Privacy Policy - Privacy Policy

Last updated and effective date: 05/25/2018

1. Importance of protecting your privacy

Thank you for trusting us with your personal information, we know how unpredictable the web can be and we appreciate your trust. This Privacy Policy tells you about our practices regarding the collection, use and sharing of information that you provide to us through our platform (the "Platform") and applies whenever you use our Platform. It also includes procedures to ensure that the processing of your information complies with applicable data protection and privacy laws. We thank you for your trust and we will continue to act accordingly.

2. Purposes and legal basis of data processing

Insofar as we obtain the consent of the data subject for the processing of personal data, the legal basis for the processing of personal data is given by Art. 6 (1) (a) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). In the context of the processing of personal data necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is a party, the legal basis is given by Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR. Insofar as the processing of personal data is necessary to fulfil a legal obligation to which our company is subject, the legal basis is given by Art. 6, para 1, point c of the GDPR. If the processing is necessary to safeguard a legitimate interest of our company or a third party and the interests, fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject do not override the primary interest, the legal basis for the processing is given by Art. 6 para 1 point f of the GDPR.

2.1. information you provide to us

By using our Platform, you are led to transmit information to us, some of which are likely to identify you ("Personal Data"). This is particularly the case when you fill in forms (for example the registration form), when you participate in games, competitions, job offers, studies or surveys, comments, when you contact us by telephone, email or any other means of communication.

In order to secure your registration, i.e. to prevent unauthorized registration by third parties, we will send you a confirmation e-mail after your initial registration using the double Opt-In method, in which we ask you to confirm your registration. The legal basis is your consent in accordance with Art. 6, para. 1, point a of the GDPR.

Personal information includes the following data:

• The data necessary to register for the service we provide on our Platform or to access any other service provided by us. This data includes your first and last name, e-mail address, date of birth, gender, telephone number and password. This information is mandatory. Otherwise, we will not be able to provide you with the services offered by our Platform and you will not be allowed to create an account on our Platform;
• Photographs;
• Mailing Addresses;
• Biography, skills;
• Posts, shares, likes;
• Interests and preferences;
• Exchanges with third parties ;
• Knowledge Network;
• The details of the financial or accounting operations carried out, containing in particular the information relating to your payment card, your banking data;
• Details of your visits to our Platform and the content you have accessed;
• The data we may ask you to provide when you report a problem with our Platform or services;

2.2. information we collect when you use our platform

Whenever our platforms are accessed, we automatically collect data and information from the calling device and store this data and information in server log files.

• In the event that you connect to our services using the Facebook, Google or Linkedin functionalities made available to you, the Platform will have access to some of the data (in particular, your first names, last name, photograph, e-mail address, visuals) of your account on the said social network in accordance with the general terms of use of the social network concerned. If you would like more information on this subject, we invite you to read the contractual documents of these platforms.
• During each of your visits, we may collect, in accordance with applicable law, statistical information about the devices on which you use our services or the networks from which you access our services, such as your IP addresses, connection data, types and versions of Internet browsers used, types and versions of your browser plug-ins operating systems and platforms, data about your browsing experience on our Platform, including your browsing experience on the various URL pages of our Platform, the content you access or view, search terms used, download errors, the length of time you spend viewing certain pages, and interactions with the page. Among the technologies used to collect this information, we use cookies.
• We also collect information about your use of our Platform (such as number of posts, post rate, date of registration, reviews, etc.) that may be displayed on your public profile.

3. Duration of data retention

We retain your personal data for as long as is necessary to provide the agreed service. The personal data you have stored in your account remains available to you for as long as the purpose for which it was collected and will be stored by us for that duration. Personal data will be deleted if you do so yourself.

Please note that we may retain certain information about you when required to do so by law or when we have a legitimate reason to do so. For example, if we believe that you have committed fraud or violated our Terms of Service and we want to prevent you from circumventing the rules applicable to our community.

• Your Personal Data will be anonymized after 5 years after your last use of our Platform, if you have not closed your account;
• Financial data (e.g. payments, refunds, etc.) are kept for the period required by applicable tax and accounting laws;
• In the event that your account has been suspended or blocked, we will retain your data for a period ranging from 2 to 10 years from the date of suspension in order to prevent you from circumventing the rules in force on our Platform.

4. Use of collected data

The data we collect allows us to provide, manage, protect and improve our services, develop new services, and protect both our users and ourselves. This data also allows us to provide you with tailored content, such as more relevant ads, information and search results.

