Protection of Personal Information

Kerr Financial Group is committed to upholding your right to privacy in accordance with the laws of Québec and Canada respecting the protection of personal information.

In the course of our business, Kerr financial Group may collect personal information about you. This information is used only to communicate with you, to provide you with the services you have requested, or to send you information that may be of interest to you. No other use of your personal information will be made without your express consent.

To ensure responsible management of your data, Kerr Financial Group has appointed a Personal Information Protection Officer to oversee all privacy matters. You may contact this person for any inquiries, to exercise your rights, to file a complaint, or to obtain more information about our privacy practices, at the following address: privacy@kerrfinancial.ca

We encourage you to review our full privacy policy to learn more about our practices regarding personal data management.

We wish you a pleasant experience on our website and during your interactions with us. Should you require any further information, please do not hesitate to contact us.

This summary of the privacy policy (Policy) applies to Kerr Financial Group and its divisions and subsidiaries in accordance with Law 25 (Law) of the Province of Quebec.

Kerr Financial Group is committed to respecting and protecting the privacy of our website users, clients, suppliers, employees and others who interact with us.

The Policy outlines the personal information we collect, how we use it, how we disclose it to stakeholders, and the rights and choices with respect to your personal information.

Personal information is that which relates to a natural person and enables that person to be identified. This information is of a confidential nature and, with certain exceptions, cannot be communicated without the consent of the person concerned.

In accordance with the requirements of the Law, Kerr Financial Group has appointed a Personal Information Protection Officer (PIPO) who is responsible for overseeing privacy issues.

Name: Nathalie Kavanagh, Chief Operating Officer
Contact: privacy@kerrfinancial.ca

Kerr Financial Group’s processes surrounding consent are:

• to obtain valid consent for each specific purpose in a clear and simple manner, to separate this request from other information when it is written, and to provide all the information required by the Law to the person concerned;
• inform an individual when he or she is the subject of a decision based exclusively on automated processing;
• to inform an individual before using a technology to identify, locate, or profile them, and to provide information on the means available to activate these functions.

We obtain the individuals’ consent before collecting personal information, whether collected directly, via cookies, or tracking technologies.

Only the data necessary to provide the services are collected, including identity information (name, social insurance number, date of birth, contact details) and professional or financial information (CV, bank details).

Data subjects are clearly informed about the use of their data and their rights.

We have created an inventory of all personal data collected, processed or stored by Kerr Financial Group. We have identified data sources, data recipients and data storage locations.

The personal information inventory will be updated annually to anticipate the actions required to protect personal information and to meet all our regulatory obligations on an ongoing basis.

Data subjects have several rights concerning their personal data: they may request access to their data, rectify it, or delete it in certain situations. They may also request that their data be provided in a machine-readable format, object to its processing for certain purposes, and file complaints about Kerr Financial Group’s handling of their personal information.

Kerr Financial Group will respond to such requests within one month. Requests must be sent to privacy@kerrfinancial.ca

The organization is committed to keeping individual’s personal information accurate and up-to-date. If inaccuracies are found in personal data, the following address can be contacted to request a change: privacy@kerrfinancial.ca

In the event of a privacy breach, Kerr Financial Group maintains a record of all such incidents and takes prompt action to reduce the risk of harm to the affected individuals and to prevent further incidents of a similar nature.

In addition, the Commission d’accès à l’information (CAI) and the affected individuals are informed of any incident involving a serious risk of harm.