PRIVACY POLICY
Last modified: 0ct 20, 2019
1. Equisoft Inc. - Privacy Policy:
We, at Equisoft Inc, respect and honour your privacy.
We collect and use your personal information in order to facilitate and
ensure that we provide you with the right products and services. We
value your trust. To earn that trust, we are committed to the following
ten privacy principles:
Accountability – We take responsibility for the personal information
under our control. We have designated individuals who are committed to
monitor our ongoing compliance with these privacy principles.
Identifying Purposes – The purposes for which personal information is
collected will be identified by us, or through our or our authorized
personnel.
Consent – Your knowledge and consent are required for the collection and
use of your personal information except as permitted or requested by you
or required by law. Your consent may be expressed in writing, or it may
be given verbally, electronically or through our or your authorized
representative. Consent may also be implied in limited situations.
Limiting Collection – We limit our collection of personal information to
that which is necessary for the purposes identified, and only collect
personal information by fair and lawful means.
Limiting Use, Disclosure and Retention – We will not use or disclose
personal information for purposes other than those for which it was
collected and will not retain personal information longer than
necessary.
Accuracy – We try to ensure and maintain the accuracy and completeness
of the personal information we use and collect. However, we rely on you
to disclose personal information to us and advise us of any changes.
Safeguards – We protect personal information by security safeguards
appropriate to the sensitivity of the information.
Openness – We are readily make available to you information about our
privacy policies and practices.
Individual Access – Upon written request, you will be informed of the
existence, use and disclosure of your personal information, and you will
be given access to that information subject to exceptions permitted by
law. You may challenge the accuracy and completeness of the information
and have it amended as appropriate.
Inquiries and Concerns – You may contact our Chief Privacy Officer with
any inquiries or concerns about our privacy policies and practices at:
Equisoft
1250 René-Lévesque Blvd West, 32nd Floor, Montréal, QC H3B 4W8
Attention: [email protected] or call: 1-888-316-5433
2. The information we collect:
Personal Information refers to any information about an identifiable
individual, other than certain business contact information, such as
name, government identification numbers, financial information, address
and telephone and email contact information
We collect your personal information to help us to provide you with our
products and services and in order to facilitate responding to any
questions or requests for assistance to you, to. provide administrative
services in connection with the products and services that we provide,
to meet our legal and regulatory obligations and as may otherwise be
permitted or required by applicable laws. We collect only the
information we need for the purposes stated above.
We collect this information from the following sources:
1) From you directly on applications and other forms submitted to us via
mail, telephone, email or internet
2) From individuals who you have authorized to answer questions or
provide information to us
3. Your Consent:
We collect and use only for the purposes we have disclosed related to
the software and data products and services that we offer and provide,,
and only with your consent or as permitted or required by law. Your
consent may be in writing, or it may be expressed verbally or
electronically, or through your or our authorized representative(s) such
as your employees or designees. Your consent may also be implied or
inferred from certain actions.
You may withhold or withdraw your consent for us to collect, use and
disclose your personal information as long as there are no legal or
contractual reasons preventing you from doing so. Depending on the
circumstances however, withdrawal of your consent may impact our ability
to provide you with the services you have requested.
Your personal information will only be provided or disclosed to, or
accessible by:
a) Our employees, including administrative and support teams who need
the information to perform their duties.
b) Our affiliates to resolve any concerns and assist in any
investigations required to provide services to you.
c) Service providers, that may, for example, provide administrative
support, information technology assistance, who may need the information
for the performance of their duties for you and us.
d) Any person or organization to whom you gave consent.
e) Anyone who is otherwise authorized by law.
When your personal information is provided to service providers, we will
require them to protect the information in a manner that is consistent
with our privacy policies and practices.
Use of service providers outside Canada
Your personal information is stored and used in Canada only., and may be
accessible to the government of Canada and provincial governments,,
courts or law enforcement or regulatory agencies through the laws of
Canada and provincial laws.
For information about our policies and practices with respect to service
providers outside Canada, or to access written information about such
policies and practices, please contact our Chief Privacy Officer using
the contact information set out above.
Optional Marketing Purposes
Referrals: We may collect, use and disclose your personal information to
offer you products or services that may be of interest to you, or so
that prospective clients may contact you with respect to products or
services that you provide and that may be of interest to prospective
clients. You are not required to consent to the collection, use and
disclosure of your personal information for these optional marketing
purposes in order to do business with us. If you do not want your
personal information used for these optional referral marketing
purposes, please notify our Chief Privacy Officer using the contact
information set out above.
Protection of Your Personal Information
We appreciate the trust you place in us and we are committed to
protecting your personal information from unnecessary or unauthorized
access or use. We protect your personal information in many ways,
including maintaining controlled access to paper and electronic
documents and files, and using appropriate technology safeguards such as
passwords, firewalls and encryption. We restrict access to your personal
information to those of our employees, peronnel and affiliates who need
such information to provide you with the products and services for which
the information was requested. If you do not want your personal
information used for these optional purposes, please notify our Chief
Privacy Officer using the contact information set out above.
Accessing and Correcting Personal Information
We will make all reasonable efforts to ensure that any personal
information we collect and keep is accurate, complete and as up-to-date
as required for the identified purposes. To do so, we will rely to a
large extent on you to provide us with accurate information and to
inform us of changes, such as changes to your contact information.
You have the right to access and verify the personal information we have
for you in our files, and to ask us to correct any factually incorrect
information. There may be a charge if you require copies of records. We
will advise you of the cost, if any, before copying the records.
We may not be able to provide you with access to your personal
information if the information cannot be separated from the personal
information of others or is protected by legal privilege. If we cannot
provide you with access to your personal information we will advise you
as to the reasons why access is denied unless we are prohibited by law
from doing so.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
We may amend our Privacy Policy from time to time. Our website will
contain the most current version of the Privacy Policy.
4. WEBSITE PRIVACY INFORMATION:
Security
Your emails to us may not encrypted. Consequently, we cannot guarantee
the security of any information you transmit to us and you do so at your
own risk. You should not send confidential information to us via email.
Cookies
Your web browser places cookie files on your computer’s hard drive, and
may otherwise store information that you may enter. This is to allow
your browser to remember information you provided so that you don’t have
to re-enter the information each time you visit the website. We may use
cookies to temporarily store some personal information. This information
allows us to tailor the website and the products, services and
information we provide to best meet your needs. If you wish to refuse
cookies or to otherwise disallow your browser from remembering your
inputs, please adjust your browser’s settings to reject them.
Our software services may store information that you have entered for
future retrieval and use by you. This may include demographic
information such as gender, age, date of birth, province of residence,
etc. as well as such information as your insurance company
representation appointments, professional qualifications and experience
and the like. Such information is stored in Canada and is subject to
Canadian federal and provincial laws and regulations, is under your
control and will not be disclosed unless the disclosure is initiated by
you or required by federal or provincial laws and regulations.
5. Web beacons:
This website also uses web beacons for many of the same purposes as
cookies. Web beacons collect non-personally identifiable information to
let us know how our website is being used. We use this information to
improve user experience on this website.
Email
When you send an e-mail to us or when you ask for a response by e-mail,
we learn your exact e-mail address and any information you have included
in the e-mail. Your e-mail address will be used to acknowledge your
comments and/or reply to your questions and your communication and our
reply will be stored in case we correspond further. We will not sell
your e-mail address or any of your personal or contact information to
anyone. Email over the Internet is generally unencrypted. We recommend
that you use caution in sending email messages that contain confidential
information.