Privacy Policy

Last update: January 1, 2025

Preamble

At DevBuddy, we place great importance on your privacy and are committed to protecting the Personal Information we collect.

Objectives and Application

This document constitutes our Privacy Policy, Data Protection Policy, and Web Privacy Notice, and describes how we collect, use, and disclose your Personal Information.

This policy applies to all users of the website. By choosing to browse our site, you consent to the collection and use of your Personal Information in accordance with this policy and applicable personal information laws.

Definitions

The definitions below are intended to serve as a guide to ensure that everyone has the same understanding of terms that might otherwise be open to interpretation:

Website

Refers to the company’s website that links to this Policy.

Privacy Incident

The unauthorized consultation, use, or disclosure by law of Personal Information or the loss of Personal Information or any other breach of protection of such Information.

A privacy incident can therefore take several forms: intrusions by a third party into an organization’s computer system, ransomware attack, data loss caused by a virus or computer flaw, data extraction by an unauthorized employee or person, etc.

Profiling

The collection and use of Personal Information to evaluate certain characteristics of a natural person, particularly for the purpose of analyzing work performance, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, or behavior of that person.

Personal Information

Any information that concerns an individual and allows, directly or indirectly, to identify them, such as a name, geolocation data, an online tracking identifier, or one or more characteristics specific to the physical, physiological, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity of that individual.

Reasons Why We Collect Your Personal Information

When you browse our website, we collect your Personal Information only for purposes for which we have first obtained your consent, except in situations permitted or required by law. The main reasons we collect your Personal Information are as follows:

  • To facilitate the hiring process
  • To communicate more easily
  • To comply with various company policies
  • To protect our interests
  • To achieve our business objectives
  • To send you marketing communications
  • To improve our various services
  • To prevent any cybersecurity incidents and/or fraud
  • For the administration of our databases
  • To comply with any legal or contractual obligation of the company – Etc.

Types of Information We Collect

We may collect the following Personal Information:

  • Name, address, gender, and phone number
  • Date of birth
  • Resume
  • Etc.

Use of Cookies

On our website, we use Google Analytics. This is a tool for analyzing the traffic and use of our website, allowing us to improve the experience offered on it and the tools found there. Google Analytics uses cookies that analyze your activities on the site.

For more details on how the Information or data collected is used by Google, we invite you to consult Google’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. You can also disable the sending of your activity data to Google Analytics by installing the browser add-on designed for this purpose.

People to Whom We Disclose Your Personal Information

We may communicate your Personal Information to third parties or service providers for the purposes mentioned above or as indicated in this policy. We will not sell or rent your Personal Information to third parties or exchange Personal Information with third parties. However, we may disclose Personal Information when permitted or required by law.

The categories of service providers having access to your Personal Information include service providers engaged for:

  • Payroll and time management
  • Management of security camera databases and building door access
  • IT support
  • Financial audits
  • Human resources software or development
  • Website hosting

If you wish to obtain more information about our service providers, please contact the Personal Information Protection Officer whose contact details are listed below.

Protection of your Personal Information

We ensure that we take all necessary security measures to protect the Information we collect and we keep it for a duration that respects our legal obligations and only for the necessary purposes.

Some situations are beyond our control and a cybersecurity incident involving a data breach could still occur. By browsing our website, you consent to such a possibility and acknowledge that we cannot be held responsible for any damages that may result in case of an incident.

Your consent

Your consent can be express or implied, depending on the circumstances and the sensitivity of the Personal Information in question. Generally, we ask for your consent at the time of collection and if we want to use your information for a purpose for which you have not consented at the time of collection, we will obtain it before using your Personal Information.

By accepting this Policy, you consent to the collection of your Personal Information by the company. You also understand that you can at any time, upon request, be informed of the Personal Information collected about you, the categories of people who have access to this Information within the company, the retention period of this Information, as well as the contact details of the Personal Information Protection Officer, if needed.

Your rights regarding your Personal Information

At any time, you can make a request to the Personal Information Protection Officer to:

  • Access the Personal Information we have collected about you
  • Withdraw your consent to the collection, communication, and retention of your Personal Information
  • Ask us how your personal data was collected by the company

In some cases, we may refuse to provide you with the requested Personal Information or we may redact (black out) certain information from the documents we provide to you.

Personal Information Protection Officer

For any access request, questions, information request or to report an incident, we invite you to contact the Personal Information Protection Officer, who is our Human Resources Director, at the following contact details:

Email: [email protected]

Postal address: 1092 Rue des Gouverneurs, Prévost, QC J0R 1T0, to the attention of the Personal Information Protection Officer, Human Resources Director

Phone: +1 (514) 317-1747

Once your request is sent, we will respond to you no later than 30 days from the date of receipt of your request at the contact details indicated above.

Modifications

We reserve the right to modify this policy when required. When we make changes to this policy, they take effect immediately.

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