Privacy Policy:

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Privacy Policy for Northix Solutions LTD, inclusive of Northix Consulting Group:

Northix Solutions LTD, inclusive of Northix Consulting Group, and its subsidiaries and affiliates ("NORTHIX," "we," "our," or "us") are dedicated to safeguarding your privacy when you engage with us.

This Privacy Policy ("Policy") outlines the privacy practices of NORTHIX with respect to Personal Data ("Personal Data")—any information that relates to, identifies, describes, or can be reasonably associated or linked with an individual or household—that we gather from and about individuals interacting with NORTHIX and its websites, mobile applications, and services (collectively the "Services").

Please review the information below to understand the types of Personal Data collected about you and how it is used. Please note that our "Terms & Conditions" provide additional information and can be found at the bottom of our website. This Policy may be updated periodically, and any changes will be posted on this page. The latest version can always be reviewed by clicking on the "Privacy Policy" link at the bottom of our website.

Rights of Residents in Specific Jurisdictions:

If you reside in California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, the European Union ("EU"), European Economic Area ("EEA"), Switzerland, United Kingdom ("UK"), Canada (including Ontario), Singapore, or India, you may have certain individual rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 [as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 ("CPRA")] (collectively, "CCPA"), Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act ("VCDPA"), Colorado Privacy Act ("CPA"), Connecticut Act Concerning Personal Data Privacy and Online Monitoring ("CTDPA"), Utah Consumer Privacy Act ("UCPA"), the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR"), the UK Data Protection Act 2018, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act ("PIPEDA"), the Ontario Personal Health Information Protection Act ("PHIPA"), the Personal Data Protection Act ("PDPA"), and the Information Technology Act ("IT Act"). 

Types of Personal Data Collected:

The type of Personal Data we gather varies based on your usage of NORTHIX's Services. We may collect the following categories of information about you:

I. Information You Provide to Us

When you visit our publicly accessible website, we may gather the following types of information, including Personal Data:

• Personal identifiers like your name, username, and contact information such as your mailing address, phone number, and email address

• Details about event registrations and your preferences

• Feedback, reviews, or support requests you submit

• Log files and data collected through cookies and similar technologies about the pages you visit, links you click, and other actions taken on our website, which may be classified as Personal Data under applicable laws 

• Details about your activities, interactions, preferences, transactions, and other computer and connection information (such as your IP address) related to your use of our website and Services

When you interact with NORTHIX as a potential or existing client/customer, we may collect the following information:

• Personal identifiers such as full name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, IP address, email address, telephone number, account name, or similar identifiers

• Racial or ethnic background information

• Social Insurance Number (SIN), Social Security Number (SSN)

• Educational details as outlined by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act

• Financial and billing information

• Event registrations and preferences

• Feedback, reviews, or requests for support

• Data on your activities, interactions, preferences, transactions, and other computer and connection details

• Resumes and information relevant to our market research activities, which you provide directly, we receive from referrals, or collect from publicly available sources

When you engage with NORTHIX as a job applicant, we may collect:

• Personal identifiers such as full name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, IP address, email address, telephone number, account name, or similar identifiers

• Information about racial or ethnic origin

• Educational details as defined by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act

• Resume, application, candidate profile, or interview logistics information during the recruitment process

Additionally, NORTHIX collects Personal Data from its subsidiaries, affiliates, and service providers, including web analytics providers.

II. Sensitive Personal Data

With your permission, we may process the following types of sensitive Personal Data:

• Detailed geolocation data

• Information on racial or ethnic origin

• Social Insurance Number (SIN), Social Security Number (SSN).

III. Data We May Automatically Collect About You

Our Services may automatically collect the following types of usage and technical Personal Data:

• IP address

• Date and time of your visit or use of our Services

• Domain server from which you access our Services

• Type of computer, web browser, search engine, operating system, or platform used to access our Services

• Data identifying the web pages you visited before and after visiting our website or using our Services

• Your movements and activities within the website, aggregated with other data

• Mobile device information, including device type, operating system version, and device identifier (or "UDID")

NORTHIX uses this information to operate the Services, ensure their quality, and generate general statistics about their usage.

