Gary Silverman & Associates Inc. ("GSA", "we", "us") is an insurance and wealth-management brokerage located at 1 Westmount Square, Suite 360, Westmount, Quebec H3Z 2P9. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose and protect your personal information when you use this website or contact our firm. Last updated: October 17, 2026.
We are a Quebec business and we are committed to protecting your personal information. We handle personal information in accordance with Quebec's Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector (as modernized by Law 25) and Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). The provincial authority responsible for overseeing these rules is the Commission d'accès à l'information du Québec (CAI).
When you use our contact form or the footer "Request a Call Back" feature, we collect the information you choose to provide: your name, email address, telephone number and the content of your message. With each submission, our website also automatically records your IP address and your browser's user-agent string (the technical identifier your browser sends). We do not require you to provide more than you wish, but some information may be necessary for us to respond to you or to provide a service.
We use your personal information to:
We do not sell, trade or rent your personal information to anyone. We send marketing or promotional emails only to people who have given their consent, and you may withdraw that consent at any time. We use your information only for the purposes described above; if we ever need it for a new purpose, we will ask for your consent first.
A cookie is a small file stored by your browser. Our website uses only the limited, functional cookies described below. We do not use any analytics, advertising or tracking cookies, and we do not use Google Analytics or a Facebook pixel. Any technology with profiling, tracking or locating functions is turned off by default; you control it through the cookie banner.
| Cookie | Purpose |
|---|---|
| PHP session cookie | Remembers your language choice (English or French) during your visit. |
| gsa_consent | Records the choice you made in our cookie banner. |
We use a small number of trusted service providers to operate our business and this website. Some of them process or may access information outside Quebec, in the United States:
We keep personal information only as long as necessary for the purposes described above, or as required by law. Contact and call-back messages that do not lead to a client relationship are deleted within 24 months.
Subject to the conditions set out in the law, you have the right to:
To exercise any of these rights, please contact our Privacy Officer using the details below.
Our Privacy Officer is Gary Silverman, President. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to exercise your rights, you can reach the Privacy Officer by email at gary@gsa-insurance.com or by telephone at 514 931-0111.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post the current version on this page and will not reduce your rights without your consent.