POLICY RELATed TO the PERSONAL INFORMATION 

 

By the present policy related to the personal information (hereafter: “Policy”), EstrieEmploi.ca Inc. (hereafter: EstrieEmploi.ca) commits to respect the private life of the persons registered on its Web site as users searching for employment (hereafter: " Job seeker "). The Policy contains rules related to the collection of personal information, the consent of the Job seeker, the use, the communication and the conservation of the personal information of the Job seeker as well as the access rights to his personal information and their changes. 

 

Before subscribing to the Web site of EstrieEmploi.ca, the Job seeker has to accept the present Policy and agree with its rules and obligations.

 

The Web site of EstrieEmploi.ca also contains links to the other Web sites on which EstrieEmploi.ca has no control. EstrieEmploi.ca refuses to be held responsible for the policies and practices related to the personal information of these other Web sites. EstrieEmploi.ca suggests to the Job seekers to examine accurately the policies related to personal information of these others Web sites. 

 

The present Policy applies only to the personal information which EstrieEmploi.ca collects, uses, communicates and conserves about its Job seekers.

 

 

COLLECTION OF personal information

 

Purposes and objectives

 

EstrieEmploi.ca is a company offering an on-line recruitment and hiring service for Job seekers.

 

In relation to the services offered, EstrieEmploi.ca asks the Job seeker, who has agreed with the Policy, to provide personal information, by filling out his on-line resumé, so that these informations can be transmitted to employers recruiting personnel for their company (hereafter: "Employers") and to recruiters in search of candidates to fill in employment opportunity with third parties (hereafter: "Recruiters").

 

EstrieEmploi.ca can also conduct on-line surveys to better understand the needs, the profiles and the experience of its Job seekers or its visitors. The Job seeker or the visitor will be given the option to participate in such surveys. All the personal information given out by the Job seeker or the visitor in these surveys will be used on an aggregated basis for the compilation of data coming from such surveys and will not be kept. 

 

EstrieEmploi.ca may also keep on files proofs of communication or correspondence with a Job seeker. EstrieEmploi.ca will use the personal information provided only to respond to the electronic mail (hereafter: “ E-mail”).

 

For data entry purposes, EstrieEmploi.ca can also keep some information concerning the use of a Job seeker of its Web site such as the visited sections and the services, the computer hardware and the used software, including the IP address, the type of navigator, the name of domain, dates and hours of access and Web sites address that brought him to the Web site of EstrieEmploi.ca as well as the links towards other Web sites used through out its own site. These data may be kept by EstrieEmploi.ca to estimate the Web site performance, for security reasons of its Web site and for law purposes.

 

Résumé collection of personal information

 

The following personal information constitute essential information to meet the Purposes and objectives of EstrieEmploi.ca mentioned above, namely Job seeker’s personal information (family name and first name, complete address including zip code, phone number (residence and/or other), E-mail and spoken and written languages), working experiences (employer’s name, complete addresses including zip codes, phone numbers, occupations, titles, professions), schooling (name of the program, name of the school, complete address including zip codes) and professional and/or personal references (name of the person giving references, name of the company for which the person gives the references, phone number and/or E-mail).

 

 

Personal information Accuracy

 

The personal information provided by the Job seeker must be accurate, complete and up-to-date in order to avoid the transmission of inappropriate personal information to Employers and Recruiters. In other words, if the personal information provided by the Job seeker need to be updated, he has the responsibility to edit them by reaching the options button in his account on EstrieEmploi.ca (hereafter: "Account"). Afterwards, EstrieEmploi.ca commits to display accurately the new personal information modified by the Job seeker on its Web site.

 

 

Personal information deletion

 

Furthermore, the Job seeker will be able to delete its personal information and, or, his resumé at any time by reaching the options button in his Account.  As soon as the Job seeker delete the totality of his Account, all the copies of his resumé, all its personal information and all information of the profile of his Account will then be deleted, except for an inaccessible archival copy via the Web site of EstrieEmploi.ca and copies already sent to Employers and Recruiters having paid their access rights or amongst those that the Job seeker will have sought by himself for employment. By deleting the totality of the Account, the Job seeker will lose all the access rights to his Account.

 

 

Job seeker’s consent

 

Obtaining the Job seeker’s consent

 

As soon as the Job seeker agrees to the present Policy by clicking on the button " I ACCEPT " hereafter, there will be collection, utilization, communication and conservation of the personal information given out by the Job seeker by EstrieEmploi.ca in accordance with the Purposes and objectives mentioned above.

 

The Job seeker accepts by the present policy that as soon as EstrieEmploi.ca will receive his consent to the Policy, the company will divulge the personal information of the Job seeker to Employers and Recruiters. In other terms, the Job seeker has to expect reasonably that his personal information is, during his subscription, sent to Employers and Recruiters, and that EstrieEmploi.ca exempts itself from the use that they will make of the personal information. If the Job seeker agrees to the Policy by clicking on the button " I ACCEPT " hereafter, there will be presumption that he has accepted the Purposes and objectives mentioned above, that he has understood the reasonable respect waits of private life from which he benefits and that he exempts EstrieEmploi.ca from all responsibility related to the use of his personal information in conformity with the present Policy.

