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VStrat Consulting Site Terms of Use

Last updated February 16 2020.

IMPORTANT! Please read the provisions of this agreement carefully before using the Website.

The Website as defined in the section below is operated by VStrat Consulting, whose founder is Valerie Argaut.

Type of Company : Société par actions simplifiée au capital de xx euros

Siège social : address

RCS Paris : B xxx xxx xxx

TVA FR xx xxx xxx xxx

Tél : (+33) (0)4 xx xx xx xx

e-mail address/ Courriel : valerie.argaut@vstrat-consulting.fr

1. Definitions and Generalities

1.1. Definitions

Throughout the Website and our Policies, the terms:

“we,” “us” and “our” refer to VStrat Consulting.
“the Website,” “our Website” or “this Website” refers to any of the following websites: www.vstrat-consulting.fr or www.vstrat-consulting.com or www.vstrat-consulting.eu
“User” refers to You or any natural person who accesses and is browsing on our Website.
“Service” or “Services” refers to any of the following, including but not limited to it : the access to our Website and any content of it, the possibility to contact us to make requests or exchange information via Contact Forms on the Contact Page, the possibility to fill in tests/queries/surveys for the purpose they are intended to, the possibility to consult articles and to receive communications from us (articles, newsletters, etc…).
“Content”: collective description of any content on our website, whether text-based, article, photographic, graphic, video or audio materials .

1.2. Generalities

Access to the Website

The website is accessible to any person connecting via the internet address : www.vstrat-consulting.fr or any of the other related addresses.

The utilization of the Website allows to access to a range of contents, describing VStrat Consulting and its services, but also to other information related to the professional environment and current trends and problematics, including through articles, possibly white papers or other documents. The website also allows to send requests to VStrat Consulting, enter into contact with its representatives.

The website browsing of most of its content is independent of any registration. The use of the Contact Form via the Contact Page requires to provide certain identification data (name, company, address, phone number, etc…) with also the possibility to express preferences/ centers of interest.

Utilization of the Website

VStrat Consulting grants you the right to use the Website and consult its Content for private use only. You, the User, can browse the Website, consult and enjoy any content, including all information, tools and services available from this site, conditioned upon your acceptance of all the terms, conditions, and policies stated here.

The User declares to have read, understood and unconditionally accepted the present Terms of Use. The utilization of any service of our Website requires the User to strictly respect them.

L’Utilisateur déclare avoir pris connaissance, compris et accepté sans réserve les présentes Conditions d’Utilisation L’utilisation d’un des Services proposés par notre Site en ligne oblige tout Utilisateur à s’y conformer strictement.

Prerequisite to the Utilization of the Website

The Website’s services are offered to any User, provided :

The User does not use this Site/ or its Services for any illegal or not authorized activity. Use of the Website must comply with law regulations.
The User does modify, adapt or hack this Website;
Interfering with the operation of the Website is prohibited
The User does not access to any part of this Website via automatized means without prior authorization (including search engine spider and bot traffic) or by any other mean than the proposed web interface) . Gaining access to the Website’s services through circumvention of the standard interface is prohibited.

2. Change to Terms of Use

VStrat Consulting reserves the right to modify this Terms and conditions of Use Notice at its own discretion at any time, and without prior warning, including modifications to the Website or any of its functionalities or to remain compliant with the Law evolution, in which case we would communicate it via a simple notice on our Website. New Terms of Use would then be readily applicable. Please do not hesitate to regularly check back at our Website to see what our Terms of Use are. Continued use of the Website after these modifications signifies your acceptance of them. If you do not consent to all the terms and conditions of use, you may not use our Website and services linked to it.

3. Intellectual property rights

VStrat Consulting owns all rights to the Website, including exclusive rights.

VStrat Consulting holds all the necessary rights, including:

Intellectual property rights (Copyrights, Trademarks…)
Licence for the materials and information published on the Website, including but not limited to text-based, photographic, graphic, and potential video and audio materials, regardless of their type

All content and functionality on the Website (including text, graphics, images, logos, videos, tools, models, industry perspectives underlying or embedded in the foregoing, along with any enhancements to or derivative works thereof (the “Content”) is the exclusive property of VStrat Consulting or its licensors and, to the extent applicable, is protected by French and international copyright laws, trademark where applicable and other applicable laws.

