Data controller
The data controller for personal data collected via this website is:
Services eliss.io Inc.
Quebec enterprise number (NEQ) 1177995355
operating the eliss.io website
300-204, rue Saint-Sacrement
Montréal (Québec) H2Y 1W8, Canada
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
privacy@eliss.io
Data collected
When using this website, we only collect the following data:
| Data | Source | Nature |
|---|---|---|
| Name, company, email | Contact form | Voluntarily submitted |
| Subject & message | Contact form | Voluntarily submitted |
| Browsing data | PostHog (if consent) | Pseudonymised — subject to consent |
| IP address — audience measurement | PostHog (if consent) | Used on receipt to derive an approximate location, then discarded — not retained |
| Approximate location | Derived from the IP address by PostHog | Country, region, city, postal code and approximate coordinates (radius of about 10 km) |
| Browser characteristics | PostHog (if consent) | Browser, operating system, language, time zone, screen resolution |
| Application firewall counters | Amazon Web Services (application firewall) | A firewall filters requests sent to the contact form. It produces aggregated counters — the number of requests per country, per internet access organisation and per device type, both inferred from your request. No IP address is retained there, and these counters cannot identify you. |
| Scroll depth and time spent on page | PostHog (if consent) | Measured automatically for each page viewed |
| Consent to sales follow-up | Contact form — separate checkbox | Optional, unticked by default — the sole condition for any transfer to HubSpot |
Note: We do not ask for any sensitive data in the contact form. Please do not enter information relating in particular to your health, origins, beliefs, sexual orientation or any other especially confidential matter. As the message field is free text, we cannot technically prevent such entries: if you do send us any, they are handled like the rest of your message and deleted at your request.
Purposes & legal basis
| Purpose | Legal basis (GDPR) | Justification (Quebec Private Sector Act) |
|---|---|---|
| Responding to contact requests | Legitimate interest (Art. 6.1.f) | Necessary to provide the service requested; information supplied voluntarily after being informed |
| Sales follow-up of your request in our customer relationship management tool | Freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous consent (Art. 6.1.a) via a separate checkbox | Clear, free and informed consent, given for that specific purpose and separately from sending the message |
| Audience measurement and site improvement | Freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous consent (Art. 6.1.a) via the cookie banner | Prior, clear, free and informed consent, given for that specific purpose |
| Abuse prevention and security | Legitimate interest (Art. 6.1.f) | Necessity; use expressly permitted to prevent or detect fraud and to assess or improve protection and security measures (s. 12) |
Cookies & trackers
This website sets no cookies and loads no third-party resources — fonts included, everything is served from our own domain. Until you accept audience measurement, your browser makes no request to any third party. The site uses two categories of trackers, stored in your browser:
Strictly necessary trackers
These trackers are essential for the website to function and do not require consent. The first two remember your choice, including your refusal; the third serves browsing comfort alone. All stay on your device and are never sent to our servers.
| Tracker | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| eliss_cookie_consent local storage | 6 months, or until you clear it | Remembers your acceptance or refusal choice |
| eliss_cookie_consent_date local storage | 6 months, or until you clear it | Timestamp of your choice, used to ask you again once the 6 months have elapsed |
| react-router-scroll-positions session storage | Cleared when the tab is closed | Remembers your scroll position so you are returned to it when you come back to a page |
Audience measurement trackers (subject to consent)
These trackers are created by PostHog only if you clicked "Accept" in the banner. If declined, no browsing data is collected and the audience measurement code is not even downloaded by your browser.
| Tracker | Provider | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visitor identifier local storage | PostHog | 6 months at most — destroyed and regenerated when your choice is renewed | Pseudonymous identifier (UUID) linking several visits to the same browser |
| Session identifier session storage | PostHog | 30 minutes of inactivity | Groups the pages viewed during a single visit |
| Window identifier and technical state of the session session storage | PostHog | Cleared when the tab is closed, or as soon as you withdraw your consent | Identify which tab the visit takes place in and record the loading state of the tool; they contain no browsing data |
Your IP address is not retained by this tool: it is used on receipt to derive an approximate location, then discarded. No session recording and no automatic capture of your clicks, your input or page loading times is enabled: only scroll depth and time spent on each page are measured. Submitting the contact form uses the same content delivery network as the pages, which receives your IP address without keeping any log of it.
Manage your preferences
You can change your choice at any time by clicking the button below. Your preference is kept in your browser for 6 months; after that it is cleared, the PostHog visitor identifier is destroyed and you are asked to choose again.
