Last updated: August 2019
This charter (hereinafter the “Charter”) is intended for users of the elle.fr website and mobile site (hereinafter the “Site”) and related mobile and tablet applications (hereinafter the “Applications”).
When we use the terms "you" or "your", we are referring to you as the user of the Site and the Applications.
The purpose of this Charter is to inform you of the reasons and conditions of the processing:
– On the one hand, your personal data on the Site and the Applications. We call them hereinafter “Personal Data”. Personal Data is information that directly or indirectly identifies you.
– On the other hand, information relating to your navigation on the Site and the Applications likely to be recorded in files called “cookies” or similar tools (for the sake of simplicity we will designate these cookies and similar tools by the single term “ Cookies "). Some of this information from Cookies does not directly or indirectly identify you and does not constitute Personal Data. Others may allow you to be indirectly identified and legally constitute Personal Data. We call them hereinafter together “Data from Cookies”. To find out more about Cookies and similar technologies and the processing of Data from Cookies, you can refer directly to chapter 'II COOKIES'.
For the sake of simplicity, this Information from Cookies and Personal Data will be referred to below as the single term “Data”.
The processing of your Data is carried out in accordance with the applicable regulations, in particular the European Regulation known as "GDPR" (n°2016-679 relating to the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and the free movement of these data) and the Law known as "Informatique et libertés", (law n°78-17 of January 6, 1978 relating to data processing, files and freedoms as amended, and any regulations that supplement or replace them ( hereinafter "IT and Freedoms Regulations").
The Publisher is responsible for processing most of the Data processing carried out on the Site and the Applications as specified below. Processing is an operation on Data (for example, consultation, collection, etc.). However, the Publisher is not responsible for all the processing of your Data. Service providers, customers of the Publisher or third parties may be solely responsible for certain processing operations as specified below.
In this section:
I. DATA PROTECTION
A. PROCESSING FOR WHICH THE EDITOR IS RESPONSIBLE
During the use of the Site and the Applications by the User, Data may be collected and processed in order to allow access to the services of the Site and the Applications (hereinafter the "Services") for administrative and commercial management purposes.
1) What Personal Data do you declare directly?
These are Personal Data:
– That you communicate to us directly for the purposes (i.e. the objectives) specified in our forms on the Site and the Applications (example Data communicated in order to register for an account)
– And Personal Data that you choose to make public on the Site and the Applications.
Personal Data collected by form
The types of Personal Data collected by these forms are specified in each of them and differ according to the Services and the purpose of the processing. It could be :
– Personal identification data (surname, first name, etc.)
– Personal Contact Data (e-mail, postal address, telephone number)
– Personal Data related to your habits or preferences
During this collection, you are informed in particular:
– The objectives of the collection of this Data (purposes)
– If certain Data must be provided or if it is optional and, where applicable, the consequences of failure to provide mandatory data. Generally, in the absence of mandatory Data, access to the Services and their use may be restricted.
– Of the data controller(s) (in principle, the Publisher, but they may be partners in which case you are informed at the time of this collection)
– Your rights and how to exercise them with the data controller
– The legal basis justifying the lawfulness of the processing (for example, if the processing is based on your consent, or on the need to comply with a legal obligation, or on the need for the execution of the contract which binds us, on the interest legitimacy of the Publisher or a third party…)
– Categories of persons authorized to have access to your data (i.e. the recipients of your Data)
– If we plan to transfer your Data outside the European Union, we put in place guarantees and inform you of these guarantees ensuring the compliance of these transfers with the Data Protection Regulations,
– Storage periods or, when this is not possible, the criteria used to determine this period
– And more generally all the information required by the Data Protection Regulations.
This Charter communicates this information and additional information to you again.
2) What is your Data collected indirectly on the Site or the Applications
In general, this is Data from Cookies or similar technologies. To find out more about Cookies and configure them, you can refer directly to Chapter II. COOKIES
It can be:
– Browsing data : that is to say the data collected during your navigation on the Site and the Applications on behalf of the Publisher.
This navigation data is of two types:
– Connection data such as in particular the date, the time of the connection and/or navigation, the type of browser, the language of the browser, the IP address.
– Geolocation data: refers to the data collected when you activate geolocation systems when you connect to the Site or the Applications. This geolocation service uses Data, such as GPS signals, terminal sensors, WIFI access points and relay antenna identifiers, to derive or estimate your precise position.
– Data collected via social networks or any other third party : If you have an account on social network sites and you access the Site or the Applications without first registering for the Services, we may receive information from said social networks in order to facilitate the creation of an account on the Site or Apps. When you use a Service via a social network site, you allow us to access certain information that you have provided to the social network site, such as in particular your user name, your first and last name, your profile image, and your data relating to the use of this Service. By accessing a Service through a social networking site, you authorize us to collect, store and use any information that you have authorized the social networking site to provide to us.
