Privacy Policy

A. Introduction

  1. 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.
  2. Consent to our use of cookies in accordance with this policy on your first visit to our website allows us to use cookies whenever you visit our site.

B. Source

This document was created using a model of SEQ Legal (seqlegal.com).

C. Collection of personal information

The following types of personal information can be collected, stored and used:

  1. Information about your computer, including your IP address, location, browser type and version, and your operating system;
  2. Information about your visits and use of this website including the reference source, duration of the visit, page views, and website browsing paths;
  3. Information such as your e-mail address, which you provide when you register for the site;
  4. Information that you enter when you create a profile on our website such as your name, profile photo, gender, date of birth, situation of love, interests and leisure, educational background and career path;
  5. Information such as your name and email address, which you enter to subscribe to our emails and/or newsletters;
  6. Information you enter when you use the services of our website;
  7. Information generated when using our site, including when, how often and under what circumstances you use it;
  8. Information about the purchases you make, the services you use or the transactions you make on our site, which include your name, address, telephone number, email address and banking information;
  9. Information that you publish on our website with the intention of publishing it on the Internet, including your identifier, profile photos and content of your publications;
  10. Information contained in all communications you send us by e-mail or on our website, including their content and metadata;
  11. Any other personal information you provide.

Before you disclose to us personal information about another person, you must obtain the consent of that person with respect to the disclosure and processing of such personal information under the terms of this policy.

D. Use of your personal information

The personal information provided to us through our website will be used in the purposes described in this policy or in the relevant website pages. We may use your personal information to:

  1. Administer our website and company;
  2. Customize our website for you;
  3. Allow your use of the services offered on our website;
  4. Send you the goods purchased on our website;
  5. Provide you with the services purchased on our site;
  6. Send you statements, invoices and reminders of payment, and collect your payments;
  7. Send you non-marketing commercial communications;
  8. Send you e-mail notifications that you have specifically requested;
  9. Send you our newsletter by email, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time of your wish not to receive our newsletter anymore);
  10. Send you marketing communications relating to our company or to carefully selected third-party companies that we believe may interest you, in the form of a publication, or if you have expressly given your consent, by e-mail or similar technology (you can inform us at any time of your willingness to no longer receive marketing communications);
  11. Provide statistical information about our users to third parties (without these third parties being able to identify individual users with this information);
  12. Process requests and complaints about your website made by you or by you;
  13. Maintain the security of our website and prevent fraud;
  14. Verify compliance with the general conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring of private messages sent through the private messaging service of our website); and
  15. Other uses.

If you submit personal information on our website for the purpose of publishing it, we will publish it and may use this information in accordance with your authorizations.

Your privacy settings may be used to limit the publication of your information on our website and may 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 to 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.

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 reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information:

  1. To the extent that we are required to do so by law;
  2. In the course of any ongoing or future judicial proceedings;
  3. To establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction);
  4. To the buyer (or potential buyer) of any business or assets in our possession that we wish (or consider) to sell; and
  5. To any person whom we reasonably consider to be an integral part of a court or other authority competent 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 provided in this policy, we will not transmit your personal information to third parties.

F. International data transfers

  1. The information we collect can be stored, processed and transferred to all countries in which we operate, so that we can use the information in accordance with this policy.
  2. The information we collect can be transferred to the following countries, without data protection laws equivalent to those in the European Economic Area: the United States of America, Russia, Japan, China and India.
  3. Personal information that you publish on our website or submit to publication may be available via the Internet worldwide. We cannot prevent the use, good or bad, of this information by third parties.
  4. You expressly agree to the transfer of personal information described in this Section F.

G. Retention of your personal information

  1. 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.
  2. The personal information we process for any purpose is not kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or for that purpose.
  3. Without prejudice to Article G-2, we will generally delete personal data from these categories at the date and time specified below:
    1. This type of personal data will be deleted after 1 year.
  4. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section G, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
    1. To the extent that we are required to do so by law;
    2. If we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or potential judicial proceedings; and
    3. 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

  1. We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, abuse or alteration of your personal information.
  2. We will store all personal information you provide us on secure servers (password protected and firewall protected).
  3. All electronic financial transactions conducted through our website will be protected by encryption technologies.
  4. You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the Internet is inherently unsecure, and that we cannot guarantee the security of your data sent over the Internet.
  5. 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 can sometimes update this policy by publishing a new version on our website. You must check this page regularly to ensure you are aware of any changes to this policy. We may notify you of any changes to this policy by e-mail or through our website's private messaging service.

J. Your rights

You can ask us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; the transfer of such information shall be subject to the following conditions:

  1. Payment of costs and
  2. The presentation of sufficient proof of your identity (for these purposes, we generally accept a photocopy of your passport certified by notary plus an original copy of a public service invoice indicating 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 express your agreement in advance to use your personal information for marketing purposes or we will provide you with an opportunity to refuse to use 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. Update of information

Please let us know if the personal information we hold about you should be corrected or updated.

M. 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 returned to the server whenever the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be « persistent » or « sessional period » : a persistent cookie is stored by the browser and remains valid until its expiration date, unless deleted by the user before that expiry date; as for a session cookie, it expires at the end of the user session when the browser closes. Cookies generally do not contain any information to personally identify a user, but the personal information we store about you may be linked to information stored in cookies and obtained by cookies. We only use session cookies on our website.

  1. The names of the cookies we use on our website and the purposes for which we use them are described below:
    1. We use Google Analytics and Adwords on our website to: recognize a computer when a user visits the website/follow users while browsing the website/enable the use of a basket on the website/improve the use of a website/analyze the use of the website/administer the website/prevent fraud and improve the security of the website/ personalise the website for each user/send targeted advertisements that may interest some users (describe your other goals);
  2. Most browsers allow you to refuse or accept cookies. For example:
    1. with Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies using the available cookie management replacement settings by clicking on «Tools», «Internet Options», «Confidentiality» then «Advanced»;
    2. with Firefox (version 24), you can block all cookies by clicking on «Tools», «Options», «Confidentiality» and then selecting «Use custom settings for history» from the drop down menu and unchecking «Accept cookies from sites»; and
    3. with Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the menu «Customize and Control» then by clicking on «Parameters», «Show Advanced Settings» and «Content Settings» and then selecting «Prevent sites from defining data» in the header «Cookies».

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.

  1. You can delete cookies already stored on your computer. Example:
    1. with Internet Explorer (version 10), you need to remove the cookie file manually (you can find instructions to do it here).http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);
    2. with Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking on «Tools», «Options», and «Confidentiality», then selecting «Use custom settings for history» and clicking on «Show cookies», then on «Delete all cookies»; and
    3. with Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by accessing the menu «Customize and Control» then by clicking on «Parameters», « Show Advanced Settings » and «Delete navigation data» then «Remove cookies and data from modules from other sites» before clicking on «Delete navigation data».
  2. Removing cookies will have a negative impact on the use of many websites.