Data retention
| Data | Duration | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| Contact data (form) — record held by the receiving service | 3 years from the receipt of your message, then automatically deleted. A continuous backup allows our database to be restored as it stood up to 1 day earlier; should we need to use it, a message deleted within that interval would reappear, and we then replay the deletions requested before returning it to service. | Business relationship follow-up |
| Contact data (form) — copy delivered to our inbox | Deleted on request. No automatic deletion is currently in place for this copy. | Your message is emailed to us so that we can reply to it |
| Sales follow-up record (HubSpot) | Deleted when you withdraw your consent, or on request. No automatic deletion is currently in place for this copy. | Created only if you ticked the corresponding checkbox |
| Analytics data (PostHog) | Our processor retains it for the duration of our agreement with it. The plan we subscribe to also sets the retention period it grants at 84 months — 7 years; that duration is not of our choosing: it follows from the plan, cannot be changed from our account, and this provider's programming interface allows no deletion by date. To date there is no automatic deletion, neither at that term nor before, neither at our processor's end nor on ours. | Seasonal trend analysis |
| Technical logs of the function that processes the form — no IP address | 12 months, then deleted automatically | Diagnostics and abuse detection |
| Tracker preference | 6 months — you are then asked to choose again | Remembers your acceptance or refusal |
You may request the deletion of the information concerning you by writing to privacy@eliss.io. What such a request reaches is not the same for every copy, and we would rather say so precisely.
Information from the contact form — the record held by the receiving service, the copy delivered to our inbox and, if you ticked the corresponding box, the sales follow-up record, which never contains your message — is deleted on request. We have not yet established how long a deleted item then remains with our email provider and in our sales follow-up tool; that period will be published here once we have measured it.
Audience measurement data, by contrast, cannot be deleted individually, and we do not wish to suggest otherwise. What lies within our power concerns the future: the pseudonymous identifier described in section 4 is destroyed in your browser when your choice is renewed, or on the next page load if you withdraw your consent. The measurements already sent, however, remain with our processor for the period stated above: they carry the identifier that was then in use, together with the information listed in section 2 — including the approximate location derived from your IP address — and this provider's programming interface offers no means of deleting them, neither by date nor by person: the only deletion it knows is attached to a person profile, and our configuration creates none — your measurements are attached to no person profile.
Data sharing
Your data is neither sold, rented, nor transferred to third parties for commercial purposes. Until you accept audience measurement, the pages of this website load no third-party resources — no fonts, no scripts, no remote images: your browser communicates only with our own domains. If you accept, a single exception opens: the audience measurement code and its configuration are then loaded from the PostHog domains named in the table below, and from those alone. The contact form is received by a service we operate ourselves, hosted in Canada, which it reaches without leaving this domain. Your data may be shared with the following processors, strictly within the scope of the contractually defined service:
| Processor | Country | Role | Guarantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Web Services | Canada — Montreal (ca-central-1) | Website hosting, receipt and storage of contact form messages, sending of the notification email | Data at rest hosted in Canada; any technical operations or support access from outside the country is governed by the agreements entered into with the provider |
| Amazon CloudFront (Amazon Web Services) | Worldwide network of points of presence — your request is served from the point of presence closest to you | Content delivery network for the website's pages: TLS termination and request routing. As such, it receives your IP address. Contact form submissions also pass through it as of 7 September 2026: they use the same domain as the pages, rather than a separate address. | Access logging disabled — no request log is retained (established by direct inspection on 27 August 2026). Any technical operations or support access from outside the country is governed by the agreements entered into with the provider |
| Microsoft 365 (Exchange Online) | Canada — data geography of our tenant | Inbox receiving contact form messages (contact@eliss.io) | Microsoft Data Protection Addendum |
| HubSpot, Inc. | Canada — Montreal (data at rest); access possible from the United States | Sales follow-up record — only if you ticked the corresponding checkbox in the form | Prior and separate consent; data at rest hosted in Canada. HubSpot's agreement further permits processing in the United States and in the other jurisdictions where its affiliates and sub-processors operate; HubSpot's data processing agreement, incorporated into its terms of service: standard contractual clauses and Data Privacy Framework certification |
| PostHog Inc. | Storage: European Union — processing may occur in the United States and elsewhere | Audience measurement — only after acceptance of the banner. Your browser then contacts two of its domains: eu-assets.i.posthog.com, from which the measurement code and its configuration are loaded, then eu.i.posthog.com, to which the measurements are sent. | Data processing agreement signed on 25 August 2026 |
Important: In case of data transmission to authorities upon judicial request, we comply in accordance with applicable law and will inform you within legally permitted limits.
