How Cit General Trading Corp. collects, uses, and protects your information.
This Privacy Policy describes how CIT Trade, a trade name operated by Cit General Trading Corp., a corporation organized under the laws of Canada with its registered office at 50 Corstate Ave Suite 2, Unit 1, Concord, Ontario, L4K 4X2, Canada, collects, uses, discloses, stores, and protects personal information obtained from visitors to our website at https://www.cittrade.mom, from prospective and current clients, and from individuals who interact with our business through any channel including electronic mail, telephone communications, in-person meetings, and service delivery engagements.
CIT Trade is a provider of computer systems design and related services, integrated systems engineering, cybersecurity architecture, cloud infrastructure solutions, and technical consulting within the Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services sector. In the course of delivering these services, we may receive personal information from clients, website visitors, service providers, and business partners. This policy explains our practices with respect to all such personal information.
By accessing our website or engaging our services, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with any provision of this policy, you should discontinue use of our website and refrain from providing personal information to us. We reserve the right to modify this policy at any time, and any changes will be effective immediately upon posting the updated policy to this page. Your continued use of our website or services after any modification constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.
When you contact CIT Trade through our website contact form, send us electronic mail, call our office, or engage with us in the course of a business relationship, we may collect the following categories of personal information directly from you:
When you visit our website at https://www.cittrade.mom, certain information is collected automatically through standard web server logging and analytics mechanisms. This information includes:
CIT Trade does not collect or process sensitive personal data categories including but not limited to government-issued identification numbers, financial account credentials, biometric data, health or medical information, information about children under the age of thirteen, or precise geolocation data. We do not use cookies, tracking pixels, browser fingerprinting, or any other client-side tracking technologies to monitor individual browsing behavior across sessions or across websites. We do not purchase, license, or otherwise acquire personal information from third-party data brokers or aggregators.
CIT Trade uses the personal information we collect exclusively for the following purposes, each of which is grounded in a legitimate business interest, contractual necessity, or your explicit consent:
We use your contact, professional, and business information to respond to inquiries, prepare proposals and statements of work, deliver the computer systems design, engineering, consulting, and managed operations services we have been engaged to provide, communicate project status and deliverables, provide technical support, and manage ongoing client relationships. This processing is necessary for the performance of our contractual obligations to our clients and for our legitimate interest in operating our professional services business.
We use client and engagement information to manage billing, invoicing, and payment processing; to maintain internal records of engagements, correspondence, and deliverables; to manage our calendar of project milestones, deadlines, and resource allocation; and to fulfill our obligations under applicable tax, corporate, and regulatory requirements. This processing is necessary for compliance with our legal obligations and for our legitimate interest in the orderly administration of our business affairs.
We use aggregated and anonymized website analytics data to understand how visitors navigate our website, identify pages and content that are most and least useful, detect and resolve technical issues affecting website availability or performance, and inform improvements to our website content, structure, and user experience. This processing serves our legitimate interest in maintaining an effective online presence and providing prospective clients with relevant, accessible information about our services.
We use server and security logs to monitor for and respond to security incidents, unauthorized access attempts, and other threats to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our systems and data. We may use and disclose personal information as necessary to comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes, or enforceable governmental requests; to enforce our contractual terms and conditions; and to protect the rights, property, and safety of CIT Trade, our clients, and the public. This processing is necessary for compliance with our legal obligations and for our legitimate interest in maintaining the security of our systems and protecting our legal rights.
CIT Trade does not sell, rent, lease, trade, or otherwise commercialize personal information. We disclose personal information only in the following limited circumstances and only to the extent necessary for the purpose described:
We may engage third-party service providers to support our business operations, including but not limited to cloud infrastructure hosting, electronic mail services, payment processing, accounting and bookkeeping, legal and professional advisory services, and information technology support. These service providers are authorized to access and process personal information solely as necessary to perform their contracted functions and are bound by written agreements that require them to implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect the confidentiality and security of the information, to process it only in accordance with our documented instructions, and to delete or return it upon completion or termination of the service arrangement.
We may disclose personal information if we determine in good faith that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with a binding legal obligation, including a subpoena, court order, search warrant, or other lawful request by a governmental authority with competent jurisdiction; to enforce or apply our contractual terms and conditions; to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected fraud, illegal activity, or violations of our policies; or to protect against imminent harm to the rights, property, or safety of CIT Trade, our clients, our personnel, or the public.
