MEOW Foundation respects your privacy. That's why we provide the Privacy Policy on this page detailing how we collect, use and protect your information.

What information do we collect?

We collect information from you when you fill out a form on our website. When completing a form, you may be asked to enter your name, e-mail address, home phone number, province, country, cat care history and references, etc.

What do we use your information for?

The information we collect is used only for the purposes of providing our programs and services to the community. This information is required in order to:

• assess and facilitate the adoption of cats and kittens from MEOW Foundation;
• assess and evaluate applications to the Spay Neuter Assistance Program (SNAP);
• send out information about upcoming events and initiatives;
• to provide tax receipts for donations
• follow up with those who have chosen to contact or donate to MEOW Foundation.

The email address you provide via our online forms and those of our partners may be used to send you information and updates pertaining to your inquiry, request or submission, as well as for occasional MEOW Foundation email news updates and e-newsletters. You may unsubscribe to our emails at any time.

How do we protect your information?

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you enter or submit personal information.

Do we disclose any information to outside parties?

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others' rights, property, or safety.

Online donations

MEOW Foundation's online donation platform is hosted by Artez Interactive Inc. They provide us with the online donation processing platform that allows us to obtain generous donations from you. When you submit your personal information through the Artez System, it is stored on Artez's secure servers/databases. To learn more about how the Artez plaform securely stores your information and to learn more about the use of Cookies to assist in the donation/fundraising process, please visit www.artez.com/privacy_policy. MEOW Foundation uses PayPal's secure payment gateway to process online transactions through the Artez platform. You can learn more about how PayPal uses personal information and protects your privacy here.

Third party links

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include third party links on our website. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to help us learn about who visits our website and what pages are visited.

Your consent

By using our site, you consent to our online privacy policy.

Age of consent

By using this site, you represent that you are at minimum the age of majority in your province/state or that you, as a consenting adult, have given your consent to minor dependents to visit and/or use this site. Our website, products and services are all directed to people who are at least the age of majority.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post changes on this page.

Contacting us

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, you may contact us using the information below.

MEOW Foundation
PO Box 65024
RPO North Hill
Calgary, AB T2N 4T6
Phone: 403-230-6033