Privacy Policy
Overview
Talk-i-Talk is committed to protect the privacy of our customer information.
We fully support Canada's privacy legislation - The Personal Information
Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). This document
will provide information about Talk-i-Talk's policy relating to the
collection, use and disclosure of personal information and of
our customer's right to limit such collection, use or disclosure.
Personal information is any information that is identifiable about
you, that may include information such as, but not limited to,
your name, mailing or e-mail addresses, phone numbers, identification
numbers, credit card numbers, and banking information. All personal
information relating to our customers is maintained in strict
confidence by Talk-i-Talk and is not sold to third parties.
For further information about
Talk-i-Talk or the protection of personal information, please contact
us at :
Our privacy policies and procedures
are subject to change. For the most recent version of this Privacy
Policy, please check our website: www.Talk-i-Talk.com
Accountability
Talk-i-Talk has appointed its Privacy Officer as the person who will
be primarily responsible for Talk-i-Talk's policies and procedures
governing the protection of personal information. Our
Privacy Officer may be reached at:
Identifying
Purposes
Talk-i-Talk collects personal information for a variety of purposes
including processing your request for services from Talk-i-Talk.
Personal information is used to verify, process and administer
your product and service requests, assess credit-worthiness, maintain
our commercial relationship with you, and analyze, understand
and respond to your service needs. Talk-i-Talk also analyses and
uses customer information to better improve the products that
we offer to our customers. We analyze personal information relating
to you in order to identify the products and services offered
by our affiliates or ourselves or by companies that we believe
may be of interest to you and to offer you those products and
services. Where a third party or an affiliate of Talk-i-Talk has
a product or service that may be of interest to you, we will forward
information relating to any such product or service to you, unless
you inform us otherwise, i.e. when you withdraw your consent to
receive such information.
Personal information is also used
in order to communicate with you, for billing and provisioning
purposes, and to enable Talk-i-Talk to accurately report back to
the credit bureaus. Generally, these purposes will be disclosed
to you before your personal information is collected. Talk-i-Talk
does not sell, rent or lease personal information to third parties.
From time to time, Talk-i-Talk is also required to report to regulatory
bodies or to present a summary
of all our customer information, including your personal information,
in statistical or analytical form to governmental authorities
and industry organizations. When information is provided in statistical
or analytical form, this means that information that might specifically
identify you will not be disclosed. Instead, your information
will be compiled into aggregate (i.e. group) form such that the
user cannot identify or extract out your personal information.
As you know, Talk-i-Talk offers its
products and services through a network of Independent Associates
to whom you may have already given personal information. Talk-i-Talk
Independent Associates are bound to observe the confidentiality
of your personal information and have agreed to comply with ACN's
privacy policy. Our Independent Associates are also provided with
information relating to your use of Talk-i-Talk products and services
in connection with the commissions they receive on customer usage
of Talk-i-Talk products and services.
Consent
The knowledge and consent of a customer is required for the collection,
use or disclosure of personal information, except where inappropriate.
Examples of when this may occur, include but are not limited to,
emergency situations, to prevent an illegal act, complying with
a subpoena or warrant, or as required by law.
Consent is obtained either orally
or in writing prior to collection, using or disclosing your personal
information. Talk-i-Talk will determine the appropriate form of consent
having regard to the nature and sensitivity of the information
to be collected, used or disclosed. For example, Talk-i-Talk will
seek explicit consent for more sensitive information, such as
your bank account information, but may use implicit consent by
asking you to tell us if you do not wish to receive information
about our new products. Customers may withdraw consent to the
collection, use and disclosure of information at any time by contacting
our Privacy Officer. However, the withdrawal of consent to the
collection, use and disclosure of information may affect Talk-i-Talk's
ability to offer or provide, or to continue to offer or provide
products or services to you.
Limiting Use, Disclosure and Retention
Talk-i-Talk's use of personal information will be only for the purposes
listed above and, in particular, in order to facilitate the provision
of services to you, for identifying, credit decision reporting
and if required, the collection of any outstanding amounts for
services rendered. Information provided by Talk-i-Talk to affiliates,
vendors or suppliers is provided under a contractual agreement
that the information will be held in confidence, protected, and
properly safeguarded according to the standards of Talk-i-Talk's
privacy policy.
Personal information relating
to customers may be shared with, and used or analyzed by, between
or among Talk-i-Talk's parent, affiliates and authorized agents and
Independent Associates with whom Talk-i-Talk has entered into a commercial
agreement in order to develop our business, better serve our customers
and with third parties for certain account processing matters.
Information may also be disclosed in connection with Talk-i-Talk's
corporate transactions or business. In each case, however, Talk-i-Talk
will take steps to ensure the organization receiving the personal
information will use and disclose the personal information for
purposes to which you have consented and in a manner consistent
with this policy.
Talk-i-Talk provides commissions
to Independent Associates in accordance with Talk-i-Talk's marketing
plan. Personal information relating to customers may be provided
in connection with Talk-i-Talk's commissioning process.
Retention
Your personal information will be retained either in a file titled
with your name at UBIX Talk-i-Talk, UBIX Talk-i-Talk, 515 Consumers
Rd, Suite 405. UBIX Talk-i-Talk retains personal information for
only as long as necessary in order to meet the purposes for which
the information was collected or for legal purposes. When personal
information is no longer required, that information will be destroyed,
erased, or made anonymous.
Accuracy
Talk-i-Talk continually strives to maintain as high a level of accuracy
as is reasonably achievable. You have the right to request a change
to your personal information records where you can establish that
the record is inaccurate. Personal information is typically only
updated in cases where we receive updated personal information
from a customer or where required for business, financial reporting,
credit reporting or other related purposes. In each case, Talk-i-Talk
will update the information in our system upon receipt and verification,
if necessary.
Safeguards
We have implemented physical, organizational, contractual and
technological security measures to protect your personal information
from loss or theft, unauthorized access disclosure, copying, use,
or modification. Access to personal information within our computer
system is available to all of our employees for the specific purpose
of enabling us to properly service our customers and in connection
with the purposes set out above. All employees (current and new)
are required to sign a confidentiality of information agreement
and are regularly reminded that personal information may not be
disclosed except in accordance with this policy.
Personal information in hard copy
(paper) form is held securely within Talk-i-Talk. Access to Talk-i-Talk's
file storage room is granted to only a limited number of individuals
who are also required to maintain the security of Talk-i-Talk's files.
Individual Access
Requests for access to personal information should be forwarded,
in writing, to the attention of the Talk-i-Talk Privacy Officer.
As Talk-i-Talk carefully protects all personal customer information,
requests for access must be accompanied by proof of identify.
In the event the information provided is not sufficient to verify
the identity of the person who has requested the information,
our staff may require additional information to verify that access
to personal information is only given to persons who are entitled
to receive it. Talk-i-Talk may, for example, require information
such as examples of telephone numbers the customer would have
recently called, recent payments made to Talk-i-Talk and other relevant
information as may be necessary.