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If you are not satisfied with our response to your privacy concern, you may wish to contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner by email at: info@privcom.gc.ca, by telephone at 1-800-282-1376 or visit their Web site at: http://www.privcom.gc.ca. Hyperlinking NoticeLinks to Web sites not under the control of the Office of the Secretary to the Governor General (OSGG) are provided solely for the convenience of users. The Office of the Secretary to the Governor General is not responsible for the accuracy, currency or the reliability of the content. The Office of the Secretary to the Governor General does not offer any guarantee in that regard and is not responsible for the information found through these links, nor does it endorse the sites and their content. Users should be aware that information offered by non Government of Canada sites that are not subject to the Official Languages Act and to which the Office of the Secretary to the Governor General links, may be available only in the language(s) used by the sites in question. |