Everest Privacy Policy

Your privacy at Everest

We value the trust you place in Everest and want you to be aware of the safeguards we have in place to respect your privacy.

What information do we collect?

At this website, and, when applicable through your insurance carrier, we may collect the following personally identifying information, including non-public ‎personal information:‎

• Name, home address, and telephone number
• Gender and year of birth
• Email address
• Applicable insurance/benefits policy number
• Credit card number, including associated billing zip code/postal code and expiration date, when you choose to provide us with this information
• Other personally identifying information (e.g., personal history information contained in a client’s funeral ‎planning documents), when you choose to provide us with this information.‎

What do we use your information, and for what purposes?

We ask for certain kinds of information in order to provide you with the funeral concierge services you ‎are entitled to as an Everest client. Everest gathers information from you in order to provide ‎personalized service, customize our communications to you, administer our services, and improve your ‎experience with our services.‎

How do we protect your information?

We have taken precautions to secure the use of our website and any information transmitted through the use of this website. We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information (this includes, operating under the ‎industry standard Secure Socket Layer (SSL).‎

Do we use cookies?

We do not use “permanent” cookies, defined as a file placed on a visitor’s hard drive that allows the website to ‎monitor the individual’s visits to the site.‎

However, we do use a “temporary-session cookie” to make certain that we give you the information that applies to you.  These temporary session cookies are deleted when your Internet visit ends. 

Do we disclose any information to outside parties?

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information, except as set out below.  We provide personal information to trusted third parties (i.e. authorized administrators and business partners) who assist us in operating our website, conducting our ‎business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep your information confidential, use it only to provide Everest services and to protect it with appropriate safeguards.

We restrict access to personal information to those individuals (within Everest and with the trusted third parties) who require access in the performance of ‎their duties related to providing Everest’s services. Third party service providers may be located outside of Canada and, in such instances, your personal information may be accessible to law enforcement and regulatory authorities in such foreign jurisdictions according to the applicable laws of such foreign jurisdictions.

Everest or Everest affiliates may communicate upgraded, enhanced or additional ‎products and services which are available to you, in accordance with applicable law. If you have any questions about this, please contact us at the email address indicated below.

We may disclose your personal information when we believe such disclosure is appropriate and authorized or required by applicable law.  This may include purposes such as ‎enforcing our site policies, or protecting our rights, property, or security or the rights, property or security of our clients and other parties.

Your Consent

When you create an account on our website, you consent to all terms and conditions of this privacy policy, including ‎the online collection and use of your personal information as outlined in this policy (and as authorized or required by applicable law).‎

We do not require an individual to consent to the collection, use and disclosure of personal information ‎as a condition of obtaining our products and services, unless our products and services cannot ‎reasonably be provided without that information.

The personally identifiable information collected at this website may be retained and ‎electronically archived for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected and for reasonable business and legal purposes. Individuals have the right to review and, if applicable, correct or update the ‎personal information held about them by Everest.‎

Such requests can be made to Everest’s Privacy Officer at:‎

       Everest Corporate Headquarters
       1300 Post Oak Boulevard, Suite 1210
       Houston, TX 77056

       contact@everestfuneral.com

Links to Third Party Website

Please note that our website may contain links to other Internet websites. Please remember that when you click on one of these links, you are leaving our website and entering another. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these other websites and encourage you to read their privacy statements (which may differ from ours).

Changes to our Privacy Policy

From time to time, we may make periodic changes to this policy without prior notice to you. If we make any such a change, we will post a notice on this website; however, we also recommend that you check this website periodically to review the terms of our current privacy policy. Your continued use of our website following any changes to the privacy policy is deemed your consent to such changes.

Contacting Us

If you have questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us at:

       Everest Corporate Headquarters
       1300 Post Oak Boulevard, Suite 1210
       Houston, TX 77056

       contact@everestfuneral.com

Effective: June 2019