Conditions of Use

1. Acceptance and amendments

This legal notice is to inform you of the conditions to access and use this Internet site (the “Site”) operated by Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and its subsidiaries (collectively “CDPQ”). When you decide to access and use the Site, or to download Content (as defined hereinafter) from the Site, you agree to be bound by and comply with all the terms and conditions set out herein that govern the Site’s access, use, content and application, including the Privacy Policy and other policies, rules and conditions applicable to the Site that may be posted thereon from time to time (collectively the “Conditions”). It is important for you to read the Conditions to ascertain your rights and obligations.

You accept and acknowledge that CDPQ reserves the right, at its sole discretion and without prior notice to: a) modify, move or delete any information contained on the Site or the Content (as defined hereinafter); b) correct any inaccuracy, omission or error, or update the Site or Content; c) temporarily or permanently suspend all or part of the Site or Content; and d) amend, change or update the Conditions at any time.

By accessing and using the Site after any amendment, you agree to comply with and be bound by them. Consequently, it is your responsibility to verify if there have been any amendments to the Conditions by referring to the date they were last revised, which is found below. 

If you do not accept these Conditions or, as the case may be, the Conditions as amended from time to time, CDPQ does not authorize you to access or use the Site, and you should stop accessing and using the Site.

2. Ownership

Unless indicated otherwise, the entire content of the Site, in particular, all texts, documents, reports, summaries, forms, data, charts, photographs, images, illustrations, audio and video clips, software, features, tools and all trade marks, brands and trade names used and available on the Site as well as their selection and array (collectively the “Content”), are subject to intellectual property rights, including, in particular, copyrights, trade marks and patents held by CDPQ, or granted to it. Except as expressly set out herein, you do not have a licensed or ownership right to the Content and all intellectual property rights in this respect are expressly reserved by CDPQ.

Without limiting the general scope of the foregoing, the www.cdpq.com domain name is the exclusive property of CDPQ and no appropriation of the domain name by hyperlinking (as defined below), framing or registering related domain names shall be tolerated.

The firm names and logos of CDPQ used on this Site may be trade names or trade marks (including registered trade marks) thereof. Such firm names and logos of CDPQ may not be copied, imitated or used, in whole or in part, other than in compliance herewith.

You acknowledge and agree that any unauthorized downloading, retransmission, copy or modification of all or part of the Site or Content may breach statutes, particularly all statutes pertaining to intellectual property, including trade marks, industrial designs or copyrights and may expose you to legal proceedings. 

Save for the particular needs to surf the Internet and unless indicated otherwise, it is strictly prohibited to copy, download, publish, distribute, reproduce, republish, redistribute, store on any medium, retransmit, display, modify, create works derived from all or part of the Site or Content, to sell or participate in the sale of all or part of the Site or Content, exploit all or part of the Site or Content in any way or make any public or commercial use thereof in any form whatsoever. Without limiting the general scope of the foregoing, you may not print or copy the HTML code or any other computer code that may be viewed on the Site.

3. Permitted use

You may access and use the Site and Content in compliance with statutes and the Conditions. Subject to the Conditions, CDPQ grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable license to access and use the Site and Content solely for the purpose of viewing and saving on your Device (as defined hereinafter), to download and print the Content available on the Site for internal or personal and non-commercial purposes, but any copy or reproduction of Content must display all copyright notices or other proprietary notices and you may not modify the Content in any way. 

Any other use of the Site or Content is strictly prohibited.

4. Hyperlinks

The Site contains links, cross references and icons that enable you to connect to sites operated by third parties (collectively the “Hyperlinks”). Hyperlinks are made available to you for ease of use and to provide you with a more spontaneous and friendly navigation experience. The existence of a Hyperlink is, by no means, an implicit or explicit endorsement of the site concerned, its content or other sites connected to it and CDPQ cannot be held responsible for their content. CDPQ does not make any express or implicit representation or warranty to you regarding products or services provided by third parties even though such information, products or services are referred to, included on or accessible from the Site or linked to it.

CDPQ is, at all times, free to add, delete or modify any Hyperlink appearing on the Site. CDPQ does not assume any responsibility with respect to the choice of provided Hyperlinks, to any potential viruses and the compatibility of a Hyperlink with your Device, smart phone, electronic tablet or other devices on which the Site may be accessed (each considered a “Device”).

CDPQ expressly prohibits any person from authorizing or implementing a Hyperlink originating from a third party’s site on the Site, from using the framing technique from a mirror site or other similar method without CDPQ’s prior consent. The fact that there are unauthorized Hyperlinks to the Site by no means constitutes a consent of or waiver to CDPQ’s rights and recourses. The existence of any unauthorized Hyperlink to the Site does not incur CDPQ’s liability. The access given by the Site’s Hyperlinks to other sites by no means serves to support, sanction or otherwise recognize the content of such sites.

