Privacy Policy

Vigilant Global Co. and its affiliated companies (collectively, “Vigilant”, “We”, “Us”, or “Our”) are committed to transparency in the collection and use of your personal information.

Set forth below is a description of how we collect and use personal information, and the circumstances under which we may share this information (the “Privacy Policy”). This Privacy Policy applies to all visitors to Vigilant’s website, located at http://www.vigilantglobal.com/, and any other sites owned and operated by Vigilant (the “Websites”).

Collection and Use of Information

Vigilant may collect and use the personal information you provide in connection with the following:

  • Visiting our Websites;

  • Applying for a job with us;

  • Contacting us with a comment, question or complaint.

The term “personal information” means information about an identifiable individual, including name, address, email address, signature, and other information relating to an individual.

Candidate Information: To apply for a job posted on our Websites, you are required to create a candidate account (the “Account”) through our Websites or one of our third party service provider’s website. You may also be asked to choose a username, password and security questions. This information is used to create your Account and/or otherwise manage the recruitment process. This information may also be provided by a recruiter acting on your behalf.

In registering for an Account, you can choose to provide your LinkedIn profile web address. If you do so, you authorize us to access certain LinkedIn account information (consistent with your LinkedIn privacy settings), including but not limited to your profile information, full name, username and email address. All such information is provided directly by LinkedIn, whose use of your personal information will be subject to LinkedIn’s privacy policy and terms of use.

Once your Account has been created, you will be asked to create a profile. To create your profile, you may be asked to provide us with your full name, email address, city, country, phone number, mailing address, educational background, resume and a list of your relevant skills and certifications. This information will form the job application that you submit to Vigilant in response to a job posting and will be used in our recruitment process once submitted.

Recruiting Communications: We may offer you the ability to sign-up to receive recruiting communications through our Websites or connect with us on third party websites (including through social media sites). If you sign-up through our Websites, we collect certain personal information (such as first and last name or email address) which we use to send you email and other communications containing Vigilant’s updates and other content that may be of interest to you.

Contact Information:  When you contact us with a comment, question or complaint, you may be asked for information that identifies you (such as your name and email address) along with additional information we need to help us promptly answer your question or respond to your comment or complaint. We may also retain this information for various reasons including to assist you in the future.

Disclosure of Information

We may transfer or disclose your personal information as follows:

Service Providers: Your personal information may be disclosed, stored and / or transferred (or otherwise made available) to our affiliates and other third parties who provide services on our behalf. Our service providers are given the information they need to perform their designated functions, and are not authorized to use or disclose personal information for their own marketing or other purposes.

Your information may be stored and processed by us, our affiliates and other third party service providers in the United States or other foreign jurisdictions. In the event that personal information is transferred to the United States or another foreign jurisdiction, it will be subject to the laws of that jurisdiction and may be disclosed to or accessed by the courts, and law enforcement and governmental authorities in accordance with those laws.

Legal and Compliance: We and our service providers may provide your personal information in response to a search warrant or other legally valid inquiry or order, or to another organization for the purposes of investigating a breach of an agreement or contravention of law or detecting, suppressing or preventing fraud, or as otherwise required or permitted by applicable Canadian, US or other law or legal process. Your personal information may also be disclosed where necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims and to investigate or prevent actual or suspected loss or harm to persons or property.

Sale of Business: Personal information may be provided to third parties in connection with a business transaction, including a merger or sale (including transfers made as part of insolvency or bankruptcy proceedings) involving all or part of Vigilant or as part of a corporate reorganization, or stock or asset sale, or other change in corporate control, including for the purpose of determining whether to proceed or continue with such transaction or business relationship.

Safeguarding and Retention of Personal Information

We have implemented reasonable administrative, technical and physical measures in an effort to safeguard the personal information in our custody and control against theft, loss and unauthorized access, use, modification and disclosure. We restrict access to your personal information on a need-to-know basis to employees and authorized service providers who require access to fulfill their job requirements.

We have personal information retention processes designed to retain personal information for specified periods of time necessary for legal and business purposes.

Access to Personal Information

You have the right to access, and update and correct inaccuracies in your personal information in our custody and control, subject to certain exceptions prescribed by law. You may request access, updating and corrections of inaccuracies in other personal information we have in our custody or control by emailing or writing to us at the contact information set out below. We may request certain personal information for the purposes of verifying the identity of the individual seeking access to his/her personal information records.

Cookies and Additional Information about our Websites

Visiting our Websites: In general, you can visit our Websites without telling us who you are or submitting any personal information. However, we collect the IP (Internet protocol) addresses of all visitors to our Websites and other related information such as page requests, browser type, operating system and average time spent on our Websites. We use this information to help us understand activity on our Websites and to monitor and improve our Websites.

Cookies: Our Websites use a technology called "cookies". A cookie is a tiny element of data that our Websites can send to your browser, which may then be stored on your hard drive so we can recognize you when you return. We use cookies on the pages on our Websites where you are prompted to log in or that are customizable. If you have registered with our Websites, these cookies (1) may let us know who you are, (2) may be necessary to access your account information (stored on our computers) in order to provide personalized services, and (3) will provide us and our service providers with information that we will use to personalize our Websites in accordance with your preferences and interests. We and our service providers (such as Google Analytics) also use cookies to help us understand our website activity, to improve our Websites. For more information about Google Analytics, see www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. You may set your web browser to notify you when you receive a cookie or to not accept certain cookies. However, if you decide not to accept cookies from our Websites, you may not be able to take advantage of all of the features of our Websites.

Tracer Tags & Web Beacons: Our Websites may also use a technology called "tracer tags" or “Web Beacons”. This technology allows us to understand which pages you visit on our Websites. These tracer tags are used to help us optimize and tailor our Websites.

Third Party Websites

Our Websites may contain content and links to third party websites that are not owned or controlled by us. We have no control over, do not review and are not responsible for the privacy policies of or content displayed on such other websites. When you click on such a link, you will leave our service and go to another site. During this process, another entity may collect personal information from you.

Social Media

We may offer you the opportunity to engage with our content on or through third-party social networking websites, plug-ins and applications. When you engage with our content on or through third-party social networking websites, plug-ins and applications, you may allow us to have access to certain information associated with your social media account (e.g., name, username, email address, profile picture, gender) to deliver the content or as part of the operation of the Websites, plug-in or application. For example, if you chose to sign-in to the Website through Facebook, you may authorize us to collect certain information from your Facebook profile.

Updates to the Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes to our privacy practices. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.

Contact Us

Please contact our human resources manager if:

  • you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy,

  • you wish to access, update, and/or correct inaccuracies in your personal information, or

  • you otherwise have a question or complaint about the manner in which we or our service providers treat your personal information.

You may contact our human resources manager by email at hr@vigilantglobal.com or by mail at the following address:

1360 Boulevard René-Lévesque O

Suite 1700

Montréal Québec QC H3G 2W6

Last updated: May 31, 2017