Our brokerage and the insurance industry have a solid track record of respecting your right to privacy and safeguarding your personal information. As a result of federal legislation, we’ve further strengthened our privacy commitment by informing you of why and how we collect, use and disclose your personal information. You can be assured that we’ll only handle your personal information in a manner that a reasonable person would consider appropriate in the circumstances.
Personal Information Collected
Depending on the purpose(s) for which we need to collect it, we may ask for the following personal information about you including:
- Basic information such as your name, address, telephone and fax numbers, e-mail address, birth date and marital status
- Claims history
- Credit and payment records
- Driver’s records
- Details about your property such as the value of your home and its contents
- Medical information such as any condition that may affect the operation of a vehicle
- Employment information
We may obtain this information from:
- You
- Insurance companies
- Other insurance brokers or agents
- Credit organizations
- Motor vehicle and driver licensing authorities
- Financial institutions
- Medical professionals
Why do we collect personal information?
When you first become a client or whenever you acquire or renew a product from us, we need to collect some of your personal information. Common purposes for which we collect your personal information are to:
- Enable us to acquire or renew an insurance policy for you
- Assist you and assess your ongoing needs for insurance
- Assess your needs for other products, such as financial products, and to offer them to you
- Ensure your information is accurate and up-to-date
- Protect us both against error or fraud
Who do we disclose your personal information to?
For many of the purposes identified above, we will need to share your personal information with others in order to serve your needs. These other parties commonly include:
- Insurance companies
- Other insurance brokers or agents
- Credit organizations
- Professionals working with us such as adjusters or lawyers
- Financial institutions. For example, the organization that carries your mortgage
How we protect your personal information.
- In order to protect your personal information and right to privacy, we will:
- Not collect, use or disclose your personal information for any purpose other than those that we identify to you
- Keep your personal information only for as long as we need it to fulfill the stated purpose or as required by law
- Maintain your personal information in as accurate, complete and up-to-date a form as possible
- Safeguard your personal information to the best of our ability
- Respond to any request you make to access or correct the personal information we hold about you
- Obtain the appropriate consent from you for the collection, use or disclosure of your personal information
Privacy Internet Communication
As the privacy of communication over the Internet cannot be guaranteed, we do not assume any responsibility for any harm, loss, or damage that might occur by the sending of personal and confidential information.
Consent
In using this site, you signify your consent to our privacy policy. If you are not in agreement, please do not use the site. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to update, change, modify, add, or remove this policy from time to time, as appropriate. Should we make changes, we will publish these on the site in a timely fashion.
Please do not hesitate to contact our Privacy Officer should you have any questions.
M. Edward Powell Insurance Brokers Ltd. CASL Policy
Canada’s New Anti-Spam Legislation came into force on July 1, 2014. This legislation regulates the distribution of Commercial Electronic Messages. The legislation was introduced to try and reduce the sending of unsolicited e-mails.
M. Edward Powell Insurance Brokers Ltd. has always had a policy not to send out unsolicited emails. Emails have only been sent when a prospect or client has provided us with an email address to send them correspondence.
However, due to this new legislation M. Edward Powell Insurance Brokers Ltd. will now require consent to send an email. The legislation also requires that we provide a mechanism to allow you to UNSUBSCRIBE from receiving emails. This mechanism can be found in our emails as well as on our Contact Us page on this website.
If you have any questions regarding this policy please contact Judith Powell at 905-844-3542 ext 229
AODA Policy
If you would like a copy of M. Edward Powell Insurance Brokers Ltd. AODA Policy or our AODA Feedback Form please contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 905-844-3542 and we will provide.
Our Privacy Officer may be contacted as follows:
Name of Organization: Jeff Powell
Address: 349 Davis Rd, Oakville, L6J 2X2
Telephone: 905-844-3542
Fax: 905-849-7226
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