1.Privacy policy
TheSQuaD – Theory of Superconducting Quantum Devices is committed to protect your personal data and to apply a policy of general transparency on our methods of capture, use and communication of your information. Our privacy policy applies to all information, including personal data, collected by TheSQuaD – Theory of Superconducting Quantum Devices. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you of TheSQuaD – Theory of Superconducting Quantum Devices’s practices regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal information that may be obtained during access to or use of our websites, services, products, or that may otherwise be captured by TheSQuaD – Theory of Superconducting Quantum Devices.
2. Types of personal information collected
Data provided by the user
This may include data entered when subscribing to a newsletter, contact form or those communicated verbally to our teams.
Data collected during navigation
In order to ensure the proper functioning of our site and to measure their audience, we collect data automatically during your navigation. This collection can be done through the use of a cookie or a pixel in our newsletters or our websites.
The data that we collect are essentially:
- Last name
- First name
- Professional email address
- Phone number(s)
- Your IP address
- Your web browser
3. Cookies usage policy
We use a web analytics service (Google Analytics) that may place a cookie on your browser. You can choose to refuse these cookies by accessing the cookie settings page.
The other cookies used by TheSQuaD – Theory of Superconducting Quantum Devices are setting and targeting cookies (to ensure the good functioning of the website and of TheSQuaD – Theory of Superconducting Quantum Devices marketing offensives). These cookies do not contain any personal data and are encrypted.
Facebook Pixel
These cookies are used by TheSQuaD – Theory of Superconducting Quantum Devices and Facebook to measure, extend and improve the Facebook advertising audience. They work by uniquely identifying your browser and your electronic device. They allow TheSQuaD – Theory of Superconducting Quantum Devices to offer Facebook advertising campaigns to users who are likely to be interested. In order to function, these cookies identify content that has been interacted with individually.
Marketing cookies
These cookies are used by TheSQuaD – Theory of Superconducting Quantum Devices and third parties to profile your interests and present you with relevant communications. They are also used to analyze and understand advertising performance. They track data such as the number of unique visitors, the number of clicks on ads and the last pages loaded. They are also used to build consumer profiles in order to display advertisements based on products reviewed or actions taken on TheSQuaD – Theory of Superconducting Quantum Devices websites. Disabling these cookies means that you will no longer receive targeted advertisements during your browsing on different sites.
Retargeting/behavioral/statistical cookies
These cookies are used by TheSQuaD – Theory of Superconducting Quantum Devices and third parties to create groups or lists of users who have interacted in a particular way with TheSQuaD – Theory of Superconducting Quantum Devices websites. These cookies do not contain any identifier or personal data.
4. Sensitive data
TheSQuaD – Theory of Superconducting Quantum Devices does not collect any sensitive data about you. The following are considered sensitive data: racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, membership in a trade union, data relating to health or sexual orientation.
5. What are your data used for?
They are used to enable the provision of the service (newsletter, contact form, registration, etc.) and to check that the use made of them complies with our general conditions of use.
They allow us to send you commercial information about our services, products, etc. from the moment you check the opt-in box when you validate your registration. From then on, each time TheSQuaD – Theory of Superconducting Quantum Devices will send you an email campaign, you will be able to unsubscribe at any time via a link at the bottom of the page.
Your consent also allows our team to send you commercial information. Without your consent, your information is not transmitted to them.
They allow us to carry out measurements of frequentation and audience.
They allow us to optimize navigation and improve the features available to our users.
6. Length of time your data is kept
TheSQuaD – Theory of Superconducting Quantum Devices keeps your data for the duration of the commercial relationship. At the end of this period, the retention period of your data will not exceed 36 months.
The navigation data collected through cookies are kept for 12 months, in accordance with the regulation.
7. Access to data
Our teams only have access to your data if required for the performance of their duties. They are committed to guaranteeing confidentiality.
8. Protection of your data
Your data is hosted in Canada on WordPress servers in highly secure environments. All of our websites transmit your data via a secure protocol (https).
You can ask us to stop sending you commercial communications. The easiest way to do this is to withdraw your consent, which you can do at any time, either by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the end of any newsletter and marketing communication, or by emailing, writing or phoning us using the contact details below. You may ask us to stop processing your personal information completely, and/or to delete it from our database.
9. European economic area
The principles underlying the regulatory model in force in the European Union, Canada and Quebec include those of informed consent, collection of appropriate data for the purposes intended, confidentiality, right of access and rectification of information.
To all our users, we cannot guarantee that our policy meets all the requirements of the regulations applicable to you. However, we assure you that we strive to develop and implement a policy that complies with the main principles of data protection, all from the perspective of alignment with the various regulations currently in force around the world.
If you have any questions about the TheSQuaD – Theory of Superconducting Quantum Devices Privacy Policy or a complaint about our use of your personal information, including our use of service providers based outside your home jurisdiction, you may contact our Privacy Officer at