Privacy policy

Introduction

The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us, and we are committed to protecting it. This policy details what we do with your personal information at KDVTransLog.

Collection of personal information

The following types of personal information may be collected, stored and used:

  • Name
  • First name
  • Email
  • Phone number
  • IP Address

Personal information can be collected via:

  • Contact forms
  • Password reset form
  • Cookies

Use of your personal information

The 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 to :

  • Purposes related to the execution of a contract: data are collected for the execution of a contract or the implementation of pre-contractual measures at the request of the user.
  • Purposes related to the legitimate interest of the company: data are collected to protect the legitimate interests of the company, such as customer relationship management, claims management, system security, etc.
  • Purposes related to legal obligation: the data is collected to comply with a legal obligation, such as keeping records for accounting or compliance with data protection laws.
  • Purposes related to obtaining the user’s consent: data is collected with the user’s consent, for example to send newsletters or special offers.
  • Purposes related to the protection of the vital interests of the user: data are collected to protect the vital interests of the user, for example in case of an imminent danger situation.
  • Purposes related to the improvement of the website: data is collected to analyze and improve the website, for example to personalize the user experience.
  • Purposes related to marketing retargeting: data is collected to target advertisements and marketing communications based on the user’s browsing history on the website.

Before you disclose personal information about another person to us, you must obtain that person’s consent to the disclosure and processing of that personal information under the terms of this policy.

If you submit personal information on our website for the purpose of publishing it, we will publish it and may use this information in accordance with the permissions you grant us.

Without your explicit consent, we will not provide your personal information to third parties for their or other third parties’ direct marketing purposes.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) can be sent to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. Gravatar service privacy clauses are available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After validating your comment, your profile picture will be visible publicly next to your comment.

If you are a registered user and upload images to the website, we recommend that you avoid uploading images containing EXIF data of GPS coordinates. Visitors to your website can download and extract location data from these images.

Disclosure of your personal information

We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisors, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors to the extent reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries) to the extent reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information :

  • To the extent we are required to do so by law;
  • In the context of any ongoing or future legal proceedings;
  • To establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction purposes);
  • To the buyer (or potential buyer) of any business or asset in our possession that we wish (or plan) to sell;
  • To any person whom we reasonably believe is a party of a court or other competent authority for the disclosure of such personal information if, in our opinion, such a court or authority would be likely to request the disclosure of this personal information.
    Unless otherwise provided for in this policy, we will not pass your personal information to third parties.

International data transfers

The information we collect may be stored, processed and transferred in all countries in which we operate, 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 in the European Economic Area: the United States of America, Russia, Japan, China and India.

Personal information that you post on our website or submit for publication may be available, via the internet, worldwide. We cannot prevent the use, right or wrong, of this information by third parties.

You expressly agree to the transfer of personal information described in this part.

Retention of your personal information

Personal information that we process for any purpose is not retained longer than necessary for that purpose or purposes.

Without prejudice to the article, we will generally remove personal data from these categories

The data retention period is 2 years

We will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data :

  • To the extent we are required to do so by law;
  • If we believe the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or potential legal proceedings;
  • To establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction purposes).

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are kept indefinitely. This automatically recognizes and approves subsequent comments instead of leaving them in the moderation queue.

For users who register on our site (if possible), we also store the personal data indicated in their profile. All users can view, modify or delete their personal information at any time (with the exception of their user name ice). The site managers can also see and modify this information.

Security of your personal information

We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.

We will store any personal information you provide us on secure servers (password and firewall protected).

All electronic financial transactions carried out through our website will be protected by encryption technologies.

You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and that we cannot guarantee the security of your data sent over the internet.

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password you use to access our website; we will not ask you for your password (except when you identify yourself on our website).

The rights you have over your data

If you have an account or if you have left comments on the site, you can request to receive a file containing all the personal data that we have about you, including those that you have provided us. You can also request the deletion of your personal data. This does not take into account data stored for administrative, legal or security purposes.

For any inquiries regarding your data, you can contact our Data Protection Officer (DPO): KDVTransLog via the contact form on our website or by post: KDVTransLog – Rue Louis Gay-Lussac, 57460 Behren-lès-Forbach

Third party websites

Our website contains hypertext links 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 this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles…). Content embedded from other sites behaves in the same way as if the visitor went to that other site.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking tools, track your interactions with embedded content if you have a logged-in account on their website.

Cookies

Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) 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 « persistent » or « session »: a persistent cookie is stored by the browser and remains valid until its expiration date, unless deleted by the user before this expiration date; as for a session cookie, it expires at the end of the user session, when closing the browser. Cookies generally do not contain any personally identifiable information about a user, but the personal information we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained by the cookie.

We may use cookies to :

  • Recognize a computer when a user visits the website
  • Track users as they browse the website
  • Activate the use of a basket on the website
  • Improve the use of a website
  • Analyze the use of the website
  • Administer the website
  • Prevent fraud and improve website security
  • Customize the website for each user
  • Send targeted advertisements that may interest certain users

For this, we can use the following services:

  • Google analytics

Most browsers allow you to refuse or accept cookies:

  • with Internet Explorer (version 10) you can block cookies using the cookie management override settings available by clicking on « Tools », « Internet options », « Privacy » then « Advanced »;
  • with Firefox (version 24) you can block all cookies by clicking on « Tools », « Options », « Privacy » and then selecting « Use custom settings for history » from the dropdown menu and unticking « Accept cookies from sites »;
  • with Chrome (version 29) you can block all cookies by accessing the menu « Customize and control » then clicking on « Settings », « Show advanced settings » and « Content settings » then selecting « Prevent sites from setting data » in the header « Cookies ».

Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact on the use of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features of our website.

You can delete the cookies already stored on your computer:

  • with Internet Explorer (version 10), you must delete the cookie file manually (you can find instructions to do it here );
  • with Firefox (version 24) you can delete cookies by clicking on «Tools», «Options», and «Privacy», then selecting «Use custom settings for history» and clicking on «Show cookies», then on «Delete all cookies»;
  • with Chrome (version 29) you can delete all cookies by accessing the menu « Customize and control » then clicking on « Settings », « Show advanced settings » and « Delete browsing data » then « Delete cookies and module data from other sites » before clicking on «Delete browsing data».

Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the use of many websites.

If you go to the login page, a temporary cookie will be created to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. It does not contain any personal data and will be automatically deleted when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will set a number of cookies to save your login information and screen preferences. The lifetime of a login cookie is two days, that of a screen option cookie is one year. If you check « Remember me », your login cookie will be kept for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookie will be deleted.

By editing or publishing a publication, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie does not include any personal data. It simply indicates the ID of the post you have just modified. It expires after one day.

Changes to the privacy policy

We may update this policy from time to time by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page regularly to ensure that you are aware of any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by e-mail or through our website’s private messaging service.