Privacy Policy
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Jeux Astrivage Inc. ("Astrivage", "we") is a video game studio in Montreal, Quebec. This policy explains what personal information we collect through astrivage.com and astrivage.ca, why, and the choices you have. It follows Quebec's Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector.
Who is responsible
The person in charge of the protection of personal information at Jeux Astrivage Inc. can be reached at info@astrivage.com. Send questions, requests and complaints about your information there.
What we collect
When you apply or write to us. If you email jobs@astrivage.com (for example through "Join the team") or another Astrivage address, we receive what you choose to send: usually your name, email address, résumé, portfolio links or files, and your message. Please don't send sensitive information we haven't asked for, such as health information or government identification numbers.
When you visit the site. The site has no accounts, forms, advertising, tracking cookies or third-party analytics. To deliver its pages, our servers necessarily receive your IP address and basic information about your browser. We don't store them; our own visit counting is described below.
Language detection
When you arrive at the site's home address, our server looks up your IP address in a geolocation table kept on that server to estimate your country and province. We use this approximate location only to show the site in French to visitors in Quebec; otherwise your browser's language preference decides. The lookup happens on our server, and its result is neither stored nor shared. You can switch languages at any time with the EN/FR selector, and your choice then takes precedence.
Visit counting
To understand how people find the site, we count visits ourselves, without cookies and without any outside service. When a page loads, your browser tells our server which page it is, the address of the site that linked to it (the site's name only), any campaign label in the link, which renderer drew the sky, and which of the site's hidden features you found. Our server adds your approximate region (country, plus province or state in Canada and the United States) from the same table used for language detection, and whether you're on a phone or a computer, and adds all of this to daily totals.
To count each visitor once a day without cookies, the server combines your IP address and browser identification with a random value that changes every day and keeps only the scrambled result. The day's random value is deleted when the day ends, so visits can't be linked from one day to the next. IP addresses are never stored. Only the daily totals are kept.
If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track signal, nothing is counted.
Cookie
When you use the EN/FR selector, we save one cookie, lang, that remembers your language for one year. It holds nothing else and isn't used for tracking. You can delete it in your browser at any time.
Why we use your information
- To review applications, contact candidates and run our hiring process.
- To answer your messages.
- To operate, secure and maintain the site, and to understand, in daily totals, how people find it.
We don't sell personal information and don't use it for advertising.
Consent
By sending us your application or message, you consent to our using it for these purposes. You can withdraw your consent at any time by writing to info@astrivage.com. We will then stop using your application and delete it, unless the law requires us to keep it.
Who else handles it
We share personal information only with the service providers that run our website and email, and only as much as they need:
- Fly.io, which hosts the site on servers in Toronto, Canada;
- Cloudflare, which provides our domain name services and forwards email sent to our addresses;
- Google, which hosts the mailbox our email is delivered to.
Some of these providers may store or process information outside Quebec, including in the United States, where it may be accessible to authorities under local law. Before entrusting information to a provider outside Quebec, we assess whether it will be adequately protected.
How long we keep it
- Applications: up to 12 months after we receive them, so that we can consider you for other roles, unless you ask us to delete yours sooner. If you join us, your application becomes part of your employee file.
- Other messages: as long as we need to deal with them, then up to 12 months.
After that, we destroy or anonymize the information.
Security
We protect personal information with measures suited to its sensitivity, including access limited to the people who need it and encrypted connections (HTTPS). If a confidentiality incident involving your information presents a risk of serious injury, we will notify you and the Commission d'accès à l'information, as the law requires.
Your rights
You can ask to access the personal information we hold about you, to have it corrected, to receive it in a structured, commonly used technological format, or to have it deleted or no longer disseminated. You can also withdraw your consent. Write to info@astrivage.com; we reply within 30 days. If you're not satisfied with our answer, you can file a complaint with the Commission d'accès à l'information du Québec.
Children
The site is intended for adults. We don't knowingly collect information about children under 14.
Changes
We'll post any update to this policy on this page with a new date. If a change is significant, we'll make it clear on the site.