Privacy Policy and Personal Data
We invite you to carefully read this document (hereinafter, the “Privacy Policy” or the “Privacy Rules”). If you have any questions about this document and, in general, about the collection and processing of your personal information by Pouey International, please do not hesitate to contact us via the following email address: conformite@pouey.com
1. Preamble and scope
Pouey Internationalis concerned about preserving the confidentiality of your personal information and attaches great importance to protecting the privacy of the users of its services.
The purpose of the Privacy Policy is to define the rules applicable to the collection and processing of your personal information (hereinafter “Personal Data”) via our online sales site. Personal Data is defined as any information relating to a natural person who can be identified, directly or indirectly, such as the surnames, first names, email and postal addresses of a natural person, their image in a photograph or video, an IP address, location data, number plate, etc.
Our Privacy Rules detail the Personal Data that we collect and process via our online sales site, the reasons for processing your Personal Data, how we use it and the features offered to enable you to access and update your Personal Data.
The Privacy Policy is an integral part of the General Terms and Conditions of Use and Sale of the www.pouey.com site. It applies to users of our site regardless of their category.
Our Privacy Rules do not apply to services offered by third-party companies, operating Pouey Internationalpartner websites or other websites accessible from our services. We are not responsible for how these sites use your Personal Data.
2. Acceptance and updating of our Privacy Rules
By using the www.pouey.com site, you confirm that you have read and accept these terms without restriction or reservation. If you disagree with any of its terms, you are free to not use or no longer use our services.
3. Personal Data Controller
The processing of Personal Data is subject to French law, in particular to Law no. 78-17 of the 6th of January, 1978 relating to data processing, files and freedoms, as amended (known as the French Data Protection Act) as well as to the (EU) regulation 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of the 27th of April, 2016 applicable from the 25th of May, 2018 (known as GDPR).
The “data controller”, as defined by said Law, of the Personal Data of Users of the www.pouey.com site is: Pouey International – siren 310 699 970 – 13 rue du Docteur Lancereaux, 75008 Paris – France. The data controller’s representative is Marie-Victoire Galeyrand.
In this capacity, we undertake, within the framework of our business, to respect the provisions of said Law, and to carry out a lawful, fair and transparent processing of your Personal Data. In particular, to carry out data processing for specific, explicit and legitimate purposes, without being further processed in any manner that is incompatible with these purposes, for a period that does not exceed the period necessary for the purposes for which they are collected and processed.
4. Categories of Personal Data collected and processed via the www.pouey.com site
a) Personal data that you submit to POUEY INTERNATIONAL
We collect Personal Data from users who use: the contact form and the application form and the guaranteed receivables calculation.
The www.pouey.com site therefore involves the collection and processing of your Personal Data according to how you use it. We may therefore collect your surname, first name, email address, telephone number, email & postal address, etc. Some information is required to obtain our services (followed by an asterisk) and others are optional, such as in our contact form, for example.
b) Cookies
A “cookie” (or “tracer”) refers to a text file that can be downloaded onto a dedicated space on your device’s hard drive (computer, tablet, or smartphone), when accessing an online service. A cookie allows its issuer to identify the device in which it is registered, during the period of validity or registration of the cookie. The cookie therefore does not identify you as such; it is used to record your browsing information on the www.pouey.com site.
When you visit the www.pouey.com site, information about your browsing may be stored in “Cookie” files installed on your device, subject to the choices you have made regarding cookies and which you can change at any time. These cookies allow personalised browsing for the User and are also used for analytical purposes (audience measurement).
You will be notified of the existence of cookies and their purpose(s) as soon as you connect to the www.pouey.com site, by the presence of an information banner placed at the bottom or top of the site.
The storage and reading of cookies on your device requires your prior consent, by clicking on “I accept”. However, you can configure your browser to refuse cookies or customise cookie settings by following one of the procedures below. If you agree to the use of cookies, your agreement will be valid for 13 months. You will then need to renew your agreement at the end of this period.
– For Mozilla Firefox: Select the “Tools” menu then “Options”, click on the “Privacy” icon, find the “Cookies” menu and select your preferred options.
– For Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and above: Select the “Tools” menu, then “Internet Options” Click on the “Privacy” tab, select the desired level using the cursor.
– For Opera 6.0 and above: Select the “File” menu > “Preferences”, Privacy and select your preferred options.
– For Safari: In the Safari menu select “Preferences” > “Security” and select your preferred options.