The use of any element or document (text, article, illustrations, report, picture, design, photos, videos, etc…) from the Website is authorized only for information and a personal and private use. Any reproduction, whether total or partial, copy, publication, or imitation of Vstrat Consulting Website Content, trademarks and logos, without prior consent or otherwise allowed through the present Terms of Use, is forbidden (in particular according to articles L713-2, L713-3, L335-3 and following of the French Intellectual Property Code).

Any utilization that could be done for a commercial purpose is forbidden. In case you would download, store on any of your device (computer, i-pads, phones, etc…) or print any content from the Website, it is strictly forbidden to remove or modify any copyright statements, to distribute it for commercial purpose or to include it / use it in one of your commercial products or services without expressed prior authorization from our part.

Any alteration, misrepresentation, insertion of information, dissemination, publication or reproduction of the Content of the Website which is not expressly covered by the provisions of these terms and conditions of use is prohibited, with the exception of cases provided for by the applicable legislation.

Unless otherwise specified, the rights of intellectual property concerning the documents/ contents of the Website and any element created for it are the exclusive property of VStrat Consulting and its providers, with no granting of other rights than the sole right to consult the Website.

All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

4. Registration or use of certain services on our Website

You may have to register to benefit specific services such as receiving newsletters or alerts or any other type of specific documentation potentially made available to you, whether articles, white papers, reports, etc…

To register, and so that we can provide you with the requested service, you will have to share with us certain personal data.

Similarly, you may place requests by using the Contact Forms of the Contact Page or other Formularies, including when asking for specific documents to be sent to you, and provide us with certain personal data during this occasion.

The goal of our Website nonetheless is not to collect or receive confidential data from you. Should you have to share some with us, they would have to be treated according to a Confidentiality Agreement or a specific clause in a contract in case of mission assigned or request for offer. Consequently, except for personal data as mentioned above, any information shared with us on our Website (whether through comments, social networks or any other mean and whatever the format) will not be judged confidential (at least once anonymized, ie if no identification can be done), and thus the sole action to share them with us grants us the right to use them, reproduce them, publish them, to modify them or transfer them in order to treat your request.

In all these cases, you also grant us the right to use your personal data, for the specific purpose of the request the most efficient way possible and to keep you informed our activities and services.

Given your implicit consent granted by the acceptance of these Terms of Use, we will handle your data carefully and commit not share personal data with third-parties without your prior consent, or to do it as specified in our Privacy Policy, to which you can refer for more information.

Of course, you can at any time withdrawn your consent for this use or request to unsubscribe.

5. Option to Unsubscribe

If you have registered for VStrat Consulting newsletter or alerts, or you receive articles or e-mails about our services, while you would prefer no longer to receive such communications from us, please do not hesitate to request that you unsubscribe, writing to us via the Contact Formulary on the Contact Page, specifically indicating “Unsubscribe” in the Object of the message or using the unsubscribe option in the e-communication you received.

6. Responsibilities

VStrat Consulting makes its best to ensure the exactitude and update of communicated information on the Website. However, we insist on the fact that this is the User’s duty to check the information available on the Website.

Consequently, VStrat Consulting declines any responsibility for any inaccuracy , error or omission (and the potential consequences of those) in the information provided on the Website, for any damage resulting from the fraudulous intrusion of a third party triggering a modification of the information or any object included on the website, and thereof more generally for any damage, direct or indirect, whatever the cause of it, nature or consequences, triggered by the accessing by anyone to the Website or the impossibility to access it, and similarly for any damage caused by the use of the Website (any damage to your computer system or more generally Device or loss of data, whether or not advised of the possibility of such damages) and/or the credit granted to the information/ content that is provided on it.

Also, it is the User’s responsibility to take the necessary steps/ precautions to prevent any potential infection from the Website, in particular arising from viruses, « Trojan horses » or any other adverse element, or to protect his personal data.

The Website is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. No advise nor any information obtained by the User of the Website, nor any access to the Website can create any Warranty of any kind, whether express or implied (suitability for any specific purpose or other).

