Fidelity Canada Online Privacy Policy

We collect information to better serve you. The type of information depends on the service we provide. If you are an investor, we collect your name, contact information, social insurance number and other information necessary to provide you with fund management services, to keep records, to prevent error and fraud or to respond to inquiries from your advisor, if you have one. Your personal information may also be used for educational and marketing purposes, including sending material to provide you with product information and better services.

We do not sell any personal information. Portions of your personal information may be provided, in confidence, to service providers that prepare and mail client account statements or other documents on our behalf.  At times, we may use affiliated Fidelity companies, located outside of Canada, including the United States, to perform data storage and processing services for us.  This may involve the transfer of your personal information to these entities.  This information is subject to the laws of Canada and the laws of the service provider’s jurisdiction.  In all cases, we require that these service providers protect your information and only use it for limited purposes.

We may also share your information with other Fidelity companies, your advisor, other financial institutions and government organizations. Where information is shared outside Fidelity, we do so on a strictly limited basis in order to complete transactions on your behalf, to provide you with services or to meet legal obligations, such as tax reporting. We might be required to disclose personal information in response to a search warrant, court order, or other demand or valid inquiry.  This may include requests from regulators, including the Mutual Fund Dealers Association of Canada or the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada, for regulatory purposes. A regulator may, in turn, disclose your personal information to other regulatory or government organizations.

Personal information is collected from our interactions with you. We might interact with you directly, such as when you call or write to us or visit www.fidelity.ca, or we might interact with you indirectly, such as through your advisor.  We may record your telephone discussions with our representatives and we may monitor live or recorded calls for our mutual protection, to enhance customer service, for training purposes, and to confirm our discussions with you.  No matter how we collect your personal information, we try to ensure its accuracy and completeness. In order to maintain the integrity of your information, please make sure we know about any changes as soon as possible.

We have always considered the protection of sensitive information to be a foundation of customer trust and a sound business practice. We employ extensive physical, electronic and procedural controls, and we regularly review these controls with the aim of adapting them to respond to changing requirements and advances in technology. Within Fidelity and among our service providers, we aim to restrict access to personal information to those who need it to provide products and services to you.

We believe that privacy, security and service in our online operations are just as critical as in the rest of our business. We therefore employ all of the safeguards described above, along with the following Internet-specific practices.

We use a variety of protections designed to maintain the security of your online session. For example, we make extensive use of firewall barriers, encryption techniques and authentication procedures.

When you visit our Internet sites, we may collect technical and navigational information, such as computer browser type, Internet protocol address, pages visited and average time spent on our websites. This information may be used, for example, to alert you to software compatibility issues, improve our web design and functionality, or to provide you with customized services.

We use cookies and similar technologies to support the operation of Fidelity Websites.  Cookies are small amounts of data that a Website sends to a Web browser on a visitor’s computer.  Our cookies help us to collect information about visitors to Fidelity Websites, including date and time of visits, pages viewed, amount of time spent on our sites, or general information about the device used to access the site.  Fidelity cookies are also used for security purposes and to personalize your experience, such as customizing your screen layout. 

You can refuse or delete cookies.  Most browsers and mobile devices offer their own settings to manage cookies.  If you refuse a cookie when on a Fidelity Website, or if you delete cookies, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of Fidelity Websites.  For example, you may not be able to sign in and access your account, or we may not be able to recognize you, your device or your online preferences. 

Fidelity’s Investment Professional App allows advisors to access news, research and other information using wireless or mobile devices.  This privacy statement applies to any personal information or other information that we may collect through the Investment Professional App.

You may request access to your personal information and question its accuracy and completeness. We will respond to your request within 30 days of receiving it.

You may withdraw all or part of your consent for us to use your personal information within certain legal restrictions. If you withdraw consent, however, we may be limited in the services or products that we provide to you. Please contact us to learn more.

We welcome your privacy questions.

Investors or advisors:
Email: cs.english@fmr.com
Telephone: 1 800 263-4077

If you are not satisfied with the results of your email or phone call, contact

Chief Privacy Officer
privacy@fidelity.ca

Telephone: 1 800 263-4077
Fax: (416) 307-5349

or by mail at:

Attention Chief Privacy Officer
Fidelity Investments
483 Bay Street, Suite 300
Toronto, ON
M5G 2N7