Privacy Notice
1. Scope of the privacy notice
2. Scope of application
- People who place orders on its Site;
- Visitors and users of its Site when personal information is collected;
- Anyone who contacts Kimpex;
- Anyone whose personal information is otherwise collected as part of Kimpex’s activities.
3. Our general guidelines regarding the protection of personal information
KIMPEX’s protective measures are based on the following general guidelines:
3.1 CONSENT
3.2 PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTION
3.2.1 Type of personal Information collected
- Your identification information, such as your name, first name, mailing address, email address or your telephone number;
- Your identification information relating only to business relations, such as birth date and social insurance number;
- Financial information, such as your credit card number, bank account number or even your personal credit reports.
- Information that is required for optimizing your experience on its Site such as your IP address, your location or browsing data.
Kimpex ensures that the personal information it is collecting is up to date and accurate when it is used.
3.2.2 Methods of collection
- Communicate with Kimpex;
- Place orders for its products;
- Browse on its site;
- Use its online services;
- Submit testimonials or information requests on its site.
- Search for a retailer.
- Strictly Essential Cookies:
These cookies ensure the proper functioning of our website and cannot be disabled. They are necessary, in particular, to allow you to log in online, use the shopping cart, or fill out forms. These cookies do not store any personal information. You can configure your browser to block them, but some parts of our website may not function properly.
- Configurable cookies:
- Functional cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember the choices you make as you browse. They help remember the contents of your shopping cart or your preferred language to save you from entering them repeatedly. They can also be used to remember your geographical location so that you can access the site specific to your region directly. By placing functional cookies, we make your visit to our website more convenient. If you refuse them, our website will not remember your choices and preferences.
- Geolocation cookies: components that allow the user’s location to ensure that the Site can offer purchasing services online.
- Advertising cookies: These cookies may be set on our website by our advertising partners. They are used, in particular, to build a profile of your interests and to show you relevant advertisements for our products and services on other websites. These cookies are based on the unique identifier (IP address) of your browser and your connecting device. If you refuse them, the advertisements you see may be less relevant to you.
- Performance cookies: These cookies enable us to determine the number of visits and traffic sources to our website in order to measure and improve its performance. They help us, among other things, to identify the most and least visited pages and understand how visitors navigate our website. All information collected by these cookies is aggregated. If you refuse them, we will not be informed of your visit to our website.
You can modify your choices regarding cookies by adjusting your browser’s settings. However, deactivating the configurable cookies may result in setbacks with your browsing experience (e.g.: subscription problems, using services or posting).
3.3 USE
- Process your orders and deliver them to you;
- Confirm your identity and check the accuracy of your personal information;
- Process and manage your customer file;
- Process and analyse sponsorship requests;
- Gather your testimonies;
- Solicit participation in competitions and games;
- Send promotional communications;
- Analyse data and generate statistics;
- Manage and optimize its Site and online services, update user profiles, personalize and adapt browsing experience to your needs;
- Communicate with us;
- Meet our legal and regulatory requirements.
You can ask us for more details on these uses at all times.
3.4 COMMUNICATION
- Agencies specialized in credit check verification;
- Transportation Companies;
- Product Suppliers;
- Retailers;
- Marketing or Advertising Providers;
- Providers of Data Hosting services, Servers and Systems;
- Regulators such as the Commission d'accès à l'information;
- Any other people allowed to collect personal information as authorized by law.
Kimpex makes sure that the confidential nature of your personal information is preserved when it is provided to a third party. In addition, Kimpex agrees not to sell, convey or lease your personal information to a third party.
3.5 CONSERVATION AND DESTRUCTION
3.6 SECURITY
- Administrative measures such as constant awareness to protect information, including key concepts of privacy protection, a code of ethics, policies and guidelines outlining the security framework, laws and professional ethics, as well as the implementation of the best principles of identity management and access, such as the principle of least privilege and the segregation of duties.
- Physical measures such as perimeter protection of the Soucy businesses, monitoring cameras, access cards, controlled physical access to servers’ rooms and automatic door-locking after a period of inactivity.
- Technical measures such as software programs for identification, detection of and protection against technological threats, strong passwords using a complexity based on the best market’s recommendation, multi-factor authentication and the identification and prompt correction of the vulnerabilities affecting our informational assets.
3.7 YOUR RIGHTS WITH REGARD TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
- Personal information used to reach this decision;
- Reasons leading to this decision;
- Your right to have them rectify the personal information used for this decision;
- Access to a person with the authority to revise this decision if applicable.