In the event of a merger, acquisition, reorganization, restructuring, sale of all or substantially all of our assets, or similar corporate transaction, personal information held by CIT Trade may be among the assets transferred to the successor or acquiring entity. In such circumstances, we will require the recipient to provide protections for personal information that are materially consistent with those described in this Privacy Policy, and we will notify affected individuals through prominent notice on our website and through direct communication where reasonably practicable.
We may disclose personal information to third parties for purposes not described in this policy when we have obtained your prior explicit consent to such disclosure. You may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us at service@cittrade.mom, though withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of processing that occurred prior to the withdrawal.
CIT Trade retains personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including to satisfy any legal, regulatory, accounting, tax, or reporting obligations, or to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
Client engagement records, including project documentation, correspondence, deliverables, and related business records, are retained for a period of seven years following the completion or termination of the client engagement, consistent with standard business record-keeping practices and applicable statutes of limitation.
Website server logs are retained for a rolling period of ninety days, after which they are automatically purged from our systems. Aggregated and anonymized analytics data that does not identify individual visitors may be retained indefinitely for historical analysis and trend reporting.
Communication records from prospective clients and general inquiries that do not result in an active client engagement are retained for a period of eighteen months from the date of last correspondence, after which they are securely deleted.
Upon expiration of the applicable retention period, personal information is securely deleted, destroyed, or anonymized in a manner that prevents reconstruction of the underlying personal data. We review our data retention practices annually to ensure continued compliance with applicable legal requirements and alignment with our operational needs.
CIT Trade implements and maintains administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of personal information against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure, or access. These safeguards include:
While we take commercially reasonable measures to protect personal information, no method of electronic storage or transmission over the Internet is entirely secure. We cannot and do not guarantee absolute security of personal information against all possible threats. In the event of a data breach that affects personal information under our control, we will notify affected individuals and relevant regulatory authorities in accordance with applicable legal requirements and within the timeframes prescribed by law.
CIT Trade is headquartered in Canada, and the personal information we collect is stored and processed on servers located in Canada and the United States. When we transfer personal information across national borders, we implement appropriate safeguards to ensure that the information receives a level of protection that is materially consistent with the protections described in this Privacy Policy and with applicable Canadian federal and provincial data protection legislation, including the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). These safeguards may include contractual clauses with service providers that impose data protection obligations equivalent to those applicable in Canada, technical measures such as encryption, and organizational measures such as access controls and audit mechanisms.
Depending on your jurisdiction of residence, you may have certain rights with respect to the personal information we hold about you. These rights may include:
To exercise any of these rights, or if you have questions about the rights available in your jurisdiction, please contact us at service@cittrade.mom. We will respond to your request within the timeframe required by applicable law, typically within thirty calendar days. We may need to verify your identity before processing your request, which may require you to provide additional information. We will not discriminate against any individual for exercising their privacy rights.
Our website and services are directed at business professionals and organizations. We do not knowingly collect, solicit, or maintain personal information from individuals under the age of thirteen, and we do not direct any content, marketing, or services toward children. If we become aware that a child under thirteen has provided personal information to us without verifiable parental consent, we will take prompt steps to delete such information from our records and terminate any associated accounts. If you believe that a child under thirteen may have provided personal information to us, please contact us immediately at service@cittrade.mom so that we can investigate and take appropriate remedial action.
Our website may include links to third-party websites, platforms, or services that are not owned, operated, or controlled by CIT Trade. This Privacy Policy applies exclusively to information collected by CIT Trade through our website and in the course of our business operations. We are not responsible for the privacy practices, data collection policies, content, or security of any third-party website or service. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party website or service before providing personal information to them. The inclusion of a link to a third-party site does not constitute our endorsement of that site, its content, or its privacy practices.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our data processing practices, legal obligations, or operational requirements. When we make material changes, we will post the updated policy on this page with a revised Effective Date and, where reasonably practicable, provide prominent notice on our website. We encourage you to review this policy periodically. If we intend to use personal information in a manner materially different from that described in the policy under which it was originally collected, we will provide notice and, where required by applicable law, obtain your consent before doing so. The version of this Privacy Policy that is posted at the time of collection governs the use of the information collected at that time.
If you have questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our personal information handling practices, please contact us using the information below. We take all privacy inquiries seriously and will investigate and respond to your communication promptly.
If you are not satisfied with our response to your privacy concern, you may have the right to lodge a complaint with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) at https://www.priv.gc.ca or with the applicable provincial privacy commissioner in your province of residence. For residents of Ontario, additional recourse may be available through the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario at https://www.ipc.on.ca.