PRIVACY POLICY
Laboratoires Brothier attaches great importance to protecting personal data it handles. For this reason, Laboratoires Brothier provides you with all necessary information on how it protects your privacy and processes your personal data.
This Privacy Policy applies to personal data (hereinafter, referred to as the “Data”) that we collect about you in order to provide you with the services that we offer.
By using our site or by communicating your Data to us by phone or e-mail, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not accept the provisions of this policy, please do not use our site or communicate your Data to us. In this case, you agree not to benefit from all the services and other advantages offered by Laboratoires Brothier.
1. WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR PROCESSING YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
Laboratoires Brothier (hereinafter “Brothier”), a société par actions simplifiées (a simplified joint-stock company) with a share capital of €2,646,000, registered in the Nanterre RCS (Trade and Companies Register) under number B 572 156 305, with its registered office at 41, rue de Neuilly, 92000 Nanterre, France, SIRET nb. 57215630500029 is responsible for processing your Data and determines the purposes and technical and legal means of such processing.
Brothier undertakes to take all technical and organisational measures necessary to guarantee a processing that is secure and compliant with the European Regulation of April 26, 2016 on the protection of individuals with regards to the processing of Personal Data and the free circulation of such Data (hereinafter the GDPR Regulation).
2. WHAT IS PERSONAL DATA?
Personal Data includes all information about an identified or identifiable individual. This may be a last name, first name, e-mail address, client number, telephone number, or any other information relating to a person.
3. WHAT DATA DO WE COLLECT, FOR WHAT PURPOSE, AND ON WHAT LEGAL BASIS?
3.1 DATA WE COLLECT DIRECTLY FROM YOU
1. When you contact us by telephone, mail, email, or text message, we use your Data to process your request and to send you information. If you contact our Customer Service (or vice versa), we will use Data such as your contact history to process your request and provide you with the best possible service (performance of a contract to which you are a party or performance of pre-contractual measures).
2. We may also send you requests for products and services similar to those for which you have previously submitted information requests, communicate about our activities and offer you to take part in events (legitimate interests of the Data controller).
3. When you contact us as a supplier, we process the Data of the persons involved in the business relationship (performance of a contract to which you are a party or performance of pre-contractual measures).
Brothier processes your Data only to the extent necessary for the purposes for which they were obtained.
3.2 DATA WE COLLECT WHEN YOU INTERACT WITH THE WEBSITE
Browsing the Website may cause cookies to be installed on the User’s computer. A cookie is a file installed on the User’s terminal (computer, tablet, or smartphone), which records information about the browsing on a website. The Data obtained in this way is intended to facilitate subsequent browsing on the site and is also used to measure the number of visitors to the site. You can set your browser to notify you of the presence of cookies and refuse them. However, certain site functions may no longer be available if the User refuses to install cookies.
We invite you to consult the “Legal Notice” section of the Website for further information on cookies.
4. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR DATA?
We will only keep your Data for as long as is necessary for the purposes for which it was collected and in accordance with current legislation.
5. TO WHOM MAY YOUR DATA BE TRANSMITTED?
As part of the performance of our services, we may subcontract some or all of our tasks to operational and technical subcontractors who are contractually bound to us.
Brothier requires its subcontractors to comply with Data protection laws and regulations and to provide sufficient guarantees as to the implementation of appropriate technical and organisational measures, so that the processing meets the requirements of applicable Data protection legislation and guarantees the protection of your rights.
We neither sell nor disclose, in any way whatsoever, the Data we collect about you to third parties.
In certain circumstances, our Website will provide you with plug-ins from various social networks. If you choose to interact with social networking sites such as Facebook or Instagram (for example, by creating an account), your activity on our site will also be accessible on these social networks. If you are connected to one of these social networks during your visit to one of our sites or if you interact with one of the social plug-ins, the social network site may add this information to your profile depending on your privacy settings. If you wish to prevent this type of data transfer, please log-out of your social network account before accessing any of our sites, or change your privacy settings, if possible. Please read the privacy policies of these social networks for detailed information on the collection and transfer of personal information, your rights and ways to secure satisfactory privacy settings.
6. DATA TRANSFERS
There are no plans to transfer “Personal Data” to countries that do not have an adequate level of protection as defined by GDPR.
7. WHAT ARE YOUR RIGHTS?
7.1 RIGHT OF ACCESS
You have the right to consult your Data at any time and free of charge by sending an email to dpo@brothier.com or a letter to Brothier’s head office at 41, rue de Neuilly, 92000 Nanterre, France.
