Privacy Notice

The Data Cavalry Canada values the personal information you provide to us. This Data Privacy Notice explains how we protect your personal data and how you can control how we use your personal information. If you want to change the way in which we use your data or if you have a question about how your personal information is used please contact us using the methods below:

• Email: [email protected]
• Phone: +1 647 699 0911
• Postal address: Data Cavalry Canada, 100 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario

The information we collect

We only collect information that you give us in the course of us providing you with a service that you have requested, or when you ask us to contact you. Sometimes other companies may pass on your contact details, but we check that you have given permission to do this. Ordinarily we will only ask for the following information:

• Your Name
• Your Company’s Name
• Your Contact Details

Should we do business with you, we may require additional information about your company including financial information.

The legal basis for processing your personal data

In general the reason we will be processing your data is because it is necessary for the performance of a contract between us or because you have consented to receive information from us.

There are times where we will want to tell you about new products or services we are offering and about data protection news. In this case we shall be using legitimate interest as the basis of for processing.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files that we use to improve your experience of our website. The cookie file is generated by our website and is accepted and processed by your computer’s browser software. You can disable the cookies using your browser’s options, although if you do this you may not be able to use some of the services shown on this site.

The Data Cavalry Canada sets no third-party (tracking) cookies in your browser.

First-party cookies are those set by our server. Third-party cookies are set by a server outside our control. The Data Cavalry Canada only sets first-party cookies, to store any custom preferences. First-party cookies are set by our web server and shared only to our domain.

First-Party cookies we set are:

• WordPress preference cookies
• Google Analytics cookies

How we use your data

We use the information you give us in the following ways:

• provide you with the service or information you’ve requested
• enable you to take part in our online assessments and surveys
• keep you informed and updated on relevant products you may be interested in
• improve our website and the range of services and products we provide
• provide you with useful information about data news, events and conferences
• administer your account
• assist our clients with data processing services

We do not collect or store credit card details. This is done by a third party company called - Stripe.

Who we share your data with

We will not share your data to any other company without your prior consent. We will never sell your data to another company.

However, we do use the following companies for our business operations who process your data under our control:

• Mail Chimp for our email marketing campaigns
• WordPress who provide website hosting
• GoDaddy Internet who provide our office & email system hosting
• Google.com who provide website analytic services
• Stripe who process Credit card payments securely
•  We comply to PIPEDA and EU GDPR, if we hold European citizen personal data.

Under some circumstances we may be required to disclose or share your information without your consent, for example if we are required to by the police, the courts, or for other legal reasons.

Keeping your information safe

We take data protection and data security very seriously. We have implemented a number of organisational and technical measures to ensure that only the people who need to see the data are allowed access and that the data is protected when stored and transmitted.

Data Retention

Our data retention policy details the length of time we keep the various types of personal data for. There are some statutory data retention periods that we must comply with, e.g. financial information must be kept of 6 years, but in general if we have not been in contact with you for 2 years, we shall delete the personal data we collected from you from our systems.

There are a number of rights that a data subject has and here is information about them. You can exercise these rights by contacting us using the methods below:

• Email: [email protected]
• Phone: +1 (647) 699-0911
• Postal address: 100 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario

Please note that we will always verify your identity before acceding to your request.

Right to Access (Subject Access Requests)

It is your right to know what personal data we hold about you. If you want to find out this information then please write or email us to make your request. Once we have verified that it was you who has made the request we shall respond within a month.

Right to Rectification

It is your right to ensure that the data we hold about you is accurate and up to date. If your contact details change then please let us know so that we can amend our records.

Right to Erasure

If you don’t want us to hold personal data about you any more you can request for the data to be deleted. As long as there are not statutory reasons for us retaining the data for a certain period, e.g. financial transaction data must be retained for 6 years, then we will remove your data immediately we have verified that it was you who made this request.

Right to Restriction of Processing

If you believe that the data we hold about you is inaccurate, or that the processing is unlawful, and you do not want the personal data to be erased and / or we cannot erase the data for legal reasons, then you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data to storage only.

Right to Data Portability

You have the right to request that we should send the personal data that we have collected about you to another controller. We shall comply by sending this information electronically.

Right to Object

If you don’t want us to process your personal data, including for marketing purposes, then please let us know. We shall comply unless there is a complexing legitimate interest or another legal basis.

Right to Object to Automated Decision- making and Profiling

Currently we do not carry out any automated decision-making processing, or profiling.

What if you don’t want to hear from us?

If you decide that you don’t want to receive information from us any more, the either click in the unsubscribe link in our emails, or by sending a request to stop email to [email protected]. We will then stop sending you emails immediately.

Complaints

If you have a complaint please contact our Privacy Officer at [email protected] who will deal with your request promptly.

If you are still not satisfied with the way your complaint was handled, you can refer your complaint to the office of the privacy Commissioner Canada. https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/

 We do have links to other websites and advertisements for products we think you might be interested in. This Data Privacy Notice / Privacy Policy does not cover these websites. You should read and understand their Data Privacy Notices.

Other Information about Data Cavalry Canada

The Data Cavalry Canada is a company that offers the following services:

• Compliance Consultancy
• Training on Data Protection and the associated legislation
• Destruction & disposal of paper confidential waste and Electronic media
• Cyber security
• Data Breach Investigation & Forensics
• Covert Cyber Stealth investigations

Group Company Structure &  Organisation