Last updated: August 3, 2026
Security8.ca respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains what personal information we collect through this website, why we collect it, how we use and protect it, and the choices available to you.
Who We Are
Security8.ca is an independent cybersecurity learning, research, and documentation website operated from Quebec, Canada.
Information We Collect
Contact Form Information
When you submit the contact form, we collect the information you choose to provide, including:
- First name
- Last name
- Email address
- Subject
- Message content
Please do not submit passwords, access credentials, financial information, government identification numbers, medical information, confidential files, personal data belonging to another person, or detailed vulnerability evidence through the contact form. We can arrange a more appropriate method if additional sensitive information is genuinely required.
Technical, Security, and Usage Information
When you visit the website, our hosting, security, analytics, and website systems may automatically process limited technical information, such as:
- IP address
- Browser, operating system, and device information
- Requested pages and URLs
- Date and time of access
- Referring website or source
- General interaction and performance information
- Error, access, and security logs
Cookies, Analytics, and Tag Management
Security8.ca may use cookies and similar technologies for essential website operation, security, performance, and general audience measurement.
The website uses Google Tag Manager to manage website tags and may use analytics tags, including Google Analytics or similar services, to understand general website usage. Depending on the enabled tags, these services may process information such as your IP address, browser and device details, visited pages, referral source, approximate location derived from network information, and interactions with the website.
You can restrict or delete cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect website functionality. Where applicable, available website controls can also be used to manage non-essential technologies.
How We Use Information
We may use collected information to:
- Review and respond to inquiries
- Operate, maintain, and improve the website
- Detect spam, abuse, malicious traffic, and security threats
- Diagnose technical or performance problems
- Understand general website usage and content performance
- Maintain appropriate records
- Comply with applicable legal and regulatory obligations
Security8.ca does not sell or rent personal information.
Service Providers and Information Sharing
Limited information may be processed by service providers that support the website, including hosting, email delivery, form processing, spam prevention, security, analytics, tag management, backup, and technical support providers.
We may also disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with applicable law, respond to a lawful request, protect the website or its users, investigate abuse, or establish, exercise, or defend legal rights.
Some providers may process or store information outside Quebec or Canada. Information handled in another jurisdiction may be subject to the laws of that jurisdiction.
Data Retention and Destruction
Contact form submissions are kept only for as long as reasonably necessary to review and respond to an inquiry, maintain appropriate records, and address security or legal requirements. We generally aim to delete contact form submissions within 12 months after the inquiry has been resolved, unless a longer period is reasonably required.
Technical, security, analytics, and server logs may be retained according to operational, security, contractual, and legal requirements. When personal information is no longer required, we take reasonable steps to delete it securely or anonymize it where appropriate and permitted.
Access and Internal Responsibility
Access to personal information is limited to the website administrators and service providers who reasonably need it for the purposes described in this policy. The Security8.ca Privacy Officer oversees privacy questions, requests, and complaints.
Information Security
Security8.ca uses reasonable administrative and technical safeguards intended to protect personal information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, loss, or misuse. These measures may include access controls, software updates, security monitoring, backups, and protective website technologies.
No website, email system, or electronic storage method can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You should avoid sending sensitive or confidential information through the website.
Your Privacy Rights
Subject to applicable law, you may request:
- Confirmation that we hold personal information about you
- Access to your personal information
- Correction of inaccurate or incomplete information
- Information about how your personal information has been used or disclosed
- Withdrawal of consent where consent is the legal basis for use or disclosure
- Deletion of information that is no longer required, where applicable
- Exercise of other privacy rights available under applicable law
We may need to verify your identity before completing a request. Legal exceptions may limit certain rights in specific circumstances.
Children’s Privacy
Security8.ca is intended for a general technical and professional audience. We do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 14 without appropriate consent, unless the collection is otherwise permitted by law.
External Links and Embedded Content
The website may contain links to external websites or embedded content from third-party services. These services operate independently and may collect information according to their own privacy policies. Security8.ca is not responsible for the privacy or security practices of external websites or services.
Privacy Questions and Complaints
Privacy requests or complaints are reviewed by the Security8.ca Privacy Officer. Please provide enough information for us to understand and respond to the matter, but do not send sensitive identity documents through the contact form unless specifically requested through an appropriate secure method.
We will review the request, verify identity when necessary, investigate the matter as appropriate, and respond within the period required by applicable law.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy when website features, service providers, legal requirements, or privacy practices change. The revised policy will be published on this page with an updated date.
Submit a privacy question, request, or complaint through the Security8.ca contact page.