Privacy Policy
Application of Privacy Policy
Protection of your privacy is very important to WWW.BANKRUPTCYSPRUCEGROVE.COM, its owners and its affiliates. Our Privacy Policy explains how BANKRUPTCY SPRUCE GROVE collects, discloses, and uses personal information concerning its clients and other individuals (“you”), other than our employers and agents.
Any personal information you provide to us will be treated with care and, subject to this Privacy Policy and applicable law, will not be used or disclosed in a way to which you have not consented. Our Trustees, employees and agents are subject to professional and ethical obligations relating to the confidentiality of information BANKRUPTCY SPRUCE GROVE receives in the context of providing our services.
By submitting your personal information to BANKRUPTCY SPRUCE GROVE, you signify your consent to the collection, use and disclosure of such personal information in accordance with our Privacy Policy. If you do not consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with our Privacy Policy, please do not provide personal information to BANKRUPTCY SPRUCE GROVE. Certain services can, of course, only be offered to you if you provide personal information to BANKRUPTCY SPRUCE GROVE and therefore, BANKRUPTCY SPRUCE GROVE will not be able to offer or provide you those services if you choose not to provide us with required personal information.
What is Personal Information?
The term “personal information” refers to any information about an identifiable individual or any information that allows an individual to be identified. In general, personal information does not include business contact information, such as your name, title or position, business address, nor your business email, telephone or fax number in your capacity as an employee of an organization. During your relationship with BANKRUPTCY SPRUCE GROVE, you may be asked to provide certain personal information concerning you and/or other individuals (such as family members, employees, officers, directors, shareholders, business partners, customers, creditors, suppliers, etc.) Examples of such information include an individual’s name, date of birth, home address, financial and credit information, billing and account information and other information relating to the provision of services by BANKRUPTCY SPRUCE GROVE.
Purposes for Collection of Personal Information
BANKRUPTCY SPRUCE GROVE collects, uses and discloses personal information for the purposes identified at the time of collection, or as otherwise permitted or required by applicable law, including for the following purposes:
to comply with any and all obligations imposes upon BANKRUPTCY SPRUCE GROVE pursuant to the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act of Canada;
to comply with our professional responsibilities and obligations, including the rules regarding client identification and verification;
administrative, management and business purposes, such as to issue invoices, administer accounts, collect and process payments, fulfill contractual obligations, and audit our business obligations;
to establish and manage estate relationships, including considering whether to establish such a relationship;
to maintain proper information management systems and databases;
for any other purpose for which BANKRUPTCY SPRUCE GROVE has your consent.
What we Collect, Use and Disclose
BANKRUPTCY SPRUCE GROVE strives to limit the extent of the personal information we collect to what is necessary and appropriate for the identified purposes. We will not use or disclose your personal information for purposes other than for which it was collected, except with your consent or as may be permitted or required by law.
Although BANKRUPTCY SPRUCE GROVE maintains server logs and Web logs which automatically collect and log all incoming traffic to our Website, including your Internet Protocol (IP) address, BANKRUPTCY SPRUCE GROVE makes no attempt to link these addresses with the identity of individuals visiting our site.
Any personal information you do provide to BANKRUPTCY SPRUCE GROVE is protected under the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Document Act (PIPEDA) and/or other provincial Personal Information Protection Act(s). This means that, at the point of collection, you will be informed that your personal information is being collected, the reason or purpose for which it is being collected, and that you have a right of access to the information.
Website Visitor information is not disclosed to anyone except our Trustee, employees or agents who need the information, e.g. to respond to a request from you.
Consent to Collect, Use and Disclose
To the extent possible, BANKRUPTCY SPRUCE GROVE will obtain consent to collect, use and disclose personal information about an individual directly from the individual. However, if you provide personal information concerning another individual to BANKRUPTCY SPRUCE GROVE, you represent that, prior to submitting such information, you have obtained the necessary consent or authority to permit us to collect, use and disclose such personal information for the purposes set out in our Privacy Policy, or the collection, use and disclosure is permitted by law.
BANKRUPTCY SPRUCE GROVE will not collect, use or disclose personal information without the consent of the individual(s) concerned unless we are permitted to or required to do so by law. We generally do not obtain the consent of the individual(s) concerned in the following circumstances:
if a client provides personal information to us about a third person for purposes of our obligation(s) pursuant to the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act of Canada;
when information is being collected for the prevention or detection of fraud or for law enforcement, where seeking the consent of the individual may defeat the purpose of collecting the information; and
if legal, medical or security reasons make it impossible or impractical for us to seek consent.
Withdrawal of Consent to Use and Disclosure
In some jurisdictions or provinces, you may withdraw your consent to the use and disclosure of your personal information, or limit certain uses and disclosures. To do that, please contact our Privacy Officer, utilizing the contact information identified in subsequent sections of this policy.
Disclosure of Your Personal Information
Our Trustees, employees and agents are subject to and maintain professional and ethical standards, and, as such, BANKRUPTCY SPRUCE GROVE will not disclose personal information unless our client has provided consent or we are permitted or required to do so by law.
Subject always to our professional obligations, and only for the purposes of providing bankruptcy and financial services, BANKRUPTCY SPRUCE GROVE may disclose personal information to third parties (including adverse parties and their counsel, experts, witnesses, service providers) in the context of bankruptcy proceedings and business transactions.
BANKRUPTCY SPRUCE GROVE may also disclose your personal information to your authorized agent or representative, and BANKRUPTCY SPRUCE GROVE may also disclose personal information as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law.
