Privacy
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Please note that this translation is provided for reference, and the original French text remains the authoritative version.

1. General Information

  1. 1.1. Introduction

    Privacy protection is crucial for Lynx Bleu Capital Inc. (“Lynx Bleu”). We have implemented protective measures and sound practices for managing your Personal Information in accordance with applicable laws in Quebec and Canada. This Privacy Policy, to be read alongside our terms and conditions, outlines our practices regarding the collection, use, processing, communication, and retention of Personal Information from our clients, visitors, and users.

    By using our website Lynxbleu.ca (the “Website”) or any of our services, you agree that we may collect, use, process, disclose, and retain your Personal Information as described herein. If you do not agree to comply with and be bound by this Policy, you are not authorized to visit, access, or use our website or services, nor share your Personal Information with us.

    This Policy does not apply to the Personal Information of Lynx Bleu’s employees, representatives, consultants, or any other person affiliated with Lynx Bleu, nor to any information that does not constitute Personal Information as defined by applicable laws in Quebec and Canada.

  2. 1.2. Privacy Officer

    Questions, comments, and complaints regarding the Policy and Lynx Bleu’s privacy practices can be addressed to our Privacy Officer at the following contact details:

    Telephone: 514 900-0351
    Email: confidentialite@lynxbleu.ca
    Address: 014-410 St-Nicolas, Montreal, QC, H2Y 2P5

2. Definitions

The following words and expressions, when they appear with an initial capital letter in the Policy, have the meanings assigned to them below, unless implicitly or explicitly stated otherwise in the text:

  • Service Provider: Any individual or legal entity that processes Personal Information on behalf of Lynx Bleu. This includes third-party companies or individuals employed by Lynx Bleu to facilitate the Services, provide Services on behalf of Lynx Bleu, perform Services-related tasks, or assist Lynx Bleu in analyzing Service usage.
  • Personal Information: Any information related to an identifiable individual, directly or indirectly revealing something about their identity, characteristics (e.g., abilities, preferences, psychological trends, predispositions, mental capacities, character, and behavior), or activities. This applies regardless of the medium or form through which the information is accessible (written, graphic, auditory, visual, electronic, or otherwise).
  • “Personal information protection manager”: the person who is responsible for the application of this Policy and whose contact details are identified in section 1 of this Policy.
  • “Services”: Services refers to the Website and our social media pages and the services provided to you and the Software.

3. Processing of Personal Information

  1. 3.1. Collection of Personal Information

    As part of our activities, we may process different types of Personal Information including the information listed below:

    • contact details, such as your first and last name, your address, your email address and your telephone number;
    • information relating to products or services, such as information concerning the Services we have provided to you;
    • information that you choose to provide or transmit to us, for example, when you complete our forms, on the telephone or on our Websites, subscribe to our newsletter, apply for one of our job offers or communicate with one our employees or representatives;
    • information collected automatically when using the Website and our Services, including:
      • login information and other information about your activities on the Website, such as your IP address, the pages you viewed, the time and date of your visits, the number of connections, the type of browser you use , your device’s operating system, and other hardware and software information.

    In each case, this Personal Information is processed in accordance with the legitimate and necessary purposes listed in section 3.2 below.

  2. 3.2. Use of Personal Information

    We may use your Personal Information for the legitimate purposes described below:

    • operate, maintain, supervise, develop, improve and provide all features of our website;
    • present and/or provide Services to you;
    • allow you access to the software;
    • allow you to apply for job offers;
    • carry out our contractual obligations towards you;
    • develop, improve and offer new Services;
    • send you messages, updates, security alerts;
    • for marketing and business development purposes, if you have previously consented to the processing of your Personal Information for these purposes;
    • answer your questions and provide you with assistance as needed;
    • for partnership purposes to provide you with Services;
    • detect and prevent fraud, errors, spam, abuse, security incidents and other harmful activities;
    • for any other purpose permitted or required by law.

  3. 3.3. Communication of Personal Information

    We may share your Personal Information with our employees, consultants, agents, contractors, service providers and other trusted third parties (collectively, “Service Providers”) who need the information to help us operate our website, carry out our business activities or serve you, provided that such Service Providers have previously agreed in writing to maintain the confidentiality of your Personal Information in accordance with applicable laws and Our Information Governance Program.

    We do not sell, trade, or otherwise disclose your Personal Information to third parties.

    1. 3.3.1. Service Providers and Other Third Parties

      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 analytics, hosting and data storage.

      Before communicating your Personal Information to Service Providers outside the province of Quebec or depending on the nature of the Personal Information communicated, we carry out an assessment of the factors relating to privacy. When we communicate your Personal Information to Service Providers, we enter into written contracts with them before your Personal Information is communicated to them and we only provide them with the Personal Information necessary to carry out their mandate. As part of these contracts entered into with our Service Providers, we undertake to ensure that the principles set out in this Policy are respected, and these Service Providers are required to use Personal Information confidentially, according to our instructions and only for the purposes for which they were provided.