• Allow you to personalize your profile on our Platform;
• Allow you to communicate and exchange with other members of our community;
• To give you access and allow you to communicate with our member relations department;
• Ensure compliance with (i) applicable law, (ii) our Terms of Use, (iii) our Privacy Policy and (iv) our Code of Conduct. If you fail to comply, we may suspend your account on our Platform;
• Help you find members;
• Post your profile;
• Mentions by other members ;
• Visibility of your relationships;
• Representation of your company;
• Facilitate sharing on social networks;
• Set up loyalty programs;
• To fulfill the contracts entered into between you and us or between you and one of our partners, and to provide you with the information and services requested;
• Send you information about our services by e-mail, SMS or any other means of communication;
• To collect your payments or to transmit to you the sums collected on your behalf;
• To send you, in accordance with applicable legal provisions and with your consent where required by law, marketing, advertising and promotional messages and information relating to the use of our services, or to suggest and advise you of goods or services that may be of interest to you.
• Inform you of changes to our services;
• To manage our Platform and perform internal technical operations for problem solving, data analysis, testing, research, analysis, studies and surveys;
• To improve and optimize our Platform, in particular to ensure that our content is displayed on your device;
• Allow you to use the interactive features of our services if you wish;
• Help us maintain a safe environment on our Platform;
• Evaluate the effectiveness of our advertising messages and tailor them to our members.
• Optimization of the search and recommendation functions
• Application form for job offers
• Let recruiters know that you are listening for opportunities;
• Job alert and related services, distribution of resumes and job ads.
• Fighting fraud and other malicious activity

5. Destination of the data collected

• In the course of using our services, some of your information is shared with other members of our community through your public profile.
• We share the posts and reviews that you write as part of the service. This information, which contains your first and last name and your photograph, is visible to all visitors to our Platform;
• We may also share information about you, including Personal Information, with other entities within the group in accordance with this policy.
• Our business partners who promote their services on our Platform and to whom you may decide to subscribe.
• Our business partners on whose website we may advertise our services;
• The subcontractors we use for technical services, payment services, identity verification or analytical solution providers.
• When we use analytical solutions to improve and optimize our Platform;
• When you expressly request to subscribe to a service provided by one of our partners, ask to benefit from an offer or a good deal from one of our partners;
• When we distribute parts of our Platform through APIs or widgets on the websites of our business partners. In this case, certain information from your public profile may also be displayed on those sites;
• When we are legally required to do so or if we believe in good faith that it is necessary to (i) respond to any claim against the company, (ii) comply with any legal request, (iii) enforce any contract with our members such as the Terms of Service and this Privacy Policy, (iv) in the event of an emergency involving public health or the physical safety of any person, (v) in connection with investigations and inquiries, or (vi) to protect the rights, property and safety of the Company, its members and generally any third party;
• In the event that we sell or acquire a business or assets, in which case we reserve the right to share your Personal Information with the prospective seller or buyer of that business or assets.
• In accordance with applicable law and with your consent where required, we may aggregate data about you that we receive or send to our business partners, including some or all of your Personal Information and information collected through cookies. This aggregated information will only be used for the purposes described above.
• We do not control the information sent by your browser to third parties, including analytics companies that receive this information as a normal part of your Internet activity. When third party social technologies or tools are integrated into our products, these third parties may collect information during your use of our products.

6. Data moderation

• We may learn about the information you exchange with other members of our community via our Platform, in particular for the purposes of fraud prevention, improving our services, providing user support, and verifying that our members comply with the contracts they have entered into with us, and in particular with our General Terms of Use. For example, in order to prevent a member from bypassing our online systems, we authorize ourselves to review and analyze messages exchanged on our Platform to ensure that they do not contain any information that does not comply with our Terms of Use.
• Where possible, we use automated systems to moderate messages transmitted via our Platform.

7. E-mails and promotional SMS

In accordance with applicable law and with your consent where required, we may use the data you provide on our Platform for marketing purposes (for example to (i) send you our newsletters, (ii) send you invitations to our events or any other communication that may be of interest to you).

You may withdraw your consent at any time by (i) unchecking the relevant box in your account, (ii) clicking on the unsubscribe link provided in each of our communications, or (iii) contacting us as described in Section 13 below.

8. Location of your data and data security

We store your Personal Data in the European Union and more specifically in France, on an ISO 9001 and ISO 20000-1 site.

However, it is possible that the data we collect when you use our Platform or our services may be transferred to other countries, some of which may have less protective legislation on the protection of personal data than that in force in the country where you reside. This is particularly the case for data transmitted to our subcontractors located outside the European Union, notably in the United States. We may use their services to respond to your requests, to moderate the photographs published on our Platform, to provide online payment tools, to provide us with commercial and advertising services or emailing, SMS or statistics services. In the event of such transfers, we ensure that the processing is carried out in accordance with this policy and that it is governed by the European Commission's standard contractual clauses, which ensure an adequate level of protection of the privacy and fundamental rights of individuals.

