Thank you for visiting Midland Exploration’s website and reviewing its privacy policy (hereinafter the Policy).
By browsing our website or using our systems or services, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this policy and consent to the processing of your personal data and information in accordance with this policy, where applicable.
This privacy policy is composed of the following elements:
1.Objectives of the privacy policy :
Respect for privacy and the protection of personal information are essential to us, which is why, through this Policy, we intend to protect personal information in accordance with applicable laws.
To ensure this protection, Midland Exploration will only collect, process and share personally identifiable information with the consent of the individual, unless permitted or required by law, in which case your consent will not be required.
The purpose of the Policy is to inform users of the purposes and manner in which Midland Exploration , or anyone acting on its behalf, will collect and use their personal information. It is intended to be in plain language to ensure informed consent from users.
For the purposes of this Policy, “personal information” means any information about an identifiable or identifiable individual. Wherever possible, we will anonymize, pseudonymize and/or aggregate such information so that it no longer identifies an individual.
This Policy applies from August 30, 2023.
This Policy replaces the Privacy Policy as of August 30, 2023.
We are committed to obtaining consent prior to collecting personal information from an individual. Consent may be express or implied and may be provided directly by the individual or by his or her authorized representative.
We prefer to obtain express consent, whether verbally, electronically or in writing. However, implied consent may be reasonably inferred from a person’s action or inaction. For example, providing a name and address to receive a publication, or a name and telephone number to obtain an answer to a question, is considered implied consent to the collection of information containing personal information. In determining the appropriate type of consent, we take into account the sensitivity of the personal information involved, the purposes for which it is collected and the reasonable expectations of a similarly situated individual.
If we want to use personal information for a new purpose, we will describe the intended use and ask for consent again.
It may not always be possible, particularly in the case of government requests, to obtain consent for the collection, use or disclosure of personal information. We will never disclose such information other than in accordance with this Policy, except as required or permitted by law.
Information is collected in accordance with the purposes and objectives set out in this privacy policy.
Here are some of the reasons we collect your personal information:
Midland Exploration may collect personal information in various forms, but will only do so by lawful means and only for the necessary purposes disclosed to you, as described in this Policy, or as permitted or required by law.
The personal information we collect, and its sensitivity, may vary depending on the context of your interactions with Midland Exploration. This is why it is important for us to inform you of the nature of the personal information we use.
We protect all personal information collected. Among the personal information that may be collected and used, we pay particular attention to :
Name and contact information. First and last name, e-mail address, mailing address, telephone number and other similar data used to contact you.
Proof of identity. Passwords, password hints and similar security information used to identify you and access your account.
Demographic data. Information about you, such as your age, gender, country and language of communication.
Payment data. Data required to process your payments, such as your payment instrument number (e.g. your credit card number) and the associated security code.
Subscription information. Information about your subscriptions to cultural events and company newsletters.
Images and sounds. Audiovisual data used to ensure the safety of our users, in particular on the sites of cultural events for which we are organizers or hosts.
Interactions. Data relating to your use of the websites, platforms and tools created. This is data that you provide in order to use the products. In other cases, such as error reports, this data is generated by us.
Other examples of interaction data we collect include:
Provide our products and services. We use data to operate our products and services, as well as to provide you with rich, interactive experiences.
Product and/or service improvement. We use data to improve our products, in particular by adding new features or capabilities (error reporting when purchasing a ticket, or when consulting an online program, etc.).
Personalization. Some products include personalized features, such as recommendations that optimize your experiences and satisfaction. These features use automated processes to tailor your experiences based on the data we have about you, such as inferences we make about you and your use of the product, your activities, your interests, your location.
Development of products and/or services. We use data to develop new products. For example, we use anonymized or pseudonymized personal information to better understand our customers’ needs.
Customer support. We use data to diagnose and resolve problems with products and/or services, restore access to your personal account, and provide other support and assistance services.
