Appendix A: Record categories expressly excluded from FIPPA

• Related Documents: Privacy and Access to Information Policy, Appendix B: Privacy Breach Protocol
• Unit Responsible: General Counsel and Board Secretariat
• Owner: General Counsel and Secretary of the Board, and Chief Privacy Officer
• Approver: President
• Issued Date: 2008
• Review Dates: 2011, 2025

1.    Records donated to archives: Records that were privately donated to the University archives by a person or an organization. This exception does not apply if the donating organization is an institution covered by FIPPA or Municipal FIPPA, or is a health information custodian as defined by the Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA).

2.    Employment-related Records: Records collected, prepared, maintained or used by or on behalf of the University in relation to labour relations; employment-related matters; labour negotiations; and meetings, consultations, discussions or communications about the labour relations and employment related matters. The exclusion does not apply to labour-relations agreements and expense records.

3.    Research records: Records about or associated with research conducted or proposed by an employee or a person associated with the University. The exclusion does not apply to the subject or amount of the funding received by an employee or a person associated with the University for research.

4.    Teaching materials: Records of teaching materials collected, prepared or maintained by an employee or a person associated with the University for use at the University. The exclusion does not apply to evaluative or opinion material compiled about teaching materials or research, supplied explicitly or implicitly in confidence, for the sole purpose of assessing the teaching materials or research of an employee or person associated with the University.