What are your rights and how to exercise them?
In accordance with the Data Protection Regulations and within its limits, you have the right to access, rectify, delete and in particular to request the deletion of Data if it was collected when you were a minor, to opposition to the limitation and portability of Data concerning you.
When the processing of his Data is carried out on the basis of his consent, you can withdraw your consent at any time.
When the processing is based on the legitimate interest of the Publisher or a third party, you can object to the processing at any time, for reasons relating to your particular situation. However, when the purpose of the processing is prospecting, you can oppose this processing without reason, including profiling insofar as it is linked to such prospecting.
You have the possibility to define directives relating to the fate of your Personal Data after your death.
These rights can be exercised at any time, with the publisher, when he is responsible for processing.
PROCESSING FOR WHICH THE EDITOR IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR PROCESSING
Some of your Personal Data collected on the Site and Applications may be used on behalf of third-party partners.
In addition, third-party partners may process information from Cookies for their own accounts. The latter are then responsible for the processing carried out and your rights are in principle exercised with them.
Generally, such a transfer to third parties only takes place with your prior consent, unless another legal basis is more suitable.
When these third parties are responsible for processing your Data, this information will be specified in the specific contractual notices or documents (collection forms, competition rules, third-party partner or client privacy policy, etc., Cookie section of this Charter) .
II. COOKIES
1) WHAT IS A COOKIE?
A cookie or any similar tracer (hereinafter the “Cookie(s)”) is a tracer likely to be saved in your terminal (computer, tablet, or smartphone) and/or when consulting a Service with navigation software, via the Site or the Applications.
A cookie allows its issuer, during its period of validity, to recognize the terminal concerned each time this terminal accesses digital content containing cookies from the same issuer, and depending on the Cookie, to collect additional information that does not directly identify your behavior within the Services.
In the case of a computer consulted by several people, for example several members of a family on the same browser, the cookie is assigned to the browsing information of all the people who have used the same terminal, without distinguishing between them.
2) WHO USES COOKIES?
Cookies may be placed by the Publisher, not its technical service providers or by its partners or by third parties.
Only the operator of the Cookie, i.e. the person on whose behalf it is issued, whether he is the issuer or not, is responsible for its use and the Data that it collects through it.
3) WHY ARE COOKIES DEPOSITED ON THE PUBLISHER'S SITE AND APPLICATIONS?
Cookies allow the Site and Applications to operate efficiently, and to remember your preferences, to provide the Publisher and its partners with information for statistical or advertising purposes. You will find below the main purposes of the Cookies issued on behalf of the Publisher and in the privacy policies of the partners below, more information on the processing of the Cookies they deposit.
COOKIES FOR NAVIGATION
These Cookies are necessary for your good navigation on the Site and the proper functioning of the Applications, they are used in particular to:
- Adapt the presentation of the Site to the display preferences of your viewing terminal (language used, display resolution, operating system used, etc.)
- Remember information about your identifiers
- Give you access to your account or any other reserved space using your credentials
- Implement security measures, for example when you are asked to log in again to content or a Service after a certain period of time has elapsed.
STATISTICAL AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT COOKIES
Audience measurement cookies help to establish statistics and volumes of visits and use of the various elements making up the Site (sections and content visited, routes), allowing the Publisher in particular to improve the interest and ergonomics of the Services.
ADVERTISING COOKIES
Cookies are necessary for the proper functioning of even non-targeted advertising, which allows you to consult quality editorial content on the Site and the Applications without financial compensation.
Advertising Cookies make it possible in particular (i) to avoid the repetition of the display of the same advertisement, even when the advertisement is not linked to your preferences, (ii) to audit, measure advertising inventories and follow the effectiveness of advertising for the purposes of marketing advertising space (iii) to determine in real time which advertising to display according to your centers of interest with regard to your recent browsing on the Site and the Applications and on other sites in order (iv) to help improve your navigation and make it more interesting as well as to improve the relevance of the messages which are likely to be sent to you has previously accepted the possibility, (v) to carry out studies tending to optimizing the presentation of the Publisher's offers.
EXERCISE YOUR CHOICES ON THE COOKIES ISSUED BY THE EDITOR OR ON ITS BEHALF
You can connect to the Youronlinechoices site, offered by digital advertising professionals grouped within the European association EDAA (European Digital Advertising Alliance) and managed in France by the Interactive Advertising Bureau France. You will thus be able to find out about the companies registered on this platform and which offer the possibility of refusing or accepting the Cookies used by these companies to adapt the advertisements likely to be displayed on their terminal to the information of the browsing User: http://www.youronlinechoices.com/fr/controler-ses-cookies/
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