Privacy and personal information protection policy

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1- General Information 

a) Introduction

Privacy protection is important to Omega Capital Privé Inc. & Placements Oméga S.E.C. (hereinafter referred to as "Entity," "We," "Our"). For this reason, We have implemented measures to protect and responsibly manage your Personal Information in accordance with applicable laws in Quebec and Canada.

By using our website https://www.omegacapitalprive.com/ (the "Website") or any of our services, you agree that We may collect, use, process, disclose, and retain your Personal Information in accordance with the terms 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 our Services, nor to share your Personal Information with Us.

This Policy does not apply to the Personal Information of employees, representatives, and consultants of the Entity, or any other person affiliated with the Entity, as well as to any information that does not constitute Personal Information as defined by applicable laws in Quebec and Canada.

b) Personal Information Protection Officer

Questions, comments, and complaints regarding the Policy and the Entity's privacy practices can be addressed to Our Personal Information Protection Officer at the following contact information:

Name : Gilles Laferrière ou Pascale Lecours Angers
Phone : 514 360-0931
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Adress : 2985, Chemin Sainte-Thérèse, Carignan, (Québec) J3L 2B1

2- Definitions

The words and expressions that follow, when they appear with an initial capital letter in the Policy, have the meaning assigned to them below, unless there is implicit or explicit derogation in the text:

"Service Provider": any natural or legal person who processes Personal Information on behalf of the Entity. These are third-party companies or individuals employed by the Entity to facilitate the Services, provide the Services on behalf of the Entity, perform services related to the Services, or assist the Entity in analyzing the use of the Services.

"Personal Information": any information concerning an individual or legal person (company) that allows for identification, i.e., which directly or indirectly reveals something about the identity (address, email, phone number, banking information, social insurance number, business numbers) or activities of that person, regardless of the nature of the medium and regardless of the form in which the information is accessible (written, graphic, sound, visual, computerized, or otherwise).

"Personal Information Protection Officer": the person responsible for the enforcement of this Policy and whose contact information is identified in section 1 of this Policy.

"Services": Services refer to the Website and our pages on social networks.

3- Processing of Personal Information 

Collection of Personal Information 

In the course of our activities, We may process different types of Personal Information including the information listed below:

  • Contact information, such as your name and surname, your email address, and your phone number; ;
  • Information related to products or services, such as information about the Services We have provided to you;
  • Information related to transactions and payment, such as the payment method used, the date and time, the payment amount, the billing postal code, your address, your banking information, and other related information.

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

Use of Personal Information

In the course of our activities, We may process different types of Personal Information including the information listed below:

  • Operate, maintain, monitor, develop, improve, and offer all features of Our Website; 
  • Allow you to apply for job offers;
  • Allow you to acquire our Services and perform transactions related to our Services;
  • Fulfill our contractual obligations to you;
  • Develop, improve, and offer new Services;
  • Send you messages, updates, security alerts;
  • For any other purpose permitted or required by law.

Disclosure of Personal Information

We may disclose your Personal Information to our employees (including marketing and sales departments), consultants, agents, providers, service providers, and other trusted third parties (collectively, "Service Providers"), who need this information to help Us operate Our Website, conduct our business activities, or serve you, provided that these Service Providers have previously committed in writing to ensure 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.

Although We try to avoid disclosing your Personal Information to third parties, We may engage Service Providers to perform various services on Our behalf, such as management and computer security, marketing, as well as data analysis, hosting, and storage. We have listed below the cases in which such sharing may occur:

  • We use Google Analytics to analyze Website traffic, compile statistics, and converse with customers and prospects. Refer to their privacy policy;
  • We use Google Drive and One Drive services to store our closed documents and files. Refer to their privacy policy;
  • We use Google Ads to analyze the audience of Our Services, compile statistics, and converse with customers and prospects. Refer to their privacy policy;
  • We use the Facebook and Instagram social media services of the Meta group to communicate about our Services and products. Refer to their privacy policy;
  • We use the LinkedIn social network services to communicate about our Services and products. Refer to their privacy policy;
  • We use YouTube to present our products and Services. Refer to Google's privacy policy;
  • We declare any new investment to SEDAR as required by law, and it is possible that the Autorité des Marchés Financiers may require us to provide, upon request, the personal information of our Clients and Investors.

