Privacy Policy
Last updated: September 22, 2022
It is important for La Maison Bleue to respect and protect your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes the practices of La Maison Bleue: Milieu de vie préventif à l’enfant (“La Maison Bleue”, “we” or “our”) with respect to the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information collected on the website located at “maisonbleu.info”(the “Website”) and the services or resources we offer through the Website (all of which are collectively referred to as the “Services”).
La Maison Bleue may revise, update or modify this Privacy Policy at any time. These changes will be effective upon publication on the Website and will apply to any access to and continued use of the Website.
The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you about how La Maison Bleue collects, processes, discloses, uses or manages your Personal Information, as well as the Personal Information of other current or former users. This Privacy Policy also contains information about your privacy rights.
1. AGE RESTRICTION
Our Services are for individuals 14 years of age and older and we do not voluntarily collect Personal Information from minors under 14 years of age. If you are under 14 years of age, please obtain the consent of a parent or guardian before using our Services.
2. PERSONAL INFORMATION: A DEFINITION.
“”Personal Information”” means any information that directly or indirectly identifies an individual. Please note that this generally does not include business contact information such as your name, title or position, business address, business telephone number, fax number or business email address.
If you provide Personal Information to La Maison Bleue, it is your responsibility to ensure that such information is accurate, complete, and up to date.
3. OUR PRIVACY OFFICER
La Maison Bleue has appointed a Privacy Officer who is responsible for ensuring compliance with applicable law and our Privacy Policy. This Officer can be reached by email at info@maisonbleue.info or by mail at the address below:
Attention: Privacy Officer
3735 Plamondon Avenue
Montreal, Quebec
H3S 1L8
4. PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
La Maison Bleue may automatically collect certain information when you begin using the Website, some of which may be Personal Information.
Such information shall include:
- (a) The features of your operating system, browser or devices (computer, tablet, mobile phone) that you use to access the Services;
- (b) Your location, provided through your IP address;
- (c) Your browsing path and interactions with the content of the Website, including, but not limited to, the keywords you searched, the frequency of your visits to the Website, whether you clicked on ads and whether you referred to any of our affiliated websites.
When you visit the Website, only the IP address of your computer is listed, but it is not linked to any personal data. If you subscribe to the newsletter, your email address will be kept in the database maintained by Mailchimp, in full compliance with anti-spam law C-28.
Please note that if you provide us with another person’s Personal Information, you must ensure that you have obtained that person’s consent. By sharing this information with us, you warrant to La Maison Bleue that you have all necessary authority to do so and that you have obtained all necessary consent from such person to allow us to collect, use and disclose this Personal Information for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.
5. PAYMENTS
La Maison Bleue accepts credit card payments on the website. In this case, We may use third-party services for payment processing (for example, payment processors).
We will not store or collect your payment card details. This information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their privacy policy. These payment processors adhere to PCI-DSS standards, managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands such as Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure secure processing of payment information.
6. WITNESSES
We use the services of Google Analytics and Facebook which collect certain information through log files and cookies. This information consists mainly of the following:
- (a) IP Address
- (b) Operating System
- (c) Pages Visited and Queries
- (d) Login Time and Day
The use of such files allows us to improve our service and for statistical purposes. We do not collect information that allows Google Analytics to personally identify an individual.
We also use Facebook’s personalized audience services that use cookies to track visitors to this website and create targeted ads.
You can opt out of cookies by clearing the cache and deleting cookies from your browser (type “delete cookies” in your browser to find the way to proceed). You can also go to https://www.aboutads.info/choices/ to find the procedure to opt out of targeted Facebook ads.
7. SIGNALS REQUESTING TERMINATION OF TRACKING
Our Website will not respond to “do not track” signals provided by web browsers to users to allow them the opportunity to make a choice regarding the collection of Personal Information about an individual’s online activities over time.
8. OUR OBJECTIVES REGARDING THE COLLECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
La Maison Bleue uses Personal Information collected through our Services for a variety of purposes. This allows us to open an account in your name, sign up for the newsletter and compile statistics.
We also use the Personal Information collected as follows:
- (a) To optimize and improve our Services;
- (b) To provide you with our Services, including to address your questions, concerns and requests;
- (c) To communicate with you about your Services;
- (d) With your consent, to inform you of new information services or bulletins;
- (e) To collect statistical data;
- (f) To meet audit, legal and regulatory processes and requirements.
La Maison Bleue limits the collection, use and disclosure of your Personal Information, both in terms of quantity and type of Personal Information, to what is necessary to achieve the objectives identified in this Policy or what may be required or permitted by law.
9. HOW YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION WILL BE PROTECTED
We have adopted reasonable security procedures to help protect the Personal Information you provide to us from loss, theft, access, disclosure, unauthorized copying, use or modification.
Remember that the Internet is not, and probably never will be, fully secure. No method of transmitting information over the Internet or storing information is completely secure. It is your responsibility to ensure that you are connected to a safe and secure network.
10. HOW LONG YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION WILL BE KEPT
The Personal Information we process for one or more identified purposes is not retained for any longer than necessary. We retain your Personal Information for as long as necessary to provide you with our products and Services or as long as required by law, whichever is longer.
Subject to any retention period prescribed by law, La Maison Bleue shall use appropriate means to destroy the Personal Information, or to make it anonymous so that it may be used for serious and legitimate purposes once the purposes for which the Personal Information was collected or used have been infringed.
11. CONFIDENTIALITY INCIDENTS
La Maison Bleue takes the protection of your Personal Information very seriously. If La Maison Bleue has reason to believe that a confidentiality incident involving Personal Information in our possession has occurred, we will comply with applicable legal requirements in this regard, including by taking reasonable steps to reduce the risk of harm and prevent new incidents of the same nature.
12. YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS
We collect, use and disclose your Personal Information that you or third parties have provided to us when we have your consent, or as required or permitted by applicable law. Your consent may be express or implied, depending on the circumstances and the sensitivity of the Personal Information in question. In certain circumstances, you may refuse to consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your Personal Information, or you may withdraw your consent to the continued collection, use and disclosure of information about you, subject to contractual and legal restrictions and reasonable notice. In addition, withdrawing your consent to certain uses of your Personal Information may mean that we will no longer be able to provide you with certain Services.
To the extent provided by applicable law, you have certain rights with respect to your Personal Information.
Subject to applicable law, these rights may consist in requesting to know the Personal Information La Maison Bleue has about you, as well as the way it was collected and used, and in modifying, updating or correcting your Personal Information.
If you wish to exercise your rights, please send your request in writing to our Privacy Officer at the address indicated above. We may require you to provide proof of your identity before you may exercise these rights. In certain circumstances, we may not be able to provide you with access to your Personal Information or parts thereof, and we will notify you in that case.
If you have any questions or complaints about the way La Maison Bleue handles your Personal Information, please contact our Privacy Officer.