Privacy & Information Security

Your Privacy & Information Security is Protected
WINESTONE LAVAL & CO. is committed to providing you with excellent service and maintaining a high level of privacy & information security as well as respect for your right to privacy.  (In this policy, “WINESTONE LAVAL” means WINESTONE LAVAL & CO.).

Overview
This statement is one way of sustaining your trust in our company, our strategic alliances, our products and our services. Our privacy statement describes how we collect, protect and use information about you during your visit on our website.

What personal information does WINESTONE LAVAL collect online?
We may collect personal information about you from the information you provide to us when you fill out an application or other forms. We may also receive personal information about you from consumer reporting agencies and your transactions with us, our affiliates, our strategic alliances or others. This information may include:

Financial Information

• Name
• Address
• Social Insurance Number
• Account Numbers
• Telephone Numbers
• Fax Numbers
• Email Addresses
• Etc.

Why is personal information collected?
If you fill out an application or other form on our site, we may ask for a variety of information to help us communicate with you, evaluate your eligibility and offer products and/or services that may be right for you. We may also obtain other information about you, for example, your credit report. This information is used to determine your eligibility for our products and/or services.

Also, if you choose to share any personal information with us, we may store it and use it for our own marketing research and the marketing of our products and services to you.

When is personal information about me collected 0nline?
We collect personal information about you when you fill out an application or other forms on our site, when you register through registration web pages and each time you update your personal profile.

Does WINESTONE LAVAL use cookies or other Online Technologies to collect information about me?
Some of our website/s may make use of “cookie” technology to measure site activity and to customize information to your personal taste/s. A cookie is an element of data that a website can send to your browser, which may then store the cookie on your hard drive. So, when you come back to visit us again, we can tailor information to suit your individual preferences. The goal is to save you time and provide you with a more meaningful visit.

When you visit our site, we may collect and store information about your visit. This information may include the time and length of your visit, the pages you view on our site, the last site you visited before coming to ours and the name of your internet service provider. We use this data on an aggregate basis to measure site activity and on an individual basis to make the site more useful and provide information that may be of interest to you.

Do you share personal information about me?
In certain circumstances, we may share information about you with other companies so that we may provide you with the products and/or services you have requested. We may share information about you with our institutional lenders, insurers and other service providers for their use in providing their products and/or services, or within the WINESTONE LAVAL group of companies for market research and marketing purposes as allowed by law. Also, we may share information about you with credit reporting agencies when you complete an online form or application.

Any company with which we share information about you for the above purposes is contractually required to comply with confidentiality standards. We may disclose information about you as required or permitted by law. We do not sell information about you to anyone.

How can I review, change or correct information you collect?
We are committed to maintaining accurate and up-to-date information on all of our clients and strategic alliances. We may provide you with access to account information in different ways, for example, over the telephone, online or on paper.

If you have completed and saved, but have not submitted, an online form or application, you may be able to make certain changes to the information you have provided to us before it is submitted. If you are unable to make changes to the information you have provided to us online, you may contact us in order to do so.

How do you protect personal information?
We restrict access to the information obtained from our website/s and web pages to our employees, agents, consultants and/or contractors. We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards designed to protect personal information.

How do I contact WINESTONE LAVAL if I have questions about this statement?
You may contact us at any time with questions you may have, via regular mail or telephone, at:

WINESTONE LAVAL & CO.
Client Relations
4500 Hwy. 7
Vaughan, Ontario, L4L 4Y7
Telephone:  416-939-2988 Contact WINESTONE LAVAL

Will WINESTONE LAVAL make changes to this Privacy Statement?
This statement is effective July 3, 2012 and remains in effect until amended.  WINESTONE LAVAL reserves the right to amend this Privacy Statement or alter its privacy principles at its sole discretion and without notice to you. Any alterations to this Privacy Statement or our privacy principles will be posted on our website in a timely manner.

WINESTONE LAVAL & CO. – FSCO Licence No. 12274 – Independently Owned & Operated.