Privacy policy

MBDev is the freelance practice of Mikael Bergeron, based in Quebec. There is no team and no subcontractor: he receives the requests and he is accountable for the personal information.

For any question about this page or about your information: contact@mb-dev.ca

The request form collects only the following. Four fields are needed in order to reply to you; the rest are optional and can be left empty.

There is a second, longer journey for describing a project step by step. It collects the same categories as the short form, plus the following — all optional except your name and email address.

Your answers are kept in your browser while you fill it in, so nothing is lost if you close the tab. That draft lives on your device and nowhere else: it is not transmitted until you send, it is erased as soon as the send succeeds, and it expires after seven days.

To reply to you, understand your project, prepare an estimate and follow up on the exchange. That is the only use.

Nothing is used for outbound prospecting, there is no mailing list, and your information serves no purpose other than the one you sent it for.

Requests are written to a file on a dedicated server located in Beauharnois, Quebec, rented from the hosting provider OVH. They are not handed to a third-party cloud service for storage.

Mikael Bergeron accesses it over a secured connection. As with any hosting arrangement, the provider has physical access to the machine.

The site's technical log keeps the date, the project type, the budget range and a file identifier for each request received — not your name, and not your email address. That trace makes it possible to confirm a submission arrived, and to find the matching file.

No information is sold or disclosed for commercial purposes. Some providers are nonetheless involved in running the site and can technically process your information:

Partly, yes. The main storage of requests stays in Quebec. However, the alert sent to Discord and the email routed to Gmail are handled by companies based in the United States, and the site's traffic passes through Cloudflare's network, which is also American.

The Discord alert is deliberately thin, whichever form you used. It contains only the project type, the budget range, the desired timing, the language and a file identifier. Your name, your email, your phone and your own words are not in it: they stay in the storage in Quebec, and that is where they are read.

These providers are used because they are dependable and because they let a one-person practice run a secure site. If you would rather your information did not leave Quebec, just say so in your message and we will agree on another way to correspond.

For as long as it takes to handle your request and follow up on it. A request is deleted as soon as you ask, and at the latest twenty-four months after the last exchange.

If an engagement comes out of your request, the information tied to that engagement is kept for as long as the related accounting and legal obligations require.

You can ask to see the information held about you, to have it corrected, to have it deleted, or to withdraw your consent. Write to contact@mb-dev.ca; you will get an answer within thirty days.

If that answer does not satisfy you, you can file a complaint with the Commission d'accès à l'information du Québec.

This site sets a single cookie, named NEXT_LOCALE. It remembers the language you chose so you are not asked again on every visit. It does nothing else and cannot identify you.

There is analytics in place: Cloudflare Web Analytics. The site is served behind Cloudflare's network, and it is Cloudflare that adds a small measurement script to the pages it delivers — it is not part of this site's code. That script records page views and load times, and sends them to Cloudflare.

What we can establish, because it is verifiable in the browser: this measurement sets no cookie, and NEXT_LOCALE remains the only cookie on this site. What we consult is a table of aggregate statistics — visits, pages viewed, countries, browsers. It shows us no named data, and we do not attempt to identify anyone, or to match a visit with a request we received.

What we cannot guarantee on your behalf: what Cloudflare does with those measurements inside its own systems. That falls under its privacy policy, not ours. We would rather write it that way than promise you something we do not control.

There is no advertising cookie, no social network pixel and no share button.

The following measures are in place. They are reasonable and proportionate rather than absolute: no system is impenetrable, and claiming otherwise would be dishonest.

To leave no room for doubt:

If how the site works changes — a new provider, a new field in the form — this page is updated and the date at the top changes. Earlier versions are not kept online; write to us if you need to know a previous state.