Privacy policy

Privacy Policy

PLANTIN (Or “we” hereinafter), acting as data controller, within the meaning of European regulation n°2016-679 of April 27, 2016 and the “Informatique et Libertés” law of January 6, 1978 as amended (hereinafter afterwards, together, the “Regulations”) attach great importance to the protection of your personal data and your privacy.

This Policy is intended to apply only to the processing of information (hereinafter the “Personal Data”) likely to identify or make identifiable users of the Site: customers, visitors, prospects, people looking for a job. , … (hereinafter the “Users”), directly or indirectly. It therefore seems essential to us to inform you about the way in which we collect, store, use and process the data and personal information that you communicate to us through this website www.fertilizers-plantin.com (hereinafter “the Site ). As a general rule, we collect your personal data only through the contact form and when consulting the Site.

PLANTIN undertakes to limit the processing of Personal Data to only the cases listed in this Policy, and to update the latter in order to guarantee a high level of protection of Personal Data in compliance with the applicable Regulations.

 

WHAT INFORMATION AND PERSONAL DATA DO WE COLLECT?

Personal information includes all information that allows us to identify you. By using our Website, you may be required to transmit Personal Data to us, directly or indirectly or through your use of the Site.

Therefore, we collect your personal data as follows:

  • The personal data you provide via our contact form:
    • Identification data: first name, last name, email address, telephone number and city identification (postal code associated with the city);
    • Data related to professional life: company name, professional email, professional telephone number and profession;
  • The personal data we obtain when browsing the site:
    • Technical data: IP address, browser type and version, operating system used;
    • Connection data: functions used, pages visited, configurations selected, timestamp of visits and terms searched;

The Site automatically records connection information provided by the browser used by the visitor to access the site (Internet Explorer, etc.). This information includes data about the visitor’s IP address, the pages of the site viewed from that address, and the last website visited by the visitor before this visit. European jurisdictions consider IP addresses as personal information, we inform you that none of this navigation data is used by Plantin for the purposes of direct or indirect identification of the visitor who consults the Site. Browsing data is used in an anonymized manner to identify possible problems with Internet servers, to administer the Site and to gather general demographic data in order to make the Site more useful and attractive to our visitors. The retention of this data is only effective for the duration of consultation of the Site.

We may also obtain your personal information via cookies on our Site. To find out more about how we manage these cookies, you can consult our Cookies Policy at any time.

  • Social networks when you grant permission to access your data on a social network;
  • Companies with which we offer joint services and who guarantee that they have obtained your data lawfully; and or
  • Publicly available sources and/or from data providers from whom we obtain data.

When collecting your Personal Data, you may be informed that some of them must be provided in order to achieve the expected result. Failure to provide this mandatory information may make it impossible to execute the request.

 

WHY DO WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

We collect and process your Personal Data for the following purposes:

  • Site Management
    • In order to manage your access to our Site, as well as your use of it
    • To provide you with technical support and maintenance to enable the proper functioning and security of our Site
    • In order to send you our modifications, updates or any other news relating to our Site
    • In order to respond to your requests for information and/or your comments
  • Improvement of services
    • In order to improve the functionality and quality of your browsing on our Site, by carrying out tests, research, analyses, studies and surveys.
    • In order to promote our Platform
    • In order to offer you relevant content, adapted and personalized to your interests and your geographic location
    • In order to improve customer relations
    • In order to assess the quality of service
  • Maintain the commercial relationship
    • In order to send information and offers on our products and services
    • Conservation of the customer file
    • Business development
  • Application management
    • In order to send information and offers on our products and services
    • Conservation of the customer file

These marketing operations are aimed exclusively at professionals, we are not obliged to obtain your prior consent before any commercial solicitation and/or transmission of information from us via newsletters for example.

