Privacy policy

PRIVACY POLICY

The PE Gendreau Historical Society / Musée de la Gare de Témiscaming ("Musée de la Gare", "we", "us" or "our") is committed to protecting your privacy and safeguarding your personal information. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you about our privacy practices and the protection of your personal information, including how we collect, use, and disclose your personal information.

This Privacy Policy covers our application (the "Application") and all our activities, unless we have provided you with a separate Privacy Policy for a particular product, service, or activity.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By submitting your personal information to us, registering for or using any of the services we offer, using our Application or voluntarily interacting with us, you consent to our collection, use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Our Privacy Policy sets out our standards for the collection, use, disclosure, and storage of your personal information. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and subject to our other applicable terms and conditions, such as the terms of use of our Application. In this Privacy Policy, capitalized but undefined terms have the meanings given to them in the above terms.

 

WHAT DOES THIS PRIVACY POLICY CONTAIN

• Your Consent to Collection, Use and Disclosure
• The personal information we collect
• How we use your personal information
• Sharing your personal information
• Unsubscribing from communications
• Retention of personal information
• Information security
• Accessing and updating your personal information
• International transfer and storage of information
• Third-party applications and services
• Information for children
• Information updates
• Contact us

 

YOUR CONSENT TO COLLECTION, USE AND DISCLOSURE

We collect, use, and disclose your personal information with your consent or as permitted or required by law. The manner in which we obtain your consent (i.e. the form we use) depends on the circumstances, as well as the sensitivity of the information collected. Subject to applicable laws, your consent may be express or implied, depending on the circumstances and the sensitivity of the personal information in question. If you choose to provide us with personal information, we will assume that you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.

Generally, we will ask for your consent at the time we collect your personal information. Where we wish to use your personal information for a purpose not previously identified to you at the time of collection, we will seek your consent before using the information for this new purpose.

You may withdraw your consent to the collection, use or disclosure of your personal information at any time by contacting us using the contact information provided in the "Contact Us" section below. However, before implementing the withdrawal of your consent, we may require proof of your identity. In some cases, withdrawing your consent may mean that we will no longer be able to provide certain products or services.

If you provide us with personal information about another individual, it is your responsibility to obtain that individual's consent to allow us to collect, use and disclose his or her information as described in this Privacy Policy.

The personal information we collect generally falls into one or more of the following categories:

For individuals who use our Application, we may collect information about you or your activities on the Application and, specifically:

• Account creation/login: we collect your last name, first name, e-mail address and password.
• Contact form: we collect your first name, last name, e-mail address and any other information you provide in your message.
• Newsletter subscription: we may collect your first name and e-mail address.
• Geolocation: with your consent, we may geolocate you to suggest festivals near you and to help you locate yourself on a festival map.
• Like most Applications and other Internet services, we may collect certain technical and device-related information about your use of our Application. This information may include your device's unique identifier, information about your device, browser and operating system, and the date and time you use the Application.

Anonymous Google Analytics data may be shared with other Google services, which may use this data to contextualize and personalize ads in its own advertising network. The FME reserves the right to make statistical analyses using data collected through the Internet Application on an anonymous and aggregated basis for the purpose of measuring interest in and use of the Application. The WEF reserves the right to provide its analyses of anonymous and aggregated data to any third party.

Other interactions. For those who interact with us, whether in person, by telephone or e-mail, through social media or otherwise including those who may be interested, we may collect any information you provide to us.

 

HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may use your personal information and other information to:

• Fully use, maintain, improve, and provide all features of the Application, provide the services and information you request, respond to comments and questions, and help users of the Application.
• Communicate with you in accordance with the laws applicable to our products and services.
• Monitor and improve our Application and develop new services [on a lawful basis].
• Analyze the needs and activities of our customers to help us serve them better.
• Conduct research and analysis relating to our business, products, and services.
• Respond to inquiries and other requests.
• To provide you with information that may be of interest to you, particularly concerning our products and services.
• To fight fraud and investigate legal claims [legal basis applicable to meaning].
• To meet our legal obligations.
• We may use your personal information and other information for purposes for which we have obtained your consent, and for other purposes that may be permitted or required by applicable law.

We do not use the information we collect to advertise third-party products and services or targeted advertising for WEF products and services on third-party applications or service offerings.

 

HOW DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may provide your information to our service providers. In such cases, we take steps to ensure that the rules set forth in this Privacy Policy are followed and require that service providers maintain the confidentiality and security of your personal information. We also require that they use your personal information only for the purposes for which it was provided. When our service providers no longer need your personal information for these limited purposes, we require that they destroy it.

In certain circumstances, we may authorize our service providers to retain aggregated, anonymous, or statistical information that does not allow you to be identified. We do not authorize service providers to disclose your personal information to unauthorized parties or to use your personal information for direct marketing purposes. If you would like more information about our service providers, please contact us using the details in the "Contact us" section.

