Privacy policy
A. Introduction
The privacy of visitors to our website 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 each time you visit our site.
B. Source
This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal (seqlegal.com)
and was modified by Website Planet and Saintonge Action Design.
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, length of visit, pages viewed, and website navigation paths;
Information such as your e-mail address, which you provide to us when you register on the site;
Information such as your name and e-mail address, which you enter to subscribe to our e-mails and/or newsletters;
Information you enter when using our website services;
Information generated when you use our site, including when, how often and under what circumstances you use it;
Information contained in any communications you send us by e-mail 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 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;
Personalize our website for you;
Enable your use of the services offered on our website;
Send you e-mail notifications that you have expressly requested;
Send you our newsletter by e-mail, if you have requested it (you may inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive our newsletter);
Send you marketing communications relating to our company or to carefully selected third-party companies that we think may be of interest to you, in the form of a publication, or if you have expressly agreed, by e-mail 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 made by or about you in relation to your website;
Maintain the security of our website and prevent fraud;
To verify 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 purposes.
If you submit personal information to our website for the purpose of publication, we will publish it and may use the information in accordance with the permissions you grant us. Your privacy settings may be used to limit the publication of your information on our web site and may be adjusted in your privacy settings on the web site. 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 advisors, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors to the extent reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
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 purchaser (or potential purchaser) of any business or assets in our possession which we wish (or are considering) to sell; and
To any person whom 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 require disclosure of such personal information.
Except as otherwise provided in this Policy, we will not pass on your personal information to third parties.
F. Security 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 retained no longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
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 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).
G. 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 (password and firewall protected).
All electronic financial transactions made 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 maintaining the confidentiality of the password you use to access our website; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).
H. Amendments
From time to time we may update this policy by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page regularly to ensure that you are aware of any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by e-mail or through our website’s private messaging service.
I. Your rights
You may 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:
Payment of a fee and providing sufficient proof of your identity.
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 express your consent in advance for us to use your personal information for marketing purposes or we will provide you with an opportunity to decline the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.
J. 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.
K. Updating information
Please let us know if the personal information we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
L. 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”: a persistent cookie is stored by the browser and remains valid until its expiry date, unless deleted by the user before that date; a session cookie expires at the end of the user session, when the browser is closed. Cookies generally do not contain any personally identifiable information, but the personal information we store about you may be linked to information stored in and obtained from cookies.We only use session cookies and persistent cookies on our website}.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 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 use of a website/ analyze website usage/ administer the website/ prevent fraud and improve website security/ personalize the website for each user/ send targeted advertising that may be of interest to certain users;
Most browsers allow you to refuse or accept cookies. For example: with Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies using the alternative cookie management settings available by clicking on “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy” then “Advanced”;with Firefox (version 24), you can block all cookies by clicking on “Tools”, “Options”, “Privacy” then selecting “Use personalized settings for history” from the drop-down menu and unchecking “Accept cookies from sites”; andwith Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the “Personalize and control” menu, then clicking on “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Content settings”, then selecting “Prevent sites from setting data” in the “Cookies” header.
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 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 use of a website/ analyze website usage/ administer the website/ prevent fraud and improve website security/ personalize the website for each user/ send targeted advertising that may be of interest to certain users;
Most browsers allow you to refuse or accept cookies. For example:
a) with Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies using the alternative cookie management settings available by clicking on “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy” then “Advanced”;
b) with Firefox (version 24), you can block all cookies by clicking on “Tools”, “Options”, “Privacy” then selecting “Use personalized settings for history” from the drop-down menu and unchecking “Accept cookies from sites”; and
c) with Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the “Personalize and control” menu, then clicking on “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Content settings”, then selecting “Prevent sites from setting data” in the “Cookies” header.
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. For example:
a) with Internet Explorer (version 10), you need to delete the cookies file manually (you can find instructions on how to do this here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);
b) with Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking on “Tools”, “Options”, and “Privacy”, then selecting “Use personalized settings for history” and clicking on “Show cookies”, then on “Delete all cookies”; and
c) with Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by accessing the “Personalize and control” menu, then clicking on “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Delete browsing data”, then “Delete cookies and module data from other sites” before clicking on “Delete browsing data”.