La Financière agricole du Québec

• Automatically transmitted information
• If you transmit personal information to us
• Links to other sites

Thank you for visiting our site and taking note of our Privacy Policy.

The website of La Financière agricole du Québec only uses cookies to make it easier for users to perform the transactions offered in the sections "On-Line Products and Services" and ''On-Line File''. Furthermore, no personal information is gathered unless we have obtained the user's prior consent.

Automatically transmitted information

When you log onto the web site of La Financière agricole du Québec, information is automatically exchanged between your computer and our server, without your intervention. The information is gathered solely for the purpose of meeting the technological requirements involved in using the Internet. The information does not identify you personally. It consists of:

• Your Internet domain name (for instance, "xcompany.com" and your IP address (generally, an IP address is a unique number assigned to your computer when it is connected to the Internet, which makes it possible to transmit documents to you without error);
• The type of browser and operating system used;
• The date and time you access our site;
• The pages you visit and time spent on each one;
• If you access our site from another site (referral site), its address.

La Financière agricole only keeps the required information to have a record of the number of visitors, the pages visited most often, the technology used by the portal's clientele, the referral sites and the countries of origin of visitors to the site. The information is never used to gather, communicate or exchange user lists.

If you transmit personal information to us

In accordance with the Act respecting Access to documents held by public bodies and the Protection of personal information, a department or agency requesting you to provide personal information must be sure that it needs the information (section 64), must identify itself and must inform you (excerpt of section 65) of:

• The name and address of the public body on whose behalf the information is being collected;
• The use to which the information will be put;
• The categories of persons who will have access to the information;
• The fact that a reply is obligatory, or that it is optional;
• The consequences for the person concerned or, as the case may be, for the third person, in the case of a refusal to reply;
• The rights of access and correction provided by law.

You should never send personal information by e-mail. However, if you do decide to send us personal information, by e-mail or by filling in a form, you can be sure that we will use only the information we require to answer your message and to follow up on it. Electronic messages are treated as confidentially as regular mail.

The personal information transmitted is not disclosed to any other government body unless disclosure is required by law. In no case is the information transmitted used to draw up a profile of users or communicated to a private organization.

Links to other sites

Our portal provides links to the sites of Québec or other government organizations and several private organizations. When you log onto another site, the information exchanged is no longer subject to our Privacy Policy, but to the policy of any private site you access.

Act respecting Access to documents held by public bodies and the Protection of personal information
Canadian Strategy Site - Privacy: Protection of Personal Information
Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés - Your traces. Find out how you are traced on the Internet

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