SEB is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains our information processing practices. It applies to any personal information you provide to SEB and, subject to local law, any personal information we collect from other sources.

This Privacy Policy describes the principles that we follow to ensure that we protect Personal Information that we receive, collect, use or disclose in the course of carrying on our business. All of our employees who have access to Personal Information must adhere to this Privacy Policy and related procedures.

By submitting your Personal Information to us through your use of our website or otherwise, you signify your consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not provide any Personal Information to us through the website or any other manner.

WHAT IS PERSONAL INFORMATION

“Personal Information” is information about an identifiable individual. However, it generally does not include business contact information when used to contact a person in respect of their business role or function. Sometimes we will de-identify information in order to use and share that information for our business purposes in a way that does not identify you. For example, we may aggregate your personal information with other individuals to prepare claims statistics.

WHY WE COLLECT, USE AND DISCLOSE PERSONAL INFORMATION

Collecting personal information about you is essential to our being able to provide the products and services that best meet your needs (including individuals associated with you, all of whom we refer to as “client” in this Privacy Policy). While the personal information we collect may come directly from you, it may also be provided by our affiliates or other third parties (such as employers, insurance companies, insurance brokers or agents, credit organizations, motor vehicle and driver licensing authorities, financial institutions, medical professionals, etc.).

Personal information may be used for the following purposes:

• To determine eligibility and process applications for products and services and to provide information and services
• To understand and assess ongoing needs of Clients and potential Clients and offer products and services to meet those needs
• For communication, service, marketing, billing and administration
• For fraud detection and prevention
• For analytics purposes
• To develop proprietary tools and databases
• To provide consulting services to insurance companies
• To comply with legal, audit, security and regulatory requirements
• Other purposes disclosed in our terms of business or disclosed to you at the time of collection, use or disclosure.

WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Depending on the products or services you request, we may collect information that you provide on applications for products and services, such as your first name, last name, email address, company, company size, role, and phone number. To assess risk or if you make a claim, we may collect information from insurers, industry associations, claims adjusters, and consumer reporting agencies.

We may also automatically collect information through our marketing programs through the use of cookies, beacons and other technologies that track how you use our website and marketing communications.

CONSENT TO USE PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may obtain your express consent or we may determine that consent has been implied by the circumstances. Express consent can be verbal (in person or over the telephone), written or by electronic application (including email). Implied consent occurs when we can assume you have given consent by some other action you take or decide not to take. For example, if you request a specific product or service and provide us personal information in that regard, we infer that you consent to us using that personal information reasonably to provide this service.

If you need to provide personal information about other individuals (such as employees, dependents, etc.), you must obtain their consent for these purposes prior to your disclosure to us.

When you request services from us, we ask that you provide information that enables us to respond to your request. In doing so, you consent to our collection, use and disclosure to appropriate third parties of such personal information for these purposes. You also authorize us to use and retain this personal information for as long as it may be required for the purposes described above. Your consent remains valid even after the termination of our relationship with you, unless you provide us with written notice that such consent is withdrawn; and then subject to legal or contractual restrictions and reasonable notice. You should note that by withdrawing your consent, or not providing it in the first place, you may limit or even prevent us from being able to provide you or an authorized third party (such as an employer) with the products or services desired. However, we may collect, use or disclose Personal Information without an individual’s knowledge or consent in exceptional circumstances where such collection, use or disclosure is permitted or required by law, or where you violate our Website Terms of Use.

In certain circumstances, refusing to provide personal information or withdrawing consent will mean that you will not be entitled to insurance policy issuance or renewal, insurance underwriting or claims administration of existing policies. Additionally in certain circumstances, we will not need to obtain consent or explain the purposes for the collection, use or disclosure of personal information. For example, this exception would apply if there is an emergency that threatens the life, health or security of an individual, for fraud detection or prevention, or if we must comply with a court order.

SHARING PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH OTHERS

SEB only discloses personal information as is required and described in this Policy or as otherwise required by law. In providing our services, we may need to disclose the personal information we collect to affiliates, subsidiaries, successors and other service providers or agents who perform various functions for us. Such parties may be located in Canada, or in other jurisdictions outside of Canada. While your personal information is always subject to confidentiality obligations, while stored in another jurisdiction, it may be subject to the laws of that jurisdiction.

Depending on the products or services that we provide to you, we may disclose personal information to insurance companies, reinsurers and other parties who have a need for the information in order to make available insurance coverage and other products and services. We also share information with claims adjusters and insurers in order to settle claims. If we are legally entitled to do so, we may share information with consumer reporting agencies, insurance reporting agencies and governmental authorities when requested to do so or in order to protect our business. We may also be required by law or by rules of arbitration or rules of court to share information.

