Privacy policy

Maximus Cybersecurity Inc. privacy policy.

Latest update: December 2023

This Privacy Policy contains information on how we collect, use, and disclose personal data as part of our activities. This Privacy Policy also contains information about your rights regarding your personal data.

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, you can reach our privacy office by e-mail at [email protected].

1. WHEN DOES THIS PRIVACY POLICY APPLY?

This Privacy Policy applies to a wide range of activities, including when you:

This Privacy Policy does not apply to third party websites, applications, or services, even where they may be linked to our Services. For example, our websites may include links to the websites of other organizations that we collaborate with; if you click on a link to another website, that website is not covered by this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to review all third party privacy policies and notices prior to using third party websites, applications or services.

2. WHAT IS PERSONAL DATA?

In this Privacy Policy, when we use the term “personal data”, we mean any information that relates to you, as an identified or identifiable natural person. The personal data that we collect depends on the circumstances (see question 3. “What personal data do we collect about you, and for what purposes?”).

Some of the information which we consider as personal data for the purpose of this Privacy Policy may not be protected under applicable laws, and you may not be entitled to the same rights regarding such personal data.

Personal data may include information collected about you through cookies and tracking technologies such as beacons and web pixels (together, the “cookies”). Cookies are small blocks of data which are installed on a browser or a device during a session, and which remembers preferences or information about you.

3. WHAT PERSONAL DATA DO WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU, AND FOR WHAT PURPOSES?

We collect personal data to provide you with access to the Services, to secure and manage our Services, to obtain analytics, to process job applications and to conduct marketing regarding our Services. We also collect personal data when you purchase our services.

Below are categories of personal data collected by Maximus Cybersecurity Inc.:

Examples: Contact information, marketing preferences, transaction history, cookies, browsing habits. We collect Marketing Data to market our products and services, including to provide you with personalized and tailored content based on your preferences. For instance, we may provide you with suggestions for services or news articles based on your past interests.

Examples: Technical logs, IP address, browser type and configuration, operating system, number of visitors, pages viewed, length of visits, geographical location, language preferences and device information.

We collect Usage Information and Technical Log Data automatically through our websites to allow us to monitor and secure our websites, and to understand traffic within our websites so that we can optimize them and improve our Services.

Collection of Usage and Technical Log Data is generally made using cookies or by enlisting third party services which will use cookies to track and record your preferences on our websites.

Examples: Education information, professional experiences, contact information

If you apply for one of our career opportunities, or if you participate in our talent community, we will collect the personal data you share with us, including any attachments and content. We will only use this information for making employment decisions.

Examples: Contact information, messages

If you communicate with us by e-mail, social media, through our websites or otherwise, we will collect the personal data that you share with us to respond to your communication.

4. DO WE SHARE PERSONAL DATA WITH THIRD PARTIES?

We generally identify to whom, and for what purposes, we disclose your personal data, at the time we collect such information from you or otherwise obtain your consent to such disclosure. For example, we may disclose your personal data to payment processors.

We may also transfer your personal data to service providers that are assisting us in our operations. We ensure that those service providers are subject to appropriate privacy standards.

Examples of our service providers include:

We may use and disclose your information when we believe such use or disclosure is permitted, necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities; (d) to enforce or apply our policies and agreements; (e) to protect our rights, operations or property; (f) to collect amounts owed to us; (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain; (h) to protect the safety of our stakeholders; (i) to address, prevent or stop fraud or other activity that we consider to be illegal or unethical; or (j) to address an emergency involving danger of death or serious harm.

5. HOW DO WE PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

Maximus Cybersecurity Inc. has adopted reasonable security procedures to help protect your personal data. For example, our cloud-based platform is hosted on servers located in Canada, which uses built-in security protections. We use encryption when necessary.

Like most organizations, we cannot guarantee that our safeguards will always be effective. No method of transmitting information over the Internet or of storing information is completely secure. A breach of security safeguards can result in such risks as phishing and identity theft. In such cases, we act promptly to mitigate the risks and to inform you where there is a real risk of significant harm, or as otherwise required by law.

6. WHERE DO WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

We retain your personal data at our offices and data centres in Canada.

7. HOW LONG DO WE RETAIN YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

We retain your personal data for as long as required for the purpose for which it was collected, or longer if we are required or permitted to do so under applicable laws.

8. WHAT ARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA RIGHTS?

The law provides you with rights regarding your personal data. These rights may change depending on where you are located, and they may not apply to all types of personal data. Most individuals have the right to access their personal data, the right to withdraw their consent to the use and disclosure of their personal data, and the right to request corrections to their personal data under certain circumstances, such as if the personal data is inaccurate or outdated. 

In some cases, withdrawal of your consent may mean that we will no longer be able to provide you with our Services.