Privacy Policy

When you visit one of our websites or use our software, we automatically log some basic information like how you got to the site, where you navigated within it, and what features and settings you use. We use this information to improve our websites and services and to drive new product development.

Sometimes we receive information indirectly. If you engage with our brand on social media (for instance, liking, commenting, retweeting, mentioning, or following us), we’ll have access to your interactions and profile information.

What does WIB do with your information?

We use your information to provide the requested services, create and maintain your accounts, and watch for unauthorized activity on your accounts. We also use it to communicate with you about the products you’re currently using, your customer support requests, new products you may like a chance for you to give us feedback, and policy updates. We analyze the information we collect to understand user needs and to improve our websites and services.

We’re required to have a legal basis for collecting and processing your information. In most cases, we either have your consent or need the information to provide the service you requested. When that’s not the case, we must demonstrate that we have another legal basis, such as our legitimate business interests.

You can decline certain kinds of information use either by not providing the information in the first place or by opting out later. You can also disable cookies to prevent your browser from giving us information,

Your choice in information use is to Opt-out of the non-essential electronic communications. You may also opt out of receiving newsletters and other non-essential messages by using the ‘unsubscribe’ function included in all such messages. However, you will continue to receive notices and essential transactional emails.

Disable cookies: You can disable browser cookies before visiting our websites. However, if you do so, you may not be able to use certain features of the websites properly.

Optional information: You can choose not to provide optional profile information such as your photo. You can also delete or change your optional profile information. You can always choose not to fill in non-mandatory fields when you submit any form linked to our websites.

Usage Tracking

Our site may automatically record some general information about your visit which we use for statistical analysis to help make our site more useful to visitors. This information might include the:

• Internet domain for your Internet service provider, such as ‘company.com’ or ‘service.ca’ and the IP address of the computer accessing the website, such as ‘ppp-55’;
• Type of browser you are using, such as Internet Explorer or Netscape;
• Type of operating system you are using, such as Windows or Macintosh;
• Date and time you visit our site and Web pages that you visit on our site, along with the address of the previous website you were visiting, if you linked to us from another website.

Electronic SMS Policy

No mobile information will be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes. All the above categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.

Cookies

We also use “cookies” that identify you as a return visitor and which can help us tailor information to suit your individual preferences. A cookie is a piece of data that a website can send to your browser, which may then store the cookie on your hard drive. The goal is to save you time and provide you with a more meaningful visit and to measure website activity. Cookies do not contain any personally identifying information. Many browsers, however, allow you to disable cookie collection if you wish, or inform you when a cookie is being stored on your hard drive.

Periodically our site may allow the use of third party cookies or similar technologies to measure and improve the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns. From time to time this information may be shared with a third party who in turn uses that information to serve you advertising relevant to your interests as you are browsing across the web. When doing so CMA and/or it’s agents use the services of Google and Facebook. Our website users can visit www.youradchoices.ca to learn more about this type of advertising and may choose whether to continue receiving interest-based ads

Information Retention

We retain our client’s information as long as they choose to use Wescan Insurance Services. After terminating your account, your data will be automatically deleted from our active database within 3 months. Our prospects’ information is deleted permanently within 2 weeks, after they have requested to unsubscribe from our email/mailing list or, any other mode of communication they originally consented to.

For more information you can contact our designated Privacy Officer – Mr. Deepak Jotwani at 403-903-2898 or, info@wescaninsurance.ca