At Computershare, we take privacy seriously. In the course of providing services to our corporate clients and other customers, and in meeting the service needs of their investors,
we receive personal information about individuals, perhaps including yourself. Protecting your privacy and the confidentiality of your personal information is important to us,
and is a fundamental part of our day-to-day business operations.
What is Personal Information?
Personal information (or “PI”) is any piece of information, either factual or subjective, about an identifiable individual.
But personal information does not include business contact information if it is being used for the purpose of communicating with an individual in
relation to their employment, business or profession*.
Computershare may receive personal information about you from you directly but we may also receive information about you from a third party authorized by you,
such as the issuing company, your broker, a class action defendant or another intermediary acting on your behalf. As another example, we will obtain information
about you if you participate in an employee stock ownership plan, dividend reinvestment plan, or retirement savings plan that we administer.
Depending on the type of plan or service we administer, we may receive this information from enrollment forms you complete, through transactions we perform
for you, from your employer (if it is sponsoring the plan) and through other communications. This personal information could include your name, contact details
(such as residential address, correspondence address, email address), financial information (including account details, securities holdings and transactions),
a copy of a government issued photo ID (such as passport, driver’s license) and related facial recognition (biometric) data, date of birth,
identification details/numbers (including SINs, SSNs), survey responses.
Our Approach to Privacy
Computershare collects, uses or discloses personal information for many purposes: to administer your account, to undertake transactions you direct,
to mail you dividend cheques or Annual Reports, to conduct tax or other reporting required by law, for other lawful purposes relating to the services
we are providing and to better serve your and our clients’ needs. To us, that includes treating your personal information with appropriate safeguards and with
respect. Each Computershare employee and representative is familiar with the procedures that must be adhered to in order to keep your information secure and must
abide by our commitment to privacy.
Applicability of Computershare's Privacy Code
This Privacy Code informs you of our commitment to fair information practices respecting your personal information, and tells you the ways we ensure that your
privacy and the confidentiality of your personal information are protected.
In this Privacy Code, "we", "us", "our" and “Computershare” means Computershare Trust Company of Canada (“CTCC”) and/or Computershare Investor Services Inc.
(“CISI”) and/or Computershare Governance Services and/or Georgeson Shareholder Communications Canada Inc. and/or Syncbase Inc.. "You" and "your" means
individuals whose personal information we may receive, use or disclose in the course of our business activities.
Computershare does not permit third party collection of your personal information on our websites. Our websites may contain links to other websites that
are provided and maintained exclusively by third parties. Websites provided and maintained by third parties are not subject to this Privacy Code.
Computershare is not responsible for any personal information you may choose to submit to a third party website accessed from our websites.
Please review the privacy policies on those third party websites to determine their information handling practices.
Last updated March 2020