Last updated October 3, 2024
The protection of your privacy and personal information is important to IRDA.
The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you of our practices regarding the collection, use, disclosure, storage and removal of your personal information.
Through the use of ProfilSol, certain personal information is collected, used and processed in order to provide our services.
By sharing personal information with us through ProfilSol, you thereby accept that this information shall be processed in accordance with this Privacy Policy, and you authorize IRDA and its service providers to process your personal information for the purposes listed below.
IRDA is a non-profit research and development institute whose mission is agri-environmental innovation for the collective creation of tomorrow's agricultural production.
When you use ProfilSol, we may collect and process various forms of personal information in order to conduct our services and activities:
If you are a minor of less than 14 years old, do not provide us with any personal information without the express consent of your parent or guardian.
We collect your personal information in multiple ways:
Please note that the personal information we collect is solely that which helps us to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy.
When you use ProfilSol, we may automatically collect and store the following information:
This information is necessary for the server to render a file format compatible with your device and is stored for technical and statistical purposes. This information serves to track the number of visits, the most viewed pages, the type of device used by visitors and their country of origin.
Your personal information will be used according to your provided consent.
We may therefore use your personal information in the following circumstances and for the following reasons:
We will make use of personal information solely to fulfill the principal purposes for which it was collected, and only by means that are legitimate and compatible with this these purposes.
We may share your personal information with our employees, as well as with certain third parties, namely the following:
These third parties may process or have access to personal information within the scope of the services they provide. We limit the information we share with these service providers to only that which is reasonably necessary to carry out their functions, and the contracts which we have established with these service providers require them to take measures that are reasonable and compliant with the law to ensure the protection of this information.
The ProfilSol application contains links to external websites. Any information exchanged on these sites is not subject to this Privacy Policy, but rather to that of the external sites in question, if available. As a result, we have neither responsibility for nor control over their privacy policies. We invite you to review them, if applicable, before sharing any personal information with these third parties.
We will store your personal information to fulfill the purposes for which this personal information was shared with us, and for any other related or applicable authorized purposes. We will therefore cease to use your personal information once the purposes in question have been fulfilled.
Information security is an integral part of the confidentiality of personal information.
For this purpose, we carry out reasonable physical, technical or procedural measures to protect your personal information against any unauthorized perusal, use, release or removal and against any other undue infringement upon the protection of such information.
We use comprehensive cybersecurity tools to safeguard information, which include, among others, double authentication, password managers, a virtual private network, and a state-of-the-art firewall.
Nevertheless, despite our precautions, information shared over the internet and stored in internet-based systems cannot be 100% protected. We cannot therefore ensure or guarantee beyond what is reasonable the security or integrity of such information.
As a user, you have the right to access the personal information that we have collected from you. In addition, you have the right to update or correct any personal information in our possession, provided that the request is legally admissible.
You may also choose to retract or modify your consent to the collection and use of your personal information at any time, as long as it is legally admissible to do so and you have informed us within a reasonable timeframe.
If you are unsatisfied with the way in which your request to modify or correct your personal information has been handled, including in the case of a lack of response or an unsatisfactory response, you may contact the Commission d'accès à l'information.
If you have questions concerning this Privacy Policy or how we handle your personal information, or wish to exercise your rights, please contact our Privacy Officer by mail or email at the following address:
Responsable de la protection des renseignements personnels
Institut de recherche et de développement en agroenvironnement (IRDA)
2700, rue Einstein, bureau D1.110
Québec (Québec)
G1P 3W8
responsable.protection@irda.qc.ca
We may modify the content of the ProfilSol application without notice and, as a result, this Privacy Policy may be modified at any time in accordance with the law.
We therefore invite you to regularly review our Privacy Policy.