Privacy policy

Processing of personal data

Lemieux Bédard Communications takes measures to protect the personal information of visitors to our website, www.lemieuxbedard.com. We may collect passive and/or active data about users who browse our website. We collect these data to optimize the user Web browsing experience. This policy details how we collect and use data.

Access to our website

When you access our website, your browser transmits certain data to our web server. We use some of this data during your use of the site to facilitate your browsing and provide you with certain functionalities. The following data is collected, used and stored for a limited period of time:

• IP address
• Operating system
• Processor type
• Country you are visiting from
• Date and time of access
• Time zone difference from Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
• Access status/HTTP status code
• Volume of data transferred
• Referring site (if applicable)
• Browser type, language and version
• Screen width
• Display preference (light or dark mode)

In addition, to protect our legitimate interests, we will store this information for a limited period of time in order to be able to establish monitoring of personal data in the event of unauthorized access or attempted access to our servers.

Cookies

What are cookies?

This website uses “cookies”. Cookies are small text files which are stored in your computer's memory via your browser. They store certain information (for example your preferred language or site settings) that your browser can (depending on the lifetime of the cookie) retransmit to us the next time you visit our website. Cookies are used for different purposes. Some are necessary for your use of our site, others have more incidental purposes. Here are the cookies we collect:

Necessary cookies

These cookies are necessary for the operation of our site or the services you request. They enable you to use the main functions of our site. Without these cookies, you will not be able to use our site in accordance with your expectations.

Analytical cookies

These are cookies that enable us to track the use, traffic and usage volumes, as well as the performance of our site. These cookies enable Lemieux Bédard to improve the interest, ergonomics and operation of the services offered on the site (for example, the pages most often consulted, user searches in the site's search engine).

Functional cookies

These are cookies that enable us to provide you with certain functionalities that are not essential to the service, but which significantly improve your experience, such as adapting certain parts of our site to your browsing preferences or proposing tools adapted to your use.

We may place a geolocation cookie on the site, in order to locate you so that you can benefit from certain functionalities. Geolocation cookies are kept for a period limited to the needs of the service.

We use certain cookies and share non-directly identifying information to link together the different terminals and/or environments (computers, cell phones) from which you consult the site in order to offer you a coherent and harmonized experience regardless of how you navigate.

Social network cookies and buttons

These social network cookies and buttons are designed to enable users to use the functionalities of the various platforms and, in particular, to share pages and content via these third-party social networks. They also enable social networks to target the advertising they display on their platforms.

For more information on the use of your personal data in relation to social networks, and since social network cookies are managed by the publisher of the social network site, we invite you to consult the privacy policies of the third-party social networks concerned: Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok and Instagram.

The following button leads to the privacy preference center and provides a detailed description of the optional cookies we use.

Set your preferences

Subject to your consent

We only use optional cookies if we have obtained your prior consent. When you first access our website, a banner will appear asking you to give us your consent to the setting of optional cookies. If your consent is given, we will place a cookie on your computer and the banner will no longer appear as long as the cookie is active. After the lifetime of the cookie expires, or if you actively delete the cookie, the banner will reappear on your next visit to our website and ask for your consent again.

How to prevent the installation of cookies?

Of course, you can use our website without any cookies being set. In your browser, you can configure or completely deactivate the use of cookies at any time. However, this may lead to a restriction of functionality or have adverse effects on the user-friendliness of our website. You can object to the setting of optional cookies at any time by using the corresponding objection option in the privacy preference center.

Set your preferences

Google analytics 4 demographics and interest reporting

Lemieux Bédard wants to provide our website users with relevant and helpful content. To help us tailor our Web content, we have access to Google Analytics 4 demographics and interests reports. These reports allow us to retrieve passive data on user gender, age, and interests. Because passive user data are collected according to your Google ad preferences profile, they are not supplied in a format that identifies you personally.

The passive user data we collect using Google Analytics 4 cookies help us analyze how our website is used. The data generated by Google Analytics 4 cookies are transmitted to Google, which only compiles statistical reports about activity on our website. These reports are used to analyze aggregate data related to the use of our website, allowing us to meet users’ needs and provide an optimal browsing experience.

If you wish to disable Google Analytics 4 cookies, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Using the form to submit your CV

If you're looking for a job and would like to submit your CV for a posted position or as an unsolicited application, you can do so directly using the form provided on our website. In particular, you can provide us with the following information:

• First name and surname
• E-mail address and telephone number
• Your comments

You can also attach a copy of your CV directly to the form.

We process the information you provide via this form exclusively for the purpose of processing your specific request. We delete this information and any attached documents as soon as they are no longer required to process or follow up your request.

Information about your rights

Vous disposez généralement des droits suivants en vertu des lois en vigueur régissant la confidentialité des données :

• Right to information about your personal data stored by us
• Right to request the correction, deletion or limitation of the processing of your personal data
• Right to data portability
• Right to lodge a complaint with a data protection authority

When you have given your consent to the processing of your personal data, you can withdraw your consent at any time with future effect. Such withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of the processing prior to the withdrawal.

Data Privacy Officer

For any questions you may have regarding data privacy, or if you wish to exercise your rights, please direct your request to our Data Privacy Officer at:

Simon Castonguay
Data Privacy Officer
2665 King West Street, Suite 315, Sherbrooke, Québec,  J1L 2G5
vieprivee@lemieuxbedard.com

Amendment of the privacy statement

We may update our privacy statement from time to time. Updates to our privacy statement will be posted on our website. Any modification comes into force as soon as it is published on our website. We therefore recommend that you visit the site regularly to keep yourself informed of any updates.

Last update: 08-22-2023

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