The Servus Insurance Services | Home and Auto App – Terms of Use & Privacy
1. Agreement
By downloading and using the Servus Insurance Services | Home and Auto App (the “Application”) which is the property of Belair Insurance Company Inc., on your mobile device, you accept and agree to be bound by and comply with these Terms of Use (the “Terms”). Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with these Terms. If you do not accept these Terms, you will not be able to activate the Application and should delete the Application from your mobile device.
We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to modify the Terms at any time by providing notice and obtaining your consent for such modifications where legally required to do so. Where such consent is not required, modifications are effective immediately and you agree to be bound by them through your continued use of the Application. We recommend you revisit these Terms periodically, which can be viewed at any time within the Application. By downloading the Application on your mobile device, you consent to the installation on your mobile device of the Application, and of any future upgrades or updates thereto (which may be installed automatically if you have selected this feature within your application purchasing profile), made available by Servus Insurance Services | Home and Auto (as defined below).
You further agree that the Application, or any updates or upgrades thereto, could or will perform the functions described below. You may withdraw your consent at any time by deleting the Application from your mobile device.
As long as you comply with these Terms, Servus Insurance Services | Home and Auto App grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to access and use the Application for private, non-commercial purposes.
2. Our Companies
Servus Insurance Services | Home and Auto ("SISHA") is a tradename for belairdirect Agency Inc., used under license, and is not a subsidiary of Servus Credit Union. This is not a solicitation by Servus Credit Union. Home and auto insurance is underwritten by Belair Insurance Company Inc. Services provided by belairdirect Agency Inc. ®belairdirect is a registered trademark of Belair Insurance Company used under licence.
3. What is the Servus Insurance Services | Home and Auto app?
The Servus Insurance Services | Home and Auto App is an application installed on your mobile device that could or will allow you, among other things, to:
- view your Servus Insurance Services | Home and Auto car and home insurance policies and access your documents on-the-go;
- access a copy your Servus Insurance Services | Home and Auto proof of car insurance directly on your mobile device;
- submit a car or home insurance claim; and
- view and manage your Servus Insurance Services | Home and Auto profile, previous purchases and payments.
4. Content
The information, content, documents and text provided by us through the Application (the “Content”) is believed to be accurate and reliable when posted on the Application, but we cannot guarantee that the Content available on the Application is accurate, complete or current at all times.
Certain Content in the Application is presented in summary form. You must always refer to the terms, exclusions and conditions of your official insurance documents, a copy of which you may access through your Client Centre on the website, for a complete description of your selected coverage.
The Application and all Content is owned or licensed by Servus Insurance Services | Home and Auto, and contains proprietary information, including third party proprietary information, that is protected by copyright, trademark, and patent laws, and other intellectual property laws. Except as otherwise allowed under these Terms or by functionality within the Application or integrated within your mobile device’s operating system, the Application and the Content may not be copied, modified, altered, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, broadcasted or transmitted or distributed in whole or in part, to any computer, server, website, application, or any other medium of publication on the Internet or any other computer network, or for any commercial purpose, without prior written consent of Servus Insurance Services | Home and Auto.
We reserve the right to modify, suspend or discontinue the Application and/or Content at any time, without notice.
5. Restrictions
Except as otherwise allowed under these Terms, you may not:
- sell, assign, sublicense, or otherwise transfer any right in or access to the Application or any content, software or services available therein;
- transfer your account to a third party;
- make any commercial use of any portion of the Application or any Content;
- modify, decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, create derivative works or otherwise attempt to discover any source code of the Application;
- reproduce any portion of the Application, except as permitted in the Terms;
- use software or code to automatically scrape, extract, copy or monitor the Application or any Content, or any data about the Application or any Content;
- probe, scan or test for vulnerabilities in the Application or Content, any systems or networks connected to the Application, or any web-based services offered through the Application;
- attempt to gain unauthorized access to any portion of the Application or any Content, any related systems or networks connected to the Application, any stored information, or any web-based services offered through the Application;
- attempt to interfere with, or disrupt, the proper functioning of the Application or delivery of the Content, or any other person’s use of the Application or the Content; or
- violate these Terms or make any unlawful or prohibited use of the Application or the Content.
