PRIVACY POLICY (PERSONAL DATA MANAGEMENT)

Valvital values ​​your privacy. We take our responsibilities regarding the processing of personal data seriously and therefore ensure the protection of your data.

This Privacy Policy informs you about how we collect, use and disclose your personal data.

1. About this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies when you visit our websites, access our products and services, or participate in our company events (collectively, the “Service(s)”).

This Privacy Policy may be supplemented by additional elements specified in all or part of a Service provided.

Valvital is therefore responsible for your personal data in its capacity as data controller.

When you access one of our Services, you may be asked to provide personal data by filling out registration forms: we indicate on these forms what types of personal data are required. You can choose not to submit the requested data, but this may limit your access to that Service.

For information on how Valvital processes personal data contained in its content, such as case law, we invite you to refer to the last chapter of this privacy policy.

2. The data we collect

We collect your personal data in three ways:

those you provide to us,
those we obtain from third-party sources,
and finally by the use you make of our Services.

2.1 The data you provide to us

The personal data we collect directly from you depends on the relationship you have with the Service and may include:

Contact data, such as name, email address, postal address, social media, and telephone number;
Service login credentials, such as username and password;
Other account registration and user profile data, such as occupation, education, qualifications, and photo;
Payment methods, for example, credit card number;
Comments, comments, and other information you provide to us, including search queries, questions, and information you send to customer service; and/or
Communication interests and preferences, including preferred language.

2.2 Data provided by your structure

We may obtain your personal data from the organization where you work in order to activate and manage your access to and use of the Service subscribed to by your organization. This personal data may include:

Contact information, such as name, email address, postal address, and telephone number;
Other account registration data such as occupation; and/or
The identifier with your structure.

2.3 Data collected from other sources

We may also obtain your contact details and other personal information from our subsidiaries and other third parties, including:

social networks when you grant permission to the Service to access your data on a social network;
service providers that help us determine your location in order to personalize certain services based on your location;
companies with which we offer joint services; and/or
Publicly available sources and data providers from whom we obtain data to validate and supplement the information we have.

2.4 Service usage data, including cookies

The Service may automatically collect information about how you interact with the Service, including:

Information about the computer, the connection environment, namely the IP address, the type and version of the browser, the operating system, and other software installed in your environment, the mobile platform, the technical identifier(s), error reports and execution data;
Usage data, such as the features you used, the configurations you selected, the data you clicked on, including the date and time and pages viewed, search terms, pages visited and searched for on the Service;
Services geographic information based on user location to provide you with more relevant content based on your geographic location wherever you are in the world.
We collect this data through our servers and the use of cookies and other technologies. Cookies are small text files that can be read by a Valvital domain web server that placed the cookie on your hard drive. We may use cookies and other technologies to store your preferences and settings, assist with registration, deliver targeted advertising, and analyze site operations. You can control cookies through your browser settings and other tools. However, if you block certain cookies, you may no longer be able to register, log in, or access certain parts or fully use the Service. For more details, please see the Cookie Policy.

3. How we use your data

Depending on the relationship we have together, we use your personal data to:

Provide, enable and manage your access to and use of the Service;
Process and respond to a request, order, download, subscription or other transaction;
Provide technical support, a complementary service or product and thus enable the proper functioning of the Service and its security;
Improve the Service and our other products, events and services and develop new products and services;
Provide personalized content and other customizations to make the Service more relevant to your interests and geographic location;
Respond to your requests, inquiries, comments and concerns;
Notify us of changes, updates and other announcements relating to the Service and our other products and services;
Provide targeted advertisements, promotional messages, notifications and other information related to the Service and your interests;
Provide promotional messages and other information about our products, events and services, our subsidiaries and partners;
Invite you to participate in surveys on the use of the Service, as well as lotteries, advertising contests and promotions;
Identify usage trends and develop data analysis, including for research, auditing, reporting and other business operations, which include determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and evaluating business performance; and/or
Comply with our legal obligations, resolve potential disputes and enforce our contracts.
If you are the manager of the structure subscribed to our Service, we will use your data to communicate with you about your structure's subscription. If you provide us with information about the users of your structure, you guarantee that you have obtained their consent so that we can use their personal data to provide them with the Services.

