Privacy Policy

Mini-entrepot prestige. (hereinafter referred to as " MEP " or " we ") believes that the protection of personal information is of paramount importance. It is for this reason that we have established this Privacy Policy (hereinafter referred to as the " Policy ") having as its objective the protection of your integrity and your right to disclose or not your personal information.

This Policy discloses how MEP collects, uses, communicates, processes and protects your personal information. By using our website (https://mini-entrepot-prestige.com/) (the “ Website ”) or by transacting with us, you agree that we may collect, use, process, disclose and retain your personal information in accordance with the terms described herein. If you do not agree to abide by and be bound by this Policy, you may not visit, access or use our Website, share your personal information with us, or use MEP's services.

Our privacy practices comply with the following legislation

The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA - federal law)
The Private Sector Privacy Act(Bill 25 - provincial law)

All personal information is collected in a fair and non-intrusive manner and with your consent. Personal information collected is accessible only to those persons necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it is collected. MEP is committed to respecting the privacy of its users, employees, applicants and all visitors to its Web site who voluntarily provide us with personal information. We are aware of the importance of protecting and properly managing the personal information you provide to us. This Policy will help you understand what information we collect, how it will be used and to whom it may be disclosed.

This Policy explains MEP's practices regarding information collected from its users via its Website.

1. MEP's Commitment: Complying with the Ten Privacy Principles

In Canada, the "Fair Information Principles" regarding personal information are contained in a series of 10 principles developed by the Canadian Standards Association and enshrined in Canada's privacy legislation PIPEDA. MEP complies with the following 10 privacy principles:

Principle 1 - Accountability

MEP is responsible for personal information under its control and has designated a Chief Privacy Officer "CPO" who is accountable and responsible for MEP's compliance with this Policy and applicable laws.

Here is his contact information:
Chief Privacy Officer
minientrepotaltitude@gmail.com

Principle 2 - Identifying Purposes

MEP shall identify the purposes for which personal information is collected at or before the time the information is collected. Some of the purposes for which personal information is collected, used and/or disclosed are described in this Policy. In the event that we wish to collect, use and/or disclose personal information for purposes other than those contained in this Policy, MEP is committed to obtaining your consent.

Principle 3 - Consent

MEP is committed to obtaining your informed consent for the collection, use or disclosure of your personal information, except as provided by law.

Principle 4 - Limiting Collection

MEP will limit the collection of personal information, both with respect to the type and amount of information, to that which is necessary to fulfill the purposes identified by MEP. MEP will collect your personal information by fair and lawful means, and not by misleading or deceiving you about the purposes for which we are collecting your personal information.

Principle 5 - Limiting Use, Disclosure and Retention

MEP will not use or disclose your Personal Information for purposes other than those identified and for which it was collected, except with your prior consent or as permitted or required by law. MEP will retain your Personal Information only for as long as is necessary to meet the purposes for which your Personal Information was collected.

In addition, our retention periods may be amended from time to time due to legitimate interests (for example, to ensure the security of Personal Information, to prevent abuse and breaches or to prosecute criminals).

Please also be assured that when the purpose for which information was collected has been fulfilled, we will proceed to destroy or anonymize that information in accordance with the law.

Principle 6 - Accuracy

MEP will strive to ensure that your personal information is accurate, complete, current and necessary for the purposes for which we collected it.

Principle 7 - Safeguards

MEP will protect your personal information using security safeguards appropriate to the sensitivity of the information.

Principle 8 - Openness

MEP will make readily available to you any information about our policies and practices relating to the management of personal information.

Principle 9 - Individual Access

Subject to certain exceptions, MEP will, upon written request to our RPRP, disclose the existence, use and disclosure of your personal information and give you access to that information. An individual shall be able to challenge the accuracy and completeness of the information held by us and shall be given the opportunity to have it amended as appropriate.

Principle 10 - Challenging Compliance

You have the right to address a challenge concerning our compliance with this Policy to our RPRP.

2. Consent

2.1 This Policy applies to all information collected by and on behalf of MEP, whether collected in writing, verbally or electronically or through any website operated by or on behalf of MEP. By browsing the Website, or transacting with MEP, you consent to the collection and use of your personal information in accordance with the purposes described herein.

2.2 By submitting personal information to MEP and/or by browsing and using the Website, you consent to MEP's collection, use and disclosure of such personal information in accordance with this Policy and subject to the terms and conditions permitted or required by law.

3. Consent to Sharing and Disclosure of Personal Information

In addition to consenting to the terms and conditions of this Policy, including any relevant additional policies, you consent to MEP sharing your personal information that you have provided to us in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth herein.

4. Nature of the information we collect

4.1 "Personal information" means any information relating to the personal or material circumstances of an identified or identifiable individual. An identifiable person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, by reference to one or more factors specific to his or her physical, physiological, mental, economic, cultural or social identity.

4. 2 The notion of personal information includes, but is not limited to:

Last name and first name
Home address
Home telephone number
Cell telephone number
Email address
Information concerning a person's employment (resume, background check, references from previous employers)

4.3 « Non-personal information" means any information in the public domain. Information of a professional nature is considered non-personal and therefore not subject to special protection, and may be regularly shared with people both inside and outside MEP. Business information includes, but is not limited to: company name, address, e-mail address, business telephone number and is not considered personal information in some jurisdictions.

4.4 "Sensitive Personal Information" means Personal Information that, when by its nature or because of the context of its use or disclosure, gives rise to a high degree of reasonable expectation of privacy. Given the nature of its services, MEP treats all of its users' personal information as sensitive personal information. For this reason, this personal information, in addition to being encrypted, is purged from our databases as soon as your subscription ends, with the exception of technical information aimed at avoiding duplication of user accounts.

4. 5 In the course of our activities, we may collect, process and use various types of personal information that you provide to us only if we are permitted to do so by law, including the information listed below:

Contact information, such as your first and last name, e-mail address, telephone number, to subscribe to our newsletter
Contact information, such as your first and last name, e-mail address, telephone number, university, subjects of interest, eligibility to complete the internship, your CV and cover letter, to submit an unsolicited application to us
Contact information, such as your first and last name, e-mail address, telephone number, the subject of your application and any other information you voluntarily submit to us when you use the “Contact us”

5. Internet users - cookies, internet protocol (IP) addresses and navigational information

5.1 Cookies

In addition to personal information, we may use information-gathering tools such as cookies on certain pages of our Website or on our Newsletter. Cookies are pieces of information that a Web site sends to an Internet user's hard drive when he or she visits a Web page. Cookies allow the site to remember important information that will make your visit to the site more useful. We use cookies to improve your subsequent visits. If you do not wish to receive cookies, or if you wish to set your browser to notify you each time a cookie is being sent, or if you wish to disable all cookies, please use the Manage my cookies section and/or your browser options to do so. Please note that by disabling cookies, you may not be able to take advantage of certain features.

5.2 Types of cookies

Cookies may cease to exist at the end of a browsing session (a browsing session is defined as the time when the Internet user opens his/her browser until the time when he/she leaves his/her browser) or cookies may be retained for a longer or even indefinite period.

5.3 Permanent cookies

These cookies are stored on the Internet user's hard disk and survive the end of sessions, making it possible to save an Internet user's preferences or actions between different pages of the same website (or in some cases between different websites). Persistent cookies may be used for a variety of purposes, such as saving an Internet user's choices and preferences while visiting the Website.

5.4 Managing cookies

For more information on cookies, including how to see which cookies have been deposited on your computer, how to manage them, prevent cookies from being deposited and how to delete them, we invite you to consult the Manage my cookies section of our Website. In this way, you will be able to adjust your browser settings in accordance with your desired level of protection.

5.5 Internet Protocol (IP)

An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is associated with your computer's Internet connection by your Internet service provider. MEP may use this address to diagnose problems with its Web servers, to manage its Web Site and to maintain contact with an Internet user while he or she is visiting its Web Site. The IP address of your connection may also be used to provide you with information based on where you are browsing the Website from. We use this data to ensure compliance with the terms of use of the Website.

5.6 Navigational information

It is used to measure the interest and use made by Internet users of certain parts of our Website as well as the effectiveness of certain promotional programs administered by or on behalf of MEP. This information does not identify you, but rather provides statistical data on the length of your visit, the pages consulted and the order in which the pages were visited. MEP performs statistical analysis of this browsing information in order to establish profiles of Internet users and determine their behavior and characteristics. MEP may share this information with third parties; however, none of this information can identify you or determine anything personal about you.

6. How we use your personal information

6.1 We use your personal information to facilitate the processing of requests you submit to us. We have taken care to design a tailored Privacy Policy so that we can keep you well informed about how we use your personal information.

6.2 MEP may contact you directly by email, mail or telephone in connection with the purposes described herein, for example to offer you some of our new or existing services.

6. 3 MEP may use your Personal Information for the legitimate purposes described below:

To provide services to you
To operate, maintain, supervise, develop, improve and offer all features of our Website
To manage risk and operations
To comply with our obligations under applicable laws and regulations
To detect and prevent fraud, errors, spam, abuse, security incidents and other harmful activities
To transmit communications to you in accordance with the law
To enable the function to apply for employment with MEP
To verify your identity and review your personal background as permitted by law when you use our Website to apply for employment
For any other purpose permitted or required by law

6.4 MEP undertakes not to use any personal information collected in accordance with this Policy or in accordance with any other law or regulation for any other purpose whatsoever unless it has obtained your prior consent except in certain exceptional circumstances where MEP reasonably and in good faith believes that it is required to do so by law.