      We offer sufficient guarantees regarding the implementation of adequate protection measures which are proportional to the sensitivity of the Personal Information processed or communicated.

      When our Service Providers no longer need your Personal Information, we ask them to destroy this data appropriately.

    2. 3.3.2. Complying with legislation, responding to legal requests, preventing harm and protecting our rights

      We may disclose your Personal Information when we believe such disclosure is authorized, necessary or appropriate, including:

      • to respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence;
      • to protect our activities;
      • to comply with legal proceedings;
      • to protect our rights, our privacy, our safety, our property, yours or those of third parties;
      • to enable us to pursue available remedies or limit the damage we may suffer; And
      • in accordance with applicable laws, including laws outside your country of residence.

    3. 3.3.3. Commercial transaction

      We may share, transfer or communicate, in strict accordance 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 modernizing legislative provisions regarding the protection of personal information, LQ 2021, c 25 (the “Bill 25”, assented to on September 22, 2021), your Personal Information in the event of sale, transfer or assignment, in whole or in part , Blue Lynx or our assets (for example, following a merger, consolidation, change of control, reorganization, bankruptcy, liquidation or any other commercial transaction, including in the context of the negotiation of such transactions). In this case, We will notify you before your Personal Information is transferred and becomes governed by another privacy policy.

  4. 3.4. Personal Information Consent

    Where possible, Blue Lynx obtains consent directly from the person concerned for us to collect, use and communicate their Personal Information. However, if you provide us with Personal Information about other people, you must ensure that you have duly informed them that you are providing their information to us in addition to having obtained their consent to such communication. We will seek your explicit, manifest, free, informed consent to be given for specific purposes before using or disclosing your Personal Information for purposes other than those set out herein. We will also seek your explicit consent each time Sensitive Personal Information is involved in one of Lynx Bleu’s processing activities. We will ask for your consent for each specific purpose in simple and clear terms, separate from any other information communicated to you.

    BY USING OUR WEBSITE, BY TRANSMITTING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION BY EMAIL, YOU CONSENT TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND TO THE COLLECTION AND PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRIVACY POLICY.

    If You do not agree, please stop using the Website. Except where the law provides otherwise, you may withdraw your consent at any time, upon giving 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 Websites may no longer be accessible to you or we will no longer be able to offer you some of our services.

  5. 3.5. Retention of Personal Information

    Subject to applicable laws, we retain your Personal Information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which such information was collected, unless you consent to your Personal Information being used or processed for another purpose. Our retention periods may be changed from time to time due to legitimate interests (for example, to ensure the security of Personal Information, to prevent abuse and violations or to prosecute criminals).

    To obtain more information on the periods during which your Personal Information is retained, please contact our Personal Information Protection Officer using the contact details provided in section 1.2 of this Policy.

4. Your rights

As a data subject, you can exercise the rights set out below by communicating in writing with Our Personal Information Protection Officer at the contact details provided in section 1.2 of the Policy. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to any of these requests.

  • You have the right to be informed of the Personal Information that we hold about you, of their use, communication, retention and destruction, subject to the exceptions provided for by applicable law;
  • You have the right to access your Personal Information, to request a copy, including paper copy, of the documents containing your Personal Information, subject to the exceptions provided for by applicable law and to obtain, where applicable, additional details on the how we use, communicate, store and destroy them;
  • You have the right to have the Personal Information we hold about you rectified, modified and updated if it is incomplete, ambiguous, out of date or inaccurate;
  • You have the right to withdraw or modify your consent for Lynx bleu to collect, use, communicate or retain your Personal Information at any time, subject to applicable legal and contractual restrictions;
  • You have the right to ask us to stop disseminating your Personal Information and to de-index any link attached to your name which gives access to this information if this dissemination contravenes the law or a court order;
  • You have the right to request that your Personal Information be communicated to you or transferred to another organization in a structured and commonly used technological format; • You have the right to be informed of a confidentiality incident concerning your Personal Information that may cause you serious harm. To this end, we keep a register which lists all confidentiality incidents and we assess the damage they may cause;
  • You have the right to file a complaint with the Commission for Access to Information, subject to the conditions provided for by applicable law.

In order to comply with your request, you may be asked to provide appropriate identification or otherwise identify yourself.

5. Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and other similar technologies (collectively, Cookies) to help us operate, protect and optimize the Website and the Services we offer. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device or browser. They collect certain information during your visit to the Website, including your preferred language, the type and version of your browser, the type of device you are using and the unique identifier of your device. If some of the Cookies we use are deleted after your browser session ends, other Cookies are retained on your device or browser to allow us to recognize your browser when your next visit to the Website. The Personal Information collected through these Cookie Files is not intended to identify you. They make it possible in particular to guarantee the functioning of the Website, to improve the browsing experience of users and provide certain data which allows us to better understand the traffic and interactions which take place on our Website as well as to detect certain types of frauds. Cookies do not cause any damage to your device and cannot be used to extract your Personal Information. We collect your IP address, information relating to your device and your operating system or browser, your journey and your browsing history on our Website as well as your queries, your browsing preferences (the languages used), etc.

You can configure your browser so as to be informed of the installation of “Cookies” Cookies during your visit to the Website, so that you can decide, in each case, to accept or refuse the use of certain or all “Cookies” Witness Files. Please note that deactivating Cookies on your browser could harm your browsing experience on the Website and prevent you from using some of its features. To find out more about how we use Cookies, you can consult our “Cookie Policy”.

6. Security measures

Blue Lynx has implemented physical, technological and organizational security measures aimed at adequately protecting the confidentiality and security of your personal information against loss, theft or any unauthorized access, disclosure, reproduction, communication, use, modification . These measures include: Administratively, the adoption of a series of policies and procedures as part of the implementation of our information governance program which notably:

  • regulate access, communication, conservation, depersonalization, including anonymization and/or, where applicable, destruction of Personal Information;
  • determine the roles and responsibilities of our employees throughout the life cycle of Personal Information and documents;
  • establish intervention and response procedures in the event of a confidentiality incident;
  • supervise the process of requests and complaints relating to the protection and processing of Personal Information. On a technical level, the use of several means such as:
  • the use of a secure server. All sensitive information provided is transmitted via “Secure Socket Layer (SSL)” technology and is required to keep the information confidential;
  • the use of backup systems, network monitoring software, etc. ;
  • the use of encryption and separation of duties systems, access controls and carry out internal audits.

We have not exhaustively listed the set of measures we are putting in place given the public nature of this Policy.

Despite the measures described above, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your Personal Information. If you have reason to believe that your Personal Information is no longer protected, please contact our Privacy Officer immediately using the contact details provided in section 1.2 above.

7. Modification of this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify this Policy at any time in accordance with applicable law. If there are any changes, we will post the revised version of the Privacy Policy and update the updated date in the footer of the Privacy Policy. We will inform you of the entry into force of the new version of our Policy in the event of substantial modifications to it. If you do not agree to the new terms of the Privacy Policy, we invite you to no longer use our Website and Services. If you continue to use our Website or Services after the new version of our Policy comes into effect, your use of our website and Services will then be governed by this new version of the Policy.

8. Links to third party websites

From time to time we may include on our Website references or links to our Facebook page, Linkedin, websites, products or services provided by third parties (the “Third Party Services”). These Third Party Services, which are not operated or controlled by Blue Lynx, are governed by privacy policies that are entirely separate and independent from ours. We therefore assume no responsibility for the content and activities of these sites. This Policy applies only to the Website and the Services we offer.

9. Individuals under the age of 14

We do not knowingly collect or use Personal Information from anyone under the age of 14. If you are under 14 years of age, you should not provide us with your Personal Information without the consent of your parent or guardian. If you are a parent or guardian and you learn that your child has provided us with Personal Information without consent, please contact us using the contact information provided in section 1.2 above to request that we delete that personal information. child of our systems.

10. Applicable laws

The laws of Canada and Quebec, excluding its conflict of law rules, will govern this agreement and your use of the Website. Your use of the Website may also be subject to other local, provincial, national or international laws.

 

 

CONDITIONS OF USE

Use of the Lynx bleu website and Services as well as company information are subject to the terms and conditions set out below. We therefore ask you to read these carefully before using our site. Access to our site constitutes acceptance of the terms and conditions.

Copyright

Subject to the foregoing, permission is granted to copy, download, print, reproduce, publish, translate, display, transmit, redistribute or rebroadcast any material from the Site without permission or charge, provided that such material is used solely for your purposes. personal information and on the condition of mentioning the source of information. Beyond this limited permission to print content, you may not copy, download, print, reproduce, publish, translate, display, transmit, redistribute or rebroadcast any content from our site in any form or by any means. or, without our prior written authorization.

Brands

The name Lynx bleu capital inc. and the expressions and logos used and displayed on our sites are the strict property of Lynx bleu capital inc. In this regard, you may not copy, reproduce or download any intellectual property of Lynx bleu capital inc. without our prior written permission.

Contact

If you have any questions or concerns about the Privacy Policy or Lynx Bleu’s privacy practices, please contact our Privacy Officer:

Telephone: 514 900-0351
Email: confidentialite@lynxbleu.ca
Address: 014-410 St-Nicolas, Montreal, QC, H2Y 2P5