Baker Tilly Ottawa Ltd. is a member of Baker Tilly, an association of independent accounting firms carrying on business across Canada. Our commitment to our clients and others is to respect and protect the privacy and confidentiality of personal and business information that is entrusted to us in the course of rendering services to our clients. As Chartered Professional Accountants and Licensed Insolvency Trustees, we are governed by Rules of Professional Conduct which have always and will continue to guarantee the privacy and confidentiality of your personal information.
In this privacy policy we explain the basic tenets of our personal information handling practices, including why we collect and use personal information and your rights related to its collection and use.
We collect and use personal information to provide services to debtors, creditors, the court and regulators, with respect to administering estates pursuant to the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, other insolvency related statutes, and with respect to non-statutory and non-court liquidations, receiverships, and insolvency related engagements.
Consent
We will not collect, use or disclose your personal information without your consent. By providing us with your personal information for the purposes listed above, you consent to our collection and use of the information for those purposes. With respect to personal information that you provide for the preparation of your insolvency engagement, taxation and other returns, you consent to our transmitting such personal information to the appropriate governmental and regulatory authorities, creditors and their agents.
If we wish to collect your personal information for purposes other than as stated above, we may request that you consent, verbally or in writing to such collection. Similarly, if we wish to use personal information that we have already collected for a purpose other than as stated above, we will seek your consent to such use.