Updated on February 2, 2022
As part of its business operations, Standing-Events (hereinafter “S-E”) is committed to protecting the personal data of any individual whose personal data it processes.
The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to provide data subjects with important information about how S-E collects and processes your personal data and how you can exercise your rights. We encourage you to read it carefully.
This Policy applies when your Data is collected on the websites published by Standing-Events (hereinafter the “Sites”) as well as in connection with your dealings, of any kind, with the Company.
This Privacy Policy is also intended to comply with the requirements of the new data protection regulations (General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) No. 2016/679), which took effect on May 25, 2018, and the French Data Protection Act of January 6, 1978, as amended by the Personal Data Protection Act of June 20, 2018.
IMPORTANT:
S-E primarily processes the personal data of its customers and prospects who are individuals, as well as that of the employees, staff, and executives of its customers and prospects that are legal entities. We use this personal data in the cases provided for by applicable regulations:
1. Who is responsible for processing personal data?
The data controller for the processing operations described in this document is Standing-Events, a limited liability company (SARL) with capital of €7,500, registered with the Lille Métropole Trade and Companies Register under No. 481 895 324 – 47 Avenue de Flandre, 59290 WASQUEHAL
2. What information do we collect about you, and under what circumstances do we collect it?
2.1 Data You Provide to Us Directly
During our various interactions with you, you may be asked to provide us with information about yourself.
The Company collects your Data directly from you, in particular when you fill out a contact or registration form, when you place an order, or when you contact the Company (for example, by sending an email).
These data include, in particular:
- Personal identification data: This data includes, in particular, your last name, first name, email address, mailing address, phone number, profile (candidate, visitor, exhibitor, etc.), and your job title within the company.
- Order-related data: This data refers to all information necessary to fulfill and complete your order, including order details, the order date, information regarding the credit card used (cardholder’s name, card number, expiration date, etc.), and communications with the customer service department. In any case, payment-related Data is processed in accordance with applicable regulations and security standards.
- Data related to logging in to and using the Account when you are the Account holder: This Data refers to all the information you need to access your personal account, as well as information related to the use of the Account, including, in particular, your username and password, your choices and preferences, and the history of the chat rooms in which you have participated. In any case, the Account is subject to specific terms and conditions of use.
- Information regarding your participation in trade shows: date of participation, booths visited, purchases made
When you provide Data to the Company, it is your responsibility to ensure that it is accurate and complete. If necessary, you must update it.
2.2 Data We Collect Automatically
Each time you visit our website or use social media, we collect information about your connection and browsing activity. Various technologies may be used to collect this data. The main one is the cookie.
- Data collected through cookies:
A cookie is a text file that is placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website, use an app, or view an online advertisement, and is stored in a specific location on your computer’s or mobile device’s hard drive. Cookies are managed by your web browser, and only the issuer of a cookie can decide whether to read or modify the information it contains.
A cookie has a limited lifespan. It is placed and stored on your device in accordance with applicable law and subject to the preferences you have selected, which you may change at any time.
A cookie does not personally identify you. It allows the issuer to recognize your device and collect certain information about your browsing activity on that device.
Cookies serve several purposes, such as enabling you to navigate a website or app efficiently, remembering your preferences and the goods and services you wish to purchase, and providing you with relevant advertising based on the interests you’ve expressed while browsing.
- Data collected through standard Internet technologies
We may also use standard Internet technologies, such as scripts, pixels, and redirects.
The purpose of these technologies is to enhance your experience on our website, including providing you with content tailored to your interests.
- Data provided by mobile devices
Depending on the features you have enabled (for example, “Push” or “Geolocation”) when downloading one of our apps, certain mobile devices send information, including: your phone model, operating system version, connectivity type, and the name and version of the app being used.
This data, which is necessary for the proper functioning of the mobile apps we publish, is processed automatically by our servers and those of some of our partners (including AT Internet, SmartAdServer, HockeyApp, and Google Analytics) so that we can provide you with a service and advertisements tailored to your device’s technical specifications and measure our app’s audience.
3. For what reasons or purposes, and on what legal basis, is personal data processed?
Your Data is subject to automated processing carried out by S-E for the various purposes described below, both in connection with your use of the Sites and your participation in events organized by S-E or entrusted to S-E for organization.
Your Data is processed to manage your requests and to contact you. - If you are a customer, based on the performance of the contract entered into with S-E, your Data is processed to manage your registration requests and orders and to organize your participation in and visits to events that we organize or have been entrusted to organize.
With a view to continuously improving the events it organizes, your Data is also processed by S-E to optimize its services, send you post-event surveys, and analyze the results.
Based on your consent, S-E may also send you, through any channel, news and promotional information regarding events organized by other entities within the Group to which S-E belongs and/or services and news from S-E’s partners.
Your Data may also be processed to analyze your preferences and habits, enrich personal information in a dedicated S-E database, personalize and optimize your experience on the S-E website—including by allowing you to access certain features—and compile statistics, particularly regarding the effectiveness of marketing campaigns conducted by S-E.
4. To whom may personal data be disclosed?
S-E may need to disclose personal data to various categories of recipients:
- Personal data is shared with S-E’s internal departments—including sales, sales administration, IT, general administration, and marketing—or with a company within its group, which need to process this data for the purposes outlined above. Access to your data is granted on the basis of individual and limited access authorizations. Staff authorized to access your personal data are subject to a confidentiality obligation.
- Using social media to interact with our websites and apps (including the “Share” buttons for Facebook, Twitter, and Google+) may result in the exchange of data between S-E and these social media platforms. For example, if you are logged into Facebook and visit a page on our website, Facebook may collect this information. Similarly, if you visit our website and click the “Tweet” button, Twitter will collect this information. We therefore encourage you to review the privacy policies of the various social media platforms to understand how they collect and process your data.
