Privacy Policy

Data Protection and Privacy Policy

Michael Page's online service is committed to protecting the privacy of our users.  We want to provide a safe and secure user experience.  We will ensure that the information you submit to us via our website at www.michaelpage.ca ("The Michael Page Site") remains private, and is only used for the purposes set out in this policy.

BEFORE USING OUR SITE OR PROVIDING INFORMATION TO US, PLEASE CAREFULLY REVIEW THIS PRIVACY POLICY. BY USING OUR SITE, INCLUDING REGISTERING FOR AN ACCOUNT OR EXPRESSING INTEREST IN A JOB OR ACCESSING OUR SITE, OR RECEVING RECRUITMENT SERVICES AS A CLIENT, YOU CONSENT TO MICHAEL PAGE COLLECTING, USING, AND DISCLOSING YOUR INFORMATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY, AS REVISED FROM TIME TO TIME. IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT AND CONSENT TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS, THEN YOU MUST NOT USE OR ACCESS THE SITE. 

The Information We Collect and How We Use It

Your personal details, including your name, e-mail address and CV, are held and used by us for the following purposes:

  • For matching your coded details with job vacancies, to assist us in finding you the position that most suits you;
     
  • For keeping you informed of Michael Page services, news and wider developments in your chosen field;
     
  • For tailoring the version of our website you see when you log on to make it relevant to you; and/or
     
  • For compiling salary and other surveys of our candidates.
     

Disclosures of your information

Michael Page Canada is part of the PageGroup of companies which operates globally. Our recruitment experts and key members of the business who run functions such as payroll and IT support are based all around the world. We may share with or give access to your personal data to other companies within PageGroup including but not limited to interprovincially in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain and Latin America. Find a list of PageGroup entities and the countries where they are located.

The purposes of sharing your personal data within PageGroup companies are: (i) providing essential services which are centralised in one single entity such as IT, commercial and sales support services (ii) managing global, regional or senior executive positions, or the development of key accounts, which would require the cooperation of different companies across the group, (iii) managing positions that can be fulfilled remotely and (iv) utilizing skills of our recruitment consultants based in other regions to support our recruitment efforts in Canada. 

It is possible that Michael Page could merge or be acquired by another business. If this happens, we may share the information that relates to you with the new owners of the business and their advisers. You will be sent notice of such an event.
Your CV and related information will be sent to prospective employers but only where you give your consent. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the data processing activities of our clients.

We may also release information relating to you to regulatory or law enforcement authorities, if required to do so.  We also reserve the right to disclose the information we have collected about you to our professional advisors and to other persons to the extent that Michael Page contracts out any aspect of the operation of its recruitment agency services.  These third parties will be acting under similar undertakings of confidentiality as Michael Page.

Job Alerts

To subscribe to job alerts emails, you will be required to provide your e-mail address, which will be used for the purpose of keeping you informed, by e-mail, of the latest jobs in your nominated industry and/or industry news via job alerts.

Should you decide that you no longer wish to receive this information, unsubscribe links are provided in every job alert email that you receive.

Job alerts can also be received via RSS feeds without having to provide your email address.

Curriculum vitae ("CV")

We give you the option of submitting your CV via this website.  You can do this either to apply for a specific advertised job or for consideration by our recruitment consultants for positions as they come up.

Although your CV will be stored online, it will only be accessible by Michael Page group recruitment consultants. Your CV will also be e-mailed directly to our recruitment consultants who review your details and enter them onto our central in-house database. 

You can update your CV at any time, simply by following the same procedure to submit a new CV. Your old CV will automatically be replaced.

Aggregate Information about Michael Page online visitors

We gather information and statistics collectively about all visitors to this website and all of the Michael Page websites worldwide, for example, which area users access most frequently and which services users access the most.  We only use such data in the aggregate form. This information helps us determine what is most beneficial for our users and how we can continually improve our online services to create a better overall experience for our users. We also publish some of this information on the Michael Page websites worldwide.

Use of Cookies

A cookie is a small data file which is sent from a web server to a web browser when that browser visits the server's site. Find out more about the use of cookies on www.allaboutcookies.org. Cookies are used, on the michaelpage.com website to remember your login, to track web traffic on an aggregate basis so that no individuals are identified, to keep session information such as your last search (this information is disposed of every time you close your web browser). Most browsers allow you to turn off cookies.  If you want to know how to do this please look at the help menu on your browser[1]. However, switching off cookies will restrict your use of our website. 

Access

You have the right at any time to ask us for a copy of the information supplied by you that we hold.  We have the right to charge an administrative fee for this service.  If you would like to make a request for information, please contact [email protected]. You also have the right to ask Michael Page to stop using your information.

Other websites

Please note that clicking on to links and banner advertisements may result in your transferal to another website, where data privacy practices may be different to that of Michael Page. Visitors should consult the other websites' privacy policies as we are not responsible for, and have no control over, information that is submitted to or collected by these third parties.

Internet-based transfers

Given that the Internet is a global environment, using the Internet to collect and process personal data necessarily involves the transmission of data on an international basis. Therefore, by browsing this web site and communicating electronically with us, you acknowledge and agree to our processing of personal data in this way.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

This privacy policy may be changed by Michael Page at any time. If we change our privacy policy in the future, we will set out those changes here, so that you will always know what personal information we gather, the purposes we might use it for and to whom we might disclose it. If, at any time, you have questions or concerns about Michael Page's online privacy commitment, please feel free to e-mail us at [email protected] or call your local office to speak to one of our representatives.

Quebec Residents

Subject to any exceptions detailed in Articles 37 through 40 of the Civil Code, Quebec Law 25, and other applicable laws and regulations, you, as a Quebec, Canada resident, have the following rights relating to your Personal Information:

a) You may withdraw consent for the processing of your ‘Personal Information’ (as defined by Law 25);

b) You may request access to your Personal Information; 

c) You may request that a person carrying on a business cease disseminating your Personal Information or to de-index any hyperlink attached to your name that provides access to the information by a technological means, if the dissemination of the information contravenes the law or a court order;

d) You may request deletion of your Personal Information; however, to the extent permitted by applicable law, we may be required to retain some of your Personal Information, and certain Personal Information is strictly necessary for us to fulfill the purposes described in this Policy;

e) If we maintain any inaccurate, incomplete, or equivocal information about you or if collecting, communicating, or keeping it are not authorized by law, you can request that the information be rectified; and

f) for sensitive Personal Information that we collect (if any), you can request that we limit our use of such Personal Information to that use which is necessary to perform the services.

Exercising Your Quebec Privacy Rights. 

If you are a resident of Quebec and would like to exercise these or other related rights you may have, you may submit your request to our Quebec Privacy Officer via email at [email protected] with the subject line “Quebec Privacy Request”.

To validate your request, your email should include the following information:

  • First Name
  • Last Name
  • Email Address
  • Email Address associated with your MP account if different than above
  • Country and Province of Residence
  • Additional Request Details
  • Identify your relationship to MP, i.e. “I am a Customer, Contractor, Job applicant, Current Employee, Former Employee, Authorized Agent, Marketing Recipient (as the case may be)” or “I have no relationship with MP”