SEB develops and uses proprietary platforms and databases to gather, store and use information about insurance policies, including, but not limited to, names, industry codes, policy types, premium and policy expiration dates as well as information about the insurance companies that provide coverage to its clients or compete for its clients’ insurance placements. SEB uses and combines this information and other information collected from SEB’s clients for the purposes of developing SEB’s products and services and SEB’s relationship with its clients (for example: benchmarking, market research, data analysis, and marketing of products and services that may be of interest to SEB’s clients) and to help insurance companies to strengthen their offerings for SEB’s clients. The databases may be accessed by SEB and SEB affiliates to provide consulting or other services to insurance companies for compensation as well as for other purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

As SEB continues to develop and grow, we may buy or sell parts of a business. As our businesses consist primarily of client relationships, information regarding the particular accounts or services being purchased or sold could include personal information and be one of the transferred business assets. We may also use this personal information to assess your future needs and to offer the products and services that may best meet those needs, from ourselves, our affiliates or reputable organizations selected by us. If you do not wish to receive these offers or such information, please contact our Privacy Officer as outlined below in the Contact Information section.

KEEPING INFORMATION ACCURATE

It is important that your personal information is accurate and complete. Having accurate information about you enables us to give you the best possible service. You have the right to access, verify and amend the information we have about you. If you identify any personal information that is out-of-date, incorrect or incomplete, let us know and we will make the corrections promptly. To keep personal information up-to-date, please inform us of any changes, such as a change of address, telephone number or any other circumstances by contacting your local office representative.

HOW WE SAFEGUARD PERSONAL INFORMATION

We will use reasonable efforts and security measures to protect Personal Information against loss or theft, as well as unauthorized access, use and disclosure. We have controls in place to maintain the security of our information and information systems. Files containing Personal Information are stored according to the sensitivity of the information contained therein and are backed up at offsite locations. Appropriate technological controls (such as passwords, encryption, firewalls) are placed on our computer systems and data processing procedures. Physical controls (such as locked filing cabinets, restricting access to offices, alarm systems) are in place as are organizational controls (such as staff training and access on a “need to know basis”).

We may store and process your Personal Information at our offices in Canada, or elsewhere, including outside Canada. To the extent we employ third-party service providers to store, access, handle or process Personal Information on our behalf; we will use contractual and other means in an attempt to provide a comparable level of protection. Service providers, however, may be located in various countries, so please be aware that authorized officials of governments in those countries may be lawfully able to access your Personal Information without your knowledge or consent pursuant to the laws of such countries.

Employees are governed by strict standards and policies to ensure that personal information is secure and treated with the utmost care and respect.

ONLINE PRIVACY

A.   Cookies

In this policy we use the term “cookies” to refer to cookies and other similar technologies which can raise privacy concerns in electronic communications.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small piece of data that a website asks your browser to store on your computer or mobile device. The cookie allows the website to “remember” your actions or preferences over time. Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers transmitted from a website to a visitor’s browser and IP address or web beacons that detect when you take actions on our websites).

“Cookies” are small text files that contain a unique identification number that allows our computers to identify your web browser (but not you) each time you visit our website.

This means that the information collected cannot be traced back to a specific person. For example, our web servers may record certain information automatically when you visit our website. This information is collected using “cookies” and might include the pages you visited, your IP (Internet Protocol) address and other site usage statistics. This anonymous information is used for research and analytical purposes only (like evaluating how many visitors our website receives, which pages are visited most often or to provide users with a customized online experience and to find ways to improve our site and marketing communications). It does not reveal any Personal Information about you, the user. This aggregate data may be disclosed to third parties, but never with personally identifying information.

Most Internet browsers support cookies; however, users can set their browsers to decline certain types of cookies or specific cookies. Further, users can delete cookies at any time.

Why do we use cookies?

SEB may collect user information from its websites.

We use cookies to learn how you interact with our content and to improve your experience when visiting our website(s). For example, some cookies remember your language or preferences so that you do not have to repeatedly make these choices when you visit one of our websites. We also use cookies to help us with geolocation tracking in order to present you with offers or services applicable or suitable to your location. Additionally, cookies allow us to serve you specific content, such as videos on our website(s). We may employ the learnings of your behavior on our website(s) to serve you with targeted advertisements on third-party website(s) in an effort to “re-market” our products and services to you. The information helps us improve the functionality of the site and enhance the navigation and security of your session.

What types of cookies do we use?

First-Party and Third-Party Cookies

We use both first-party and third-party cookies on our website.

First-party cookies are cookies issued from the www.seb-admin.com domain that are generally used to identify language and location preferences or render basic site functionality.

Third-party cookies belong to and are managed by other parties, such as our business partners or service providers. These cookies may be required to render certain forms, or to allow for some advertising outside of our website.

Session Cookies

Session cookies are temporary cookies that are used to remember you during the course of your visit to our website, and they expire when you close the web browser.

Persistent Cookies

Persistent cookies are used to remember your preferences within the website and remain on your desktop or mobile device even after you close your browser or restart your computer. We use these cookies to analyse user behavior to establish visit patterns so that we can improve our website functionality for you and others who visit our website(s). These cookies also allow us to serve you with targeted advertising and measure the effectiveness of our site functionality and advertising.

How are cookies used for advertising purposes?

Cookies and ad technology such as web beacons, pixels, and anonymous ad network tags help us serve relevant ads to you more effectively. They also help us collect aggregated audit data, research, and performance reporting for advertisers. Pixels enable us to understand and improve the delivery of ads to you, and know when certain ads have been shown to you. Since your web browser may request advertisements and web beacons directly from ad network servers, these networks can view, edit, or set their own cookies, just as if you had requested a web page from their site.

