Private Sector

How PIPEDA affects retailers/How to ensure that you respect your customer's privacy

Privacy Guide for Small Businesses: The Basics

Your Privacy Responsibilities: A Guide for Businesses and Organizations

Guidelines

Your Customers’ Driver’s Licence Card - Do you need it? A Guide for Retailers

Collection of Driver’s Licence Numbers Under Private Sector Privacy Legislation – A Guide for Retailers

Guidelines for Identification and Authentication

Guidelines for Recording Customer Telephone Calls

Guidelines for Overt Video Surveillance in the Private Sector

Guidelines for surveillance of public places by police and law enforcement authorities

Fact Sheets

Photo Identification Guidance

Best Practices for the use of Social Insurance Numbers in the private sector

Determining the appropriate form of consent under the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act

Questions and Answers regarding the application of PIPEDA, Alberta and British Columbia's Personal Information Protection Acts

Tools

Privacy quiz for businesses

• HTML version
• Flash Version

Build a Privacy Plan for Your Business

PIPEDA Self-Assessment Tool

Information on PIPEDA for Health Care Sector Organizations

PIPEDA Compliance Tools and Resources

An overview of Canada's new private sector privacy law The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (View the video)