Privacy Policy
The company APIFOOD places great importance on the protection of individuals’ personal data, whether they are customers, employees, or professional partners.
Why a personal data charter?
Within the framework of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and the amended Data Protection Act of January 6, 1978, the purpose of this Personal Data Protection Charter is to inform you of all processing related to the use of your Personal Data for the website www.apifood.com.
The objective of this simplified charter is to provide you with clear and transparent information on how your personal data is collected, processed, and used.
What is personal data?
Any information that allows a physical person to be identified directly or indirectly: name, postal or electronic address, telephone number, IP address are examples of personal data.
Who is responsible for the collection and processing of data on the www.apifood.com website?
The data controller is SARL APIFOOD, registered with the Montauban Trade and Companies Register (RCS) under number 802 827 568, whose head office is located at Marché-Gare – 82030 Montauban Cedex.
What data is collected?
The website www.apifood.com collects your personal data:
– When you navigate the site, which uses cookies
– When sending messages via the contact form. The data collected is your last name, first name, and email address.
– When you contact us by telephone, we may collect your last name, first name, company name, email address, telephone number, and postal address.
Fields marked with an asterisk in the collection form(s) are mandatory. You are free to provide or not provide additional, non-required personal data if you consider it necessary for the proper conduct of our potential commercial relationship. In this case, you agree that we may retain this information for the purpose of processing your request.
How is my personal data used?
Generally, you will be informed of the processing the data controller intends to perform with your personal data at the time of collection.
Within the framework of using the site, services, and the commercial relationship, this personal data is processed for the following purposes:
• When you send an email via the contact form on the www.uniquedesign.fr website;
• When we need to manage unpaid debts and disputes with our customers;
• When we collect Personal Data necessary to improve the user experience;
• When we carry out statistical studies and audience measurements of consultation of our website.
Personal data collected during navigation is exclusively intended for the data controller and its potential subcontractors, within the framework of performing services related to the use of the site. No data transfer outside the European Union is carried out.
This data will not be subject to any external communication other than those provided for above, and only to satisfy legal and regulatory obligations or at the request of an administration or a judicial authority, to meet national security, anti-fraud, or law enforcement requirements.
What is the data retention period?
Your personal data is kept for the time necessary to achieve the objective pursued during its collection.
Your data may also be kept so that we can continue to improve your Customer experience with us.
The data collected concerning you will be kept for the duration necessary to achieve the purposes described above, namely 3 years from the date of end of commercial relations, i.e., the date of the last contact originating from the Customer.
The personal data concerning you may also be kept for longer due to specific legal obligations or in view of the applicable legal limitation periods, for example:
• 1 year for connection logs from the last connection;
• 13 months for cookies from the time they are placed on your computer or terminal;
• 3 years for customer identification data (last name, first name, email address, telephone number, etc.);
• 6 years for tax documents;
• 10 years for accounting documents;
• where applicable, the entire duration of disputes and until exhaustion of legal remedies.
How to access and rectify your data?
You have the right at any time to access, modify, rectify, and delete the data concerning you, which can be exercised directly by registered mail accompanied by a copy of your identity card to the company APIFOOD at the following address: Marché-Gare – 82030 Montauban Cedex.
You can also make your request by email to the following address apifood@apifood.com by attaching a copy of an identity document (national identity card or driving license).
Your requests will be processed within 30 days of receipt.
The rights previously granted to you expire upon your death. You have the right to define directives relating to the retention, erasure, and communication of your personal data after your death.
How to delete your data?
In accordance with European Regulation No. 2016/679, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and the provisions of Law No. 78-17 of January 6, 1978, as amended, known as the “Data Protection Act,” you can unsubscribe from receiving advertising messages at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the mailings sent by email.
What are the security and anti-fraud measures?
Any user opening an account is invited to create a username or nickname and a password. This password must remain strictly confidential, and you must limit access to your computer or mobile devices and log out once you have finished using our services. The password is known only by the user; the administrator does not keep any record of passwords.
Furthermore, we have put in place technical and organizational measures to protect Personal Data against accidental loss, destruction, deterioration, and unauthorized or illegal access. (Firewalls, database backup).
APIFOOD restricts access to Personal Data to only those employees of the company who need it for the purpose of contract execution.
All persons with access to Personal Data are bound by a duty of confidentiality.
When we use subcontractors, service providers, or transmit Personal Data to partners, this communication is subject to a contract to ensure the protection of this information.
How is your personal data used by social networks?
The site uses plug-ins (or extension modules) from the social network Facebook (hereinafter and collectively referred to as the “Social Network”).