Your use of this Website and Content and any download of any material from this site is done at your own discretion and risk. The connection to the Website is done under the sole responsibility of the User.

The website can contain hypertext links allowing by a simple click on it to be transferred to a third-party website, on which VStrat Consulting has no control and cannot assume any responsibility in case these third-party websites would not respect the applicable regulations.

The insertion of these hypertext links on the Website does not imply that VStrat Consulting is approving any of their content not the utilization that could be made of those.

Some external websites can also contain hypertext links directing towards our Website. Any such link must not be created/ inserted without prior consent from VStrat Consulting. In any case, VStrat Consulting is not responsible for any of the Content of such websites.

7. Protection of Personal Data

We at VStrat Consulting are respectful of your concern about privacy and committed to pay attention to the privacy rights’ protection, respecting the confidentiality of the personal information we collect and making our best effort to comply with the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), that you can view on the site: gdpr-info.eu.

For more information, please refer to our Privacy Policy.

8. Applicable legislation

The agreement (and enforcement thereof) to the Terms of Use is governed by the French legislation.

Non-compliance with the provisions of these Terms of USe or with the regulations exposes the infringing party to legal proceedings as well as penal sanctions.

If you feel your rights have not been respected, you may also lodge a complaint at any time to the relevant authority.

However we would appreciate the chance to deal with you and your concern directly in the first instance, before you approach any authority: by the present Terms of Use, the parties (You and Us) agree to do their best and whatever is possible to informally and amicably resolve any legal dispute.

In the event of a litigation related to the present Terms of Use, the case shall be submitted exclusively to the competent French courts.

9. Contact information

If you have any questions or comments about these Terms of Use, please contact us via e-mail at: vstrat-consulting@xxx, using the Contact Form on the Contact page, indicating in the Object field of this form: Other/Legal Information, or directly writing to the person responsible for VStrat Consulting: Valérie Argaut – valerie.argaut@vstrat-consulting.fr

Privacy policy

Last updated February 16 2020.

1. Definitions & Generalities

1.1. Definitions

Personal data, or personal information, is any information capable of identifying you as an individual person. It does not include data where the personal identifiers have been removed (anonymous data).

In the following, we name “We” or “Us” collectively anyone working for VStrat Consulting.

The Website or Our Website refers to the website http://www.vstrat-consulting.fr or any of the related websites such as : http://www.vstrat-consulting.com or http://www.vstrat-consulting.eu.

By visiting our Website, you become a User or the contents and services offered on our Website, whatever the Device you use (ie the terminal you use to access and navigate on our website (computer, i-pad, smartphone…))

1.2. Generalities

This Privacy Policy applies to the personal information we gather from our Site, mobile applications and social network sites referring to the present Privacy Policy. It does not apply to information obtained during the course of our services that are the object of specific contracts, and for which it is necessary to refer to the dedicated Clause of Confidentiality in the sus-mentioned contracts.

This privacy policy describes which kind of personal identifying information VStrat Consulting may collect from you, in connection to our business activities, on our website or via the Social networks that refers to this Privacy Policy. It also describes how VStrat Consulting handles it and protects your personal data; it informs you of your privacy rights and how the law protects you in certain jurisdictions.

2. Consent

By assessing the website, ie as a user of our website, you agree to this Privacy Policy and consent to the collection, use, and storage of your personal data by us as described in the following, in accordance to the choices you may have made and the preferences you may have expressed.

Please note that providing us with personal information is voluntary on your part. If you choose not to provide us with certain information, this may impact our ability to offer you certain services, and you may not be able to access certain features of our Website.

You have the right to withdraw your consent where this has been provided, or to unsubscribe to mailings lists or registrations at any time by writing to us.

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practice and treatment of your personal data, or if you wish to ask you to update or suppress data or preferences that you provided to us, please contact the person responsible of data protection via e-mail at: vstrat-consulting@xxx, using the Contact Form on the Contact page, indicating in the Object field of this form: Other/GDPR, or directly writing to the person responsible for VStrat Consulting website redaction, publication and website operation: Valérie Argaut – 524 Chemin de la Croix Rouge – 38370 Saint Prim – (+33) (0)6 75 89 39 38 – valerie.argaut@xxx

3. Change to Privacy Policy

VStrat Consulting reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. We will alert you of any such change by updating this Privacy Policy. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy that increase our rights to use personal data that we have previously collected about you, we will obtain your consent either through an email to your registered email address or by prominently posting information about the modifications to our Website to notify you and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses. However, if you continue to use our Website after such changes are made without exercising your right of modifying your preferences, you will be considered as accepting these changes. If you are concerned, you can also regularly check back at our Website to see how your personal information is used.

