Privacy Policy
Langara College Privacy Statement
Last updated: March 24, 2025
Langara College is a post-secondary educational institution (the “College”, “Langara”, “we”, “us”, “our”) operating under the statutory authority of British Columbia’s College and Institute Act. This privacy statement describes how the College collects, uses, and discloses personal information received through the College’s website, email, online forms, and social media accounts.
Collection of Personal Information
The College is authorized to collect personal information on this website and through its email system, online forms, and social media accounts pursuant to Section 26 of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (the “Act”). In the Act, personal information is defined as recorded information about an identifiable individual other than business contact information.
The College collects personal information to provide you with ongoing services, information, and assistance related to your educational needs, to understand your educational needs, to develop and recommend suitable products and services, to manage our operations, and to meet legal and regulatory requirements.
When you send us an email or complete an online form, we collect your email address, IP address, message, attachments and/or form responses so that we may reply to you. If you send us sensitive personal information over the Internet we recommend that you encrypt or otherwise protect the information prior to sending it.
At any time, you can contact us to let us know that you no longer wish to receive communications from us and/or that you wish to have your personal information deleted from our systems. We use reasonable efforts to ensure that your personal information is accurate and complete – to do so, we rely on you informing us of changes or corrections to this information. See our contact information at the end of this statement.
Use of Personal Information
The College only uses the personal information we collect about you from this website and the College’s email system, online forms, and social media accounts for the same purposes that we collected it. We will not use your personal information for another purpose without your consent unless permitted to do so under applicable law. Your personal information will only be accessible by authorized College employees and representatives or as permitted by applicable law.
Disclosure of Personal Information
Langara College will only disclose your personal information for the same purpose as it was collected. We will otherwise not share the information for any other purpose without your prior written consent provided that the College may be required or authorized by law to disclose your personal information to another party in limited circumstances as outlined in Section 33 of the Act.
Security
Langara uses reasonable and appropriate measures, including encryption software, designed to help us secure your personal information against accidental or unlawful loss, access, or disclosure. Only staff and service providers who have a legitimate purpose for accessing the personal information collected by us are authorized to do so.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
A cookie is a small file that a website creates when you visit the site. It can track and store information about you such as how and when you use a site and which site you visited immediately before. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Our website uses session cookies which are stored in temporary memory and are not retained after you sign out or close the browser session.
Third parties may use cookies, web beacons, tracking pixels, and similar technologies to collect or receive information from Langara’s website and elsewhere on the Internet and use that information to provide measurement services and target ads. You can opt-out of the collection and use of information for ad targeting by visiting: www.aboutads.info/choices.
When you visit our website, the web server collects a small amount of information to facilitate the operation and security of our website. This information may include browser type, Internet domain name, and Internet Protocol (IP) address. Some information, such as your Internet domain name or IP address, may identify you. The website search function collects information to remember the information you submitted to search our website. We also use web analytics tools to collect data about site traffic to improve visitors’ online experience. These tools tag web pages to capture a limited amount of information such as the IP address of the computer, device, or network a visitor uses to access pages on the site. Langara will never use this information for any reason other than to analyze site usage.
This site also uses remarketing tools to allow the College to serve previous visitors to our site with advertisements on third party websites (such as Google). Third parties, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a person’s past visits to Langara’s website. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser (please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website). Some service providers also allow you to set preferences or opt out of interest-based advertising entirely, e.g., Google Ads: Opt out of seeing personalized ads.
Links
Our website contains links to other sites and we provide these links to help you identify and locate other Internet resources that you may find helpful. We recommend that you review the privacy practices of these other sites before you share personal information on such sites.
Contact Us
If you have questions about this privacy statement, please contact the Manager, Privacy and Records Management at 604-323-5660 or by email at jrajotte@langara.ca. You can also write to us at:
Langara College
Privacy and Records Management
100 West 49th Avenue
Vancouver, BC
V5Y 2Z6
