All information requested will be for insurance purposes only and will be treated as confidential. The Insurer or their reinsurers may, however make a brief report on it to the Medical Information Bureau. The Medical Information Bureau is a non-profit membership organization of life insurance companies which operates an insurance information exchange on behalf of its members. Subject to your authorization, the bureau will supply information from its files to another member insurance company to which you have applied for life or health insurance or to which a claim is submitted. On your request, the bureau will arrange for disclosure to you of any information it may have in your file on you. If you question the accuracy of the bureau's file, you may contact the bureau and seek a correction. The address of the bureau's information office is: Suite 501, 330 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1R7.
The specific and detailed information requested on the application form is required to process the application. To protect the confidentiality of this information, Manulife Financial will establish a "financial services file" from which this information will be used to process the application, offer and administer services and process claims. Access to this file will be restricted to those Manulife Financial employees, mandataries, administrators or agents who are responsible for the assessment of risk (underwriting), marketing and administration of services and the investigation of claims, and to any other person you authorize or as authorized by law. These people, organizations and service providers may be in jurisdictions outside Canada, and subject to the laws of those foreign jurisdictions. Your consent to the use of personal information to offer you products and services is optional and if you wish to discontinue such use, you may write to Manulife Financial at the address shown below. Your file is secured in our offices or those of our administrator or agent. You may request to review the personal information it contains and make corrections by writing to: Privacy Officer, Affinity Markets, Manulife Financial, 2 Queen Street East, Toronto, Ontario M5W 5M3.