Privacy Policy

The privacy of visitors to our website matters a great deal to us, and we are committed to protecting it. This policy sets out what we do with your personal information at Empreinte D’effluves.

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

• Surname
• First name
• Email
• Telephone number
• Delivery address
• Billing address
• IP address

Personal information may be collected through:

• Contact forms
• Registration form
• Password reset form
• Cookies

Personal information supplied 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 for:

• Purposes connected with the legitimate interests of the business: data is collected to protect the legitimate interests of the business, such as managing customer relationships, handling complaints, systems security, and so on.
• Purposes connected with a legal obligation: data is collected in order to comply with a legal obligation, such as keeping records for accounting purposes or complying with data protection law.
• Purposes based on the user’s consent: data is collected with the user’s consent, for example to send newsletters or special offers.
• Purposes connected with improving the website: data is collected in order to analyse and improve the website, for example to personalise the user experience.
• Purposes connected with marketing retargeting: data is collected in order to target advertising and marketing communications according to the user’s browsing history on the website.

Before disclosing to us personal information concerning another person, you must obtain that person’s consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information under the terms of this policy.

If you submit personal information on our website for publication, we will publish it and may use that information in accordance with the permissions you grant us.

Without your explicit consent, we will not supply your personal information to third parties for their direct marketing, nor for that of any other third party.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also known as a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to check whether you use it. The Gravatar service privacy terms are available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible alongside your comment.

If you are a registered user and you upload images to the website, we advise you to avoid uploading images containing EXIF GPS location data. Visitors to your website can download and extract location data from such images.

We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as it is reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (meaning our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all of its subsidiaries) insofar as it is reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information:

• Insofar as we are required to do so by law;
• In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
• In order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction);
• To the buyer (or prospective buyer) of any business or asset in our possession that we are selling or considering selling;
• To any person we reasonably believe to be part of a court or other authority competent to order the disclosure of that personal information, where in our opinion such a court or authority would be likely to order the disclosure of that personal information.
• Except as otherwise provided in this policy, we will not pass your personal information on to third parties.

The information we collect may be stored, processed and transferred in any of the countries in which we operate, in order to allow 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 you publish on our website, or submit for publication, may be available worldwide via the internet. We cannot prevent the use, whether proper or improper, of that information by third parties.

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

Personal information that we process for any purpose is not kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.

Without prejudice to the above, we will generally delete personal data in these categories

The retention period for the data is until the account is deleted

We will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:

• Insofar as we are required to do so by law;
• Where we believe the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or potential legal proceedings;
• In order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction).

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows subsequent comments to be recognised and approved automatically instead of being held in the moderation queue.

For users who register on our site (where this is possible), we also store the personal data given in their profile. All users can view, edit or delete their personal information at any time (except their username). Site administrators can also view and edit that information.

We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.

We will store all the personal information you provide on secure servers (password- and firewall-protected).

All electronic financial transactions carried out through our website will be protected by encryption technology.

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 keeping confidential the password you use to access our website; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).

If you have an account or have left comments on the site, you can request a file containing all the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request the deletion of the personal data concerning you. This does not cover data stored for administrative or legal purposes, or for security reasons.

For any request concerning your data, you can contact our Data Protection Officer (DPO): Empreinte D’effluves, via the contact form on our website or by post: Empreinte D’effluves – 60 RUE FRANCOIS IER 75008 PARIS

Our website contains hyperlinks to, and information about, third-party websites. We have no control over these sites and are not responsible for their privacy policies or their practices.

Articles on this site may include embedded content (for example videos, images, articles). Content embedded from other sites behaves exactly as if the visitor had gone to that other site.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking tools and monitor your interactions with that embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to their website.

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 it. Cookies may be « persistent » or « session » cookies: 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, on the other hand, expires at the end of the user session, when the browser is closed. Cookies generally contain no information that personally identifies a user, but the personal information we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

We may use cookies to:

• Recognise a computer when a user visits the website
• Track users as they browse the website
• Enable the use of a shopping cart on the website
• Improve the usability of the website
• Analyse use of the website
• Administer the website
• Prevent fraud and improve the security of the website
• Personalise the website for each user
• Send targeted advertising that may be of interest to certain users

For this purpose, we may use the following services:

• Google Analytics
• Facebook Pixel
• Snapchat pixel, TikTok pixel

Most browsers allow you to refuse or accept cookies:

• in Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies using the cookie handling override settings available by clicking «Tools», «Internet Options», «Privacy» and then «Advanced»;
• in Firefox (version 24), you can block all cookies by clicking «Tools», «Options», «Privacy», then selecting «Use custom settings for history» from the drop-down menu and unticking «Accept cookies from sites»;
• in Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by opening the «Customise and control» menu, then clicking «Settings», «Show advanced settings» and «Content settings», then selecting «Block sites from setting any data» under the «Cookies» heading.

Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact on the usability 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:

• in Internet Explorer (version 10), you have to delete the cookie file manually (you can find instructions for doing so here );
• in Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking «Tools», «Options» and «Privacy», then selecting «Use custom settings for history» and clicking «Show cookies», then «Remove all cookies»;
• in Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by opening the «Customise and control» menu, then clicking «Settings», «Show advanced settings» and «Clear browsing data», then «Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data» before clicking «Clear browsing data».

Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.

If you visit the login page, a temporary cookie will be created to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. It contains no personal data and will be deleted automatically when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will set a number of cookies to save your login information and your screen preferences. A login cookie lasts two days, a screen options cookie lasts one year. If you tick « Remember me », your login cookie will be kept for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookie will be deleted.

When you edit or publish a post, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie contains no personal data. It simply indicates the ID of the post you have just edited. It expires after one day.

We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page regularly to make sure 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.