The Cercius Group is committed to protecting the privacy of its customers and the confidentiality of their personal information.
This Customer Privacy Page describes Cercius Group’s protections of the privacy and confidentiality of the personal information it collects from you, as a customer. It also describes some of the ways the Cercius Group collects personal information about you and how it uses, shares, and manages the personal information it collects. This page is not intended to describe every situation in which the Cercius Group collects personal information. Other than as permitted or required by law, the purposes for the collection of personal information will be set out at the time of collection.
The term “personal information” means recorded information about an identifiable individual. To qualify as personal information, the information must be about the individual in a personal capacity. As a general rule, information about an individual in a professional, business or official capacity is not considered to be personal information. Examples of information that could be personal information include your name, address, gender, date of birth, email address, telephone number, credit card information, purchases, personal opinions, and social media user names. It may also, in certain situations, include information about your device, such as Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and browser information or browsing data such as the Cercius Group website pages you have visited.
In most situations, personal information is collected on or through interaction with the Cercius Group’s websites (including but not limited to www.cerciusgroup.com), when you inquire or purchase a product.
The Cercius Group, and its service providers (third parties that we have engaged to help us conduct our business when applicable), may collect personal information from customers in person, over the telephone, by mail, by fax, or electronically when they interact with the Cercius Group website, email, or through the use of our own or a third party’s technologies.
The Cercius Group, and its service providers on behalf of the Cercius Group when applicable, use personal information about you and your use of the Cercius Group website for various purposes, including the following:
Some examples of situations where we may collect and use your personal information are set out below.
The Cercius Group may share personal information with its service providers as permitted by law, or with other third parties as permitted or required by law.
You do not have to provide us with any personal information when you purchase products online on the Cercius Group website. You may be asked for identification, although this information is not recorded.
You may be required to provide personal information when you order products or services that cannot be purchased through our online shop, including but not limited to various premium packages, update plans, analysis and advisory projects, revolving consultancy service. In these situations, we collect personal information in order to prepare letters of engagements, contracts, process these transactions, and to protect both parties against error or fraud.
If you use a credit or debit card for your purchase, your credit/debit card-related information and your signature are required to process your payment.
Considering the nature of our products and services, no returns or refunds are allowed: all sales are considered final for products purchased through the Cercius Group website.
In the event that parts of a graphic/table/page would be defective (e.g. blank, white), you will be provided with a corrected version of the page/graphic/table. However, in the event that the issue is “display” related (i.e. you do not have an up-to-date version of the software needed to display the file format [including, but not limited to, PDF extension files] or if you do not have the necessary language packages/plug-ins to display Chinese and other Asian characters), your demand for replacement will not be considered.
Services or products purchased through either a letter of engagement or a contract laying out specific terms for both parties are subjected to these terms.
From time to time, we may obtain your consent to send you email and other communications about products, services and promotions. The Cercius Group obtains consent for promotional email communications.
You can opt-out of receiving promotional email from us at any time by doing the following:
When you request that your name be removed from our databases, it may not be possible to completely delete all your personal information due to technical and legal constraints. However, you will not continue to receive email from the Cercius Group once you request removal of your name.
You do not have to register to visit the Cercius Group website. However, you may need to register and provide your personal information to be able to use some of the features offered through our online services. Your registration information is used to provide and administer the service you requested.
When you contact the Cercius Group with a comment, question or complaint you may be asked for your name and contact information (such as address, email address and/or phone number), and details we need to help us answer your question or respond to your comment or complaint.
If you submit this information online, your IP address and other device information is also automatically collected. We may also aggregate your comments, questions or complaints with those of other customers in order to look for trends to help us improve our service.
Cercius Group uses social media accounts, such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn (Cercius Group Social Media Accounts) to share information and promote our products and services.
Cercius Group Social Media Accounts are publicly accessible, and your posts, comments, and replies to, and mentions of, Cercius Group may be publicly visible, depending on your privacy settings. Your privacy and the retention of information on social media accounts are governed by the privacy policies of the parties that operate these social networks. Some social media providers may allow you to control the information you make available to the Cercius Group and others.
Users should review and agree to privacy agreements and terms and conditions of the parties that operate these networks prior to participating. We do not have any control over such platforms, and therefore we have no responsibility or liability for the manner in which the organizations that operate such linked platforms collect, use, disclose, secure and otherwise treat your personal information.
In accordance with terms of use of the respective social media platforms, the Cercius Group may collect and measure information available to us about activity on the Cercius Group Social Media Accounts in order to provide content that is relevant and interesting to users of these social media platforms.
We will not share personal information with third parties, or allow third parties to collect or use personal information, except for service providers who have agreed to comply with appropriate privacy standards, in order to perform services for the Cercius Group (e.g. email deployment, direct mail, credit card processing). The Cercius Group does not sell or rent its customer lists to outside agencies and/or our trade partners. Personal information that the Cercius Group collects will not be used to place you on any mailing lists without your knowledge and agreement, or as otherwise permitted by law.
The Cercius Group and its service providers use cookies and web beacons (sometimes referred to as tags or pixels) to collect information about use of the Cercius Group website. Cookies facilitate your use and navigation of our site, but do not collect personally identifiable information such as your name, address or credit card data.
Cercius Group website uses only “third party” cookies that are created by the Cercius Group website service provider.
You can set your Internet browser to refuse to accept cookies and web beacons from the Cercius Group website. Some browsers can be set to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when you receive cookies. If you choose to modify your browser, some pages or features of the website may not function properly.
The Cercius Group uses third party web analytics tools to analyze the information generated through the use of third-party cookies to look at Aggregate Data that is used for operational purposes.
The Cercius Group website and Social Media Accounts may contain links to other sites that the Cercius Group does not own or operate. We will not provide any of your personal information to these third parties without your consent. We provide links to third party websites as a convenience to the user. These links are not intended as an endorsement of or referral to the linked website. The linked websites have separate and independent privacy statements, notices and terms of use, which we recommend you read carefully. We do not have any control over such websites, and therefore we have no responsibility or liability for the manner in which the organizations may use your personal information.
The Cercius Group and its service providers maintain your personal information in a combination of paper and electronic files. Cercius Group and its service providers employ reasonable technical, physical and administrative security measures to protect your personal information. However, it is impossible to guarantee security since "perfect security" does not exist. Consequently, the Cercius Group does not represent, warrant, covenant or guarantee the complete security of the personal information it or its service providers collect.
The Cercius Group will make reasonable efforts to ensure the accuracy of your personal information when you request it as long as it does not compromise the Cercius Group’s privacy or security interests. Please contact info@cerciusgroup to update your personal information and account preferences.
The Cercius Group will keep your personal information for as long as it remains necessary for the identified purposes or as required by law, or in accordance with our retention schedules, which may extend beyond the termination of our relationship with you. The Cercius Group reserves the right to maintain personal information records for both active and inactive (i.e. unsubscribed) customers.
The Cercius Group reserves the right to change this Customer Privacy Policy by posting a changed Customer Privacy Policy on its www.cerciusgroup.com website, and you are advised to review the www.cerciusgroup website regularly for any changes. This Customer Privacy Policy & Security Statement was last updated on October 22, 2020.
If you have any questions concerning the Cercius Group Customer Privacy Page or wish to file an access or correction request, please contact us at :
Cercius Group Ltd / Groupe Cercius Lté
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
E-mail: info@cerciusgroup.com
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