Last updated: October 9, 2024

McGillivray Entertainment Inc. is committed to respecting your right to privacy and protecting your personal information.

This Privacy Policy describes our policies and procedures with respect to the collection, use and disclosure of your information. “Personal Information” means information that can be used to identify you, but does not include your business contact information, or information that is publicly available, including on the internet and through social media platforms.

By providing your personal information to McGillivray Entertainment Inc., whether by applying to Canada’s Got Talent (“CGT”), MasterChef Canada (MCC) or other productions we procure or produce (collectively, the “Productions”), using our website or otherwise engaging with us, you agree to the collection and use of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Collection of personal information

While using our services and engaging with us, you may be asked to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you.

For CGT, MCC and certain other productions, this information is collected by us on your application form and, if you are selected as a participant, through various other agreements and forms that are necessary for the production of certain productions.

Usage data may be collected automatically when using our website.

We may also use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our website and store certain information. We may request and/or collect information from you when you participate in or register for contests, promotions, special events or productions, or when you send us questions or comments by email.

Usage

We may use your personal information to:

• Provide you with our services, including our website.
• Manage your registration as a user of our website. The personal information you provide can give you access to different functionalities of the website that are available to you as a registered user.
• Develop, produce and administer our productions.
• Administer contests, promotions and special events.
• Provide customer and fan support.
• Personalize your experiences and offer content recommendations, news, special offers and general information about our services and events we offer.
• Meet legal requirements.
• For other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our website, products, services, marketing and your experience.

In addition, if you apply to be a participant on any of our productions, we collect your personal information to assess and evaluate your application, to contact you if we feel you would be a good fit for the show, to manage the production and your involvement in it, and to more generally create, produce, broadcast and exploit our productions.

Disclosure

We may share your personal information in the following situations:

• We may share your personal information with our service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our website service.
• We may share or transfer your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company. We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services or promotions.
• When you share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users on our website, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside.
• We may share your information with our affiliates and production partners, broadcasters, financiers, distributors and contractors, in which case we will contractually require those affiliates to honour this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include any subsidiaries, parent companies, joint venture partners or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us. For CGT applicants specifically, we share your personal information with our production partners, including, without limitation, Rogers Media Inc. (“Rogers”) and FremantleMedia Limited (“Fremantle”) and with any applicable legal, regulatory or tax authority required by law. Similarly, for MCC applicants specifically, we share your personal information with our production partners, including, without limitation, Bell Media Inc. (“Bell”) and Banijay Entertainment S.A. (“Banijay”) and with any applicable legal, regulatory or tax authority required by law.
• We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.

Third-Party Links

Please note that the website contains links to other sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those sites.

Security and retention of your personal information

We will retain your personal information only as long as it is required for the reasons it was collected and in accordance with our legal obligations. We use all reasonable commercial efforts, including implementing security measures on our website and in our offices, to protect your personal information from loss, unauthorized use, access, alteration or disclosure of personal information under our control.

Withdrawal of consent

You have the right to access all personal information that we have collected from you that is retained by us. You may update, modify or delete this information at any time by contacting us at: https://www.meminc.ca/contact/. There is no fee for you to access your personal information.

If you do not provide your consent, choose to update, modify or delete your personal information, or withdraw your consent for us to use your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy, we may not be able to deliver our services to you, and as a result, you will not be able to access our services or participate in our Productions.  It is an express condition of participation in our Productions, including CGT and MCC that we are able to collect, use and disclose your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not grant us these permissions, request us to delete your personal information, or withdraw your consent in any manner, you shall be ineligible for participation in our Productions.

If you withdraw consent, you agree that notwithstanding such withdrawal, we may continue to use any personal information previously provided to us for the purpose of any tax reporting or obligations we may have, and to the extent required to enforce any contractual obligations that you may still have to us.

Children

We treat children’s personal information in accordance with all applicable laws.

For users of our website, we do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from anyone under the age of 13 without parental or legal guardian consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.

For children under the age of 13 that are applicants to CGT, the child’s parents or legal guardians must consent to the collection, use and disclosure of the child’s personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If the parents or legal guardians do not consent, the child will be ineligible for participation in CGT.

Changes

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We encourage you to periodically review our Privacy Policy so that you are properly informed as to how we are protecting and dealing with your personal information.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us by visiting our website: https://www.meminc.ca/contact/