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Privacy Policy

Introduction

La Nuit Shanghai Événements (“we” or “our”) cares about respecting your privacy and protecting your personal information. La Nuit Shanghai Événements is committed to protecting your personal information collected during your use of the website evenements.lanuitshanghai.ca (the “website”) and using it only for the purposes for which it was collected.

  1. Scope and Application
  2. Information We Collect and Why We Collect It
  3. Cookies: How They Are Used
  4. How Information Is Stored and Communicated
  5. Hyperlinks and Third Parties
  6. Security
  7. Your Rights
  8. Roles and Responsibilities
  9. Contact Us

This privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”) governs the collection, use, storage, communication, and destruction of information obtained by La Nuit Shanghai Événements regarding users when they access or use the website.

BY ACCESSING THE WEBSITE, YOU CONSENT TO THE COLLECTION, USE, COMMUNICATION, STORAGE, AND DESTRUCTION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION ACCORDING TO THE TERMS DESCRIBED IN THIS POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT CONSENT TO THESE TERMS, PLEASE DO NOT USE THE WEBSITE.

1. Scope and Application

The term “personal information” refers to information that, when taken alone or in combination with other information, allows an individual to be identified, such as their name, date of birth, email address, and any other information that must be treated as “personal information” according to applicable laws.

We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time without notice. The current version of the Privacy Policy is available on the website, and its effective date is indicated. If changes are made that significantly alter the privacy risk, we will notify you via a notice on the homepage of the website. If you continue to use the website after the effective date of such changes, you are deemed to have accepted these changes. We recommend regularly reviewing our Privacy Policy.

Access to and use of the website are governed by the General Terms of Use and Sale, which can be found at https://www.evenements.lanuitshanghai.ca/terms-and-conditions/. These have been incorporated into this Privacy Policy by reference.

2. Information We Collect and Why We Collect It

The personal information collected and used includes but is not limited to the following:

Website Usage Data: Information on the functionalities used, La Nuit Shanghai Événements may collect certain data regarding the use of the website, such as the functionalities used or sections visited. Profile information, like your digital identifiers, passwords, and service preferences, communication language, etc. Browser information, such as the type of browser you use, for example, Microsoft Edge, Chrome, Opera, Internet Explorer, Safari, and Firefox, or the address of the site you came from if you clicked on a La Nuit Shanghai Événements advertisement. Device information, such as the identifier, model, operating system, or device notice status, privacy settings, and other device configurations or settings, location information or your IP address, which is a number automatically assigned to your computer or device when you browse the Internet and from which the general geographical location of the device can be obtained. Location information, such as general location information from your IP address and geolocation information from your browser or mobile device if you have authorized it to share these data. Other information from web technology through tools like cookies and web beacons. This may include information such as a unique identifier and your response rate. Transaction information, regarding how you use different products or services. Contact information: including your full name, postal address, email address, phone number. Identity information, including but not limited to, age group, gender, salary bracket/estimated family income, citizenship, resume. Payment and financing data: including credit card information, or if you apply for financing online on the La Nuit Shanghai Événements website, certain information about you including your name, first name, social security number/driving license/health insurance, bank account number, city, email address, phone number, full postal address, information about your residence, employment, and income as well as confirmation if you have ever declared bankruptcy.

Other information we collect may include information you have provided to us by various means, including but not limited to communication language preferences, demographic data, and interests and opinions through our recorded surveys. To allow you to access and use the website properly. To allow us to address issues reported by users, including troubleshooting, support, optimization, and security breach reviews of the website or to restore lost data. To evaluate, optimize, and improve the content and functionalities of the website using performance tools provided by third parties, such as Google Analytics which uses cookies to collect aggregated statistical data to analyze how visitors use a website. These cookies are used to retain non-personally identifiable data. If you do not wish to transmit information to Google Analytics, you can choose to disable the use of your data using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

For more information about Google Analytics and how this third party processes and manages your personal information, you can review the privacy policy available at http://www.google.com/intl/en-CA/policies/privacy/ To provide you with advertising content, including retargeting, and to improve the content of our advertisements and website so that they are better suited or of interest to the public. To personalize your experience with us by analyzing data, including reviewing and studying your applications, transactions, and other information to:

Know you, understand your needs, and your activities as well as know the products, services, promotions, offers, and advice that might interest you

Target or personalize products, services, promotions, offers, advice, tips, and articles based on the information we have collected, including those collected as part of your digital activities on La Nuit Shanghai Événements digital channels:

If you access one of La Nuit Shanghai Événements marketing advertisements, we can also track the advertisement you selected, the activity on the site associated with each marketing advertisement, and the response rate, which helps us plan future online marketing campaigns. If you access a third-party site featuring a La Nuit Shanghai Événements advertisement, we may use cookies or similar technology to help us determine the site you accessed, but we do not track or create a profile of a user’s behavior on the site in question.

