Privacy Policy

The publisher attaches the utmost importance to protecting your privacy. This is why we are committed to respecting the confidentiality of the personal data we collect.

This privacy policy informs you about how the Site uses and protects the information you transmit to us when you browse the Site.

Please note that this Policy may be modified or supplemented at any time by the Site Publisher, particularly to comply with any legislative, regulatory, jurisprudential, or technological developments. In such a case, the update date will be clearly identified at the top of this policy. These modifications are binding on the User as soon as they are published online. Therefore, the User should regularly consult this privacy and cookie usage policy to be aware of any changes.

1) Definitions

Site: refers to the s2e-modeling.fr website.
User: as a visitor to the Site, you become a user of the content and services offered by the Site.
Device: this refers to the device you use to access and browse the Site (computer, tablet, smartphone…).

2) Personal Data Collected

We may collect and process the following data:

• Information you transmit to us directly:
  By browsing the Site, you may be required to transmit information to us, some of which may identify you (your “Personal Data”). This is particularly the case when you use a contact form, post a comment, participate in a survey, study, contest, or subscribe to the newsletter…
  This information may include the following Personal Data:
  – first and last name
  – email address
  – phone number
  – postal address
  – and any other information you transmit to us during an exchange or contact.

• Information we collect automatically through interaction with the Site:
  This includes data collected from cookies, particularly by Google Analytics, such as the following information:
  – information related to the devices you use to access the Site (computer, tablet, smartphone)
  – IP address, connection and location data (IMPORTANT: we have implemented a system for anonymizing IP addresses collected by Google Analytics)
  – operating system and platforms
  – data concerning your browsing path on the Site (URL of pages visited, duration of consultation, search terms used, etc.).
  If you use the social media features made available to you, we will have access to certain data (including your first name, last name, photograph, email address, and number of friends) from your account on that social network in accordance with the general terms of use of the social network concerned. We may also collect some of your Personal Data when you interact with features of these social networks, such as the “Like” features. .

3) Cookies

Cookies are small alphanumeric text data files that are placed on your hard drive when you browse a website. These files are generated by the server of the visited site or by a third-party server (web analytics service, advertising network, etc.).

Cookies allow you to be identified (through your computer) when you return to the initially visited site. Cookies cannot retrieve or transmit any data from your hard drive, nor can they transmit viruses to you.

The Site may use cookies and similar technologies to facilitate your browsing by remembering your user preferences and to understand how you use the services and content offered by the Site, in order to improve its relevance and ergonomics, among other things.

We may also include tracking pixels in our emails and newsletters, which are small image files that allow us to determine if messages have been opened and if the links included therein have been clicked.

The cookies and similar technologies we use may be:

• functional: meaning necessary for the performance of a feature, such as your identification for correspondence, a comment, or, where applicable, an online order, for example;
• analytical and performance: meaning related to the monitoring and marketing analysis of Site traffic;
• advertising and targeting: if advertising is used, these cookies may record your visits and browsing on the Site’s pages or your location, to allow the Site and its advertising partners to offer you advertisements consistent with your interests and/or your geographical location;
• social media: these are cookies placed by social media sharing buttons.

These cookies may come from the Site’s server or from third parties (such as Google Analytics, for example).

During your initial browsing on the Site, you are asked for your consent to this use of cookies, and you can revoke your consent at any time, if you wish, in the following way:

• By configuring your internet browser:
  – Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=fr
  – Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH19214?locale=fr_FRviewlocale=fr_FR
  – Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/fr/kb/activer-desactiver-cookies-preferences?redirectlocale=frredirectslug=activer-desactiver-cookies
  – Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/fr-fr/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
• By disabling online cookie services:
  – Analytical and performance cookies: Google Analytics
  – Social media cookies: Facebook – Twitter – YouTube – LinkedIn – Instagram

If you refuse the storage of cookies on your Device, you can continue to browse the Site, but certain parts or functionalities may not work correctly.

4) Purpose of Collecting and Processing your Personal Data

We use your Personal Data, with your consent, to:

• provide you with the content you have requested (including the newsletter, etc.),
• establish contact and/or correspondence with you to provide you with information about our activities and/or services,
• allow you, where applicable, to communicate with other visitors to the Site, particularly through article comments,
• obtain traffic statistics to enable us to improve Site management (presentation, organization, content adaptation to your device, etc.) and your user experience,
• allow you to personalize your profile to offer you content and offers relevant to your expectations and interests,
• provide you, where applicable, with the products or services you may have ordered on the Site,
• collect, where applicable, payments in exchange for products or services provided,
• ensure compliance with our general terms of use of the Site, our Privacy Policy, and applicable regulations.

These processing operations are based on your consent and/or our legitimate interest in measuring the effectiveness of our services and compliance with our respective obligations.

5) Recipients of Collected Information

The Publisher’s activity is not to trade your Personal Data.

Consequently, your Personal Data is only shared in the following cases:

• with our web analytics providers (Google Analytics);
• with our email service providers (MailChimp or SendinBlue);
• with our subscriber and/or customer file management providers (such as Zoho CRM, if applicable);
• with our payment providers (such as PayPlug, PayPal or Stripe, if applicable);
• with our suppliers of products or services marketed via the Site (if applicable) and the corresponding logistics;
• in the context of legal obligations or to enforce our Site’s terms of use and, generally, to protect our rights;
• and when you request it, for example, when you use an authentication method provided by a social network or if you arrive on the Site via a click on an advertisement or a link from a partner site.

6) Retention Period for your Personal Data

Your Personal Data is retained by the Publisher and/or its service providers for the time necessary to provide the services corresponding to the collection of this data or to respond to your request.

7) Protection of your Personal Data

We attach the utmost importance to securing the Site and your Personal Data. This data is stored on our server with our hosting provider in a secure environment, in compliance with GDPR regulations.

Our security system includes the following elements:

• Site protection by Let’s Encrypt certificate under SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) system.
• Firewall and malware monitoring by Wordfence from Defiant.
• Specific email address encryption by Email Encoder Bundle.
• Anonymization of your IP address for Google Analytics processing thanks to Google Analytics Germanized.
• Administrator access protected by complex passwords.

On your side, you are responsible for protecting your username and password and must guard against unauthorized access to them; in particular, if you share a Device, you must ensure you are fully logged out after each use.

8) your Rights Regarding your Personal Data

You have the following rights regarding your Personal Data:

• right of access: you can access the Personal Data we may hold about you;
• right to rectification: you can update your Data, if applicable, in your settings management interface or ask us to perform this update.
• right to erasure: you can ask us to delete your Personal Data.
• right to data portability: you can ask us for a return of the Personal Data you have provided to us in a machine-readable file format.

To exercise any of these rights, use the contact button in the last paragraph below. We will make our best efforts to provide you with this information or to make modifications or deletions within 30 days of receiving your request, accompanied by proof of your identity due to our security and confidentiality obligation, and except for requests that are clearly abusive due to their number or repetitive or systematic nature.

However, we may retain some of your Personal Data when required by Law or for a legitimate reason, particularly to assert our rights in the event of a dispute.

9) Applicable Regulations

The Site is subject to French Law and notably to the General Data Protection Regulation (General Data Protection Regulation) adopted by the European Parliament and the Council on April 27, 2016, and to the amended Data Protection Act of January 6, 1978.

For any information regarding the regulations in force, you can consult
the CNIL website
.

10) Contact

Drafting of legal notices and privacy policy: © Accompagnement & Stratégie SAS.