PRIVACY PRACTICES
• Information we collect
• Required information
• Your Social Insurance Number
• Your consent
• Service Providers
• Accessing and changing your information
• Protecting your information
• Company policy on promotional offers
• Contact us

INFORMATION WE COLLECT
Personal information is information that refers to you, specifically.
For any product or service you obtain through LifePoints Consulting . , we will tell you the purposes for your personal information will be used for.
We will collect your personal information in a fair and lawful way. We will only collect information that is pertinent and consistent with the purposes of the collection. Whenever practical, we will collect the required information directly from you, or from your authorized representative(s), in completed applications and forms, through other means of correspondence, such as the telephone, mail or the Internet, and through your business dealings with us.
Sometime, we may need to ask an independent source to verify or provide supplemental information. These sources could include service providers we retain, other insurance companies or financial institutions, your employer or credit reporting agencies. In the case of your medical or health-related information, additional sources could include your doctor(s), other healthcare providers or facilities.
If your information is being collected by telephone, the call may be monitored for the following reasons:
• to establish a record of the information you provide
• to take or verify instructions from you
• to maintain quality service levels
• to assist in staff training
If you are not comfortable with having your telephone calls recorded, you have the option of communicating with us in writing, instead. Where you have chosen to only communicate with us in writing, your written communications should request that any response to you be in writing, as well.

REQUIRED INFORMATION
The information from or about you is collected, only with your consent, or as required or permitted by law. In general, we will collect personal information such as your name, address, telephone number(s) or other identifying information, such as your date of birth.
Other information we gather will depend on the type of product or service involved. The information gathered may be financial, which would include such information as place of employment, annual income, assets and liabilities. It may be investment or advice related, requiring information on such things as your financial goals and retirement plans. If you are applying for insurance or group insurance benefits, it may also include health information or lifestyle related information, such as your occupation, travel history and plans, driving record or criminal record.
Generally, we collect, use and disclose your personal information for:
• Identity verification, and your as well as our protection against errors, fraud or other misrepresentations
• Estimate of your financial needs and selection of the product or service that is most appropriate for you
• Determine your eligibility for products and services
• Properly administer the products and services we provide, including the assessment of claims
• Comply with a variety of legal requirements, including any tax reporting obligations under the federal Income Tax Act, or the Quebec Act respecting the Ministère du Revenu
• Assist us to understand the current and future needs of our customers, for example, to conduct customer surveys and other forms of market research and analysis
We will only keep your personal information in our records for as long as it is needed to fulfill the identified purposes, or as required or permitted by law.
Personal information that is no longer required will be destroyed, erased or made anonymous.
When we destroy personal information, we will use safeguards to prevent unauthorized access to the information during the destruction process.

YOUR SOCIAL INSURANCE NUMBER
There are several reasons why we may need your Social Insurance Number (SIN). Where there may be interest income or other income to be reported, your SIN is required by law in order to meet tax-reporting requirements under the federal Income Tax Act, or the Quebec Act respecting the Ministère du Revenu.
With your consent, we may also use your SIN as a unique identifier, to keep your personal information separate from that of other customers, or individuals with similar names, and to help maintain the integrity and accuracy of your personal information. For example, where it is appropriate to verify your credit history, we may use your SIN to ensure that the credit information we are asking for – and receiving – is about you, rather than someone else with the same or similar name. You may elect not to have your SIN used for purposes other than as required by law, however, as explained earlier, this may affect our ability to fully ensure the accuracy and integrity of your personal information.

YOUR CONSENT
We collect, use and share your personal information only for stated purposes related to the products and services we offer, and only with your consent, or as permitted or required by law. Your consent may be expressed in writing, or it may be given verbally, electronically, or through our, or your authorized representative(s), such as your financial services advisor.
Your consent may also be implied or inferred from certain actions. For example, if you present your benefit identification card to your healthcare provider, instead of paying for the prescription or procedure directly, it is understood that you are giving your consent for the healthcare provider to provide your personal information to us, in order for us to process the claim payment.
You may withhold or withdraw your consent for us to collect, use and disclose your personal information, as long as there are no legal or contractual reasons preventing you from doing so. Depending on the circumstances, however, withdrawal of your consent may impact our ability to continue to provide you with the products and services you have requested, or, in the case of insurance and group insurance benefits, it may prevent us from keeping your coverage in force, or properly evaluating and processing any claims.
Your personal information will be disclosed only to those who have a need for, and the right to, the information.
Your personal information will only be provided to, or be accessible by:
• Our employees, agents and representatives, who need the information in the performance of their duties for us
• Our affiliates, to:
• resolve your concerns about any related products and services with us
• assist in other required investigations
• Service providers, which need the information in the performance of their duties for us, and to satisfy their obligations to us
• Any person or organization to whom you gave consent
• Anyone who is otherwise authorized by law

SERVICE PROVIDERS
We may use service providers to provide us with various services such as, printing, mail distribution, information technology, administration, marketing, (which would include market research and promotional services), paramedical, claims adjudication, investigation and reinsurance. Where personal information is provided to our service providers, we will require them to protect the information in a manner that is consistent with our privacy policies and practices.

ACCESSING AND CHANGING YOUR INFORMATION
We will make all reasonable efforts to ensure that any personal information we collect and keep is as accurate, complete and as up-to-date as required for the identified purposes. To do so, we will rely to a large extent on you to provide us with accurate information and to inform us of changes, such as changes in your contact information. You have the right to access and verify your personal information maintained in our files, and to request that any factually inaccurate personal information be corrected, if appropriate. Depending on the circumstances, we may not always be able to give you access to all information. Should this happen, we will explain why.

PROTECTING YOUR INFORMATION
We are committed to protecting your personal information from unauthorized access or use, by ensuring that the necessary physical, organizational and technological safeguards are in place, that are appropriate to the sensitivity of the information. Essentially, this means that personal information is protected:
• Physically, by building security measures and physical barriers
• Organizationally, by our policies, procedures and access levels
• Technologically by, for example, where appropriate, the use of passwords, encryption, firewalls, anti-virus software
All of our employees, representatives, agents and service providers, who act on our behalf, are required to abide by our privacy policies and practices.
If we receive a request to release your personal information, we will only do so upon satisfactory identification and proof of entitlement of the requester, or as required or permitted by law.

COMPANY POLICY ON PROMOTIONAL OFFERS
Some of our business partners may, from time to time, offer or promote their other financial products and services, or those of our affiliates and select third parties, that we believe may be of interest to you.
We will share personal information with our affiliates for these purposes, only if the law permits it.
Please note that we do NOT give your personal information, without your consent, to any organization outside of our member companies, for the purpose of that organization marketing their own products or services directly to you.
If you do not wish to receive our marketing offers or special promotions, you may choose to "opt out", by simply contacting us, and we will remove your name from our mailing lists. This means you will not be eligible to receive addressed, direct mail offerings. This opt-out will not extend to:
• Information included in or with monthly statements, which relate to any Insurance Depot Ltd. product or service that you currently have with or receive from us
• General product and service information and updates included in or with client statements
To remove your name from any special mailing list that we maintain, please contact us by telephone or mail. Please note: When you contact us to remove your name and address from our marketing mailing lists, we will use all reasonable efforts to do so in a timely fashion. If you are applying for a new product or service, we will process your request immediately. Otherwise, if you have an existing product or service with us, we will generally require a reasonable period of time, which may vary, depending upon the product or service, to process your request.

CONTACT US
If you have any questions about our privacy policies and practices, or you want to know more about the process for accessing and / or correcting your personal information, or opting-out of marketing offers, please contact us.