What is considered a commercial activity?
PIPEDA defines commercial activity as any particular transaction, act, or conduct, or any regular course of conduct that is of a commercial character, including the selling, bartering or leasing of donor membership or other fund-raising lists. In practice, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has indicated that relatively few university functions are considered to be truly “commercial” in nature.
Related Questions
- What needs to be disclosed to the audience when the educational activity receives commercial support from the pharmaceutical or medical device industry?
- If a live activity is turned into an enduring material, do faculty disclosure and acknowledgement of commercial support still need to be made?
- Can commercial interests receive exhibit space in exchange for providing CME grants for the CME activity?