In addition, we may use and disclose your personal information where we believe such use or disclosure is permitted, necessary or appropriate:

(a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence;

(b) to comply with legal process;

(c) to respond to requests from public and governmental authorities, including public and governmental authorities outside your country of residence;

(d) to enforce the terms of agreements relating to our products and services;

(e) to protect our business or that of our affiliates or subsidiaries;

(f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property, and/or those of our affiliates, you or others:

(g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages we may sustain.

In addition, we may transfer your personal information to a third party, we will identify the third party and the reason for disclosure and obtain your consent.

 

UNSUBSCRIBE FROM OUR COMMUNICATIONS

If you no longer wish to receive marketing emails from us, you can opt out of receiving marketing emails by clicking on the "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of every email you receive from us, or, if you created an online account when you signed up to receive our emails, you can log in to your account and change your communication preferences. You can also unsubscribe by contacting us directly using the contact details in the "Contact us" section below.

We will endeavor to respond promptly to your unsubscribe request, but we ask that you allow us a reasonable amount of time to process your request. Please note that if you refuse to receive commercial e-mails, we may send you communications about our products or services, or about other subjects.

 

RETENTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We will only use, disclose, or retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected and as permitted or required by law. If you would like more information about how long your personal information will be retained, please contact us using the details provided in the "Contact Us" section.

 

INFORMATION SECURITY

We have implemented physical, organizational, contractual, and technological security measures to protect your personal and other information against loss or theft, unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification. We have taken steps to ensure that only those employees authorized to access your personal information have a "need to know" or whose duties reasonably require access to such information.

Despite the measures described above, no method of transmitting or storing information is 100% secure or error-free, so unfortunately, we cannot guarantee absolute security. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you believe that the security of any information you have provided to us has been compromised), please contact us immediately using the details set out in the "Contact Us" section.

 

RIGHTS REGARDING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We will take reasonable steps to ensure that your personal information is accurate, complete, and up to date. We will not routinely update your personal information unless such a process is necessary. We expect you to provide us with updates to your personal information from time to time, when necessary.

You may request in writing to see the personal information we collect, use, or disclose about you, and we will provide you with such personal information to the extent required by law. You may also challenge the accuracy and completeness of your personal information in our records. If you successfully demonstrate that your personal information in our files is inaccurate or incomplete. We will amend the personal information as required.

In addition, under certain circumstances, you have the following rights:

• Withdrawal of consent. You may withdraw your consent to the disclosure or use of your collected personal information;
• Where applicable, you may have the right to request that personal information held about you no longer be disclosed.
• Where applicable, you may have the right to request information about the use of any automated decision system and the impact it may have on you.
• You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant data protection authority.

We may require you to provide sufficient identification to respond to your request to exercise your rights. This identification information will only be used for this purpose.

 

INTERNATIONAL AND INTERPROVINCIAL TRANSFER AND STORAGE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Your personal information is currently stored in Quebec, Canada. Where applicable, it may be stored and processed in any country where we have facilities or where we use third-party service providers, including the United States. In the latter case, your personal information may be transferred to countries other than your country of residence, which may have privacy rules different from those in your country. If such information is located outside your country of residence, it is subject to the laws of the country in which it is located and may be disclosed to the governments, courts or law enforcement or regulatory agencies of that other country and in accordance with the laws of that other country. However, our practices regarding your personal information will always be governed by this Privacy Policy and applicable laws.

 

APPLICATION AND THIRD-PARTY SERVICES

This Privacy Policy applies only to our products and services. It does not extend to Applications or to products or services provided by third parties. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of such third parties and encourage you to review the privacy policies of such third parties before using their Applications or products or services.

 

INFORMATION FOR CHILDREN

Our products and services are not intended for minors under the age of 13, and we do not voluntarily collect personal information from minors under the age of 13. If you are in this situation, please do not provide us with any personal information without the express consent of a parent or guardian. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your children have provided us with personal information, please contact us. If we learn that we have collected personal information from minor children without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to delete this information from our servers.

 

UPDATING

Musée de la Gare reserves the right to modify the privacy policy at any time by notifying the Internet user of the existence of new conditions of use and privacy policy. Such changes, modifications, additions, or obligations shall become effective upon issuance of such notice, unless otherwise specified, which may be communicated by posting on the Application or by any other means of transmission.

Continued use of the Application after such notice shall constitute:

a) acknowledgement of the new modified terms of use and privacy policy

b) agreement to be bound by and comply with them.

 

CONTACT US

If you have any questions about the Privacy Policy or the privacy practices of Musée de la Gare, please contact us by e-mail.