ATIN ITO REMITTANCE LTD. is committed to protecting the privacy of all its users in accordance with the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (2000, c.5) or PIPEDA.
What information do we collect?
The site collects personal information from you and your recipient (beneficiary), Personal information is information about an “identifiable individual”. This information includes you and your recipient’s name, address, e-mail and phone number. We also collect other information such as your bank account number and debit card number.
By law and in order to process your transaction, we are also required to ask for your information from certain entities such as financial institutions and third party service providers (e.g. consumer and credit reporting agencies, electronic database identity verification providers).
As you continue to use the site and service, we may collect information about your usage, transaction history, how you send your transactions, and who your recipients/ beneficiaries are. We may also obtain information indirectly, such as information about your computer device, IP address, other websites that you may have accessed and track your use of our site through “cookies”. You have the option to control these cookies by changing your browser settings but this may alter your access to the site. We combine this automatically collected information with your personal information to detect fraudulent use and to improve the websites’ functionality.
We also collect all customer service related communications including e-mails and documented phone calls.
BLOGS – The site offers a publicly accessible blog. You should be aware that any information you provide in this blog may be read, collected, and used by others who access them. We ask that you refrain from posting any information that you prefer to keep private.
Why do we collect your information?
Information is gathered for the following purposes:
1) To facilitate the processing of your transaction;
2) To verify your identity;
3) To detect and prevent fraud and other illegal use of the site and service;
4) To improve website functionality; and
5) To comply with the law.
Access to Information
For security purposes and to deter fraud, we only provide transaction information to the sender/remitter. We may choose not to provide any information to any other party including the recipient except as expressly required by law or the courts.
Security
Personal information gathered from this site is safeguarded using industry accepted standards of security. We have put in place Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption technology to protect sensitive information collected in our site. We also require a username and password from each user and warn them to keep such information confidential. We do not provide your personal information to parties not connected to the processing of your transaction.
Third party sites
The site contains a link to other websites. Atin Ito is not responsible for the level of privacy protection that these sites provide to you. We ask that you inform yourself of their policies before providing personal information to them.
Changes to the policy
We reserve the right to amend this policy at any time and notice shall be through posting of the revised version on the site.
Contact us
You can contact Atin Ito with any of your questions and concerns by e-mail at atinito1@rogers.com
or mail to: Atin Ito Remittance Ltd. – Privacy and Security
938 Pape Avenue, Toronto M4K 3V2 Ontario Canada