IV. Cookies & Technologies Used to Collect Information

We or designated service providers acting on our behalf may gather data about your activity or the activity on devices linked to you over time, on our websites, applications, and external platforms. We might employ cookies, web beacons, pixels, third-party libraries, and comparable technologies for this purpose. Additionally, third-party service providers, advertisers, or partners may have access to, modify, or establish their own cookies or deploy web beacons.

• Cookies: Small files placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, refusing cookies may affect your ability to access certain parts of our Services. Unless you adjust your browser settings to refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our website.
• Web Beacons: Our website pages may contain small electronic files, also known as web beacons (alternatively referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs). These enable us to, for instance, track the number of users who have visited those pages and gather related statistics, such as gauging the popularity of specific content and ensuring the integrity of our system and servers. Moreover, we utilize these technical methods to analyze traffic patterns, including monitoring the frequency of user visits to various sections of our Services. These techniques may entail the transmission of information directly to us or to an authorized third party collecting data on our behalf. Additionally, our Services utilize retargeting pixels from platforms like Google, Facebook, and other advertising networks. Furthermore, we employ web beacons in HTML emails to ascertain whether recipients have opened the emails and/or clicked on embedded links.
• Analytics: Tools such as Google Analytics help provide us with information about traffic to our website and use of our Services. Google may share this information with other Services and websites to contextualize and personalize ads within its own advertising network. You can view Google's Privacy Practices here: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US
• Mobile Application Technologies: If you access our Services through a mobile device, we may automatically collect information about your device, phone number, and physical location.

Our use of online tracking technologies may be considered a "sale" or "sharing" under certain laws. To the extent that these technologies are deemed a "sale" or "sharing," you can opt-out by submitting a request via email (contact@northix.co "Exercising Your Privacy Rights")  or by broadcasting an opt-out preference signal, such as the Global Privacy Control ("GPC"). Note that some website features may be unavailable as a result of these choices.

V. Information from Third Parties

We may collect additional Personal Data from third-party websites, social media platforms, and publicly available sources to provide Services, prevent fraud, and for marketing and advertising purposes.

This Policy only applies to information collected by our Services. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites or social media platforms. Links to other websites or content do not imply an endorsement by us.

How We Use Personal Data

NORTHIX collects and uses Personal Data for purposes including, but not limited to:

• Providing Services and information requested by you
• Personalizing your experience and information about our Services
• Responding to inquiries and providing customer service
• For broad or focused marketing and advertising objectives, which may involve distributing promotional content or exclusive offers either directly from us or on behalf of our marketing associates, their affiliates, subsidiaries, or other third parties, unless you have previously chosen not to receive such communications;
• Tailoring your website experience, such as offering suggestions based on your industry or previous interactions on the site;
• Overseeing, enhancing, and cultivating connections with external service providers, encompassing vendors, suppliers, parent companies, affiliates, subsidiaries, and business associates;
• Enhancing, customizing, or managing the Services to perform internal operations aimed at improving our business quality, resolving technical issues, enhancing security, or innovating other products and Services;
• Delivering Services, training, educational resources, tools, merchandise (like books), and customer support, which may also be essential for fulfilling contractual obligations with you;
• Conducting business with our suppliers and other entities, including market research activities
• Assessing candidates for job openings within NORTHIX entities, encompassing all stages of the process leading to determining whether to extend a job offer, contingent upon any relevant background checks. Certain processing of job applicant data may also be required to adhere to legal obligations. Complying with legal obligations and responding to lawful requests
• Other purposes disclosed at the time of collection or compatible with applicable law

When Personal Data is transferred to NORTHIX through a client data controller and we act as the processor, the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract or our legitimate interest in providing requested Services to our clients. We assist the client data controller in complying with its legal obligations.

With Whom We Share Personal Data

NORTHIX may share or disclose Personal Data with:

• Subsidiaries and Affiliates: To support and provide Services to our customers.
• Third-Party Service Providers: sharing Personal Data with external service providers who perform various tasks on our behalf, such as conducting analyses, hosting our Services, managing our databases, processing payments, providing customer support, or handling communications. These providers are only authorized to use your Personal Data as needed to deliver these services to us. In some cases, we may aggregate the Personal Data we collect to ensure third parties cannot identify you individually.
• Legal and Administrative Reasons: To comply with laws, respond to legal requests, protect rights, and enforce our Terms & Conditions.
• Business Transfers: In cases of mergers, acquisitions, bankruptcy, liquidation, or reorganization.
• De-Identified or Aggregated Data: For purposes where specific identification is not possible.
• With Your Consent: We may share Personal Data consistent with this Privacy Policy with your implied consent.