Please see our Terms of Use for more information about our online terms and policies in general.

4. Why do we collect personal data?

The aim of collecting personal data and treating the personal information you provide to us of course depends of the functionality/ the service you are using or requesting, but in a general manner, we use such data for the following reasons:

To ensure the execution of contracts we have with the users and guaranty to our clients the needed performance of requested services
To secure our website and protect us/you in case of legal suit, being able to provide if necessary to the competent jurisdictions the requested documents
To manage and optimize the relationship with prospects and customers, including:
- To provide our clients a technical and adapted information about our services, improve the quality of these, better matching the expectations of our users and customers.
- To answer your questions or interact with you
- To improve the interactions and experience of the users of our services, for instance by adapting the site navigation and content to their interests and preferences in connection with marketing goals
- To conduct statistical analyses

5. Information we collect and the way we collect it

5.1. Information you give to VStrat Consulting via the Contact Formulary

VStrat Consulting collects personal data in the course of its business activities, including in connection with some client services. We collect personal information via the Contact Formulary when you ask us some questions or submit to us certain of your concerns, or also via certain queries or surveys you may accept to fill in.

By writing (including by way of email) to VStrat Consulting or by filling in such forms or data requests on our Website, or otherwise voluntarily requesting from or supplying information to VStrat Consulting, you accept to provide such information and consent to the use we do of it as detailed in the present Policy.

The personal data collected varies but include information provided by you, such as:

Contact data such as your surname, first name, the postal address of the company you work for, your e-mail address, your phone number, etc…
Biographical or demographical data, such as the company you are working for, your job title/position/function, your gender, etc…
Data on your centers of interest and preferences related to our professional exchanges
Contacts of tierce persons you may have provided to us and would like us to contact in the course of our business exchanges
More generally any other information that you share with us in your exchanges with VStrat Consulting

5.2. Information automatically collected during your visit of our Website

When you access our Website, VStrat Consulting may collect and store certain information, such as the devices you use and the way you interact with our Site for statistics purpose.

Connection and localization data:

the domain name and host from which you access the Internet,
the identification of the device
the Internet protocol (IP) address of your computer for instance,
the Internet address of the site from which you directly linked to VStrat Consulting’s Website,

Browsing data:

exploitation system and platform
browsing information collected through cookies, and other similar technologies (collectively “Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies”) on our website, such as the type of web browser, the screen resolution, etc…
your browser’s country setting
how you use our Website: the pages accessed or visited on the Website, the time spent on each page, the information researched on each page, the timing of the searches, etc…

Information automatically collected will be associated with any personal data you have provided, as well as with the one potentially obtained via Social Network, as stipulated in the user general conditions of the social network used when you interact with us via these means.

5.3. Information collected by Third-Party Entities with which we partner

VStrat Consulting uses third-party web analytics services in connection with our Website operation and maintenance, including for instance Google Analytics. These analytic services use cookies and similar technologies to collect data (such as IP addresses) to evaluate use of and interaction with our website, or to link you with your social networks. This can help us to improve the functionality of our Website, your browsing comfort and thus your user experience.

We sometimes include content and sharing tools originate from other websites, such as “Like” buttons of social networks. These third-party entities can then use cookies on your device. VStrat Consulting does not control such third-party cookies download or access. The third-party entities whose services we use and with which we collaborate are listed below, as well as in our tool of acceptation of cookies. Please refer to the respective Privacy Policy of these third-party entities to know about their practices:

Social Networks: LinkedIn
Web Analysis Services: Google Analytics
Editors: You Tube

To learn more about Cookies in general, and related analytics services please view our Cookie Policy.

