Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy was last modified: 15 September 2026

Data Protection and Privacy Policy

Michael Page's online service is committed to protecting the privacy of our users. We want to provide a safe and secure user experience. We will ensure that the information you submit to us via our website at www.michaelpage.ca ("The Michael Page Site") remains private, and is only used for the purposes set out in this policy.

BEFORE USING OUR SITE OR PROVIDING INFORMATION TO US, PLEASE CAREFULLY REVIEW THIS PRIVACY POLICY. BY USING OUR SITE, INCLUDING REGISTERING FOR AN ACCOUNT OR EXPRESSING INTEREST IN A JOB OR ACCESSING OUR SITE, OR RECEIVING RECRUITMENT SERVICES AS A CLIENT, YOU CONSENT TO MICHAEL PAGE COLLECTING, USING, AND DISCLOSING YOUR INFORMATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY, AS REVISED FROM TIME TO TIME. IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT AND CONSENT TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS, THEN YOU MUST NOT USE OR ACCESS THE SITE. 

"Personal Data" means any information that relates to a natural person and directly or indirectly allows that person to be identified, or that otherwise constitutes personal data, personal information, or any equivalent concept as defined under applicable legislation.

The Information We Collect and How We Use It

We collect the following categories of personal data:

  • Identifiers: for example, your name, e-mail address and other contact information;
  • Professional or Employment-Related Information: for example, your CV, educational degrees, and professional experience;
  • Communications: for example, the content of emails, texts, and calls with us and the associated metadata. We may record, transcribe, and take notes on calls or other meetings, with your consent as required by law;
  • Other Details: for example, hobbies and leisure activities or membership in voluntary/charitable/public organizations as stated on the applicant's CV; and/or
  • Internet or other electronic network activity: for example, what pages you viewed on the Michael Page Site.

We use this personal data for the following purposes:

  • For matching your coded details with job vacancies, to assist us in finding you the position that most suits you;
  • For keeping you informed of Michael Page services, news and wider developments in your chosen field;
  • For tailoring the version of our website you see when you log on to make it relevant to you;
  • For compiling surveys of our candidates;
  • Performing services, including maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer service, verifying customer information, providing advertising or marketing services, and providing analytic services;
  • Conducting background checks of applicants, to the extent permitted by applicable law;
  • Protecting the rights, property, or safety of Michael Page, you, or others;
  • Exercising Michael Page's rights under applicable law and to support any claim, defense, or declaration in a case or before a jurisdictional and/or administrative authority, arbitration, or mediation panel, as applicable;
  • Ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulatory obligations;
  • Conducting internal audits and investigations; and/or
  • We may use transcription and note-taking software powered by artificial intelligence to assist in taking notes on applicant interviews, subject to human review. We do not make hiring decisions based solely, or in material part, on automated technologies.

Disclosures of your information

Michael Page Canada is part of the Michael Page group of companies which operates globally. Our recruitment experts and key members of the business who run functions such as payroll and IT support are based all around the world. We may share with or give access to your personal data to other companies within Michael Page including but not limited to interprovincially in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain and Latin America.

Find a list of Michael Page entities and the countries where they are located. 

Because Michael Page Canada is part of a global organization, your personal data, including the categories of information described herein, may be transferred outside your jurisdiction. This information may be accessed by authorized employees of other members of the Michael Page group of companies or by service providers for the purposes described above. Such group members and service providers will be permitted to access your personal data only where they provide an adequate level of protection for the transferred information. Before transferring your personal data to the United States or another foreign jurisdiction, Michael Page Canada will confirm that any applicable data transfer requirements have been satisfied.

The purposes of sharing your personal data within Michael Page companies are:

  • Providing essential services which are centralized in one single entity such as IT, commercial and sales support services;
  • Managing global, regional or senior executive positions, or the development of key accounts, which would require the cooperation of different companies across the group;
  • Managing positions that can be fulfilled remotely; and
  • Utilizing skills of our recruitment consultants based in other regions to support our recruitment efforts in Canada.

It is possible that Michael Page could merge or be acquired by another business. If this happens, we may share the information that relates to you with the new owners of the business and their advisers. You will be sent notice of such an event.

Your CV and related information will be sent to prospective employers but only where you give your consent. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the data processing activities of our clients.

We may also release information relating to you to regulatory or law enforcement authorities, if required to do so. We also reserve the right to disclose the information we have collected about you to our professional advisors and to other persons to the extent that Michael Page contracts out any aspect of the operation of its recruitment agency services. These third parties will be acting under similar undertakings of confidentiality as Michael Page.

Job Alerts

To subscribe to job alerts emails, you will be required to provide your e-mail address, which will be used for the purpose of keeping you informed, by e-mail, of the latest jobs in your nominated industry and/or industry news via job alerts.

Should you decide that you no longer wish to receive this information, unsubscribe links are provided in every job alert email that you receive.

Job alerts can also be received via RSS feeds without having to provide your email address.

Curriculum vitae ("CV")

We give you the option of submitting your CV via this website. You can do this either to apply for a specific advertised job or for consideration by our recruitment consultants for positions as they come up.

Although your CV will be stored online, it will only be accessible by Michael Page recruitment consultants. Your CV will also be e-mailed directly to our recruitment consultants who review your details and enter them onto our central in-house database.

You can update your CV at any time, simply by following the same procedure to submit a new CV. Your old CV will automatically be replaced.

Aggregate Information about Michael Page online visitors

We gather information and statistics collectively about all visitors to this website and all of the Michael Page websites worldwide, for example, which area users access most frequently and which services users access the most.

Use of Cookies

A cookie is a small data file which is sent from a web server to a web browser when that browser visits the server's site. Find out more about the use of cookies on www.allaboutcookies.org.

Access

You have the right at any time to ask us for a copy of the information supplied by you that we hold. If you would like to make a request for information, please contact datacompliance@page.com.

Other websites

Please note that clicking on links and banner advertisements may result in your transferal to another website, where data privacy practices may be different to that of Michael Page.

Internet-based transfers

Given that the Internet is a global environment, using the Internet to collect and process personal data necessarily involves the transmission of data on an international basis.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

This privacy policy may be changed by Michael Page at any time.

Your Privacy Rights

  • You may withdraw consent for the processing of your personal data;
  • You may request access to your personal data;
  • You may request that a person carrying on a business cease disseminating your personal data or to de-index any hyperlink attached to your name that provides access to the information by a technological means, if the dissemination of the information contravenes the law or a court order;
  • You may request deletion of your personal data;
  • If we maintain any inaccurate, incomplete, or equivocal information about you or if collecting, communicating, or keeping it are not authorized by law, you can request that the information be rectified; and
  • For sensitive personal data that we collect (if any), you can request that we limit our use of such personal data to that use which is necessary to perform the services.

Exercising Your Privacy Rights

We will respond to requests to exercise your rights in accordance with applicable law. You may submit your request via email at datacompliance@page.com with the subject line "Data Privacy Request".

  • First Name
  • Last Name
  • Email Address
  • Email Address associated with your MP account if different than above
  • Country and Province of Residence
  • Additional Request Details
  • Identify your relationship to MP.