style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Arial'>NEWS RELEASE
Attention
Business Editors:
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial'>McInnes Cooper and Thor Solutions
Team Up to Provide Affordable Privacy Solution to Small and Med-sized Businesses
style='font-family:Arial'>April, 2004, Halifax – Thor Solutions Inc. and
McInnes Cooper have formed National Privacy Services Inc. (NPSi) to provide businesses
with a cost-effective solution to the new privacy legislation.
style='font-family:Arial'> “Businesses have a long list of things to
do to comply with the new legislation governing the handling of personal
information,” says David
Privacy Group. “We help them avoid the expense of building a solution from
scratch, spending a great deal of time becoming privacy experts themselves, or
ignoring the legislation and risking their businesses by being identified as
non-compliant.”
style='font-family:Arial'> “Our solution is cost-effective and
immediate,” says Dale Telford
provides businesses with the tools to quickly become compliant through
policies, procedures, consent strategies, a multi-media training program and
their very own out-sourced privacy officer. The Common Sense Privacy
Solution is very affordable for smaller organizations. “It is focused at
small- and medium-sized businesses that are at high risk, such as medical
practices and insurance brokers,” says style='font-family:Arial'>Telford. “We can act as the privacy officer, helping both the business and the
customers. We save our clients time and money by dealing with queries, access
requests and complaints. We can answer their questions and provide critical support”
style='font-family:Arial'> “This law applies to every business that
handles personal information in the course of commercial activities. Without an
effective privacy plan, businesses are at risk of having their reputation
significantly damaged. NPSi is designed to give businesses the tools they need,
at a price they can afford, to reduce the risk. The last thing a growing
business needs is to be named as non-compliant by the Privacy Commissioner or
end up in Federal Court,” says Fraser. “Addressing the new privacy law is prudent
risk-management. Given the risks of non-compliance and the cost of our program,
this truly is a common sense solution.”
style='font-family:Arial'>About National Privacy Services Inc.
style='font-family:Arial'>National Privacy Services Inc. (NPSi) (
Solutions Inc. and McInnes Cooper in order to assist businesses, professionals
and industry associations in following privacy best practices, based on the
information privacy requirements of the federal privacy law and similar
provincial statutes.
style='font-family:Arial'>Thor Solutions Inc. (
leader in the field of information security. McInnes Cooper (
Canada's largest single law partnership with a nationally recognized privacy practice.
style='font-family:Arial'>NPSi's focus is to provide guidance and support to
organizations as they adopt mandatory privacy best practices. We work closely
with industry groups to design privacy programs that can be easily and
efficiently adopted without interfering with the operations of the
organizations required. In addition, we provide full support to our clients,
with toll-free, on-call expertise and our privacy professionals can act as the
designated privacy officer for our clients.
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Media
David
(902) 424-1347 cell: (902) 478-6654 david.fraser@mcinnescooper.com
Dale
(902) 830-1981
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