Privacy Policy

BAI Innovations Ltd. (hereinafter: “BAI Innovations” and/or “We” and/or “Us”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy sets out how BAI Innovations uses, processes, and protects any information that you provide when you use BAI Innovations’ website: www.bainnovations.ca (the “Website”) or when you and/or the Asset Owner (as defined below) engage with us to receive our products and/or services.

Definitions

Asset

A vehicle, generator, rectifier, or any other asset in respect to which the Service is used.

Asset Owner

The person and/or entity who/which engaged BAI Innovations and to whom/which the Service is rendered.

Data

The information we collect from you and/or through our Service including personal details such as your name, date of birth, email address, and any other personally identifiable data (“Personal Data”), driving behavior of anyone who drives the vehicle, and Asset behavior of mobile and fixed assets. Such data will include, among other parameters, the date, time, location, duration, speed, distance, start, finish, and direction of travel of vehicles, and also parameters like RPM, power usage, temperature for fixed Assets.

OBD (On-board Diagnostics Port)

The socket in your Asset which is used to interact with the Asset’s on-board management system. Plug-In Telematics Devices will be connected to this port.

Service

The full range of tracking, fleet management, and analytics services provided by BAI Innovations and its subsidiary companies.

Telematics Device

The unit which is fitted into the Asset or a mobile phone that serves as a telematics or information collection device that collects and transmits Data to us.

Tracking Information

Any information collected by the Telematics Device fitted to the vehicle.

“You”

We might use, receive, collect, process, or store Personal Data relating to potential and actual customers, service providers, suppliers, employees, Customer’s employees, users of the Websites, and others.

Data Collecting

It is very important that you read this in full so that you understand what information we collect from you directly and/or through the Telematics Device fitted to the respective Asset(s) and how we then process this information as part of the Service we provide to the Asset Owner.

Data is collected under the legitimate business interests of the Asset Owner to enable it to monitor aspects such as, but not limited to: Asset Location, Fleet Optimization, Road and Driver Safety, Environmental Impact, Fuel Usage, Power usage.

Where you have any concerns about the information collected or how your information may be used, you should discuss in the first instance with the relevant individual within your organization.

BAI Innovations will collect Data about you when you do any of the following:

  • Request information about our services
  • Register to become a customer
  • Use any of our services
  • Use our Website
  • Participate in any of our promotions, surveys, or questionnaires

By undertaking any of the above actions, you consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the terms of this policy, you should not engage in any of the above activities and should discuss with the relevant individual within your organization.

What data do we collect on our website?

Our Website employs Cookies. A cookie is a small data file which is downloaded and stored on your device’s hard drive while browsing a website, which allows web applications to keep record of actions taken on such website or track related browsing activity.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about web page traffic and improve our Website in order to tailor it to customer needs.

For more details regarding cookies, including how to control them, please check out the Help file of your browser or visit http://www.aboutcookies.org.

In addition to Cookies, we may also collect the following information from our Website:

  • Name
  • Company name
  • Job Title
  • User Name
  • Password
  • Contact information including: postal address, email address, telephone/mobile number, fax number
  • Demographic information such as postcode, preferences, and interests
  • Geo-fencing information
  • Other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers (such as number of vehicles)

When you provide us, and/or enable us to access, any Personal Data, you affirm that you have the right to provide such Personal Data to us.

What data do we collect from the telematics device?

Once the Telematics Device has been installed and activated, it will record and analyze data relating to the Asset.

BAI Innovations and its partners will collect, process, and store this Data securely ensuring that it is protected in line with commercially reasonable security practices as well as any legal and regulatory requirements.

Depending on the specific unit fitted to the Asset and the instructions we obtain from the Asset Owner, the Telematics Device will collect driver/operator behavior-related information such as:

  • Specific location
  • Direction
  • Speed
  • Acceleration/deceleration rates
  • Asset diagnostics

We will maintain a database of all location and driving information and may keep this information indefinitely. We use this location and driving behavior to provide and maintain the Service. We also use this information to determine where we can improve our Service.

BAI Innovations may aggregate and anonymize location and/or driving behavior for statistical or business purposes. All aggregated and anonymized data (the “Non-Personal Data”) is the property of BAI Innovations. BAI Innovations reserves the right to use and/or make use of such Non-Personal Data, including the right to share and/or make such Non-Personal Data available to BAI Innovations’ partners, service providers, and other third parties, in either case for both commercial and non-commercial purposes.

Information Usage

How we will use your information

BAI Innovations may use your name and billing address for the purpose of invoicing you for the Service.

BAI Innovations may use your email address to contact you with regard to your account, such as to communicate that it is about to expire or to confirm any change to your phone number, and to respond to any inquiry you submit via our Website or by email.

BAI Innovations may also use your email address from time to time to inform you about our products and services that we think will interest you.

As a customer of BAI Innovations, you may also create a username and password, which we store in our database, for the purpose of you logging into your account.

You also have the option of providing us with your home and work addresses, which we will store, to enable you to access other features on the Service.

On some versions of the Service, you can also create a list of geo-fencing coordinates and/or addresses that you may edit on our Website, or on your mobile device. We store these addresses in our database so that you can access them when using our Service.