In case of refusal of cookies, or if you delete those saved there, we inform you that you will no longer be able to benefit from a certain number of features which are nevertheless necessary to browse certain areas of our website. If necessary, we disclaim all responsibility for the consequences related to the degraded operation of our services resulting from our inability to store or consult the cookies necessary for their operation which you have refused or removed. Finally, we must distinguish the cookies that we issue on our www.pouey.com site from those issued by third parties. With regard to this, please note that, from time to time, cookies may be placed on certain pages of the www.pouey.com site by third parties (advertisers or others). We inform you that we have no control over the use of cookies by third parties.
5. Terms of Use of Personal Data
a) Purposes of the collection and processing of your Personal Data
The Personal Data of Users is only collected and processed for the purposes defined in this article, namely:
- To provide and manage our services.
- To communicate with Users and improve the quality of our services, namely to answer your questions and inform you of our news.
- To resolve a dispute or resolve any problem in connection with the use of our services.
- The generation of statistical reports and studies based on anonymised data.
Any use of Personal Data for purposes other than those set out above in our Privacy and Data Protection Policy will require your prior consent.
The legal basis for the collection of your Personal Data for the aforementioned purposes is your consent as provided for in Article 6-1-a of the European Personal Data Regulation. This constitutes the free, specific, informed and unambiguous expression of will by which you agree, through the positive act of accepting this Privacy and Data Protection Policy, that Personal Data concerning you may be processed.
As provided for in Article 7 of the GDPR, you may withdraw your consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of the processing based on your consent carried out prior to its withdrawal.
b) Retention period of your Personal Data
We undertake to keep your Personal Data only for as long as is strictly necessary for the declared processing(s) according to the aforementioned purposes, and in any case within the limits imposed by the law. Also, depending on the type of Personal Data, the retention period may vary from a few days to several years.
In any event, we undertake to erase your Personal Data from our databases at the end of these different periods.
However, we may retain certain information for a later period in order to meet our legal, accounting and tax obligations. In this case, your data will be deactivated and will no longer be accessible online.
6. Sharing information with third parties
a) Lack of communication to third parties
We undertake not to disclose the information and Personal Data you provide to us to third parties. This information and Personal Data are used exclusively by our internal services and will under no circumstances be transferred or sold to third parties without your express prior consent.
b) Communication for external processing needs
Your information and Personal Data may, where appropriate, be transmitted to third-party subcontractors involved in the provision of our services (technical and hosting providers, customer care and satisfaction surveys, security incident management or fraudulent activity, etc.).
Pouey Internationalundertakes to communicate your information and Personal Data only to authorised and trusted service providers, who process them on our behalf, according to our instructions and in accordance with these Privacy Rules and in compliance with any other appropriate security and confidentiality measures.
c) Communication for judicial and legal reasons
In addition, your information and Personal Data may be disclosed to a third party if Pouey International is required to do so by law, regulation, or court order, or if such disclosure is necessary for the purposes of an investigation, injunction, or judicial proceeding in national territory or abroad.
Similarly, we may share your information and Personal Data with companies, consultants or third parties in order to:
– Enforce the Privacy Policy of the www.pouey.com site in force, including to note any breaches thereof.
– Guard against any infringement of the rights, property or security of Pouey Internationaland its users, in application and in compliance with the law.
d) Transfer of data outside the European Union
We do not transfer any Personal Data of our Users outside the European Union.
7. Security of Personal Data
We implement all the necessary security measures to protect your Personal Data against any unauthorised access and disclosure, modification, damage or destruction of the data we hold.
To this end, Pouey Internationaland its technical and hosting providers have deployed appropriate measures to ensure the integrity, confidentiality and security of your Personal Data. However, we cannot guarantee that your communications and other Personal Data will not be intercepted or disclosed by a third party.
We inform you that your Personal Data is stored on servers located in the European Union.
8. Respect for the rights of Users of the www.pouey.com site
You have a right of information and access (e.g. verifying the data that we keep about you), a right of rectification and deletion (updating or correcting your data), a right to restrict the processing of personal data, a right to portability, a right of objection and a right of erasure (e.g. closure of your personal account) of your Personal Data, as well as a right not to be the subject of an automated individual decision, including profiling.
In addition, it should be noted that these rights offer you the possibility of modifying your notification preferences at any time, by accepting or refusing that your Personal Data be used within the framework of our marketing or promotional actions.
You can exercise these rights at any time in two ways:
– By post to the address mentioned in Section 3 above,
– By email to: conformite@pouey.com
If you exercise these rights, we endeavour to respond to your requests as soon as possible, within the maximum legal limit of one month, without incurring any costs to you, subject to any abuse of rights. In this case, before exercising this right, we may ask you for proof of your identity in order to verify that you are entitled to make such a request.
In case of dispute or disagreement, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.