Transfers outside EU / Canada
Audience measurement data is hosted in PostHog's European data region. Under our data processing agreement, PostHog may also process it outside that region, including in the United States.
If you ticked the sales follow-up checkbox in the contact form, your name, email address and company name are sent to HubSpot, Inc., whose hosting of our account is in Canada: that data is stored there, not in the United States. No other form data is sent to HubSpot; in particular, the content of your message is never sent to HubSpot. From this website, we send HubSpot no information about anyone who did not fill in the form themselves, and the record thus created is not enriched from any other source.
Where data is stored does not by itself determine who can access it. HubSpot, Inc. is a United States company, and its data processing agreement permits processing in the United States and in any jurisdiction where its affiliates and sub-processors operate, in particular for running and supporting the service. Canadian hosting therefore does not put an end to every transfer: it places storage in Canada and leaves those accesses in place. They remain governed by HubSpot's data processing agreement, incorporated into its terms of service, which relies on the European Commission's standard contractual clauses and on HubSpot, Inc.'s certification under the Data Privacy Framework. Processing carried out by PostHog outside the European Economic Area is governed by our data processing agreement, on the same twofold basis. A copy or description of these safeguards can be obtained at privacy@eliss.io.
No browsing data is transmitted if you have not accepted the audience measurement trackers, and you can change this choice at any time.
The website itself is hosted in Canada, in Montreal (Amazon Web Services, ca-central-1 region), as are the receipt, storage and receiving inbox of contact form messages: this data is kept in Canada. A Canadian hosting region establishes where data is held at rest, not where every access originates: we do not rule out technical operations or support access from outside the country, and such access is governed by the agreements entered into with these providers.
Your rights (GDPR)
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies when you are located in the European Economic Area: to the audience measurement processing described in section 4, which amounts to monitoring of your behaviour within the meaning of Article 3(2)(b); and to the information you send us through the contact form, to the extent that we offer our services to persons in the Union within the meaning of Article 3(2)(a). You then have the following rights:
- Right of access — obtain a copy of data concerning you (Art. 15)
- Right to rectification — correct inaccurate data (Art. 16)
- Right to erasure — request deletion of your data (Art. 17)
- Right to restriction of processing — request that the use of your data be temporarily restricted, in the circumstances provided for (Art. 18)
- Right to portability — receive your data in a structured format (Art. 20)
- Right to object — object to processing based on legitimate interest (Art. 21)
- Right to withdraw consent — withdraw your consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of prior processing
- Right to lodge a complaint — file a complaint with the CNIL (cnil.fr) or your member state's supervisory authority
To exercise any of these rights, contact us at privacy@eliss.io. We respond within a maximum of 30 days.
Specific rights — Law 25 (Quebec)
Where Quebec law applies to the processing of your personal information, the Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector, as amended by Law 25, grants you additional rights:
- Right of access — consult personal information concerning you
- Right to rectification — have inaccurate or incomplete information corrected
- Right to de-indexation — request cessation of dissemination or re-indexation, under the conditions of Art. 28.1
- Right to portability — receive your information in a commonly used technological format (in effect since September 2024)
- Right to withdraw consent — withdraw your consent at any time for consent-based processing
The role of person responsible for the protection of personal information for Quebec is held by the Founder and Chief Executive Officer, reachable at privacy@eliss.io.
In the event of a privacy incident posing a serious risk of harm, we will inform you as soon as possible and notify the Commission d'accès à l'information (CAI) in accordance with Article 3.5 of Law 25.
Data security
We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your data against unauthorized access, loss, destruction or alteration:
- Encrypted transmission via TLS/HTTPS
- Data access restricted to authorized personnel on a need-to-know basis
- Hosting in ISO 27001 certified data centres
- Application-level filtering and rate limiting on the contact form's receiving endpoint
Changes to this policy
Any modification to this policy is the subject of a separate notice published on this page. That notice states the date it was published, the nature of the modifications and the date they take effect.
Where a modification is liable to have a significant effect on your rights or on the use of your information, it is brought specifically to your attention before it takes effect, wherever that is possible.
The current version is always available at eliss.io/en/privacy-policy.
