Privacy Policy & General Data Protection

Please read this document (hereinafter, the “Privacy Policy” or the “Privacy Rules”) carefully.

Any questions about this document and, in general, about the collection and processing of your personal information by the website https://www.co-nect.fr, please contact us via the following e-mail address: contact@co-nect.fr.

Preamble and area of application

The website https://www.co-nect.fr, is concerned about preserving the confidentiality of your personal information and attaches great importance to protecting the privacy of the users of its services.

The purpose of the Privacy Policy is to define the rules applicable to the collection and processing of your personal information (hereinafter referred to as “Personal Data”) via our online sales site.

Personal Data is defined as any information relating to a physical person that can be identified, directly or indirectly, such as:  surname, first names, email and postal addresses of a physical person, his or her image in photograph or video, an IP address, location data, a registration number plate, etc.

Our Privacy Policy details the Personal Data that we collect and process via our online sales site, the reasons for processing your Personal Data, the way we use it and the functionalities offered to enable you to access and update your Personal Data.

The Privacy Policy is an integral part of the General Conditions of Use and Sale of the website https://www.co-nect.fr .

This applies to all users of our site, regardless.

Our Privacy Policy does not apply to services offered by third party companies, operating websites that are partners of the https://www.co-nect.fr website or other websites accessible from our services. We are not responsible for how these sites use your Personal Data.

Acceptance and updating of our Privacy Policy

By ticking the box “I have read and accept the Privacy Policy of the website https://www.co-nect.fr“, you (as a User) confirm that you have read and accept these terms and conditions without any restriction or reservation. If you disagree with any of its terms, you will no longer free to use our services (in the event of a change in the terms of the Policy).

Our Privacy Policy may change but any reduction in your rights will not be applied without your consent. Therefore, we will post new versions of the Privacy Policy on https://www.co-nect.fr and we will rely on you to regularly review any changes to this Privacy and Data Protection Policy.

In general, the Privacy Policy is always easily accessible via the various pages of the website https://www.co-nect.fr.

Controller responsible for personal data processing

The processing of the Personal Data of Users registered on the website https://www.co-nect.fr is subject to French law, in particular Law No. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 on data processing, data files & individual liberties, (known as the Data Protection Act) and Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 applicable from 25 May 2018 (known as the GDPR).

The “Data Controller”, as defined by the said Law, of the Personal Data of the Users of the website https://www.co-nect.fr is Mr Philippe Rondot – Zone d’Activités Bois de Lion – 33240 – PEUJARD.

In this capacity, we undertake, within the context of our activities, to respect the provisions of the said Law, and to carry out a lawful, fair and transparent processing of your Personal Data. In particular, to process data for specific, explicit and legitimate purposes, without being further processed in a manner incompatible with these purposes, for a period not exceeding the time required for the purposes for which they are collected and processed.

Categories of Personal Data collected and processed via the website https://www.co-nect.fr

A – Personal data communicated to the website https://www.co-nect.fr

We collect the Personal Data of Internet users who use: contact form, newsletter registration, and account creation form, sales tunnel with indication of address, vehicle sales form, specific search form, recall request form and any other form that may have been recently implemented.

The use of https://www.co-nect.fr site therefore involves the collection and processing of your Personal Data according your use. We may therefore collect your surname, first name, e-mail address, telephone number, e-mail & postal address, etc. Certain information is mandatory to obtain our services (followed by an asterisk) and other information is optional such as in our contact form for example.

B – Cookies

Cookies are small pieces of text used to store information on web browsers In this policy, we refer to all of these technologies as “cookies”. Cookies are used to store and receive identifiers and other information on computers, phones and other devices. Other technologies, including data that we store on your web browser or device, identifiers associated with your device and other software, are used for similar purposes. In this policy, we refer to all of these technologies as “cookies”. The cookie therefore does not allow you to be identified as such; it is used to record your navigation information on the website https://www.co-nect.fr.

During your visit to the website https://www.co-nect.fr, information relating to your browsing may be recorded in the “Cookies” file installed in your device, subject to the choices you have made concerning cookies, which you may modify at any time.

These cookies allow the User to navigate in a personalized manner and are used for analytical purposes.

You will be informed of the existence of cookies and their purpose(s) as soon as you connect to the website https://www.co-nect.fr, by the presence of an information banner placed at the bottom or top of the website.

The placing and reading of cookies on your terminal requires your prior consent, by clicking on “I accept”. However, you can configure your browser to refuse cookies or to personalise the cookie parameters by following one of the procedures below. If you accept the use of cookies, your agreement will be valid for 13 months.

It will then be necessary to renew your agreement at the end of this period.

For Mozilla firefox :

Choose the “tool” menu, then “Options”, Click on the “privacy” icon, Find the “cookie” menu and select the options that suit you.

For Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and above:

Choose the “Tools” menu, then “Internet Options”, Click on the “Confidentiality” tab, Select the desired level with the cursor.

For Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 :

Choose the “Tools” menu, then “Internet Options”, Click on the “Security” tab, Select “Internet” then “Custom Level”, Locate the “Cookies” section and choose the option that suits you.

For Opera 6.0 and above :

Choose the “File” menu, “Preferences”, “Privacy” and select the options that suit you.

For Safari :

In the Safari menu, choose “Preferences”, “Security” and select the options that suit you.

By refusing to accept cookies, or deleting stored cookies, you will be informed that you will no longer be able to benefit from a certain number of functionalities which are nevertheless necessary to navigate certain areas of our website. Where applicable, we decline all responsibility for the consequences linked to the degraded functioning of our services resulting from the impossibility for us to record or consult the cookies necessary for their functioning and which you would have refused or deleted.

