We take your right to privacy seriously and want you to feel comfortable using our website. This Privacy Policy deals with personally identifiable information (referred to as "data" below) that may be collected by us on our site. This Policy does not apply to other entitles that we do not own or control or persons that are not our employees, agents or within our control. Please take time to read our Terms of Use.

This website at:  www.hrconsultantsgroup.ca (th "site" or "us or "we") is operated by 12020734 CANADA INC. Our postal address is:

1603 Winville Rd,
Pickering, Ontario L1X 2R2,
Canada

We can be reached via email at sales@hrconsultantsgroup.ca

This Privacy Policy Statement sets forth the policies and practices with respect to information or data gathered regarding users, and subscribers of this site (the "subscriber" or "you"). The registered user features of the Site are available to businesses and for personal consumer use. This Privacy Policy is part of the Terms of Use of the Site, and together with the Terms of Use represents the complement agreement between you and us regarding your use of the Site. The Terms of Use can be found here (linked).

The Site does not knowingly seek or collect any personal information or data from persons under the age of 18.

1. Notice and Use. Use of the Site by you constitutes your express consent to the use of your personal information collected by the Site. If you do not agree to these terms, please do not disclose any personal information through this site.

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CAREFULLY READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY STATEMENT BECAUSE BY YOUR SUBSCRIPTION TO AND USE OF THIS SITE YOU WILL BE EXPRESSLY SIGNIFYING THAT YOU AGREE TO THIS POLICY STATEMENT AND THAT YOU ASSENT TO THE ALLECTION AND USE OF ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION THAT YOU SUPPLY OR THAT IS OBTAINED ABOUT YOU AS DELAID IN THIS POLICY STATEMENT.

If We decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page on the Site so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use, and under what circumstances we disclose it. You are responsible for reviewing this Privacy Policy Statement periodically to ensure you are aware of any changes to it.

2. The Information We Collect. When you sign on as a Subscriber of this Site, you will be required to provide certain personal as well as demographic information which may include, but is not necessarily limited to your name, address, email address, username and password, and/or age.

If the Site features or conducts any special events, special promotions or offers, contests or polls, you may be asked to provide information in order to participate. If you voluntarily provide that information, all such information may be collected by the Site and included in our user database.

In the course of using our Site, we automatically track certain information such as your IP addresses and email addresses. Many sites automatically collect this information. The information that is collected may also indicate your special preferences or requests. If you choose to post messages in the messages/chat areas and services provided by or through the Site, we will only display such information about you as you choose to reveal. If you choose to disclose any personal identifiable information in these areas, such information will become publicly available. Please be aware that information such as your username, email address, or other submissions that you make on the Site may contain personally identifiable information. You should exercise caution when deciding whether to disclose personal identifiable information. This site collects any and all such information and includes it in its user database.

If you send use, or any of your employees, agents or representatives, any personal correspondence, such as emails or letters or any other means, or if other users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities or postings on the site, or other Subscriber’s or comments about you in our complaints department, we may collect such information regarding that communication and include that information in our user database.

3. Security of Personal Information Collected by this Site. Consistent with the Policies set forth in this Privacy Statement, the Site has adopted and implemented reasonable and technologically feasible procedures for maintaining the security, accuracy and integrity of all personal information relating to you that is collected by the Site. As "perfect security" does not exist on the Internet, you should consider any information provided to or collected by the Site .

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This is the Privacy & Cookies Policy (the ‘Policy’) of hrconsultantsgroup.ca (hereafter ‘hrconsultantsgroup.ca’, ‘we’ or ‘us’). This Policy describes the ways in which hrconsultantsgroup.ca collects and uses information about you when you use our website at hrconsultantsgroup.ca (the "Website").

hrconsultantsgroup.ca may change this Policy at any time in which case we shall notify you of any changes to this Policy by noting this on the Website. The changes will apply to your use of the Website after we have given notice. If you do not wish to accept the new Policy you should not continue to use the Website. If you continue to use the Website after the date on which the change comes into effect, your use of the Website indicates your agreement to be bound by the new Policy.

This Policy was last changed on 17 Feb 2019.

This Policy can be stored or printed using the buttons at the top of this page.

1. ICO registration: For the purposes of data protection legislation, hrconsultantsgroup.ca is the controller for the processing of your personal data. hrconsultantsgroup.cahas notified the Information Commissioner’s Office ("ICO") of its processing of personal data. The notification indicates what data is processed by hrconsultantsgroup.ca and for what purpose, and to which persons or entities the data will be provided.

