This privacy policy defines and informs you of how the Léon Delachaux Endowment Fund uses and protects the information you provide to us, if applicable, when you use this website accessible from the following URL: www.leondelachaux.org (hereinafter the "Site").
Please note that this privacy policy may be modified or supplemented at any time by the Léon Delachaux Endowment Fund, particularly to comply with any legislative, regulatory, case law, or technological developments. In such cases, the date of its update will be clearly identified at the top of this policy. These modifications are binding on the User as soon as they are published online. Consequently, Users should regularly consult this privacy and cookie policy to become aware of any potential modifications.
I. PERSONAL DATA
Generally speaking, you may visit the website www.leondelachaux.org, published by the Léon Delachaux Endowment Fund, without providing any personal information about yourself. In any event, you are in no way obligated to transmit this information to the Léon Delachaux Endowment Fund.
Nevertheless, the Léon Delachaux Endowment Fund may in certain cases ask you to provide your personal information (see below "Types and purposes of data collected"). By providing this information, you expressly agree that it will be processed by the Léon Delachaux Endowment Fund for the purposes indicated in point 3 below and for the purposes stated at the end of each form.
However, if you refuse, you may not be able to access certain information or services that you have requested.
In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation adopted by the European Parliament on April 14, 2016, and the French Data Protection Act of January 6, 1978 as amended, the Léon Delachaux Endowment Fund informs you of the following:
1. Identity and contact details of the data controller
The data controller is the Léon Delachaux Endowment Fund, with its registered office at 6, rue du Colonel Moll, 75017 Paris, France. Email: contact@leondelachaux.org
2. Collection and origin of data
All data concerning Users is collected directly from them.
The Léon Delachaux Endowment Fund undertakes to obtain the consent of its Users and/or allow them to object to the use of their data for certain purposes, whenever necessary.
In all cases, Users are informed of the purposes for which their data is collected through the various online data collection forms.
3. Types and purposes of data collected
The Léon Delachaux Endowment Fund may process your Personal Information in order to provide you with the requested service(s). This collection is carried out through a series of forms completed directly by you.
[NEWSLETTERS] Mailing lists
Our platform manages the following mailing list: "General Newsletter": an electronic newsletter designed to inform you about our news, products, and services.
By checking the corresponding box(es) on our various forms, you give your consent to receive the corresponding service.
Each email contains a hyperlink allowing you to unsubscribe at any time.
Our mailing lists are managed by the Mailchimp platform.
The Léon Delachaux Endowment Fund only collects data that is adequate, relevant, and limited to what is necessary for the purposes for which it is processed.
4. Type of data processed
The Léon Delachaux Endowment Fund may process the following data about you:
Last name, first name,
Phone number, email address, postal address, company name, position within your company
5. Recipients
Only the Léon Delachaux Endowment Fund is the recipient of your Personal Information. This information, whether in individual or aggregated form, is never transmitted to third parties, notwithstanding the subcontractors used by the Léon Delachaux Endowment Fund (you will find more information about them in point 7 below). Neither the Léon Delachaux Endowment Fund nor any of its subcontractors engage in the commercialization of personal data of visitors and Users of its Site.
6. Retention period
Your Personal Information is retained by the Léon Delachaux Endowment Fund for as long as necessary to carry out the relevant activities, unless you request account closure and exercise your right to be forgotten - and in compliance with and within the limits of legal document retention obligations relating to these activities.
7. Use of collected data outside our platform
The data collected by our platform is in no way sold or commercialized to third parties. However, it may, where applicable, be used and transferred to third-party applications for various processing purposes:
For operating mailing lists To operate and manage (unsubscribe) mailing lists and route the relevant information.
For analysis or study of our sales and customers As part of our marketing policy and business management, we may perform automated (profiling) or semi-automated (querying) processing on the collected data for statistical study purposes, sales tracking, and sending information or commercial offers about our activities.
In this context, you may exercise your right to object free of charge at any time by contacting us at the address indicated in the preamble of our PRIVACY POLICY.