- S-E may be required to disclose personal data to comply with a legal obligation, at the request of an administrative or judicial authority, or to pursue a legitimate interest, such as the defense of its rights.
5. How long is personal data retained?
Your personal data is retained for a period consistent with legal requirements or for a period commensurate with the purposes set forth in this Privacy Policy for which it was collected.
In addition, your Personal Data may be archived to comply with the legal obligations to which S-E is subject, or it may be deleted.
Personal data used to establish proof of a right or a contract, or retained by the Company to comply with a legal obligation, is archived in accordance with applicable regulations.
When there is no longer a legal, business, or customer account management reason to retain this information, or if you have exercised your right to modify or delete it, we will securely delete it.
6. Security
S-E implements all necessary technical and organizational measures to ensure the security and confidentiality of personal data processing.
To ensure the security of personal data, in particular to prevent it from being distorted, damaged, or accessed by unauthorized third parties, S-E takes all necessary precautions, taking into account the nature of the data and the risks associated with its processing (including the physical security of the premises, the implementation of authentication procedures with personalized and secure access via confidential usernames and passwords, connection logging, and the encryption of certain data, among other measures).
7. Is your data transferred outside the European Union?
We store your personal data within the European Union. However, in rare cases, the data we collect when you use our platforms or in connection with our services may be transferred to processors or business partners located in other countries, some of which may have data protection laws that are less stringent than those in effect in the country where you reside. In the event of such a transfer, we ensure that the processing is carried out in accordance with this Privacy Policy and is governed by the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses, which guarantee an adequate level of protection for individuals’ privacy and fundamental rights.
8. What rights do individuals have regarding the processing of their personal data?
- Depending on the type of processing, individual customers and prospects, as well as employees, staff members, and executives of our corporate customers and prospects, have the following rights:
- You can exercise your rights by contacting S-E: By mail at the following address: Standing-Events, 47 avenue de Flandre, or by email at [email protected]
9. What are your rights regarding the acceptance and management of cookies?
- Your rights regarding the acceptance and management of cookies: The placement of a cookie on your device is subject to your consent. You may change your preferences regarding the acceptance or rejection of cookies placed on your device at any time, either through your browser or online with various providers.
To manage cookies in a way that best suits your preferences, we encourage you to configure your browser settings based on the purpose of the cookies.
You can configure your browser settings so that you are prompted to accept or reject cookies on a case-by-case basis before a cookie is stored, or so that cookies are automatically accepted or rejected on your device.
Please be aware that any settings in your browser that block technical and functional cookies may affect your browsing experience on our website or even prevent you from using certain services that require these cookies.
In such cases, we assume no liability for any consequences resulting from the impaired functioning of our website and services due to our inability to store or access the cookies necessary for their operation, which you have refused or deleted.
Each browser has different settings for managing cookies and your preferences. These settings are described in your browser's Help menu, which will explain how to change your cookie preferences.
• Microsoft Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/fr-FR/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies
• Microsoft Edge: https://privacy.microsoft.com/fr-fr/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy
• Apple Safari: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Safari/3.0/fr/9277.html
• Google Chrome: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=fr&hlrm=en&answer=95647
• Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/fr/kb/activer-desactiver-cookies-preferences
• Opera: http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/fr/cookies.html
Adobe Flash Player is a computer application that enables the rapid development of dynamic content using the Flash programming language. Flash (and similar applications) stores settings, preferences, and usage data for this content using technology similar to cookies. However, Adobe Flash Player manages this information and your choices through an interface that is different from the one provided by your web browser.
If your device is capable of displaying content created using Flash, we encourage you to access your Flash cookie management tools directly from the website http://www.adobe.com/fr
You can also configure your browser to send a code indicating to websites that you do not wish to be tracked (the “Do Not Track” option).
• Microsoft Internet Explorer http://windows.microsoft.com/fr-fr/internet-explorer/use-tracking-protection#ie = ie-11
• Microsoft Edge https://privacy.microsoft.com/fr-fr/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy
• Apple Safari http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11952
• Google Chrome https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/114836
• Mozilla Firefox https://support.mozilla.org/fr/kb/comment-activer-option-ne-pas-pister
• Opera http://help.opera.com/Windows/12.10/fr/notrack.html
• For audience measurement cookies and analytics cookies: Analytics cookies allow us to obtain anonymous statistics on traffic to our site in order to optimize it and detect any malfunctions. They are placed on our site by Google Analytics.
• Google Analytics cookies https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
• ATInternet cookies https://www.atinternet.com/societe/protection-des-donnees/mettre-a-jour-mespreferences/
• Amplitude cookies https://amplitude.com/privacy
• Charbeat cookies https://chartbeat.com/privacy/
• Weborama cookie https://weborama.com/fr/respect-de-la-vie-privee/
• For “Social Media” cookies: We use several share buttons on our website.
• To manage your data on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/help/cookies/
• To manage your data on Twitter https://support.twitter.com/articles/20170518-utilisation-des-cookies-et-des-technologiessimilaires-par-twitter
• To manage your data on Pinterest https://policy.pinterest.com/fr/cookies
• To manage your data on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy?_l=fr_FR
• To manage your data on Google+ https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies?hl=fr
Disabling these cookies therefore prevents any interaction with social media.
10 – Changes to the Data Privacy Policy - Any changes made by S-E to this Data Privacy Policy will be posted on the Website.
- Users are encouraged to review this Policy regularly to stay informed of any updates or changes.
- If any provision of this Data Privacy Policy is found to be invalid or contrary to law, it shall be deemed unenforceable but shall not render the remaining provisions of the Policy invalid.