PRIVACY STATEMENT AND CONSENT 

Commitment to protecting your privacy   

In order to provide you with access to financial products and services, we collect certain personal information about you to ensure the protection of your personal information. We adhere to the Personal Information and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), a federal privacy law, and the provincial privacy laws that apply. 

Accountability   

We are responsible for the personal information we receive from our clients, and we will safeguard that information in whatever form it is held.   

Why we collect, use, and retain personal information  

We collect all personal information (including health, corporate, financial, and related information) with your consent and use and retain it solely for the purposes of providing advice, to administer any products or services you purchase through us and to advise you of new products or services that may be of interest to you.   

Consent   

We will collect information only with your consent. We use your personal information to identify financial products, concepts and services to address needs you have identified. By signing this form, you agree on behalf of you, your executors or administrators or assignees:  

• to provide accurate information throughout our business relationship as your circumstances change,  

• to allow us to use, share and disclose this information on an as-needed basis with suppliers, associates, and wholesale organizations, which may retain some information on file for future use and reference by us, our suppliers and any assignees, 

• to allow us to retain your personal information, including health information housed on your applications, in our paper and electronic files for as long as you wish to have us as your firm or we have a business or regulatory need to retain the information and 

• to the assignment of your file, including your personal information, to another agent and/or Managing General Agency (MGA), to continue to service your needs, in the event that one of our advisors become incapacitated, die or retire. You do, however, have the right to choose your own advisor at that time, should you not agree to the assignment.   

Limiting collection  

We only collect and keep information that helps us formulate advice, including personal, financial and health information, and to meet our regulatory obligations. We will only use fair and lawful means to collect this information.  

Limits on use, disclosure, and retention  

We will use and disclose your personal information to perform our duties, to provide you with advice and when we are required to do so, by law. We may provide your personal information to insurers through wholesale organizations known as Managing General Agencies (MGAs), which are contracted to provide administrative services to the insurers. We may share this personal information with our advisors, employees or service providers so that they can perform their duties, to insurers and any person or organization to which consent has been given and where authorized by law. We may also share this information with others to get you help in areas outside of our expertise.   

We are required to retain much of the information we collect for regulatory reasons including the requirement that we are able to demonstrate that the recommendations we make are appropriate and address your identified needs.   

Accuracy of information   

In order to make appropriate recommendations, we must receive accurate information.  It is our responsibility to keep personal information about you as accurate and up-to-date as possible. Where appropriate, we will attempt to update the personal information we hold about you in our records in an effort to determine whether the recommendations we made are still appropriate in light of changes in your circumstances. However, we also rely on you to provide regular updates to us for the same reason. You may review the personal information we retain about you upon request.   

We strive to protect your personal information   

All employees, associated advisors, wholesale organizations and suppliers that are granted access to client records are required to keep this information protected and confidential and to use the information only for the purposes identified. Information that is no longer required for the intended purposes will be destroyed. I’ve also established physical and systems safeguards, along with proper processes, to protect client information from unauthorized access or use. Physical copies of your personal information are stored in our offices in Canada. However, we sometimes use service providers outside of Canada to collect, use, disclose and/or store personal information to assist us in doing work for you. The countries from which these services may be provided include the United States. 

Your privacy choices 

You may withdraw your consent at any time (subject to legal or contractual obligations and on providing us with reasonable notice) by contacting our Privacy Officer. Withdrawing your consent may prevent us from providing you with requested products or services and may end our business relationship. 

Your right to complain 

If you have any concern about our collection, use or disclosure of your personal information, you have the right to complain to us or the Privacy Commissioner. 

Privacy Officer: Steven Meldrum 

Address: 462 4 St SE #201, Medicine Hat, AB T1A 0K6 

Phone: 403-487-0490 

Fax: 1-844-812-4431