Billing software, cloud storage, website forms, AI assistants: every tool that touches personal information has to respect the law. Answer the checklist, see your score and the fixes to make first. A printable PDF guide comes with the tool.
Owners and managers of Québec small and mid-size businesses (clinics, construction, retail, transport, professional services) who use software, cloud services or AI tools with information about customers, patients or employees.
It helps you spot the most common gaps and prepare your questions. It does not replace a lawyer or a privacy advisor. Depending on your sector and situation, other rules may apply: validate with an advisor. Penalties can reach $10M or 2% of worldwide turnover (administrative monetary penalties), and $25M or 4% (penal fines).
Generally yes, as soon as the business collects, uses or keeps personal information as part of its activities in Québec. There is no automatic exemption for small businesses. Validate your case with an advisor.
It is the common name of the Act to modernize legislative provisions as regards the protection of personal information, which amended several Québec laws, including the private sector privacy act.
No. Your answers stay in your browser. Only your contact details, asked once to display the result and the guide, are saved.
No. The score is a marker to target your fixes. Only an analysis of your real situation can conclude.
Tell us what you use or want to set up. We give you an honest read, including when the right answer is not to use it with that data.
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