Privacy

As your Immigration Consultants.We take the confidential and private nature of your information seriously — throughout the entire immigration process.

We take appropriate security measures to ensure secure data transfer and storage of your personal information.

Collection and Storage of Data by your immigration consultants

We make best efforts to ensure a secure and safe environment for our clients to feel confident when completing our online eligibility assessment.

If you communicate with us your Immigration Consultants by email, please be aware that your email messages may not be private or confidential. Therefore, please do not send us information by email that you consider as confidential or sensitive.

Your information collected in our online eligibility form is transmitted securely using SSL industry-standard encryption technologies – ensuring the highest level of protection.

All sensitive information in your file is encrypted and stored securely to protect against the theft, loss, and misuse of information that we have collected from you.

Privacy and Confidentiality

All information you give us online and in person will remain private and confidential and will only be used for the purposes of assessing your eligibility and preparing the submission of your application. Your information will never be sold to a third-party marketing company.

Confidential information will remain confidential at all times .

The information we collect is fit for purpose. We do not harvest information for the purpose of aggregation and resale. Information we collect from you for marketing purposes is purged after two years.

The information we collect from you for your application is kept for a period of seven years as per the requirements of Citizenship & Immigration Canada (CIC) and the Immigration Consultants of Canada of Regulatory Council (ICCRC). Once this period has elapsed, we will ensure that your information is destroyed by secure means.

How we use your Contact Information as your immigration consultants

We promise to only use your email address to send information relevant to Canadian immigration and settlement. You will have the option to opt out of receiving our marketing emails if you choose to do so.

We promise to only use your telephone number for the purposes of calling you back to discuss your eligibility.

Cookies

We do not use cookies to track visitors on our website.  As a visitor, your visit will be represented in our Google analytics data, this data will only be used to analyze internet traffic to our site.  In no way does this give us any information about you.

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions or concerns regarding your privacy matters.

 

Information Storage Policy

Our Information Storage Policy is to make clients aware of what information may be disclosed to non-employees, mainly being the information that may be disclosed outside of CIP with proper authorization.

Any storage of your personal files are kept securely and disclosure of this information is passed to those who are authorised to receive it.

In the instance where information must be exposed to government or legal immigration officials, CIP will ensure to keep a record of all those to whom reviewed information.

Retention of your information

All information received from you shall be considered confidential Information, unless it is specifically designated as non-proprietary and non-confidential.

If you wish to discuss your eligibility for Canadian Immigration, please call our office. If you communicate with us by email, please be aware that your email messages are not fully private or confidential. Therefore, please do not send information that is confidential or sensitive.

CIP Consulting uses industry standard encryption (SSL) to protect storage and transportation of your personal information and identity.