Privacy Policy

Personal Data Collected

We collect the following personal information from you when you book an appointment for consular services:

• Name
• Gender
• Date of Birth, and
• Contact information

The Philippine Consulate uses WP Statistics, a third-party service to analyze the web traffic data for us. This service uses cookies. Data generated is not shared with any other party. The following web traffic data are analyzed:

• Your IP address
• The search terms you used
• The pages and internal links accessed on our site
• The date and time you visited the site
• Geolocation
• The referring site or platform (if any) through which you clicked through to
  this site
• Your operating system
• Web browser type

Use

The collected personal information is utilized solely for documentation and processing purposes within the Philippine Consulate and the Department of Foreign Affairs and is not shared with any outside parties. They are used for scheduling, time management and internal processing to provide clients with the consular services required in an orderly and timely manner.

Protection Measures

Only authorized Philippine Consulate personnel has access to these personal information, the exchange of which will be facilitated through the use of an application system and hard copy only. They will be stored in a database for a year after which physical records shall be disposed of through shredding, while digital files shall be anonymized.

Access and Correction

You have the right to ask for a copy of any personal information we hold about you, as well as to ask for it to be corrected if you think it is wrong through this email address:
vancouver.pcg@dfa.gov.ph.