We are committed to protecting your privacy when you are browsing for information through our Site. The handling of all personal information by the Site is governed by the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.

How We Protect Your Data

TheAnswerIs.ca needs to collect personal information from our  users and prospective  users to provide services to you. While every attempt will be made to honour your privacy and safeguard your confidential information, TheAnswerIs.ca cannot guarantee the confidentiality or security of information transmitted electronically. By accessing the Site, you agree not to hold TheAnswerIs.ca Inc. responsible for any damages or losses you incur by transmitting electronic information to us.

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time when we change our personal information practices, so review this Privacy Policy often to obtain the latest information.

Your online access to your personal investing information is protected with a password that you select. Do not disclose your password to anyone. We will never ask you for your password via letters, phone calls or emails. Our personal information processes retain your personal information only as long as is absolutely necessary. Please be aware that we collect and use information about your visit to the Site.

Feel free to visit the Site anonymously without submitting any personal information. We will only collect your internet protocol (IP), page requests, browser, operating system and average time spent with us. This information helps us to understand your needs and interests and to improve our offering.

How Our Technology May Impact You

About Cookies and Other Technologies like Analytics:

We reserve the right to use third-party web masters to help us gather and analyze information about the areas you visit on the Site in order to enhance your user experience and to help us analyze the use of our Site. These third parties uses cookies (tiny pieces of data that can be sent to your browser to be stored on your hard drive so that you are recognized the next time you visit) to collect and generate information about your visits to the Site (including your IP address) that is transmitted to their servers in an anonymous form for processing. We study patterns of website activity so we can improve users’ experience to the Site.

The use of these tools does not allow us or our analytics service providers to identify individuals.

You can opt out of analytics activity by setting your browser to notify you when a cookie is sent and block analytics cookies if desired. Please consult your browser's Help Menu for instructions. Visiting the Site with analytics cookies disabled will have no significant impact on your browsing experience.

Google currently offers a free Google Analytics opt-out tool for Internet Explorer (Versions 7 and 8), Google Chrome (4.x and higher), and Mozilla Firefox (3.5 and higher).

The Google Analytics opt-out add-on is designed to be compatible with Chrome, Internet Explorer 8–11, Safari, Firefox and Opera .

Google Analytics may collect the following standard types of information:

• Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of the computers being used to access the Site;
• Operating systems and the types and versions of browsers used to access the Site;
• Internet Service Providers used by visitors to the Site;
• Dates and times users access the Site;
• Pages visited;
• Keywords users enter into our search engine; and
• Names and sizes of files requested.

This may result in the use of cookies, and can deliver personalized investment information which enables us to tailor the Site to your interests and preferences (e.g., language, investment risk tolerance) and improve your experience. You may set your browser either to notify you when you receive a cookie or to reject cookies.

Social Media

We encourage you to access the Site on or through social network websites, plug-ins and applications such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.

Third-party links to TheAnswerIs.ca, such as ad exchanges, may use cookies, tracer tags or web beacons to report certain information about your visits to the Site, other websites and ad links. The Site may contain links to other independent websites as a convenience to you. These links do not indicate that we endorse these websites. You are solely responsible for the results of accessing those links. Be sure to carefully review these websites’ own privacy policies and terms of use. We take no responsibility or liability for the information contained in these websites nor the manner in which they may collect, use or disclose your personal information.