After 25 years of existence and having been the origin of numerous love stories, the Quebec dating site Réseau Contact will cease its activities at the end of the month.
The Réseau Contact team maintains on its website that the closure is the result of reflection which took place following various circumstances beyond its control.
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Management takes this opportunity to express its “sincere gratitude” for the loyalty and support of its customers over the years. “What pride to see the countless marriages, children, and beautiful love stories coming from our platform! ”, it is indicated. The last day of activity on the site will be November 30.
Its operator, the Longueuil company mdf commerce, indicated this week that Réseau Contact was not posting disappointing financial results, but that investments would have been necessary to ensure that the platform complied with new laws on the protection of privacy. in Canada regarding the protection of personal information. The mdf commerce company cites Law 25 in Quebec as an example. The obligations of this law aim to ensure “adequate supervision of new technologies” in order to guarantee the security of personal information.
The management of mdf commerce maintains that the decision to close Réseau Contact aligns with its strategy of focusing on its main platforms, that is to say those specialized in government procurement and e-commerce.
The Réseau Contact site was created in Chicoutimi in 1996. Quebecor acquired it at the turn of the 2000s before selling it 10 years ago – with the job search site Jobboom – to mdf commerce, a transaction valued at at the time at 65 million dollars.
Réseau Contact and Jobboom are now part of the electronic marketplace platform of mdf commerce, whose shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange.