{"id":105567,"date":"2022-06-07T10:09:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T14:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/formationconstruction.com\/privacy-policy\/"},"modified":"2022-08-24T14:44:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T18:44:02","slug":"privacy-policy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/formationconstruction.com\/en\/privacy-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"PRIVACY POLICY"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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We collect information about you and your use of our sites in a number of ways:<\/h3>
  • we collect information that you provide directly to us<\/li>
  • we also collect information about you from other companies (for example, through social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter)<\/li>
  • Finally, we may collect information about you, including your location, when you access our sites in any way, including through a mobile device or smart phone.<\/li><\/ul>

    Personal and non-personal information<\/h3>

    Personal information is information that allows us to identify you and includes your name, email address, postal address, telephone number, date of birth, credit card number, geographic location, etc.
    If you reside in Canada, your IP address (Internet Protocol address, which is a unique number assigned to your computer, usually depending on your country) may be part of Personal Information.
    Non-personal information is information that, by itself, cannot allow us to identify you. This may include, for example, the sites saved in your bookmarks, the language settings of your browser or the site you visited before visiting ours.<\/p>

    Information provided by you<\/h3>

    You provide us with information when you place an order, take advantage of a promotion, or enter a contest on one of our sites. We collect information such as your name, address, telephone number, credit card details, date of birth, the content of your communications (responses to a survey, comments on a product, etc.), information related to your purchase orders (including your order history), your user name and your password.<\/p>

    How do we collect this information?<\/h3>

    You provide them to us in particular:<\/p>

    • by placing an order<\/li>
    • by opening an account<\/li>
    • by commenting on our products and on our sites<\/li>
    • by contacting Customer Service<\/li>
    • by participating in online forums<\/li>
    • by communicating with us through our site<\/li>
    • by participating in our promotions, surveys and contests<\/li>
    • using other features and services of our sites, such as their content sharing features<\/li>
    • by accessing our sites by any means, including using a mobile device or smartphone<\/li><\/ul>

      Information Collected Automatically When You Use Our Sites:<\/h3>

      When you visit our sites, we automatically collect certain information about you through certain technologies, such as cookies and web beacons, as well as certain advertisements that may be displayed on our sites and on the websites of other companies. Cookies collect a wide range of information, such as your IP address, operating system, browser type, time zone and language settings, and certain data about the device you are using, including its capabilities. and its unique identification number (if it is a mobile device or a smartphone). Cookies also collect data about your browsing history, including the time you spend on our sites, the pages you visit there and the searches you perform there, as well as the sites visited before and after ours.
      We invite you to consult the \u201cCookies and similar technologies\u201d section to learn more about the nature, use and communication of the information we collect.
      Information Collected from Third Parties: We also collect information about you from third parties, including your name, address, email address, date of birth, phone number, demographic information about you, demographic information about your household, your shopping behaviors and the content of any messages you post online in our public forums or on our social media pages and accounts, such as our Facebook page and Twitter account.
      If you use social media platforms such as Facebook, we collect information about you there if your privacy settings allow it. We also collect information from these social media through plug-ins, such as the Facebook \u201cLike\u201d button, and through the pages and accounts we hold there. When you post a comment on one of these pages or click the “Like” button on one of our products or promotions, we may receive certain information about you, including your name. , your email address, your gender, your date of birth, your interests and your network of friends, provided that your privacy settings allow us to do so. In addition, if you have chosen to link the account you have on a social media site such as Facebook to one of our social media pages, that account may provide us with information about your profile and your activities on that media. , if your privacy settings allow it. Be sure to review our “Links to Third-Party Sites” section, review the privacy settings of your social media accounts, and review the privacy policies of those media outlets to fully understand how other companies collect and use your information.<\/p>

      How do we collect this information?<\/h3>

      In particular, we collect this information:<\/p>

      • by collecting publicly available information about you as well as information that you make available on social media.<\/li><\/ul> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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        We use and share your information for many reasons, including to:<\/h3>
        • to personalize your experience of using our sites<\/li>
        • improve our sites<\/li>
        • to provide you with our products and services<\/li>
        • to inform you of our promotions as well as products and services that we believe may be of interest to you<\/li><\/ul>

          We also use and disclose your information to conduct market research to send you relevant advertisements and commercial offers and to design products and services that may be of interest to you.
          We work with companies that collect and process some of the information we collect about you and your use of our sites. We may also share your information with companies from which we obtain other types of services. Collectively, we call these companies our partners. Depending on the nature of the services they provide to us, these partners may collect personally identifiable information about you when you visit our sites.<\/p>