To promote and market products and services offered by La Nuit Shanghai Événements, as well as those of our partners or carefully selected third parties, we use various marketing strategies. This includes promoting La Nuit Shanghai Événements products, services, or community initiatives on another company’s website, as well as remarketing through web technologies. Our partners and service providers may also use these web technologies to collect and exploit information from La Nuit Shanghai Événements sites and other third-party sites to assist us in our marketing efforts. In some cases, the content of these marketing initiatives may be based on information we hold about you, such as your browsing behavior on our site and third-party sites where our ads appear, your interactions with La Nuit Shanghai Événements products and services, as well as information you have provided to us.

To prevent fraud during the online payment process.

To measure, on an aggregate basis, the number of people interacting with a digital advertisement.

To allow us to understand, in general, how you use La Nuit Shanghai Événements digital channels.

To track the purchase and payment history and financial institutions used to provide added value to personalize your experience with us by analyzing data, including reviewing and studying your applications, transactions, and other information.

To allow us to communicate with you and respond to your inquiries and quote requests.

To allow us to fulfill your orders and provide after-sales follow-up.

To allow you to register for one of our initiatives and follow-up on contest purposes.

To allow you to apply for job opportunities.

For internal and external audits, we may also verify your references.

To allow you to provide feedback, suggestions, or questions.

To send you communications by mail, email, text message, phone, automatic dialing, and announcement devices to the numbers you have provided us, by fax, other telecommunication channels, social media, or other means. These include marketing or service communications about benefits, features, or other information about products, services, or initiatives, within the limits permitted by applicable laws. You can always choose to stop receiving marketing communications from us. See also section 7 “Your Rights.”

To allow us to communicate with you regarding a request you made or your experience with our services, products, or website;

To allow you to inform us of any issues regarding the website or services or products provided by La Nuit Shanghai Événements.

To allow us to assess your satisfaction through satisfaction surveys.

To comply with applicable laws and regulations, including requests from government authorities and self-regulatory organizations.

To process your payment.

To process your financing request.

To determine your eligibility for products or services.

To help us understand our relationship with you, including how you prefer to conduct transactions and the types of products, services, or offers that may please or interest you.

We only use personal information for the purposes for which it was collected.

3. Cookies: How They Are Used

When you visit the website, we may introduce a data file on your device, such as a cookie, pixel tags (very small graphic elements), or a similar file. These files allow us to retain certain information about your use of the website, including the date of your most recent visit, the pages viewed, and the files downloaded. They help us adapt the website to better meet the interests and preferences of our users. These files may also be used by La Nuit Shanghai Événements for targeted marketing purposes to present you with content or advertisements that we believe may interest you based on your browsing behavior on the website. To the extent that these cookies are not strictly necessary for the operation of our website, we ask for your consent to their use during your first visit to our website. You have the option to disable these cookies for the future if you wish by managing your browser configuration options.

Please refer to our cookie policy at https://www.evenements.lanuitshanghai.ca/cookie-policy/ for more detailed information on the cookies we use, why we use them, and how to delete them from your computer.

4. How Information Is Stored and Communicated

La Nuit Shanghai Événements retains personal information for a reasonable period, either to provide you with proper access to the website, to fully respond to your requests and/or process your orders, to achieve the stated purposes, or in accordance with legal provisions, whichever is longer. After this period, we ensure their anonymization or destroy them in a way that protects them from unauthorized access or communication.

Only relevant staff members can access the data when necessary to perform their duties related to the services and in accordance with the purposes stated in this Privacy Policy, subject to the following paragraph.

