1. From a Parks Canada Mainland Nova Scotia newsletter in your inbox: Follow the “Unsubscribe” link in the footer of a newsletter and unsubscribe by pressing the button on our unsubscribe page.
2. Email: Send an email to mnscomms-commsnec@pc.gc.ca  using the subject line ‘Parks Canada Mainland Nova Scotia newsletter- unsubscribe request’ to request that you be unsubscribed. Please indicate the email address to be unsubscribed.
3. Other: Subscribers may also request to be unsubscribed via mail and telephone.

Once unsubscribed, your personal information stored in the Parks Canada Mainland Nova Scotia newsletter database will be deleted. Please note that information deleted from this database does not affect information stored within other Parks Canada source databases from which you would have subscribed (e.g. Parks Canada Reservation Service, online sales, etc.).

Should subscribers have spam blockers or other technological issues that result in newsletters not being delivered to their inbox, we retain the right to unsubscribe any subscriber after receiving notice that three subsequent send attempts have failed. To prevent this from happening, please add mnscomms-commsnec@pc.gc.ca to your safe sender list.

Newsletter Analytics

Newsletter analytics is the collection, analysis, measurement and reporting of data about subscriber interactions with the newsletter for purposes of understanding and optimizing the newsletter.

The type of information collected includes:

• Date and time you received the newsletter
• Date and time you opened the newsletter
• Date and time you clicked on a link
• Links you have visited
• IP address (used to identify unique actions – opens, clicks, etc.)