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Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy is committed to safeguarding your privacy. Contact us at carole.lavocat@wexample.com
if you have any questions or problems regarding the use of your Personal Data and we will gladly assist you.
By using this site or/and our services, you consent to the Processing of your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Policy.

Table of Contents

  1. Definitions used in this Policy
  2. Data protection principles we follow
  3. What rights do you have regarding your Personal Data
  4. What Personal Data we gather about you
  5. How we use your Personal Data
  6. Who else has access to your Personal Data
  7. How we secure your data
  8. Information about cookies
  9. Contact information

Definitions

Personal Data – any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
Processing – any operation or set of operations which is performed on Personal Data or on sets of Personal Data.
Data subject - a natural person whose Personal Data is being Processed.
Child - a natural person under 16 years of age.
We/us (either capitalized or not) –

Data Protection Principles

We promise to follow the following data protection principles:

  • Processing is lawful, fair, transparent. Our Processing activities have lawful grounds. We always consider your rights before Processing Personal Data. We will provide you information regarding Processing upon request.
  • Processing is limited to the purpose. Our Processing activities fit the purpose for which Personal Data was gathered.
  • Processing is done with minimal data. We only gather and Process the minimal amount of Personal Data required for any purpose.
  • Processing is limited with a time period. We will not store your personal data for longer than needed.
  • We will do our best to ensure the accuracy of data.
  • We will do our best to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of data.

Data Subject's rights

The Data Subject has the following rights:

  1. Right to information – meaning you have to right to know whether your Personal Data is being processed; what data is gathered, from where it is obtained and why and by whom it is processed.
  2. Right to access – meaning you have the right to access the data collected from/about you. This includes your right to request and obtain a copy of your Personal Data gathered.
  3. Right to rectification – meaning you have the right to request rectification or erasure of your Personal Data that is inaccurate or incomplete.
  4. Right to erasure – meaning in certain circumstances you can request for your Personal Data to be erased from our records.
  5. Right to restrict processing – meaning where certain conditions apply, you have the right to restrict the Processing of your Personal Data.
  6. Right to object to processing – meaning in certain cases you have the right to object to Processing of your Personal Data, for example in the case of direct marketing.
  7. Right to object to automated Processing – meaning you have the right to object to automated Processing, including profiling; and not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated Processing. This right you can exercise whenever there is an outcome of the profiling that produces legal effects concerning or significantly affecting you.
  8. Right to data portability – you have the right to obtain your Personal Data in a machine-readable format or if it is feasible, as a direct transfer from one Processor to another.
  9. Right to lodge a complaint – in the event that we refuse your request under the Rights of Access, we will provide you with a reason as to why. If you are not satisfied with the way your request has been handled please contact us.
  10. Right for the help of supervisory authority – meaning you have the right for the help of a supervisory authority and the right for other legal remedies such as claiming damages.
  11. Right to withdraw consent – you have the right withdraw any given consent for Processing of your Personal Data.

Data we gather

Information from our partners
We gather information from our trusted partners with confirmation that they have legal grounds to share that information with us. This is either information you have provided them directly with or that they have gathered about you on other legal grounds. See the list of our partners here.

 
Cookie Description Source Expiration Category Type Destination Block before accept
has_js This cookie is used to indicate whether the user's browser has JavaScript enabled. vinciaprep.com Session Necessary HTTP UK
rc::a This cookie is used to distinguish humans from robots to report valid website usage. google.com Persistent Necessary HTML USA
rc::b This cookie is used to distinguish humans from robots. google.com Session Necessary HTML USA
rc::c This cookie is used to distinguish humans from robots. google.com Session Necessary HTML USA
SSID This is a very common cookie name but where it is found as a session cookie it is likely to be used as for session state management. google.com 1 month strictement Necessary
__utma Collects data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as the dates of the first and most recent visits. Used by Google Analytics.
vinciaprep.com 2 years Statistics HTTP UK Required
__utmb Records a time stamp of the exact time the user accessed the site. Used by Google Analytics to calculate the duration of a website visit. vinciaprep.com 1 jour Statistics HTTP UK Required
__utmc Stores a timestamp of the exact time of user exit. Used by Google Analytics to calculate the duration of a website visit. vinciaprep.com Session Statistics HTTP UK Required
__utmt Used to slow down the speed of requests sent to the server. vinciaprep.com 1 jour Statistics HTTP UK Required
__utmz Collects data on the origin of the user, the engine of search, the link clicked and the search criteria used. Used by Google Analytics. vinciaprep.com 6 mois Statistics HTTP UK Required
NID In the register an identifier that identifies the user's device recurrent. This identifier is used for targeted ads. google.com 6 mois Targeting/Advertising HTTP USA Required
1P_JAR Used to gather website statistics and track conversion rates. google.com 1 month Targeting/Advertising USA Required
ANID Used by Google to serve ads that are more relevant to the user. google.com 10 months Targeting/Advertising USA Required
APISID This DoubleClick cookie is usually installed on the site by advertising partners and used by them to create a profile of the interests of the website visitor and to show relevant ads on other sites. This cookie works by uniquely identifying your browser and your device. google.com 2 years Targeting/Advertising USA Required
CONSENT This cookie contains information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising the end user may have seen before visiting that website. google.com 18 years Targeting/Advertising USA Required
DSID Register and report the website user's actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser's ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user. doubleclick.net 2 weeks Targeting/Advertising USA Required
HSID This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which belongs to Google) to create a profile of the interests of the website visitor and to display relevant ads on other sites. google.com 2 years Targeting/Advertising USA Required
IDE Register and report the website user's actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser's ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user. doubleclick.net 1 year Targeting/Advertising USA Required
FLC Used by Google to serve ads that are more relevant to the user. google.com Targeting/Advertising USA Required
OGP This cookie activates the functionality of Google Maps google.com Targeting/Advertising USA Required
OGPC This cookie activates the functionality of Google Maps google.com Targeting/Advertising USA Required
OTZ These cookies are used to share content with Google+ google.com Targeting/Advertising USA Required
SAPISID This DoubleClick cookie is usually installed on the site by advertising partners and used by them to create a profile of the interests of the website visitor and to show relevant ads on other sites. This cookie works by uniquely identifying your browser and your device. google.com 2 years Targeting/Advertising USA Required
SEARCH_SAMESITE SameSite prevents the browser from sending this cookie along with cross-site requests. The main goal is mitigate the risk of cross-origin information leakage. It also provides some protection against cross-site request forgery attacks. google.com Targeting/Advertising USA Required
SIDCC This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. google.com 1 years Targeting/Advertising USA Required
SSID This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. google.com 2 years Targeting/Advertising USA Required
__Secure-3PAPISID For targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor's interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising google.com 2 years Targeting/Advertising USA Required
__Secure-3PSID For targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor's interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising google.com 2 years Targeting/Advertising USA Required
__Secure-APISID These are essential site cookies, used by the google reCAPTCHA. These cookies use an unique identifier for tracking purposes google.com 6 months Targeting/Advertising USA Required
__Secure-HSID These are essential site cookies, used by the google reCAPTCHA. These cookies use
an unique identifier for tracking purposes
google.com 6 months Targeting/Advertising USA Required
__Secure-SSID These are essential site cookies, used by the google reCAPTCHA. These cookies use an unique identifier for tracking purposes google.com 2 years Targeting/Advertising USA Required

