Alcom
Security Monitoring & Services Inc.,
is a family owned and operated business established in 1973. We are
listed with ULC and members of
CANASA. Our main purpose is to provide
superior burglar and fire alarm installations, service and monitoring
to both the residential and commercial community.
By providing the best quality products and services, Alcom Security
has enjoyed the lasting loyalty of a substantial clientele. A large
portion of our new business is created by referrals from scores of satisfied
customers. Once a client has experienced Alcom
Security’s high level of service, competitive
pricing and finer products,
becomes a customer for life.
At ALCOM SECURITY,
we are committed to protecting your privacy. We respect your privacy
and want you to be assured that we will only collect, use and disclose
your personal information for identified business purposes and reasons
that you contract us for.
We want you to know why we ask for your personal information, how we
use your personal information in establishing and maintaining our service
to you, how we keep your personal information confidential, and how
you can inquire about the personal information we hold about you.
What Is Personal Information
The term "personal information" refers to information that
specifically identifies you as an individual and is provided to or collected
by us. It includes information that you provide or that we collect from
other sources with your permission, for example: your name and address,
telephone numbers, home conditions, gender and marital status, family
composition, banking or credit card records, payment history and credit
references.
In general you can choose not to provide us with some or all of your
personal information as long as the lack of information does not result
in our inability to fulfill your contract with us.
How Do We Collect Your Personal Information
We may collect your personal information directly from you or from third
parties with your authorization:
-Through your contacts with our employees including our sales and service
consultants, service technicians, customer care representatives, responders
and monitoring station operators
-Through your visits to our website www.alcomsecurity.ca. In general,
you can visit our web site to access information while choosing to remain
anonymous and not revealing any personal information.
-Or from your other interaction with us, for example through your payment
history
How We Use Your Personal Information
-To provide security products and services you
request
-To understand your security needs
-To determine the suitability of products and services for you
-To keep you updated of any new products and services we offer
-To verify your identity
-In setting up an alarm response action plan including your pass codes
-In validating or canceling an alarm
-In response to any queries you may have regarding your account
-To dispatch the appropriate authorities or responders
-To determine creditworthiness
-To collect and process payment for services provided
Your consent for us to collect, use and disclose your personal information
for any of these "Identified Purposes" is implied when you
provide us with your personal information or give us the permission
to collect the information from third parties.
Confidentiality Of Your Personal Information
At ALCOM SECURITY, we are obliged to keep
your personal information confidential except under the following special
circumstances:
-We will disclose your specific personal information to a third party
if and when authorized by you
-Example: Providing an alarm certificate to your insurance company.
-We may disclose personal information if we are required to do so by
law or we in good faith believe that such action is necessary.
-Example 1: comply with the law or with legal process
-Example 2: protect and defend our rights and property
-Example 3: protect against misuse or unauthorized use of our Web site
-Example 4: protect the personal safety or property of our users or
the public (among other things, this means that if you provide false
information or attempt to pose as someone else, information about you
may be disclosed as part of any investigation into your actions).
-We will disclose personal information where permitted by law.
-Example: Employing reasonable and legal methods to determine creditworthiness
and collect a delinquent account.
We will not give, sell, rent, or loan any of your Personal Information
to any third party (with the exception of third parties performing functions
on our behalf who have an obligation to keep your information completely
confidential).
How We Safeguard Your Personal Information
We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect
your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure.
We are committed to protecting the security of your personal information.
Our Employees
Our employees are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of
all personal information to which they have access. As a condition of
employment, our employees are required to sign a confidentiality agreement
binding them to this responsibility. Furthermore we keep our employees
informed about our policies for protecting personal information and
reinforce the importance of complying with them.
Outside Contractors
We sometimes contract outside organizations to perform specialized services
such as data processing, servicing of your alarm system and private
guard service. Our trusted service suppliers may at times be responsible
for handling some of the information we receive from you. But they are
given only access to information necessary to perform those services.
In addition, they are prohibited from storing, analyzing or using that
information for purposes other than to carry out the service they have
been contracted to provide.
On Our Web Site
For our internal purposes, we gather date, time,
browser type, the name of your Internet service provider, the site that
referred you to us, any pages you requested, navigation history and
IP address of all visitors to our site. This information does not contain
anything that can identify users personally. We use this information
for our internal security audit log, trend analysis and system administration,
and to gather broad demographic information about our user base for
aggregate use.
We use this information to generate statistics and measure site activity
to benefit alcomsecurity.ca users. This same information may be shared
with third parties in order to provide these services or to analyze,
store, or aggregate the information. It may also be shared with other
third parties, working with us to improve the services of ALCOM
SECURITY, or this website.
When you fill out forms to provide us with your personal information
such as your name, telephone number, address or email address to request
more information from us, ALCOM SECURITY,
will take all commercially reasonable steps to establish a secure connection
with your Web browser. We will treat and safeguard personal information
collected on the Web site the same way as if the information is collected
through other means.
Whenever our web site contains links to other non-ALCOM
SECURITY, Web sites, although we always try to link only to Web
sites that share our concern for customer information privacy, we are
not responsible for their contents or their privacy practices.
Accessing, Verifying and Amending Your
Personal Information
As our customers, you have the right to access information held in your
personal files with us. Whenever you want to review or verify your personal
information, contact our office. Please be as specific as possible which
personal information you are requesting. We will try to respond to your
requests as soon as possible.
We are committed to maintaining the accuracy of your personal information.
Please keep us up-to-date on any changes. Should you discover any errors
in your review of your personal information, please advise us immediately.
Retention of Your Personal Information
We only keep your personal information for as long as we need it to
effectively provide services to you. ALCOM SECURITY,
shall use care when storing or destroying your personal information
in order to prevent unauthorized access.