If you interact on the site using these plug-ins, for example by clicking on the “Like” or “Share” button, the information related to your navigation on the site and your membership in this Social Network will be transmitted, recorded, and processed on a server of the company operating the Social Network concerned and linked to your user account, according to its own terms of use.
If you do not want your personal information to be transmitted from the site to the Social Network, we advise you to:
• not interact with these social networks by clicking on the plug-ins made available to you on the site.
• deactivate your account on the social network concerned before navigating our Site,
• navigate in “Private” mode via your browser.
How are cookies managed?
What is the purpose of the cookies issued on our site?
Only the issuer of a cookie is likely to read or modify the information contained therein.
The cookies used on our site make it possible to identify the services and sections the user has visited, and more generally their visiting behavior. This information is useful for better customizing the services, content, and banners that appear on our site and for facilitating your navigation on our site. Cookies are also necessary for the proper functioning of certain services or to measure their audience.
What is the purpose of the cookies we issue on our site
When you connect to our site, we may, subject to your choices, install various cookies on your terminal allowing us to recognize your terminal’s browser during the validity period of the cookie concerned.
The cookies we issue are used for the purposes described below, subject to your choices resulting from the settings of your navigation software used during your visit to our site.
Site functionality cookies facilitate your navigation on our site:
– by adapting the presentation of our site to your terminal’s display preferences (language used, display resolution, operating system used, etc.) during your visits to our site, depending on the hardware and viewing or reading software that your terminal includes
– by memorizing information relating to a form you have filled out on our site (contact form) or information you have chosen on our site (content consulted…).
– by implementing security measures.
Google Analytics cookies allow us to improve our services:
These cookies make it possible to establish statistics and volume of traffic and use of the various elements composing our site (sections and content visited, path) in order to improve the interest and usability of our services.
Cookies issued on our site by social networks:
The issuance and use of cookies by third parties are subject to the privacy protection policies of these third parties. We inform you of the purpose of the cookies we are aware of and the means available to you to make choices regarding these cookies.
Due to third-party applications integrated into our site
We may include on our site/application, computer applications originating from third parties, which allow you to share content from our site with other people or to let these other people know about your consultation or your opinion regarding content on our site/application. This is notably the case for the “Like,” “Share,” buttons, originating from social networks such as Facebook, “Twitter,” “LinkedIn,” “Viadeo,” etc.
The social network providing such an application button is likely to identify you thanks to this button, even if you did not use this button during your consultation of our site/application. Indeed, this type of application button can allow the social network concerned to track your navigation on our site, solely because your account for the social network concerned was activated on your terminal (open session) during your navigation on our site.
We have no control over the process used by social networks to collect information related to your navigation on our site and associated with the personal data they hold. We invite you to consult the privacy protection policies of these social networks to learn about the purposes of use, particularly advertising, of the navigation information they may collect through these application buttons. These protection policies should notably allow you to exercise your choices with these social networks, especially by configuring your user accounts for each of these networks.
Your choices regarding cookies
Several possibilities are offered to you for managing cookies. Any configuration you undertake may modify your navigation on the Internet and our site, as well as your conditions of access to certain services requiring the use of cookies. You can choose at any time to express and modify your wishes regarding cookies, by the means described below.
The choices offered to you by your navigation software:
You can configure your navigation software so that cookies are stored on your terminal or, conversely, that they are rejected, either systematically or according to their issuer. You can also configure your navigation software so that the acceptance or refusal of cookies is offered to you periodically, before a cookie is likely to be stored on your terminal. For more information, consult the section “How to exercise your choices, depending on the browser you use?”
(a) Agreement on Cookies
The storage of a cookie on a terminal is subject to the will of the terminal’s user, which they can express and modify at any time and free of charge through the choices offered to them by their navigation software. If you have accepted the storage of cookies on your Terminal in your navigation software, the cookies integrated into the pages and content you have consulted may be temporarily stored in a dedicated space on your terminal. They will be readable only by their issuer.
(b) Refusal of Cookies
If you refuse the storage of cookies on your terminal, or if you delete those that are stored there, you will no longer be able to benefit from a number of functionalities necessary for navigating certain areas of our site. This would be the case when we would be unable to recognize, for technical compatibility purposes, the type of browser used by your terminal, its language and display settings, or the country from which your terminal appears to be connected to the Internet. Where applicable, we decline all responsibility for the consequences related to the degraded functioning of our services resulting from our inability to store or consult the cookies necessary for their operation that you would have refused or deleted.
(c) How to exercise your choices, depending on the browser you use?
For the management of cookies and your choices, the configuration of each browser is different. It is described in your browser’s help menu, which will allow you to know how to modify your wishes regarding cookies.
For Internet Explorer™
For Safari™
For Chrome™
For Firefox™
For Opera™
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