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Privacy

To Our Individual Clients

Your privacy is important to us, and maintaining your trust and confidence is one of our highest priorities. We respect your right to keep your personal information confidential and understand your desire to avoid unwanted solicitations. A recent law change requires us (along with banks, brokerage houses, and other financial institutions) to disclose our privacy policy to you – which we are more than happy to do. We hope that by taking a few minutes to read it, you will have a better understanding of what we do with the information you provide us and how we keep it private and secure.

We collect certain personal information about you – but only when that information is provided by you or is obtained by us with your authorization. We use that information to prepare your financial records and may also provide various financial planning services to you at your request.

Examples of sources from which we collect information include:

• Interviews and phone calls with you,

• Letters or emails from you,

• Past financial records or tax returns, and

• Financial history questionnaires.

As a general rule, we do not disclose information about our clients or former clients to anyone. However, to the extent permitted by law and any applicable provincial code of professional conduct, certain non-public information about you may be disclosed in the following situations:

• To comply with a validly issued and enforceable subpoena or summons.

• In the course of a review of our firm’s practices under the authorization of a provincial or national licensing board or as necessary to properly respond to an inquiry or complaint from such a licensing board or organization.

• In conjunction with a prospective purchase, sale, or merger of all or part of our practice, provided that we take appropriate precautions (for example, through a written confidentiality agreement) so the prospective purchaser or merger partner does not disclose information obtained in the course of the review.

• As a part of any actual or threatened legal proceedings or alternative dispute resolution proceedings initiated either by or against us, provided we disclose only the information necessary to file, pursue, or defend against the lawsuit and take reasonable precautions to ensure that the information disclosed does not become a matter of public record.

• To provide information to affiliates of the firm and non-affiliated third parties who perform services or functions for us in conjunction with our services to you, buy only if we have a contractual agreement with the other party that prohibits that party from disclosing or using the information other than for the purposes for which it was disclosed. (Examples of such disclosures include using an outside service bureau to process tax returns or engaging a records-retention agency to store prior year records.)

Except as otherwise described in this notice, we restrict access to non-public personal information about you to employees of our firm and other parties who must use that information to provide services to you. Their right to further disclose and use the information is limited by the policies of our firm, applicable law, our code of professional conduct, and nondisclosure agreements where appropriate. We also maintain physical, electronic, and procedure safeguards in compliance with applicable laws and regulations to guard your personal information from unauthorized access, alteration, or premature destruction.

Thank you for allowing us to serve your bookkeeping needs. We value your business and are committed to protecting your privacy. We hope you view our firm as your most trusted advisor, and we will work to continue earning your trust. Please call us if you have any questions or if we can be of further service.