CONFIDENTIALITY OF PERSONAL DATA

Vitagermine undertakes to comply with the regulatory and ethical provisions on the protection of personal data. Consequently, we guarantee the confidentiality of information concerning you, whether it is transmitted during your registration or when you make contact via the forms on our website. In no case will your personal data be transmitted to third parties for commercial purposes.

In application of the law "Computing and Liberties", the information requested by Vitagermine is compulsory and necessary for the commercial and marketing management of your file and for the quality of our relationships. Thus, the information collected may possibly be communicated to third parties linked to Vitagermine by contract for the performance of sub-contracted tasks necessary for the activity of Vitagermine.

Finally, you have the right of access, modification, rectification and permanent deletion of all data concerning you. You can exercise this right with our customer service.

1. The information we collect

Vitagermine takes care to collect and process only the data strictly necessary for the purpose of the processing it implements.

The data collected by Vitagermine are necessary for the provision of the services offered by Vitagermine.

All the data processed comes from the recording of information from people who have communicated it directly to Vitagermine, for example by contact forms or subscription to a newsletter.

Some information is required because it is essential for the processing of your requests, others are optional, they allow you to know yourself better. Mandatory information is marked with an asterisk on the entry form.

Unless otherwise stated clearly in the personal data entry form, the data collected by Vitagermine are not transferred to third parties.

Vitagermine guarantees that the information recorded on the site is treated as strictly confidential.

2.Use of cookies and configuration

Vitagermine wishes to inform you in a clear and transparent manner about the use of cookies when you browse its websites.

  1. WHAT IS A COOKIE ?
  2. WHAT ARE THE COOKIES PRESENT ON OUR SITES AND APPLICATIONS?
  3. YOUR CHOICES CONCERNING COOKIES

1. WHAT IS A COOKIE ?

A cookie is a computer file in text format which is saved on your hard drive when you visit a website such as Vitagermine. The cookies we use allow us to store data about you in order to personalize and facilitate your navigation during your next visits (for example: pages visited, date and time and password). They also allow our partners to offer you targeted advertising displays based on your browsing or to measure traffic on our site in order to improve performance and ergonomics.

A cookie does not allow us to identify you, it only records your IP address (identification number of your computer).

Cookies are placed on your computer for a period determined according to their functions, but the validity cannot exceed 13 months for so-called “permanent” cookies.

Cookies saved by us or by third parties when you visit our sites and applications do not recognize you personally as an individual, but only recognize the device you are using. Cookies do not store any sensitive personal data but simply give information about your browsing so that your device can be recognized later.

Cookies do not cause any damage to your device, but make it easier, for example, to find your preferences, pre-fill certain fields and adapt the content of our services.

Only you choose whether you want to have cookies saved on your device and you can easily control the recording of cookies. For specific information on the management and control of cookies, please refer to the specific section of the page (link to the paragraph in question). Your choices regarding cookies.

2. WHAT ARE THE COOKIES PRESENT ON OUR WEBSITE ?

2.1 Functional cookies

When you first connect to the site, cookies are placed on your hard drive. These cookies are used to:

  • measure site audience,
  • obtain statistics relating to site traffic,
  • assess your interest in the content and in our different sections.

These cookies also allow us to:

  • assess the relevance of the ergonomics of the site,
  • keep your session active thus avoiding reconnecting,

2.2 Statistical (or analytical) cookies

The analytical cookies that we issue allow us to better understand our and improve our services by establishing statistics and volumes of attendance and use (sections and content visited, routes, etc.).

3. YOUR CHOICES CONCERNING COOKIES

When you browse our website, information may be saved, or read, in your terminal, subject to your acceptance.

It is important to note that any configuration that you can undertake may modify your browsing on the Internet and your conditions of access to certain services requiring the use of cookies.

If you refuse to register them in your terminal, or if you delete those registered there, you will no longer be able to benefit from a certain number of functions that may be necessary to navigate in certain areas of our Sites and Applications.

You can choose at any time to express and modify your wishes, by the means described below:

3.1 General purpose cookies

You can configure your browser software so that cookies are saved on your device or, on the contrary, that they are rejected. Some browsers allow you to define rules for managing cookies site by site.

For the management of cookies, the configuration of each browser is different. It is described in the help menu of your browser, which will allow you to know how to modify your wishes:

For Internet Explorer

Click the Tools button, then Internet Options.

Click the Privacy tab, then under Settings,

Move the cursor up to block all cookies or down to allow all cookies,

To finish, click on OK.

For Safari

Click on Safari.

Select Preferences then Privacy.

Click on Details.

Select one or more websites that store cookies and then click Clear or Clear All.

After removing the websites, click Done.

For Chrome

Click the Google Chrome menu in the browser toolbar.

Select Settings.

Click on Show advanced settings.

In the "Confidentiality" section, click on the Content settings button.

In the "Cookies" section, you can modify the following parameters:

  • Delete cookies
  • Block cookies by default
  • Allow cookies by default
  • Keep cookies and default site data until your browser is closed
  • Make exceptions for cookies from certain websites or domains

For Firefox

At the top of the Firefox window, click the Tools menu, then select Options.

Select the Privacy panel.

Set up Storage rules: use the custom settings for history.

Uncheck the Accept cookies box to deactivate cookies.

Click OK to close the "Options" window.

For Opéra

Click on Preferences.

Then click on Advanced.

Then select Cookies.

You have several choices:

  • Accept cookies: All cookies are accepted (by default).
  • Accept only those from the site visited: Third-party cookies, from a domain outside of the one I am visiting, are refused.
  • Never accept cookies: All cookies are refused.

Summary

For Internet Explorer ™:

http://windows.microsoft.com/fr-FR/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies

For Safari ™:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Safari/3.0/fr/9277.html

For Chrome ™:

http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=fr&hlrm=en&answer=95647

For Firefox ™:

http://support.mozilla.org/fr/kb/Activer%20et%20d%C3%A9sactiver%20les%20cookies

For Opera ™:

http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/fr/cookies.html

3.2 Audience measurement cookies

In order to measure traffic to our website and thereby improve the quality of our content and the ergonomics of the site, we use Google Analytics which is a website audience analysis service provided by Google.

This software therefore measures data relating to Internet users, such as the number of visitors to the website or the use made of the site. The data stored is anonymous and does not contain any personal details.

Data relating to Vitagermine is transmitted to Google and is stored under the responsibility of Google.

3.3 Social networks

Our site uses computer applications from third parties, which allow the Internet user to share content from our site with other people or to make known to these other people his opinion concerning content from our site. This is particularly the case for the "Share", "Like" buttons from social networks such as Facebook, "Google+", "Twitter", etc.

When Vitagermine consults a page of the site containing such a button, its browser establishes a direct connection with the servers of the social network.

If he is connected to the social network while browsing, the application buttons allow you to link the pages viewed to his user account.

If it interacts by means of plug-ins, for example by clicking on the "Like" button or by leaving a comment, the corresponding information will be transmitted to the social network and published on its account.

If Vitagermine does not want the social network to link the information collected through the website to its user account, it must log out of the social network before visiting our site.

We invite you to consult the privacy policies of these social networks in order to be aware of the purposes of use, in particular advertising, of the navigation information that they can collect using these application buttons.