Although we do not use cookies to create a profile of your browsing behavior on third-party sites, we do use aggregate data from third parties to show you relevant, interest-based advertising. We do not provide any personal information that we collect to advertisers. You can opt out of off-site and third-party-informed advertising by adjusting your cookie settings. Opting out will not remove advertising from the pages you visit, but, instead, opting out will result in the ads you see not being matched to your interests. This implies that the ad(s) you see will not be matched to your interests by those specific cookies.

How are third party cookies used?

For some of the functions within our websites we use third party suppliers, for example, when you visit a page with videos embedded from or links to YouTube. These videos or links (and any other content from third party suppliers) may contain third party cookies, and we encourage you to consult the privacy policies of these third party vendors on their websites for information regarding their use of cookies.

How do I reject and delete cookies?

You can choose to reject or block all or specific types of cookies set by virtue of your visit to our website by clicking on the cookie preferences on our website(s). You can change your preferences for our website and/or the websites of any third party suppliers by changing your browser settings. Please note that most browsers automatically accept cookies. Therefore, if you do not wish cookies to be used, you may need to actively delete or block the cookies. If you reject the use of cookies, you may still be able to visit our website; however, some of the functions may not work correctly, and you may find your ability to use the website impaired, possibly substantially. You may also visit www.allaboutcookies.org for details on how to delete or reject cookies and for further information on cookies generally. You may also opt-out of third-party cookies and beacons by visiting www.youradchoices.ca. However, in so doing, some websites may not function properly or optimally. By using our website without deleting or rejecting some or all cookies, you agree that we can place those cookies that you have not deleted or rejected on your device.

The following is a typical list of some common Cookie types that we use or intend to use in the future, with an explanation of their functionality:

Cookies

• Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to understand how our media campaigns work and how you interact with our website in order to improve the user experience.
• Google tracking cookies: Google tracking cookies enable us to understand if you complete certain actions on our website(s) after you have seen or clicked through one of our adverts served via Google. Based on the content you have engaged with on our websites Google are able to deliver some targeted adverts across other Google partner websites.
• Facebook: Facebook helps you stay in touch with your network through their website/ mobile application. We make it easier for you to share any content of interest on Facebook and sometimes, we may present with some targeted adverts on Facebook based on your engagement with our website(s).
• LinkedIn: The LinkedIn insight tag allows us to perform campaign reporting and unlock valuable insights about website visitors that may come via the campaigns we run on LinkedIn.
• Twitter: Twitter provides real time updates from across the globe on the latest trending stories, ideas and opinions from the Twitter accounts or hashtags that you choose to follow. We make it easier for you to share our website content over Twitter. At times, we may present you with some ads on Twitter based on your engagement with our website(s).
• Youtube: We embed videos or insert links to videos from YouTube on our website(s). As a result, when you visit a page with content embedded from or linked to YouTube, you may be presented with cookies from YouTube.

B.   Other Information Sharing

SEB may send you commercial electronic messages to an email address or other electronic address that you have provided to us. We may ask for your express consent or we may rely on implied consent if you have made an inquiry, purchased a product or service from us, entered into a written agreement with us, or in other limited circumstances. If you do not wish to receive commercial electronic messages from us, you may withdraw your consent at any time using the unsubscribe link in the message or by contacting us as indicated below. Please note that you will still receive commercial electronic messages that we are required to send to you by law or for which consent is not required, such as confirmations of transactions or information about your account.

C.   Third Party Sites

SEB websites may contain links to other third-party sites that are not governed by our Privacy Policy. Although we endeavor to link only to sites with high privacy standards, our Privacy Policy will no longer apply once you leave this website. We are not responsible for privacy policies employed by other third parties or any foreign affiliates, since they would be governed by privacy legislation applicable in their country of residence. We suggest, therefore, that you examine the privacy statements of those sites to learn how Personal Information may be collected, used and/or disclosed.

DOES SEB COLLECT INFORMATION FROM CHILDREN?

Our websites are not directed to children and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children on our websites. By using our website, you represent that you are at least the age of majority in your state or province of residence, or that you are the age of majority in your state or province of residence and you have authority to submit any information submitted on behalf of any of your minor dependents.

ADDRESSING COMPLAINTS AND SUGGESTIONS

You may ask questions about our compliance with this Privacy Policy. We have policies and procedures to receive, investigate and respond to complaints and questions regarding this Privacy Policy and our receipt, collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information. Complaints will be investigated and where a complaint is found to be justified, we will take appropriate measures, including amending our policies and practices, when necessary. You may contact us to make a complaint, express any concerns or to request access to your Personal Information.

CONTACT US

If you have any questions relating to this Policy, please contact us at the SEB Office,

4th Floor, 5500 Explorer Drive, Mississauga, Ontario L4W 5C7, Canada

1-833-231-0648

email us at info@seb-admin.com.

 

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on our website. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it. If our company is acquired or merged with another company, your information may be transferred to the new owners so that we or the new owners may continue to provide services to you.

This Policy was last updated on February 11, 2022.