The Privacy Policy (hereinafter under A) explains how we, Forge de Laguiole SARL, Route d’Aubrac, BP9, 12210 Laguiole, France (hereinafter referred to as “Forge de Laguiole” or “we”, “us” or the like) collect and process personal data in connection with the operation and use of our website, our online shop and their applications. Further, the Cookie Policy (hereinafter under B) explains, how we us cookies and comparable technologies in this context.
The responsible and legally compliant handling of data is important to us. We comply at all times with applicable law, in particular the EU European General Data Protection Regulation (EU-GDPR), according to whose standard this Privacy & Cookie Policy is based.
If you are acting on behalf of a company, we may assume that you are authorized to act on behalf of such company in connection with the acknowledgement and/or acceptance of this Privacy & Cookie Policy, regardless of the internal regulations and/or circumstances of that company and entries in the commercial/trade register and without further verification of such authorization. When we refer to “you”, “your” or the like in this Privacy & Cookie Policy, this always also refers to the company on behalf of which you are acting and the employees of such company.
A. PRIVACY POLICY
1. Collection and processing of personal data
Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable person. A data subject is a person whose personal data is processed. Processing includes any handling of personal data, in particular its collection, storage, archiving, use, modification, disclosure and deletion.
We primarily process personal data that we receive from you or collect about you in connection with the operation and use of our website, our online shop and their applications. The input of personal or business data on our website, our online shop and their applications is voluntary.
In addition to the personal data that you provide us directly (e.g. in connection with an order, when creating or updating a customer account or using a contact or feedback form), the categories of personal data that we receive about you from third parties in particular include information from public registers (e.g. debt collection register or commercial register), credit information (if we conduct business with you), your interests and other socio-demographic data (for marketing purposes) as well as data in connection with the use of our website, our online shop and their applications (e.g. IP address, MAC address, settings and other information about the device used, date and time of the visit, webpages and contents accessed, functions used, referring website, location details).
If you provide us with personal data of other persons (e.g. family members, work colleagues), you must ensure that these persons have agreed to such provision and have taken note of the contents of this Privacy Policy.
2. Purpose of data processing and legal basis
We process personal data primarily for the following purposes:
− Ensuring the operation of our website, our online shop and their applications
− Responding to inquiries you send us via contact and feedback forms on our website, our online shop and their applications
− Administration of your customer account
− Conclusion and processing of contracts for products and services that you order on our website, our online shop and their applications
− Compliance with our legal obligations in France and abroad
In addition, we process personal data of you and other persons, to the extent permitted by law and where appropriate, also for the following purposes which are in our legitimate interest:
− Further development of our website, our online shop and their applications as well as of our offers and services
− Marketing (e.g. sending newsletters), provided that you have not objected to this use of your personal data
− Assertion of legal claims and defense in connection with legal disputes and official proceedings
We process personal data in particular in accordance with the EU-GDPR. In relation to the EU-GDPR, we process personal data with the consent of the data subject (art. 6 para. 1 lit. a EU-GDPR), for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party and for taking corresponding steps prior to entering into a contract (art. 6 para. 1 lit. b EU-GDPR), to comply with a legal obligation to which we are subject under any applicable EU law or under any applicable law of a country in which the EU-GDPR is wholly or partially applicable (art. 6 para. 1 lit. c EU-GDPR) and to protect the legitimate interests pursued by us or by third parties, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject. Legitimate interests are in particular our business interests to operate our website, our online shop and their applications, information security, the enforcement of our own legal claims and compliance with legal requirements (art. 6 para. 1 lit. f EU-GDPR).
If you have given us your consent to process your personal data for specific purposes (e.g. when registering for a newsletter), we will process your personal data within the scope of and based on this consent, unless we have another legal basis, provided that we require one. A given consent can be withdrawn at any time, but this does not affect data processed prior to such withdrawal.
3. Retention period for personal data
We process and retain your personal data as long as required for the purposes pursued with the processing or for the performance of our contractual obligations and compliance with legal obligations as well as beyond this duration in accordance with legal retention and documentation obligations.
Personal data may be retained for the period during which claims can be asserted against our company (e.g. in particular during the statutory limitation period) or insofar as we are otherwise legally obliged to do so or if legitimate business interests require further retention (e.g. for evidence and documentation purposes). As soon as your personal data are no longer required for the above-mentioned purposes, they will be deleted or anonymized, to the extent possible. In the case of long-term retention obligations, we limit the processing as much as possible.
4. Transfer of personal data
Within the scope of the purposes stated in section 2 and our business activities, we disclose your personal data, to the extent permitted by law and where appropriate, to third parties in France and abroad, in particular to our service providers, suppliers and auxiliary persons (e.g. hosting providers, software suppliers, IT service providers, newsletter service providers, debt collection service providers, banks, legal advisors/counsels) as well as to authorities, official offices or courts.
If we transfer data to a country without adequate data protection, we ensure an appropriate level of protection as legally required by way of using appropriate contracts or we rely on the statutory exceptions, in particular the exceptions of consent, performance of contracts as well as the establishment, exercise or enforcement of legal claims.
