Privacy Policy

cbmacanaca.ca
Coalition of Ill-gotten Acquired Goods of Canada – CBMA

Type of site: Civil society organization

Confidentiality

The TECHNO-PEAN Company, Web Agency, is responsible for administering the website of the “Coalition des Biens Mal Acquis of Canada”, CBMA-Canada in acronym, and CBMACanada.ca is the Website, and ensuring the provision of services related to our national and international partners who may also publish their content on this site. TECHNO-PEAN is committed to respecting the confidentiality and protecting the personal information of all visitors to the CBMACanada.ca site.

The administration of the CBMACanada.ca Website encompasses various activities that may require the collection of personal information for purely administrative1 and non-administrative2 purposes.

The collection of personal information about visitors to the CBMACanada.ca site by TECHNO-PEAN is authorized under the Privacy Act(in French, could be translated in English). This means that you will be notified when your personal information may be required, why this information is being collected and how to exercise your right of access to this information.

When you visit the CBMACanada.ca website, you may be directed to websites controlled by other international institutions, i.e., outside of Canada, by a third party or by third party social media platforms. When you visit a website external to CBMACanada.ca or a social media platform, personal information is subject to the terms and policies on the protection of personal information of that other institution, or of that third party. In this case, we strongly advise you to take the time to read the notices, or the privacy statements which describe in detail their conditions and policies because, their motivations may be quite different, and therefore different from ours.

If you have any questions, comments, concerns or complaints regarding the activities of TECHNO-PEAN, Web Agency, in connection with the administration of the CBMA Canada.ca website related to the Privacy Act(in French, could be translated in English) and policies on the protection of personal information the site CBMA Canada.ca , you can contact the coordinator access to information and privacy of e TECHNO-PEAN, Web Agency.

You can also call the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada at 1-800-282-1376.

Web analytics

TECHNO-PEAN Web Agency is responsible for the website of CBMA-Canada, CBMA Canada.ca, as described in the Terms of Use(in French, could be translated in English) of the CBMACanada.ca website in Act the Privacy of Justice Canada and in CIRA’s Canadian Privacy Shield Statement . Under the CBMA-Canada Communications Management Directive, the Web Agency TECHNO-PEAN is also the main editor of the CBMA Canada.ca website. In this capacity, he is responsible for web analytics, that means, of the collection, of the analysis and the data presentation on a website traffic. This function determines how continually improve the site CBMA Canada.ca, to end s of continuous learning, always the sole purpose of better serving all site visitors.      

As main editor, TECHNO-PEAN is responsible for administering the tools used by CBMA- Canada within the framework of web analytics.  

To this end, TECHNO-PEAN monitors certain types of information used during visits to the CBMA Canada.ca site. For the purposes of the Privacy Act(in French, could be translated in English), this information is treated as personal information3 . When your computer, or other device requests a CBMA Canada.ca web page, information is collected for web analytics. The type of collected informations includes, among others,   

  • the IP address of the device that contacted the CBMA Canada.ca website (which is not logged, nor kept in a format that can be used to identify a visitor);
  • the type of browser used;
  • the type of operating system used;
  • the date and time of the visit;
  • pages viewed and documents downloaded.

TECHNO-PEAN may also use personal information collected for non-administrative purposes to establish statistics on communications and IT, also for verification, evaluation, testing and personalization of content, research, planning and reporting purposes. Personal information isn’t used to make decisions about an individual or to profile a visitor of the Canada.ca website. 

In the web analytics context, TECHNO-PEAN uses the services of third-party service providers, namely Adobe Systems Inc. (Adobe Analytics and Adobe Target) and Google Inc. (Google Analytics). Since Adobe is a US-based company, personal information collected may be transmitted outside of Canada and be subject to US laws, including the USA PATRIOT ACT.     

In addition, Adobe and Google operate servers located in other countries on which web analytics data may be processed. Therefore, this data may be subject to the laws in force in the country where it is processed. In the case of Adobe Analytics, the Government of Canada has indicated that personal information can only be hosted on servers in Canada, the United States, the European Union, Australia, Israel, New Zealand, in Norway and Switzerland, which validates CBMA-Canada.

To learn more about on the privacy policy of these service providers, please visit their websites or use the following links:

To monitor visitor use of the Canada.ca website for web analytics purposes, Adobe Analytics and Google Analytics both require the use of digital markers commonly referred to as “cookies”. If you want to stop collecting data collected during your visits to the site, you can: 

  • modify your browser settings to refuse cookies, disable JavaScript in your browser;
  • download and install a module from Google
  • download an opt-out cookie from Adobe

If you change your browser settings to refuse cookies or disable JavaScript so that your browser data collection ceases when you visit the CBMACanada.ca site, no data will be collected, but this may have repercussions. on other aspects of navigation. If you use the Adobe opt-out cookie and / or the Google module, this will not affect navigation when you visit the C BMAC anada.ca site .

To help protect information on site visitors C. BMAC anada.ca, TECHNO-PEAN uses a function of each service provider, which hides in part , or in whole the address IP of a visitor before that ‘it is not recorded.

Public communications on BMAC anada.ca

TECHNO-PEAN is responsible for the Web site e CBMA- Canada CBMA Canada.ca, as stated previously. This includes taking care of general communications with visitors to the C BMAC anada.ca website under section 5 of the Department of Employment and Social Development Act.    

CBMA Canada.ca contains several general communication sections entitled « Join us » , « Donate« , « Contact Us », « Newsletter » and « Anonymous », which allows to the website visitors to submit information to join us, make donations and bequests, questions and the comments, to receive information from CBMA by newsletter and anonymously denounce ill-gotten gains. The questions, or comments that relate to an activity, program, or a particular service can be forwarded to the TECHNO-PEAN concerned agent in charge or another government institution to prepare a response.            

When using the “Email Inquiries” section, you must provide your email address. TECHNO-PEAN doesn’t request and doesn’t provide for the use of other personal information for this activity. IP addresses are collected incidentally as part of any communication over the Internet. Therefore, TECHNO-PEAN does not plan and does not attempt to associate you with an IP address for this activity, or to create a profile on you. When using the  » Email Inquiries  » section, please do not enter sensitive personal information in the questions / comments box, such as your social insurance number, date of birth, financial information. or medical, or information about your work history.             

The information provided is recorded in the personal information file contained in TECHNO-PEAN’s servers hosted by WHC (Web Hosting Canada), WHC.ca, or in the Correspondence file included in the secured electronic repertories of CBMA-Canada.

The ancillary personal information related to this activity is collected and recorded in the personal information file is also kept in the Correspondence file contained in the secure electronic files of CBMA-Canada, is electronically destroyed within the following six (6) months.

Security incidents

TECHNO-PEAN is responsible for the CBMA-Canada website, CBMA Canada.ca, as stated in these texts. In this role, he uses software, among other things, to monitor network traffic and to identify unauthorized attempts to download or modify information, as well as malicious access attempts. This software captures and records information such as :   

  • the IP address of the device that contacted the ca website;  
  • the name of the domain used to access the Internet network;
  • the type of browser used;
  • the type of operating system used;
  • the date and time of the visit;
  • pages viewed and documents downloaded;
  • the IP address of the website providing a direct link to the ca site .  

TECHNO-PEAN does not attempt to associate these addresses with the identity of persons visiting the CBMACanada.ca website, except if an attempt to damage the site is detected. 

TECHNO-PEAN Performs Security Oversight and Security Investigations of CBMACanada.ca Website Through the Protection Methods of CIRA | Canadian Internet Registration Authority, or ACEI | Autorité Canadienne pour les Enregistrements Internet, control agency of the .ca websites. Personal information can only be disclosed to law enforcement agencies if there is a suspicion of possible criminal activity. They can also be used for statistical, audit, evaluation, research, planning and reporting purposes related to network security. 

Personal information for this activity is collected and recorded in the personal information file of the CBMACanada.ca website under the protection of Canadian legislation to this effect, Security incidents and privacy breaches(in French, could be translated in English).

Footer note

1) As defined in the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat Policy on Privacy Protection, “administrative purposes” means the use of personal information about an individual “in connection with a decision directly affecting him”. This includes any use of personal information to confirm an individual’s identity (i.e., for authentication and verification purposes) as well as to determine whether that person is eligible for government programs.

2) According to the Privacy Policy, “non-administrative purposes” means the use of personal information for a purpose that is not related to a decision directly affecting the individual. This includes the use of personal information for research, statistical, audit and evaluation purposes.

3) The nature of the Internet is such that servers automatically collect certain information about a visit to a website, including the Internet Protocol (IP) address. The IP address consists of a series of unique numbers granted by Internet service providers (ISPs) to all devices used to access the Internet. Web servers automatically log the IP addresses of visitors. This address does not identify a person. However, in certain circumstances, such as with the cooperation of an ISP for example, it can be used to identify a person who visits the site. For this reason, the Government of Canada views the IP address as personal information, especially when it is accompanied by other data that is systematically collected when a visitor requests a web page, such as the page viewed or the pages viewed, the date and time of the visit.