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PRIVACY POLICY

PREAMBLE :

The https://www.gmt.bio website is published by GMT SCIENCE SAS, a company with share capital of 359,560 €.

GMT SCIENCE is responsible for processing personal data collected in the course of its business activities.

It has a personal data protection officer who can be contacted via the contact form.

The privacy policy sets out the conditions under which GMT SCIENCE, as data controller, collects and processes the personal data of all those who have been or will be its interlocutors.

As the data controller, GMT SCIENCE complies with current regulations on the protection of personal data and, in particular, with the provisions of Law No. 78617 of January 6, 1978 as amended (known as the "Data Protection Act") and Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of April 27, 2016 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data (known as the "GDPR").

 

We attach great importance to protecting your personal data.

The purpose of this privacy policy is to tell you how GMT SCIENCE intends to treat your personal data.

 

By using the site, you agree to the collection and use of your personal data as described below.

 

 

DEFINITIONS

 

  • Personal data" is any information relating to a natural person who is identified or can be identified directly or indirectly from that data.

  • An "identifiable natural person" means a person who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identification number or to one or more factors.

  • The term "processing" refers to operations or sets of operations involving personal data, whatever the process used.

  • The terms "you" and "your" refer to visitors to the GMT SCIENCE website (prospects, service providers, suppliers, partners, job applicants, etc.), as well as to any third party who, incidentally or otherwise, may one day enter into a contractual or non-contractual relationship with GMT SCIENCE or, more simply, come into contact with GMT SCIENCE in any way whatsoever.

  • The terms "we" / "us" / "our" refer to GMT SCIENCE, its directors, employees and associates.

 

1. Personal data collected

We collect and process only the data collected via the contact form, i.e. :

  • Full name ;

  • Postal/business address ;

  • Business e-mail addresses and telephone numbers.

When you visit our site, we may also automatically collect certain information about your computer. For example, your IP address and browser type. We may also collect information about your online activity. We collect this information in order to personalize your browsing experience. For more information, please consult the "cookies" section.

When you use social networking features from our site, we may be able to access information about you in accordance with the privacy policies of the social networking platforms.

Your data is collected :

  • When filling out our contact form.

 

2. The purpose of data collection

Data is collected for the purpose of :

  • Meet all our commitments to our partners:

In general, your personal data is essential for us to meet our obligations and commitments to all our contacts, whoever they may be (business contacts, suppliers, staff, website visitors, etc.).

  • Promote our products and services:

This involves promoting and safeguarding the interests of our contacts, providing them with technical services, organizing events, offering training courses, and sending out information, invitations and communications.

  • Executing a contract :

We collect your personal data in cases where processing is necessary for the performance of our contractual obligations, provided that you are a party to that contract.

  • Comply with a legal obligation:

We collect your personal data in cases where its processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation to which we are bound (request from a supervisory authority; compliance with the rights of third parties; asserting our legal rights, etc.).

 

3. Possible access to your personal data

Depending on the purposes and reasons for which we collect your personal data, the following organizations or personnel may have access to your data:

  • GMT SCIENCE employees;

  • Third parties processing personal data as subcontractors or service providers, in compliance with GMT SCIENCE instructions (hosting; technical maintenance; data security, routing, etc.):

  • Third parties collaborating with GMT SCIENCE in the performance of its duties, to the extent that the communication of such data is necessary for the performance of such duties;

  • Professional advisors (lawyers, chartered accountants, etc.) and insurers;

  • Public authorities for control, regulation, etc.

 

4. How long we keep your personal data

The length of time GMT SCIENCE retains your personal data varies according to the purpose for which the data was collected.

GMT SCIENCE retains the personal data of its various contacts for as long as is necessary to carry out its missions and achieve its objectives, in compliance with its purposes and applicable laws and regulations.

GMT SCIENCE has adopted a number of objective criteria for data retention periods, without setting up an overly rigid interpretation grid.

For this reason, the following criteria were identified as best corresponding to the reality and diversity of our contacts:

  • If you are on a mailing list, GMT SCIENCE will keep your personal data until you decide to be removed from this list, which can be done at any time;

  • If you send us a request, GMT SCIENCE will keep your personal data for as long as is necessary to process your request;

  • If you have agreed to receive invitations to conferences, events and publications offered by GMT SCIENCE, your personal data will be kept until you unsubscribe;

  •  If cookies are stored on your computer, GMT SCIENCE will keep your data only for as long as is necessary to achieve the purpose for which it was collected and for any period of time required by national regulations.

 

5. Guaranteed confidentiality and security of your personal data

GMT SCIENCE is committed to ensuring the security of any personal data provided to it for any reason whatsoever.

To this end, we have implemented an information systems security policy, as well as appropriate technical rules and measures, to effectively protect the personal data under our control from unauthorized access, disclosure, use or modification, as well as from unlawful destruction or accidental loss.

GMT SCIENCE specifies that all its contacts: employees, consultants, various service providers and data processors (i.e. persons who process your personal data on our behalf, for the aforementioned purposes), who have access to personal data and are associated with their processing, are required to comply with GMT SCIENCE's privacy policy.

However, you acknowledge that you have been informed that no data transmission over the Internet is 100% secure, and that any information transmitted may be collected and used by persons other than the recipient.

 

6. Your rights with regard to your personal data

You have the following rights:

  • A right of access ;

  • A right of rectification ;

  • A right of deletion ;

  • A right to restrict processing to certain cases;

  • A right to data portability (=reuse by yourself or transfer to a third party of your choice) ;

  • A right to withdraw your consent.

You also have the right to appeal to the Commission Nationale de l'Information et des Libertés in the event of a breach of the regulations applicable to the protection of Personal Data and, in particular, the GDPR.