          We and our partners use your information to:<\/h3>
          • fulfill your orders and respond to requests related to the operation of our sites<\/li>
          • provide you with Customer Service assistance and keep your account up-to-date<\/li>
          • create and administer your consumer profile, correct and update your information<\/li>
          • combine the information we collect about you with the information you provide to us<\/li>
          • display and send you information and advertisements that we believe correspond to your interests and your profile<\/li>
          • improve the functioning of our sites, facilitate their updating and compile statistics on our users and their use of our sites<\/li>
          • personalize your experience of using our sites<\/li>
          • manage our surveys, contests and promotions<\/li>
          • process your payment data<\/li>
          • manage the communications we make by email<\/li>
          • organize, manage, process or provide advertising services<\/li>
          • analyze data in order to present you with appropriate offers and advertisements and to avoid presenting them to you more than once<\/li>
          • manage our promotions, surveys and contests<\/li>
          • manage our referral and loyalty programs<\/li><\/ul>

            We also use cookies and similar technologies to gather aggregate statistics. This data, which does not allow you to be personally identified, helps us to measure the effectiveness of our sites, and in particular the effect of the advertisements and promotions that we broadcast on them. We invite you to consult the section \u201cCookies and similar technologies\u201d if you wish to know more about our use of these tools.<\/p>

            We share aggregate information about you and your use of our sites with other companies to perform industry benchmarking, consumer analysis, market research and analytical research. This information does not identify you.<\/p>

            Disclosures of your information required by law or necessary for our protection:<\/h3>

            Applicable law or the government may require us to disclose your information for fraud prevention purposes, to investigate fraud, to enforce the terms of a notice we provide, or if we believe that such communication is appropriate and necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of our employees and our customers.<\/p> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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            We use various Internet technologies to:<\/h3>
            • collect and share information about you and your use of our sites<\/li>
            • distinguish you from other users of our sites<\/li>
            • manage and facilitate your access to our sites and your use of their content<\/li>
            • understand your behavior on our sites and analyze your use of their content<\/li>
            • measure the effectiveness of our advertisements<\/li>
            • present you with targeted advertisements<\/li><\/ul>

              Login cookies:<\/h3>

              Cookies are small files consisting of numbers and letters. They are specially designed for your browser. When you visit our sites, a cookie is sent to your browser and stored on the hard drive of your computer or in the memory of your device with an Internet connection.<\/p>

              We use the following types of cookies:<\/p>

              Essential cookies: These cookies allow you to move from one page to another and to use the functions of the site, for example by saving the contents of your shopping cart. They are essential for the provision of the services you wish to receive.<\/p>

              Analytical cookies or performance cookies: These cookies collect anonymous information about the use of our sites. Among other things, they allow us to list the latest activities that have taken place there, to know the content that has recently been consulted there, to count our visitors and to inform us of the way in which they explore our sites.<\/p>

              Functionality cookies: These connection cookies allow us to recognize you when you visit our sites more than once. We can thus retain your settings and preferences and offer you personalized content.<\/p>

              We use cookies for many reasons, including to:<\/p>

              • analyze the behavior of our visitors to improve the management, operation and functioning of our sites<\/li>
              • to remember you to personalize your experience of using our sites, in particular by remembering your settings and preferences, such as the language settings of your browser and the country from which you access our sites<\/li>
              • to target our advertisements, which allows us, among other things, to promote products and services that we believe may be of interest to you and to avoid showing you the same advertisements repeatedly \u2013 over time, the advertisements we show on our our own sites and on third-party sites allow us to better understand the nature of the pages, content and advertisements consulted by all the people using your computer and to present you with advertisements and promotions likely to interest you.<\/li>
              • to allow you to log in to your account to explore our sites without having to re-enter your username and password<\/li>
              • associate the information we collect about you through these cookies with the information we collect using similar technologies and your consumer profile information<\/li><\/ul>

                Managing cookies Your browser settings:<\/h3>

                Your browser settings allow you to refuse cookies. The absence of certain cookies will however deactivate several functionalities of our sites, in particular those which allow you to buy products online. Therefore, some parts of our sites will stop working properly if you prevent your browser from accepting cookies.<\/p>

                Analog technologies:<\/h3>
                • Web Beacons: Web beacons, sometimes referred to as clear GIFs, are transparent image files embedded in our sites, advertisements and emails. They include cookies that help us compile statistics on the effectiveness of our sites and our promotional campaigns by collecting generic information about your navigation path within a site or series of sites. They also allow us to determine, among other things, whether you have opened an email, newsletter or advertisement that we sent to you or interacted with this message.<\/li><\/ul>

                  Local Shared Objects: Local Shared Objects, sometimes called Flash cookies, are data files placed on your computer when you visit sites. They are similar to cookies and track your online activities.<\/p> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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                  Some browsers have a feature that does not track online activities. When you enable this feature, the sites you visit receive a signal telling them that you do not want to be tracked. As the interpretation of this signal has not yet been standardized, our sites do not take into account the activation of this function in the browser of our visitors. Therefore, even if you activate the do not track your online activities feature, we will continue to collect, use and disclose information about you in accordance with this Policy.<\/p> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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