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PRIVACY POLICY

When you visit the website on a personal computer, tablet or mobile phone, Parallele Media collects and processes personal data about you which is necessary for the site to display the content you wish to consult / view / read online. In accordance with European Regulation n ° 2016/679 of April 27, 2016 on the protection of personal data (the “RGPD”), Parallele Media informs you that this is a processing of data without consent “necessary for the 'performance' of the contract between you, "Reader", and us, "Parallele Media" (art.6.1(f) GDPR). Among the data concerning you that Parallele Media processes, Parallele Media is likely to use the processing or storage capacities of your terminal (for example by the use of “cookies”) as well as certain technical data emitted or transmitted by your terminal .

Identification of the person responsible for processing your personal data

By collecting and processing the personal data of its Online Readers, Parallele Media acts as the controller of your data. You will find details of the legal identification of Parallele Media by clicking on the contact page.

In order to guarantee its Readers complete transparency on the processing of their personal data, Parallele Media has chosen to appoint a Personal Data Manager (the “PDR”). For the exercise of your “RGPD rights” or to answer any questions about the processing of personal data by Parallele Media, you can contact the RDP of Parallele Media by email at the address: contact@vl-media.fr

The details of the “GDPR rights” which are offered by Parallele Media to its Readers appear in article 8 of the Parallele Media personal data protection policy.

Purpose of processing your personal data

All personal data collected directly and processed directly by Parallele Media from its website is intended to enable Parallele Media to technically provide an efficient service for its Readers (improve your navigation on our website) and the computer security necessary for the proper operation of the website (technical identification of your terminal for example).

This data is collected either automatically when your device connects to the website, or when you transmit information about yourself to Parallele Media (for example via registration forms) and is intended to allow Parallele Media to operate technically the website  as well as the use of the various services offered on the website.

Finally, some of your personal data is necessary for Parallele Media to enable us to provide you with the services described in our General Conditions. To consult the complete text of the General Conditions of the website, please consult the internal site.

Except to allow Parallele Media to offer you a personalized online advertising service, Parallele Media undertakes not to market your personal data to third parties, except to inform you and possibly ask for your prior consent.

Duration of retention of your personal data

Parallele Media undertakes to keep your personal data for a period of two (2) years from your last connection to the website. If you do not reconnect to our website during this period, Parallele Media will erase all of your personal data, retaining only minimum data allowing Parallele Media to justify actions taken on your data as part of the exercise of your GDPR rights.

The retention period of your personal data may be different when you use one or more of the services offered to you online on the website. Each of these services will indicate the retention period specifically adopted by Parallele Media.

Details of the data collected by Parallele Media

The categories of personal data concerning you collected and processed by Parallele Media are as follows:

the IP addresses of the terminals (in particular computer, tablet, smartphone) that you use to consult the website

history of the URLs of the hypertext links (or http link) through which you access the website.

technical data relating to your terminal and the web browsing software (browser or browser) of your terminal that you use to consult the website  (terminal operating system, browser version, etc.)

Recipients of your personal data

Parallele Media is the sole recipient of personal data collected from the website and processed by Parallele Media. Parallele Media has implemented an internal policy with its employees and collaborators so that only employees or collaborators who have a professional interest in accessing it as part of their duties can access your personal data.

For purely technical reasons, Parallele Media may have to subcontract certain services at its expense (such as website hosting, for example). In all cases of outsourcing of the processing of some of your personal data, Parallele Media has implemented a contractual policy with each of its subcontractors so that the security of your data is ensured by each of the subcontractors of Parallele Media under conditions at least as high as those put in place by Parallele Media. Parallele Media has taken particular care to ensure that none of its subcontractors with direct access to your personal data has the right to reproduce your data either for its own benefit or for the benefit of anyone else, nor of course to market them.

In the event that Parallele Media subcontracts all or part of the personal data concerning you, Parallele Media will remain solely responsible for the processing with regard to you. In general, Parallele Media has implemented an internal policy allowing it to ensure that each of its subcontractors concerned complies with all the legal and technical provisions for the protection of your personal data in accordance with this commitment by Parallele Media to your regard.

Finally, Parallele Media reminds you that your personal data is stored on servers located exclusively on the territory of the European Union and guarantees that no transfer of your data to a country outside the European Union will take place, except (i) to inform you beforehand and, possibly, to ask for your agreement or (ii) if the country concerned benefits from an official decision of adequacy of the European Union which guarantees that your data will be protected in an equivalent way in the country concerned.

Technical measures to protect your personal data

In order to allow you to read the content offered on the website, Parallele Media has implemented authentication measures for its site by means of a security certificate. Thus, your connection to the website is secure if you see the address https:// (“s” as secure) appear in the URL of your browser. This secure connection between your terminal and our servers offers you maximum guarantees for securing the transfer of your data.

