{"id":21290,"date":"2025-11-18T10:30:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T15:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fondationtrudeau.solutionsnuagiques.com\/?page_id=21290"},"modified":"2025-11-18T11:01:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T16:01:55","slug":"privacy-policy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fondationtrudeau.solutionsnuagiques.com\/en\/privacy-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Privacy Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Effective date: November 18, 2025<\/p>

The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation (\u201cthe Foundation\u201d) is an independent, non-partisan Canadian registered charity. It was created in 2001 as a living memorial to the late former prime minister. The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation\u2019s mission is to support the advancement of outstanding, cutting-edge PhD students, researchers and public intellectuals. Our goal is to position the Scholars, Fellows, and Mentors to have meaningful impacts in their communities, institutions and beyond.<\/p>

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The Foundation is committed to protecting the privacy of the personal information of its Scholars, Fellows, Mentors, Members, Directors, employees, advisors and partners. The Foundation values the trust of those we deal with, and of the public, and recognizes that maintaining this trust requires that we be accountable and transparent in how we treat the information that you choose to share with us. The purpose of this privacy policy (\u201cthe Policy\u201d<\/strong>) is to explain how and for what purposes we collect, use, share or otherwise process your personal information and how we safeguard the confidentiality of your personal information, whenever you interact with us.<\/p>

Through its various programmes and activities, the Foundation frequently gathers and uses personal information. Any information collected by the Foundation is subject to the Privacy Act. The purpose of the Privacy Act is to protect the privacy of individuals with respect to personal information held by a government institution and to provide individuals with a right of access to such information.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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DEFINITION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Such as your gender, age group, and languages spoken and other information you provide us when you contact the Foundation or apply for a Scholarship, Fellowship, Mentorship and other awards.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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All personal information collected by the Foundation about Scholarship, Fellowship, Mentorship and other award applicants is used to review applications, to administer and monitor awards, which are at the heart of the Foundation\u2019s mission of promoting outstanding research in the humanities and social sciences, and fostering a fruitful dialogue between scholars and policymakers in the arts community, business, government, the professions, and the voluntary sector. Consistent with these purposes, applicants should also expect that information collected by the Foundation may come to be used and disclosed in the following activities:<\/p>

1.<\/strong> As part of the peer review process, applications are disclosed to selection committees composed of experts recruited from all sectors of society. All participants in these review activities are advised of the Foundation\u2019s expectations with regard to the confidentiality and protection of the information entrusted to them.<\/p>

2.<\/strong> Because the Foundation has a single database, staff are generally aware of nominations or applications submitted. For the purposes of adjudication and award administration, some selection committees are provided with multi-year summaries of an individual\u2019s applications or nominations and awards.<\/p>

3.<\/strong> The Foundation routinely publishes and disseminates certain details about successful applications or nominations, including the name of the applicant\/nominee, a biography, the amount awarded, the institution and department or corporate\/not-for profit\/government organization where they study or work, the field of research or work, and the project title of their research in the case of Scholars. The information will normally be published on the Foundation\u2019s Website. In the case of Scholars, the following information is also available on the Foundation\u2019s Website:<\/p>