To help secure and resolve problems. We use data to help secure and resolve problems with our products and services. This includes using data to ensure the security of services offered to our customers, detecting malware and malicious activity, resolving performance and compatibility issues to help customers get the most out of their experience and informing them of updates to our products and services. This may include the use of automated systems to detect security problems.
Security. We use data to protect the security of our products and customers. Our security features range from preventing malware from running and notifying users when malware is detected on their device, to using video surveillance to ensure public safety at events.
Surveys and promotional communications. We use the data we collect to provide surveys and promotional communications. You can purchase e-mail subscriptions, respond to surveys and choose whether or not to receive promotional communications from Midland Exploration by e-mail, SMS, postal mail and telephone. For more information on how we manage your contact information, e-mail subscriptions and promotional communications, please see the Access and Control of Your Personal Information section of this Policy.
Relevant offers. Midland Exploration uses data to provide you with relevant and important information about the products and services we offer. We analyze data from different sources to predict what information will be most interesting and relevant to you and communicate it to you in different ways. For example, we can predict your entertainment interests and suggest new activities that you might enjoy.
Advertising. Midland Exploration uses data collected through interactions with you, some of our products and on third-party websites to advertise our products and services, including on third-party websites. We may sometimes use automated processes to make advertisements more relevant.
Business transactions. We use data to process your transactions with us. For example, we process payment information to provide customers with product subscriptions and use contact details to provide products purchased in our online shops/ticketing.
Reporting and business operations. We use data to analyze our operations and improve decision-making. This enables us to make informed decisions and create reports on the performance of our activities.
Protection of rights and property. We use data to detect and prevent fraud, resolve disputes, enforce contracts and protect our property. For example, we use data to confirm the validity of tickets sold in order to combat fraud. We may use automated processes to detect and prevent activities that violate our rights and those of third parties.
Legal compliance. We process data to comply with the law. For example, we use the age of our customers to ensure that we comply with our obligations to protect the privacy of children or to ensure that the customer complies with the recommended age for the audience. We also process contact details and identifiers to help customers exercise their data protection rights.
Research. We use data to carry out research, in particular for scientific purposes and in the public interest, where permitted by law.
Midland Exploration attaches the utmost importance to the security of your personal information and undertakes to treat it in accordance with industry standards and norms, and solely for the purposes for which it is collected, as described in this policy or in a specific notice to that effect. However, given the security limitations inherent in transmission via the Internet, it is impossible to safeguard your personal information absolutely. Information transmitted to us is therefore ultimately at the user’s own risk.
Midland Exploration ensures that all personal information in its possession is as accurate, current and complete as necessary for the purposes for which it is to be used.
You have the right to request access to your personal information for verification purposes and to request a correction if your personal information is inaccurate. If you believe that your personal information is inaccurate, or if you wish to access your personal information, you may make a request using the contact information provided at the end of this Policy.
To the best of our ability, we will provide you with timely access to your personal information. However, for security reasons, we may need to verify your identity.
There may be circumstances where we will not be able to provide you with access to your personal information. For example, where access may lead to the disclosure of another person’s personal information and that person refuses to consent to the disclosure, or where legal restrictions apply. If such a situation arises, we will advise you of the reason why we cannot provide you with access to your personal information.
If your request concerns data appearing on third-party web pages or platforms, please contact these third parties directly.
We do not share your personal information with companies, organizations, or individuals outside of Midland Exploration, with the exception of our authorized suppliers and partners who need access to the information for the purposes listed in this policy and within the limits of this policy, as well as in the following cases:
In particular, we use the services of third-party suppliers to pool, clean and analyze data in the cultural sector so that they can add value to this data and develop tools for the benefit of the public or players in the sector. To this end, these suppliers process the information provided as follows:
The data is first prepared, then sorted so that it can be used.
From the prepared data, the supplier creates global statistics containing general, non-personal information, sometimes combined with data from similar sources. This pooled data is then used to establish global statistics such as origin analyses (mainly via postal codes), seasonality analyses or price analyses (shopping basket type).
