Visitors’ privacy on our website matters to us, and we are committed to
protecting it. This policy details what we do with your personal information at
Vox Environnement.
The following types of personal information can be collected, stocked and used :
Personal information can be collected thanks to :
Personal information provided to us through our website will be used for the purposes described in this policy or on the relevant pages of the site. We may use your personal information for:
Before you disclose personal information about another person to us, you must obtain that person’s consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.
If you submit personal information on our website for publication, we will publish it and may use it in accordance with the permissions you grant us.
Without your explicit consent, we will not provide your personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes or for the direct marketing purposes of others.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. The Gravatar privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture will be visible to the public next to your comment.
If you are a registered user and upload images to the website, we recommend avoiding uploading images that contain GPS EXIF data. Visitors to the website may download and extract location data from such images.
We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our corporate group (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company, and all its subsidiaries) as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
We may disclose your personal information :
The information we collect may be stored, processed, and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.
The information we collect may be transferred to the following countries, which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force within the European Economic Area: the United States of America, Russia, Japan, China, and India.
Personal information that you publish on our website or submit for publication may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.
You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this section.
The personal information we process for any purpose is not retained for longer than necessary to fulfill that purpose or those purposes.
Without prejudice to this provision, we will generally delete personal data in the following categories for 3 years.
We retain documents (including electronic records) containing personal data :
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to automatically recognize and approve any
follow-up comments instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users who register on our website (if applicable), we also store personal data they provide in their user profile. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except for their username). Site administrators can also view and edit that information.
We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information.
All personal data you provide will be stored on secure servers (protected by
passwords and firewalls).
All electronic financial transactions conducted through our website will be secured using encryption technology.
You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the Internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the absolute security of data sent online.
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password you use to access our website; we will never ask you for your password (except when you log in to our site).
If you have an account on our site or have left comments, you can request to receive a file containing all the personal data we hold about you, including any information you have provided to us. You can also request that we delete any personal data we hold about you. This does not include data we are required to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
For any requests concerning your personal data, you can contact our Data Protection Officer (DPO), Reynaud Brice, via the contact form on our website or by mail at:
VOX Environnement – ZI LES ISCLES, AVENUE DES CONFIGNES, 13160
CHÂTEAURENARD, FRANCE
Our website contains hyperlinks to third-party websites and information about them. We have no control over these sites and are not responsible for their privacy policies or practices.
Articles on our site may include embedded content (such as videos, images, or articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor had accessed the other website directly.
These third-party websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking tools, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content especially if you have an account and are logged in to their website.
Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.
Cookies can be either “persistent” or “session” cookies: A persistent cookie is stored by the browser and remains valid until its set expiration date, unless deleted by the user before that date. A session cookie expires at the end of the user session, when the browser is closed.
Cookies generally do not contain information that personally identifies a user, but personal information we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
We may use cookies to:
To achieve these purposes, we may use the following services :
Most browsers allow you to refuse or accept cookies :
Blocking all cookies may have a negative impact on the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you may not be able to use all the features of our website.
You can also delete cookies already stored on your computer :
Deleting cookies may negatively affect the usability of many websites.
When you visit the login page, a temporary cookie will be created to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is automatically deleted when you close your browser.
When you log in, several cookies will be set up to store your login information and screen display preferences. A login cookie lasts for two days, while a screen option cookie lasts for one year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login cookie will be kept for two weeks. When you log out of your account, the login cookie will be deleted.
When you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie contains no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after one day.
We may occasionally update this privacy policy by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page regularly to ensure you are aware of any changes made to the policy. We may also notify you of significant changes by email or via the private messaging system on our website.