4. Sharing your data

4.1 Third Party Application

If you access a third-party application present in the Service, your personal data may be shared with the publisher of this third-party application so that the latter can provide you with access to the application, under the terms of a license and a privacy policy specific to this publisher.

4.2 Other RELX Group companies and service providers

Depending on the Service provided, we share information with:

Valvital Group subsidiaries that provide us with technology and other shared service functions; and/or
Our service providers, distributors, agents and representatives, including, but not limited to, credit institutions, customer support, email, IT, marketing, research service providers, event agencies, mailing companies and shipping agents;
to process information necessary to provide you with the expected Service, execute a transaction or respond to a request on your behalf based on our instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.

4.3 Your choices

We may share your personal data with our affiliates and partners who wish to send you information about their products and services that may be of interest to you, as determined by your choices when you manage your communications preferences.

The Service may allow you to share your personal data, comments, and other content. Any such contributions disclosed by you publicly may be collected and used by others. Therefore, be careful when disclosing personal information in these public areas.

4.4 Legal reasons

We will also disclose your personal data if we believe that such disclosure is necessary to:

comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or other legal obligation;
detect, investigate and help prevent security, fraud or technical issues;
protect the rights, property, or safety of Valvital, our users, employees, or others; and complete a general transaction, such as a transfer of assets or an acquisition through a merger with another company.

5. The purposes of the processing

When we collect or process your personal data in compliance with European data protection laws, we do so:

as necessary to provide the Service, complete a transaction or otherwise perform a contract with you or at your request prior to entering into a contract;
as necessary to comply with applicable law or any other legal obligation;
if necessary to ensure the performance of a task in the public interest;
if necessary to prevent fraud, enable our customers to comply with their legal obligations;
if necessary, with your agreement and/or
as necessary for the operation of our business, to protect the security of our systems, customers and users, to detect and prevent fraud, or to ensure our legitimate interests as described in parts 2 to 4 of this document, unless your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms require greater protection of your personal data than our legitimate interests
Where we rely on your consent to process personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time, and where we rely on legitimate interests, you have the right to object.

6. Retention of your personal data

We retain your personal data for as long as necessary to provide the Service and perform the obligations you have requested from us, or for other essential purposes such as complying with our legal obligations, maintaining business and financial records, resolving disputes, maintaining security, detecting and preventing fraud and abuse, and enforcing our contract.

7. Locations of processing – transfer of personal data

The ValVital site hosts its data in France:

NERIM Partner
EQUINIX PA3
114 rue Ambroise Croizat
93200 Saint-Denis

ValVital suppliers are hosted in France or Europe.

We take steps, including through contracts, to ensure that information continues to be protected where it is located in accordance with the protection standards imposed by applicable regulations.

8. Data security

We apply technical and organizational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk of working with personal data. The purpose of these measures is to ensure the integrity, confidentiality and accessibility of personal data.

9. Protection of children's privacy

We do not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 13, and Valvital websites are not directed to children under the age of 13.

10. Your communication preferences

You can customize and manage the available communication preferences and other settings when you register with the relevant Service, by updating your account preferences or, if applicable, by using the opt-out or unsubscribe mechanism, or any other means provided in the message you receive, or by contacting us. We reserve the right to notify you of changes or updates to the Service, if any.

11. Access to your data and updates

11.1 Your account

The Service may allow registered users to directly access and review their account information and make corrections or updates after logging in at any time. It is the user's responsibility to keep such information up to date. Registered users may also close their account directly through the Service or by contacting the Service's customer service department (rgpd@valvital.fr).

11.2 Your rights

You have rights guaranteed by privacy and data protection laws in Europe and certain other countries, and you can benefit from them free of charge:

access to your personal information;
rectification or deletion of your personal data;
restriction of our processing of your personal data, or objection to our processing; and
request a copy of your personal data (right to data portability).
If you wish to exercise these rights, please submit your request via the following email address (rgpd@valvital.fr). We will respond to your request in accordance with applicable laws. To protect your privacy and security, we may verify your identity.

12. modifications

We will update this Privacy Policy regularly. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated revision date. If we make material changes, we will notify you through the Service or other means.

13. Contact

If you have any comments, questions, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our processing of your data, please contact us via the following email address (rgpd@valvital.fr).

You can also file a complaint with the National Commission for Information Technology and Civil Liberties (CNIL), the personal data regulator in France.