The information collected by the Telematics Device may be used by us and our partners for research and analytics purposes. Information will be gathered and used whilst the Telematics Device is active; information may still be used after your use of the Telematics Device has ceased.

Unless you stop using the Telematics Device, we will continue to use any ongoing data collected for the purposes below:

  • Road and vehicle usage including for road safety issues and real-time traffic flow
  • Driving behavior analysis and profiling including determining what constitutes safe and dangerous driving and the typical behaviors of various segments of the population
  • Environmental impacts such as idle time at junctions, journey times, distances, and speeds
  • Analysis of junctions and the risk they represent
  • Analysis of the causes of, and forces involved in, collisions and other road incidents
  • Researching and refining techniques for analyzing motor vehicle telematics data
  • Power usage of physical assets
  • Analysis of assets behavior
  • Defining security and operation profiling
  • Monetizing collected data

In addition to any BAI Innovations use of the Data, the Asset Owner may use the Data for their own purposes without reference to BAI Innovations.

Where you have any concerns about how your Data may be used, you should in the first instance contact your employer/insurer to discuss.

Third Parties

Unless we have your express consent, we will only disclose your Personal Data to third parties if this is required for the purpose of completing your transaction with us. This is subject to the proviso that we may disclose or transfer your Personal Data to a partner company where you have supplied information via a site which is co-branded with that partner company or to members of our own group. If Personal Data about you may be shared with a partner company, we will tell you before we transfer such Personal Data so that you may opt out of this transfer if you wish.

We use your information only as set out in this Privacy Policy and will not sell, rent, or pass your Personal Data on to others for marketing or other purposes, but Non-Personal Data only.

BAI Innovations may also provide aggregate statistics about our customers, sales traffic patterns, and related site information to reputable third-party vendors and relevant affiliate partners, but these statistics will include no Personal Data.

We may also release account information where we believe in good faith that this release is reasonably necessary to comply with the law.

BAI Innovations is not responsible for any transfer of data undertaken by the Asset Owner. Where you as the Employee have any concerns about how your data is used by the Asset Owner or may be transferred by it, you should discuss in the first instance with the relevant individual within your organization.

Links to Other Websites

Our Website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our Website, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website(s). Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites, and such sites are not governed by this Privacy Policy. We encourage our clients and users to carefully look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question. If you are using a third-party website or service and you allow them to access and/or use your Personal Data you do so at your own risk.

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction, we implement industry-standard security technology and suitable electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect. BAI Innovations will store all of your Personal Data on secured servers. To further enhance the security of your personal data and prevent unauthorized access, BAI Innovations strongly recommends that users avoid allowing web browsers to store passwords for their BAI Innovations accounts. While browser-based password storage may offer convenience, it also poses a security risk, particularly on shared or unsecured devices.

Even though BAI Innovations takes reasonable steps to secure your Data, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot fully guarantee the security of information that is provided to, and/or attained by, us. Questions about the security of information provided to us, including the security of our Website, should be directed to us by sending an email or writing to us at contact@bainnovations.ca, indicating “Security Inquiry” in the subject line.

 

Changes to Privacy Policy

BAI Innovations may amend this Privacy Policy at any time and for any reason by posting the amended terms on the Website. All amended terms will be automatically effective without further notice. Your continued use of the Website and/or any services provided therein after any modification to this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such modification.

Personal Information

Controlling your personal information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your Personal Data in the following ways:

  • Adjusting your PC settings to restrict the way in which cookies are used
  • By notifying us that you no longer wish to receive marketing communications via email at contact@bainnovations.ca or in writing at:

Communications

We engage in service and promotional communications, through e-mail and notifications.

Service Communications

We may contact you with important information regarding our Service. For example, we may send you notifications (through any of the means available to us) of changes or updates to our Service, billing issues, service changes, log-in attempts or password reset notices, etc.

Promotional Communications

We may also notify you about additional offerings, events, and special opportunities or any other information we think you will find valuable. We may provide such notices through e-mail or through our marketing campaigns on any of our sites or platforms.

If you do not wish to receive such promotional communications, you may notify BAI Innovations at any time by sending an e-mail to support@bainnovations.ca, or by clicking “unsubscribe” in the promotional communications you receive.

Product Update Communications

We may also notify you about new features, training videos, webinars, or any additional educational materials about the use of our products.

We may provide such notices through e-mail or through educational campaigns on any of our sites or platforms.

If you do not wish to receive such educational communications, you may notify BAI Innovations at any time by sending an e-mail to support@bainnovations.ca, or by clicking “unsubscribe” in the communications you receive.

Subject Access Requests

Enquiries relating to Tracking Information should be directed to the relevant Asset Owner in the first instance.

Note that any subject access requests made directly to BAI Innovations may be disclosed to the Asset Owner. Where this relates to Tracking Information, the request will be handled jointly between BAI Innovations and the Asset Owner.

If you would like a copy of the information held on you or if you have an enquiry relating to the information entered via our websites, please contact us:

By email:

contact@bainnovations.ca

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

You may ask to delete your Personal Data that we process about you. The foregoing is subject to our policies and the applicable laws and regulations. Once we receive and confirm your request, we will delete your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies. Where we serve as a Processor as relates to your services, we will forward your request to your Controller for its treatment.

You may exercise your right above by sending us an email to: contact@bainnovations.ca

Last Updated – March 2025