Privacy statement – Cogilab Inc. (Canada)

Introduction

Given the development of new means of communication, it is necessary to pay special attention to privacy protection. We will respect the privacy of the personal information we collect. We are committed to observing the legal provisions of the Act Respecting the Protection of Personal Information in the Private Sector. You have rights of access to your personal information and rights of rectification of the latter that you may exercise by contacting us.

Collection and Use of Personal Information

Our website contains a contact form and allows user interaction. Thereby, we may collect your surname, your name, your title, your electronic address, your telephone or fax number, as well as any information that you may provide voluntarily in a message. We may also collect any personal information that you may provide voluntarily in any oral or written communication with our agents. The personal information thereby collected is used to answer your inquiry or to respond to your request.

Information Transmitted Automatically (Cookies and Log Files)

We do not store persistent cookies in our users’ hard drives. Only session cookies are used in order to ease user navigation. These cookies are created and modified by the web application. They carry essential information for the web application, such as the duration of a session, the global connection time, information on the browser, etc. These cookies are deleted when the browser is closed. These cookies may contain signed and/or encrypted information.

As soon as you access our website, information is exchanged automatically between your computer and the site server. The data automatically transmitted between computers does not make it possible to identify you personally. It is collected for technical reasons to allow Internet browsing, but can anonymously be used for statistical purposes, such as analysing traffic patterns to, from and within this website (e.g. the most visited pages). This information is registered in the log files of the site server.

Protection of Personal Information

We store in a secure environment any personal information that we collect. Our agents and employees must respect the privacy of your personal information. To protect the security of your personal information, we use user access management as well as a firewall.

We are committed to maintaining a high degree of confidentiality by integrating the latest technological innovations allowing to insure the confidentiality of your transactions. However, as no mechanism offers a total safety, a part of risk is always present when using Internet to pass on personal information.

Links to Other Websites

As soon as you leave our website, by using a link to an external website or otherwise, the information exchanged is no longer subject to our privacy rules but rather to those of the external websites your visit. These external websites are entirely managed by third parties and we cannot guarantee their quality or their content. We do not verify their privacy statement. We are not liable for these links.

Applications developed by Cogilab Inc.

The CogiLIMS and CogiBOOK applications, developed by Cogilab Inc. (Canada), are used by Cogilab customers only within private networks managed by these customers. No personal information is stored in these applications, other than the connection information required for logging in.