BANKRUPTCY SPRUCE GROVE may disclose your personal information to a government or regulatory entity that has asserted its lawful authority to obtain such information, or where BANKRUPTCY SPRUCE GROVE has reasonable grounds to believe the information could be useful in the investigation of unlawful activity, or to comply with a subpoena or warrant or an order made by a court, person or body with jurisdiction to compel the production of information, or to protect BANKRUPTCY SPRUCE GROVE’s rights and property. If BANKRUPTCY SPRUCE GROVE is involved in a merger or other reorganization, BANKRUPTCY SPRUCE GROVE may disclose your personal information to the resulting entity.
BANKRUPTCY SPRUCE GROVE does not sell or exchange for consideration, any personal information it holds.
Securing and Storing Personal Information
BANKRUPTCY SPRUCE GROVE may store and process your personal information at BANKRUPTCY SPRUCE GROVE’s offices in Canada, or elsewhere. To help protect the confidentiality of your personal information, BANKRUPTCY ESPRUCE GROVE employs security safeguards that are customary in the financial industry, and appropriate to the sensitivity of the information, including physical, organizational and technological measures. Examples of such measures include restricted access to file storage, limiting access to information on a “need-to-know” basis, using passwords and well-defined internal policies and practices.
To the extent BANKRUPTCY SPRUCE GROVE employs third-party service providers to store, handle or process information on our behalf (e.g. data processing or office services), we will use contractual and other means to provide a comparable level of protection while the information is being stored, handled or processed by them.
How to Access Personal Information
You may request access to your personal information and/or information about BANKRUPTCY SPRUCE GROVE’s collection, use and disclosure of information by contacting our Privacy Officer in writing, at the addresses identified below.
Privacy Officer:
c/o Bankruptcy Spruce Grove
9415 98 Avenue NW
Edmonton, Alberta T6C 4P6
Attention: Privacy Officer
PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
Subject to certain exceptions prescribed by law, you will be given reasonable access to your personal information and will be entitled to challenge the accuracy and completeness of that information and, to the extent that you have proven such inaccuracy or incompleteness, have it amended as appropriate. Examples of such exceptions include information that is prohibitively costly to provide, information that contains references to other individuals, information that cannot be disclosed for legal, security or commercial proprietary reasons, and information that is precluded from disclosure by law.
Recourse
If you have not received a satisfactory response to your privacy concerns after contacting our Privacy Officer, you may direct your question or complaint to any of the following:
Industry Associations
Canadian Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Professionals:
Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy Canada:
https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/bsf-osb.nsf/eng/home
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada:
Accuracy of Personal Information
You can help BANKRUPTCY SPRUCE GROVE maintain the accuracy of your information by notifying BANKRUPTCY SPRUCE GROVE of any changes to your personal information.
Website Links
BANKRUPTCY SPRUCE GROVE contains links to other websites. BANKRUPTCY SPRUCE GROVE is not responsible for the content or the privacy policies or practices of those other websites. We encourage you to examine each site’s privacy policy and make your own decisions regarding submission of your personal information and the policies and practices followed by each entity.
If you have any inquiry or complaint that relates to BANKRUPTCY SPRUCE GROVE’s policies or procedures relating to the handling of personal information, we invite you to contact our Privacy Officer.
Cookie Disclaimer
We use cookies to ensure you get the best user experience from our website. If you continue without changing your settings, we will assume that you are happy to receive all cookies on BANKRUPTCY SPRUCE GROVE. For further information, please read the Cookie Policy below.
WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies are very small, completely safe and secure text files which are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a website or application. Your web browser (e.g. Safari, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox) then sends these files back to the website or application every time you return so that your user personal settings can be recognized. Cookies are useful, helping website developers and companies to improve your website browsing experience. Some cookies are strictly necessary to enable you to move around the site or to provide certain basic features. Others are used to monitor and improve our website’s functionality and performance.
HOW WE USE COOKIES
v continually strives to provide you with the best customer experience possible when visiting our website. To help us do this, we use cookies to remember your settings during your and between visits, allow interaction between our website and social networks like Facebook and Twitter, collect anonymous data about our users and the way they interact with our website in order for us to provide relevant and functional content and to continually improve our website to enhance the customer experience.
We do not sell or share any information collected by cookies, nor do we disclose the information to unauthorized third parties, except where required by law (for example to government bodies and law enforcement agencies).
WHAT COOKIES WE USE ON OUR WEBSITE
Anonymous Analytics Cookies: Analytics provide us with key information about anonymous user behaviour. Whenever a user visits our website, web analytics software provided by a third party generates an anonymous analytics cookie. These help us find out whether or not you have visited the BANKRUPTCY SPRUCE GROVE website before, how many individual unique users visit the site, what pages they look at most frequently etc.
Social Website Cookies: The BANKRUPTCY SPRUCE GROVE website allows you to share content on social media networks like Facebook and Twitter. This functionality is enabled via the use of third party cookies. In this case, privacy implications vary and depend on the privacy settings you have chosen when registering with the social media sites. Our site enables sharing through Facebook, Google, Twitter and ShareThis.
Session Cookies: Session cookies are used for users’ movement through the website. They allow you to proceed through many pages of the BANKRUPTCY SPRUCE GROVE site quickly and easily without having to authenticate or reprocess each new area you visit. Session cookies are not stored on your computer and they will expire when you close your web browser.
HOW YOU CAN CONTROL COOKIES
We assume your consent to the use of cookies when you visit the BANKRUPTCY SPRUCE GROVE website and most browsers are automatically set to accept them. You can alter the settings of your browser to prevent automatic acceptance of cookies, or delete cookies that have already been set. This will only slightly affect your user experience as you may still utilize most of the sections on our website.
If you wish to restrict or block web browser cookies on your device, you can do this in your browser settings.