For our platform audience analysis See chapter II. COOKIE POLICY
8. Data Protection Rights
You have the following rights regarding your Personal Information, which you may exercise by writing to us at the postal address mentioned in point 1 or by completing the contact form.
Right of access and communication of data
You have the right to access Personal Information concerning you.
However, due to the security and confidentiality obligations in the processing of personal data incumbent upon the Léon Delachaux Endowment Fund, you are informed that your request will be processed provided that you provide proof of your identity, particularly by providing a scan of your valid identity document (in case of a request through our dedicated electronic form) or a signed photocopy of your valid identity document (in case of a written request).
The Léon Delachaux Endowment Fund informs you that it will be entitled, where appropriate, to refuse manifestly abusive requests (due to their number, repetitive or systematic nature).
To assist you in your process, particularly if you wish to exercise your right of access through a written request to the postal address mentioned in point 1, you will find by clicking on the following link a template letter developed by the French National Commission on Informatics and Liberty (the "CNIL").
https://www.cnil.fr/fr/modele/courrier/exercer-son-droit-dacces
Right to rectification of data
Under this right, legislation authorizes you to request the rectification, updating, locking, or deletion of data concerning you that may be inaccurate, erroneous, incomplete, or obsolete.
You may also define general and specific directives regarding the fate of personal data after your death. Where applicable, the heirs of a deceased person may require that the death of their relative be taken into consideration and/or that necessary updates be made.
To assist you in your process, particularly if you wish to exercise, on your own behalf or on behalf of one of your deceased relatives, your right to rectification through a written request to the postal address mentioned in point 1, you will find by clicking on the following link a template letter developed by the CNIL.
https://www.cnil.fr/fr/modele/courrier/rectifier-des-donnees-inexactes
Right to object
The exercise of this right is only possible in one of the following two situations:
When the exercise of this right is based on legitimate grounds; or
When the exercise of this right aims to prevent collected data from being used for commercial prospecting purposes.
To assist you in your process, particularly if you wish to exercise your right to object through a written request sent to the postal address indicated in point 1, you will find by clicking on the following link a template letter developed by the CNIL.
https://www.cnil.fr/fr/modele/courrier/supprimer-des-informations-vous-concernant-dun-site-internet
Response times
The Léon Delachaux Endowment Fund undertakes to respond to your request for access, rectification, objection, or any other additional request for information within a reasonable time that shall not exceed 1 month from receipt of your request.
Complaint to the competent authority
If you believe that the Léon Delachaux Endowment Fund does not comply with its obligations regarding your Personal Information, you may file a complaint or request with the competent authority. In France, the competent authority is the CNIL, to which you can submit a request electronically by clicking on the following link: https://www.cnil.fr/fr/adresser-une-plainte.
II. COOKIE POLICY
When you first connect to the Léon Delachaux Endowment Fund website, you are notified by a banner at the bottom of your screen that information relating to your browsing may be recorded in files called "cookies." Our cookie usage policy helps you better understand the provisions we implement regarding browsing on our website. It informs you in particular about all cookies present on our website, their purpose (part I.) and provides guidance on how to configure them (part II.)
1. General information about cookies present on our site
The Léon Delachaux Endowment Fund, as publisher of this website, may install a cookie on the hard drive of your device (computer, tablet, mobile, etc.) to ensure smooth and optimal navigation on our website.
"Cookies" (or connection tokens) are small text files of limited size that allow us to recognize your computer, tablet, or mobile device for the purpose of personalizing the services we offer you.
The information collected through cookies does not in any way allow us to identify you by name. It is used exclusively for our own purposes to improve the interactivity and performance of our website and to provide you with content tailored to your interests. None of this information is communicated to third parties except when the Léon Delachaux Endowment Fund has obtained your prior consent or when disclosure of this information is required by law, by court order, or by any administrative or judicial authority authorized to have knowledge of it.
To better inform you about the information that cookies identify, below you will find a table listing the different types of cookies that may be used on the Léon Delachaux Endowment Fund website, their name, purpose, and retention period.