 

ON WHAT LEGAL BASIS DO WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

We collect and process your Personal Data in compliance with the Regulations, and only within the framework of the following legal bases:

  • When necessary for the performance of a contract concluded with you;
  • When necessary to comply with a legal obligation
  • When you have expressly consented to the processing of your Personal Data
  • When necessary to protect our legitimate interests

e.g.: detect, investigate and prevent any technical, fraud and security problems, to protect our rights, our property or the safety of our Users and our employees, or even in matters of commercial prospecting for professionals.

 

WHO ARE THE RECIPIENTS OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

Your personal data is transmitted to the various entities with which we collaborate in order to provide the service offered, after having assured us that they respect the obligations regarding the security of personal data.

Who?
Why?
The host of our Site: OVH (located in France)
For the purposes of carrying out database maintenance and hosting services
The publisher of a third-party application present on our Site
For the purposes of accessing and using said application
Our service providers, distributors, representatives, subcontractors and partners
For the purposes of access to the requested services, execution of a transaction or response to your requests for advice and information, IT services necessary for the proper functioning of our site and our platform and the production of commercial statistics and direct prospecting

Except under legal, accounting or judicial obligation, we will not disclose, rent, assign or transmit in any way your Personal Data to third parties.

 

HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

We periodically destroy personal data if there is no longer any reason for its use in accordance with the terms of this Policy. Unless you specifically request your data will be kept for one year when we do not have direct commercial relations with you and three years in other cases.

 

The data below is not yet validated but will eventually replace the paragraph above:

Your Personal Data is only kept for the period strictly necessary to achieve the purposes pursued, as set out in this Policy, and in accordance with the Regulations and applicable laws.

After this period, your Personal Data will be deleted.

Overall purpose of processing
Purpose of processing
Legal basis
The duration of the conversation
Archiving retention period
Useful information
Site Management
Website access management
Legitimate interest
1 year
N/A
Technical support and maintenance
Legitimate interest / contract
1 year from the last contact if test access, duration of the contractual relationship if customer access
N/A
Notice of changes, updates and new features
Contract
Duration of the contractual relationship for sending to customers
N/A
Response to requests for information and/or comments
Legitimate interest
1 year from last contact
N/A
Improvement of services
Improve the functionality and quality of your navigation on our Site, by carrying out tests, research, analyses, studies and surveys
Legitimate interest
1 year
N/A
Promote our Platform
Legitimate interest
1 year
N/A
Offer relevant content, adapted and personalized to your interests and geographic location
Legitimate interest
1 year
N/A
Improve customer relations
Consent/legitimate interest
Until consent is withdrawn / for a period of 1 year from the last contact (example: a click on a hyperlink contained in an e-mail)
N/A
Evaluate the quality of service
Legitimate interest
1 year
N/A
Maintain the commercial relationship
Send information and offers on our products and services
Contract
Duration of the contractual relationship for sending to customers
5 years from the end of the contractual relationship (proof)
Conservation of the customer file
Contract
Duration of the contractual relationship
5 years from the end of the contractual relationship (proof)
Business development
Consent/legitimate interest
Until consent is withdrawn / for a period of 1 year from the last contact (example: a click on a hyperlink contained in an e-mail)
N/A
Maintain the commercial relationship
Legitimate interest
1 year
N/A
The data of an unsuccessful candidate is kept for a maximum of 12 months on an active basis from the last contact

 

WHERE DO WE TRANSFER YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

PLANTIN is a French company based in Courthézon (84350) in France. We use Internet servers and store data in France. Your data may be transferred to certain countries outside the European Union. If this is the case, PLANTIN ensures that these are countries recognized by the European Commission as having a sufficient level of protection of personal data, or puts in place appropriate guarantees to regulate the transfer.

