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Telesat Corporation (“Telesat”) respects your concerns about privacy and we value our relationship with you. This Privacy Policy details our use of information that may be collected through or in connection with this website, including our Careers site. By using this website, you agree to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use.
Information Collected
Visitors to www.telesat.com can view information on the website without revealing any personal information. Our Cookie Policy section details necessary cookies that are required for the website to perform correctly, and analytics cookies that measure the use of our site and performance.
We collect personal information that you provide when accessing web forms for the following scenarios:
Contact Us inquiries: We collect your name, email account, company affiliation and phone number so that we may respond to your inquiry.
Subscriptions: You may opt in to receive commercial communications that relate to our services, Telesat Newsletters or automated notifications of Press Releases, Investor Releases or Blog posts. Telesat will act in accordance with your consent and opt out mechanisms for all subscription services. You may indicate a preference to stop receiving subscriptions or promotional communications by following the unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of promotional emails.
Careers: We collect job applicant personal information including name, email, telephone number, and employment history to communicate with candidates on their candidacy and selection process.
Information Sharing
Telesat does not sell, trade, or rent your personal information with external parties.
Personal information that you share for subscriptions is made available to Telesat marketing teams and our service provider Mailchimp/Intuit who hosts the data in the United States of America.
Data Retention
All personal information shall not be held longer than necessary with regard to the purpose of processing the data.
Your Rights
You have the right to access, modify or delete your data, object to or restrict processing.
Right to Access: You can obtain a copy of your personal data processed by Telesat.
Right to Modify: You may modify inaccurate or incomplete data held by Telesat.
Right to Delete: You can obtain deletion of your personal data if you think that your personal data is no longer required by Telesat.
Right to Object: You can object to the processing of your personal data by Telesat and third parties.
Right to Restrict: You can restrict the processing of your personal data by Telesat and third parties.
To exercise any of these rights, please email us, enclosing a copy of your identification at inquiries@telesat.com.
Automated Decision-Making and Profiling
The Telesat website does not make automated decisions or create profiles
Social Media and Third-party Sites
All visitors to our website have the opportunity to join Telesat’s social networks on LinkedIn and Twitter. Your personal information and data shared on social media sites belong to the corresponding social network. We recommend that you carefully read its conditions of use and privacy policies to properly configure your preferences regarding the treatment of your personal information.
Telesat is not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other sites, even if you access the third-party site using links from our site. We recommend you review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.
Cookies
Like most companies, we use “cookie” technology on our site to collect aggregate information.
Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. They are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make it more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyze what works and where it needs improvement.
How Telesat Uses Cookies
When you visit our site, the cookie tells us whether you’ve visited us before or are a new visitor. This allows us to measure the effectiveness of our site for new and returning visitors in Google Analytics. The cookies only capture personal information that you have voluntarily entered on our site. The personal information cookie is only used to pre-populate forms. Additionally, the cookies do not extract any information from your computer. Cookies are simply the best way for us to offer you the most enjoyable and hassle-free online environment.
Our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.
The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.
Types of Cookies we use
Necessary
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
| _GRECAPTCHA | 5 months 27 days | Google Recaptcha service sets this cookie to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. |
| elementor | n/a as the cookie does not exist past the duration of the visit on the webpage | The website’s WordPress theme uses this cookie. It allows the website owner to implement or change the website’s content in real-time. |
Analytics
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
| _ga | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Google Analytics sets this cookie to calculate visitor, session and campaign data and track site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognise unique visitors. |
| _gid | 1 day | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store information on how visitors use a website while also creating an analytics report of the website’s performance. Some of the collected data includes the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. |
| _gat_UA-* | Less than a minute | Google Analytics sets this cookie for user behaviour tracking. |
| _ga_* | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views. |
| CONSENT | 2 years | YouTube sets this cookie via embedded YouTube videos and registers anonymous statistical data. |
Manage cookie preferences
You can change your cookie preferences any time by clicking the manage cookies button. This will let you revisit the cookie consent banner and change your preferences or withdraw your consent right away.
In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. Listed below are the links to the support documents on how to manage and delete cookies from the major web browsers.
Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32050
Safari: https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer-bca9446f-d873-78de-77ba-d42645fa52fc
Microsoft Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/delete-cookies-in-microsoft-edge-63947406-40ac-c3b8-57b9-2a946a29ae09
If you are using any other web browser, please visit your browser’s official support documents.
Policy Last Updated: May 3, 2023
