Cookies and GDPR

The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us and we do everything in our power to protect it. This policy details what we do with your personal information.

Our DPO is Romain LEFÈVRE, who can be contacted by e-mail at: [email protected]

Definitions

The Publisher: VALORIA CAPITAL, the SIREN (Company Registration) number of which is 752 220 251, and the registered office of which is located at 14 Avenue de la Grande-Armée – 75017 Paris – France.
The Site: All websites, web pages and online services provided by the Publisher.
The User: The person using the Site and the services.

Nature of the data collected

As part of its use of the Sites, the Publisher may collect the following categories of data about its Users:

  • Civil status data, identity data, identification data…
  • Data relating to private life (lifestyle, family circumstances, etc., excluding sensitive or dangerous data)
  • Data relating to professional life (CV, education, professional training, awards, etc.)
  • Economic and financial information (income, financial situation, tax situation, etc.)
  • Connection data (IP addresses, event logs, browser used…)
  • Location data (travel, GPS data, GSM…)

Use

Personal information provided to us through our Site 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 company;
  • Provide you with a personalised website;
  • Enable you to use the services provided on our website;
  • Deliver and provide you with products or services purchased on our site;
  • Send you statements, invoices and payment reminders, and collect your payments;
  • Send you non-marketing advertising messages;
  • Send you e-mail notifications that you have expressly requested;
  • Send you our newsletter by e-mail, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you don’t want to receive our newsletter anymore);
  • Send you marketing messages about our company or carefully selected third party companies that we think may be of interest to you, either 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 that you no longer wish to receive marketing messages);
  • Provide statistical information about our users to third parties (without such third parties being able to use this information to identify individual users);
  • Process requests and/or complaints made by or about you in relation to your website;
  • Keep our website secure and prevent fraud;

If you leave personal information on our website for the purpose of publication, we will publish it and depending on the authorisation that you give us we may use this information.

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.

Disclosure of personal data to third parties

Communication to third parties for sales canvassing for equivalent products and services

We will not provide your personal information to third parties for them to use for marketing purposes or to other third parties without your explicit and specific consent.

Communication to third party partners

We may provide certain personal data to strategic partners who help us to provide products and services or which help us market our products to customers.

Communication to third parties in aggregated and anonymised form

Your personal data may be used to enrich our databases. It may be passed on to third parties once it has been anonymised but solely for statistical purposes.

Communication to authorities on the basis of legal obligations

In accordance with legal obligations, your personal data may be disclosed in line with a law, regulation or decision of a competent regulatory or judicial authority. As a general rule, we undertake to comply with any legal rules which are designed to prevent, limit or regulate the distribution of information or data and, in particular, to comply with Act No. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 relating to information technology, files and liberties.

Aggregation of non-personal data

We may publish, disclose and use aggregate information (information about all of our Users or specific groups or categories of Users that we combine so that an individual User cannot be identified or mentioned) and Non-Personal Information for industry and market analysis, demographic profiling, promotional and advertising purposes, and other commercial purposes.

Commitment to the virality of the conditions

If your personal data is released to a third party, that third party is required to apply confidentiality conditions that are the same as those on the Site.

Prior information for disclosure of personal data to third parties in case of merger/absorption

Should we become involved in a merger, acquisition or other form of asset transfer, we will guarantee the confidentiality of your personal data and inform you before your personal data is transferred or subjected to new privacy rules.

International data transfers

The information we collect may be stored, processed and transferred to any country in which we operate to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.

The information that 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 post on our website or submit for publication may be available via the Internet worldwide. We cannot prevent the use, either correct or incorrect, of this information by third parties.

You expressly agree to the transfer of personal information described in this section.

Geolocation

We collect and process your geolocation data so that we can provide our services to you. We may need to use personal data in order to determine your geographical position in real time. In accordance with your right of opposition provided for by Act n°78-17 of 6 January 1978 relating to information technology, files and liberties, you have the option, at any time, of disabling the geolocation functions.

Collection of data from the terminal

Collection of profiling and technical data for service delivery purposes

Some of the technical data of your device is collected automatically by the Site. This information includes in particular your IP address, Internet service provider, hardware configuration, software configuration, browser type and language, etc. The collection of this data is necessary for providing the services.

Collection of technical data for advertising, commercial and statistical purposes

The technical data of your device is automatically collected and recorded by the Site, for advertising, commercial and statistical purposes. This information helps us to personalise and continually improve your experience on our Site. We do not collect or store any personal data (surname, forename, address, etc.) that may be linked to technical data.

Retention period for personal data, anonymisation and deletion

Retention of data for the duration of the contractual relationship

Any personal information that we may process for any purpose is not kept for longer than is necessary for whatever purpose.

In accordance with article 6-5° of n°78-17 of 6 January 1978 relating to information technology, files and liberties, any personal data that may be processed is not kept beyond the time necessary for fulfilling the obligations specified at the time when the contract was signed or beyond the predefined term of the contractual relationship.

