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Privacy policy

This Website was created by the Ministère de la Culture, des Communications et de la Condition féminine.

Thank you for visiting the Website and for reading our privacy policy. Please email comments or questions to us any time.

Website Privacy Policy

Visitors to our Website are hereby informed that permanent cookies are not placed on their computer hard drive. However, when browsing a Website, a temporary cookie file is stored in their browser memory. It is then deleted automatically as soon as they leave the Website. In addition, no personal information is collected automatically from visitors.

Visitors cannot be identified with data transmitted automatically between computers. Because of computer technology, some information has to be collected in order to browse the Internet. The information is only used for statistical purposes.

Automatically Transmitted Information

Visitors to our Website are hereby informed that as soon as they start browsing, information is shared automatically between their computer and the Website server without their intervention. Listed below is the information shared without identifying visitors personally:

  • The domain name (for instance, “xyzcompany.com”, if a private Internet access account is used or “university.edu” if the Website is accessed from a university) and the IP address through which you access our Website – An IP address is a number automatically given to your computer by your Internet service provider every time you browse the Web;
  • The type of browser and operating system used to access our Website;
  • The date and time when you access our Website;
  • The pages that you visit;
  • The address of the Website from which you accessed our Website (reference Website).

Information must be shared for the server to transmit a file compatible with your computer. Information needed to determine the number of visitors, the pages with the most hits, the technology used by visitors to the Website, referencing Websites and Web browsers’ country of origin is saved.

Transmission of Personal Information

In compliance with the Act respecting access to documents held by public bodies and the protection of personal information, no person may, on behalf of a public body, collect personal information from Website browsers if it is not necessary for the exercise of the rights and powers of the body (Section 64). In addition, no person shall omit to introduce the public body and provide browsers (excerpt from Section 65) with the following information:

  • The name and address of the public body on whose behalf information is being collected;
  • The purposes for which the information is being collected;
  • The categories of persons who will have access to the information;
  • The fact that a reply is obligatory or that it is optional;
  • The consequences for the person concerned or, as the case may be, for the third person, in case of a refusal to reply;
  • The rights of access and correction provided by law.

If you choose to send personal information to us by email, only the information required to reply to your message and ensure follow-up will be used. Electronic messages are processed with the same privacy procedures as those of regular mail.

Personal information is transmitted to another public body only when your request must be directed at such body or if it is required by law. In no case whatsoever is the information used to create user profiles for transmission to private organizations.

Links to Other Websites

The L’Adresse symphonique Website proposes links to some Government of Québec or private organization Websites. Website visitors are informed with a message when they are leaving our Website for another Website. In such cases, information shared is no longer subjected to the privacy policy of our Website, but to that of the external Website.

Updated on : 

http://www.gouv.qc.ca/

© Québec Government  2012