Privacy Notice for Suppliers

V1.6 January 2023

Where, GCI Canada, (“we”, “us” or “our”), chooses to enter into a business engagement with supplier, we will be the process personal data, that you give to us, to enable us to process that business engagement and are therefore responsible for processing it in accordance with the law.

We respect the privacy of our suppliers and those individuals working for our suppliers and recognise that when you choose to provide us with personal data, you trust us to act in a responsible manner with that information. This privacy notice contains important information about how we use personal data for the following data subjects:

  • Our suppliers, vendors and service providers, either historical, existing or prospective, who are natural persons; and
  • representatives or contact persons of our suppliers and service providers who are legal entities.

We will refer to the above together as the “suppliers”. If you are considered a supplier of GCI Canada we invite you to read and understand the contents set out in this privacy notice.

What information do we collect?

We may gather the following information about you during our engagement:

  • Identification and contact information (full name, title, email, phone, address etc)
  • Job Title, position, and name of company
  • Business Financial information (e.g., bank account details), insofar our supplier is a natural person
  • Identification data relating to the delivery of products or services to our company (e.g., login details, passwords, visitor pass, IP address, online identifiers/ cookies, logs, access times, correspondence) and
  • Background checks related to the supplier (which may include related party checks)

Suppliers should ensure their employees are aware that their data is being shared with us, as described in this notice.

How do we use it?

The primary reason we process your personal data is to approve, manage, administer or effect an agreement between GCI Canada and the supplier you represent or work for. In this respect, we use your personal data, to organize our sourcing activities, issue purchase orders, process payments, perform accounting, manage our contract or review the services or products you supply us with. In addition, we process personal data to meet our legal obligations (such as record keeping obligations), as well as to manage our risks and operations (e.g. prevent and detect security threats, exercise or defend legal claims).

Do we pass your information to third parties?

We may send your personal data to other WPP and GCI Canada group companies, affiliates and third parties to help us process your personal data for the purposes set out in this notice. Further details of our WPP group companies can be found here.

We may disclose your personal data if we or any of our assets are the subject of a sale or similar corporate transaction. We will ensure that the third parties who receive your personal data are required to keep it confidential.

We may disclose personal data to third parties when we reasonably believe we are required by law, and in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected or actual unlawful or otherwise prohibited activities, including, but not limited to, fraud.

Where do we send your information?

We are a global company and therefore we may transfer your personal data to countries around the world including the US and other countries outside Europe. We will, where the country to which your data is transferred has not been found to provide an adequate level of protection, put in place appropriate safeguards (we use standard contractual clauses) to ensure your information is protected.

How long do we keep your information?

We will keep your information for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it was collected. The retention time is the term of the suppliers’ contract until any legal claims under the contract expire, unless an overriding legal or regulatory obligation arises.

How do we protect your information?

We take appropriate measures to ensure that your personal data disclosed to us is kept secure, accurate and up to date and kept only for so long as is necessary for the purposes for which it is used.

Your rights

Depending on the purposes of processing, you may be entitled to ask:

  1. for a copy of the personal data we hold about you, and details about how we are processing your personal data;
  2. to have any inaccuracies in your personal data corrected;
  3. to withdraw your consent at any time. The withdrawal of your consent will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before withdrawal

Please contact us using the details set out below if you would like to exercise any of these rights.

You may also have the right to make a complaint to the supervisory authority, in your country or jurisdiction, if you’re not happy with how we’ve handled your personal data.

How to contact us

If you wish to exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal information or if you have any queries about how we use your personal information, please let us know by contacting us at the following address: GCI Health Canada 155 Queens Quay E., 10th Floor, Toronto, ON M5A 0W4, or by email at [email protected].

Changes to this privacy notice

We review this privacy notice on a regular basis to ensure that it is up-to-date with our use of your personal data, and compliant with applicable data protection laws.

We reserve the right, at our discretion, to revise this privacy notice at any time. The updated privacy notice will be posted on our website. You are encouraged to review this privacy notice from time to time.