9. Rights of the person concerned

If you process personal data, you are affected under the terms of the GDPR and have the following rights against the controller:

9.1 Right to information

You can ask us to confirm whether your personal data will be processed by us.

If such processing has taken place, you may request the following information from us:

(1) the purposes for which personal data are processed;
(2) the categories of personal data processed;
(3) the recipients or categories of recipients to whom your personal data has been or is being disclosed;
(4) how long you are expected to keep your personal data or, if no specific information is available, the criteria for determining the retention period;
(5) the existence of a right to rectify or delete your personal data, a right to restrict processing by the controller or a right to object to such processing;
(6) the existence of a right of appeal to a supervisory authority;
(7) any available information on the origin of the data if the personal data is not collected from the data subject;
(8) the existence of an automated decision-making process, including profiling in accordance with Art. 22 (1) and (4) GDPR and at least in these cases useful information about the logic involved and the scope and intended effects of such processing for the data subject.
You are entitled to ask whether your personal data is transferred to a third country or international organization. In this context, you may request to be informed of the appropriate safeguards in accordance with Art. 46 GDPR in connection with the transfer. This right to information may be restricted insofar as it is likely to make the achievement of statistical purposes impossible or seriously hindered and the restriction is necessary for the achievement of statistical purposes.

9.2 Right of rectification

You have the right to rectify and/or complete your personal data vis-à-vis the data controller if they are incorrect or incomplete. The person in charge will proceed to the rectification without delay.
Your right to rectification may be restricted insofar as it is likely to make the achievement of statistical objectives impossible or seriously impede their achievement and the restriction is necessary for the achievement of statistical objectives.

9.3 Right to limit processing

You may request that the processing of your personal data be restricted, under the following conditions:

(1) if you challenge the accuracy of your personal data for a period of time that allows us to verify the accuracy of the personal data;
(2) if the processing is unlawful and you object to the deletion of the personal data and instead request that the use of the personal data be restricted;
(3) if we no longer need the personal data for processing purposes, but you need it to assert, exercise or defend legal claims, or
(4) if you have objected to the processing in accordance with Art. 21, para. 1 GDPR and it has not yet been established whether our justified reasons outweigh yours.
If the processing of your personal data has been restricted, such data may only be processed outside of storage with your consent or for the purpose of asserting, exercising or defending rights or protecting the rights of another natural or legal person or on important public interest grounds of the Union or of a Member State.
If the restriction on processing has been limited in accordance with the above conditions, we will notify you before the restriction is lifted.
Your right to restrict may be limited insofar as it is likely to make the achievement of statistical objectives impossible or seriously impede them and the restriction is necessary for the achievement of statistical objectives.

9.4 Obligation to suppress

You may request us to delete your personal data immediately and we are obliged to delete such data immediately if any of the following reasons apply:

(1) Your personal data is no longer required for the purposes for which it was collected or processed.
(2) You revoke your consent, on which the processing was based according to the terms of Art. 6 (1) (a) or Art. 9 (2) (a) GDPR, and the processing has no other legal basis.
(3) You object to the processing in accordance with Art. 21, para. 1 of the GDPR and there are no compelling and legitimate reasons for the processing, or you object to the processing in accordance with Art. 21, para. 2 of the GDPR.
(4) Your personal data has been processed unlawfully.
(5) The deletion of your personal data is necessary to comply with a legal obligation under European Community law or the law of the Member States to which we are subject.
(6) Your personal data was collected in the context of the information society services provided in accordance with Art. 8, para. 1 of the GDPR.

Information to third parties.

If we have made your personal data public and are required to delete it in accordance with Art. 17, para. 1 GDPR, we will take appropriate measures, including technical measures, taking into account the available technology and the costs of implementation, to inform the data controllers processing the personal data that you, as the data subject, have requested the deletion of all links to such personal data or copies or replications of such personal data.

Exceptions.

The right of deletion does not exist as long as the processing is necessary

(1) to allow for the exercise of freedom of expression and information;
(2) to enable the performance of a legal obligation required for the processing under European Community or Member State law to which the controller is subject or the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller;
(3) for reasons of public interest in the field of public health, in accordance with Art. 9(2)(h) and (i) and Art. 9(3) GDPR;
(4) for archiving purposes in the public interest, for scientific or historical research purposes or for statistical purposes in accordance with Art. 89 para. 1 GDPR, insofar as the law referred to in (a) is likely to make it impossible or seriously jeopardize the achievement of the objectives of such processing, or
(5) to assert, exercise or defend legal rights.

