3.1   Collection of Personal Information
3.1.1   Collection methods
Various means. We collect Your Personal Information through Our Website or other technological means in a variety of ways:
   •    Automatically. When You connect to Our Website, the device You use to connect will communicate Personal Information to Us; 
   •    Communicated e-mails. By e-mails that You communicate to Us using one of the e-mail addresses available on Our Website; 
   •    Cookies. Cookies include those identified in Our Cookie Policy; 
   •    Partners. By third parties who collect Your Personal Information for Us as identified in section 3.4.2 - Disclosure of Personal Information of this Policy. 

Profiling and Identification. Our Website uses a cookie to profile Your activities on Our Website and to identify unique visitors. This cookie is used for the purposes stated in our Privacy Policy. Access, Disclosure, and Transfer of Personal Information Cookie Policy. We disable these functions by default. You can activate them via the Cookie Banner.

3.1.2   Personal information collected 
Categories of information collected. In the course of Our activities, We may collect and process various types of Personal Information, including the information listed below:
   •   identifying information, including Your last name, first name, and e-mail address; 
   •   technical or numerical information, including connection information and other information about Your activities on the Website, such as Your IP address, the pages You consulted, the time and date of Your visits, Your number of connections, Your domain name, the address of the referring site (if You access the Website from another site), the type of browser You use, the operating system of Your device and other hardware and software information;
   •   information that You choose to provide or transmit to Us, for example, when You communicate with one of Our employees or representatives.

Limiting processing to necessary and legitimate purposes. In each case, Personal Information is processed in accordance with the legitimate and necessary purposes listed in section 3.3 - Use of Personal Data below.

3.2   Refuse optional collection
Withdrawing consent. Unless the Law or Your contractual obligations provide otherwise, You may refuse or withdraw Your consent to certain specific uses or disclosures of Your Personal Information:
   •   by selecting "decline" in the Cookie Banner; or
   •   by sending a request to Our DPO at the coordinates identified in section 1b) of this policy.

3.3   Use of Personal Information
Purposes of Personal Information. We may use Your Personal Information for the purposes described below:
   -   operate, maintain, supervise, develop, improve, and offer the functionalities of Our Website; 
   -   Introduce you to our services;
   -   apply for a job;
   -   perform Our contractual obligations to You;
   -   develop, improve, and offer new Services;
   -   answer Your questions and provide You with assistance if needed; 
   -   detect and prevent fraud, errors, spam, abuse, security incidents, and other harmful activities; or
   -   for any other purpose imposed or permitted by applicable law. 

3.4   Access, disclosure, and transfer of Personal Information
Access and Disclosure. We may transfer, disclose or provide access to Your Personal Information to Our employees and Service Providers who need to know that information in order to operate Our Website, perform Our Services, conduct Our business or serve You. 

3.4.1   Access to Personal Information within the Company
Limiting access to Personal Information. Your Personal Information is only accessible to Our directors, employees, or representatives who require access to Your Personal Information in order to perform their duties. As such, Your Information may be accessible to :
   -   Our DPO; and
   -   Our IT services ("Information Technology").

3.4.2    Disclosure of Personal Information
Safeguards for disclosure to third parties. We will only disclose Your Personal Information to Our Service Providers if they have previously agreed in writing to maintain the confidentiality of Your Personal Information in accordance with applicable laws and Our Information Governance Program through the implementation of various safeguards and information governance measures. These measures are proportionate to the sensitivity of the Personal Information processed or communicated. Without limitation, Our Service Providers may only use Your Personal Information in a confidential manner in accordance with Our instructions and only for the purposes for which it was provided. Furthermore, We only provide Our Service Providers with the Personal Information that is necessary for the performance of their mandate or contract, and We require such Service Providers to destroy the Personal Information in an appropriate manner upon termination of the contract or as soon as its use is no longer necessary.  