Notice of modification — published 3 September 2026
Effective date: 7 September 2026. Nature of the modifications: an application firewall now filters requests sent to the contact form, and rate limiting applies at its receiving endpoint. Section 10 states this measure; section 2 publishes what it produces. What we chose not to do: the most common way of protecting a form is to limit the rate per IP address, which requires the provider to retain the list of addresses concerned. We declined that. The firewall we selected retains no IP address. What it does produce, and what we publish: aggregated counters — the number of requests per country, per internet access organisation and per device type. These three items are inferred from your request, they cannot identify you, and they are associated with no other data. We publish them because the list of what we measure, in sections 2 and 4, is meant to be complete: a derived item missing from it would make it false. These modifications add a security measure and the information that accompanies it. They change neither the purposes nor the retention periods, and restrict none of your rights. Previous notice — 7 September 2026. Nature of the modifications: the contact form is now received by a service we operate ourselves and which it reaches without leaving this domain, whereas it was previously sent to a separate address. Three consequences, which this policy publishes. First, an improvement: the service that now receives your submissions retains neither your IP address nor your user agent. The line that published their 30-day retention is removed from sections 2 and 5 — not because we stop publishing it, but because that retention no longer takes place. Second, a less favourable clarification: your submission now passes through our content delivery network, which accordingly receives your IP address — which section 6 expressly stated was not the case. That section is corrected. No request log is kept there, as it also publishes. Third, a residual copy we had not yet published: a continuous backup of our database allows its state to be restored up to 1 day earlier. Should we need to use it, a message deleted within that interval would reappear; we keep a register of the deletions requested and replay them before returning it to service. On balance these modifications reduce the data retained: a 30-day retention disappears, a one-day residual copy is created and published. They change neither the data collected nor the purposes, and restrict none of your rights. Previous notice — 3 September 2026. Nature of the modifications: section 5 now expresses in months the retention period granted by the plan we subscribe to with our audience measurement tool — 84 months, that is 7 years. Above all, that section carries a new paragraph devoted to your right to obtain the deletion of the information concerning you, which distinguishes what such a request reaches depending on the copy at issue. We undertake to delete, on request, the information arising from the contact form, in all three of its copies — an undertaking that goes beyond what sections 8 and 9 enumerate. Against that, the paragraph publishes two limits this policy had until now passed over in silence: we have not yet established how long a deleted item remains with our email provider and in our sales follow-up tool, and audience measurement data cannot be deleted individually — our processor's programming interface offers no means of deleting measurements by date or by person, the only deletion it knows being attached to a person profile, which our configuration does not create. The paragraph finally makes clear what the destruction of your identifier actually reaches: it concerns the future, the measurements already sent remaining with our processor for the period stated. These modifications change neither the data collected, nor the purposes, nor the periods actually applied, and restrict none of your rights: they add an undertaking to delete, and describe accurately what exercising your right to erasure reaches on each copy. We publish these limits because they already existed without being stated, not because they are new. Previous notice — 3 September 2026. Nature of the modifications: section 4 publishes that the visitor identifier created by our audience measurement tool is retained for 6 months at most, and that it is destroyed at the moment you are asked to make your choice again. A verification carried out on 3 September 2026 established that there was a case in which that destruction did not take place: when several tabs of this website were open at the same time, a tab left active could write the audience measurement trackers back just after expiry had erased them. On the next load, those trackers — including your visitor identifier — remained while no consent was recorded any longer, and the banner was presented to you as though you were a new visitor. The code has been corrected: the absence of a recorded consent now triggers exactly the same erasure as expiry, and that erasure covers both of your browser's storages. The correction was verified by measurement, before and after. This modification reduces the data retained in your browser and restores a guarantee already published; it changes neither the data collected, nor the purposes, nor the retention periods, and restricts none of your rights. Previous notice — 3 September 2026. Nature of the modifications: the retention period for audience measurement data, which this policy published as “12 months at most”, corresponded to no actual deletion — neither at our processor nor on our side. On verification, the plan we subscribe to with it sets at 7 years the retention period it grants; that value follows from the plan and cannot be changed from our account, and no automatic deletion is applied to it. We have also established that its programming interface does not allow events to be deleted according to their date: the only deletion it offers is attached to a person profile, and this website creates none. We are therefore unable, to date, to apply ourselves the 12-month limit that was published. Section 5 now states the actual position: the period our processor grants, and the absence of automatic deletion on either side. This modification lengthens the retention period