By using this website and providing your personal information to Université Sainte-Anne or its departments or associations (hereinafter referred to as “the Université”), you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information by the Université in accordance with this privacy policy. You may choose not to provide personal information through this website; however, by doing so, you may not have access to certain features or activities offered through this site.
Personal information you may be asked to provide
The Université may ask you to provide or collect your first and last name, mailing address, telephone number and email address in order to fill out shipping slips from the website or to provide you by email with the publications you have requested. If you respond to a survey, questionnaire or form, the Université may collect financial, demographic, gender, age, education, marital, language, household or other personal information about you.
Use of the personal information you provide
Questionnaires and surveys
From time to time, the Université may conduct telephone or online surveys or distribute electronic questionnaires to users, enabling it to collect personal information that participants agree to provide voluntarily. Users are not obliged to participate in these surveys or to provide the personal information requested. When personal information is provided, the Université uses it to create a general profile of its website users and to produce statistics and summaries for internal use. If the Université has obtained your consent to do so at the time of collection of your personal information, it may contact you to obtain your comments regarding its products and services.
Regulations and pledges
The Université may request and collect the above information to process payments and donation commitments. This information is used to verify your credit and to send you an invoice. By submitting a pledge form or any other form that includes a payment, you agree that we may share your personal information with our suppliers and other parties as deemed necessary to process your order. In order to process orders or requests made through the website or by telephone, the Université may disclose your personal information to its agents, representatives, subcontractors and service providers so that they may provide the Université with services related to credit card transactions, order processing, shipping, etc. The Université requires that these entities not disclose your personal information to any third party. The Université requires that these entities not use this information for purposes other than those for which it was communicated. If you consent by using the appropriate function on the Université's website, the Université may also use your personal information to send you, by email, advertisements concerning the Université's services or news that may be of interest to you.
Information collected automatically
The Université automatically collects general information on the use of its website. This information includes the IP address of your computer, the IP address of your internet service provider, the web browser used to access the site, the internet address of the website from which you linked to the Université's website, and the date and time you accessed the Université website, the operations performed while using the Université website, the sections of the Université website consulted, the parameters relating to the particular pages consulted on the Université website, the browsing time on each page and the content downloaded from the Université website. We make no link between this information and the personal information you provide. If authentication is required, your username is recorded in the web server log files. General information that is collected automatically is used to improve the website, for marketing and/or website management and system administration purposes, or for other administrative purposes. The Université may use the general information collected automatically to create summaries of website usage and user habits and demographics. The Université uses “cookies,” which are small data files sent to your browser and stored on your device, to track your use of the Université's website. Cookie information is used to determine whether a user has previously visited the Université website. Most browsers allow users to disable cookies stored on their device.
Disclosure of your personal information
The Université does not disclose your personal information except as required or permitted by the Privacy Act.
Information security and storage
Despite the measures implemented by the Université, which are described below, it is impossible to guarantee that data transmitted over the internet is secure. The Université does not guarantee that the personal information you provide will be transmitted securely, or that it will be fully protected against interception, loss, misuse or alteration. The Université assumes no obligation or liability for any damages that may result from the unsecured transmission, interception, loss, misuse or alteration of the personal information you transmit. The Université has adopted and implemented physical and technological mechanisms and measures to protect your personal information and safeguard its confidentiality. The Université uses an internet firewall to prevent third-party intrusion into its computer systems. All use of the Université's website uses secure socket layer (SSL) encryption. SSL is used to reduce the risk of your personal information being intercepted or read as it travels over the internet to our servers. Your information is decrypted only when it is received by the Université's servers, and access to your information is controlled. The information you provide is safeguarded and stored in access-controlled locations.
Other websites
The Université website may contain links to other websites. When you click on one of these links, you leave the Université's website and enter another website. The Université has no control over these other sites and is not responsible for the collection of your personal information by these other sites or their use of cookies or other tracking technologies. It is important that you review the privacy policies of these websites before providing them with your personal information.
Third-party service providers
For web analytics purposes, the Université uses the services of a third-party service provider, Google Analytics (Google Inc.). Google uses servers located in other countries, where web analytics data may be processed. Consequently, this data may be subject to the laws in force in the country in which it is processed.
For more information on this service provider's privacy policy, please visit their website.
As part of our multimedia integration, social media and anti-spam initiatives, the Université integrates into its website certain services offered by third-party service providers, namely Facebook and Instagram (Meta Platforms, Inc.), Twitter, Inc, YouTube (Google, Inc.), Vimeo, Inc, Microsoft Corp, hCaptcha (Intuition Machines, Inc.), Buzzsprout (Higher Pixels) and OpenStreetMap. When you open a page on the site that incorporates one of these services, your personal and technological information is subject to the terms and conditions and privacy policies of that third-party service. These service providers may use servers located in other countries. Consequently, such data may be subject to the laws in force in the country in which it is processed.
For additional information on the privacy policies of these service providers, please consult their websites or the following links:
- Facebook and Instagram
- X (Twitter)
- YouTube
- Vimeo
- Security and Privacy in Microsoft Forms
- hCaptcha
- Buzzsprout
- OpenStreetMap
Changes to this privacy policy
The Université reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time by posting a new Privacy Policy on its website, without notice or obligation to you or any other person. The collection, use and disclosure of your information by the Université will be subject to the version of the Privacy Policy then posted and in effect.
Reproduction of this privacy policy
You have permission to make a copy of this Privacy Policy for your personal records.
Contact us
To access any of your personal information collected by the Université through this website, please write to us at
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