Website privacy policy
Amyot Gélinas undertakes to handle personal information relating to access to or use of the Website in strict compliance with the provisions of the Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector (Québec) and the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (Canada).
Data usage
Amyot Gélinas uses personal information for the following purposes:
- Manage and improve the website;
- Contact you to obtain your feedback on the services provided or for the purposes of market or other research;
- Provide information related to new products, services or other information that may be of interest to you.
Other uses may also be added, with your consent or where permitted or required by law.
Cookies – Amyot Gélinas uses cookies and similar means on its website to collect usage data. Cookies are small text files created on the user’s hard drive that help provide a more personalized Web experience.
It is possible to configure your browser to block cookies, but this may affect your browsing experience on our website.
To obtain visitor statistics and manage cookies, Amyot Gélinas uses Google Analytics, a tool for measuring Web traffic and analyzing Web site visits. Through the use of cookies, Google Analytics collects information about your navigation on some or all pages of the website. This information is used for statistical purposes to improve your experience.
The information collected is :
- Your computer’s truncated IP address (your IP address is modified, making it impossible to link to it),
- Your Internet service provider,
- Operating system (e.g. Mac OS, Windows),
- Device type and model (e.g. iPhone 12),
- Device screen resolution,
- Browser type and language (e.g. Chrome, Safari),
- Region or municipality, determined by IP address,
- The domain of the previous site visited (e.g. lapresse.ca),
- Point of origin (e.g. banner, e-mail, social network, etc.)
- The pages consulted on our Web site (the sequence of consultation, interactions on the page, date, time, duration and frequency of your visits and your activities (clicks, screen scrolling, etc.)).
This information is stored in the United States. Google may share this information with third parties if required to do so by law, or when processing information on their behalf. Information is also shared on the Conseil de Presse du Québec’s Google Ads and Google Search Console accounts.
Google’s advertising cookies are also used to gather demographic and interest-related information. This information cannot be associated with a specific individual. Google states that it will never link the information collected with any other data or information it holds.
For more information about the information Google collects and how it is used, please see Google’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
If you wish, you can prevent Google from recording information about your browsing by installing the Google Analytics deactivation browser add-on on your computer. On mobile, you can use a private browser or use the “Private” mode.
Third Parties – Any affiliates and other third parties retained to perform services on our behalf and to whom we transfer personal information are contractually bound to abide by the terms and conditions set forth herein.
Our site may from time to time contain links to external sites related to events, government entities, non-profit organizations and social networks that are not governed by this policy. We recommend that you review the privacy policies of external sites that link to our sites to learn how they use your personal information.