Your rights over your personal data processed by Parallele Media

To exercise your “GDPR rights” mentioned below, you must contact Parallele Media directly under the conditions set out below. In case of “reasonable doubts” as to your identity, Parallele Media may ask you to provide additional information necessary to confirm your identity and to wait to receive this additional information before taking any action relating to your data.

8.1. Proof of your identity

To ensure that Parallele Media can identify you as the person actually concerned by the right of access and/or rectification, you must send Parallele Media a copy of both sides of your identity card by post, also specifying your address. electronic. No request will be taken into account by Parallele Media in the absence of receipt of proof of your identity.

8.2. Right of access (article 15 GDPR)

You have the right to ask Parallele Media directly, free of charge, to confirm (or not) the existence of the processing of personal data concerning you. If Parallele Media actually processes personal data concerning you, Parallele Media undertakes to send you within thirty (30) days of your request, electronically, to the email address you provide (i) a full copy of the said data and information about you and (ii) all the additional information (including the purposes and recipients of the processing, the categories and the retention period of the data) set out in Article 13 GDPR.

However, Parallele Media reminds you that exercising the right to access and receive a copy of your data is free if you exercise it under reasonable conditions. If your requests for the right of access are "manifestly unfounded or excessive, in particular because of their repetitive nature" (art. 12.5 GDPR), Parallele Media may refuse to answer you or ask you for a financial contribution for the provision of this information.

You can exercise your right of access by writing to “Parallele Media – for the attention of the Data Protection Officer – 62 Rue du Couedic 75014 Paris with a copy of your identity card. Parallele Media then undertakes to give you online access to all of your data and to the information that Parallele Media is required to communicate to you. Parallele Media will not send any “paper” information.

8.3. Right of rectification (article 16 GDPR)

If you are actually a Reader of the website, you can obtain from Parallele Media, as soon as possible, the rectification of the personal data concerning you if this data were to be inaccurate.

. In all cases, and insofar as you can justify the erroneous nature of the data concerning you and processed by Parallele Media, click on this link.

8.4. Notification of personal data breaches (Article 34 GDPR)

Any “violation” of your personal data that would be observed by Parallele Media (and which would lead, accidentally or unlawfully, to unauthorized access or disclosure, alteration, loss or destruction of all or part of your data personal data) will be reported to the Commission Nationale Informatique et Libertés at the latest within 72 hours of the discovery by Parallele Media of this violation.

In the event that this violation of your personal data would result in a high risk for your rights and freedoms, Parallele Media undertakes to inform you as soon as possible, except:

whether Parallele Media has implemented technical and organizational protection measures and whether these measures have been applied to your personal data affected by the said breach, such as measures which make your [personal] data incomprehensible to anyone who is not authorized to have access to it if Parallele Media has taken subsequent measures which ensure that the high risk to your rights and freedoms is no longer likely to materialize

whether this information would require disproportionate efforts for Parallele Media. In this case, Parallele Media undertakes a public communication or a similar measure allowing you to be informed in an equally effective manner.

Right to oppose prospecting/profiling (article 21 GDPR)

Profiling for the purpose of personalizing advertising displayed online

Access to the website is free. In return for the free service offered to you online by Parallele Media, Parallele Media sells advertising space on its website. In order to personalize the advertisements that appear on the web pages of its site, Parallele Media processes your personal data for prospecting/profiling purposes.

If you do not want Parallele Media to profile your personal data for the personalization of advertisements that may appear on the website  when you consult it, you will have the free and permanent right to oppose any prospecting/profiling of your personal data by Parallele Media. All you have to do is click on the option offered online “stop personalization”. The exercise of your right of opposition will be taken into account within a maximum period of 7 days.

To inform Parallele Media of your decision to no longer accept the profiling of your personal data, you can configure the management of your “cookies” from the contact URL.

Use of your personal data by Parallele Media for commercial prospecting purposes

Parallele Media may use your personal data for the purpose of promoting its other products or services. If you do not want Parallele Media to use your personal data for this specific purpose, you have the free and permanent right to object to any prospecting of your personal data by Parallele Media.

You will be reminded of this right to oppose prospecting/profiling in each electronic prospecting communication from Parallele Media sent to you. If you click on the unsubscribe link to any commercial prospecting by Parallele Media or one of Parallele Media's contractual partners, all of your personal data used by Parallele Media for this prospecting is then permanently erased from Parallele Media's databases and Parallele Media will inform each of its business partners of your decision to stop all prospecting.

To inform Parallele Media of your decision to no longer receive commercial proposals from Parallele Media or its partners, you can write to Parallele Media – For the attention of the personal data department – 62 Rue du Couedic 75014 Paris.

If you exercise your right to oppose any prospecting or profiling by Parallele Media, Parallele Media undertakes to notify its commercial or technical partners as soon as possible of the exercise of your rights.

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