Website Privacy Policy
Last updated: July 13, 2026
Chemia Discovery Inc. ("Chemia," "we," "us," or "our") respects your privacy. This policy explains what personal information we collect when you visit chemiadiscovery.com, why we collect it, where it is processed, how long we keep it, and how you can exercise your rights under Quebec's Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector (Law 25) and other applicable Canadian privacy laws.
Scope of this policy
This policy applies to visitors of the chemiadiscovery.com website. It does not cover the Elixir platform (our application). If you hold an Elixir account, the Elixir Privacy Policy governs your account information and the data you process on the platform. That policy is available separately on this site.
Who we are and how to reach us
Chemia Discovery Inc.
800 Square-Victoria (Ax.c), unit 373, Montréal, Québec, H3C 0B4, Canada
Email: info@chemiadiscovery.com
Person responsible for the protection of personal information
Amirreza Ataei, President, is the person responsible for the protection of personal information at Chemia. You can reach him at info@chemiadiscovery.com for any question or request concerning your personal information.
What we collect and why
This website has no account system, no newsletter, and no comment forms. The blog is static reading material. The only ways personal information can reach us through this site are the following.
Information you send us by email. The site's contact option is an email link. If you write to us (for example at info@chemiadiscovery.com), we receive whatever information you choose to include, typically your name, email address, and the content of your message. We use it only to respond to you.
Analytics, only with your consent. If you accept analytics through the cookie banner, we use third-party analytics services, which may include page views, click and scroll behaviour, and general device and browser information. We use this information to understand how the site is used and to improve it. These services do not load until you opt in, and the providers may process this information outside Québec, including in the United States.
Fonts and other assets served through content delivery networks. Some fonts and static assets on this site are delivered by third-party content delivery networks (CDNs). When your browser requests those files, your IP address necessarily reaches those providers. This happens as soon as a page loads, before any consent choice, because it is technically necessary to display the site. We do not receive or store this information ourselves.
The "Ask Elixir" demo box. When you type a question into the Ask Elixir demo box, your question is sent to a separate Chemia demo service for processing so that an answer can be shown to you. Please do not type confidential information, or personal information about yourself or anyone else, into the demo box.
We do not sell personal information, we do not use it for advertising, and we do not send marketing emails.
Cookies and consent
On your first visit, a consent banner lets you accept or decline non-essential analytics. Nothing analytics-related loads until you accept. If you decline, no analytics cookies are set and the site works normally.
If you accept, the analytics services described above may set cookies or similar identifiers in your browser to recognize your session.
You can withdraw your consent at any time:
- by using the Manage Cookies link in the site footer, or
- by clearing this site's data (cookies and local storage) in your browser, after which the consent banner will appear again on your next visit.
Withdrawing consent stops any further analytics collection from your browser.
Where your information is processed
Some of the service providers we use (analytics, content delivery, and the infrastructure behind the Ask Elixir demo service) operate outside Québec, including in the United States. Personal information handled by those providers may therefore be communicated and stored outside Québec and may be subject to the laws of those jurisdictions. We limit what is shared to what each provider needs to perform its service.
How long we keep personal information
Email correspondence is kept only as long as needed to handle your request and for reasonable business record keeping. Analytics data is collected only while your consent is active.
If you send a written request to info@chemiadiscovery.com asking us to delete your personal information, we will delete it within 30 days, and any residual copies held in backups will be purged within 90 days.
Confidentiality incidents
We maintain a register of confidentiality incidents involving personal information. If an incident presents a risk of serious injury, we will notify the Commission d'accès à l'information du Québec and the persons concerned, as required by law, and take reasonable measures to reduce the risk of harm.
Your rights
Under Law 25 and other applicable Canadian privacy law, you have the right to:
- Access the personal information we hold about you.
- Rectify personal information that is inaccurate, incomplete, or ambiguous.
- Withdraw your consent to analytics at any time, as described in the Cookies and consent section.
- Request de-indexation or cessation of dissemination of your personal information, where applicable.
- Receive computerized personal information you provided to us in a structured, commonly used technological format (portability), or ask that it be communicated to another person or organization authorized by law to collect it.
- File a complaint with the Commission d'accès à l'information du Québec (CAI) if you believe your rights have not been respected.
To exercise any of these rights, write to info@chemiadiscovery.com. We will respond within the time limits set by law.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy as our website or practices change. When we do, we will revise the "Last updated" date at the top of this page.
Language
This policy is also available in French on this site (Politique de confidentialité du site Web).