Privacy policy

This page explains, in plain language, what personal information this website collects, why, who handles it, and how you can see, correct or delete it.

Last updated: November 13, 2026

Who we are

CFO Recruiter is a division of Osborne Financial Search Inc., based in Toronto, Ontario. We are responsible for the personal information collected through cfo-recruiter.com. In this policy, “we”, “us” and “our” mean CFO Recruiter and Osborne Financial Search Inc..

We follow applicable Canadian privacy law, including the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). If you have a question about this policy or about your information, call us at 1-888-360-9995 or write to us through the contact form.

Person in charge of privacy

The person in charge of the protection of personal information at Osborne Financial Search Inc. is our Privacy Officer. The Privacy Officer is accountable for how we handle personal information, answers questions about this policy, and handles requests and complaints.

You can reach the Privacy Officer in two ways:

by phone at 1-888-360-9995: ask for the Privacy Officer
in writing through the contact form: start your message with “Attention: Privacy Officer” and fill in the other fields as best you can

What we collect

When you send an inquiry through the contact form, we receive the details you enter:

your name, email address and phone number
your company and location
the role you are hiring for and, if you choose, your hiring timeline
your message

To protect the form from spam and abuse, we also use your IP address and some technical details of the submission, such as how long the form took to complete. The form may also use a Cloudflare security check (Turnstile) that confirms a real person is sending it.

When you browse the site, analytics and advertising tools collect information about your visit. This is described under cookies, analytics and advertising.

We only ask for what we need to answer you. Please do not include sensitive details, such as health or financial information about yourself, in your message.

Why we collect it and how we use it

We use each kind of information for a specific reason:

Your name, email address and phone number: to reply to you and arrange a conversation.
Your company, location, the role and your timeline: to understand the search you have in mind and prepare a useful first conversation.
Your message: to understand what you need.
Your IP address and submission details: to filter out spam and protect the site.
Visit information from cookies: to understand how the site is used, to measure whether our advertising works and, where remarketing is turned on, to show our ads to past visitors on other sites.

If you decide to go ahead with a search, we also use your contact details to carry out that search with you. We do not use your information for any other purpose without your consent, unless the law allows or requires it.

We do not sell, rent or trade personal information.

We do not make decisions about you based only on automated processing. Our spam filter automatically labels submissions that look like spam and may skip the automatic confirmation email, but every inquiry is still delivered to us.

When you send the contact form, you agree that we may collect and use the details you enter for the purposes described in this policy, including sharing them with the service providers listed below so they can deliver your message.

You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting the Privacy Officer, subject to any legal requirements. If you withdraw it, we will stop using your information for those purposes. We may then be unable to answer your inquiry or continue a search with you, and we will tell you if that is the case.

To refuse analytics and advertising cookies, use the cookie settings and the browser and Google settings described in the next section.

Cookies, analytics and advertising

Cookies are small files that a website stores in your browser. This site uses two Google services that set cookies and collect information about your visit:

Google Analytics 4, which tells us which pages are visited, roughly where visitors come from (based on their IP address) and what device and browser they use.
Google Ads. Conversion tracking tells us when someone who arrived from one of our ads calls us by tapping our phone number on the site or gets in touch. Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to measure these conversions. Where remarketing is turned on in our Google Ads account, third-party vendors, including Google, may also use cookies to show our ads on other sites across the internet, based on your past visits to this site.

These tools run when you open a page on this site, unless you refuse them. On your first visit, a notice at the bottom of the page tells you about them and lets you refuse. If you choose “Refuse”, the tools are switched off, the Google cookies they set on this site are removed, and we keep your choice in your browser’s storage so they stay off on later visits.

We use the reports these tools produce to understand how the site is used and whether our advertising works. Google may also use the information it collects through these tools under its own policies; see how Google uses information from sites that use its services.

You can refuse these cookies or change your choice at any time:

select at the bottom of any page and choose “Refuse”: the tools are switched off and the cookies they set on this site are removed
opt out of Google’s use of cookies for advertising, including ads based on your visits to this site, in Google’s Ads Settings
opt out of other third-party vendors’ use of cookies for advertising on the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page
install Google’s Analytics opt-out browser add-on
block or delete cookies in your browser settings

Refusing, blocking or deleting these cookies does not stop you from reading this site, calling us or sending the contact form.

Hosting and service providers

We rely on a small number of service providers to run this site:

Cloudflare hosts the website and protects it from attacks. Like any web host, it processes technical information such as your IP address and browser details to deliver pages.
Brevo sends the emails generated by the contact form: your inquiry to us and, in most cases, a short confirmation to you.
Google provides the analytics and advertising tools described above.
Clickspire, the agency that builds and manages this website, receives contact-form inquiries on our behalf so they can be passed to our team, and may see them while maintaining the site.

These providers may store or process information outside Canada, for example in the United States or Europe, where it may be subject to the laws of those countries. We give our providers only the information they need to do their job for us.

Who can see your information

Inside our firm, only the people who need your information to answer your inquiry or carry out your search can see it. Outside our firm, the service providers listed above handle it on our behalf.

We may also disclose personal information when the law requires or allows it, for example to comply with a court order. If our business is ever reorganized, merged or sold, information may be transferred as part of that transaction, but only as the law allows and with protection for it.

How we protect it

We use reasonable administrative, technical and physical safeguards that fit the sensitivity of the information. These include:

sending all pages and form submissions over an encrypted connection (HTTPS)
limiting access to the people who need it
choosing established service providers to host the site and send email

No website or email system can be guaranteed to be completely secure, so please do not send us more information than you need to.

How long we keep it

We keep inquiry information only for as long as we need it for the purposes described here, or as long as the law requires.

When we no longer need it, we securely destroy it or anonymize it in line with the law, so it can no longer identify you.

If a privacy incident happens

If personal information we hold is lost, or accessed, used or disclosed without authorization, we will take reasonable steps to reduce the risk of harm and to prevent it from happening again.

If a breach creates a real risk of significant harm, we will notify the people affected and report it to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, as the law requires. We also keep a record of every breach of security safeguards involving personal information, as the law requires.

Your rights

You can ask us to:

tell you whether we hold personal information about you, and give you access to it
explain how we have used it and who we have shared it with
correct it if it is inaccurate or incomplete
delete it, unless the law requires us to keep it
stop using it, by withdrawing your consent

How to make a request

Send your request in writing to the Privacy Officer through the contact form, or call 1-888-360-9995 and we will help you put it in writing. We may need to confirm your identity before we act on a request.

We will reply in writing within 30 days of receiving your request. If the law allows us more time and we need it, we will tell you within those 30 days. Access is free. If a request involves copying or sending a large amount of information, we may charge a reasonable fee that the law allows, and we will tell you the approximate amount first.

If we cannot grant a request, we will explain why, tell you which law we are relying on, and tell you how you can challenge our decision.

Children

This site is for employers and business owners. It is not directed at children or minors, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a minor has sent us information, contact the Privacy Officer and we will delete it.

Questions and complaints

If you have a concern about how we handle personal information, please contact the Privacy Officer first at 1-888-360-9995 or through the contact form. We will look into it, reply to you, and fix anything we got wrong.

If you are not satisfied with our response, you can contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.

Links to other websites

This site may link to other websites, such as the Google settings pages mentioned above. Those sites have their own privacy practices, and this policy does not cover them.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy when the site, the services we use or the law change. When we do, we will publish the new version on this page and change the “Last updated” date at the top. If a change is significant, we will also say so clearly on this page. The current version is always the one on this page.