Privacy Policy

What Information Do We Collect

Milieux Innovations Inc. (“Milieux”) limits the collection of your personal information to that which is required or permitted by law. Milieux collects such personal information as is required for the purposes identified by us in this Privacy Policy or identified by us at the time that we collect the information from you.

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Milieux requests certain information from you if you elect to sign up for a membership and if you register for an Event (“Registration Information”). Registration Information includes your full name, email address, and educational information.

 

At times, we may ask you to provide us with general information (“User Information”) about you to assist us in meeting your various needs or to better understand the requirements, profiles and experience of our site visitors. This information includes information that is collected if you choose to participate in a survey, if you ask to be kept updated about new developments or services offered by Milieux, including the newsletter), or if you contact Milieux.

 

You can visit this website without telling us who you are and without providing Milieux with any information about yourself. However, certain anonymous information (“Anonymous Information”) may be collected by us automatically. Our Web server may collect the IP address and the name of the Internet service provider (“ISP”) associated with the computer from which you accessed this site, the type and version of Web browser and operating system that you are using, and the address of the Website that you visited prior to this site. If your Web browser is configured to accept cookies, we may place either temporary cookies (only until you exit your current browser window) or permanent cookies (until you manually disable or delete the cookie using your browser software) on your computer. A “cookie” is a small piece of information that our Web server automatically sends to your browser for storage on your computer, which then permits our Web server to recall information about your preferences as a part of the Anonymous Information. Please note that portions of this site will not function if you do not accept cookies.

 

The purposes for which we collect any information will always be as set out in this Privacy Policy or as otherwise expressly communicated to you before we collect the information.

 

We do not knowingly solicit information from children and we do not knowingly market our services to minors.

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Use of Information by Milieux

1. Registration and User Information

   • Registration Information is collected primarily for the purpose of identifying you as a user of this site. If you apply for a membership we do collect certain personal information as identified in the application process for the membership

   • User Information, which generally includes the Registration Information, is used primarily to update you on the site and by email regarding new site developments and information about our services  to answer your questions and to provide you with services that you have requested.

   • User Information may also be used to determine appropriate new features, content or services for this site.

2. Personal Information

   • Milieux may use Personal Information for the following purposes

     • To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.

     • To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a registered user.

     • For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items or services You have purchased or of any other contract with Us through the Service.

     • To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application's push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.

     • To provide You with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or inquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information.

     • To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.

     • For business transfers: We may use Your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganisation, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Us about our Service users is among the assets transferred.

     • For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Service, products, services, marketing and your experience.​

   • We may share Your personal information in the following situations:

     • With Service Providers: We may share Your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, for payment processing, to contact You.

     • For business transfers: We may share or transfer Your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to another company.

     • With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that We control or that are under common control with Us.

     • With business partners: We may share Your information with Our business partners to offer You certain products, services or promotions.

     • With other users: when You share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside. If You interact with other users or register through a Third-Party Social Media Service, Your contacts on the Third-Party Social Media Service may see Your name, profile, pictures and description of Your activity. Similarly, other users will be able to view descriptions of Your activity, communicate with You and view Your profile.

     • With Your consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent.

3. Anonymous Information

   • Anonymous Information is used primarily by us to measure the number of visits, average time spent, page views, and other statistics about visitors to this site. We may also use this data to monitor site performance for systems administration purposes, to make this site easier and more convenient to use, for law enforcement purposes.

   • If cookies are enabled for your Internet browser, then they are used to help us measure the number of visits, average time spent, page views, and other statistics relating to your use of this site. If you are performing a search on our site, then a cookie is used to carry the search request data from the request page to the results page. This cookie, by itself, does not tell us your email address or who you are.​

 

Communication with Milieux

If you contact us, we may keep a record of the correspondence but we do not make any use of the email address or other contact information, other than to respond to the communication.

 

Improper Use of Personal Information

Although we use all reasonable means to ensure that the information you provide to us is not used by third parties for purposes other than those described in this Privacy Policy, Milieux is not responsible for any improper use of your personal information that is beyond our reasonable control.

 

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Retention of Information

Milieux will retain your Registration and User Information for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Registration and User Information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our legal policies. 

 

Milieux will use Registration and User Information for internal analysis purposes to improve the functionality of our services. Anonymous data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen security, or out of legal obligation.

 

 

Your Consent

We do not collect, use or disclose your personal information without your consent except where required or permitted by law.

 

We may, for example, collect, use or disclose personal information without your knowledge or consent in the case of an emergency where the life, health or security of an individual is threatened.

 

We may also disclose personal information without knowledge or consent to a lawyer or other advisor representing Milieux, to collect a debt, to comply with a subpoena, warrant or other court order or rules, if required for the investigation or enforcement of laws, or as may otherwise be required or authorised by law. Where a request for personal information is made by an organisation claiming lawful authority for the request, Milieux will take reasonable steps to ensure that the requesting party properly identifies its legal authority.

