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OLSAS Declaration

Declaration and Notice of Collection, Use, Disclosure and Treatment of Your Personal Information provided as part of your OLSAS (Ontario Law School Application Service) Application

The Ontario Universities’ Application Centre (OUAC) is operated by the Council of Ontario Universities (COU). As a division of the COU, the OUAC has been processing applications on behalf of universities in Ontario since 1971. To apply for admission to a law school at a university in Ontario, your application must be processed through the OUAC. The OUAC forwards your application information to the university(ies) of your choice. By applying through the OUAC, you agree that the university(ies) of your choice will obtain the personal information you have provided to the OUAC and the OUAC will collect, use, disclose and otherwise treat your personal information as otherwise set out in this Declaration and Notice.

The personal information requested in this application is required by the OUAC and by the law schools for the purpose of your application and must be provided together with your application fee. Incomplete applications will not be considered. Law schools may require additional personal information from you to complete your application, and they may use and disclose your personal information for other purposes in accordance with their own personal information practices. Universities disclose personal information to regulatory authorities, law enforcement or other persons, when authorized or required to do so by law.

It is your responsibility to ensure that your application information and all supporting documentation is truthful, complete and correct, and that your autobiographic and personal submissions are authored solely and entirely by you. The OUAC and the universities reserve the right to verify any information provided as part of this application. If any information in your application is determined to be false or misleading, concealed or withheld, or written by a third party, your application may be invalidated and this could result in its immediate rejection or in the revocation of an offer of admission or registration at a university. This determination about your application may be shared with the Law School Admission Council (LSAC), and with universities and colleges across Canada. The determination of whether an application contains false or misleading information or that you have concealed or withheld information, and to which universities and colleges this information may be shared, is solely in the discretion of the OUAC and/or the university(ies) to which you have applied.

The OUAC is committed to protecting your privacy in relation to the personal information you provide in support of your application. If, after providing your application, you do not register in an Ontario law school, the OUAC will not retain any original documentation or paper records in respect of your application. Transcripts, autobiographic and personal submissions, and supplementary material in support of applications filed in a specific academic year will not be returned, forwarded or copied to applicants or forwarded to third parties, prior to being destroyed at the end of each application cycle.

The OUAC does retain the current (and historical) electronic version(s) of your demographic, academic and choice data provided in your application in accordance with the OUAC’s records retention policy and maintains administrative, technical and physical safeguards in an effort to protect against unauthorized access, use, modification and disclosure of your personal information. The OUAC will maintain the confidentiality of all personal information it collects in connection with the application and will disclose such personal information only for the purposes described in this Declaration and Notice. The OUAC stores electronic records off-site as part of its disaster recovery procedures. You are solely responsible for keeping your OUAC application user identification, login information and other registration information confidential and secure. Please notify the OUAC immediately if you suspect any unauthorized access, use or disclosure.

Collection of Personal Information:

  • The OUAC collects the personal information you provide in your application to process your application to the university(ies) of your choice.
  • The OUAC collects transcripts from educational institutions as provided by you.
  • The OUAC collects your LSAT (Law School Admission Test) scores directly from the Law School Admission Council (LSAC) with the consent you provide when you submit this application.
  • The OUAC collects personal information from individuals you provide as references.
  • The OUAC collects credit card and related payment information from you or from whoever is paying for this application to arrange for the processing of payment for your application.

Use of Personal Information:

  • The OUAC will compile and process your application and payment.
  • The OUAC uses personal information from all law school applications to create aggregate, non-personally identifiable information for use by the public via the OUAC website; by the admissions committees of the Ontario law schools; Ontario universities; the COU; the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities; and academic researchers (at the discretion of the OUAC and the law schools) for admissions, enrolment and other academic policy development and research purposes.
  • If you have ordered electronic transcripts from an Ontario university or an Ontario college as part of your application, the OUAC may use your personal information in order to facilitate the processing of your transcript request.

Disclosure of Personal Information:

  • The OUAC will disclose your application information to the university(ies) of your choice.
  • The OUAC will send the individuals you list as references an acknowledgement letter advising them that they have been named as a reference. If your references contact the OUAC with questions regarding your application, the OUAC will disclose personal information about you as necessary and appropriate to respond to the inquiry.
  • If a third party who is paying for this application has questions regarding the payment for your application, the OUAC will disclose personal information about you as necessary and appropriate to respond to the inquiry.
  • The OUAC discloses personal information from all law school applications in aggregate, non-personally identifiable form to the public via the OUAC website; to the admissions committees of the Ontario law schools; Ontario universities; the COU; the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities; and academic researchers (at the discretion of the OUAC and the law schools) for admissions, enrolment and other academic policy development and research purposes.
  • If you have accepted an offer for admission to law school, the law school will disclose this information to LSAC for enrolment management purposes.
  • The OUAC may disclose your personal information to regulatory authorities, law enforcement or other persons, as authorized or required by law.
  • If you have ordered electronic transcripts from an Ontario university as part of your application, the OUAC may disclose your personal information to the university(ies) from which you have ordered your transcripts, in order to facilitate the processing of your transcript request.

For more information about the collection, use, disclosure, and treatment of your personal information at the OUAC, review the OUAC’s Privacy Code www.ouac.on.ca/privacy/ or contact the OUAC Privacy Officer by email at privacyofficer@ouac.on.ca; by phone at 519-823-1940; or in writing at 170 Research Lane, Guelph, ON N1G 5E2.

Applicant’s Declaration:

Applicants are required to consent to the personal information practices as set out in the “Declaration and Notice of Collection, Use, Disclosure and Treatment of Your Personal Information Provided as Part of Your OLSAS (Ontario Law School Application Service) Application”, and to certify the following statement:

I certify that the personal information and documents submitted in this application, or to be submitted (all of which constitutes the application), are true, complete and correct in all respects, including my declarations as to citizenship and immigration status in Canada, that my autobiographic and personal submissions were authored solely and entirely by me, and that all information requested in this application has been disclosed. I understand that it is my responsibility to keep the OUAC and the law school(s) to which I have applied or at which I register informed of any changes to the information in my application materials and I agree to do so in writing immediately after any such change occurs.