9.5 Right to data portability

You have the right to receive the personal data you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format. You also have the right to transfer that data to another controller without our involvement, provided that
(1) the processing is based on consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR or Art. 9(2)(a) GDPR or on a contract pursuant to Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR
(2) the processing is carried out using automated methods.
By exercising this right, you also have the right to request that your personal data be transferred directly from one controller to another, insofar as this is technically possible. The rights and freedoms of other persons must not be affected. The right to transferability does not apply to the processing of personal data necessary for the performance of a task in the public interest or in the exercise of public authority conferred on us.

9.6 Right to object

You may exercise your right to object, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to the processing of your personal data at any time, pursuant to Article 6(1)(e) or (f) of the GDPR; this also applies to profiling on the basis of these provisions.
We will no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling reasons worthy of protection for the processing that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or if the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.
If your personal data are processed for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data for advertising purposes; this also applies to profiling, insofar as it is associated with such direct marketing.
If you object to the processing for direct marketing purposes, your personal data will no longer be processed for these purposes.
You have the possibility to exercise your right to object to the use of information society services by means of automated procedures using technical specifications, notwithstanding Directive 2002/58/EC.
You also have the right to object to the processing of your personal data for statistical purposes in accordance with Article 89(1) GDPR on grounds arising from your particular situation. Your right to object may be restricted insofar as it is likely to make the achievement of statistical purposes impossible or seriously hindered and the restriction is necessary for the achievement of statistical purposes.

9.7 Right to revoke the data protection declaration of consent

You have the right to revoke your declaration of consent to data protection at any time. The revocation of consent does not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until the revocation.

9.8 Automated decision in individual cases, including profiling

You have the right not to be subject to a decision based exclusively on automated processing, including profiling, which has legal effects against you or which affects you in a significant and similar way. This provision does not apply where the decision
(1) is necessary for the conclusion or performance of a contract between you and the responsible person, (2) is permissible under European Community law or the law of the Member State to which the responsible person is subject and where that law provides for appropriate measures to safeguard your rights and freedoms and your legitimate interests, or
(3) is taken with your express consent.
However, such decisions may not be based on particular categories of personal data under the terms of Art. 9(1) GDPR, except in cases where Art. 9(2)(a) or (g) applies and appropriate measures have been taken to safeguard your rights and freedoms and your legitimate interests. With regard to the cases referred to in points (1) and (3), we will take appropriate measures to safeguard your rights and freedoms and your legitimate interests, including at least the right to obtain the intervention of a person by the responsible person, to denounce his own position and to challenge the decision.

9.9 Right of appeal to a supervisory authority

Without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, you have a right of appeal to a supervisory authority, including in the Member State in which you reside, work or suspect an infringement, if you believe that the processing of your personal data is contrary to the GDPR.
The supervisory authority to which the complaint has been lodged shall inform the complainant of the status and outcome of the complaint, including the possibility of judicial review under Article 78 of the GDPR.

10. Cookies and similar technologies

Our policy on cookies and similar technologies is available here .

11. Your password privacy

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password that you have chosen to access your account on our Platform. You agree to keep this password secret and not to disclose it to anyone.

12. Links to other websites

Our Platform may contain links to the websites of our partners, third party companies or other members' shares. Please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we are not responsible for how these websites use the information collected when you click on these links. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of these sites before submitting your Personal Information to them.

13. Changes to our privacy policy

We may change this privacy policy from time to time. When necessary, we will notify you and/or ask for your consent. You should check this page periodically for any changes or updates to our privacy policy.

14. Data access and deletion procedures

You have all the features to access, modify, export or delete your data. Log in to your account under "Account settings".

15. Contact

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or any requests relating to your personal data, you can contact us by :

• by filling out this online form
• or by sending us a letter to the following address Infodustrie SAS, whose head office is located in Étampes - 6T, rue Van Loo - 91150 - France

Before responding to your request, we may (i) verify your identity and (ii) ask you to provide additional information to fulfill your request.

16. Identity of the Data Controller and Responsibility for Processing

The responsible person (hereinafter referred to as "Infodustrie" or "we") within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation and other national data protection laws of the Member States as well as other data protection regulations is Infodustrie, SAS with a capital of 100.300 €, registered in the Evry Trade and Companies Register under number 790393359, whose registered office is located in Étampes - 6 ter, rue Van Loo - 91150 - France.