These data are then enriched in two different ways. The first is enrichment using freely available third-party data, such as Census socio-demographic data by postal code. The second process is called inferential enrichment. Inferential enrichment consists, for example, in the case of a ticket purchased at the “under 25” fare, in deducing that the individual concerned is under 25.
Midland Exploration will not sell or rent your personal information to third parties.
Midland Exploration may use “cookies”, Internet tags, web beacons, log files or other technologies to collect certain personal information about visitors to our Web sites, as well as about the recipients of our newsletters, invitations and other communications. Cookies are pieces of information transmitted by the server to the browser during a visit to the Web site that uniquely identify the current connection. This data may include information such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our site you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on the site and any other statistics.
Cookies are used to retrieve search history and shopping baskets (e.g. ticket purchases) related to the session, to facilitate the user’s online browsing experience. It is important to note that, depending on the settings you have chosen, activating the cookies option may allow other servers to install cookies on your system. You can set your browser to notify you of the presence of cookies, giving you the chance to decide whether or not to accept them.
Please note that our website may contain links or references to third party websites. This policy no longer applies when you leave our website and Midland Exploration is not responsible for the collection or processing of personal information by or through these third parties or external sources.
Midland Exploration keeps the data collected for different periods of time, depending on its nature and its usefulness in offering our products and services. During the retention period, Midland Exploration takes physical and technical measures to ensure the security of data containing personal information.
The primary locations where personal information is stored are in cities where Midland Exploration maintains offices or facilities and in cities where Google and Sogetel maintain servers containing data collected by Midland Exploration.
Personal information may be stored outside the country in which you live, if a third-party supplier or other entity to whom we disclose personal information in accordance with this Policy is located outside the country. In such cases, personal information may be subject to the local laws of the countries or territories in which the information is collected, used, disclosed or stored, and may be accessible to the governmental and law enforcement authorities of those countries or territories.
Once the retention period has expired, personal information is destroyed. Only statistics or reports containing de-identified and anonymized data may be retained for extended periods of time.
Other information
Changes to these rules :
We make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any reduction in your rights under this Privacy Policy will not be implemented without your express consent. We will always indicate the date on which the latest changes were made and allow you to access the archived versions to consult them. If the changes are significant, we will publish a prominent notice on our website (including, for certain services, via e-mail notification).
Person in charge of compliance :
If you have any questions, comments or complaints about this policy, you can contact the person responsible for ensuring compliance with this privacy policy:
Stephanie Boivin
Midland Exploration
132 Boulevard Labelle, suite 220, Rosemère Qc J7A 2H1
Phone number: 450 420-5977
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More than 30 years of experience in mineral exploration in Quebec.
Mario Masson holds a Bachelor’s degree in Geology from the Université de Montréal. Before joining Midland’s team, Mario worked several years has a geologist at Nipadex and Muscocho. In 1990, he started working for Noranda Exploration in Matagami has a Project Geologist and was a part of the team that found the Orchan West and Bell Allars deposits. He was also involved in the discovery of the Perseverance deposit in the Matagami Mining Camp in 2000. After this discovery, Mario and his team win the PDAC Bill Dennis Award in 2001. From 2002 to 2007, he was in charge of the exploration activities in the Noranda Mining Camp has a Senior Geologist for Noranda Inc – Falconbridge ltée – Xstrata Copper. In addition, he was also involved in the discovery of the West Ansil deposit in the Noranda Mining Camp in 2005, which allowed the Falconbridge ltée exploration team to win the Prospector of the Year award at the QMEA. Since January 2008, he is a part of Midland Exploration team as VP Exploration.
