Your Privacy, Monumentally Respected.

Obelisk Talent Inc. (“Obelisk Talent,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) is a Canadian corporation that connects Canadian businesses with pre-vetted professionals based in the Middle East. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard the personal information of visitors to obelisktalent.ca, prospective clients, applicants to our talent network, and anyone who contacts us.

We operate under Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). If you reside in another jurisdiction, additional rights may apply — contact us and we will address your request.

Information you provide directly

• Name, email address, company, and role details when you email us or complete a contact request.
• CV / résumé, portfolio links, LinkedIn profile, country of residence, and years of experience when you apply to join our talent network.
• Any content you send us in emails, messages, or call notes.

Information collected automatically

• Basic log data: IP address, browser type, pages viewed, referring URL, timestamps.
• Cookies and similar technologies as described in §04 below.

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to third parties.

We use your information to:

• Respond to inquiries and coordinate discovery calls.
• Match prospective clients with suitable talent from our network.
• Evaluate applications to our talent network and communicate with applicants.
• Operate, maintain, and improve obelisktalent.ca and our services.
• Comply with legal obligations, enforce agreements, and protect our rights.

We rely on one of the following legal bases: your consent, performance of a contract, a legitimate business interest (such as responding to your inquiry), or compliance with a legal obligation.

obelisktalent.ca uses a small number of cookies:

• Essential cookies required for the site to function (session state, security tokens).
• Google Analytics 4 cookies (_ga and _ga_*), set as first-party cookies on obelisktalent.ca and loaded only when we have configured a GA4 measurement ID. If we have not, no analytics script and no analytics cookie is served at all.

We use Google Analytics 4 to measure how much traffic the site gets, which pages people read, and where visitors arrived from — including referrals from AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Copilot and Gemini, where we record the referring URL. Google Analytics 4 does not store IP addresses. Google’s handling of the data it receives is governed by its own privacy policy.

We do not use ad-network cookies, retargeting pixels, or advertising trackers such as Meta Pixel, and we do not sell or share this data with advertisers.

To opt out: block or delete cookies in your browser settings (all major browsers can block third-party or all cookies per site), or install Google’s Analytics opt-out browser add-on, which disables GA measurement across every site you visit. Blocking analytics cookies does not prevent you from accessing any part of this website.

To operate our business, we rely on the following third-party processors. Each has been selected with privacy and security in mind; each has its own privacy policy.

• Zoho CRM (Zoho Corporation Pvt. Ltd., USA / India) — customer relationship management, lead tracking, and sales pipeline.
• Zoho Mail (Zoho Corporation Pvt. Ltd., USA / India) — inbound and outbound email at @obelisktalent.ca.
• Hetzner Online GmbH (Germany) — hosting provider for the servers that run this website, our database, and our automation workflows.
• Supabase (open-source, self-hosted by us on Hetzner servers in Germany) — database, authentication, and file storage for internal applications.
• n8n (open-source, self-hosted by us on Hetzner servers in Germany) — workflow automation, including a backup copy of contact and application form submissions.
• Google Analytics 4 (Google LLC, USA) — aggregate website traffic measurement and referral attribution, including AI-assistant referrals. See Google’s privacy policy.
• Postiz — self-hosted social-media scheduling, running on our own infrastructure. It publishes our posts; it does not run on this website and does not see your visit.

We do not share your information with any other third parties except where required by law or where you have given us explicit permission.

Client inquiries, applicant records, and operational data are stored in Zoho CRM and in our self-hosted Supabase database on Hetzner servers in Germany. Email correspondence lives in Zoho Mail. These platforms implement industry-standard administrative, technical, and physical safeguards — including encryption in transit (TLS) and at rest, role-based access controls, and audit logging.

We retain personal information only for as long as necessary for the purposes described in this policy, or as required by Canadian law, whichever is longer:

• Inquiry and lead records: up to 3 years from the last contact.
• Applicant records (talent network): up to 2 years from application, unless you ask us to remove them sooner.
• Client contract records: for the duration of the engagement plus 7 years, as required by Canadian tax and corporate law.
• Website analytics: aggregated reports indefinitely; event-level Google Analytics data up to 14 months (the GA4 maximum).

No system is perfectly secure. We make commercially reasonable efforts to protect your information but cannot guarantee absolute security.

PIPEDA is built on ten fair-information principles. You have the right to:

• Accountability — hold Obelisk Talent responsible for the personal information under our control. Our designated Privacy Officer is Ali Maher (Co-founder).
• Identifying Purposes — know why we are collecting, using, or disclosing your information.
• Consent — give meaningful consent, and withdraw it at any time.
• Limiting Collection — expect us to collect only what is necessary for the identified purposes.
• Limiting Use, Disclosure & Retention — expect us to use your data only for stated purposes and delete it when no longer needed.
• Accuracy — request that incomplete or outdated information be corrected.
• Safeguards — expect reasonable technical and organizational protection of your data.
• Openness — ask us about our privacy practices at any time.
• Individual Access — request a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
• Challenging Compliance — raise concerns about our handling of your information, and escalate to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada if unresolved.

To exercise any of these rights, email ali@obelisktalent.ca. We will respond within 30 days.

Obelisk Talent Inc. is incorporated in Canada, with its registered office in Nova Scotia. Some of our service providers store or process data outside Canada: in the United States and India (Zoho), in the United States (Google Analytics), and in Germany (Hetzner, which hosts this website and our self-hosted database and automation servers). Canadian privacy law permits such transfers provided a comparable level of protection remains in effect; our vendor contracts include appropriate safeguards.

By using obelisktalent.ca or communicating with us, you consent to the transfer of your information to these jurisdictions for the purposes described in this policy.

obelisktalent.ca is intended for business professionals and is not directed to individuals under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from minors. If you believe a minor has provided us with personal information, please contact us and we will delete it promptly.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, services, or legal obligations. The “Last updated” date at the top of this page indicates when the current version took effect.

Material changes will be announced by updating the page and — where appropriate — by emailing individuals whose contact information we hold. Continued use of obelisktalent.ca after such changes indicates acceptance of the revised policy.

Our designated Privacy Officer is Ali Maher (Co-founder), who is accountable for Obelisk Talent’s compliance with PIPEDA. Questions, access requests, or complaints go to him at ali@obelisktalent.ca.

Email: ali@obelisktalent.ca

If you are not satisfied with our response, you may contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada at priv.gc.ca.