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This Policy is designed to assist you in understanding how this site collects, uses and safeguards the personal information you provide to GIC & Income Exchange. and to assist you in making purchases.

What Information Do We Collect and How Do We Use it?

When you visit this site you may provide GIC & Income Exchange with two types of information: personal information you actively choose to disclose ("Active Information") through making a purchase or contacting GIC & Income Exchange, and use information collected, in a way not visible to you, on an aggregate anonymous basis as you and others browse this site ("Passive Information").

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If you make an inquiry on the GIC & Income Exchange site, GIC & Income Exchange collects your name, address, phone number, and email information. GIC & Income Exchange uses such information only to contact you that be requested.

Passive Information Collected

Our site utilizes a standard technology called "cookies" to collect information about how this site is used. Passive Information gathered may include the date and time of visits, the site pages viewed, time spent at this site, the sites visited just before and just after this site. Passive Information is collected on an aggregate basis without any association to your personal information so that you remain anonymous. If you do not wish to transmit "cookie" information about yourself, you may turn off the cookie function in your web browser; please consult the "Help" section of your browser to correctly do so.

We use Passive Information to gather information about the users and to enhance and design this site to make it easier, faster and friendlier to use. Additionally, cookies help GIC & Income Exchange know information about how many people visit this site, when they visit and how they use this site. We do not connect any of this information to your personal information or email address.

What is a Cookie?

Cookies are a feature of web browser (Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, etc.) software that allows web servers to recognize the computer used to access a site. They are small pieces of data that are stored by a user's web browser on one site to simplify subsequent interactions with that site by the same user or to use the information to streamline the user's transaction on related web pages. This makes it easier for a user to move from site to site and to complete transactions over the Internet. Cookies should make your online experience easier and more personalized.

How Do We Secure Active Information and Passive Information?

We secure your personal information submitted by you by using reasonable efforts to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, or accidental loss or destruction of Active Information and Passive Information. Other communications you may have with GIC & Income Exchange via email or snailmail may not be secure unless GIC & Income Exchange advises you that security measures are in place prior to your sending information. Therefore, if you choose to communicate with GIC & Income Exchange through these means, you are assuming the risk of doing so and GIC & Income Exchange requests that you do not send or post sensitive information through these means.

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If you desire not to receive information or if you wish to access, delete or correct your information, please send GIC & Income Exchange an email at administrator@gicexchange.ca.

We reserve the right to revise this policy at our discretion. Please check back on this site as this policy may be revised from time to time without notice to you.





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