Since November 1, 2006, Gino Roger has been President and CEO of Midland Exploration Inc. In 1990, he obtained his Bachelor’s degree from Laval University in Geological Engineering. . From May 1990 to October 2006, Mr. Roger was a senior and regional project geologist for Xstrata, Falconbridge and Noranda. He actively participated in the generation, acquisition and negotiation of a number of projects and the discovery of base metal deposits. He mainly worked in Quebec, Ontario, BC-Yukon and Sweden on different metallogenic projects and environments: gold, VMS, Sedex, MVT and IOCG. He and his team received the prestigious QMEA prospector of the year award in 2005 for the discovery of the West-Ansil deposit. Mr. Roger is a member of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec. He acted as an administrator of the Quebec Mineral Exploration Association (QMEA) for more than 28 years and is still an administrator of CONSOREM.
Since 2019, Jean-Pierre Janson has been a consultant for Richardson Wealth Limited. From 2005 to 2019, he was Senior Director, National Wealth Management, at Richardson GMP Limited. He has also been a director and Chairman of the Board of Midland Exploration Inc. since 2005. Over the past 30 years, Mr. Janson has served as Managing Director at CIBC Wood Gundy Financial Services (Quebec) Inc. (Eastern Canada) and held executive positions at Merrill Lynch Canada Inc. and Midland Walwyn Inc. He has also been a director of Tri Origin Exploration Ltd. since May 2004 and a trustee of BTB Real Investment Trust since September 2007. In addition, he is a director of SIDEX s.e.c. and Harfang Exploration. In over 30 years in the financial services industry, he has built a reputation of trust and respect.
René Branchaud holds an LLB from Université Laval obtained in 1982. He has been a lawyer since 1983 and is a partner of the law firm Lavery, de Billy L.L.P. He has a vast experience as secretary and director of mining corporations.
Ingrid Martin holds a Bachelor in Business Management from the École des hautes études commerciales (HEC), in Montréal, Quebec. She is a member of the Order of Chartered professional accountants of Quebec since 1990 and possesses a vast experience as consultant for public companies. She acts, also, as Chief Financial Officer of Vior Inc. Mrs. Martin is devoting 40% of her time to Midland Exploration.
Paul Archer has a Bachelor’s degree in Geological Engineering and a Master’s degree in Earth Science. He has more than 35 years of experience in the mining industry, particularly in exploration for gold and base metals in Archean terrains. He developed his expertise working with various companies, including Shell Minerals, Noranda Exploration, Northgate Explorations, Westminer Canada and SOQUEM, where he was Regional Manager for Northern Quebec. On May 1, 1996, Mr. Archer joined Virginia Mines as Vice-President of Exploration and Acquisitions and Director. Mr. Archer was actively involved in the discovery and development of the Eleonore project, from the preliminary field campaign through to the sale of the deposit to Goldcorp. In November 2014, he joined Osisko’s management team following the Osisko/Virginia merger. He was elected President of the Quebec Prospectors Association in 1996 and 1997. Over the years, Mr. Archer has received, on behalf of Virginia, several prestigious prizes, including the Bill Dennis Award from the PDAC in 2006 for the discovery of the Eleonore deposit.
Annie Dutil is a member of the Quebec CPA Order and is Nomad’s corporate controller. Ms. Dutil brings over 15 years of extensive mining knowledge, specifically in the areas of public accounting, compliance with financial information obligations and regulatory matters. Prior to joining Nomad, Ms. Dutil has held a number of positions at PwC, including a role as director where she has led the Capital Markets and Accounting Advisory Services group in Montréal. In her current and previous roles, she has assisted several companies in their capital markets activities, including initial public offerings, financings, cross-border transactions and complex accounting and regulatory matters. Ms. Dutil is the co-founder of the Montreal chapter of Women in Mining and is involved in many community and philanthropic activities, currently serving as a member of the Board of Directors of Factry, the School of the Creative Sciences, and Théâtre de la Banquette Arrière.
Mr. Jean des Rivières holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology from Université du Québec à Montréal and a Master’s degree of Science in Geology from École Polytechnique de Montréal affiliated to the University of Montreal. He has over 35 years of diversified experience in the exploration and mining industries while working in more than 50 countries touching base and precious metals. He most recently held the position of global Vice President Metals Exploration at BHP and previously held managerial and technical positions at Rio Algom, BHP, and Noranda. With BHP, Mr des Rivières chaired the Inclusion and Diversity committee of the Americas. After a successful career, he recently joined the board of directors of First Majestic Silver Corp., Montero Mining and Exploration Ltd., and Midland Exploration Inc.
