We Care About Your Privacy
Harvest Financial and Estate Planning Services ("HARVEST") values your privacy. The purpose of this privacy policy is to disclose to you the type of personal information we gather, how we gather it, what we use it for, and inform you of the choices that you have in our use of your personal information.
The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEA) is legislation enacted by the Canadian government. We fully adhere to that legislation at all times.
Personal Information We Collect
"Basic personal information"
We may collect "basic personal information" from you from time to time that includes:
- Your name
- Your address
- Your telephone number
- Your email address
- Your age and gender
We collect that basic personal information in a number of ways, for example:
- When you contact us to ask questions, either by telephone, by email or in person
- When you meet with a HARVEST representative
We may use this basic personal information in our various postal and email mailing lists to contact you from time to time to:
- Describe the services we provide
- To inform you of various offers and benefits we provide, and
- If you are not a HARVEST partner, to invite you to become one (we do that through various methods including direct mail campaigns and email campaign, using the personal information you provide us to include you in our mailing lists for those direct mail campaigns)Email communications for the foregoing marketing initiatives will always include an identification of the sender and an "Unsubscribe" option.
Aggregated information
We also collect what can be called "anonymous/aggregated information". We collect such information via the following methods:
- Browser information (i.e., the URL of the web page you were just on, the IP address of the computer you are using, your domain type, and your browser version). Browser information is automatically recorded as part of transmitting information over the Internet. We may use it to help us display information in the best format for you.
- Cookies. Our website uses "cookies". A cookie is a small text file sent to your browser's files for our reference. No one else can read this file. Cookies allow our server computer to recognize you when you return to the site, so you don't have to re-register and so we can retain any preferences you may have given us. If you do not wish to receive cookies, most browsers allow you to be alerted when a cookie is sent to your computer, so you can decide whether to accept it.
Consent to the Collection and Use of Your Personal Information
When you contact HARVEST for any reason (either in person, by telephone, by regular mail, or by email), or if HARVEST contacts you without you having contacted HARVEST first and you provide "basic personal information" to the HARVEST representative, you will be deemed to provide your consent to HARVEST's collection of your "basic personal information" and to use that "basic personal information" for the purposes described above under the heading "basic personal information".
Control of Your Information
You always have the option to instruct us not to use your personal information. Please see the "Contact Us" section at the end of this Privacy Policy to learn the methods by which you can provide us with your current instructions as to what personal information we can use and cannot use.
If at any time you withdraw your consent to collect and/or use your personal information, HARVEST may not be able to provide you with any further services since we will require such information to provide you with accurate services.
If at any time you should tell HARVEST not to use your personal information, your personal information will still form part of HARVEST's internal records; HARVEST will simply not use it for any purpose other than maintaining it in HARVEST's archives for historical archival records only.
Visiting a Third Party Website via a Link From Our Own Website
Our site may include links to other websites whose privacy practices may differ from those HARVEST. If you choose to provide personal information when you visit those third party websites please remember that the privacy provisions that the third party has will govern your relationship with them and our privacy policy will not apply.
Our Policy Regarding Sharing of Information
Our policy regarding the selling or renting of your personal information is simple: we never sell or rent your personal information to any third parties under any circumstances.
Amendments to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to change this privacy policy at any time and the then current policy (as posted on our Website) will govern.
This privacy policy is not intended to, nor does it create any contractual or other relationship, or provide or create any legal rights in or on behalf of any party or person (however, this privacy policy does not, and is not intended to, circumvent privacy legislation enacted by the Federal or Provincial legislatures).
Contact Us
You may contact HARVEST at any time in relation to any matter, via our Contact Us page.