OBSV will obtain your authorization prior to collecting and processing your personal data. Therefore, we ask you – as a very first step -- to review our Personal Data Privacy Statement. If you decide you are not ready to submit your accreditation/uniform application or your personal profile to OBSV, simply exit the browser without logging in.

Information We Collect and How We Use It

You can visit our website and learn about our activities without providing personal information. However, to obtain an Olympic accreditation and a uniform you need to provide personal information.

Personal information is information that can identify you such as your full name, nationality, e-mail address, postal address and telephone number. We collect personal information to submit to the Organizing Committee for a background check by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). This background check is a precondition for all personnel to be issued with the Olympic accreditation required for the position for which you have been hired. We use personal information you provide only for purposes consistent with the reason for which you provide it: Olympic Accreditation, Transportation, Games-Time Accommodation and to be able to provide you with a uniform.

OBSV strives to keep your personal information accurate. We are committed to respecting and protecting your privacy. Please make sure that the data that you are submitting is accurate and updated by carefully checking the information. You can view and update your information as many times as you wish before making your final submission. OBSV can not see your information in the OBSV database until it is confirmed and submitted.

Our website, email and other interactive programs are intended to provide you with information concerning your eventual travel details, your work schedule and to whom and when you should report upon arrival. They are not designed to send any communications or information except for the purposes set forth above.

Cookies and Web Beacons

OBSV uses cookies and web beacons to manage our website and e-mail programs. We do not use cookies or web beacons to collect or store personal information or to track your use of other websites.

A cookie is a small file placed on your computer when you visit a website. Cookies are used to store non-personal information used to manage your website experience such as your type of web browser. A cookie can also store preference information to customize your website experience. Our cookies do not contain or capture any specific data about you.

Web beacons are small bits of computer code that help manage a website or e-mail such as to count how many people visit a web page or open an email.

Cookies and web beacons help us understand how consumers use our websites and emails so we can improve the content, usability and functionality of our website.

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Information Sharing

Except as and when required by law and/or public authorities, OBSV will not share personal information with any third parties other than the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Vancouver Organising Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) for the purposes set forth herein. By making the definitive submission of the personal information through this web page, you are giving your consent for these organizations to receive your personal information. You are not providing your consent for us to share your personal information with anyone else or in any other form.

Information Security

OBSV is committed to keeping personal information secure. We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that meet applicable law to protect personal information from loss, misuse or alteration.

We limit access to personal information to individuals who need it for the purposes stated herein, and we educate our employees to treat such information with care. We keep personal information only for so long as is reasonably necessary.

Information Transfer

When OBSV transfers personal information to countries other than the country in which it was provided, we do so in compliance with applicable data protection laws.

OBSV protects personal information no matter in what country it is stored or to which country it is transferred. We have procedures and data transfer contracts as appropriate to help ensure this.

Use of Personal Information

* Personal information is collected for OBSV Olympic Accreditation/Uniform assignment application process.
* OBSV may use your personal information to contact you any time prior to and during your employment, to send you announcements, or to request other types of information as may be required.
* OBSV may share your personal data with OBSV personnel in another country for further consideration unless you object to it in the job application questionnaire. This information will be treated in accordance with the legal requirements of the country of submission.
* OBSV will not trade or sell your personal information for use by any other companies. We will only share data as herein described or as legally required.
* For more information about OBSV information collection and privacy, please click here.

Effective Date

The effective date of this Personal Data Privacy Statement is Thursday, 12 February 2009. If we make any changes to the Statement, we will revise it to reflect such changes and revise its effective date.

Your Choices Regarding Personal Information

* At any time you may request information on your personal data collected by OBSV. You may request deletion or blocking of your data by contacting e-mail.
* You may update, correct or modify your data file submitted within the period of accreditation by entering this website using your assigned username and password and updating the data on-line.

You can access the information on-line as long as you do not make the final and definitive submission of the data in the area specifically designed for this area - Submission Area.

Once the period of accreditation is closed and should you require modifying the personal information submitted, please click here to be linked to the correct e-mail address to use. OBSV will respond to requests for changes of the personal information submitted in an appropriate timeframe.

I AUTHORIZE OBSV TO PROCESS, TRANSMIT, AND USE MY PERSONAL DATA STORED IN A DATABASE FOR PURPOSES OF THE OLYMPIC ACCREDITATION APPLICATION PROCESS AND OBTAINING A PERSONAL UNIFORM, FOR SENDING ANNOUNCEMENTS OF FUTURE JOB OPPORTUNITIES AS THEY BECOME AVAILABLE OR FOR ADMINISTRATION PURPOSES. SUCH DATA WILL BE TREATED IN ACCORDANCE WITH ALL APPLICABLE LEGAL REQUIREMENTS.