 

WHAT ARE YOUR RIGHTS OVER YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

You can exercise your rights granted to you by the Regulations at any time:

  • Request access to your Personal Data;
  • Request the rectification of inaccurate Personal Data concerning you;
  • Obtain the erasure of your Personal Data;
  • Restrict our processing of your Personal Data;
  • Withdraw your consent to the processing of your Personal Data;
  • Oppose the processing of your Personal Data;
  • Obtain a copy of your Personal Data (right to data portability);
  • Your right to define guidelines relating to the fate of your personal data after your death;
  • Submit a complaint to a supervisory authority.

 

HOW DO WE PROTECT PERSONAL DATA?

We take all necessary precautions to preserve the security and confidentiality of the personal data that you have transmitted to us, and in particular to prevent it from being distorted, damaged, or from unauthorized third parties having access to it.

In this regard, we undertake not to access or use the data for any purpose other than for the purposes of carrying out the purposes which have been communicated to you. We also implement, directly or via our service providers:

  • identity and access controls via an authentication system as well as a password policy,
  • user and administrator authentication processes, as well as measures to protect administrative functions,
  • processes and systems allowing you to trace all actions carried out on the information system, and to carry out reporting actions in accordance with current regulations in the event of an incident impacting your data.

To protect against misuse of our web forms as well as against spam, we use the Google reCAPTCHA service in certain forms on the Site. By checking manual entries, this service prevents automated software (called bots) from carrying out abusive activities on the Site. In accordance with Article 6 of the GDPR, this protects our essentially legitimate interests in the protection of our Website against misuse as well as in the optimal presentation of our online presence.

 

Google reCAPTCHA is an offer from Google Ireland Limited, a company incorporated under Irish law, whose registered office is located at Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (www.google.de). To the extent that information is transferred to and stored on Google servers in the USA, the American company Google LLC is certified under the EU-USA Privacy Protection Program. Google reCAPTCHA uses code embedded in the Site, called JavaScript, as part of verification methods to analyze your use of the Site, such as cookies. Information automatically collected about your use of this Website, including your IP address, is generally transmitted to and stored on a Google server in the United States. In addition, other cookies stored in your browser by Google services are evaluated by Google reCAPTCHA.

Personal data is neither read nor saved in the input fields of the corresponding form. Further information on Google’s data protection policies can be found at the following links: https://policies.google.com/privacy? and https://www.google.com/recaptcha/about/

You can refuse Google the right to collect data generated by JavaScript or cookies as well as data relating to your use of the Site (including your IP address) by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser. However, please note that this may limit your use of the features of our Website.

 

HOW TO EXERCISE YOUR RIGHTS?

To exercise these rights, please send your request either by post to the address PLANTIN – Service RGPD – 381 Route d’Avignon – 84350 Courthézon, or by email to the address dpo@plantin.fr. To do this, please provide your full name, address and email address so that we can process your request. Once we have the necessary information, we will remove you from our mailing lists. The terms and conditions for exercising your right of opposition will be systematically reminded during each commercial solicitation and/or transmission of information from us via newsletters for example.

  • In order to respond to your requests for information and/or comments;
  • In order to comply with the legal obligations to which we are subject;

We may require proof of identity to protect your privacy and security.

 

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

We may occasionally modify this Policy in order to comply with regulatory, jurisprudential, editorial or technical developments.

If applicable, we will change the “last updated” date and indicate the date the changes were made.

When necessary, we will inform you and/or seek your agreement.

We advise you to regularly consult this page to be aware of any modifications or updates made to our Policy.

 

CHILDREN/ADOLESCENTS AND PRIVACY

Our Site is not aimed at children (unemancipated minors) and does not target them either. We do not knowingly collect information transmitted by – or about – minors without the consent of a parent or legal guardian.

If you are a minor, do not give us any personal information. If we learn that a minor has provided personally identifiable information through our Site, we will use reasonable means to delete this information from our databases.

 

DO YOU HAVE A QUESTION OR WOULD YOU LIKE MORE INFORMATION?

For any questions relating to this Policy, you can contact us by sending us an e-mail to the following address: dpo@plantin.fr