Our Service Providers. Although We try to avoid sharing Your Personal Information with third parties, We may use Service Providers to perform various services on Our behalf, such as IT management and security, marketing, and data analysis, hosting, and storage. We have defined below certain cases in which such sharing may take place: 
   -   We use the services of the LinkedIn social network to converse with You and with candidates or prospects for recruitment purposes. For more information, please consult LinkedIn's privacy policy;
   -   We use Indeed's services to converse with You and with candidates or prospects for recruitment purposes. For more information, please consult Indeed's privacy policy;
   -   We use Microsoft services (Outlook and the Microsoft Office suite) to store Our documents and e-mails. For more information, see Microsoft's privacy policy;
        All categories of Personal Information identified in section 3.1 - Collection of Personal Information may be communicated or stored through this service. 
   -   We use the services of Wix to host Our Website;
        All categories of Personal Information identified in section 3.1 - Collection of Personal Information may be communicated or stored through this service.
   -   We use Metatracer on Our digital systems to facilitate the detection and management of Your Personal Information and that of Our employees, all to ensure Our compliance with privacy laws. 
        Metatracer collects, as Personal Information, only identifying information. 

3.4.3   Communication outside Quebec
Disclosure of Personal Information Outside Quebec. We may communicate Your Personal Information outside of Quebec or mandate an entity located outside of Quebec to collect, use, or retain Your Personal Information on Our behalf.

Safeguards when communicating outside Quebec. Before disclosing Your Personal Information to third
parties outside Quebec, We conduct a privacy impact assessment to evaluate the risks that may affect the security of Your Personal Information. This assessment also identifies appropriate security measures to reduce or eliminate these risks. The communication will then be subject to a written agreement binding these third parties to respect such measures. 

3.4.4   Compliance with legislation, responding to legal requests, preventing harm, and protecting Our rights
Specific disclosures of Your Personal Information. We may disclose Your Personal Information when We believe such disclosure is authorized, necessary, or appropriate, including: 
   -   to respond to requests from public and governmental authorities, including public and governmental authorities outside Your country of residence; 
   -   to protect our business ; 
   -   to comply with legal proceedings; 
   -   to protect Our rights, the privacy of Our employees, officers, and directors, Our security, and Our property; 
   -   to protect Your privacy and Your rights, or the privacy and rights of third parties; 
   -   to enable Us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages We may suffer; and 
   -   when it is compliant or mandatory according to applicable laws, including laws outside Your country of residence.

3.4.5   Commercial transaction
Possibility of commercial transactions. We may share, transfer or communicate, in strict compliance with this Policy and the provisions of the Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector, RLRQ c P-39.1 (the "Private Sector Act"), and the Act to modernize legislative provisions respecting the protection of personal information, LQ 2021, c 25 (the "Act 25", assented to on September 22, 2021), Your Personal Information in the event of a sale, transfer or assignment, in whole or in part, of the Organization or Our assets (for example, as a result of a merger, consolidation, change of control, reorganization, bankruptcy, liquidation or any other business transaction, including in connection with the negotiation of such transactions). In such a case, We will inform You before Your Personal Information is transferred and is governed by another privacy policy.

3.5   Consent
Consent for Collection, Use, or Disclosure of Personal Information. Unless otherwise required by law, the Company obtains Your consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of its Personal Information. However, if You provide Us with Personal Information about other persons, You must ensure that You have duly notified them that You are providing Us with their information in addition to obtaining their consent to such disclosure. 

Consent requirements. We will seek Your manifest, free, informed, and purposeful consent before using or disclosing Your Personal Information for purposes other than those set out herein. We will also seek Your express consent whenever sensitive Personal Information is involved in any of the Company's processing activities. We will ask for Your consent for each specific purpose in clear and simple terms, separate from any other information provided to You.

BY USING OUR WEBSITES, TRANSMITTING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION BY E-MAIL, OR USING AN ONLINE FORM, YOU CONSENT TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND THE COLLECTION AND PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRIVACY POLICY.

Refusal to use the Website. If You do not consent, please stop using the Websites. Except where otherwise provided by law, You may withdraw Your consent at any time upon reasonable notice. Please note that if You choose to withdraw Your consent to the collection, use, or disclosure of Your Personal Information, certain features of Our Website may no longer be available to You or We may no longer be able to offer You some of Our services. 

3.6   Retention of Personal Information
Retention of Personal Information. Subject to applicable laws, We retain Your Personal Information only for as long as is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, unless You consent to Your Personal Information being used or processed for another purpose. 

Additional information. To obtain more information about the periods during which Your Personal Information is kept, please contact Our DPO using the contact details provided in article 1b) - Data Protection Officer of this Policy.