We may disclose Personal Data in special cases to protect our rights, comply with laws, enforce our policies, or address security or technical issues. For job applicants, Personal Data may be shared for recruitment purposes or with governmental authorities as required.

Categories of Personal Data Disclosed for Value:

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, "sell," "sold," or "sale" refers to the exchange of Personal Data for financial or other benefits. This definition excludes scenarios such as the transfer of Personal Data in the event of a merger, bankruptcy, or other transfer of business assets. We may disclose the following types of Personal Data in exchange for monetary or other valuable consideration:

• Identifying Information: Name, mailing address, email address, phone number, date of birth, and other identifiers.

• Technical Information: Information about your interaction with our website and content on third-party sites or platforms, such as social networking sites (e.g. IP address; browsing history; search history; device information; information about user's interaction with website, such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs via cookies, pixel tags, web beacons, transparent GIFs; browser information; operating system and platform; geolocation information; user content (e.g. photos, videos, audio, images, social media /online posts).

Personal Data Security:

NORTHIX uses appropriate security measures to protect Personal Data, including physical, administrative, and technical safeguards. However, it is important to note that no data transmitted over the Internet or stored by use or our third-party service providers can be guaranteed to be completely secure. We cannot guarantee the absolute security of Personal Data. We are not liable for the circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures. You agree that we cannot be held responsible for any incidents of misuse, unauthorized access, acquisition, deletion, or disclosure of your Personal Data. If you believe your Personal Data has been accessed or obtained by an unauthorized party, contact us immediately so we can take appropriate action.

Data Retention

We retain Personal Data as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce agreements. The retention period varies based on the data type and legal requirements.

Your Options for Controlling How NORTHIX Uses Your Personal Data

We aim to offer you extensive options and control over the Personal Data you share with us.

• Email Marketing: To stop receiving marketing and promotional emails from us, click the "unsubscribe" link in the email. 

• Opting Out of Direct Marketing by Third Parties. To exercise choices regarding the marketing information you receive, you may review the following links:

- You may opt-out of receiving permissible targeted advertisements by using the NAI Opt-out tool available at http://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1

- You can opt-out of having your activity on our Services made available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out add-on for your web browser by visiting: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout for your web browser.

For any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, or if you wish to delete your Personal Data, please reach out to contact@northix.co

Children's Privacy:

This website is designed for users aged sixteen (16) and above. We do not knowingly gather Personal Data from individuals under this age. By using the site, you affirm that you are at least sixteen (16) years old. Should we discover that a user under sixteen (16) has provided us with Personal Data, we'll take immediate steps to adhere to legal requirements and eliminate such information.

Data Storage, Processing and International Data Transfer:

Personal information collected through our Services may be stored on servers located outside of Canada, including in the United States. Consequently, this information may be subject to the laws of these jurisdictions, which might differ from Canadian data protection laws. 

If you access the Services from a country outside of Canada, please note that you may transfer personally identifiable information to Canada, and that Canadian data protection laws may not offer the same level of coverage as those in your own country. By using the Services and providing any personally identifiable information, you agree to the transfer of such data to Canada. NORTHIX may transfer Personal Data outside of Ontario, Canada, including to the United States and other jurisdictions, in compliance with applicable laws.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Policy periodically. Any changes will be posted on this page. The date of the most recent update will be indicated at the bottom of the Policy. You are responsible for reviewing our current Privacy Policy for any updates.

Exercising Your Privacy Rights

You may have certain rights regarding your Personal Data, such as the right to delete, or restrict its use. To exercise these rights, submit a request by contacting us via email: contact@northix.co

Or send mail addressed to:

Northix Solutions LTD, inclusive of Northix Consulting Group,
50 High Park Avenue, Toronto, ON, M6P 0B4, Canada. 

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Policy or our privacy practices, please contact:

Northix Solutions LTD, inclusive of Northix Consulting Group,
50 High Park Avenue, Toronto, ON, M6P 0B4, Canada.

Thank you for trusting Northix Solutions LTD, inclusive of Northix Consulting Group, with your Personal Data. We are committed to protecting your privacy and providing you with the best possible Services.

Effective Date: July 2024