Sharing your information | Privacy Policy

Sharing your personal information

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We'll only share your personal information:

With your consent
With postal authorities

We share personal information with postal authorities in other countries if you send mail or parcels internationally. We provide the data needed for customs and tax clearance or for security screening. This information usually includes sender and receiver name and address information as well as some specifics about the contents and value of the shipment. In these cases, the privacy laws of the applicable foreign jurisdiction will also apply to the information.
With customers
With third-party service providers

Sometimes we need services or help provided by third-parties. This can include technical support and maintenance or customer service call centre operations. We may need to allow them to access your information so they can provide these necessary services. Our third-party service providers are subject to strict contractual obligations designed to safeguard the information they access.

We may transfer personal information outside Canada to process for the reasons stated in this policy. For example, we may send information outside Canada when a service or technology provider isn’t based in Canada. We always make sure that suitable safeguards, including contractual requirements, are in place to protect the information.
For legal or regulatory purposes

We share personal information when required to do so by law. For example, we may share personal information for law enforcement purposes under section 8(2) of the federal Privacy Act. We'll also share information with government agencies (Canada Revenue Agency or Service Canada) when required under the Income Tax Act or the Employment Insurance Act.

We may share personal information with regulators (for example, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada or the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission where necessary. This is usually during an investigation by these regulators or to meet legal obligations.
For security reasons
We strive to keep our operations and facilities secure and we’re committed to keeping our employees and the public safe. Our security team (made up of postal inspectors, postal security officers, and analysts) may share personal information during postal related crime investigations.

This includes sharing information with:
- Law enforcement
- Fraud prevention agencies
- Other bodies

¹ Express consent is verbal or written permission for something that you give specifically.

² Implied consent is an assumption of permission to do something that we infer from your actions. You can always “opt out” from specific use of your information.