Privacy policy

What this site does not do

No analytics, no tracking cookies, no social network pixel, no ad network, no profiling. The site does not know who visits it, or how many people do.

The only thing written to your device is your display preference — light, dark or automatic — which you set yourself using the switch in the menu. It stays on your device, is never sent to me, and disappears when you clear your browser data.

You do not have to take my word for it: the Network tab of your browser's developer tools shows every request this page makes, and none goes to an audience measurement service.

The site test, if you use it

On the home page, the “Test your site” tool sends the address you enter to Google PageSpeed Insights, a Google service that loads that page and measures its speed. The request goes from your browser straight to Google: it passes through no studio server, and I do not see it.

Nothing is sent until you press “Test my site”. Google handles that request under its own privacy policy (policies.google.com/privacy).

The form sends nothing to this site

The quote request form transmits nothing to a studio server, because there is none to receive it. When you press Send, it assembles your message and opens it in your own mail application, where you can still reread it, change it or drop it.

Until you send that email from your own software, nothing has left your device and I know nothing about it. What you type into the fields is stored nowhere in the meantime.

What I receive, if you write to me

If you choose to send that message, I receive an email containing what you put in it:

• your name
• your company name, if you give it
• your email address
• your phone number, if you give it
• the service you are interested in and the budget range you selected
• your description of the project, and anything else you choose to add

Why I ask for them

To reply to you, understand your project, prepare a quote and, if we work together, carry out the mandate. Nothing else. None of it feeds any prospecting: I send no newsletter and add no one to a list.

You give them to me because you approached me: your own step is what authorises the processing, and you can end it at any time.

Where they are kept, including outside Quebec

My working address is currently a Gmail address. Your messages therefore pass through and are stored on Google's servers; Google operates data centres outside Quebec, notably in the United States, where the legal framework for personal information differs from Quebec's.

Law 25 requires this communication outside Quebec to be stated plainly rather than buried: here it is. If that is a problem for you, write to me by any other means, or call — sensitive information does not have to go through a form.

Working documents for an active mandate are kept on my own devices, behind a password and full-disk encryption.

For how long

A request that goes nowhere is deleted no later than twenty-four months after the last exchange.

The file for a completed mandate is kept for the duration of the mandate, then for six years after the end of the relevant tax year — the period during which tax and accounting obligations require me to be able to produce the records. After that it is destroyed.

Who they are shared with

No one. Your information is not sold, rented, traded or passed to a commercial partner.

If a mandate required a third party — a printer for a business card, a host to put a site online — I would tell you beforehand, and only what was necessary would be passed on.

What you can require

Quebec law gives you rights over the information that concerns you, and I undertake to answer within thirty days:

• to know what information I hold about you and obtain a copy
• to have it corrected if it is inaccurate, incomplete or ambiguous
• to ask for its deletion where keeping it is no longer justified
• to obtain the information you gave me in a structured, commonly used technological format
• to withdraw your request, which ends the processing

If my answer does not satisfy you

You may complain to the Commission d'accès à l'information du Québec, which oversees the application of the law and can be petitioned free of charge. You need neither my permission nor to tell me.

Person responsible for the protection of personal information

The studio is one person: whoever answers your email is also the person responsible for the protection of personal information under the law. Any request concerning this policy goes to the email address in the footer, and I answer it myself.

In case of an incident

If a confidentiality incident presented a risk of serious injury, I would notify you and the Commission d'accès à l'information promptly, and I keep the incident register the law requires. Given the above — no server, no database, no storage on this site — the exposed surface is limited to my mailbox.

Automated decisions

No decision concerning you is made automatically, and no profile is built. Your quotes are priced by a person who reads your message.

Changes

This policy will change when the site changes — the day a form actually posts to a server, or an analytics script appears, it will have to be rewritten. The last-updated date at the top of the page is the one that counts.