We may block, suspend or terminate your use of, or access to, the Application for failure to adhere to the Terms.
6. Interpretation and Jurisdiction
These Terms, and any access and use of the Application, will be governed by and interpreted under the laws of Quebec and Canada. Any legal action or proceeding arising out of or related to access or use of the Application and these Terms of Use will be determined exclusively by the courts in Quebec.
If any provision of the Terms, in whole or in part, is found to be unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed to be severable from the rest of the provisions and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions of the Terms.
Insurance products mentioned in this Application are sold in Alberta only. Only residents of this province who can validly be bound by these Terms under applicable laws can use this Application. It is your responsibility to determine if you can legally use the Application in compliance with all applicable laws.
7. Security
We do not guarantee that the Application or any Content is free of viruses, worms, Trojan horses, or other destructive or disruptive code.
To access this Application and to complete any insurance transaction available through the Application, you will need your email address and password. We may provide you with access to information, documents or services related to your insurance policy or claims through the Application. When we do so, you are responsible for ensuring your login credentials for your account are kept confidential and for any activity under your account that occurs as a result of your failure to do so. You will immediately notify Servus Insurance Services | Home and Auto if there is any unauthorized use of your login credentials or activity on your account.
Please note that this Application may allow you to store offline copies of your insurance documents on your mobile device, or to transfer these documents outside of the Application through functionalities offered by your mobile device's operating system.
By allowing your insurance documents to be stored or transferred in this manner, you accept the information they contain will no longer be protected by the Application's secured environment and could be governed by the privacy policies of your mobile device manufacturer or other third parties, which differ from ours.
Please note that you are solely responsible for the security of your mobile device and any information stored on it. Security measures may include, but are not limited to, using passwords, PIN numbers, fingerprint and/or face recognition and data encryption to ensure that any information stored on your mobile device is adequately protected.
8. Electronic or paper documents
The Application gives you the option to electronically receive and access, through your Client Centre, most of your insurance documents, or to continue receiving a paper copy of these documents by mail. If you choose to electronically receive and access your insurance documents through your Client Centre, you understand that these electronic documents may be used as evidence and will have the same force of law as if you had received them by mail.
By choosing electronic documents, you agree that the email address you provided is your last known email address. You are responsible for notifying us, in a timely manner, of any email address change.
9. Functionality and Use
Use of the Application may affect your battery life. The Application is free and can be downloaded via Wi-Fi or cellular data. However, the Application itself will use your cellular data to transfer information to and from Servus Insurance Services | Home and Auto. You are responsible for assuming all roaming fees, data fees, plan fees, overage fees and any other fees your mobile service provider may charge you as a result of your download and use of the Application.
Please note that while roaming, unless your data is turned off on your mobile device, data will continue to be transferred.
Federal and provincial laws may prohibit you from using your mobile device and the Application in any manner while driving. For your own safety, and the safety of everyone around you, Servus Insurance Services | Home and Auto strongly encourages you to avoid any prohibited use of your smartphone or the Application while driving.
10. Digital fingerprint recognition
When you enable the digital fingerprint recognition function for the Application (Touch ID or Fingerprint, as the case may be), you can either access the Application with a single touch, or use your email and password to log in.
This function is a service offered by your mobile device’s manufacturer and Servus Insurance Services | Home and Auto does not endorse or warrant its use. Servus Insurance Services | Home and Auto does not record or store your digital fingerprint in any way and assumes no responsibility or liability with regards to your use or inability to use this function. If you choose to enable this function, any fingerprint recorded in your mobile device can be used to access the Application, your Servus Insurance Services | Home and Auto account and your insurance documents. To help keep your account and personal information secured, Servus Insurance Services | Home and Auto does not recommend that you activate this function if fingerprints not belonging to you are recorded on your mobile device. Servus Insurance Services | Home and Auto assumes no responsibility or liability which may result from the Application being accessed with fingerprints not belonging to you.
11. Privacy
We are committed to protecting your privacy, and do our utmost to ensure that the personal information of our customers is safeguarded properly.
