This organization is committed to protecting your privacy and safeguarding
your personal, information. We support a general policy of openness about how
we collect, use, disclose and protect your personal information.
The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you of this organization
practices relating to our collection, use, disclosure and protection of your
personal information. By purchasing our professional services, you consent to
our collection, use, disclosure and protection of your personal information in
accordance with specific terms and conditions. The specific terms and
conditions are listed below.
This Privacy Policy is designed to meet the compliance standards established
by Canada's Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).
PIPEDA is based on the Ten Principles established by the Canadian Standards
Association's Model Code for the Protection of Personal Information, which
principles were recognized as a Canadian standard in 1996, and address the ways
in which organizations should collect, use and disclose personal information.
Our Privacy Policy explains how you can contact us if you have a question
about, want to make a change to, or delete, any personal information that this
organization may retain about you.
Definition of Personal Information
"Personal information" means any information about an identifiable
individual, other than that individual's name, title, business address or
telephone number (often called, "business card" or "phone
book" information). Personal information includes age, gender, marital
status, health status, financial status, home address, etc. Such information
includes information specifically related to you, our client, or personal
information of others, such as your employees or clients, that we may encounter
in the course of providing our professional services to you.
What Personal Information Do We Collect?
The information we collect, which may include personal information, may involve
at least some of the following:
- Contact information (such as name, addresses, email address, telephone
numbers)
How Do We Use Your Personal Information?
We use your personal information to:
- Provide you with timely and reliable professional services;
- Do all the things necessary to administer those services;
- Research, develop, manage, protect and improve those services;
- Develop and maintain our relationship with you and communicate with you;
- Advise you about new products and services that may be of interest to you;
and
- Invoice and collect payment for professional services provided by us to you.
When Do We Disclose Your Personal Information?
At this organization, we are accountable for your personal information. We will NOT sell, license, trade or rent your personal information to others.
In terms of our accountability to you:
- We are responsible for the protection of the personal information you
disclose to this organization;
- We have appointed a Privacy Officer, to be accountable for our compliance
with our Privacy Policy;
- With your consent, we may share your personal information with third parties
engaged to assist us in providing the products and services to you.
These service providers will sign this organization's Confidentiality Agreements
and will be prohibited from using your personal information for any purpose
other than to provide a specified service to you as a client of This
organization. They will be required to protect the personal information
disclosed by This organization as we ourselves would do, and to comply with the
general privacy principles described in this Privacy Policy;
- We reserve the right to disclose personal information to a third party if a
law, regulation, regulatory body, search warrant, subpoena or court order
legally requires or authorizes us to do so; and
Your Knowledge and Consent
This organization collects personal information about you only when you
voluntarily provide it. Typically, we will seek your consent for the use or
disclosure of your personal information when we collect it. In certain
circumstances, your consent may be sought after the information has been
collected but before we use it (for example, when we want to use information
for a purpose not previously identified).
The form of consent that we seek, including whether it is express or
implied, will largely depend on the sensitivity of the personal information and
the reasonable expectations you might have in the circumstances.
You may withdraw your consent at any time, subject to legal or contractual
restrictions and reasonable notice. Should you wish to do so, please contact us
via our contact form.
This organization will inform you of the implications of your withdrawing your
consent.
We will not, as a condition of the supply of our professional services or
products, require you to consent to the collection, use, disclosure or
protection of information beyond that which is required to fulfill the
specified and legitimate purposes for which the information is being collected.
Use or Disclosure of Your Personal Information for Marketing Purposes
this organization will never disclose your personal information to a third party
marketing firm. However, within the boundaries of our regulatory environment,
from time to time This organization may make use of your personal information,
with great discretion, to communicate and market our services and products to
you. You can choose not to receive any invitations or direct mail from us by
indicating your preference as outlined below under Contact Us.
Cookies
When you visit our Web site please note that cookies are not currently used.
"Cookies" are small text files placed on your hard drive that assist
in providing a more customized Web site experience. For example, a cookie can
be used to store registration information in an area of the Web site so that a
user does not need to re-enter it on subsequent visits to that area. It is this
organization Internet Privacy Policy to use cookies only when we deem it
necessary to make navigation of our Web sites easier for our visitors and to
facilitate efficient registration procedures.
If you are concerned about cookies, most browsers permit individuals to
decline cookies. In most cases, a visitor may refuse a cookie and still fully
navigate our Web sites.
In order to properly manage our Web site, we may anonymously log information
on our operational systems, and identify categories of visitors by items such
as domains and browser types. These statistics are reported in the aggregate to
our webmasters. This is to ensure that our Web site presents the best web
experience for visitors and is an effective information resource.
Links to Third Party Web Sites
There are several places throughout this website that may link to other Web
sites that do not operate under This organization Internet Privacy Policy. When
you link to other Web sites, this organization Web and privacy policies no
longer apply. We encourage you to review each site's Privacy Policy before you
disclose any personally identifiable information.
How We Protect Your Personal Information
This organization will take all commercially reasonable steps to ensure that
your personal information in our possession, collected from you, is protected
against loss and unauthorized access. This protection applies to information
stored in both electronic and hard copy form. Access to your personal information
will be restricted to selected employees or representatives. In addition, this
organization will employ generally accepted information security techniques,
such as firewalls, access control procedures and cryptography, to protect
personal information against loss and unauthorized access.
Retention of Your Personal Information
This organization will retain your personal information for as long as
necessary to fulfill the purpose(s) for which it was collected and to comply
with applicable laws and regulations. Your consent to such purposes(s) will
remain valid after termination of our relationship with you.
Exceptions, Qualifications and Changes to this Privacy Policy
Although not listed in detail in this Privacy Policy, the firm will rely on any
exceptions or qualifications that are set out in the applicable legislation as
permitted by law.
This organization reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy at
anytime without notice. The Privacy Policy posted at anytime or from time to
time via the Web site shall be deemed to be the Privacy Policy then in effect.