6. How we use the information we collect

VStrat consulting and our service providers may use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies, including web beacons, to manage our Website and our services, and collect analytics about how you use them: for instance information about whether you open or click any links in documents we sent to you, whether as e-mails, articles or white papers.

The information we collect from you may be used to improve the content of our Website, to fulfill your requests for information, provide the most relevant services and marketing information to you after evaluation of these, and otherwise communicate with you. We may also keep your personal data on file and use it to contact you in the future or provide user support.

Data submitted directly by you on the Website will be used for the purposes specified in the relevant part of the Website (for instance subscription to receive certain contents such as newsletters or requests through Contact Formulary) and, where relevant, for other purposes for which you have given your consent.

It can also be used to conduct investigations and comply with and enforce applicable legal requirements as well as contractual obligations and our Policies and Terms (such as this Privacy Policy, our Cookie Policy or our Terms of Use applicable to our Website).

To have more details about our data processing for specific services, please click on Read more.

To know more about how we use Cookies’ information and related analytics services please view our Cookie Policy.

7. Personal Information Sharing

VStrat Consulting’s business activity is not to commercialize your personal data. Our website is designed to limit the processing of personal data to the minimum.

We do not sell, license or otherwise disclose personal information about you to third parties except as described here:

We may share personal information with service providers we have retained to perform services on our behalf (such data analytics service providers for instance like Google Analytics who assists us in maintaining our Website and in analyzing our Website traffic) or to technical web service providers (such as hosting services or website maintenance services providers). As these service providers need to access certain personal data, we try nonetheless to limit their access to the minimum required to ensure the mandated service can be rendered. Moreover, these service providers are contractually required to comply with applicable data protection regulations, to safeguard the information provided to them. These third-parties are to the expend possible restricted from using or disclosing such information for their own purposes and only permitted to process it as necessary to perform services in accordance with our instructions or to comply with legal requirements.

We may share personal information with our business partners for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy and only with your consent, within the course of the execution of a contract for instance of the preparation of one.

We may disclose personal information about you:

To whom: to law enforcement authorities or other government officials to comply with a legitimate legal request,
When: if we are required or permitted to do so by applicable law or legal process, when we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate, to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights, to protect the vital interests of a person , or in relation with a legitimate and official investigation of suspected or actual illegal activity.

Otherwise with your consent or in cases where you request it.

We reserve the right to transfer to relevant third-parties any information we have about you in the event of a potential or actual restructuration of VStrat Consulting (sale or transfer of all or a portion of our business or assets, including in the event of an acquisition, a merger, a reorganization, a liquidation, etc…), in which case we would require from these relevant third parties to ensure comparable levels of protection as VStrat Consulting

8. Links to other websites

VStrat Consulting’s website may as a service to users include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications, links towards entities with which we have commercial relationships.

Such links do not constitute nor imply an endorsement, sponsorship, or recommendation by VStrat Consulting of the third party, its website and its content.

We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you via cookies or similar technologies. When you leave our website through such links, we encourage you to read the privacy policy and Terms of Use of every website you visit for more information on how they handle personal data, and the conditions you are subject to when visiting their websites.

VStrat Consulting shall not be responsible or liable for your use thereof, nor for the enforcement of data protection regulations by these third-party websites.

9. Legal Basis for our handling of your personal data

The legal basis by which VStrat Consulting processes your personal data for the purposes mentioned above will typically be one of the following:

Your specific consent, for example if you register for a newsletters or alerts or place a request via the contact form;
The necessary treatment for the performance in the execution of a contract between us or the preparation of one;
Our legitimate business interests in promoting and protecting VStrat Consulting, building and maintaining relationships with prospects and customers, partnering for our business and providing our services;
The necessary treatment to address legal obligations when certain information is necessary to satisfy regulatory constraints.

10. Retention of Personal Information

VStrat Consulting will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for in accordance with the provisions of this Privacy Policy or at the point of collection, or to address your requests, ie for the duration of the relevant business relationship, not exceeding the applicable legal requirements in terms of data retention period.

Where applicable, we may retain your personal data for a longer time, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal requirements, or to protect ourselves against legal claims.

At any time, you may request from us that we delete your personal data and if no legal basis prevents it, we will do so. For requests for access, corrections, or deletion, please refer to the “Right to access personal information & Choices” section of this Privacy Policy.

