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• We only process personal information with your consent.

• We may process sensitive information when necessary with your consent or as permitted by law.

• We do this to provide and improve our services, to communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law.

• If you participate in BLAXPO as a candidate, we will share some relevant personal information with participating companies.

• We will not share sensitive information with anyone. At most, these may be used for aggregate/statistical purposes.

• While nothing on the internet is 100% secure, we do our utmost best to protect your data. We have organizational processes, external oversight, technical procedures and bank-grade security in place to protect your personal information.
  

how do we use your personal information?

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you subscribe to our newsletter or register for our events. Such personal information is used to process your registration, payments when applicable, as well as for matching purposes with our exhibitors.

BLAXPO & Four Brown Girls will not sell your personal information.

As with most websites, we also automatically collect certain information when you use our services. This information does not reveal your specific identity but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser, language preferences, location, and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our services, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.

how do we process your information?

We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our services, communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law. We may also process your information for other purposes with your consent.

with whom do we share your personal information?

We may share your data with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or consultants who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work.

We may also share relevant information with participating exhibitors so that they may reach out to candidates, and vice-versa.

where do we keep your personal information?

Personal information is stored and processed in Canada, and may also be stored and/or processed in any country our service providers have offices.

do we use cookies?

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to access or store information.

how long do we keep your information?

We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements). No purpose in this policy will require us to keep your personal information for longer than twelve (12) months beyond the end of the event you have registered for.

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize such information.

How do we keep your information safe?

We have implemented appropriate and reasonable technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our services is at your own risk. You should only access our services within a secure environment.

what are your privacy rights?

Under certain circumstances and in accordance with applicable data protection legislation, you are entitled to:

• Request access to your personal information;

• Request correction of the personal information that we hold about you; 

• Withdraw consent and request erasure of your personal data; 

• Request restriction of processing of your personal data; 

• Make a complaint.

You can make such a request by contacting us using the details provided in the “How can you contact us?” section below.

how can you contact us?

If you have questions or comments about this policy, you may contact our Data Protection Officer (DPO) by email at privacy@fourbrowngirls.com or by mail:

Four Brown Girls
4429 Rue Wagner
Montréal, Québec
H9A 2W2

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