Last Updated: August 31, 2026
Your Kindness Corner Inc. ("Your Kindness Corner," "YKC," "we," "us," or "our") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information entrusted to us.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, store, retain, protect, and manage personal information through yourkindnesscorner.com, including related applications, member profiles, community features, Verified Impact Passport features, volunteer and contribution records, business and nonprofit pages, shops, events, communications, and other services we provide (collectively, the "Services").
Your Kindness Corner Inc. is committed to protecting personal information in accordance with applicable privacy and data protection laws.
Depending on where you reside and how you use our Services, these laws may include the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), applicable Canadian provincial privacy laws, Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL), and applicable United States federal and state privacy laws.
Where a privacy law provides you with additional rights based on your place of residence, YKC will honour those rights where the law applies to us.
The information we collect depends on how you use Your Kindness Corner and which Services you choose to access.
We may collect information such as:
You may choose to provide additional information to enhance your YKC experience, including:
Unless specifically required to provide a Service, this information is optional.
YKC allows members, businesses, nonprofit organizations, schools, community organizations, and other authorized participants to record or verify community involvement.
Depending on the Services used, we may collect or maintain information relating to:
Some contribution information may form part of a member's Verified Impact Passport or other community-impact record.
Where you create, administer, or participate in an organization or business page, we may collect information including:
When you purchase a Service, membership, product, upgrade, or other paid offering, transaction information may be processed by third-party payment providers.
YKC generally does not directly store complete payment-card information.
We may retain transaction records such as:
where necessary for accounting, customer support, fraud prevention, legal compliance, dispute resolution, or administration of the Services.
When you use the Services, certain information may be collected automatically, including:
We may use this information for security, analytics, fraud prevention, troubleshooting, service improvement, and operation of the Services.
YKC and our service providers may use cookies and similar technologies to operate, secure, analyze, and improve the Services.
These may include:
You may control certain cookies through your browser or device settings.
Disabling certain cookies may affect the operation of some YKC features.
Where applicable law requires additional consent or opt-out options for particular cookies or tracking technologies, YKC will provide those choices.
We collect, use, and disclose personal information with consent where required by applicable law.
The form of consent may vary depending on:
You may withdraw consent to certain uses of your personal information, subject to reasonable notice and any legal or contractual restrictions.
Withdrawal of consent may affect our ability to provide some Services.
If you submit personal information relating to another person, you are responsible for having the authority or appropriate permission to provide that information.
We may use personal information to:
YKC is a community platform.
Certain information that you choose to publish may be visible to other members or, depending on the applicable feature and privacy settings, to the public.
This may include:
You should not publish personal information that you do not want others to see.
YKC may provide privacy or visibility controls for certain features. Availability of those controls may vary by feature.
Content you make public may be viewed, copied, shared, or stored by other users or third parties outside YKC's control.
We may disclose personal information in limited circumstances.
We may use third-party companies to provide services such as:
These providers may process information on YKC's behalf in connection with the services they provide.
We take reasonable steps to use service providers that maintain appropriate privacy and security protections.
Information may be shared with other members, businesses, nonprofit organizations, schools, organizations, or authorized page administrators where necessary for a feature you choose to use.
For example, applying for a volunteer opportunity may require relevant information to be shared with the organization offering that opportunity.
Similarly, submitting volunteer hours or another contribution for verification may require the relevant record to be shared with an authorized verifier.
We may disclose information where reasonably necessary to:
YKC is a Canadian company serving members in Canada, the United States, and potentially other jurisdictions.
Personal information may be stored or processed in Canada, the United States, or other jurisdictions where YKC or its service providers operate.
When personal information is processed outside your province, state, or country, it may be subject to the laws of the jurisdiction in which it is processed.
YKC takes reasonable steps to select service providers and safeguards appropriate to the sensitivity of the information involved.
YKC retains personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary to:
Different categories of information may therefore have different retention periods.
Information that no longer has a legitimate business, legal, security, verification, or operational purpose will be securely deleted, destroyed, de-identified, or anonymized in accordance with YKC's retention procedures.
Where information is retained solely for statistical, analytical, historical community-impact, or aggregate reporting purposes, YKC will seek to anonymize or de-identify that information where continued identification of the individual is not reasonably necessary.
A core purpose of YKC is to provide reliable records of community participation, contribution, and verified impact.
Certain records may therefore involve more than one party.
For example, a volunteer contribution may form part of:
When a contribution has already been verified, approved, issued, completed, or relied upon by another member, business, nonprofit organization, school, community organization, or YKC, deletion of the member's account may not result in deletion of the underlying historical contribution.
Records that may be retained include:
Where continued identification of the individual is no longer reasonably necessary, YKC may delete or remove identifying account information while retaining the underlying contribution in a de-identified, anonymized, or historical form.
For example, verified volunteer hours may continue to count toward a nonprofit organization's historical impact after the volunteer deletes their YKC account, while the former member's active profile and unnecessary identifying information are removed.
