Privacy Policy
Last Updated: June 1, 2025
1. Introduction
At Inkris ("Company", "we", "our", "us"), we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) or use our services, and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
2. The Data We Collect About You
Personal data means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
For Service Providers (Clients):
- Identity Data includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier, title.
- Contact Data includes billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers.
- Financial Data includes bank account and payment card details.
- Transaction Data includes details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us.
- Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
- Profile Data includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses.
- Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, products and services.
- Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
For Leads (Homeowners):
- Identity Data includes first name, last name, title.
- Contact Data includes address, email address and telephone numbers.
- Property Data includes information about your home, such as property type, size, value, etc.
- Service Interest Data includes information about the services you're seeking (mortgage refinancing, renovation projects, real estate services).
- Financial Data may include credit score range, budget for services, financing preferences (only when relevant to the service).
- Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
3. How We Collect Your Personal Data
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
Direct interactions
You may give us your Identity, Contact and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by mail, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
- Apply for our products or services;
- Create an account on our website;
- Subscribe to our service or publications;
- Request marketing to be sent to you;
- Enter a competition, promotion or survey; or
- Give us feedback or contact us.
Automated technologies or interactions
As you interact with our website, we will automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies.
Third parties or publicly available sources
We will receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources as set out below:
- Technical Data from analytics providers such as Google;
- Contact, Financial and Transaction Data from providers of technical, payment and delivery services;
- Identity and Contact Data from data brokers or aggregators;
- Identity and Contact Data from publicly available sources.
4. How We Use Your Personal Data
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
- Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
- Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
- Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.
- Where we have your consent to do so.
Purposes for which we will use your personal data
We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.
Purpose/Activity | Type of data | Legal basis for processing |
---|---|---|
To register you as a new customer | Identity, Contact | Performance of a contract with you |
To process and deliver your order including: (a) Manage payments, fees and charges (b) Collect and recover money owed to us | Identity, Contact, Financial, Transaction, Marketing and Communications | (a) Performance of a contract with you (b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to recover debts due to us) |
To manage our relationship with you | Identity, Contact, Profile, Marketing and Communications | (a) Performance of a contract with you (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation (c) Necessary for our legitimate interests |
To enable you to partake in a prize draw, competition or complete a survey | Identity, Contact, Profile, Usage, Marketing and Communications | (a) Performance of a contract with you (b) Necessary for our legitimate interests |
To connect service providers with leads | Identity, Contact, Property, Service Interest, Financial (where applicable) | (a) Consent (b) Performance of a contract |
5. Disclosures of Your Personal Data
We may share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table above.
- Service providers who provide IT and system administration services.
- Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers.
- Revenue & Customs, regulators and other authorities.
- Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer or merge parts of our business or our assets.
- For leads: Service providers (our clients) who match your service needs.
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
6. Data Security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
7. Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.
8. Your Legal Rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. You have the right to:
- Request access to your personal data.
- Request correction of your personal data.
- Request erasure of your personal data.
- Object to processing of your personal data.
- Request restriction of processing your personal data.
- Request transfer of your personal data.
- Right to withdraw consent.
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us at support@inkris.ca.
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10. Changes to the Privacy Policy
We keep our privacy policy under regular review and will place any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on June 1, 2025.
11. Contact
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to support@inkris.ca.