Retention of anonymised data beyond the contractual relationship

We keep personal data for the time strictly necessary for fulfilling the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. After this period, the data will be anonymised and kept for statistical purposes only and will not be used in any way whatsoever.

Data portability

The Publisher undertakes to offer you the option of having all your data returned to you on request. The User is thus guaranteed a better control of his/her data, and retains the option of reusing it. This data must be provided in an open and easily reusable format.

Deletion of data on request

The User has the option of deleting his/her linked data at any time, by simply asking the Publisher to do so by e-mail or via the “Contact” tab of the website.

You can contact us by e-mail at the following address: [email protected]

Security

Informing the User in the event of a security breach

We undertake to implement all appropriate technical and organisational measures to guarantee an appropriate level of security bearing in mind the risks of accidental, unauthorised or illegal access, disclosure, impairment, loss or destruction of your personal data. Should we become aware of unlawful access occurring to your personal data stored on our servers or those of our service providers, or of unauthorised access resulting in the risks identified above, we undertake to:

  • Inform you of the incident as soon as possible;
  • Examine the causes of the incident and inform you about them;
  • Take reasonable steps to mitigate the negative effects and damage that may result from the incident in question.

Limitation of liability

Under no circumstances shall the undertakings set out in the above point relating to notification in the event of a security breach be construed as an admission of fault or responsibility for the occurrence of the incident concerned.

In addition, our Site 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.

Cookies

Principle of 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 of the “persistent” or “session” type: 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 turned off. Cookies do not generally contain any information which allows the user to be identified, but the personal information that we store about you may be linked to information stored in and obtained by cookies.

Cookie retention time

Agreeing to our use of cookies in accordance with this policy on your first visit to our website means that you allow us to use cookies each time you visit our site.

We only use session cookies and persistent cookies on our website. In accordance with the recommendations of the CNIL (French data protection authority), the maximum period for which cookies may be kept is 13 months after they were first placed in the User’s terminal, as is the duration of the validity of the User’s consent to the use of these cookies.

Purpose of cookies

Cookies may be used for statistical purposes, in particular to optimise the services provided to the User, based on the processing of information concerning the frequency of access, the personalisation of the pages and the operations performed and the information viewed.

You are informed that the Publisher is likely to place cookies on your terminal. The cookie records information on browsing information on the service (the pages you viewed, the date and time of the viewing, etc.) which we can read during your subsequent visits.

The User’s right to refuse cookies, with disabling resulting in a degraded operation of the service

You acknowledge that you have been informed that the Publisher may use cookies and that you agree to this. If you do not want cookies to be used on your device, most browsers allow you to disable cookies through the settings options or via our consent option which you can choose when you start on our site. However, you are informed that as a result some services may no longer function properly.

Possible association of cookies with personal data to enable the operation of the service

The Publisher may collect browsing information through the use of these cookies.

List of cookies used by our Site

The names of the cookies that we use on our website and the purposes for which we use them are described below. You can get the complete list directly through our consent bar.

  • If enabled, Google Analytics (via Google Tag Manager) on our website to: recognise a computer when a user visits the website, track users as they browse on the website, enable the use of a shopping cart on the website, improve the use of a website, analyse website usage, administer the website, prevent fraud and improve website security, personalise the website for each user, send targeted advertisements that may be of interest to certain users.
  • If enabled, Google Ads, Facebook Ads, Linkedin Ads, Pinterest Ads, Tiktok Ads, Snapchat Ads, to send targeted advertisements to website visitors.
  • If enabled, Hotjar on our website to: track users as they browse the website, enable the use of a shopping cart on the website, improve the use of a website, analyse website usage and administer the website.
  • If enabled, Messenger Customer Chat, Tawk.to, Hubspot, FreshDesk, ZenDesk, Intercom to communicate with our visitors.

Retention of technical data

The technical data is kept for the time strictly necessary for achieving the purposes mentioned above.

Changes to the privacy policy

We undertake to inform you of any substantial changes to this Privacy Policy, and not to lower the level of confidentiality of your data substantially without informing you and obtaining your consent.

From time to time, we may update this policy by posting a new version on our website. We undertake to inform you of any substantial changes to this Privacy Policy, and not to lower the level of confidentiality of your data substantially without informing you and obtaining your consent.

You should check this page regularly to ensure that you are aware of any changes to this policy.

Applicable law and claims procedures

This Privacy Policy and your use of the Site are governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of France, and in particular with Act No. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 relating to information technology, files and liberties. The choice of the applicable law does not affect your rights as a consumer under the applicable law of your place of residence. If you are a consumer, you and we agree to be bound by the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the French courts, which means that you may bring an action in law relating to this Privacy Policy in France or in the EU country in which you live. If you are a business, any legal action against us must be brought before a court in France.

In the event of a dispute, the parties shall seek an out-of-court solution before taking any legal action. If these attempts fail, any disputes regarding the validity, interpretation and/or application of the Privacy Policy must be brought before the French courts, even in the event of third-party claims or multiple respondents.