Hildebrandt & Co. CGA is dedicated to protecting the privacy and confidentiality of our client’s personal and business information. This commitment is supported by the following policies and procedures:
We may collect and use private, personal, business and financial information for the purpose of providing you tax and accounting services which may include the preparation of your financial statements, tax returns or other returns or documents that you require for compliance, regulatory, financing or related purposes. We may also use this information to assist you in financial, business, succession or general income tax planning as requested by you. All private information collected from you will be used for the sole purpose of providing service to you.
All personal and business data is kept on a secure server with access limited to only employees of Hildebrandt & Co. CGA Our employees understand their responsibility to not disclose your information without your consent. Our privacy policies and procedures are clearly set out in our employment contracts we have with our employees. These contracts include a confidentiality agreement binding our employees to not disclose any private information pertaining to our clients during their employment and after their termination of employment. We have and will continue to use appropriate technologies and maintain high security standards to ensure the protection of your information.
We will only disclose information for the reason that it was collected unless you give us your consent to disclose it for other reasons.
We will retain and safeguard your information for as long as we determine is necessary in order to preserve the information for governmental and professional purposes.
In the course of our review of your information, we may become associated with private information that you have collected on your employees, customers and other business relationships. As you too have an obligation under the privacy legislation for this information, we assure you that this information will be kept private and confidential and subject to the same privacy protection as your own information as outlined above.
We ask that you notify us promptly of any changes in your personal information. Your private information maintained in our office is available for you to review, verify and correct if necessary.