brought to your knowledge: it changes nothing about what was actually retained, but corrects a figure that was not being met. It changes neither the data collected nor the purposes, and restricts none of your rights. Previous notice — 3 September 2026. Nature of the modifications: the hosting of the data in our sales follow-up tool HubSpot, which this policy located in the United States, is in fact in Canada — observed on 3 September 2026 in the HubSpot console, which states “Your data hosting location: Canada”. The six statements concerned are corrected in both languages: in section 6, the “Country” and “Safeguards” columns of the HubSpot row; in section 7, the two paragraphs that described this transfer; and the label of the contact form checkbox. Section 7 could not be corrected by changing a word: it grounded a transfer to the United States that does not take place for storage. It now distinguishes where the data is stored — in Canada — from who can access it: HubSpot's data processing agreement permits processing in the United States and in the jurisdictions where its affiliates and sub-processors operate, and those accesses remain, governed by the standard contractual clauses and the Data Privacy Framework certification. Separately, technical log entries from the function that processes the form, which contained the name, company and email address of two individuals, were deleted on 3 September 2026; the logging that produced them had already been removed from the code. These modifications correct inaccurate information, describe hosting more protective than the one published, and reduce the data retained. They change neither the data transmitted, nor the purposes, nor the retention periods, and restrict none of your rights. Previous notice — 2 September 2026. This notice follows the one published the same day and completes it, further to a technical audit of the website. Nature of the modifications: the guarantee that this website loads no third-party resources, stated without qualification in section 6, now carries there the same reservation as in section 4 — it holds until you accept audience measurement —, and the single exception that opens afterwards is described there; the two PostHog domains your browser contacts after acceptance are named in section 6 — eu-assets.i.posthog.com, from which the measurement code and its configuration are loaded, and eu.i.posthog.com, to which the measurements are sent: the former was named nowhere; the trackers this tool places in your browser's session storage are added to the table in section 4, which declared none of them, and they are now cleared as soon as you withdraw your consent or it expires; finally, two settings of that tool left at their default values, which collected the campaign parameters present in the address you arrived by (utm_* and advertising click identifiers) as well as the site you came from, have been disabled: this data is no longer collected, which makes the closed list of what is measured, published in sections 2 and 4, accurate again. These modifications clarify the information published, reduce the data collected, and restrict none of your rights. Previous notice — 2 September 2026. Nature of the modifications: the scope of the General Data Protection Regulation is now described for all the processing covered by this policy, rather than for audience measurement alone, following the launch of our services for clients established in the European Union; the scope of our undertaking regarding HubSpot is clarified so as to cover information originating from this website; the qualifiers of consent under the GDPR are restored identically in the French and English versions; the contact form now states that you confirm having read this policy rather than that you accept it, the policy being information and not a condition you agree to; the fonts, until now loaded from a Google server, are now served from our own domain: no page of this website loads any third-party resource any more, and your browser makes no request to any third party until you have accepted audience measurement; the logging of your IP address when you submit the contact form, kept for 30 days, is now published in sections 2 and 5, where the retention period of technical logs is broken down per service instead of a single figure; the scroll-position tracker, strictly necessary, is added to the table in section 4; the measurement of page loading times is explicitly disabled in our audience measurement tool. These modifications clarify the information published, reduce the data sent to third parties, and restrict none of your rights. Previous notice — 27 August 2026. Nature of the modifications: the retention period for contact form messages now runs, in the text as in the mechanism, from the receipt of the message rather than from the last interaction — which shortens it; the three copies of a message are distinguished (record held by the receiving service, copy in our inbox, optional sales record) and, for each, what triggers its deletion is stated; the website's content delivery network is named among the processors, together with the fact that it receives your IP address and that no access log is retained there. These modifications clarify the information published and do not restrict any of your rights. Previous notice — 25 August 2026. Nature of the modifications: Google Analytics replaced by PostHog, in the European data region, as the audience measurement tool; publication of the service that receives contact form messages, of the receiving inbox, and of the optional transfer to HubSpot, which is now conditional on a separate checkbox; addition of a 12-month maximum retention period for audience measurement data; renewal of your tracker choice every 6 months, with destruction of the visitor identifier; replacement of the notion of "legitimate interest" by the justifications specific to Quebec law; addition of the right to restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR). These modifications broaden the information published and restrict none of your rights.
Contact us
For any questions regarding this policy or to exercise your rights:
Services eliss.io Inc. — Data protection
300-204, rue Saint-Sacrement
Montréal (Québec) H2Y 1W8, Canada
France: cnil.fr
Quebec: cai.gouv.qc.ca
