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.
- By consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with this policy when you first visit our website, you allow us to use cookies every time you visit our site.
B. Source
This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal (seqlegal.com).
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, geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system;
- Information about your visits to and use of this website, including the referring source, the duration of the visit, the pages viewed, and website navigation paths;
- Information such as your email address, which you provide when you register on the site;
- Information you enter when you create a profile on our website, such as your name, profile photo, gender, date of birth, relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational background, and 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 you use the services of our website;
- Information generated when you use our site, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it;
- Information relating to purchases you make, services you use, or transactions you carry out on our site, including your name, address, phone number, email address, and banking information;
- Information that you publish on our website with the intention of publishing it on the internet, including your username, profile photos, and the content of your posts;
- Information contained in all communications you send to us by email or on our website, including their content and metadata;
- Any other personal information you provide to us.
Before disclosing personal information about another person to us, you must obtain that person's consent to the disclosure and processing of that personal information in accordance with the terms of this policy.
D. Use of Your Personal Information
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 site. We may use your personal information to:
- Administer our website and our business;
- Customize our website for you;
- Enable your use of the services offered on our website;
- Send you the goods purchased on our website;
- Provide you with the services purchased on our site;
- Send you statements, invoices, and payment reminders, and collect your payments;
- Send you commercial communications unrelated to marketing;
- Send you email notifications that you have expressly requested;
- Send you our newsletter by email, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive our newsletter);
- Send you marketing communications relating to our business or to carefully selected third-party businesses that we believe may be of interest to you, in the form of a publication, or if you have expressly agreed, 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 individual users with this information);
- Process requests and complaints relating to your website made by you or concerning you;
- Maintain the security of our website and prevent fraud;
- Ensuring compliance with the 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 publication, 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 purposes, 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 to the extent reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our corporate group (meaning our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company, and all of its subsidiaries) to the extent 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 connection with any current or future legal proceedings;
- To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction purposes);
- To the buyer (or potential buyer) of any business or asset in our possession that we wish to (or are considering) selling; and
- To any person whom we reasonably believe to be part of a court or other competent authority for the disclosure of such personal information if, in our opinion, such court or authority would be likely to require disclosure of such personal information.
Unless otherwise specified in this policy, we will not disclose your personal information to third parties.
F. International data transfers
- The information we collect may be stored, processed, and transferred to any of the countries 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.
- Personal information that 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.
- Personal information that we process for any purpose is not retained longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
- Without prejudice to Article G-2, we will generally delete personal data in these categories on the date and time specified below:
- Ce type de données personnelles sera supprimé {ENTREZ LA DATE/L’HEURE} ; et
- {ENTER OTHER DATES/TIMES}.
- 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 current or potential legal proceedings; and
- To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction purposes).
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 via the internet is inherently insecure, and that we cannot guarantee the security of your data sent via the internet.
- You are responsible for keeping the password you use to access our website confidential; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).
I. Amendments
We may occasionally 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 to this policy by email or through the private messaging service on our website.
J. Your rights
You may request us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; the transfer of such information will be subject to the following conditions:
- Le règlement de frais {ENTREZ LES FRAIS SI PERTINENT}; et
- The submission of sufficient proof of your identity {ADJUST THE TEXT TO REFLECT YOUR POLICY} (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 may ask us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.
In practice, you will expressly agree in advance to our use of 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 to third-party websites and information about them. We have no control over these sites and are not responsible for their privacy policies or practices.
L. Updating information
Please let us know if the personal information we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
Mr. Cookies
Notre site web utilise des cookies. Un cookie est un fichier contenant un identifiant (une chaîne de lettres et de chiffres) envoyé par un serveur web vers un navigateur web et stocké par le navigateur. L’identifiant est alors renvoyé au serveur à chaque fois que le navigateur demande une page au serveur. Les cookies peuvent être « persistants » ou « de session » : un cookie persistant est stocké par le navigateur et reste valide jusqu’à sa date d’expiration, à moins d’être supprimé par l’utilisateur avant cette date d’expiration ; quant à un cookie de session, il expire à la fin de la session utilisateur, lors de la fermeture du navigateur. Les cookies ne contiennent en général aucune information permettant d’identifier personnellement un utilisateur, mais les informations personnelles que nous stockons à votre sujet peuvent être liées aux informations stockées dans les cookies et obtenues par les 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:
- Nous utilisons Google Analytics et Adwords sur notre site web pour : {INCLUEZ TOUTES LES MANIÈRES DONT LES COOKIES SONT UTILISÉS SUR VOTRE SITE} reconnaître un ordinateur lorsqu’un utilisateur consulte le site web/ suivre les utilisateurs lors de leur navigation sur le site web/ activer l’utilisation d’un panier sur le site web/ améliorer l’utilisation d’un site web/ analyser l’utilisation du site web/ administrer le site web/ empêcher la fraude et améliorer la sécurité du site web/ personnaliser le site web pour chaque utilisateur/ envoyer des publicités ciblées pouvant intéresser certains utilisateurs (décrivez vos autres objectifs);
- Most browsers allow you to refuse or accept cookies. For example:
- With Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies by using the alternative cookie management 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," 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 going to the "Customize and control" menu, then clicking on "Settings," "Show advanced settings," and "Content settings," then selecting "Block sites from setting any data" in the "Cookies" header.
Blocking all cookies will negatively impact 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 here http://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 "Delete 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 data" before clicking on "Clear browsing data."
- Deleting cookies will negatively impact the use of many websites.