A. Introduction
- The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us, and we are committed to protecting it. This policy details what we do with your personal information.
- Consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with this policy on your first visit to our website allows us to use cookies every time you visit our site.
C. Collection of personal information
The following types of personal information may be collected, stored and used:
- Information about your computer, including your IP address, your geographical location, the type and version of your browser, and your operating system ;
- Information about your visits and your use of this website including the referring source, the duration of the visit, the pages viewed, and the website navigation paths ;
- Information such as your email address, which you provide to us when registering on the site ;
- Information you enter when you create a profile on our website, such as your name, your profile picture, your gender, your date of birth, your relationship status, your interests and hobbies, your educational background and your professional background ;
- Information such as your name and email address, which you enter to subscribe to our emails and/or newsletters ;
- Information you enter when using our website's services ;
- Information generated during the use of our site, including when, how often and under what circumstances you use it ;
- Information relating to the purchases you make, the services you use or the transactions you carry out on our site, which include your name, address, phone number, email address and banking information ;
- Information that you publish on our website with the intention of making it available on the internet, and which includes your username, your profile pictures and the content of your posts ;
- Information contained in all communications you send us by email or on our website, including their content and metadata ;
- Any other personal information you provide to us.
Before disclosing to us any personal information regarding another person, you must obtain that person's consent regarding the disclosure and processing of their personal information in accordance with the terms of this policy
D. Use of your personal information
The personal information provided to us through our website will be used for the purposes described in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information to:
- Manage our website and our company ;
- Personalize our website for you ;
- Allow your use of the services offered on our website ;
- To send you the goods purchased on our site ;
- To provide you with the services purchased on our site ;
- Sending you statements, invoices and payment reminders, and collecting your payments ;
- Sending you non-marketing commercial communications ;
- Sending you email notifications that you have expressly requested ;
- Sending you our newsletter by email, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time of your wish to no longer receive our newsletter) ;
- Sending you marketing communications relating to our company or carefully selected third-party companies that we think may be of interest to you, in the form of publications, or if you have expressly given your consent, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive marketing communications) ;
- Provide statistical information about our users to third parties (without these third parties being able to identify any individual user from this information) ;
- Process requests and complaints relating to your website made by you or concerning you ;
- Maintaining the security of our website and preventing fraud ;
- Verify compliance with the general terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our website's private messaging service); and
- Other uses.
If you submit personal information on our website for the purpose of publishing it, we will publish it and may use that information in accordance with the permissions you grant us.
Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and can be adjusted in your privacy settings on the website.
Without your explicit consent, we will not provide your personal information to third parties for their direct marketing, or that of other third parties.
E. Disclosure of your personal information
We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries) to the extent that this is reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
We may disclose your personal information:
- To the extent that we are required to do so by law ;
- In the context of any ongoing or future legal proceedings ;
- To establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction) ;
- To the buyer (or potential buyer) of any business or asset in our possession that we wish (or are considering) to sell; and
- To any person we reasonably consider to be an integral part of a court or other competent authority for the disclosure of such personal information if, in our opinion, such a court or authority would be likely to request the disclosure of such personal information.
Unless otherwise specified in this policy, we will not transmit your personal information to third parties.
F. International Data Transfers
- The information we collect may be stored, processed and transferred in any country in which we operate, in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.
- The information we collect may be transferred to the following countries, which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area: the United States of America, Russia, Japan, China and India.
- The personal information you publish on our website or submit for publication may be available, via the internet, worldwide. We cannot prevent the use, good or bad, of this information by third parties.
- You expressly agree to the transfer of personal information described in this Section F.
G. Retention of your personal information
- This Section G details our data retention policies and procedures, designed to help us comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.
- The personal information we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
- Without prejudice to Article G-2, we will generally delete personal data from these categories at the date and time specified below:
- This type of personal data will be deleted {ENTREZ LA DATE/L’HEURE} ;and
- {ENTREZ D’AUTRES DATES/HEURES}.
- Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section G, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
- To the extent that we are required to do so by law ;
- If we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or potential legal proceedings; and
- To establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction).
H. Security of your personal information
- We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
- We will store all personal information you provide to us on secure servers (protected by password and firewall).
- All electronic financial transactions carried out through our website will be protected by encryption technologies.
- You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and that we cannot guarantee the security of your data sent over the internet.
- You are responsible for the confidentiality of the password you use to access our website; we will not ask for your password (except when you log in to our website).
I. Amendments
We may sometimes update this policy by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page regularly to ensure you are aware of any changes made to this policy. We may notify you of changes made to this policy by email or through the private messaging service on our website.
J. Your rights
You can ask us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; the transfer of such information will be subject to the following conditions:
- The fee regulations {ENTREZ LES FRAIS SI PERTINENT}; and
- The presentation of sufficient proof of your identity {AJUSTEZ LE TEXTE POUR REFLÉTER VOTRE POLITIQUE} (for these purposes, we generally accept a notarized photocopy of your passport plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address).
We may retain the personal information you request to the extent permitted by law.
You can ask us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.
In practice, you will expressly and in advance give your agreement for us to use your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.
K. Third-party websites
Our website contains hyperlinks leading to third-party websites and information about them. We have no control over these sites, and are not responsible for their privacy policies or their practices.
L. Update of information
Please let us know if the personal information we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
Mr. Cookies
Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) sent by a web server to a web browser and stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie is stored by the browser and remains valid until its expiration date, unless deleted by the user before that expiration date; as for a session cookie, it expires at the end of the user session, when the browser is closed. Cookies generally do not contain any information that personally identifies a user, but the personal information we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. {SÉLECTIONNEZ LA FORMULE ADAPTÉE Nous n’utilisons que des cookies de session / que des cookies persistants / des cookies de session et des cookies persistants sur notre site web.}
- The names of the cookies we use on our website and the purposes for which we use them are described below:
- We use Google Analytics and Adwords on our website to: recognize a computer when a user visits the website / track users as they navigate the website / enable the use of a shopping cart on the website / improve the usability of a website / analyze the use of the website / administer the website / prevent fraud and improve the security of the website / personalize the website for each user /
- Most browsers allow you to refuse or accept cookies. For example:
- with Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies by using the cookie management override settings available by clicking on "Tools", "Internet Options", "Privacy" and then "Advanced";
- with Firefox (version 24), you can block all cookies by clicking on "Tools", "Options", "Privacy" and then selecting "Use custom settings for history" from the drop-down menu and unchecking "Accept cookies from sites"; and
- with Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the "Customize and control" menu then clicking on "Settings", "Show advanced settings" and "Content settings" then selecting "Block sites from setting any data" under the "Cookies" heading.
Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact on the use of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features of our website.
- You can delete cookies already stored on your computer. Example:
- with Internet Explorer (version 10), you must delete the cookies file manually (you can find instructions on how to do this herehttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);
- with Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking on "Tools", "Options", and "Privacy", then selecting "Use custom settings for history" and clicking on "Show Cookies", then on "Remove All Cookies"; and
- with Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by going to the "Customize and control" menu, then clicking on "Settings", "Show advanced settings" and "Clear browsing data", then "Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data" before clicking on "Clear browsing data".
- Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the use of many websites.