Privacy Policy
Pulp and Paper Products Council
Effective : Dec 11, 2025
1. Introduction
This Privacy Policy explains how the Pulp and Paper Products Council, a company based in Canada, collects, uses, and protects your personal information. We are committed to transparency and to complying with data protection regulations in the jurisdictions where we operate.
2. Collection of personal information
When you access our website at www.pppc.org, and by providing us with personal information, you agree that we may collect, use and disclose the information you provide to us in accordance with this policy and for the purposes set out below. We may collect and process different types of personal information about you in the context of carrying out our activities and services, including the following:
- Identity information (first and last names);
- Contact details (postal address, email address and telephone number);
- Any other personal information provided voluntarily via the contact form;
- Recruitment-related information such as your resume, education, professional background and other information relevant to recruitment;
- Technical information from your computer's web browser when you visit our websites and have accepted the corresponding cookies. This information includes your Internet address, the originating website address, the time taken to visit our site, the pages visited, the operating system and web browser software used, and the keywords used to find our websites if you reached us through a search engine. This information does not directly identify you and the Pulp and Paper Products Council never links this information to specific visitors to its websites unless necessary to investigate a security breach.
3. Collection methods
Your data is collected via forms on our website, emails, cookies, and when you browse our sites.
4. Use of data
We process your personal information to provide our services, respond to your requests, and comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, in strict compliance with your consent.
5. Information sharing
Your data may be shared with third party service providers and partners, as well as legal authorities if required, but never without your explicit consent.
6. Data retention
We retain your personal data for the period necessary to fulfill the intended purposes, subject to legal retention obligations.
7. Security
We apply physical, technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data against unauthorized access or breach.
8. Permission to access
You have rights of access, rectification, and withdrawal of your data. To exercise them, please contact Martine Hamel, Vice President - specifying your request via our contact page or our general email address (mhamel@pppc.org).
9. Cookies
Cookies are small text files that an http server records on your computer's hard drive to identify you. Our cookies do not contain confidential information, but simply a number allowing the Pulp and Paper Products Council to identify you and suggest content likely to interest you and make your visit more pleasant and friendly. Most browsers automatically accept cookies. However, you can refuse them by changing your preferences in the settings of the browser used.