Privacy Policy
Agreement Express Inc. takes privacy and data security seriously and is committed to protecting the privacy of all individuals who:
- visit the Agreement Express websites and mobile sites located at https://agreementexpress.com, http://agreementexpress.net, http://us.agreementexpress.net (the “Websites”);
- use the Agreement Express mobile application (the “Application”);
- uses the services we offer through the Agreement Express platform (the “Platform”).
The Websites, the Application and the Platform together constitute our “Services”.
This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, disclose and otherwise process your personal information to provide you with our Services. Please review our Privacy Policy periodically for updates to our personal information practices.
Collection and Use of Personal Information
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- Marketing Communications: We may collect certain personal information, including name, job title, address, email address, telephone number and information about your business to send marketing communications regarding our Services, including news, updates, reminders, white papers or other publications. You can opt out of receiving marketing communications from us using the opt-out or “unsubscribe” instructions provided in our communications. Please note that you may continue to receive transactional and service-related electronic messages from us.
- Shareholder List: We collect the names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers and other personal information of our shareholders to meet our obligations under commercial laws, to record share transactions, and to provide various information and services to our shareholders.
- Contact Us: When you contact us with a comment, question or complaint, you may be asked for information that identifies you such as your name, email address, telephone number, and current company along with additional information we may need to help us promptly answer your question or respond to your request, comment or complaint. We may retain this information to assist you in the future and to improve our customer service and service offerings. We also use personal information to establish and manage our relationship with you and provide quality service.
Additional Information
We and/or our service providers (including Google Analytics) also collect, process, store and analyze information about you obtained from your browser or through the use of “cookies” or other tools that track, measure and analyze the behaviors and usage patterns of visitors to and users of our Services, including the device type, mobile device identifier, IP (Internet Protocol) addresses and other related information such as page requests, browser type, operating system, geographical region from which you access our Services, and average time spent on our Services. We use this information to help us understand activity on, and to monitor and improve, our Services.
For more information about Google Analytics, visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.
A cookie is a tiny element of data that our Services can send to your browser, which may then be stored on your hard drive so we can recognize you when you return.
We and/or our service providers will use cookies and/or device identifiers to serve ads based on your past visits to our website or our Services. We also use Google Analytcs’ 3rd-party audience data to better understand the behaviour of visitors and users of our Services and work with companies that collect information about your online activities to provide advertising targeted to suit your interests and preferences.
Additionally, we use cookies on the pages on our Services where you are prompted to log in or that are customizable. If you have registered with our Services, these cookies (1) may let us know who you are, (2) may be necessary to access your account information (stored on our computers) in order to deliver products and personalized services, and (3) will provide us and our service providers with information that we will use to personalize our Services in accordance with your preferences. You may set your Web browser to notify you when you receive a cookie or to not accept certain cookies. However, if you decide not to accept cookies from our Websites, you may not be able to take advantage of all of the features of our Services.
If you wish to opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies you can visit Google’s Ads Settings, the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page, or control the use of device identifiers by using your device’s settings.
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We store personal information collected by our clients for the purposes identified below.
- Client Onboarding, Registration, and Document Management: We provide services to our clients, including financial, wealth management, payment institutions and insurance and rental property providers with their customer registration, onboarding, and document management processes. To do so, we store certain personal information that you provide to our client(s) including:
- name, date of birth, address(es), email address(es) and phone number(s);
- digital signature;
- tax identification information, including tax identification numbers and Social Insurance/Security Numbers;
payment card and bank account information; - supporting documentation like valid ID (driver’s license), passport, tax return information and pay stubs;
credit history and annual income; and - client-specific registration information, including levels of risk tolerance in investing and annual income.
We store this information on behalf of our customers to verify and validate personal information individuals have provided. In addition, personal information is reviewed to satisfy Know-Your-Client (KYC) and other industry compliance obligations. We also aggregate data from the client registration, onboarding, KYC, and other compliance review processes to provide our clients with a risk assessment of their customers and to generate insights about their customers and business processes, and to help our clients provide personalized products and services.
Additional Information
We also collect, process, store and analyze information about you obtained from your browser or through the use of “cookies” or other tools that track, measure and analyze the behaviors and usage patterns of visitors to and users of our Services, including the device type, mobile device identifier, IP (Internet Protocol) addresses and other related information such as page requests, browser type, operating system, geographical region from which you access our Services, and average time spent on our Services. We use this information to help us understand activity on, and to monitor and improve, our Services.
A cookie is a tiny element of data that our Services can send to your browser, which may then be stored on your hard drive so we can recognize you when you return.
Additionally, we use cookies on the pages on our Services where you are prompted to log in or that are customizable. If you have registered with an Agreement Express client to use our Services, these cookies (1) may let us know who you are, (2) may be necessary to access your account information (stored on our computers) in order to deliver products and personalized services, (3) provide security such as two-factor authentication and (4) will provide us with information that we will use to personalize our Services in accordance with your preferences. You may set your Web browser to notify you when you receive a cookie or to not accept certain cookies. However, if you decide not to accept cookies from our Websites, you may not be able to take advantage of all of the features of our Services.
Safeguarding and Retention of Personal Information
We have implemented reasonable administrative, technical and physical measures in an effort to safeguard the personal information in our custody and control against theft, loss and unauthorized access, use, modification and disclosure. We restrict access to your personal information on a need-to-know basis to employees and authorized service providers who require access to fulfill their job requirements.
We have personal information retention processes designed to retain personal information for no longer than necessary for the purposes stated above or to otherwise meet legal requirements.
Access to Personal Information
You have the right to access, update and correct inaccuracies in your personal information in our custody and control, subject to certain exceptions prescribed by law. You may request access, updating and corrections of inaccuracies in other personal information we have in our custody or control by emailing us at the contact information set out below. We may request certain personal information for the purposes of verifying the identity of the individual seeking access to their personal information records.
GDPR and EU Residents
In addition to the foregoing Privacy Policy, European Union individuals have certain rights over their personal data and data controllers are responsible for fulfilling these rights as follows:
- Individuals may request access to their personal data held by us as a data controller.
- Individuals may request us to rectify personal data submitted to us or, where appropriate, contact us via the relevant website registration page or by amending the personal details held on relevant applications with which they registered.
- Individuals may request that we erase their personal data
- Where we process personal data based on consent, individuals may withdraw their consent at any time by contacting us or clicking on the unsubscribe link in an email received from us.
- Individuals may have other rights to restrict or object to our processing of personal data and the right to data portability.
- Individuals may request information about, or human intervention into, any automated data processing that we may undertake.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please send an email to compliance@agreementexpress.com
Third Party Websites
Our Services may contain links to other websites that are not owned or controlled by us, including social media websites. Links to our website may also be featured on third party websites on which we advertise. We provide links to third party websites as a convenience to the user and these links are not intended as an endorsement of or referral to the linked websites. We have no control over, do not review and are not responsible for the privacy policies of or content displayed on such other websites. When you click on such a link, you will leave our Services and go to another site. During this process, another entity may collect personal information from you.
Contact Us
Agreement Express welcomes your comments and questions regarding this Privacy Policy and our personal information practices. If you have questions or concerns about the manner in which we or our service providers treat your personal information or wish to access, update, and/or correct inaccuracies in your personal information, please contact our Privacy Officer:
compliance@agreementexpress.com
595 Burrard Street
Suite 2600, Three Bentall Centre
Vancouver BC
V7X 1L3
Last Updated: August 24, 2021