Privacy Policy
We recognize that all information you provide to us may be considered personal information under Canadian and Quebec laws.
Person Responsible for Information Within the Corporation du Défilé du Père-Noël de Gatineau:
Chair of the Board of Directors: info@paradehohoho.com
This privacy policy describes how the Corporation du Défilé du Père-Noël de Gatineau uses and protects any information you provide when using its website.
The Corporation du Défilé du Père-Noël de Gatineau is committed to protecting your personal information. If, while using the Corporation’s website, you are asked to provide information that can identify you, please be assured that its use is governed by this privacy statement.
The laws applicable to the use of this website regulate the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information in order to recognize the right of each individual to the protection of their personal data.
Personal information includes nearly all information relating to an identifiable individual, such as your name, address, telephone number, age, sex, marital status, and nationality. However, personal information does not include certain employment-related or business information, such as the name of an employee within an organization, their job title, business address, or work phone number.
You may browse certain pages of the website without registering. When you visit our website, data such as login information, statistics on pages visited, inbound and outbound traffic, and advertising information are stored on our servers anonymously. The website you visited before ours, the websites you visit after leaving ours, and your IP address are also recorded. Throughout this process, no personal information can be linked back to you.
However, we require some of your personal information to allow you to fully participate in other parts of the website. When you provide the requested personal information, you are no longer considered an anonymous user. By submitting this information, you consent to its transfer and storage on our servers.
The Corporation du Défilé du Père-Noël de Gatineau may occasionally update this policy by modifying its website. You should consult this page from time to time to ensure that you agree with any changes.
We will not collect, use, or disclose your personal information without your consent unless required or permitted by law.
1. What Information Does the Corporation du Défilé du Père-Noël de Gatineau Collect?
The Corporation may collect the following information:
- Names and employment information
- Contact details, including email address
- Demographic data such as postal code, preferences, and areas of interest
- Other relevant information related to user surveys or promotional offers
2. How Does the Corporation Use the Information Collected?
The Corporation requires this information to better understand your needs and improve the services we offer, particularly for the following purposes:
- Maintaining internal records
- Improving products and services
- Sending periodic promotional emails about new products, special offers, or other information we believe may be of interest to you
- Occasionally using your information to contact you for market research purposes. The Corporation may contact you by email, telephone, fax, or mail. This information may also be used to personalize the website according to your interests.
3. Security
The Corporation du Défilé du Père-Noël de Gatineau is committed to ensuring that your information is protected. To prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have implemented appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information collected online. We will make every reasonable effort to protect the confidentiality of your personal information. However, no computer system or website—regardless of sophistication—can prevent all possible attacks. We cannot be held responsible for any breach in which our security measures are circumvented and unauthorized access occurs.
Your personal information is stored on a server located in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. We will take reasonable steps to ensure that your personal data is as accurate, complete, and up to date as necessary for our operations and to minimize the risk of incorrect information being used for decisions related to your account.
We may disclose personal information when required by law, to enforce our policies, to address situations where a comment or other content infringes on others’ rights, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of individuals. Such disclosures will be made in accordance with applicable Quebec laws and regulations.
We may also share your personal information with third parties who assist us in our business operations and who are bound by contract or require our cooperation. This includes—but is not limited to—fraud investigators, collection agencies and their employees, law enforcement agencies, or other officials when required by law.
Without limiting the above, in order to respect your privacy and maintain a community free of “bad actors,” we will not otherwise disclose your personal information to law enforcement, government officials, or third parties without a subpoena, court order, or similar legal process—unless we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to prevent financial loss, imminent physical harm, or to report suspected illegal activity.
4. How Does the Corporation Use Cookies?
A cookie is a small file that requests permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once accepted, the file is added and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or informs website owners when you visit specific pages. Cookies enable web applications to tailor their operations to your preferences by gathering and storing information about your interests.
To determine which pages are most frequently visited, the Corporation uses traffic-log cookies. This helps analyze data about website traffic and improve the site to better meet user needs. The Corporation uses this information only for statistical analysis, and the data is then removed from the IT system.
Overall, cookies help the Corporation provide you with a better website by allowing the webmaster to identify which pages are useful and which are not. A cookie does not give the Corporation access to your computer or any information other than what you choose to share.
You may choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can modify your browser settings to refuse them if you prefer. Doing so may prevent you from taking full advantage of the Corporation’s website.
5. Links to Other Website
The Corporation’s website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you leave our site using these links, please note that the Corporation has no control over those external sites. Therefore, we cannot be held responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide when visiting those websites, as they are not governed by this privacy policy. You should exercise caution and read the privacy policy of each site you visit.
6. Managing Your Personal Information
Once registered on the website, you will be required to choose a username. We recommend that you do not associate it with personal information.