Any personal information we collect from you or that you disclose to us through this Application is subject to our Privacy Policy. To understand how we will collect, use and disclose your personal information, please read our Privacy policy, available here.
If you have any questions about your privacy or would like more information, please contact our Privacy Office at:
Privacy Office
700 University Avenue, Suite 1500-A
Toronto, Ontario M5G
0A1
Phone (toll free): 1.866.941.5094
Fax: 416.941.5284
e-mail: privacy@belairdirect.com
12. Use of cookies
Cookies are small data files sent to your Internet browser that allow us and our third-party service providers to recognize you when you visit the Application. If you set your browser to disable cookies, you may not be able to access certain parts of the Application or certain parts of the Application may not work properly.
We may use cookies for your convenience in order to allow us to recognize you when you return to the Application, to gather information about your use of the Application, to enable the functionality of certain services available through the Application, to maintain, monitor, protect, and improve the Application, and to integrate third party services into the Application.
Any website traffic data we collect may be shared with our parent company, Intact Financial Corporation, and our affiliates in the Intact Financial Corporation group of companies consistent with the purposes set out in our Privacy Promise.
We use the following cookies to integrate the following services into this Application:
1) Essential and functional cookies
Essential cookies are fundamental to the running of this Application and cannot be switched off. Functional cookies ensure that the Application works correctly and in a secure manner. Without these cookies, services you’ve asked for such as getting an insurance quote, using online discounts, logging into your account, or paying for and renewing your policy cannot be provided. These cookies allow our Application to remember choices you make (such as your username, language, or the region you're in).
Cookies we use on this Application
- Adobe Analytics
- Qualtrics
- Crashlytics
- Datadog
- Branch
- Firebase
- Cambridge Mobile Telematic
2) Analytics Cookies
Analytics cookies allow us to improve the experience and performance of our website. They help us identify digital and behavioural issues experienced by visitors. The information we collect uses anonymous identifiers.
Cookies we use on this Application
- Adobe Analytics
- Qualtrics
- Crashlytics
- Datadog
- Branch
- Firebase
13. Other Terms
We may allow you to engage in certain activities on the Application such as:
- quote or purchase insurance products or services;
- submit an insurance claim or report a motor vehicle accident; or
- access information, documents or services related to your insurance quote, policy, or claim.
When we do so, other terms may apply to these activities (“Other Terms”). If there is a conflict between these Terms and the Other Terms posted on a portion of the Application or other website, the Other Terms will govern and control with respect to these other activities.
14. Disclaimer of Warranty and Limitation of Liability
The Application is made available "as-is", "with all faults" and "as available" and it is used at your own risk. Servus Insurance Services | Home and Auto makes no warranties or guarantees of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement. Servus Insurance Services | Home and Auto does not warrant that the Application and its operation will be uninterrupted or error or defect-free, that any errors or defects in the Application will be corrected, that data will not be lost or damaged, or that the Application or server(s) that make it available are free from viruses, disabling code or other contaminants.
Servus Insurance Services | Home and Auto and its affiliates and suppliers shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, special, incidental, exemplary, punitive, or consequential losses or damages resulting from, arising out of, related to or in connection with, the use of or access to, or inability to access the Application, Content, these Terms or any related services whether provided by Servus Insurance Services | Home and Auto or its affiliates or suppliers.
You agree to defend and indemnify Servus Insurance Services | Home and Auto from and against any and all claims, demands, actions, suits, damages, liabilities, losses, settlements, judgments, costs and expenses (including but not limited to reasonable attorney’s fees and costs), brought or asserted against Servus Insurance Services | Home and Auto resulting from (i) your access to, or use of, the Application; (ii) your breach of any laws or the Terms; (iii) your negligence or wilful misconduct; or (iv) your violation of any third party intellectual property rights. This section will survive the termination of these Terms.
15. Intellectual property
The Application is protected by the Copyright Act and other applicable intellectual property laws, and its Content cannot be altered, sold, reproduced, copied, published, distributed, uploaded, broadcast or retransmitted without infringing on our and the author's rights and his/her moral rights.