7.2 RIGHT OF RECTIFICATION
You have the right to request that any incorrect Data be corrected, and that inappropriate or no longer necessary Data be deleted by sending an email to dpo@brothier.com or by mailing us a written request to Brothier’s had office at 41, rue de Neuilly, 92000 Nanterre, France.
We draw your attention to the fact that you are required, at all times, to check the accuracy of the Data that you share with us.
7.3 RIGHT TO BE FORGOTTEN
If you no longer wish your Data to be processed and you are eligible for the right to erasure, we will delete your Data from our database.
7.4 RIGHT TO PORTABILITY
If necessary, you will have the right to the portability of your Data under the conditions provided for by the applicable Data protection legislation.
7.5 RIGHT TO OBJECT
You have the right to object to any use of your Data for prospecting purposes. You may exercise your right to object either by using the automated processes provided for this purpose in the e-mails sent to you or by sending an email to this effect to dpo@brothier.com.
7.6 RIGHT TO LIMIT PROCESSING
You have the right to obtain from Brothier the limitation of the processing of your Data, in accordance with the applicable Data protection legislation.
8. INFORMATION REGARDING CHILDREN
As a general rule, we do not intentionally collect personal information about children under the age of 15. If we discover that we have inadvertently collected information about children under the age of 15, we will take steps to delete the information as soon as possible, unless we are required to obtain it by applicable law.
When we know that a child is older than 15 but is considered a minor under applicable law, we will obtain parental / guardian consent before using that child’s personal information.
9. LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES AND SERVICES
Our sites may contain links to third party sites, and some of our services give you access to third party services (such as social networks).
We have no control over how third-party sites and services process your personal information. We do not review third-party sites and services, and we are not responsible for these third-party sites and services or their privacy policies. Please read the privacy statements of any third-party sites or services you access from our sites or services.
10. SECURITY
We have developed appropriate technical and organisational security rules to prevent the destruction, loss, falsification, modification, unauthorised access, accidental disclosure to third parties and any other unauthorised processing of Data.
11. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
Brothier’s liability shall be limited to direct damages, to the exclusion of any indirect damages. Brothier shall never be liable for damages deemed indirect such as, but not limited to, loss of Data, financial or commercial loss, loss of profits, increase in overheads, disruption of planning.
Furthermore, Brothier cannot be held liable for any damage resulting from illegitimate manipulation of Data by third parties (theft of Data, viruses, phishing or other computer crimes).
We would also like to point out that links to the Website may contain hypertext links and other references to other sites that we do not manage or control and to which these provisions do not apply. We are not responsible for the content of these sites nor the offers, products, and services they provide. We therefore recommend that you carefully read the privacy policy of each site you visit, which may differ from the present policy.
12. HOW TO CONTACT THE DATA PROTECTION OFFICER?
If you believe that we are failing to meet any of our legal and/or contractual obligations, please contact us. We will do our utmost to follow up as soon as possible. Brothier, the Data controller, has appointed a Data Protection Officer, who is independently responsible for ensuring the internal application of the rules governing the protection and management of your Personal Data.
You have the right to file a complaint concerning the processing of your Personal Data by Brothier with the Data Protection Officer:
- by mailing a letter to the Data Protection Officer: 41, rue de Neuilly – 92000 Nanterre, France or
- by e-mail: dpo@brothier.com
13. APPLICABLE LAW AND JURISDICTION
These provisions shall be governed by, interpreted and enforced in accordance with French law, which shall be the sole applicable law in the event of a dispute.
IN THE EVENT OF ANY DISPUTE ARISING IN CONNECTION WITH THE VALIDITY, PERFORMANCE OR INTERPRETATION OF THIS CHARTER, JURISDICTION IS EXPRESSLY ASSIGNED TO THE COURTS OF PARIS, NOTWITHSTANDING PLURALITY OF DEFENDANTS OR THIRD PARTIES, EVEN FOR EMERGENCY PROCEEDINGS OR PROTECTIVE PROCEEDINGS IN CHAMBERS OR BY PETITION, AND EXCEPT WHERE A PROVISION OF PUBLIC POLICY GRANTS EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION TO ANOTHER COURT.
14. EFFECTIVE DATE
This policy was created and came into force in May 2024. We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of this policy at any time.