Last Updated on October 2, 2024

Dawson Partners Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates (“Dawson”, “Dawson Partners”, “we” or “us”) are committed to protecting your personal information and safeguarding its confidentiality. We have developed this Privacy Statement to inform you of our policies and practices with respect to the collection, use and disclosure of personal information for those who visit our website.

By visiting our website, you acknowledge the information practices and consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Statement.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Statement, you can contact us as follows:

Dawson Partners Inc.
79 Wellington Street West
21^st Floor, P.O. Box 92
Toronto, ON M5K 1G8
Canada
Attn: Compliance Department

By email: compliance@dawsonpartners.com

Privacy Principles

When handling personal information, we abide by the following Privacy Principles:

1. Lawfulness, fairness and transparency: data must be processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner.
2. Purpose limitation: data must be collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes.
3. Data minimization: data must be adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed.
4. Accuracy: data must be accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date.
5. Storage limitation: data must be kept in a form which permits identification of data subjects for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the personal information are processed.
6. Integrity and confidentiality: data must be processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security of the personal information, including protection against unauthorized or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage by using appropriate technical or organizational measures.

Personal Information Collected through our Website

We do not generally seek to collect sensitive personal information through our website. Sensitive personal information is information relating to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade-union membership; health or sex life, sexual orientation; genetic or biometric information. If we do collect sensitive personal information, we will ask for your explicit consent to our proposed use of that information at the time of collection.

Non-Identifiable Information Automatically Collected through the Website

Like many other websites, Dawson’s website, may automatically collect certain non‐identifiable information regarding website visitors, such as the Internet Protocol (IP) address of your computer, the IP address of your Internet Service Provider, the date and time you access the website, the internet address of the website from which you linked directly to the website, the operating system you are using, the sections of the website you visit, the website pages read and images viewed, and the materials you download from the website. This non-identifiable information is used by Dawson to maintain and improve our website and our operational systems. Your non-identifiable information may be disclosed to others and permanently archived for future use.

Cookies Used on the Website

Dawson’s website may use “cookies”, a technology that installs information on a website visitor’s computer. The cookies used by our website do not contain any personal information regarding visitors, and do not retrieve any information from visitors’ personal computers (other than your IP address and other similar information retrieved or retained in order to facilitate your use of the website). Cookies are used only to enhance the visitor’s experience, and to collect anonymous traffic data to enable us to provide a better web experience for the viewing public in general.

By continuing to browse the website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

If you do not want us to use cookies when you use the website, you can set your internet browser not to accept cookies. However, if you block cookies some of the features on the website may not function as a result.

You can find more information about how to manage cookies for all the commonly used internet browsers by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org. This website will also explain how you can delete cookies which are already stored on your device.

We ask for your consent to place cookies on your device, except where these are essential for us to provide you with a service that you have requested.

Changes to Privacy Statement

Dawson reserves the right to change this Privacy Statement from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page.