2. Information which is collected when you use the Website: hrconsultantsgroup.ca may collect the following information from you when you use the Website

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a) any information which you enter into the Website when you sign-up to our newsletter (specifically your name and e-mail address), submit any user generated content (i.e., the information you submit to us when submitting such content), or participate in any chat session;

b) any technical information which we collect from you when you sign up to our newsletter, specifically the web browser that you are using, including its version number, as well as certain location data – namely your country, city, timezone and approximate latitude and longitude of your location;

c) the information collected by hrconsultantsgroup.ca’s use of cookies and similar technologies (please see Clause 9 below), as well as certain other technical information collected by hrconsultantsgroup.ca such as the links you access, your votes on reviews, which product comparisons you make, which e-mails you sign-up to and your location;

d) if you sign into your Account using a social network (such as Twitter or Facebook), we may be able to access certain information about you through that social network that you have agreed to make available; for example on Facebook, your Facebook ID, information relating to your friends, profile picture, gender, language, geo-location or the device you are using. You can change what information we access by changing your privacy features on your social networks; and

e) certain data that we obtain via FullContact.com which compiles various publicly available data about you into one dataset for our review and use.

3. How the information collected about you when you download and use the Website is used: The information about you described in Clause 2 may be used by hrconsultantsgroup.ca as follows:

a) the information in 2(a) and (b) is used to provide the newsletter that you have requested to you or, in the case of any user-generated content, for us to display such user-generated content on the website together with e.g., your name showing you as the author of such review, or, in the case of the chat service, to answer you query made via such chat service;

b) the information in 2(c) enables hrconsultantsgroup.ca to undertake administration tasks in relation to the management of the Website, to provide technical support and troubleshooting, and to tweak, tune and facilitate the improvement of the Website;

c) the information in 2(d) and (e) enables hrconsultantsgroup.ca to compile a more comprehensive picture of the Website users and to be able to best serve users of the Website in doing so;

d) your e-mail address may be used to (subject to you having provided your express consent when registering or us otherwise being permitted to do so via applicable data protection and direct marketing legislation) send e-newsletters relating to our latest developments and events, links to content that we think you will like, promotional offers, discounts and loyalty rewards;

e) all of the information in Clause 2 may be used by us to suggest appropriate Facebook groups or other community groups that you might be interested in, you are able to opt-out of such personalised advertising at any time by clicking here and following the instructions;

f) all of the information in Clause 2 is used to retarget adverts such as Google advertisements or Facebook advertisements appropriately, you are able to opt-out of such personalised advertising at any time by clicking here or the link above and following the instructions;

g) all of the information in Clause 2 is used to audit IP addresses and user behaviour in order to prevent abuse; and

h) all of the information set out in Clause 2 is shared with third parties as described in Clause 5 below.

4. Ground for processing: hrconsultantsgroup.ca relies on the legitimate interests processing ground to collect the information set out in clause 2, with the exception of that information set out in 2(a) for which hrconsultantsgroup.ca relies on consent (as it is your choice whether to ask for a newsletter, participate in a chat and/or submit any user-generated content). It is in hrconsultantsgroup.ca's legitimate interests to collect such items of personal data listed in 2(b) to (e) above because this is necessary in order to provide and improve the services that it offers to you and to make the Website a profitable commercial offering. The items of personal data collected are, in being limited to "business card" type data, not of a nature whereby your rights and freedoms as a data subject are outweighed by such data collection.

5. Sharing information with third parties: hrconsultantsgroup.ca shall not pass your information to any third party (other than as described in this clause). Your information may, subject to hrconsultantsgroup.ca’s obligations to comply with applicable data protection legislation, be shared with the following third parties:

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a) various affiliate partners;

b) hrconsultantsgroup.ca’s advertising partners such as Google Adsense and Amazon Associates;

c) hrconsultantsgroup.ca's hosting providers – Linode and Amazon AWS;

d)hrconsultantsgroup.ca’s analytics partners such as Google, HotJar and VWO;

e) hrconsultantsgroup.cas support solutions providers such as The Chat Shop, LiveChat, Inc. and HelpScout;

f) hrconsultantsgroup.ca’s e-mail marketing provider, Aweber which processes the Newsletter Data;

g) other ancillary social media and other tools such as Facebook, Twitter, MaxMind and Fullcontact.com;

h)hrconsultantsgroup.ca’s back-up provider;

i) other providers for hrconsultantsgroup.ca’s internal processing (such as Google G-Suite), lead generation services, payment processing services, content delivery services and its survey/quiz provider;

j) having taken precautions to maintain the security of such information, hrconsultantsgroup.ca may share this information with its regulator (the ICO);

k) in anonymised form, hrconsultantsgroup.ca may share the information with:

i. your social networks who may combine this information with other information they hold about you – you should refer to your social network’s privacy policy to see how they will use this information;

ii. any third party, in relation to the sale of some or all hrconsultantsgroup.ca’s business, or its assets, or as part of any business restructuring or reorganisation. hrconsultantsgroup.ca will take steps with the aim of ensuring that your rights continue to be protected if your personal data is transferred in accordance with this clause;

iii. data aggregators and platform providers as part of an analysis of user metrics or sales performance; or

iv. law enforcement agencies in compliance with law enforcement.

6. Links to third party websites and third party adverts: hrconsultantsgroup.ca is not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other sites even if you access them via the Website. You should check the policy of each site you visit and contact its owner or operator if you have any concerns or questions. In addition, if you link to your Account from a third party site or via a social network, hrconsultantsgroup.ca is not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of the owners or operators of that third party site and recommends that you check the policy of that third party site and contact its owner or operator if you have any concerns or questions.

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8. Security: hrconsultantsgroup.ca has implemented technology and policies to safeguard your privacy from unauthorised access and improper use. You may also change your account settings on your social networks to prevent both us and third parties seeing information in relation to you.

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10. Storage and Data Retention: We retain your personal data as follows: (i) the information you submit to obtain a newsletter is suppressed as soon as you choose to unsubscribe to such newsletter; (ii) the information you submit as user generated content is deleted as soon as you object to such user generated content being continued to be used by us; (iii) the information you submit to participate in a chat is deleted once the purpose for you providing such information has completed and no later than 13 months after you have participated in such chat; and (iv) the other information in 2(b) to (e) will be retained indefinitely because it is not highly sensitive personal data and, in fact, much of the information is non-personally identifiable information and is required for historical reasons to improve the overall user experience. We store all of the information collected on our servers or those of third parties. Where we store your personal data outside the EEA we take steps to ensure that such transfers of your personal data are adequate in accordance with applicable data protection legislation.

11. Cookies:

a) What are Cookies? 

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device when you use the Website. hrconsultantsgroup.ca’s use of cookies is detailed below. Session cookies enable you to move from page to page within the Website and any information you enter will be remembered but is deleted when you close the Website or after a short time. Persistent cookies allow us to remember your preferences and settings when you use the Website in the future.

b) Disabling Cookies: The use of the cookies described above improves the functionality of the Website and your experience of using them. If you do not want these cookies to be served on your device, you are able to disable them by changing the settings within the Website, or on your device. Please note that if you do decide to disable cookies you may not be able to access some of the Website, and some of the features of the Website may not function properly. By continuing to use the Website, including using social networking media functionality, you consent to the relevant cookies being set on your device. You can change your browser settings by clicking the appropriate link as follows: Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer and/or Safari.

c) Third Party Cookies: Third Party advertisers may place or read cookies on your browser or device in the Website. This Policy is applicable only to the use of cookies by hrconsultantsgroup.ca and does not cover the use of cookies by any third parties (including advertisers or social media companies).

d) More information: To find out more about how cookies work, how to manage and delete them and to see which ones have been set please visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

hrconsultantsgroup.ca uses cookies in the following ways when you use the Website:

10. Exercising your rights: You can contact us using the details set out in Clause 11 below if you wish to: 

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12. (i) access a copy of the personal data that we hold about you;

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14.  (ii) correct any items of personal data that we hold about you; and/or 

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16. (iii) have any items of personal data that we hold about you erased or object to our processing of such items of personal data. In relation to any user-generated content submitted, whilst hrconsultantsgroup.ca will actively moderate its reviews, if at any time you would like such content removed, please complete this form.

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18. hrconsultantsgroup.ca Details: If at any time you would like to contact hrconsultantsgroup.ca about your views on this Policy or any enquiry relating to your personal information, you can do so by completing this form or write to us at "Toronto, On, Canada". You may also submit a complaint to our supervisory authority at any time.