Privacy policy

Version: 1.0
Update date: 01/02/2023

1. Privacy and Data Protection Statement and Notice

At Mafra Talents, your privacy is important to us. We are committed to ensuring the confidentiality of the information you provide when using our services. This privacy policy sets out how we share, transfer and manage the personal data you entrust to us. It also informs you of your rights regarding the protection of your personal data in the context of its use and communication via our website and services. We may provide you with further information about our privacy practices or offer you additional options for processing your personal data. If you have any questions about this privacy statement or policy, please contact us at support@mafratalents.ca.

By transmitting information, including personal data, via our website or services, you implicitly accept the terms of this policy. If you do not agree to these terms, please do not use our site or services.

2. What information do we collect and what is it used for?

We collect personal data such as your name, e-mail address, contact information and other confidential information that you provide to us when you register on our website, subscribe to our services or interact with other users of our site or services. We may also collect personal information when you register to receive commercial emails, event updates or other opportunities offered by Mafra Talents. The personal data collected may include your name, e-mail address, contact information, job details and any other information you share with Mafra Talents.

We may also collect information to compile statistics about Your use of Our Site or Your use of Our When using Mafra Talents, information may be collected such as Your IP address, the type of hardware used, Your geolocation and other personal information. This information may be collected through cookies, web beacons and similar technologies. Information shared with Mafra Talents may be made available to other users of the site and services, and may also be passed on to third parties. It is recommended not to publish or share sensitive or private information through Mafra Talents or any other means. Information collected may be used to provide and improve services, respond to requests, send promotional communications and ensure compliance with Mafra Talents terms and conditions. Information may be stored locally on your device and may also be received from third parties and added to information already provided to Mafra Talents to improve services. Mafra Talents may also collect and create anonymous data about you, which may be shared at its discretion.

Other purposes for which Mafra Talents may use your data include:

  • To provide and improve the Service
  • To respond to requests and ensure the security of the Service
  • To send communications and promotional material and other information provided by third parties
  • Ensure compliance with and enforcement of Mafra Talents’ terms, conditions and rights
  • Carry out any other operation deemed necessary to provide the Service or for the purposes of our interactions with you or with third parties.

We may store information locally on your device, for example in your cache. In addition, we may receive information about you from other companies or third parties, and add it to the information you have already provided to us via the Site and our Services. This helps us to improve the services we offer you.

Mafra Talents may also collect and create anonymized data about you, without identifying your personal information, and we reserve the right to share it at our discretion.

3. Sharing Your Information

We may share your personal information with various parties for various reasons, such as:

  • With other users of the Mafra Talents site and services: We may share certain information about you, such as details of your interactions with the Service, the content of your online postings, and similar information with other users of the Site and Services.
  • With third parties: We may share your personal information with third parties specified by you or with other organizations such as business partners and service providers, chosen at our discretion.
  • With service providers: We may share your personal information with third parties such as resellers and service providers who assist us with billing, payment processing, marketing, data analysis and other services related to the Site and Our Services.

It is important to note that these partners are subject to confidentiality obligations to protect your personal information, and that these partnerships are set up to improve the quality and convenience of the Services we offer you.

Mafra Talents may share your personal information with business partners and affiliates. This sharing is done to fulfill obligations or requests, to provide support to users, and to provide information about Mafra Talents. However, Mafra Talents has no control over how business partners may use your personal information. In this case, it is the responsibility of our business partners to manage and use the personal information collected in this way.

Mafra Talents may also be required to share your personal information in accordance with laws and other business purposes. This may include disclosing your information to satisfy a legal obligation, such as a corporate reorganization, a change of control, to comply with regulations or to protect users and preserve the integrity of the site or service. In addition, Mafra Talents may find it necessary to share your information for other reasons that it believes to be legitimate.

We may publish information about you, such as your name, username, profile picture and any other content you post, to the general public.

4. E-mail communication

We may send you e-mails, including commercial and promotional communications, which may come from third parties. To stop receiving such e-mails, you can unsubscribe at any time using the site or our services. Please note that you may need to unsubscribe from each Mafra Talents service separately. Even after you choose to unsubscribe, we may still be required to send you communications related to the service, including changes to our terms of use or privacy policy.

5. Public profile

By using Mafra Talents, you agree that certain personal information such as your name, username, profile picture and other content published on the site will be shared with other users. This content may be displayed on the site and on other external platforms. Once this information is published, it may be collected and used by third parties. It is important not to publish sensitive or confidential information. You always have the option of modifying or deleting such information on the site, but it may be impossible to delete information that has been stored elsewhere by other users.

