Privacy policy

AUTOMATIC COLLECTION VIA THE INTERNET OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Building Products of Canada Corp. (hereinafter referred to as ‘BP’) has established a Personal Information Protection Policy in which it is committed to safeguarding the confidentiality of personal information and limiting access to only those members of its staff for whom such information is essential for the performance of their duties for BP.

This Privacy Policy supplements the above and describes how we collect, use, and disclose your personal information, as well as how it can be accessed and corrected when necessary. This Policy also explains how cookies are used on our website.

By accessing, visiting, or using BP’s website or any other connected mobile application, by contacting us, or by consenting to receive emails from BP, you agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to websites operated by third parties. BP is not responsible for their privacy policies, procedures, or practices.

1. General

We collect your personal information in several ways, including when you enter information on our website, purchase a product or service, subscribe to a newsletter, contact us by phone or email, or post content on our social media accounts. Depending on the circumstances, personal information may include your name, postal address, postal code, email address, phone number, and, if you agree, certain other information.

BP only collects the information it needs to provide its products and services. However, during its management and business activities, BP may be required to collect and process various types of personal information, including:

• Marketing and communication preference information, as well as related information such as preferences, feedback, and responses to surveys;
• Service-related information, such as details about products we have sold to you, services we have provided to you, or products that have been sold or installed for you by one of our business partners;
• Information about website usage and other technical information, such as details about visits to our websites, your interaction with our advertising and online content, or information collected through cookies and other tracking technologies;
• Billing and financial information, such as a billing address, banking account information, or payment data.

2. Automatic Collection of Non-Personal Information
   2.1. When you visit our Site, non-personal information is recorded by the standard operation of Building Products of Canada Corp.’s Internet servers, in order to monitor and enhance your online experience.2.2. Such recorded information may include (without being limited to):
   • your IP address
   • the name of your internet service provider
   • the operating system and the type of browser you used
   • the date and duration of your visit
   • the name(s) of the visited page(s)
   • the amount of transferred data.

3. Personal information that you choose to submit
   
   3.1. As a general policy, you are not required to disclose your personal data as a condition of using this Website. No personally identifiable information, such as your name, address, or e-mail address, is automatically collected from your visit to the Website.

   3.2. However, Building Products of Canada Corp. Website’s various registration forms and surveys may request that you give us contact information (such as your name, mailing and/or e-mail address) and profile data (such as your preferences).In many cases, you choose the amount of information you supply (e.g. when sending us information through the Site, you may choose to include only an e-mail address for replies).

   There may be cases, however, where some of the information requested is identified as mandatory and some as voluntary. In such cases, if you do not provide mandatory personal information with respect to a particular activity, you will not be able to engage in that activity.

   If you request information through this website and provide your email address, name, and/or postal address to Building Products of Canada Corp., you agree that these data may be used by Building Products of Canada Corp. and its certified roofers to communicate the requested information to you and to provide you with other information that may be of interest to you about Building Products of Canada Corp. and its certified roofers.

   3.3. To the extent that you provide such information, you have the right to consult your personal data, to correct your personal data, if necessary, and to withdraw your consent to the use of your personal data. For this purpose you may contact Building Products of Canada Corp.:

   Marc Boily
   Director, Human Resources
   Email : marc.boily@saint-gobain.com

   3.4. Custom Advertising Audiences

   3.4.1. We never sell or transfer personally identifiable information to third parties outside of Building Products of Canada Corp. and its certified roofers.

   3.4.2. While, as a general rule, BP never discloses personal information to anyone, it may, however, request that this be done to create ‘lookalike’ custom advertising audiences using Meta platforms (Facebook Ads), Google, and other social media, in order to target anonymous profiles that share similarities with our own customer base but where the data does not allow for the personal identification of individuals. Once we have created custom data audiences (that do not allow for the personal identification of individuals), we subsequently delete the data.

   3.4.3. We may also utilize socio-demographic and interest-based targeting offered by advertising platforms themselves, as well as keyword and content targeting (which do not require the use of data collected on BP’s website).

   3.4.4. BP may disclose personal information in certain circumstances if we have reason to believe that the disclosure of such information is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against any person who may (intentionally or unintentionally) be attacking or harming the rights or property of BP, other users of the website, or any other person who may be harmed by such activities.

4. Use of cookies4.1. Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to an individual’s computer hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Cookies make using our Sites easier by, among other things, saving your passwords and preferences for you. The use of these cookies is limited to our websites and the tools we use to create personalized advertising audiences in which you will not be personally identified. We do not transfer personal information to third parties.4.2. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies; however, you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or indicate when a cookie is being sent. (Note: you will need to consult the help area of your browser application for instructions.)4.3. If you choose to disable your cookies setting or refuse to accept a cookie, some parts of Building Products of Canada Corp.’s Websites will not function properly or may be considerably slower.

5. Use of IP addresses5.1. An IP address is a number that’s automatically assigned to your computer by your Internet provider whenever you’re surfing the Web.5.2. When you request pages from Building Products of Canada Corp.’s Website, our servers log your IP address. Building Products of Canada Corp. collects IP addresses for the purposes of system administration, to audit the use of our Site.5.3. We do not link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable, which means that your session will be logged, but you are anonymous to us.

   5.4. We may exceptionally use your IP addresses in cooperation with your Internet provider to identify you if we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with our Terms of Use or to protect our service, Sites, customers, or others.

6. Security6.1. Security for all personally identifiable information is extremely important to us. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best efforts to ensure its security on our systems.6.2. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, Building Products of Canada Corp. cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk.6.3. Contact :
   • For any questions regarding this privacy policy, the practices of our websites, or their use, please contact the person responsible for personal information protection at the contact details provided above.
   • Information provided by you via general e-mail inquiries to Building Products of Canada Corp. such as your e-mail address is used only to respond to your inquiries in the ordinary course of business, and is never shared with third parties.

   6.4 General

   6.4.1. You may not assign these Terms of Use or any of your interests, rights or obligations under these Terms of Use.

   6.4.2. If any provision of these Terms of Use is found to be invalid by any court having competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of these Terms of Use, which shall remain in full force and effect.

   6.4.3. No waiver of any of these Terms of Use shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or condition or any other term or condition.

   6.4.4. To the fullest extent permitted by law, you hereby expressly agree that any proceedings arising out of or relating yo tour use of the website, its information, services and content shall be subject to the laws of the province of Quéec. The courts in judicial district of Montreal shall have exclusive jurisdiction.

Summary of personal information collected

Here are the personal information that may be collected by La Cie Matériaux de Construction BP Canada and its certified roofers: