Privacy and Cookie Policy

1) Introduction 

The purpose of this privacy policy is to inform users of our website www.sponsor.com about the personal data we collect and how we use it.

 

Sponsorium strictly complies with Quebec’s Bill 25 regarding the protection of personal data.

 

The privacy of our website’s visitors is very important to us and therefore this privacy policy also details our commitment and the measures taken to ensure the security of your personal information.

 

In addition, consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with this policy when you first visit our website allows us to use cookies each time you visit our site.

 

 

2) Collection of personal information

 

When you visit www.sponsor.com, we automatically collect information about your device and your interaction with our site via the Google Analytics tool.

 

This includes the following data:

 

– Approximate geographical location

– Browser type and version, and your operating system

– Content consulted on our site (pages visited)

– Links a user clicks on when visiting the site

 

Personal data collected non-automatically

 

Your personal data is collected via:

– Contact form

– Demo request form

 

This includes the following data:

– First name

– Last Name

– Email address

– Name of the company you work for

 

 

3) Use of data

 

Personal information provided to us through our website will be used for the purposes described in this policy or on the relevant pages of the site. We may use your personal information to:

 

– Administer our website and our business 

– Personalize our website for you 

– Provide statistical information about our users to third parties (without these third parties being able to identify individual users with this information) 

– Process requests and complaints made by or about you in relation to your website 

– Maintain the security of our website and prevent fraud

 

 

4) Security measures 

 

Our commitment to protecting the personal information of our customers and users complies with Canada’s PIPEDA law and the European GDPR regulation. PIPEDA and GDPR set the ground rules for how businesses and non-profit organizations can collect, use and disclose personal information.

 

We will not sell or share your data with third parties except as required by law or in the event of legal proceedings. 

 

We may disclose to any member of our organization such user data as is reasonably necessary to carry out the purposes set out in this policy.

 

We are committed to ensuring the security of user and customer personal information in order to protect it from unauthorized access, collection, use, disclosure, copying, modification or disposal or similar risks. 

 

The following security measures will be applied to ensure that users’ personal information is appropriately protected:

 

– Physically securing the space where personal information is stored 

– Data-in-transit encryption

– Data encryption at rest 

– Firewall 

– Intrusion prevention 

 

We will continually review and update our security policies and controls as technology evolves to ensure the ongoing security of personal information.

 

 

5) Your rights

 

You may ask us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; the transfer of such information will be subject to the following conditions:

 

We may retain the personal information you request to the extent permitted by law.

 

You can ask us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.

 

In practice, you will expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt-out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.

 

 

6) Third-party websites

 

Our website contains hyperlinks to third-party websites and information about them. We have no control over these sites and are not responsible for their privacy policies or practices.

 

7) Cookies

 

WHAT ARE COOKIES AND WHY DO WE USE THEM?

Cookies are small text files that are placed onto your computer by websites and/or applications that you visit. Cookies are used to help us improve your experience when using our websites – for example, storing your preferred language setting for the next time you visit.

The information we collect from cookies enables us to:

  • Tailor our websites to your personal needs
  • Remember the notifications that you have been shown, so that you are not shown them again
  • Make improvements and updates to our websites based on the way you want to use them

We generally do not use cookies to identify you personally.

 
WHAT KIND OF COOKIES DO WE USE?

We use the following categories of cookies:

Category 1: necessary cookies
Necessary cookies enable you to use our websites and all their features, such as enabling access to secure areas of the website. Without these cookies you may not be able to use all the features of our websites.

Category 2: performance cookies
Performance cookies collect information about how you use our websites so we can improve them for you in future. For example, they collect information on which pages you visit most often and any error messages you may get. The information collected by these cookies is anonymous. They do not collect any information that can identify you personally.

  • Google Analytics (universal): we are using Google Universal Analytics to monitor our website performances and check visitor activities to adapt our content based on their expectations
  • Hotjar: we are using Hotjar to validate that our website design and user experience are performing as expected and offer the best possible experience to our visitors. We also use it to perform surveys on pages and collect visitor feedback, when they want to share it with us

Category 3: functionality cookies
Functionality cookies enable us to provide you with a more personalized experience. They help us to remember data, such as your username and language preference, to save you having to enter them again the next time you visit. The information these cookies collect is anonymous. They cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.

Category 4: targeting/advertising cookies
We and our service providers may use advertising cookies to deliver ads that we believe are relevant to you and your interests.

For example, we may use targeting or advertising cookies to customize the advertising and content you receive on our websites, to limit the number of times you see the same ad on our websites and to help measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns.

  • Facebook Pixel: we use Facebook pixel tracking to measure social media campaign efficiency related to the Facebook platform

No Personally Identifiable information is stored in any of the platforms mentioned above.

Category 5: social media cookies
We use third-party cookies from social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to enable in-depth campaign reporting and to track social network users when they visit our websites, by using a tagging mechanism provided by those social networks. These cookies can also be used for event tracking and remarketing purposes. Any data collected with these tags will be used in accordance with the privacy policy and with the social network’s privacy policies. We will not collect or store any personally identifiable information from the user.

  • LinkedIn: we use LinkedIn tracking to measure social media campaign efficiency related to the LinkedIn platform
  • Twitter: we use Twitter tracking to measure social media campaign efficiency related to the twitter platform

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