Finally, a distinction must be made between the cookies we issue on our site https://www.co-nect.fr and those issued by third parties.

In this respect, you should be aware that cookies may be placed from time to time on certain pages of the https://www.co-nect.fr site by third parties (advertisers or else). This is the case, for example, for cookies from the social network Facebook. We inform you that we have no control over the use of cookies by third parties.

Conditions of use of Personal Data

A –  Purposes collecting and processing of Personal Data

Users’ Personal Data is collected and processed only for the purposes defined in this article, namely:

  • To provide and manage our services.
  • Communicate with users and improve the quality of our services, i.e. answer your questions and keep you informed of our news.
  • Resolve any possible dispute or settle any problem in connection with the use of our services.
  • Generating statistical reports and studies on the basis of anonymised data.
  • Manage your quotation request.
  • Communication and marketing.

Any use of Personal Data for purposes other than those set out above in our Privacy and Data Protection Policy will require your prior consent.

The legal basis for the collection of your Personal Data for the above-mentioned purposes is your consent as provided for in article 6-1-a of the European Regulation on Personal Data. This constitutes the free, specific, informed and unambiguous expression of will by which you agree, by the positive act of accepting this Privacy and Data Protection Policy, that Personal Data concerning you may be processed.

As provided for in article 7 of the GDPR, you may, at any time, withdraw your consent, without prejudice to the lawfulness of the processing based on your consent carried out prior to the withdrawal of such consent.

Communication and marketing

Our legal reason for processing your personal data is to send you marketing communications in our legitimate interest in developing our business.

In accordance with the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, we may send you marketing communications if:

  • You have made a purchase or requested information about our products and/or services.
  • You have agreed to receive marketing communications.
  • And in either case, if you have not opted out of receiving such communications.

Under these rules, as a business, we may send you marketing communications without your consent. However, you can always opt-out of receiving these communications at any time.

B – Duration of storage

We undertake to keep your Personal Data only for the period of time strictly necessary for the declared processes according to the aforementioned purposes, and in any case within the limits imposed by law. Also, depending on the type of Personal Data, the storage period may vary from a few days to several years.

In any event, we undertake to delete your Personal Data from our databases at the end of these different periods.

However, we may retain certain information for a later period in order to meet our legal, accounting and tax obligations and in particular to prevent possible illicit behaviour after the deletion of your Personal Account (reuse of your old account by a third party). In this case, your data will be deactivated and will no longer be accessible online.

Information shared with third parties

A – Absence of communication to third parties

We undertake not to divulge to third parties any information and Personal Data that you communicate to us. This information and Personal Data is exclusively used by our internal services and will under no circumstances be transferred or sold to third parties without your express prior consent.

B – Communication for external processing purposes

Your information and Personal Data may, if necessary, be transmitted to third party subcontractors involved in the provision of our services (technical and hosting service providers, customer follow-up and satisfaction surveys, management of security incidents or fraudulent activity, etc.).

The owner of the website https://www.co-nect.fr undertakes to communicate your information and Personal Data only to authorised and trusted service providers, who process them on its behalf, according to its instructions and in accordance with these Confidentiality Rules and in compliance with any other appropriate security and confidentiality measures.

C – Communication for legal reasons

In addition, your information and Personal Data may be disclosed to a third party if the website https://www.co-nect.fr is required to do so by law, a regulatory provision or a court order, or if such disclosure is necessary for the purposes of an investigation, injunction or legal proceedings, whether in France or abroad.

Similarly, we may share your information and Personal Data with companies, consultants or third parties for the purpose of:

Enforcing the Privacy Policy and the General Terms and Conditions of Sale of the https://www.co-nect.fr website in force, including to identify any breaches thereof.

Protection against any infringement of the rights, property or security of the website https://www.co-nect.fr and its users, in application and respect of the law.

D – Transfer of data outside the European Union

We do not transfer any Personal Data of our Users outside the European Union

Protection of Personal Data

We take all necessary security measures to protect your Personal Data against unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration, damage or destruction of the data held.

To this end, the website https://www.co-nect.fr and its technical and hosting providers have taken appropriate measures to ensure the integrity, confidentiality and security of your Personal Data. However, we cannot guarantee that your communications and other Personal Data will not be intercepted or disclosed by a third party. We inform you that your Personal Data is stored on servers located in the European Union.

In order to contribute to the protection of your Personal Data, please ensure that you choose a sufficiently secure password when registering for our Service. Under the General Terms and Conditions of Use of the Site to which you have subscribed, you are solely responsible for keeping your password confidential and for its use.

User’s rights of the website https://www.co-nect.fr

You have a right of information and access (e.g. to check your data that we may hold), a right of correction and deletion (to update or correct your data), a right to limit the processing of Personal Data, a right of portability, a right of opposition, and a right of deletion (e.g. to close your personal account) of your Personal Data, as well as a right not to be subject to an automated individual decision, including profiling.

In addition, it should be specified that these rights give you the possibility to change your notification preferences at any time, by accepting or refusing that your Personal Data be used for our marketing or promotional actions.

You may exercise these rights at any time in two ways you may choose:

By post to the address set out in section 3 above

By e-mail to: communication@co-nect.fr

If you exercise these rights, we will endeavour to respond to your requests as soon as possible, within the maximum legal limit of one month, without incurring any costs, subject to any abuse of rights. In this case, before exercising this right, we may ask you for proof of your identity, in order to verify that you are entitled to make such a request.

In the event of a dispute or disagreement, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.