LEGAL NOTICE

Website editor and Director of publication: AQUALINES – CCI Bayonne Pays Basque – 1, rue de Donzac – 64100 Bayonne – France
Hosting: OVH
Design and development: AQUALINES

GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE

1. Scope of application

These General Terms and Conditions of Use (hereinafter “GTCU”) govern the use of the “AQUALINES” website operated by AQUALINES (hereinafter “AQUALINES”)

2. Content and access to the website

2.1. The website AQUALINES (hereinafter the “Website”) presents the activities led by AQUALINES.

The information contained on the website is as accurate as possible, but may however contain inaccuracies or omissions.

Our website may contain hyperlinks to other websites or other resources available on the Internet. AQUALINES has no means to control the linked websites, for which AQUALINES may not be held liable.

2.2. If the Internet user is a minor, he declares that he has obtained authorisation to use the Website from the holder(s) of parental authority concerning him and that the holder(s) of parental authority has/have agreed to guarantee the minor user’s compliance with the GTCU.

2.3. AQUALINES reserves the right, without prior notice or compensation, to temporarily close the Website, in particular to carry out maintenance or update operations or changes in accessibility hours, without this list being exhaustive. AQUALINES cannot be held liable in case of unavailability of the Website for any reason whatsoever.

3. Intellectual property rights

All the content of this Website, all texts, comments, photos, brands, logos, illustrations and images of the Works on the Website, the graphic charters and the software, without this list being exhaustive, are protected by intellectual property and worldwide.

Any total or partial reproduction or representation of any of these rights without the express authorisation of AQUALINES, or its author as identified on the Website, is strictly prohibited and would constitute an act of infringement prohibited by the Intellectual Property Code. This representation or reproduction, by any process whatsoever, constitutes an infringement punishable by articles L.335-2 et seq. of the Intellectual Property Code. Failure to comply with this prohibition constitutes an infringement which may result in the infringer’s civil and criminal liability. In addition, the owners of the copied content may bring legal action against you.

Accordingly, the Internet user shall refrain from any action or act which may directly or indirectly infringe the intellectual property rights of AQUALINES and the authors.

4. Use

The Internet user shall not:

Access the Website or remain on the Website fraudulently, hinder or alter the operation of the Website, in particular by introducing viruses or any other program likely to damage and/or undermine the Website’s data;
Use the Website for any unlawful, illegal, malicious or discriminatory purpose;
Hinder the proper operation of the Website;
To collect information about other Internet users, or to harm other Internet users, directly or indirectly.

5. Security

Any fraudulent access to the Website or attempted fraudulent access is prohibited and criminally sanctioned. AQUALINES complies with best practice in order to secure the Website. However, AQUALINES cannot be held liable for IT security breaches that may cause damage to your equipment and data or third-party intrusion despite the security measures put in place.

6. Liability

Each Internet user is alone responsible for the use made of the Website and/or the information provided on the Website and AQUALINES shall under no circumstances be held liable for any direct or indirect damage resulting from the use of the Website and/or such information by the Internet user.

The Internet user undertakes not to interfere with or interrupt the normal operation of the Website. AQUALINES shall also not be held liable for damage resulting from fraudulent access by a third party resulting in a modification of the information posted on the Website.

As publisher of the Website within the meaning of Article 6. III-1 of the Law to support confidence in the digital economy (LCEN), AQUALINES is responsible for the content it publishes on its Website.

7. Personal data

Your personal data is collected when you register to receive the Newsletter. It is processed in accordance with the Privacy Policy and Cookies Policy.

8. General provisions and applicable law

AQUALINES reserves the right to modify these GTCU at any time by posting a new version on the Website. The GTCU are those in force on the date of the order for the Work.
The Website is accessible in English.
These General Terms and Conditions of Use are subject to French law.

PRIVACY POLICY

This privacy policy (hereinafter the “Policy”) is published by the company AQUALINES SAS, Tel: +33 6 82 26 49 66, email: contact@aqualines.com (hereinafter “AQUALINES”, also referred to as “we”, “our”).

When you browse our website and/or when you register for receiving our newsletter, we may collect and process some of your personal data, as data controller (hereinafter “Data Controller”) within the meaning of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (hereinafter the “GDPR”).

As such, as Data Controller, AQUALINES is sensitive to the privacy of its Internet users and the protection of their personal data. AQUALINES undertakes to ensure compliance of the processing of personal data it carries out in accordance with the applicable provisions of the GDPR and the French Law No 78-17 of 6 January 1978 on information technology, files and civil liberties.

The purpose of this Policy is to inform you about AQUALINES’s practices in the collection, use, and sharing of information and personal data that you may provide to us.

1. The collection and processing of personal data carried out by AQUALINES

1.1 Visit to our website AQUALINES

If you visit our website for simple information about AQUALINES, without registering for receiving our newsletter or asking for contact with the AQUALINES form, we then collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server (the “server log files”). AQUALINES collects the following data, which are necessary to view the website:

Browser used;– Operating system used;
IP address;
Date and time of access;
Amount of data sent in bytes;
Source from which you came to the page.

This data is stored and used exclusively for the purpose of ensuring the access and functionality of our website.

The legal basis for processing this data is based on our legitimate interest in providing access to our website in accordance with Art. 6.1 (f) GDPR.

