Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Blue Planet ImmigrationPrivacy Policy / Privacy Policy of Sanjay Grover, RCIC Member #R535527

Blue Planet Immigration and Sanjay Grover RCIC Member Number R535527 recognize the importance of privacy and the sensitivity of personal information provided to us. As a Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant, I have a professional obligation to keep confidential all information received within an RCIC-client relationship. I am committed to protecting any personal information I hold. This Privacy Policy outlines how I manage your personal information and safeguard your privacy. This will be taken care at all times

Your Privacy Rights

From January 1, 2004, all businesses engaged in commercial activities must comply with the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, and the Canadian Standards Association Model Code for the Protection of Personal Information, which it incorporates. These obligations extend to RCICs, including Blue Planet Immigration and Sanjay Grover RCIC Member Number R535527. The Act gives you rights concerning the privacy of your personal information and you can exercise this right whenever required.

Blue Planet Immigration and Sanjay Grover RCIC Member Number R535527 is responsible for the personal information I collect and hold. To ensure this accountability, I have developed this policy, and trained our employees, agents and support staff about our policies and practices.

Why Does Blue Planet Immigration and Sanjay Grover RCIC Member Number R535527 Need Personal Information?

Blue Planet Immigration and Sanjay Grover RCIC Member Number R535527 provides professional services and products to a wide range of clients. In doing so, it produces direct marketing materials concerning its services and developments in the law. The requirement of personal information is due to the fact that the processing of immigration documents requires furnishing of personal information , which could be provided by the client so that it is correct and no misrepresentation is made to the authorities.

What personal information do I collect?

Personal information is any information that identifies you, or by which your identity could be deduced. The personal information could be related to you , your family , your work , your salary , your assets etc.

If I did not collect and use your personal information, I could not provide you with legal services. This collection of information is required for providing you immigration services.

How do I collect your personal information?

I collect information only by lawful and fair means, and not in an unreasonably intrusive way. Wherever possible I collect your personal information directly from you, both at the start of a retainer and in the course of our representation. I will ask you personal questions to update your profile / information to be provided to authorities.

Sometimes I may obtain information about you from other sources, such as from a government agency or registry or your accountant, at your request. All information collected will be for the purpose of processing your application.

Consent

In most cases, I will not ask you to specifically consent, if I collect, use, or disclose your personal information in the normal course of representing you with the government(s) for whom you have engaged us to act on your behalf.  This will be governed by the terms and conditions of the retainer agreement signed with you.

Use of Your Information

I use your personal information to provide immigration law advice and services to you, to administer our client (time and billing databases) and to include you in any direct marketing activities. If you tell us that you no longer wish to receive information about our services, or about new developments in the law, I will not send any further material.

Blue Planet Immigration and Sanjay Grover RCIC Member Number R535527 does not disclose your personal information to any third party to enable them to market their products and services. In case some information is to be divulged to a third party , consent to that effect will be taken as a part of the retainer agreement. At times , you may verbally advise to provide some information to a third party, which will be followed in trust.

Disclosure of your Personal Information

Under certain circumstances, Blue Planet Immigration and Sanjay Grover RCIC Member Number R535527 will disclose your personal information:

• when I are required or authorized by law to do so, or the information is required by a court or in the course of submitting applications or documents on your behalf to the Government;
• when you have consented to the disclosure;
• when the professional services I are providing to you requires us give your information to third parties (for example, a third-party consultant I engage together to formulate a business plan or report on financial affairs) your consent will be implied, unless you tell us otherwise;
• where it is necessary to establish or collect fees;
• if I engage a third party to provide administrative services to us (like computer back-up services or archival file storage) and the third party is bound by our privacy policy;
• if I engage expert witnesses on your behalf;
• if I retain other RCIC’s, law firms or consultants, at your request, and on your behalf;
• if the information is Publicly Available Personal Information, as it is defined under the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act.
• all this will be reflected as a part of the retainer agreement.
  
  

Updating Your Information

Since I use your personal information to provide professional services to you, it is important that the information be accurate and up-to-date.

If during the course of the retainer, any of your information changes, please inform us so that I can make any necessary changes.

You will be personally responsible for any information provided to us and being used by us in representing you to the government / any third party.

Is My Personal Information Secure?

Blue Planet Immigration and Sanjay Grover RCIC Member Number R535527 takes all reasonable precautions to ensure that your personal information is kept safe from loss, unauthorized access, modification or disclosure. Among the steps taken to protect your information are:

• premises security;
• restricted file access to personal information;
• deploying technological safeguards like security software and firewalls to prevent hacking or unauthorized computer access;
• internal password and security policies.

Access to Your Personal Information

You may ask for access to any personal information I hold about you.

Summary information is available on request. More detailed requests which require archive or other retrieval costs may be subject to our normal professional and disbursement fees.

Correcting Errors

If Blue Planet Immigration and Sanjay Grover RCIC Member Number R535527 holds information about you and you can establish that it is not accurate, complete and up-to-date, Blue Planet Immigration and Sanjay Grover RCIC Member Number R535527 will take reasonable steps to correct it. You will be intimated to that effect.

Can I be denied access to my Personal Information?

Your rights to access your personal information are not absolute. I may deny access when:

• it is required or authorized by law;
• to do so would reveal confidential commercial information, and the personal information cannot be severed from the record;
• to do so could reasonably be expected to threaten the life or security of another individual, and the personal information cannot be severed from the record; or
• the information was generated in the course of a formal dispute resolution process.

If I deny your request for access to, or refuse a request to correct information, I shall explain why. Blue Planet Immigration and Sanjay Grover RCIC Member Number R535527 does not use your Social Insurance Number as a way of identifying or organizing the information I hold upon you. This will be governed by the laws of the province to which you belong to and the province in which you in intend to settle.

Can I request anonymity

Whenever it is legal and practicable, I may offer the opportunity to deal with general inquiries without providing your name (for example, by accessing general information on our website).

The Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act may require us to confirm the identity of all new clients. It may also require us disclose information to FINTRAC in relation to certain large cash transactions.

Credit Bureaus

To help us make credit decisions about clients, prevent fraud, check the identity of new clients and prevent money-laundering, I may – with your consent – request information about you from the files of consumer reporting agencies.

Communicating with Us

You should be aware that e-mail is not a 100% secure medium, and you should be aware of this when contacting us to send personal or confidential information.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Since Blue Planet Immigration and Sanjay Grover RCIC Member Number R535527 regularly reviews all of its policies and procedures, I may change our Privacy Policy from time to time.

Requests for Access

If you have any questions or wish to access your personal information, please write to our Privacy Contact/Officer at

Sanjay Grover, RCIC

By email to info@blueplanetimmigration.com or by regular mail to

Blue Planet Immigration, Unit No. TH3, 11 E Royal Avenue

New Westminster, BC, Canada, V3L 0A8

Education Inquiries

If you apply to Blue Planet Immigration and Sanjay Grover RCIC Member Number R535527 for a job, I need to consider your personal information, as part of our review process. I normally retain information from candidates after a decision has been made, unless you ask us not to retain the information. If I offer you an admission offer / advise, which you accept, the information will be retained in accordance with our privacy procedures for employee records.

Web Site

Our website contains links to other sites, which are not governed by this privacy policy. This is an industry requirement as it is not possible to provide all the relevant information in one site.

On our website, like most other commercial websites, I may monitor traffic patterns, site usage and related site information in order to optimize our web service. I may provide aggregated information to third parties, but these statistics do not include any identifiable personal information. No personal information will be shared with any marketing agencies.