Privacy Policy

The Ministère is taking all necessary precautions to ensure the confidentiality of personal information and is acting in compliance with the Act respecting Access to documents held by public bodies and the Protection of personal information. Furthermore, the Open School website (ecoleouverte.ca/en) does not store cookies on your hard drive.

Hyperlinks

When you click on a link and leave a website controlled by the Québec government, the information shared from that moment on is no longer covered by the government policies on confidentiality, but by those of the private site. As a precaution, we recommend that you read the confidentiality policy of the site concerned.

Transmission of your personal information to us

If you choose to send us personal information in your online correspondence, please be aware that we only use the information required to reply to your message and follow-up on it.

The personal information transmitted is not communicated to any other government organization except in cases where your request is addressed to that organization or the law requires it. It is never used to draw up user profiles and is never sent to any private organizations.

We wish to remind you that the transmission of information by e-mail is never completely secure. That is why we recommend that you do not divulge personal information, such as your social insurance number, in e-mails. We do the same by not using e-mail to answer your questions when it involves transmitting information of a confidential nature.

The Act respecting Access to documents held by public bodies and the Protection of personal information gives you the following rights:

• • to have the confidentiality of person information respected
• • to have access to documents held by public bodies and to your personal information
• • to have your personal information corrected if it is incomplete, inaccurate or equivocal or if the collection, release or keeping of the information is not authorized by law

You can contact the department responsible for access to information and the protection of personal information at the Ministère du l’Éducation et de l’Enseignement supérieur.

You can also visit the web site of the Commission d’accès à l’information du Québec.

For more information

• Commission d’accès à l’information du Québec
• Access to Information and Confidentiality of Personal Information on Internet
• Profiling and targeted advertising (available in French only)
• Act respecting Access to documents held by public bodies and the Protection of personal information
• Act to establish a legal framework for information technology