5. Services of third parties
Google Analytics:
We use Google Analytics. This service of Google LLC in Mountain View, USA (“Google”) enables us to measure and evaluate the use of our website, our online shop and their applications on a non-personal basis. The service uses permanent cookies, which are set by Google. Google does not receive any personal data from us (and does not retain any IP addresses), but may track your use of our website and its applications, combine this information with data from other websites that you have visited and which are also tracked by Google, and use this information for its own purposes (e.g. management of advertising). If you have registered yourself with Google, Google also knows you. Google is responsible for the processing of your personal data in accordance with Google’s privacy policy. Google merely informs us how our website, our online shop and their applications are used without giving any personal information about you. Google has committed itself to ensuring adequate data protection in accordance with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield. For more information, please see Google’s privacy policy under the following link:
https://policies.google.com/privacy
Google AdWords and Google Conversion-Tracking:
We use Google AdWords. This Google service is an online advertising program. In the context of Google AdWords, we use the so-called Conversion Tracking. When you click on an ad served by Google, a cookie is set for Conversion Tracking. If you then visit certain pages of our website or our online shops and the conversion cookie has not yet expired, Google and we can recognize that you clicked on the ad and were redirected to this page. Google uses the information collected through the conversion cookie to generate conversion statistics for us and other AdWords customers. This tells us the total number of users who clicked on our ad and were redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag. We do not receive any information from Google with which we can identify you personally. Google has committed itself to ensuring adequate data protection in accordance with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield. For more information, please see Google’s privacy policy under the following link:
https://policies.google.com/privacy
Google Maps, Google Invisible reCAPTCHA and YouTube:
We use Google Maps for embedding maps, Google Invisible reCAPTCHA for bots and spam protection and YouTube for embedding videos. These Google services use cookies and data is transferred to Google in the USA, whereby we assume that in this context no personal tracking takes place solely through the use of our website, our online shop and their applications. Google has committed itself to ensuring adequate data protection in accordance with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield. For more information, please see Google’s privacy policy under the following link:
https://policies.google.com/privacy
Hotjar:
We use Hotjar. This service of Hotjar Ltd in St Julians, Malta (“Hotjar”) enables us to better understand our users’ needs and to optimize the service and experience on our website, our online shop and their applications. Hotjar is a technology service that helps us better understand our users’ experience (e.g. how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and do not like, etc.) and this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ behavior and their devices. This includes a device’s IP address (processed during your session and stored in an anonymized form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), and the preferred language used to display our website and our online shop. Hotjar stores this information on our behalf in a pseudonymized user profile. Hotjar is contractually forbidden to sell any of the data collected on our behalf. For more information, please visit Hotjar’s website under the following link:
https://help.hotjar.com/hc/en-us/categories/115001323967-About-Hotjar
6. Rights of data subjects
Persons about whom we process personal data have the right to request confirmation from us whether we process personal data and, if so, information about our processing of their personal data. Furthermore, data subjects may, if provided for under the data protection law applicable to them (in particular the EU-GDPR), restrict the processing of their personal data, exercise their right to data portability or have their personal data rectified, erased (“right to be forgotten”) or blocked, withdraw consents granted and object to the processing of their personal data. The exercise of the aforementioned rights usually requires that you clearly prove your identity. For this purpose, please send us a copy of your identification document if your identity is not otherwise clear or cannot be verified.
We reserve the right to enforce statutory restrictions on our part, for example if we are obliged to retain or process certain personal data, have an overriding interest (insofar as we may invoke such interest) or need the data for asserting claims. Please note that the exercise of the aforementioned rights may be in conflict with contractual agreements between you and us (e.g. on the provision of services that you have ordered via our website or our online shop) and that this may result in consequences such as premature contract termination or costs. If this is the case, we will inform you in advance.
In addition, persons about whom we process personal data have the right to enforce their rights in court or to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection authority.
Data subjects and supervisory authorities can contact us by e-mail or by letter at the addresses listed in section 7.
7. Responsibility
Forge de Laguiole SARL is responsible for the data processing as described in this Privacy Policy. In case of any data protection related concerns, you can contact our data protection officer (art. 37 EU-GDPR) by e-mail or by letter as follows:
Forge de Laguiole SARL
Corentin GAMEL
Route d’Aubrac
BP9
12210 Laguiole
France
E-Mail: contact@forge-de-laguiole.com
8. Data security
We take appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data from unauthorized access and misuse (e.g. encryption of data media and data transmissions, access restrictions). The access to our website, our online shop and their applications is via SSL/TLS encryption.
B. COOKIE POLICY
1. Use of cookies and other tracking techniques
On our website, our online shop and their applications, we use cookies and similar techniques to identify your browser or your device in order to enable the use of certain functions as well as to make visiting and using our website, our online shop and their applications more attractive. Cookies are small files that are sent to your device or automatically stored on your device by the browser used when you visit our website or our online shop. This enables us to recognize you when you visit our website or our online shop again. We use so-called “session cookies”, which are used during the visit of our website or our online shop and which are deleted when the browser is closed, as well as so-called “permanent cookies”, which store user settings and other information for a certain period of time. We use “permanent cookies” in particular to store certain user settings (e.g. language, shopping cart) and to analyze the use of our offers and contents so that we can optimize these offers and contents based on such analyses. Some cookies are set by us, others by our service providers (e.g. Google).
By using our website, our online shop and their applications, you agree to the use of cookies. If you do not want this, you must adjust your browser settings accordingly (see section 2).
2. Adjustment of browser settings
Most browsers are pre-set to allow the use of cookies. In your browser settings, however, you have, amongst others, the option of blocking cookies, saving them only for one browser session or deleting them prematurely. If you block cookies, certain functions of our website, our online shop and their applications (e.g. language selection) may no longer function.
C. AMENDMENTS
We may amend this Privacy & Cookie Policy at any time without prior notice. The current version published on this website applies.
Version dated 01.07.2020