Retention of a historical contribution record does not mean that YKC will retain all personal information originally associated with the account.
Where available, YKC may allow members to deactivate their account instead of permanently deleting it.
Deactivation may:
The specific effects of deactivation will be explained to the member when the feature is used.
Deactivation is different from permanent account deletion.
Members may request permanent deletion of their YKC account.
When a valid account deletion request is completed, YKC will take reasonable steps to:
Account deletion may not result in immediate deletion of every record associated with the account.
YKC may retain information where reasonably necessary for:
Where possible and appropriate, retained records will be de-identified or anonymized rather than remaining connected to an active member profile.
Information may also remain in system backups for a limited period until those backups are overwritten or securely deleted in accordance with YKC's backup and retention procedures.
Deletion from YKC does not necessarily remove information that you previously made public and that another person independently copied, shared, downloaded, or stored.
YKC may send marketing or promotional communications where permitted by applicable law.
For Canadian recipients, commercial electronic messages are managed in accordance with applicable requirements of Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL).
Where required, YKC will:
You may unsubscribe from marketing communications at any time using the unsubscribe mechanism provided or by contacting us.
Account, transactional, security, verification, legal, or other service-related communications may still be sent where necessary or permitted by law.
If you reside in the United States, you may have additional privacy rights under applicable federal or state law.
Those rights vary depending on your state of residence and whether the applicable law applies to YKC.
Depending on applicable law, rights may include the ability to:
Not every right listed above applies in every U.S. state or to every organization.
YKC will process valid privacy requests according to the laws applicable to the individual and to YKC.
YKC does not sell personal information for monetary consideration.
Some U.S. privacy laws define terms such as "sale" or "sharing" more broadly than an exchange of information for money.
For example, certain advertising or tracking activities may be treated as "sharing" or targeted advertising under applicable state law.
If YKC engages in an activity that triggers an applicable right to opt out of sale, sharing, or targeted advertising, YKC will provide any notice and opt-out mechanism required by law.
California residents may have additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended, where that law applies to YKC.
Those rights may include:
The CCPA does not apply to every business merely because it has users in California.
Where the law applies to YKC, we will provide any notices, request mechanisms, and opt-out controls required by law.
YKC is intended for users aged 13 and older.
Users under the age of 13 are not permitted to create a standard YKC account.
YKC does not knowingly collect personal information online from children under 13 through standard member accounts.
If we learn that a child under 13 has created an account or provided personal information through the Services in circumstances where collection is not permitted, we will take reasonable steps to remove the account and address the information appropriately.
In the United States, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act and COPPA Rule impose additional requirements on certain websites and online services that knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
If YKC introduces a Service specifically permitting participation by children under 13, appropriate parental notices and verifiable parental consent processes will be implemented where required before collecting their personal information.
Because YKC includes student and youth features, younger members should carefully consider what information they make publicly available through their profiles.
Parents or guardians with questions regarding a youth member's information may contact YKC's Privacy Officer.
YKC uses reasonable administrative, technical, organizational, and physical safeguards appropriate to the sensitivity of the information being protected.
Safeguards may include:
If a privacy or security incident occurs, YKC will investigate and respond in accordance with applicable legal requirements.
Depending on where you reside and the laws applicable to YKC, you may have the right to:
Where YKC retains verified contribution or community-impact information following account deletion, unnecessary identifying information will be removed, de-identified, or anonymized where reasonably appropriate.
Privacy requests may be submitted to YKC's Privacy Officer.
Before providing access to, correcting, deleting, or disclosing certain personal information, YKC may take reasonable steps to verify that the person making the request is the individual concerned or an authorized representative.
Information collected for identity verification will be used for that purpose and related security requirements.
If YKC cannot fully comply with a privacy request because of a legal exception or other applicable limitation, we will provide an explanation where required by law.
If you have a concern regarding YKC's privacy practices, we encourage you to contact our Privacy Officer first so that we can investigate and respond.
Canadian residents may also have the right to raise concerns with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada or an applicable provincial privacy regulator.
United States residents may have the right to contact their applicable state privacy or consumer-protection authority.
California residents may also contact the California Attorney General regarding applicable California privacy rights.
YKC may update this Privacy Policy as:
When we make changes, we will update the Last Updated date at the beginning of this Policy.
Where changes are material, we may provide additional notice through the Site, email, account notifications, or another reasonable method.
Where applicable law requires new consent for a materially different collection, use, or disclosure of personal information, YKC will obtain that consent.
Questions, privacy requests, access requests, correction requests, account deletion requests, complaints, or other privacy concerns may be directed to:
Privacy Officer
Your Kindness Corner Inc.
Email: privacy@yourkindnesscorner.com
Website: yourkindnesscorner.com
Please include enough information for us to understand and respond to your request. Do not send passwords, full payment-card details, government identification numbers, or other unnecessary sensitive information by regular email.