6. Log files

We automatically collect certain information which we record in log files. This information includes IP addresses, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, operating system, connection dates/times and navigation data. We use this information to analyze trends, administer the Site, track users’ movements around the Site, gather demographic information about our user base as a whole, and better tailor the Site and Our Services to Our Users’ needs.

7. Cookies and Flash Cookies

You can configure your browser to deactivate cookies at any time, or to require your prior consent before they are deposited. For more information on how to do this, please consult your browser’s documentation. If you choose to refuse cookies, some parts or functions of the site may no longer be accessible.
We or our third-party providers may use Flash cookies to save your audio preferences or personalize certain videos. Flash cookies differ from browser cookies in terms of volume, type of data collected and storage time. Your browser’s cookie management tools do not allow you to delete Flash cookies.

8. Invisible pixels ("pixel tags")

To provide our services, we use “Pixel Tags”. These enable us to display small graphic images containing a unique identifier, used to track users’ online activities. Pixel tags are integrated invisibly into web pages, and also enable us to send e-mails in a format that users can read. They enable us to know whether these e-mails have been opened, ensuring that we only send relevant messages to our users.

9. Audience Measurement Tools

We may use audience measurement tools to collect information about your use of the site or service. The information collected is used to improve the site and our services.

10. Information from Social Networking Sites

If you provide information or register via a social networking site such as Facebook, LinkedIn or any other site with which we are associated, we may receive information from these sites depending on the privacy settings you have chosen. We encourage you to review the privacy and data protection practices of these sites. We disclaim any responsibility for the practices of these social networks. You can disconnect your social networking account from Mafra Talents via your Mafra Talents account, and you also have the ability to change the sharing settings for that social networking site.

11. Retention, Modification or Deletion of Your Information

We will retain personal information collected from you for as long as required by law. You can change any personal data in your account by editing your profile associated with that account. If you wish us to delete your personal data, we will do our best to comply with your request, but we may have a legal obligation to retain it for a specific period. When we delete information, it is removed from our active database but may still be in our archive.

12. Contacts

We may collect information about your use of the site or service by using audience measurement tools. The information collected is used to improve the site and our services. If you provide information or register via a social networking site such as Facebook or LinkedIn, we may receive certain information from these sites. However, we are not responsible for the privacy or data protection practices of these sites. You can disconnect your social network account from Mafra Talents and change your sharing settings.
The personal information we collect will be kept for the legal period. You can modify your personal data in your account or ask us to delete it. However, we may be required to retain certain information. Information may be transferred to, stored and processed by us and our service providers in the United States and other countries. We undertake to protect your personal data in accordance with this policy and to take appropriate measures to protect it in accordance with applicable laws. If you reside in the EEA or a similar international area, you may have additional privacy rights, such as the right to withdraw your consent, to access your data, to have your data erased, to object to the processing of your data, to object to commercial canvassing, or to have your data rectified.

13. Third-party service providers

The Site or Services may contain links to third-party websites and services that are operated by other companies and may collect personal information about you. We are not responsible for the activities of these third-party websites and services and cannot guarantee the security of any personal information you provide to these sites or services. The use of these third-party websites and services is a personal choice and we offer no guarantees or recommendations. We advise you to check carefully the privacy policies of each website or service you visit or use, including those accessed via our Services.

14. Your Third Parties

If you invite a third party to create an account, we will collect their name and e-mail address, as well as yours, and all relevant information necessary to send e-mails and other communications to that third party. We may retain this information indefinitely in our database and use it to establish contact networks, document relationships, facilitate communication and improve our services. We may also use this information to show other users that you may know each other or have contacts in common. We rely on you to obtain the necessary consent from the third party concerned so that we can access and download their name and e-mail address as described above.

15. Security

Mafra Talents is committed to protecting the security of your personal information using a variety of standardized security technologies and procedures. You must also choose a password to access your account information and not share this password with unauthorized third parties. However, despite Mafra Talents’ efforts to protect your personal data, no method of transmission or electronic storage is 100% secure. Therefore, Mafra Talents cannot guarantee the absolute security of your personal data.

16. A word about children

Mafra Talents does not deliberately collect personal data from children under the age of 13. If we mistakenly receive personal data from a child under the age of 13, we will endeavor to delete it as soon as possible. If you believe that we are holding personal data on a child, please contact us at support@mafratalents.ca.

17. Modification of this Statement, Notice and Privacy Policy

This privacy policy may be updated from time to time. We will endeavour to inform you of any revisions sufficiently in advance. However, it is your responsibility to check our policy regularly for any changes. If you continue to use our site or services, this means that you accept the changes made and acknowledge the validity of the new version. If you do not agree with the changes, you should immediately stop using our site and services.

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