Your privacy is protected at P.F Markham & Associates. Our Policy has been created to meet the needs of our clients while also conforming to The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act of Canada and the standards which it is based upon:
  Personal information includes facts and other information, recorded (or not) about a specific individual. This would include, all types of information in all forms, including (but not limited to name, age, nationality, sex, address, earnings, opinions, positions, beliefs, comments, social status, employment records, credit records, borrowing records, existence of a dispute with a client, etc.

  P.F. Markham & Associates will collect personal information for the following sole and exclusive purposes: to facilitate our services to the clients engaging them; to be able to disseminate a clients information and to make recommendations to clients in professional capacity; to be able to execute our professional mandate; and in order to meet legal and any other regulatory requirements pertaining to our professional practice.

  P.F. Markham & Associates will share personal information with third parties only in order to assist in executing the above named uses of personal information. If there are any third parties using personal information collected by P.F Markham & Associates, they are compelled to observe the policy of P.F Markham & Associates Inc, unless they are acting in accordance to their own rights to collect personal information, and only pursuant to specific federal or provincial legislation.

P.F. Markham Model code for protection of personal information:

  Before undertaking to collect any personal information, P.F. Markham & Associates Inc. identifies the purpose for collecting it and limits the degree of collection to the amount required to carry out a professional engagement. P.F Marham & Associates will NOT collect any information without the express permission of the pertinent party(s) having been granted. P.F. Markham & Associates Inc. will limit the use and disclosure of all personal information collected except where consent is given or is required by law. P.F. Markham & Associates Inc. will retain personal information for a finite period of time and in accordance to the provisions of the Bankruptcy & Insolvency Act.

  P.F Markham & Associates Inc. ensures accuracy and timeliness of personal information in addition to having a policy on the secure destruction of personal information when the information is no longer required under professional mandates or existing laws. P.F Markham & Associates Inc. will provide individuals access to their own information and will further undertake to amend any of the information if it is verifiably inaccurate. P.F Markham & Associates Inc. has created policies to safeguard personal information against unauthorized access.

  The Privacy Officer is Mr. Peter Markham and his mandate is to ensure that the privacy policies are executed in accordance to the highest standards of care and assurance. For any inquiries, concerns or complaints from any individual, corporation, group, legal body, legislative body, ministry or government office, they may be directed to our privacy officer via: