Canada’s anti-spam legislation (CASL) came into effect on July 1, 2014. Under the legislation, organizations must not send commercial electronic messages (CEMs) that encourage recipients to participate in any commercial activity, even if it is not-for-profit, unless they have the recipient’s express consent. School boards and schools are covered by the legislation.

Although not all of our email messages contain commercial information, we do at times email families about field trips, lunch days, special events or other items that may have a cost associated with them. We need your permission to continue to send messages through email.

During summer 2014, an email message was sent to all email addresses in the school board database asking recipients to confirm that they would like to continue to receive email communication. If you responded to the email message, your consent has been recorded in our database. This subscribe link in the email is no longer active because the database needed to be updated before the start of the year.

You can provide consent by updating (if necessary), signing and returning the Student Information Verification Form we send home.

A Student Information Verification Form will be sent home shortly for all enrolled students.  It is very important that the school receives back a signed form and that all changes to student information are noted.   Note: A signed form with an email address is considered expressed consent.

Unsubscribing

Under the law, all CEMs must contain an unsubscribe feature so you can unsubscribe at any time. We’ve made sure to include the unsubscribe option on all outgoing email messages.

How to update your contact information

It’s important we have your current contact information on file at the school. If your email address or any other information has changed, you can update it by:

–          making changes on the Student Information Verification Form we send home at the start of every school year

–          contacting the school office during the year