 

Limitation of obtaining the Job seeker’s consent

 

The Job seeker consents by the present Policy as to which, in certain circumstances, EstrieEmploi.ca can collect, use, communicate and conserve his personal information without his consent, notably for legal purposes, such as the control and the application of the law, the detection of a fraud or for security reasons. 

 

 

Consent’s revocation

 

Job seeker will be able to revoke his consent to the Policy at any time by reaching the options button in his Account. In this case, the Job seeker will lose all his access rights to his Account and all his personal information will be deleted such as mentioned above in the paragraph Personal information deletion.

 

 

utilization, COMMUNICATION and CONSERVATION of personal information

 

Conditions

 

EstrieEmploi.ca commits to use, communicate and conserve the Job seeker personal information according to the Purposes and objectives of the present Policy and, or according to the current law at the time of their use, communication and conservation. 

 

 
Use of Personal information

 

EstrieEmploi.ca will make its best to limit the access to the Job seeker’s personal information via its Web site to Employers and Recruiters having paid their access rights. By the acceptance of the Policy, Employers and Recruiters have the obligation not to reveal the Job seeker’s personal information that will be communicated to them to other persons outside their company. They are only allowed to reveal this type of information to those working within their company or, if necessary, to third parties like an Employer from which they will have received a recruitment mandate. For that purpose, an agreement must beforehand have intervened between the Recruiter and the third parties requiring him to use the personal information collect and, or the résumé of the Job seeker solely for the purpose to provide an employment in its company and not to divulge these personal information collect and, or the résumé of the Job seeker to any person outside his company. Notwithstanding the fact that EstrieEmploi.ca will make its best to deal with reputable Employers and Recruiters, EstrieEmploi.ca cannot guarantee, for and in the names of these Employers and these Recruiters, that they will adhere to the limitations imposed by these agreements. 

 

 

Use of personal information collected by third parties

 

EstrieEmploi.ca commits not to divulge the Job seeker’s personal information, such as demographic profile or information on the use of its Web site (hereafter: "Information") to any person other then Employers and Recruiters (hereafter: "Third parties"). All reasonable means will be taken to assure that the Information related to the Job seeker will not be used by Third parties for other purposes than those described in the Policy. However, the interpretation of the present policy must not be considered as a guarantee given by EstrieEmploi.ca to the effect that no Third parties will obtain the access to the Information by diversion of the security systems, or by the lack of diligence on behalf of the Job seeker, notably by the disclosure of its password. Consequently, the Job seeker consents by the present policy to the fact that EstrieEmploi.ca does not accept the liability for the use of the provided Information by the Third parties. 

 

Despite of the previous paragraph, the Job seeker authorizes, in the following circumstances, EstrieEmploi.ca to reveal Information to Third parties, namely:

 

1.                   in the normal course of its business, to its suppliers notably, without limitation, as for the accommodation of its Web server, to the maintenance and technical support and to the security of its Web site. These suppliers will have access if necessary to the Information to execute the tasks falling to them without being able to share them with any other person. Notwithstanding that EstrieEmploi.ca will make its best to use reputable supplier's services, these suppliers can have policies and practices concerning the protection of the personal information that diverge from those of EstrieEmploi.ca. Consequently, EstrieEmploi.ca cannot guarantee, for and in the name of these last ones, that they will adhere to the limitations imposed by the inherent laws concerning the use of the personal information. However, EstrieEmploi.ca is committed to examine the policies of protection of the personal information of these suppliers to understand their procedures of collect, use, communication and conservation of the personal information.

 

2.                   when the law or a governmental entity having authority requires EstrieEmploi.ca to conform to legal demands, to prevent the commission of a criminal act or to protect the national security, the personal security of the Job seeker or the public in general.

 

 

Use of cookies

 

Cookies are small pieces of data stored on the Job seeker’s computer's hard drive by the server of the Web pages of EstrieEmploi.ca. EstrieEmploi.ca. uses cookies to characterize and improve the use of its Web site for the Job seekers. Only the Web server domain emitted can read cookies. When the Job seeker registered to services offered by EstrieEmploi.ca, cookies allow the company to recognize the Job seeker, notably by his name and his password. Furthermore, cookies are used to track click streams and for load balancing. However, they cannot operate programs or transmit viruses to computers. 

 

 

Decline cookies

 

The Job seeker can decline cookies. In the majority of the cases, most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but the Job seeker can usually modify his preferences of navigation to refuse all the cookies. At the time of the modification of the Job seeker’s preferences of navigation, there will be a warning advising the Job seeker that a cookie is offered. The Job seeker is free to accept or decline cookies on an individual basis.

