SECTION 1: TERMS OF SERVICE AND LEGAL DISCLAIMER
Welcome to nosanctions.org (the “Website”), the official online hub for the No Sanctions campaign. By accessing, browsing, or using this Website, or by signing any petition, open letter, or campaign endorsement hosted here, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service. If you do not agree, please exit the Website immediately.
1. Advocacy, Educational, and Informational Purposes Only (Not Advice)
All content published on this Website—including policy briefs, impact reports, legal briefs on international law, humanitarian impact data, statements of solidarity, and multimedia content—is provided strictly for educational, research, and public advocacy purposes.
No Financial, Legal, or Trade Advice: Nothing on this Website or within our research publications constitutes legal, financial, investment, or international trade advice. The economic data and legal analyses presented are intended exclusively for public discourse and humanitarian advocacy, and must not be relied upon for commercial compliance or litigation.
No Reliance: While the No Sanctions campaign strives to compile verified data from humanitarian organizations and international legal experts, we do not guarantee the absolute accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of all third-party reporting. Your reliance on any information found on this Website is strictly at your own risk.
2. Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable Canadian law, the No Sanctions campaign, nosanctions.org, its steering committees, institutional endorsers, and operators shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages arising out of your access to, or inability to access, this Website. This includes, but is not limited to, compliance disruptions, loss of data, system downtime, network interruptions, or errors and omissions in our published text.
3. Campaign Endorsements, Signatures, and User Content
If you sign a petition, submit an organizational endorsement, or post comments on the Website:
Public Display of Endorsements: By adding your name or your organization’s name to an open letter, petition, or campaign endorsement, you explicitly grant the No Sanctions campaign the right to display your name, title, organizational affiliation, and country on the public-facing areas of the Website.
Licensing of Submissions: You grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual license to display, translate, archive, and distribute your submitted statements of solidarity across our digital channels.
Campaign Discretion: We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to monitor, edit, or delete any user content, or remove signatures found to be fraudulent, defamatory, or otherwise incompatible with the humanitarian spirit and human rights principles of the campaign, without prior notice.
4. Third-Party Links
Our advocacy resources, resource lists, and reports frequently link to external humanitarian bodies, United Nations repositories, independent legal human rights groups, and international law journals. We do not endorse, control, or assume responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or data tracking practices of any third-party websites.
5. Governing Law
These Terms of Service shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein, without regard to conflict of law principles. Any legal actions involving this platform must be brought exclusively in the courts located in Toronto, Ontario.
6. Modifications
We reserve the right to update, amend, or change these terms at any time without prior notice to adapt to logistical requirements or global advocacy strategies. Your continued use of the Website constitutes acceptance of the modified terms.
7. Security and Digital Privacy of Advocates
We implement reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal data, mailing list sign-ups, and endorsement records against unauthorized access, disclosure, misuse, alteration, or destruction. However, given the politically sensitive nature of international advocacy opposing economic sanctions, no digital transmission or data storage over the internet can be guaranteed as completely secure.
SECTION 2: PRIVACY POLICY
Designed to comply with applicable privacy laws, including PIPEDA and GDPR where applicable
Effective Date: May 23, 2026
At the No Sanctions campaign, we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your personal information, in compliance with Canadian privacy laws (the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, or PIPEDA) and the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
1. Information We Collect
Voluntary Information: We collect your name, email address, country of residence, language preferences, organizational affiliation, and any text you provide only when you sign an appeal, subscribe to our campaign mailing list, register for an advocacy webinar, or fill out a contact form.
Automated Information: We automatically collect standard internet log data, including anonymised IP addresses, browser types, and navigation paths through our resource pages, via cookies and privacy-respecting analytics tools to ensure global network accessibility.
2. Lawful Basis for Processing (GDPR)
If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), we process your personal data under the following legal bases:
Consent: When you explicitly give us permission (e.g., ticking a box to receive our advocacy action alerts or submitting a form to add your name to a public petition).
Legitimate Interests: To organize global public campaigns, distribute human rights impact reports, coordinate international legal analysis, prevent automated spam, and maintain website security.
3. How We Use Your Information
We use your information solely to:
Publish and display verified lists of signatories and organizational endorsers for campaign letters.
Deliver urgent advocacy updates, campaign reports, media releases, and invitations to public seminars.
Improve Website performance, translation interfaces, and accessibility for a global audience.
Moderate forum fields and prevent malicious automated spam.
We will never sell, rent, or trade your personal information or email addresses to third parties or commercial marketing firms.
4. Third-Party Services and Data Transfers
As a global solidarity network, we may use third-party tools to handle our newsletter delivery, manage secure email lists, host virtual advocacy panels, or process voluntary campaign donations. Your data may be transferred to and stored on servers located outside of your home country (including Canada and the United States). We ensure all third-party infrastructure partners maintain rigorous data protection standards that respect digital privacy rights and civil liberties.
5. Your Data Protection Rights (Including GDPR Rights)
Depending on your location, you have the following rights regarding your data:
The Right to Access: You can request copies of the personal email and subscriber data we hold within our campaign databases.
The Right to Rectification: You can request that we correct or update inaccurate biographical information or errors in your published signature.
The Right to Erasure (“Right to be Forgotten”): You can request that we remove your name from a public appeal or completely delete your subscriber profile from our list servers.
The Right to Restrict or Object to Processing: You can object to our processing of your advocacy data under certain conditions.
The Right to Data Portability: You can request that we transfer your data directly to another organization or to you.
We retain personal information only as long as necessary for the active coordination, presentation, and historical documentation of our human rights campaigns, unless a longer retention period is explicitly requested by the user or required by law.
6. Cookies
We use cookies to maintain your international language translation preferences, secure your session on our forms, and analyze global traffic patterns. You can choose to reject cookies through your browser settings or via our website cookie banner.
7. Contact Us
To exercise any of your privacy rights, request the removal of an endorsement signature, or communicate with the campaign steering committee, please contact us at [email protected].
SECTION 3: EXTERNAL LINKS & COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMERS
1. External Links Disclaimer
The Website (nosanctions.org) contains links to external human rights initiatives, relief organizations, non-governmental legal watchdogs, and independent media networks that are not provided, maintained by, or in any way affiliated with the No Sanctions campaign. Please note that we do not guarantee the accuracy, relevance, timeliness, or completeness of any information on these external platforms. Under no circumstances shall the campaign be held liable for any loss, compliance issue, or damage caused by your reliance on information obtained through external links.
2. Copyright and Fair Dealing Notice
The No Sanctions platform publishes legal critique, political journalism, humanitarian data summaries, and geopolitical analysis. Content on this site may contain copyrighted material—such as policy charts, regional maps, foreign press photos, or quotes from official state documentation—the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner.
We make such material available entirely in a non-profit, educational, and public advocacy capacity to advance the understanding of international law, human rights violations, the socioeconomic impact of blockade regimes, and global public health. We believe this constitutes a “fair dealing” of any such copyrighted material as provided for under Section 29 of the Copyright Act of Canada (which covers research, private study, criticism, review, and news reporting).
If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond fair dealing, you must obtain permission directly from the copyright owner.
If you are a copyright owner and believe your work has been used inappropriately or without proper humanitarian context on this Website, please contact us immediately at [email protected] so we can promptly address your concerns.