7. Sharing Personal Information

7.1 MEP does not sell, transfer or assign any Personal Information to third parties. We may, however, share Personal Information with our service providers, some of whom are located outside Quebec but within Canada, or in Europe, our consultants or our subsidiaries for our internal business purposes. Except as described in this Policy, MEP will not disclose any personal information to third parties unless requested to do so by the user, the user consents to such disclosure, or such disclosure is necessary or permitted by law.

7.2 We may share your personal information with our agents, affiliates or service providers who act for or on behalf of MEP in the course of MEP's business, or to anyone who processes the data in accordance with the purposes for which it was obtained (such as the maintenance of our secure databases). When we disclose your personal information to service providers, we enter into written contracts with them before your personal information is disclosed to them and we only provide them with the personal information necessary to perform their mandate.

7. 3 The personal information you provide to MEP is considered an asset of the company and may be disclosed or transferred to a third party in the event of a sale (proposed or completed), lease, merger, or any other type of acquisition, sale, financing of all or part of MEP or any business assets or shares of MEP or any of its divisions, not however affecting the products or services rendered to users by the third party.

7. 4 While we make reasonable efforts to maintain the confidentiality of personal information, MEP reserves the right to disclose personal information to a third party in certain specific circumstances, including: to respond to requests from public and governmental authorities, to comply with law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena, judicial proceeding, court order or as otherwise required by law, to enforce our policies or contracts, in debt collection, to protect users of our sites from fraudulent or abusive use, in an emergency when security is compromised, as determined by MEP or otherwise when necessary to establish, exercise or defend against any legal action.

8. Your rights

As a data subject, you may exercise the rights set out below by contacting RPRP by secure e-mail:

You have the right to access the Personal Information we hold about you and to request a paper copy of the documents containing your Personal Information, subject to the exceptions provided by applicable law
You have the right to have rectified, amend and update the Personal Information we hold about you if it is incomplete, equivocal, out of date or inaccurate
You have the right to withdraw or change your consent to MEP collecting, using, communicate or retain your Personal Information at any time, subject to applicable legal and contractual restrictions
You have the right to ask us to stop disseminating your Personal Information and to de-index any link attached to your name that provides access to such information if such dissemination contravenes the law or a court order
You have the right to lodge a complaint with the Commission d'accès à l'information, subject to the conditions set out in the applicable law

In order to process your request, you may be asked to provide an appropriate identification document or otherwise identify yourself.

9. Links to external websites owned by third parties

Please note that our Website may contain links to other websites not affiliated with MEP. MEP has no control over these websites or their privacy practices, which may differ from those of our Website. This Policy cannot and does not apply to any external website. We do not endorse or make any representations about third-party websites. Personal information that you choose to provide to third parties is not covered by this Policy. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any company or website before submitting any personal information. Third parties may choose to share the personal information they hold with MEP; such sharing is subject to that third party's privacy policy.

10. Sensitive Personal Information

In the course of our business, it is unlikely, but not impossible, that in certain circumstances we may need to collect Personal Information considered to be of a sensitive nature, where it is strictly necessary for our operations. In such cases, we will ensure that we have your express consent to do so, in accordance with the law.

11. Limitation of liability

MEP undertakes to take all reasonable steps to ensure a level of confidentiality and security of personal information in accordance with technological standards appropriate to its sector of activity.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, you declare that you understand and acknowledge that no computer system offers absolute security and that a degree of risk is always present when personal information is transmitted over the public network that is the Internet.

You thus agree that MEP cannot be held responsible for any breach of confidentiality, hacking, virus, loss, theft, misuse or alteration of personal information transmitted or hosted on its systems or those of a third party. You also waive any claim in this regard, except in the case of gross negligence or wilful misconduct on the part of MEP. Accordingly, you agree to hold MEP and its officers, directors, affiliates and business partners harmless from any damages of any kind, whether direct or indirect, incidental, special or consequential, arising out of or in connection with the use of your Personal Information.

12. Individuals under the age of majority

The services offered by MEP are intended only for individuals over the age of majority. By using MEP's services, you certify that you are of legal age according to the legal provisions applicable to your place of residence or the place from which you access the Site.

We do not knowingly collect or use Personal Information from minors. If you are a minor, you must not provide us with your Information. If you are a parent or guardian and become aware that your minor child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us using the contact information provided in Section 13 above to request that we delete that child's Personal Information from our systems.

13. Our Privacy Officer

For any comments, questions or complaints, please do not hesitate to contact the Privacy Officer.

Privacy Officer
minientrepotaltitude@gmail.com

14. Changes to our Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is effective as of May 5, 2025. MEP reserves the right to update this Privacy Policy at any time. When MEP makes changes to this Privacy Policy, we will also change the “Last Updated” date as found at the top of the Privacy Policy. MEP encourages you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to be informed of how it is protecting your information and to be notified of any changes to the Privacy Policy. Your use of the Website after the posting of an amended version of the Privacy Policy constitutes your consent to be bound by such changes. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into all Terms and Conditions governing the various websites and all programs and services used or operated for or on behalf of MEP. Any changes to this Privacy Policy are effective immediately upon posting by MEP.