 

We will generally obtain your consent electronically on our site. However, it may also be obtained in writing or verbally. In determining the appropriate form of consent, we will consider the sensitivity of and reasonable expectations regarding the personal information.

 

We will not require you to consent to the collection, use or disclosure of personal information as a condition to the supply of any products or services, except to the extent reasonably required to fulfill the purposes identified in this Privacy Policy or otherwise identified at the time that we collect your personal information.

 

You may withdraw your consent to the continued collection, use or disclosure of your personal information by Milieux at any time by sending an email to we.are.milieux@gmail.com or by calling 438 875 7086, but such a request would be subject to legal or contractual restrictions. We would also require reasonable advance notice to effect any requested changes.

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Disclosure of Information

We will not sell, trade, rent or licence personal information that you provide to us.

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Milieux uses third party service providers to process certain data, including credit card transactions if clients or others have subscribed for access to paid services, including paid workshops. Third party service providers are required to comply with privacy laws and principles comparable to ours. All credit card transactions are completed using secure electronic encryption. Credit card data may be transmitted to third party data processing companies or servers located in the United States and are subject to United States laws regarding disclosure.

 

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Access and Accuracy and Update of Personal Information

We will take reasonable steps to ensure that your personal information is as accurate, complete and up-to-date as is appropriate for its purposes and to minimise the possibility that inappropriate information may be used to make a decision about you

 

If you decide at any time that you do not want to receive any updates to which you have subscribed, you can contact us at we.are.milieux@gmail.com 

 

Upon request made in writing, Milieux will inform you of the existence, use and disclosure of your personal information, at minimal or no cost to you, in accordance with processes and procedures that we have put in place for such requests. If you are unsure whether we have a record containing your personal information and would like to confirm what personal information we have, please send an email to we.are.milieux@gmail.com with your request, identifying all email addresses which you may have given us. If there is a cost involved at all, we will inform you at that time.

 

We may require additional information from you in order to verify your identity following an access request. Such personal information will only be used for the purpose of identity verification and will itself be subject to protection under the terms of this Privacy Policy.

 

Milieux will respond to all requests for access within 30 days or as otherwise required or permitted by law.

 

In some circumstances, we may not be able to provide access to all of the personal information that we hold about you. We may not provide access to information if doing so would likely reveal personal information about a third party, could be expected to threaten the life or security of an individual, reveal confidential commercial information, if the information is protected by a legally recognized privilege, if it was created as part of a settlement or dispute resolution process, or if it was collected in relation to the investigation of a breach of an agreement or a contravention of law. Milieux will provide reasons to you if it refuses an access request.

 

An individual shall be able to challenge the accuracy and completeness of the information and have it amended as appropriate.

 

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Safeguards

E-mails you send to us are not necessarily secure when they are transmitted to us. If your communication is sensitive or includes confidential information, such as a credit card number, you may want to provide it in person or via the telephone instead.

 

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Changes to Our Privacy Policy

Milieux reserves the right to modify or supplement this Privacy Policy statement at any time. If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will update this site to include such changes and post a notice on our home page, for a period of 30 days, with a link to the updated Privacy Policy. Please read any such notice and the new policy statement. If you return to this site after a period of more than 30 days, please check this Privacy Policy to confirm that you are aware of the details of the most recent update. Please look at the top of this Privacy Policy to check the date that it was updated and to confirm that you are familiar with the terms of the most recent update. Your continued use of this site after we post such notice will constitute your acceptance of the new terms and their application to your use of this site and the personal information disclosed for such use, including personal information previously shared with us, as if they were the initial terms, and your consent to the use of your personal information as described in this privacy policy and elsewhere on our Website.

 

We will always seek your consent if we want to use your personal information for purposes other than for those set out in this Privacy Policy or to which you have previously agreed.

 

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Co-Branded and Other Associated sites

Milieux has partnered with reputable third parties to offer our customers a variety of services. Many of these services also require registration to make them function properly. You can recognize most of these sites if you see both organisations’ names on the Web page. For example, if you see a logo on the page that says “Powered by”, you are on a co-hosted site. We also have other third-party relationships, where the third party provides the technology or service under the Milieux name and Website. Although we only work with reputable third parties, our third party partners may have different privacy policies and practices than Milieux We encourage you to review our business partners’ privacy policies further to understand their procedures for collecting, using and disclosing personal information.

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This site may contain links to other sites, including those of our business partners, vendors and advertisers. While we try to link only to sites that share our high standards and respect for privacy, please understand that we are not responsible for the content of, or the privacy practices employed by, other sites.

 

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Contact Us

Milieux will make information about its policies and practices relating to management of personal information readily available. Please direct any questions about our privacy policies and procedures, any requests for access to our records of your personal information and any other privacy related concerns or complaints to we.are.milieux@gmai.com. All privacy related complaints will be acknowledged, recorded, investigated and responded to in accordance with applicable law.

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You can contact us at Milieux, 3759 Rue Saint-Urbain, Montreal, Quebec, H2W 1T4 or by e-mail at we.are.milieux@gmail.com.