More than 20 years of experience in mineral exploration in Quebec.
Project geologist for Midland Exploration, Jean-François holds a PhD from Université du Québec à Chicoutimi in Mineral resources, specialist in zinc-bearing mineralization with an expertise in metallogeny of metalliferous deposits.
More than 30 years of experience in mineral exploration in Quebec, British Colombia and Dominican Republic.
Project Geologist for Midland Exploration since 2012, Richard holds a Bachelor degree in Resources Geology from Université du Québec à Montréal. Before joining Midland’s team, he was a Project Geologist for Services Technominex – Aurizon Mines, Sirios and Unigold on several gold exploration projects. Between 1997 and 2006, he worked has a Project Geologist (5 years) and Technical Director (4 years) for the Nunavik Mineral Exploration Fund. At the beginning of his career, Richard worked as a Prospector for SOQUEM, Virginia Gold / Barrick Gold on gold projects in James Bay and Northern Quebec. He was also involved in the exploration of the Eskay Creek discovery in British Colombia.
More than 10 years of experience in mineral exploration in Quebec.
Project geologist for Midland Exploration, Louis-Philippe holds a Bachelor’s degree in Geology from Université Laval. Prior to joining the team, he worked 4 years for Nemaska Exploration / Monarch Resources / Nemaska Lithium in the Nemiscau area where he managed and participated exploration campaigns for lithium, gold and base metals. He also participated in the development of the Whabouchi lithium project.
Project Geologist for Midland Exploration, Romain Deflin holds a degree in geological engineering from l’ENSG (École National Supérieure de Géologie in Nancy) and a master degree in Mineral Resource Exploration from Université de Lorraine. He completed a 4 months internship with Midland before joining the team permanently in 2019.
More than 20 years of experience in mineral exploration in Québec, Canadian Arctic, and Dominican Republic.
Project Geologist for Midland Exploration since May 2019, Philippe holds a Bachelor degree in Geology and a master in Earth Sciences from UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal). Before joining Midland’s team, Philippe worked as an Exploration Geologist for Goldcorp, Ressources Sirios, Unigold and the Nunavik Mineral Exploration Fund (NMEF). At the beginning of his career, he also worked as an assistant geologist and a geologist for Virginia Gold Mines, Cambiex, Miramar Mining, Noranda Exploration, SOQUEM and Services Miniers du Nord on gold and base metals projects, mainly in James Bay. Moreover, he was at the origin of the discovery by prospection of the Cheechoo deposit in James Bay in 2010.
More than 20 years of experience in mineral exploration and research in Quebec.
Sylvain Trépanier holds a Bachelor’s degree in Geology, a Master’s degree in Earth Science and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering from Université du Québec à Montréal. Sylvain began his career for Noranda in 1995 and worked on various projects in Quebec until 2001. From 2004 to 2012, he worked has a research geologist at CONSOREM. During his years working at CONSOREM, he has carried out numerous research projects applied to mineral exploration and has developed expertise recognized in Quebec in various fields related to exploration: lake-bottom, streams and tills sediments geochemistry, alterations lithogeochemistry, statistical data processing and potential mineral evaluation by artificial intelligence. He is the author of several scientific articles, research reports and public presentations. He designed and developed the Lithomodeleur software for geochemistry treatment, which is now widely used in Quebec by exploration companies, governments and universities. From 2012 to 2016, he worked for Virginia Mines and Osisko Gold Royalties as a Senior Research Geologist and was involved in most of the company’s projects in James Bay and the Labrador Trough. He is co-recipient of the QMEA Jean-Descarreaux Award in 2011 with the CONSOREM team. Mr. Trépanier joined Midland in November 2016 as a VP Exploration James-Bay/Northern Quebec.