You can consult our cookie policy to manage your settings and obtain detailed information in this respect.

1.2 Asking for contact with AQUALINES’s form

The information collected on the contact forms on the www.aqualines.com website is sent by e-mail to AQUALINES in order to make commercial proposals relating to AQUALINES’s services.
This information is sent using the https protocol under an SSL certificate to protect the information when it is sent.

This data is as follows :
Name (mandatory)
Surname (mandatory)
E-mail address (mandatory)
Free message in which you can include other personal details (your surname, first name, job title, special features, etc).

The data provided is only stored in the e-mail inbox of the form recipients at AQUALINES, in the administrative part of the site, which tracks message history and the associated data, and in a specific file on AQUALINES’s manager and sales manager’s secured server. The devices on which this data is available (mobile phones and computers are protected by a password).

You may refuse to provide your personal data. In this case, you shall not be able to use the website’s services, in particular, to request information about our company or receive newsletters.

You may withdraw your consent at any time via the link provided for this purpose in each of the newsletters or by sending an email to the address specified in the “Contact us” section of this Policy.

The data collected is stored for a period of three years and will then be deleted or archived.

At the end of this period, all of your collected data will be automatically deleted, unless you exercise your right to delete before this period, or a longer retention period is required under a statutory or regulatory provision.

1.3 Subscription to AQUALINES’s newsletter

When you agree to receive our newsletter by email, we send you emails to keep you informed about news relating with our company. In this context, AQUALINES collects some of your personal data, namely: surname, given name, country and city of residence, postal code, email address.

This data is stored and used exclusively for the purpose of sending you our newsletters.

The legal basis for the processing of this data is your consent in accordance with Article 6.1 (a) GDPR.

The data collected is stored for a period of three years and will then be deleted or archived.

2. Retention period of personal data

In accordance with the GDPR, we will use your personal data for specified purposes for which it was collected (as described in Article I above) or to comply with any regulations for limited periods.

The following table summarises the periods for which we keep your personal data:

Category of personal data: Personal data related to the sending of the newsletter

Retention period: Three (3) years from data collection and/or last contact with the prospect

Category of personal data: Cookies and log files

Retention period: Six (6) months from the placement of the cookie

In addition, except as specifically provided in this Policy, AQUALINES archives or deletes all personal data stored when it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected and processed.

3. AQUALINES’s obligations

For the processing of personal data carried out in particular through the website, AQUALINES is the Data Controller.

As Data Controller, AQUALINES undertakes to:

To process your personal data fairly and lawfully for specified purposes;
Process your personal data only for the purposes described in Section I of this Policy;
Implement all appropriate technical and organisational measures necessary to ensure the security, confidentiality, integrity, availability and resilience of process systems and services;
Limit access to your personal data to persons duly authorised for this purpose;
Raise awareness and train employees in the processing of personal data;
Notify the competent supervisory authority of any security breach presenting a serious risk to the rights and freedoms of users of our website within 72 hours of the occurrence of such a breach;
Ensure that processors within the meaning of the GDPR have implemented all necessary technical and organisational measures to ensure the security, confidentiality, integrity, availability and resilience of processing systems and services.

4. Recipients of collected data

The personal data collected and processed by AQUALINES are only accessible to persons duly authorised for administrative, commercial, website maintenance or order management purposes of AQUALINES.

The collected data may be transmitted to our service providers, IT providers and hosts in accordance with the provisions of this Policy. These service providers are external companies that can be used to help us carry out our business.

Data processors and service providers and their personnel are subject to a duty of confidentiality and may only use the data on our behalf for the specific tasks entrusted to them, on the basis of our instructions, in accordance with the aforementioned purposes and in accordance with the provisions of the GDPR.

AQUALINES’s service providers are:
• To operate the AQUALINES website: AQUALINES
• To send an email and newsletter campaign: AQUALINES

AQUALINES may share personal data with third parties, where required by law, or if such disclosure is necessary to respond to any complaint made against it, comply with any legal request, in the event of an emergency involving public health or the physical integrity of a person, in the context of an enquiry and investigation or in order to guarantee the rights, property and safety of AQUALINES.

4. Your rights

Pursuant to the GDPR, you have several rights. You have:

the right to access and receive a copy of your personal data available to AQUALINES;
the right to access your personal data in order to rectify, modify or erase any error or incorrect information;
the possibility of requesting the deletion and erasure of all data available to AQUALINES;
the right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data for marketing purposes or to the processing carried out;
the right to request the suspension of the processing of your personal data;
the right to portability, that is to say the right to receive the data we possess in a commonly used and legible structured format and the right to transmit such data to another data controller;
the right to define guidelines on the fate of your personal data after your death.

All of these rights may be exercised upon your written request, accompanied by a copy of a valid and signed proof of identity, sent by email to the following email address contact@aqualines.com, or by post to the following address: AQUALINES, CCI Bayonne Pays Basque – 1, rue de Donzac – 64100 Bayonne – France.

In order for AQUALINES to respond to you within a reasonable time, your request must be clear, specific and substantiated. AQUALINES reserves the right not to respond to any request that does not meet these criteria.

You also have the right to contact and lodge a complaint with the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (https://www.cnil.fr) and the right to obtain compensation from the courts having jurisdiction.