Before disclosing your Personal Information to Service Providers outside the province of Quebec or depending on the nature of the Personal Information disclosed, We conduct a privacy impact assessment. When We disclose your Personal Information to Service Providers, We enter into written contracts with them before your Personal Information is disclosed to them, and We provide them with only the Personal Information necessary for the performance of their mandate. Under these contracts concluded 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 the Personal Information confidentially, according to our instructions and only for the purposes for which they were provided. We provide sufficient guarantees regarding the implementation of appropriate protection measures that are proportional to the sensitivity of the Personal Information processed or disclosed. When our Service Providers no longer need your Personal Information, We ask them to destroy this data appropriately.

Compliance with legislation, response to legal requests, prevention of harm, and protection of our rights

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

  • To respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities;
  • To protect our business;
  • To comply with legal proceedings;
  • To protect our rights, Our privacy, Our security, our property, yours, or those of third parties;
  • To enable Us to enforce available remedies or limit the damages We may suffer; and
  • In accordance with applicable laws.

Commercial Transaction

We may share, transfer, or disclose, in strict compliance with this Policy and the provisions of the Private Sector Privacy Act, RLRQ c P-39.1 (the "Private Sector Act") and the Act modernizing legislative provisions relating to the protection of personal information, LQ 2021, c 25 (the "Act 25", sanctioned on September 22, 2021), your Personal Information in the event of a sale, transfer, or assignment, in whole or in part, of the Entity 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 negotiating such transactions). In this case, We will inform you before your Personal Information is transferred and will be governed by another privacy policy.

Consent for Personal Information

Where possible, the Entity obtains directly from the individual their consent for us to collect, use, and disclose their Personal Information. However, if you provide us with Personal Information about other individuals, you must ensure that you have duly informed them that you are providing us with their information, in addition to obtaining their consent for such communication.

We will seek your explicit, express, free, informed consent, given for specific purposes before using or disclosing your Personal Information for purposes other than those stated herein. We will also seek your explicit consent each time sensitive Personal Information is involved in any of the Entity's processing activities. We will request your consent for each specific purpose in clear and simple terms, distinct from any other information provided to you.

BY USING OUR WEBSITES, BY TRANSMITTING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION VIA 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 consent to this, please discontinue using the websites. Unless otherwise provided by law, you may withdraw your consent at any time, upon 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 website may no longer be accessible to you, or we may not be able to offer you certain services.

Retention of Personal Information

Subject to applicable laws, we retain your Personal Information only for the time necessary to achieve the purposes for which this information was collected, unless you consent to your Personal Information being used or processed for another purpose. As an indication, the duration of certain information may extend up to 10 years following the end of the services provided by the Entity to you. Furthermore, our retention periods may be modified in due course due to legitimate interests (for example, to ensure the security of Personal Information, to prevent abuse and violations, or to pursue criminals).

For more information on the periods during which your Personal Information is retained, please contact our Privacy Officer using the contact details provided in Article 1b) of this Policy.

