BY SUBMITTING PERSONAL INFORMATION TO MLI HOMESTAY OR ITS SERVICE PROVIDERS AND AGENTS, YOU AGREE THAT WE MAY COLLECT, USE AND DISCLOSE SUCH PERSONAL INFORMATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND AS PERMITTED OR REQUIRED BY LAW. In most circumstances, you may refuse or withdraw your consent to certain of the identified purposes at any time by contacting the MLI Homestay Chief Privacy Officer, however, if you do so, we may not be able to provide you or continue to provide you with certain programs, services or information which may be of value to you. If you provide MLI Homestay or our service providers and agents with personal information of another individual, you represent that you have all necessary authority and/or have obtained all necessary consents from such person to enable us to collect, use and disclose such personal information for the purposes set forth in this Privacy Policy.

Canadian privacy legislation defines “personal information” broadly as information about an identifiable individual or as information that allows an individual to be identified, but does not include the name, title or business address or telephone number of an employee of an organization. For the purposes of this policy, “Personal Information” means information about an identifiable individual as defined from time to time in applicable federal and provincial privacy legislation. 

For example, your Personal Information includes information that relates to your educational history, academic transcripts, personal profiles, gender, ethnic origin, nationality, languages spoken, information contained in your application for our programs or your study permit or visa, an unlisted address or phone number, an identifying number, among others. However, some Personal Information that is otherwise publicly available in not protected by applicable privacy laws.

In general, MLI Homestay collects, uses and discloses Personal Information about our clients, host families and partners in order to provide our clients with the various adult and youth educational programs, language learning, tutoring, summer camps and tours we have developed and operate. MLI Homestay does not sell Personal Information to any third parties.

More specifically, we collect, use and disclose Personal Information for the following purposes:

• to assist you with your application for any of our programs, including obtaining the necessary legal guardianship, study permits, immigration and Visa approvals;
• to evaluate you for placement in, and assist with registration and enrolment with MLI Homestay affiliated public and private high schools in Canada;
• to develop, enhance, market, sell, administer or otherwise provide MLI Homestay’s services;
• to distribute our newsletters, information and other materials to individuals on our mail and e-mail lists;
• as permitted by, and to comply with, any legal or regulatory requirements or provisions; and for any other purpose to which you consent

From time to time, MLI Homestay may disclose your Personal Information to:

• clients requesting homestay placement, schools and school administrators, consulates and government agencies, agents, residential providers and homestay families, and service providers, including organizations or individuals retained by MLI Homestay to perform functions on its behalf;
• a person who, in the reasonable judgment of MLI Homestay, is providing or seeking the information as your agent; or
• any third party or parties, where you consent to such disclosure or where disclosure is required or permitted by law.

Your Personal Information is stored in secured locations and on servers controlled by MLI Homestay, located either at our offices or at the offices of our service providers.

To help protect the confidentiality of your Personal Information, MLI Homestay employs administrative and technological safeguards appropriate to the sensitivity of your Personal Information. For instance, we operate secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems. 

We ensure our employees, staff and agents that have access to your personal information use it in accordance with the principles set forth in this Privacy Policy and applicable laws. In addition, where personal information is sent to a third party for processing, we make sure that all personal information is kept secure.

We retain personal information in our records for as long as necessary to fulfill the intended purposes or a legal or business purpose.

In order to provide our website visitors with information, visitors may voluntarily submit Personal Information to us for purposes such as asking a question or obtaining information. You should be aware that e-mail is not a 100% secure medium, and you should be aware of this when contacting us to send personal or confidential information.

MLI Homestay does not use cookies nor does MLI Homestay use any electronic means to automatically collect personal information from you or your computer. However, MLI Homestay’s web servers will automatically collect IP addresses and we may view our web server IP log from time to time to prevent fraudulent acts and possible network attacks.

The only personal information MLI Homestay collects via the website is the information voluntarily supplied by you if you contact MLI Homestay via the Website.

MLI Homestay reserves the right to modify or supplement this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make a change to this Privacy Policy, we will post such changes on our website and make such revised policy and changes available upon request to the MLI Homestay’s Chief Privacy Officer.

For information on MLI Homestay’s privacy practices, please contact its Chief Privacy Officer at: 

MLI Homestay – Chief Privacy Officer

415 Yonge Street, Suite 1201
Toronto, Ontario,
M5G 1Y8
Canada

Tel: 1-855-946-4701          

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