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Privacy Policy

We have a responsibility and are committed to keeping all your information safe. This notice, along with our cookies policy, tells you how we collect, use and protect your personal data.

We do this by following the rules and guidance set out in the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act.

This website is part of the Youth Digital Compass programme and is run by the team at McGill University, supervised by Professor Victoria Talwar.

  1. What Information We Collect

We collect, store and use personal data about you when you use this website. Personal data is any information that can be used to identify you or another person. For example, basic personal details like your name and email address, or your IP address. (An IP address is the unique address that identifies a device on the internet).
Information You Give Us Directly (Only if you choose to):

  • Messages or Questions: If you send us a message through our “Contact Us” form, we’ll get whatever information you put in your message. We use this only to respond to you.

Information We Collect Automatically (To make our website work better and safer):

Your browsing data. Whilst using this website we collect anonymous information about your browsing session to help us monitor and improve this website. The kind of data we collect includes the pages you visit on the website, the number of times you visit them, your operating system, the version of your web browser, the country you’re visiting from and any resources you download. This may also include anonymous demographic data (for example, gender, age, location) held in your accounts if you have logged in to the web browser with an account. This information cannot identify you directly.

We DO NOT collect your full name, home address, phone number, or any other truly personal information unless you specifically choose to provide it to us in a contact form or similar feature, and with appropriate consent where required.

We collect and store this data using:

Google Analytics: We use a tool called Google Analytics to collect this data. All the data is stored securely on Google’s servers. To track your browsing across sessions, Google Analytics will place a “cookie” on your machine. A cookie is a small text file that websites use to track and remember information across several browsing sessions. These cookies are used to keep you logged in as you move around a site, provide content, and check website performance.

You can tell your web browser not to accept cookies if you don’t want your data to be collected in this way (refer to your web browser’s help file for more information).

For further details on Google Analytics, and the Google Analytics privacy policy, please visit the Google Analytics website

You can read our Cookies Policy here.

  1. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect to:

  • Provide you with helpful anti-cyberbullying education and resources.
  • Respond to your questions and messages.
  • Improve our website so it’s more helpful and fun for you.
  • Keep our website safe and secure for everyone.

We will NEVER use your information to send you spam or show you ads.

  1. Sharing Your Information
    We are committed to keeping your information private. We generally do not share your personal information with other companies. However, there are a few rare cases where we might share very limited information:

Helping our website run: We might use trusted services (e.g., Red Dream Studio). They are only allowed to use your information to help us run our website and must keep it safe and private, following strict agreements with us.

Aggregated Data: We may share general, anonymous information (like how many visitors we had from a certain region) that cannot be used to identify you personally. This helps us share statistics about our impact without revealing anyone’s identity.

We will NEVER sell your information to anyone.

  1. How Long We Keep Your Information

We only keep your personal information for as long as we need it to achieve the purposes we collect it for (like responding to your question or running a specific website feature), or as required by law. Once it’s no longer needed, we securely delete or anonymize it.

  1. Complaints and Further Queries

We try to meet the highest standards when processing your personal data. We take complaints very seriously. If you have any concern about the way we have handled your personal data, please contact us at onlinesafety@mcgill.ca.

  1. Further information about this privacy notice

This privacy notice has been created to be easily understood and concise. As a result, it does not include exhaustive detail about what information we hold, every organisation we share data with, how the data is collected or how long the data is kept. We keep our privacy notices under regular review. If we plan to use personal data in a different way than we have outlined we will update our privacy notice before we start any new processing.

We’re here to help you stay safe online!

This statement was created on 14/08/2025.