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Who we are

Six Catalysts is a digital-first training and advisory firm based in Toronto, Canada. The website https://6Catalysts.ca is the information hub for the firm and its connected, global activities.

We do our utmost to treat your personal information in a privacy-by-design manner, and seek to give you as much choice as possible when it comes to providing personally-identifiable information (PII). Information that you provide to us is never sold, traded, or released to third parties without your consent. Access to your PII by staff and contractors to Six Catalysts is strictly controlled, and every reasonable attempt to secure this data is made (including, but not limited to, use of strong encryption and multi-factor authentication during the provisioning of access).

Comments & Form Submission

When visitors enter data in forms, polls, surveys, or leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help identify and block spam and nuisance content. Detection and prevention of bots and automated nuisance content may be managed by Cloudflare Turnstile in some cases (see : https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/).

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment, if you’ve signed up for the Gravatar service and enabled data sharing for this purpose.

Focus Groups, Panels, and Interviews

A research project conducted by Six Catalysts will sometimes involve qualitative research methods involving personal or group interviews. Such interviews are facilitated primarily through video or audio conference calls, and automated tools are used for transcribing the interview if the research method requires recording the call. Recordings are retained for 365 days and then deleted automatically. Transcriptions and research notes are anonymized and retained indefinitely, unless you request otherwise. Any information collected through interviews is considered protected access data, and accessible only to select staff within the 6ix Catalysts organization and its clients (in a strictly anonymized form).

Media

If you upload images to the website, please avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website may be able to download and extract any location data from your submitted images which are published on the website (we will never publish an image you provide without your consent, which you may revoke at any time here : https://6Catalysts.ca/contact/privacy-officer/).

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed. We strongly suggest avoiding the use of “Remember Me” functionality on any website, and always logging out when your work has finished. This best practice for data security helps limit the impact of “session hijacking” attacks by third party bad actors which target your browser, and the cookies saved within it.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Posts and pages on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behave in the exact same way as if you’ve visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

For example, if a YouTube video is embedded in page content, Alphabet and its subsidiaries may process behavioural data from your interaction with the video. Enabling Incognito mode or Privacy Sandbox mode in your browser can reduce the amount of information collected when interacting with embedded content.

Who we share your data with

Any information submitted by you on this website is accessible only to select employees of Six Catalysts. Aggregated research results are compiled and shared more broadly within Six Catalysts and client organizations, but personally-identifiable information is anonymized or removed before dissemination.

How long we retain your data

For users that register on our website, we store any personal information they provide in their user profile (please provide as little personally-identifiable information as possible). All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information (administration permission is restricted to a very small number of Six Catalyst employees). Submissions which you make to this website are retained for a maximum of 365 days in their original form. Afterwards, the submissions are anonymized and retained indefinitely in an archived state.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is processed

Any information which you submit to this website is stored on servers located in Montreal, QC, Canada. Original submissions will be routinely accessed by Six Catalyst employees located in Toronto, ON, Canada.

Data controllers and processors

Six Catalysts is the sole data controller for any personally-identifiable information provided through this website (Data Protection Officer : Paul Austin-Menear, Founder).

Data Processors