Privacy policy
The Association des propriétaires d’autobus du Québec (the “APAQ” [Quebec Bus Owners’ Association]) endeavours to protect the private nature of your personal information. Since you provide us with personal information through our www.espacebus.ca Website, we believe that it is important to inform you of our policy in this regard.
LEGAL FRAMEWORK
The Portal is published from the Province of Quebec, Canada. Quebec and Canadian laws protect the users’ personal information. The latter may enquire as to his rights by consulting the “Commission d’accès à l’information du Québec” (Province of Quebec Access to Information) Website.
PERSONAL INFORMATION PROTECTION POLICY
Personal information is information that concerns an individual and allows such person to be identified.
Except in the case where the law is enforced, the Portal maintains the confidential nature of all personal information received concerning you.
USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We use the personal information that you voluntarily provide us in order to allow us to send you electronic documentation, to answer your information requests, to forward a request for information with an agency registered with the Portal, to subscribe to the Portal’s info-letter or to register you on mailing or survey response lists. The personal information gathered also helps us to know your habits and your interests with the intent of better serving you in the future.
TRANSMISSION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
A request by you may require the transmission of personal information to a service provider or to a subcontractor who must take action in order to respond to such a request.
If a subcontractor or a service provider must use your personal information, he must sign an agreement to respect the confidentiality of said information and to only use the information for the purposes for which you have given your consent.
We do not forward any of your personal information, unless it serves to respond to one of your request or is destined for a specific use for which you have given your consent. Furthermore, the confidentiality of the information transmitted electronically is ensured through high security measures.
USE OF COOKIES
The cookie is a small text file addressed to your navigation software through a Website. It is a means to remind us of your preferences and to render your next visit on the Portal more efficient. Use of cookies is standard practice and most of the major sites use them to better serve their clients. Most net browsers are designed to accept cookies, but you may modify settings to refuse them.
The Portal uses cookies, but these are harmless. You may refuse the cookies, but then you will be unable to enjoy all the advantages of the Portal. For example, a subscription to the info-letter will not function if the user refuses the cookies.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
We can suggest links to other Internet sites that are held and operated by third parties. As these concern third parties and that we have no affiliation with them other than the fact that we post, for information purposes only, the data that these third party forward to us, we have no control over these sites, for which practices in matters of personal information gathering and privacy protection are distinct and independent from ours. Accordingly, we cannot be held liable and we offer no guarantee as to the practices of these external sites with regard to protection of personal information.
SECURITY MEASURES
By way of protecting your personal information during transmission of data, we have set strict security measures in order to protect you against the loss or non authorized use of your information.
Our server uses the latest security protocols which renders secure the electronic transmission of information.
However, we have but one obligation of means concerning security and we turn down any breach in the confidentiality and the integrity of the system, unless it results from our gross negligence.
VERIFICATION, COMMENTS OR COMPLAINTS
You may at any time request to know, rectify or cancel the personal information concerning you that we have in our files. For any verification, comment or complaint in this regard, you must contact info@espacebus.ca and provide the information that identifies you.