How we use your Personal Data

We use your Personal Data on legitimate grounds and/or with your Consent.
Your personal data is used indirectly by subcontractors for statistical purposes:

  • Google,
  • Google Analyticts,
  • Google reCAPTCHA .

We Process your Personal Data in order to fulfil obligation rising from law and/or use your Personal Data for options provided by law. We reserve the right to anonymise Personal Data gathered and to use any such data. We will use data outside the scope of this Policy only when it is anonymised. We save your billing information and other information gathered about you for as long as needed for accounting purposes or other obligations deriving from law.

We might process your Personal Data for additional purposes that are not mentioned here, but are compatible with the original purpose for which the data was gathered. To do this, we will ensure that:

  • the link between purposes, context and nature of Personal Data is suitable for further Processing;
  • the further Processing would not harm your interests and
  • there would be appropriate safeguard for Processing.

We will inform you of any further Processing and purposes.

Who else can access your Personal Data

We do not share your Personal Data with strangers. Personal Data about you is in some cases provided to our trusted partners in order to either make providing the service to you possible or to enhance your customer experience. We share your data with:

Our processing partners:

Connected third parties:

  • Google

We only work with Processing partners who are able to ensure adequate level of protection to your Personal Data. We disclose your Personal Data to third parties or public officials when we are legally obliged to do so. We might disclose your Personal Data to third parties if you have consented to it or if there are other legal grounds for it.

How we secure your data

Even though we try our best we can not guarantee the security of information. However, we promise to notify suitable authorities of data breaches. We will also notify you if there is a threat to your rights or interests. We will do everything we reasonably can to prevent security breaches and to assist authorities should any breaches occur.

If you have an account with us, note that you have to keep your username and password secret.

Children

We do not intend to collect or knowingly collect information from children. We do not target children with our services.

Cookies and other technologies we use

We use cookies and/or similar technologies to analyse customer behaviour, administer the website, track users' movements, and to collect information about users. This is done in order to personalise and enhance your experience with us.
A cookie is a tiny text file stored on your computer. Cookies store information that is used to help make sites work. Only we can access the cookies created by our website. You can control your cookies at the browser level. Choosing to disable cookies may hinder your use of certain functions.
We use cookies for the following purposes:

  • Necessary cookies – these cookies are required for you to be able to use some important features on our website, such as logging in. These cookies don't collect any personal information.
  • Functionality cookies – these cookies provide functionality that makes using our service more convenient and makes providing more personalised features possible. For example, they might remember your name and e-mail in comment forms so you don't have to re-enter this information next time when commenting.
  • Analytics cookies - these cookies are used to track the use and performance of our website and services
  • Advertising cookies - these cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are relevant to you and to your interests. In addition, they are used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement. They are usually placed to the website by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. These cookies remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers. Often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organisation.

You can remove cookies stored in your computer via your browser settings. Alternatively, you can control some 3rd party cookies by using a privacy enhancement platform such as optout.aboutads.info or youronlinechoices.com. For more information about cookies, visit allaboutcookies.org.

We use Google Analytics to measure traffic on our website. Google has their own Privacy Policy which you can review here. If you'd like to opt out of tracking by Google Analytics, visit the Google Analytics opt-out page.

Contact Information

Carole Lavocat, DPO

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to make change to this Privacy Policy. Last modification was made February 6, 2020.

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