 

 

Use of electronic images

EstrieEmploi.ca Web pages may contain electronic images known as Web beacons or single-pixel (gifs). Web beacons collect only a limited set of information including a cookie number, time and date of a page view by a Job seeker. Web beacons are use to compile aggregated statistics about EstrieEmploi.ca Web site usage, Job seekers or visitors who have visited EstrieEmploi.ca Web pages but they cannot supply information to identify a person visiting the company Web site.

Use of information for purpose of improvement

 

EstrieEmploi.ca uses the Job seeker’s personal, demographic, collective or technical information collected via the Web site in order to improve and administer its Web site and to present its products and services in a more effective way for the Job seekers. EstrieEmploi.ca may also use the information gathered to inform the Job seeker of other products or services available, to contact the Job seeker about his opinion or to advise him on the updates of the Web site.

 

 

Conservation of the personal information

 

From the registration of the Job seeker, the personal information will be kept by EstrieEmploi.ca in an electronic Account until the THIRTHIETH (30e) day following the deletion of personal information in an archival copy.

 

 

Security

 

EstrieEmploi.ca commits to maintain implemented reasonable technical and organizational measures to secure the Job seeker personal information available via EstrieEmploi.ca Web site, notably by using key words and passwords from accidental loss, theft, access, use, modification, copy or disclosure them without authorization. If the Job seeker sends an E-mail to EstrieEmploi.ca, these methods of security will not be used. 

 

By the present commitment of security, EstrieEmploi.ca cannot guarantee to the Job seeker that an unauthorized Third party will never be able to pass over these measures of security or use the personal information for improper purposes, by hostility or by the lack of diligence of the Job seeker, notably by the disclosure of his password.

 

EstrieEmploi.ca instructs its employees, with access to Job seeker personal information, that it is to be used in adherence with the principles set forth in this Policy concerning the personal information and the applicable laws.

 

 

ACCESS TO PERSONAL INFORMATION

 

Modalities

 

As soon as a Job seeker will request it by E-mail, EstrieEmploi.ca will confirm him, by E-mail, the existence of his personal information in its files, the use and the communication that has been made to Third parties such as foreseen in the paragraph Use of personal information collected by third parties and will allow the Job seeker to consult them in the next thirty (30) days following his request. This request will have to be made by the Job seeker before the expiration of the deadline foreseen in the paragraph Conservation of the personal information. However, EstrieEmploi.ca reserves the right to refuse the communication to a Job seeker who will have made the request of his personal information, notably, when the disclosure of personal information would probably risk to damage a preventive inquiry by EstrieEmploi.ca, would prevent the detection or the reprimand of a crime or malpractices or would have an effect on a current legal procedure. Furthermore, EstrieEmploi.ca can also refuse the transmission of personal information to the Job seeker who has made the request if they include Third parties’s personal information.

 

The Job seeker can also contest, by a written notice, the exactness and the accuracy of the personal information obtained further to his request for that purpose and therefore brings it the appropriate corrections.

 

 

GEnEral dispositions

 

Modification of the Policy

 

The top of the Policy indicates the date that it was updated last. EstrieEmploi.ca reserves the right to modify or improve at all time this Policy or to change it for a new one (: “Modification of the Policy”). The Job seeker may read any such notice of modification of the new Policy statement. If the Policy is modified, a notice will be posted on EstrieEmploi.ca home page for a period of thirty (30) days, with a link to the updated Policy. If the Job seeker continues using the Web site after EstrieEmploi.ca has posted such notice of thirty (30) days on its home page, it will constitute his acceptance of the new terms and their application of the Policy as if they were the initial terms, and the personal information related to the Job seeker, previously furnished to the Modification of the Policy, will be deemed to have been collected, used, communicated and conserved according to the new Policy. However, EstrieEmploi.ca commits to ask the Job seeker’s consent if EstrieEmploi.ca wants to use his personal information for purpose and objectives other than those agreed previously.

 

 

Minor

 

In Accordance with the article 156 of the Civil code of Quebec, L.Q. 1991 c.64, a minor of fourteen (14) years old or over can act alone for all related acts to his employment. Consequently, he can consent to the Policy and register as a Job seeker on the Web site of EstrieEmploi.ca. However, a minor under fourteen (14) years old has no capacity to consent to the Policy. If a minor of less of fourteen (14) years old registers as a Job seeker, EstrieEmploi.ca cannot be held responsible for any loss or for any damages who could have derived from the use of its Web site and, or, personal information collected, used, communicated and conserved related to the minor of less than fourteen (14) years old who registered as a Job seeker.

 

Contact information

 

The head office and the main business place of EstrieEmploi.ca are located in C.P. 241, in Sherbrooke, province of Quebec, J1H 5J1 and the email is info@estrieemploi.ca.

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