 

7. Collection of personal data by third-party sites

The GMT SCIENCE website may contain links to other websites that have their own privacy policies. To learn about their privacy policies, you should refer directly to those sites.

If you have any questions about the privacy policy or wish to exercise your rights, you can also contact us directly by e-mail or post, giving your contact details, at :

GMT SCIENCE 75 ROUTE DE LYONS LA FORET, 76000 ROUEN.

To avoid fraudulent applications, you will need to provide proof of identity, which will then be destroyed.

 

8. Cookies

 

8.1. Definition

Cookies are data that a website transfers to the user's hard disk for record-keeping purposes. When the user accesses the site again, the server automatically recognizes the cookie, which then enables the site to obtain information about the user's last visit.

 

8.2. What are the cookies used for on our site?

The cookies used on our site allow us to:

  • identify the services and sections you have visited,

  • to use the site's main functions,

  • optimize the site and detect any technical problems,

  • statistics,

  • share information with other websites or social networks.

This information is used to better personalize our services and content and to facilitate your browsing on our site.

Cookies are also necessary to measure audiences.

 

8.3. Internal cookies

When you connect to our site, we may, subject to your choices, install various cookies on your terminal, enabling us to recognize your terminal's browser for the duration of the cookie's validity.

The cookies we issue are used for the purposes described below, subject to your choices resulting from the settings of your browser software used when visiting our site.

At any time, you can choose to express and modify your cookie preferences directly online.

The cookies we issue allow us to :

* Facilitate your navigation on our site

  • by adapting the presentation of our site to the display preferences of your terminal during your visits to our site, according to the hardware and software for viewing or reading that your terminal has.

  • by memorizing information relating to a form you have filled in on our site (registration or access to your account) or to products, services or information you have chosen on our site.

* Improve our services

These cookies enable us to compile statistics and volumes of visits to and use of the various elements making up our site (sections and content visited, path taken) in order to improve the interest and ergonomics of our services.

8.4. Third-party cookies

These are cookies placed on your terminal by third-party companies (e.g. partners) when you browse or click in the advertising areas of our site.

* Third-party applications integrated into our site

We may include third-party applications on our site that enable you to share the content of our site with other people, or to let these other people know that you have viewed or expressed an opinion on the content of our site. This is notably the case with "Share" and "Like" buttons 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 when consulting our site. In fact, this type of application button may enable the social network concerned to track your browsing on our site, simply because your account with the social network concerned was activated on your terminal (open session) during your browsing on our site.

 

We have no control over the process used by social networks to collect information relating to your browsing on our site and associated with the personal data they hold. We invite you to consult the privacy protection policies of these social networks in order to learn about the purposes for which they may use the browsing information they may collect via these application buttons, particularly for advertising purposes. In particular, these protection policies should enable you to exercise your choices with regard to these social networks, notably by configuring your user accounts for each of these networks.

 

8.5. Web beacons and other technologies

We may use standard Internet technologies, such as web beacons and similar technologies, to track your use of our site. Web beacons (sometimes called transparent GIFs, clear GIFs, or web bugs) are small lines of code that allow us to display a small (usually invisible) graphic image on a web page or in an email. Web beacons can recognize certain types of information on your computer, such as cookies, the time and date a page was consulted, and a description of the page where the web beacon is placed.

We use web beacons to enhance your experience on our site, including to provide you with personalized content based on your interests and to understand whether users read e-mails and click on links contained in these messages so that we can distribute relevant content and offers.

 

8.6. Mobile Devices

Some mobile devices send information about the phone model, operating system version, connectivity, application name and version.

This data, which is necessary for the proper functioning of our site on your mobile, is automatically processed by the servers of GMT SCIENCE and certain of our partners in order to provide you with a service adapted to the technical characteristics of your device and to measure the audience of our site.

 

8.7. Accepting or rejecting cookies

You can deactivate these cookies at any time. Your browser can also be set up to notify you when cookies are placed on your computer, and to ask you whether or not you wish to accept them.

You can accept or refuse cookies on a case-by-case basis, or refuse them systematically. We remind you that setting these parameters may modify your conditions of access to our content and services requiring the use of cookies.

Web beacons are generally used in conjunction with cookies, so if your browser is set to refuse cookies, or if cookies are deleted, web beacons will not be able to track your activity as you navigate between websites.

To manage cookies and your choices, the configuration of each browser is different. This is described in your browser's help menu, which will tell you how to modify your cookie preferences.

 

8.8. Your choices via your browser

Cookie agreement

The registration of a cookie in a terminal is essentially subject to the will of the terminal user, which can be expressed and modified at any time and free of charge through the choices offered to him by his browser software. If you have accepted the storage of cookies on your terminal, the cookies integrated into the pages and content you have consulted may be stored temporarily in a dedicated space on your terminal. They will only be readable there by the sender.

 

Refusing cookies

If you refuse to accept cookies on your terminal, you will no longer be able to benefit from a certain number of functions which are nevertheless necessary for browsing certain areas of our site. This would be the case if you tried to access our content or services that require you to be identified. This would also be the case if we - or our service providers - were 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 linked to the degraded operation of our services resulting from the impossibility for us to record or consult the cookies necessary for the operation of the site and which you would have refused or deleted.

 

How do you exercise your choices, depending on the browser you use?

To manage cookies and your choices, the configuration of each browser is different. This is described in your browser's help menu, which will tell you how to modify your cookie preferences.

 

9. Modification of this privacy policy

GMT SCIENCE reserves the right to modify its privacy policy from time to time - by choice or to adapt to changes in current legislation or technological developments. GMT SCIENCE undertakes to inform you of any significant changes. However, it is your responsibility to consult this privacy policy on a regular basis.

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