2. Configuring your cookie preferences
You can accept or refuse the placement of cookies at any time
When you first connect to the Léon Delachaux Endowment Fund website, a banner presenting brief information about the placement of cookies and similar technologies appears at the bottom of your screen. This banner notifies you that by continuing your browsing on the Léon Delachaux Endowment Fund website (by loading a new page or clicking on various elements of the site, for example), you accept the placement of cookies on your device. You are also deemed to have given your consent to the placement of cookies by clicking on the "X" icon on the right side of the banner at the bottom of your screen.
Depending on the type of cookie in question, obtaining your consent to the placement and reading of cookies on your device may be mandatory.
a. Cookies exempt from consent
In accordance with the recommendations of the French National Commission on Informatics and Liberty (CNIL), certain cookies are exempt from prior collection of your consent insofar as they are strictly necessary for the operation of the website or have the exclusive purpose of enabling or facilitating communication by electronic means. These include session identifier cookies, authentication cookies, load balancing session cookies, and cookies for personalizing your interface. These cookies are fully subject to this policy insofar as they are issued and managed by the Léon Delachaux Endowment Fund.
b. Cookies requiring prior collection of your consent
This requirement concerns cookies issued by third parties and which are qualified as "persistent" insofar as they remain on your device until they are deleted or expire.
Since such cookies are issued by third parties, their use and placement are subject to their own privacy policies, a link to which you will find below. This family of cookies includes audience measurement cookies (notably PIWIK), advertising cookies (which the Léon Delachaux Endowment Fund does not use), and social network sharing cookies (notably from Facebook, YouTube, X - formerly Twitter, and LinkedIn).
Audience measurement cookies establish statistics concerning the frequency and use of various elements of the website (such as the content/pages you have visited). This data contributes to improving the ergonomics of the Léon Delachaux Endowment Fund website. An audience measurement tool is used on this website:
Google Analytics, whose privacy policy is available from the following link: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/9019185
Social network sharing cookies are issued and managed by the publisher of the social network concerned. Subject to your consent, these cookies allow you to easily share part of the content published on the Léon Delachaux Endowment Fund site, particularly through a sharing application "button" specific to the social network concerned. Several types of social network sharing cookies are present on the Léon Delachaux Endowment Fund site:
Facebook (Meta), whose cookie policy you can consult by clicking on the following link: https://fr-fr.facebook.com/privacy/policies/cookies/
LinkedIn, whose cookie policy you can consult by clicking on the following link: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy?_l=fr_FR
Instagram (Meta), whose cookie policy you can consult by clicking on the following link: https://help.instagram.com/1896641480634370
YouTube (Google), whose cookie policy you can consult by clicking on the following link: https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies?hl=fr&gl=fr
c. You have various cookie configuration tools
Most Internet browsers are configured by default to allow cookie placement. Your browser offers you the opportunity to modify these standard settings so that all cookies are systematically rejected or so that only some cookies are accepted or refused based on their issuer.
ATTENTION: We draw your attention to the fact that refusing cookie placement on your device may nevertheless affect your user experience as well as your access to certain services or features of this website. Where applicable, the Léon Delachaux Endowment Fund disclaims any responsibility regarding the consequences related to the degradation of your browsing conditions that occur due to your choice to refuse, delete, or block cookies necessary for the operation of the site. These consequences cannot constitute damage and you cannot claim any compensation for this reason.
Your browser also allows you to delete existing cookies on your device or to notify you when new cookies may be placed on your device. These settings do not affect your browsing but cause you to lose all the benefits provided by cookies.
Please see below the multiple tools available to you so that you can configure the cookies placed on your device.
d. Configuring your Internet browser
Each Internet browser offers its own cookie management settings. To find out how to modify your cookie preferences, below you will find links to the necessary help to access your browser's menu provided for this purpose:
Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=fr
Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/fr/kb/activer-desactiver-cookies
Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/fr-fr/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies#ie=ie-11
Opera: http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/fr/cookies.html
Safari: https://support.apple.com/fr-fr/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
For more information about cookie control tools, you can visit the CNIL website: https://www.cnil.fr/fr/cookies-les-outils-pour-les-maitriser