We never disclose your personal information to anyone outside La Nuit Shanghai Événements without your consent, except for the following third parties and only if they have implemented appropriate security measures to ensure at least the same level of security as ours:

Our service providers whose services have been retained to perform certain functions on our behalf (e.g., data processing and storage, sending communications, payment processing, delivery, etc.). In this case, we take the necessary measures to ensure that these third parties only have access to the information necessary to carry out the agreed services, that they process your information only for the purposes we have determined, and that they have implemented personal information protection measures in accordance with applicable laws and providing the same conditions and level of protection as stated in this Privacy Policy;

Any entity in the event of a merger, corporate reorganization, or change of control of La Nuit Shanghai Événements, in whole or in part, only if the parties have signed an agreement stipulating that the collection, use, and disclosure of information are limited to the objectives of the business transaction;

Any public authority if required by law, or to defend our rights, or otherwise in accordance with the law. If we need to disclose information or provide a copy of this information to a government agency under the law or a court order, La Nuit Shanghai Événements will try to notify you in advance to the extent permitted by law;

Companies that provide services to verify anti-money laundering and terrorist financing, reduce credit risk, and other fraud and crime prevention services, and companies that provide similar services, including financial institutions, credit rating agencies, and regulatory bodies with which this personal information is shared;

5. Hyperlinks and Third Parties

The website may contain sharing or publishing options or links to third-party websites or platforms. By using or activating these links or features, you leave the website, and your browsing becomes subject to the terms of use and privacy policy of these third parties. We have no control over these third-party platforms, and listing these platforms on the website in no way engages our responsibility.

6. Security

All data is stored on high-security servers, protected against non-compliant use and access by unauthorized persons. We strive to maintain the necessary physical, administrative, and technical security measures at our offices and data storage centers. Information is only made available to individuals (employees or agents) who need access to this information to fulfill their responsibilities.

La Nuit Shanghai Événements uses reasonable means to protect your personal information transmitted during your use of the website, including when you make an online financing request or during the online purchase process. Specifically, we use technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information against loss or theft as well as unauthorized access and disclosure, both internally and externally to our organization. However, no security mechanism is perfect, and you should be aware that there is always some risk of security breaches. La Nuit Shanghai Événements disclaims any liability for such information about you being disclosed, except in cases of negligence by La Nuit Shanghai Événements. It should be noted that to reduce the risk of security breaches, no credit card information is stored on the servers used by the website.

All data collected as part of your use of the website is generally stored on servers located in Quebec. However, data may be processed by our third-party service providers located outside Quebec to allow them to fulfill mandates on behalf of La Nuit Shanghai Événements. In this case, we take reasonable measures to ensure that these third parties are bound by appropriate security measures, including contractual ones.

7. Your Rights

You have the right to know the purpose of the collection and processing by La Nuit Shanghai Événements of your personal information, as well as the right to access, update, and correct this information. You can withdraw your consent to the use and retention of your personal information by La Nuit Shanghai Événements at any time. In such a case, however, you may no longer be able to use certain features of the website. You also have the right, depending on the case, to request that La Nuit Shanghai Événements stop broadcasting, de-index, or re-index your personal information, or from September 22, 2024, that your computerized personal information collected from you be communicated to you in a commonly used technological format as well as to any person or entity authorized by law to collect this information. This right does not extend to information that has been created or inferred from your personal information, and we are not required to communicate this information if it raises serious practical difficulties. If you believe that your rights to the protection of your personal information have been violated, you have the right to file a complaint with the Quebec Access to Information Commission or seek redress from the courts.

We generally respond to all access requests within 30 days of receiving all necessary information. If we are unable to provide access, or if we need more time to respond to a request, we will notify you in writing.

Based on exemptions provided by applicable laws, La Nuit Shanghai Événements may not be able to communicate certain types of information. To the extent possible, we will redact information that will not be communicated and give you access to the other information. If we are unable to provide you access to personal information or communicate it to you, we will provide you with an explanation, subject to restrictions.

In certain circumstances, such as when the request is excessive or unfounded, we may charge administrative fees for access to your personal information. We may also charge for additional copies. We will inform you of any fees before processing a request.

8. Roles and Responsibilities

La Nuit Shanghai Événements is responsible for communicating this policy and ensuring that its employees fully comply with all relevant aspects of the notice and accompanying guidelines. Functional or infrastructure units that handle personal information are responsible for ensuring that these activities comply with this policy.

Our Privacy Officer;

  • Develops La Nuit Shanghai Événements’ personal information protection strategy,
  • Designs and maintains the notice, accompanying guidelines, and any other related policy or procedure, and
  • Serves as the official liaison with federal and provincial commissioners.

9. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, access to your personal information, or about the collection, use, and communication of personal information by La Nuit Shanghai Événements, or how you can exercise your rights mentioned above, file a complaint, or update your personal information, please contact our Privacy Officer as follows:

By email: [email protected]

By mail: 105 prom. Des Lanternes suite 280, Brossard QC, J4Y 0L2

We will make every effort to process your request promptly.