1. Introduction
Max Young Chartered Professional Accountant Professional Corporation ("Company") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it by complying with this policy.
This policy describes how we collect, use, disclose, and protect the personal information of our customers and website users ("you"), the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit myoungcpa.ca (our "Website"), and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
We will only use your personal information in accordance with this policy unless otherwise required by applicable law. We take steps to ensure that the personal information we collect about you is adequate, relevant, not excessive, and used for limited purposes.
Privacy laws in Canada generally define "personal information" as any information about an identifiable individual, which includes information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person. Personal information does not include business contact information, including your name, title, or business contact information.
This policy applies to information we collect, use, or disclose about you on this Website, and in email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.
The Website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, services, social networks, or applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow the third party to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.
This policy does not apply to information we collect offline or through any other means, or information you provide to or that is collected by any third party through any application or content that may link to or be accessible from the Website.
Please read this policy carefully. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you indicate that you understand, accept, and consent to the practices described in this policy.
2. Information We Collect About You
We collect and use several types of information from and about you, including:
Personal information that we can reasonably use to directly or indirectly identify you, such as your name, mailing address, email address, telephone number, IP address, username or other similar identifier, and any other identifier we may use to contact you.
Business-related information, namely information related to your business duties, including title, duties, business address, business email address, and business telephone number.
Non-personal information that does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity, such as demographic information or statistical and aggregated information.
Technical information, including your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and information about your internet connection and the equipment you use to access our Website.
Non-personal details about your Website interactions, including full URLs, clickstream data, products you viewed or searched for, page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, and page interaction information such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs.
We collect this information through direct interactions with you, automated technologies and cookies, user contributions, and third parties or publicly available sources.
We may also use cookies, web beacons, and Flash cookies to collect certain information automatically as you navigate through our Website. You may refuse browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser, but doing so may affect access to certain parts of our Website.
3. How We Use Your Information
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:
To present our Website and its contents to you; to provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us; to fulfill the purposes for which you provided the information; to provide notices about your account; to carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts with you; to notify you about changes to our Website or services; to improve our Website, products, or services; to allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website; to measure the effectiveness of advertising we serve; and for any other purpose with your consent.
4. Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose aggregated information about our users that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
We may disclose personal information to our subsidiaries and affiliates; to a buyer or successor in the event of a merger, sale, or similar proceeding; to fulfill the purpose for which you provided it; and with your consent.
We may also disclose your personal information to comply with any court order, law, or legal process; to enforce our terms of use and other agreements; or if we believe disclosure is necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, our customers, or others.
5. Transferring Your Personal Information
We may transfer personal information to contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business, who are contractually obligated to keep personal information confidential and to process it with the same standards set out in this policy.
We may process, store, and transfer your personal information in and to a foreign country with different privacy laws that may or may not be as comprehensive as Canadian law. By submitting your personal information or engaging with the Website, you consent to this transfer, storage, or processing.
6. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, some parts of this Website may not be accessible or may not function properly.
We do not control third parties' collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. You can opt out of several third-party ad networks simultaneously by using the opt-out tools created by the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada or the Network Advertising Initiative.
7. Data Security
We use physical, electronic, and administrative measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. We store all information you provide to us behind firewalls on our secure servers.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping that password confidential.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk.
8. Data Retention
Except as otherwise permitted or required by applicable law or regulation, we will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. Under some circumstances we may anonymize your personal information so that it can no longer be associated with you.
9. Your Rights and Choices
By law you have the right to request access to and to correct the personal information that we hold about you. To review, verify, correct, or withdraw consent to the use of your personal information, please contact us at m.young@myoungcpa.ca.
Where you have provided your consent to the collection, use, and transfer of your personal information, you may have the legal right to withdraw your consent under certain circumstances. Please note that if you withdraw your consent we may not be able to provide you with a particular product or service.
10. Children's Privacy
Our Website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any information to the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at m.young@myoungcpa.ca.
11. Changes to This Policy
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users' personal information, we will notify you through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page.
12. Contact Us
We welcome your questions, comments, and requests regarding this privacy policy and our privacy practices. Please contact us at:
Maximillian Young
m.young@myoungcpa.ca
We have procedures in place to receive and respond to complaints or inquiries about our handling of personal information and our compliance with this policy and applicable privacy laws.