5. Exclusion of warranty and limitation of liability

Access to the Site and Content is provided by CDPQ for information purposes only and the Site and Content may contain inaccuracies, omissions and errors. CDPQ and its Representatives (the term “Representatives” designating CDPQ, its affiliated companies and the respective directors, officers, employees, consultants, agents and suppliers) do not make any representation or warranty regarding the accuracy, quality, reliability, topicality, comprehensiveness, opportunity, merchantability or adaptation for a particular use, the absence of counterfeiting or violation of intellectual property or rights related or to the overall character of the Site or Content. CDPQ and its Representatives shall assume no liability regarding inaccuracies, omissions, errors or updates to the Site or Content. CDPQ may at no time be held responsible for any modification, suspension or interruption of the Site or Content or for the failure to view Content that was made available to you via the Site.

You access and use the Site and Content at your own risk. CDPQ and its representatives do not make any representation or warranty to the effect that the Site or Content is compatible with your Devices, computer systems or that the Site and Content is or will be free of viruses or contaminating or destructive elements having prejudicial consequences. In addition, CDPQ does not provide any guarantee that the Site will run without interruption or without error or that there will not be any delay, omission or loss of transmitted information. You are solely responsible for installing systems and software to protect the security and integrity of your Device or computer system, as well as for all related costs, that may be necessary for you to use the Site.

The Site and Content, are provided “as is,” without any explicit, implicit or accessory declaration, warranty or condition. To the fullest extent permitted by law, CDPQ and its Representatives shall assume no liability based on a contract, civil responsibility or other legal theory regarding damages, whether direct, indirect, incidental, consecutive, punitive, exemplary, special, corporal or other damages whatsoever (including but without limiting the general scope of the foregoing, damages related to the undertaking, loss of profits, savings or revenue, interruption of business, a Device, the computer system, and loss of information, programs or other data on your information processing system) caused by the use or inability to use the Site or Content, whether or not CDPQ or one of its Representatives had been informed of the possibility of such damages.

6. Your obligations

You undertake not to: (a) use the Site or Content in any way that could damage, deactivate, overload or compromise the Site or Content; (b) interfere with the security or otherwise abuse the Site, Content, services, systems resources, server or network connected to the Site or to affiliated or connected sites or sites that are accessible through them; (c) disrupt or interfere with other people’s use or enjoyment of the Site, Content or affiliated or connected sites or sites that are accessible through them; (d) download, display or otherwise transmit a virus on the Site or other harmful, troublesome or corrupting file or computer program; (e) use any robot device, hacker or other automatic device or manual process to extract and analyse Content (web scraping) or to control, modify, monitor or copy Web pages or the Content; (f) send e-mail messages, chain letters, spam, electronic threats or other types of unsolicited mass electronic messages through the Site; and (g) attempt to secure unauthorized access to the Site, Content or to certain portions of the Site or Content with limited access. In addition, you recognize that you alone are responsible for any and all actions and communications undertaken or transmitted to or on your behalf and you undertake to comply with all applicable statutes regarding your use of the Site or Content, or activities on the Site.

7. Additional conditions applicable to the Careers section

The Careers section of the Site is to provide you with information on job openings at CDPQ. Nothing in the Careers section constitutes a job offer or an obligation for CDPQ to communicate with you regarding you job application in response to a job opening. Any physical or legal person (including a placement agency) submitting a resumé through the Careers section on behalf of a candidate does so by agreeing to the following: (a) the resumé shall become the property of CDPQ; and (b) in the absence of a contract signed by CDPQ with a placement agency covering the position for which the resumé is submitted, CDPQ shall have the right to recruit the candidate at its discretion and without being required to pay fees to the physical or legal person (including the placement agency) submitting the resumé.

8. Personal information

CDPQ complies with prevailing and applicable legislation in personal information protection matters. You accept CDPQ’s practices with regard to the processing of and the measures to safeguard the personal information set out in the Privacy Policy. To learn more, please consult the Privacy and Data Protection page of the Site.

9. General provisions

9.1 Entire agreement
The Conditions constitute the entire agreement between you and CDPQ regarding your use of the Site and its Content and supersedes the prior written or verbal agreements between you and CDPQ with regard to the subject matter hereof.

9.2 Interpretation
In the event of discrepancy between the different linguistic versions of the Site, the French version takes precedence.

Section titles herein are used solely for ease of reading and may not be used to interpret the sections.
The masculine gender is used for ease of reading and includes the feminine.

9.3 Applicable law
The Conditions are governed by the laws of the Province of Québec and the applicable Canadian laws, notwithstanding any principle governing conflicting laws. You agree to be bound to and to comply with the aforementioned laws. In addition, if you access or use the Site from another jurisdiction, you shall be responsible for ensuring that your access and use are legally permitted in that jurisdiction and you agree to comply with local laws, to the extent that they apply to you. In the event of any dispute related to this Site or to the Conditions, you accept the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the Province of Québec and the Federal Court of Canada. You agree not to initiate any action or proceeding anywhere other than in Montréal, Québec (Canada) with regard to such a dispute.

9.4 Specific rules
In the event of a discrepancy between one of the conditions set out in these Conditions and a specific condition set out on a page of the Site in relation to some particular Content, the specific condition takes precedence.

Last revised: October 24, 2024