Desjardins Private Management

Privacy

At Desjardins Wealth Management Private Wealth Management confidentiality is a priority. This is why we take the necessary measures to ensure the confidentiality of your personal information. Personal information refers to all information that you provide willingly.

Privacy of information on Desjardins Wealth Management Private Wealth Management and Desjardins Securities websites

Information collected on Desjardins Wealth Management Private Wealth Management and Desjardins Securities websites is confidential. Only authorized personnel have access to it. In no instance will your personal information be made public or sold or passed along to a third party without your consent, except to provide services that you requested or to comply with a court order.

Why we gather personal information on our websites

The personal information gathered on Desjardins Wealth Management Private Wealth Management and Desjardins Securities sites is used solely to follow up on a client's online requests for services and financial products, or for estimates.

Right of access and correction

You can access your personal information at any time. To do so, you must submit a written request to the person in charge of your file or to the address below:

Desjardins Securities
1170 Peel Street
Suite 300
Montreal QC H3B 0A9

Your request must be detailed enough to allow us to identify the documents or other media containing the personal information you wish to access.

We may need to validate your identity and the reason for your request.

We'll inform you if there are any fees for processing your request. These fees, if any, are reasonable and are usually limited to the cost of transcription, reproduction or transmission. In such cases, we'll ask for your permission before proceeding.

What can I do if I have questions or if I'm not satisfied with the handling of my personal information?

If you have a question, concern or complaint about the processing of your personal information, you can:

  1. First, contact an employee, manager or the person in charge of your file, or write to us at the address below:

    Desjardins Securities
    1170 Peel Street
    Suite 300
    Montreal QC H3B 0A9

  2. If you're not satisfied with the response you received, you may contact the Desjardins Group Chief Privacy Officer:

    100 Des Commandeurs Street
    LEV-100-6e-A
    Lévis QC G6V 7N5
    cpo@desjardins.com

You must provide your name and contact information, the nature of your request, the name of the department or person you have already contacted and any relevant information.

If you wish, you may also contact the appropriate provincial or federal privacy commissioner.

Cookies

Our policy lays out your options for managing cookies and helps you decide what information you want to share with us while on our sites.

Read the Cookies Policy

Google Analytics

Desjardins uses Google Analytics on Desjardins websites (hereinafter "Sites") and Desjardins mobile applications (hereinafter "Applications"). The service is provided by Google Inc. (hereinafter "Google"). Desjardins uses first-party identifiers and third-party identifiers in conjunction with third-party vendors. Google Analytics uses cookies and other unique identifiers, which are anonymous identifiers placed on your computer equipment. They help Desjardins to analyze your use of the Sites and Applications. The traffic data collected through cookies and other unique identifiers particularly pertains to your use of the Sites and Applications (including your IP address). Google transmits the data and stocks it on servers in the United States. Google may share this data with third parties where legally obligated or when a third party is processing data for a Google account. No information allowing Google to identify you will be transmitted.

Google will use the information collected to:

  • analyze your use of the Sites and Applications
  • compile reports on Site and Application activity
  • provide other services related to Site and Application activity as well as Internet use

DoubleClick

DoubleClick is a cookie that Google Analytics uses to collect anonymous information. Google Analytics' Advertising Features on sites that use DoubleClick include:

  • Google Display Network Impression Reporting
  • DoubleClick platform integrations and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting

User ID

Google Analytics uses the User ID feature on the Sites and Applications. The feature makes it possible to associate information regarding relationships between various computer tools and several sessions with unique identifiers. Each User ID represents an individual anonymous user in Google Analytics.

Deactivation

When browsing, you can deactivate Google Analytics and/or DoubleClick by selecting the appropriate browser or computer tool parameters, advertising parameters, mobile advertisement parameters or other, notably the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.

By using the Sites or Applications, you expressly agree to allow Google to process personal data under the conditions and for the purposes outlined above.

Links to third party websites

The Desjardins Wealth Management Private Wealth Management and Desjardins Securities websites may at times contain links to external, third party sites or parts of external sites. Desjardins Wealth Management Private Wealth Management and Desjardins Securities have no control over the content and reliability of these sites, or over their policies regarding confidentiality. As a result, all personal information that you transmit via these sites is subject to the prevailing privacy laws. It is your responsibility to be aware of the law in order to ensure the privacy of your personal information.