4- Your Rights

As a data subject, you may exercise the rights outlined below by communicating in writing with Our Privacy Officer at the contact details provided in Article 1b) of the Policy or by completing the form below. 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 we hold about you, its use, disclosure, retention, and destruction, subject to exceptions provided by applicable law;
  • You have the right to access your Personal Information, request a copy, including paper copies of documents containing your Personal Information, subject to exceptions provided by applicable law, and obtain, if applicable, additional details on how we use, disclose, retain, and destroy it;
  • You have the right to rectify, amend, and update the Personal Information we hold about you if it is incomplete, ambiguous, outdated, or inaccurate;
  • You have the right to withdraw or modify your consent for the Entity to collect, use, disclose, or retain your Personal Information at any time, subject to applicable legal and contractual restrictions;
  • You have the right to request that We stop disseminating your Personal Information and de-index any link attached to your name that provides access to this information if such dissemination violates the law or a court order;
  • You have the right to request that your Personal Information be disclosed to you or transferred to another organization in a structured, commonly used, and technologically interoperable format;
  • The right to be informed of a privacy breach concerning your Personal Information that may cause you serious harm. We maintain a record of all privacy breaches for this purpose and assess the harm they may cause;
  • You have the right to lodge a complaint with the Access to Information Commission, subject to the conditions provided by applicable law.

To follow up on your request, you may be asked to provide appropriate identification documentation or otherwise verify your identity.

5- Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and 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 allow us to 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.

While some of the Cookies we use are deleted after the end of your browser session, others are retained on your device or browser to allow us to recognize your browser during your next visit to the website. The data collected through these Cookies is not intended to identify you. They are used to ensure the website's functionality, improve users' browsing experience, provide certain data that helps us better understand traffic and interactions on our website, and detect certain types of fraud. Cookies do not cause any damage to your device and cannot be used to extract your personal information.

You can configure your browser to be informed about the placement of Cookies during your visit to the website so that you can decide, in each case, whether to accept or refuse the use of certain or all Cookies. Please note that disabling Cookies in your browser may affect your browsing experience on the website and prevent you from using some of its features.

6- Security Measures

The Entity has implemented physical, technological, and organizational security measures aimed at adequately protecting the confidentiality and security of your personal information against loss, theft, or unauthorized access, disclosure, reproduction, communication, use, or modification. These measures include, but are not limited to:

Administratively, the adoption of a series of policies and procedures as part of the implementation of our information governance program, which includes:

  • Regulating access, communication, storage, depersonalization, including anonymization and/or, where applicable, destruction of personal information;
  • Defining the roles and responsibilities of our employees throughout the life cycle of personal information and documents;
  • Establishing procedures for intervention and response in the event of a confidentiality incident;
  • Governing the process of requests and complaints related to the protection and processing of personal information.

Technically, the use of various means such as :

  • Implementing backup systems, network monitoring software, etc.;
  • Employing encryption systems and task separation, access controls, and conducting internal audits.

We have not exhaustively listed all the measures we put 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 1b) above.

7- Modification of this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify this Policy at any time in accordance with applicable legislation. In the event of modification, we will publish the revised version of the Privacy Policy and update the update date in the footer thereof. We will also notify you by email at least thirty (30) days before the effective date of the new version of our Policy. If you do not approve of the new terms of the Privacy Policy, we invite you to discontinue using Our Website and our Services. If you continue to use Our Website or our Services after the effective date of the new version of our Policy, your use of Our Website and our Services will then be governed by this new version of the Policy.

8- Links to third-party websites

Occasionally, we may include references or links on Our Website to Our Facebook page, websites, products, or services provided by third parties ("Third-Party Services"). These Third-Party Services, which are not operated or controlled by the Entity, are governed by privacy policies that are entirely separate and independent from ours. Therefore, we assume no responsibility for the content and activities of these sites. This Policy applies only to the Website and the Services we offer. The Policy does not extend to Third-Party Services such as Our Facebook / Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube pages.

9- Invisible ReCAPTCHA 

Invisible reCAPTCHA analyzes activity on a web page feature (e.g., mouse movements and typing patterns) to determine if a user is a robot.

The invisible reCAPTCHA service may collect information from your device. Information collected by reCAPTCHA is retained in accordance with its privacy policy.

10- Banking details

Regarding banking details or other payment information you have provided to Us, We are committed to ensuring that this confidential information is stored as securely as possible.

11- 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.

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To exercise your right to object and withdraw your personal information from our databases, we invite you to fill out the form below.

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