Certain names, words, titles, expressions, phrases, logos, icons, graphics or designs or other content in the Application are, as the case may be, trade names or trademarks of Belair Insurance Company Inc. and its affiliated companies. Certain names, words, titles, phrases, logos, icons, graphics or designs or other content in the pages of the Application can constitute trademarks or trade names, registered or not, property of third parties and may be used under licence.
Use of the Application does not grant you any rights to the Application or the Content nor are any rights of use granted in any trademarks or logos included in the Application.
Servus Insurance Services | Home and Auto and its third-party licensors reserve the right to use any suggestions, recommendations or other feedback you provide without your consent or further obligations to you.
16. Links to other sites
Links from or to Internet sites outside this Application are meant for your convenience only. Where these sites belong to Servus Insurance Services | Home and Auto, you may be subject to additional or different terms of use for such sites. Please take the time to familiarize with such additional or different terms of use before using the sites. To the extent the sites do not belong to Servus Insurance Services | Home and Auto, you agree that the owners of the outside sites manage their content which are not reviewed, nor approved by us.
These links should not be construed as an endorsement, a guarantee or a recommendation of the products or services offered on those sites.
You access these sites at your own risk. We cannot be held responsible for damages or prejudice of any nature resulting from the use or the content of other sites connected to the Application by hyperlink.
17. Specific Terms of Use for the Digital Proof of Auto Insurance
Please note that by accepting to receive the digital proof of auto insurance (the “DPAI”) in the Application, you consent to receive your proof of insurance, including future updates and modifications, digitally through this Application or your Client Center, when applicable.
If you use the DPAI, you are deemed to accept the following terms of use and any changes to them (the “Terms”) and agree to be bound by them. You acknowledge and consent that these additional Terms are a part of the Terms of the Application. You acknowledge that opting to receive the DPAI is voluntary. Should you not acknowledge and agree to these Terms, you must use a paper copy of your proof of auto insurance.
You further acknowledge and undertake that you have (or will): (i) notify any other drivers who operate a vehicle listed on your DPAI about these Terms; and (ii) obtain their acceptance and agreement to be bound by the Terms; (iii) share the most recent version of the DPAI with all insureds listed on your insurance policy.
You acknowledge that by using the DPAI you assume all risks, including:
- possible damage to your mobile device, when handing your device over to a third party to review your DPAI;
- possible access to personal information if you do not turn off notifications or if your mobile device is accidentally unlocked with facial or fingerprint recognition.
You acknowledge that there are certain situations where you may not be able to access your DPAI, or the most up to date version of your DPAI. These include, but are not limited to:
- When your mobile device is not able to access the internet or data network.
- When your mobile device is turned off.
- When you have been locked out of your Application.
- When you have forgotten the password to your Application.
- When you have not properly locked your mobile device to access your DPAI.
You also acknowledge that:
- It is your responsibility to ensure that your mobile device has access to a working internet or data network for the Application to download the most up to date version of your DPAI. For iOS users, the DPAI will automatically refresh every time you open the Application or access the widget. For Android users, the DPAI will automatically refresh daily.
- Only the front side of your DPAI will be accessible on the lock screen. The reverse side of your DPAI will be accessible once you have unlocked your mobile device and accessed your Application.
- The DPAI is not accepted by law enforcement or departments of motor vehicles in all provinces of Canada, nor by all states in the United States – and it is your duty to ensure you possess proof of insurance in the form and manner required by any jurisdiction in which you operate a vehicle listed on your DPAI.
- Federal and provincial laws may prohibit you from using your mobile device and the DPAI in any manner while driving. For your own safety, and the safety of everyone around you, Servus Insurance Services | Home and Auto strongly encourages you to avoid using your mobile device or the DPAI while driving.
- When you share the DPAI electronically with others, including law enforcement, you are providing those parties with your personal information, including your email address.
- Please also be advised that, regardless of the format (DPAI or a paper copy of your proof of insurance), the operator of your vehicle must always have a proof of insurance in the vehicle at all times.
ALL TERMS, LIMITS, CONDITIONS, EXCLUSIONS, DEFINITIONS AND PROVISIONS OF YOUR POLICY SHALL CONTINUE TO APPLY AND HAVE FULL FORCE AND EFFECT.