Privacy Policy

For Your Protection

Personal Information – Any information about you except your name, business title, business address, business email address, business telephone number or business fax number.  It also does not include your home address and telephone number if these are published in a telephone or other directory.

Responsibility – We are responsible to protect your information for compliance with this policy.  

What Personal Information do we collect? – When you hire a ZainTax Accounting & Tax Services Inc., depending on the nature of the engagement, we may collect your name, address, phone number, date of birth, social insurance number, income information, information as to marital status, dependents, spousal, and dependent income and other financial and/or credit information.

The security of your information is important to us – Your personal information is used by us only for the purposes identified below and access to your personal information is limited to those employees of ZainTax Accounting & Tax Services Inc., who need to have access to it.

How do we use your Personal Information? – Your personal information may be used by us to correspond with CRA, other Federal Agencies, banks, and other lending institutions. Under no circumstances, will we disclose any personal information without your expressed consent.

Sometimes we must share Personal Information – We do not sell or exchange your personal information with third parties. We may, however, be obligated to disclose your personal information with CRA, and other Federal agencies. We may also disclose your personal information where we are required or permitted by law to do so.

How long do we keep your personal information? – We will retain your personal information related to Income Tax matters if we are obligated by CRA.  Any other information will be retained if you are a client of ZainTax Accounting & Tax Services Inc., and for 3 years after the last engagement has been completed.

What can you do if you want to limit the use to which we put your personal information? – Most of the information we collect relates to the Income Tax Act, and the information collected is necessary to file your tax returns and to correspond with CRA on your behalf.  Similarly, we must disclose your personal information as described above to correspond with CRA and to complete your tax return obligations.  If you do not want us to disclose your personal information in any way, please inform us in writing.

You can request access to your personal information – You have the right to access the personal information which we have about you and to request that personal information that you believe inaccurate be corrected.