Dear Neighbour,

This note is our welcome to our beautiful area of Nova Scotia and an explanation of the Welcome to Cumberland project being administered by the local Chamber of Commerce. This is a project where each family moving into the Cumberland region can receive a welcome package from the Chamber and Chamber member organizations. Your contact information is only shared with us with your permission, and this letter is both our explanation and a request for your permission. 

The specific conditions of that permission (And how we respect them.) are:

• Consent to participate in the program is documented as how and when received from the newcomer. (Only with your consent [signed below] is this form emailed by your Realtor to the Chamber at welcome@amherstchamberns.ca. The original form remains with the Realtor with your other confidential information. )
• The newcomer needs to understand who their name and address are to be given to, how it’s to be used. And how long it is to be kept. (The Executive Director of the Chamber logs the delivery to be made and deletes the email once the delivery has taken place.)
• Contact information for people receiving the information packages (newcomer) is only held within the program and only so long as needed to deliver the package. (Name and address information on the delivery log are deleted once the delivery has been made)  
• Information held for reporting on the program does not contain the personal information collected. (Name and address information on the delivery log are deleted once the delivery has been made)
• The information provided isn’t given to the vendors participating in the program. (Only numbers of packages delivered are available to participating vendors)
• Vendors are not to contact the newcomer through this program. It is up to the newcomer to initiate the contact based on the invitations provided by the vendors through the Board of Trade / Chamber of Commerce. (Vendors have no knowledge of whom to, and where, packages are delivered.)

Family Name:
Civic Address:
Street:
Community:
Postal Code:
Signature:

If you have any questions feel free to contact the Chamber Executive Director Ron Furlong (902-667-8186) or by email rfurlong@amherstchamberns.ca. The address to forward a copy of the attached is welcome@amherstchamberns.ca.

Regards,

Ron

Ron Furlong – Executive Director

Cumberland Chamber of Commerce

902-667-8186 Office

5 Ratchford St., Amherst, NS