Data used for sending communications about services or newsletters are kept for three years after the collection time or your last contact with VStrat Consulting.

After this period, VStrat Consulting may contact you to know whether you wish to continue receiving their communications relatives to their services, newsletters or events.

Your data will be erased if no positive answer is received.

Data collected through cookies or other similar tracking technologies set up on our Website (such as connection logs), subject of course to your consent, are kept according to applicable legal requirement in terms of data retention period for thirteen months.

For more details, please refer to our Cookie Policy.

In certain cases, we may anonymize your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

11. Protection of Your Personal Data & Limitation of Liability

We consider as very important the securisation of your personal data. These are kept on a server of our web hosting provider in a secure environment respecting the GDPR.

• Nom, dénomination ou raison sociale et adresse et numéro de téléphone de l’hébergeur de son site

The website Editor is + adresss, siret number etc

Despite our precautions in implementing generally accepted standards of technology and operational security to protect personal data from loss, misuse, or alteration, VStrat Consulting cannot guarantee the security of the information collected from third parties or transmitted through our Website nor guarantee the security of emails. Only authorized third party service providers and partners are provided access to personal data, and these service providers and partners are required to treat this information as confidential. Despite of these precautions VStrat Consulting cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will not obtain access to your personal data. Therefore, we assume no liability for any disclosure of information collected arising from the acts of third parties or other events, acts or omissions outside of our control, including, but not limited to, interruption of service or any issues related to the use of the internet. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on our Website.

12. Applicable Laws & Jurisdiction

The Website is following French Laws, subject in particular to the modified Law n°78-17 of Jan 6th 1978 ( modified by the Law of Aug 6th 2005 and application decree n°2005-1309 of Oct 20th 2005, and further modified on June 1rst 2019) and Art.82 of the Data Protection Act, transposing in France the 2002/58/CE Directive of the European Law.

VStrat Consulting also tries to be respectful of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) adopted by the European Parliament on April 27th 2016, entered in application on May 25th 2018, with recent modification in July 2019 yet to be implemented in France.

Non-compliance with the provisions in this Privacy Policy or with the regulations exposes the infringing party to legal proceedings as well as penal sanctions.

In case you would think we are infringing laws, you have the legal right to lodge a complaint with a competent data protection authority, although we would appreciate the chance to deal with you and your concern directly in the first instance, before you approach any authority.

Any dispute will be the exclusive competence of French Courts.

For any additional information concerning current regulations in force, you can visit the website of CNIL: https://www.cnil.fr/en/home

13. Right to access personal information

Request access to the personal data that we have collected about you. This allows you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you, to review it, to check that we are lawfully processing it, and to further request a modification if there is any inaccuracy.

Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. You can request to have any incomplete or inaccurate data corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.

Request deletion of your personal data. In certain circumstances, you may also request that we cease processing your personal data, to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it.

Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and your particular situation justifies this objection on legitimate grounds. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms

Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in certain situations: (1) you want us to establish the data’s accuracy; (2) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (3) where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; (4) if you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.

Request the transfer (Data Portability) of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.

Withdraw consent you had previously provided at any time, where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not have a retroactive effect and thus not render illegitimate any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. Your consent withdrawal may affect our ability to provide certain services to you.

To help protect your privacy and maintain security, we may take steps to verify your identity before granting you access to the information, so as to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person not entitled to receive it. To the extent permitted by applicable law, a charge may apply before we provide you with a copy of any of your personal information that we maintain.

If you are protected by GDPR and wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, or if you would like to discuss how we process your personal data, please contact us at: vstrat-consulting@xxxx

Cookie Policy

Last updated February 16 2020.

1. Definitions & Generalities

1.1. Definitions

Personal data, or personal information, is any information capable of identifying you as an individual person. It does not include data where the personal identifiers has been removed (anonymous data).

In the following, we name “We” or “Us” collectively anyone working for VStrat Consulting.

The Website, Our Website or This Website refers to the website http://www.vstrat-consulting.fr or any of the related websites such as : http://www.vstrat-consulting.com or http://www.vstrat-consulting.eu.

1.2. Generalities

We are particularly careful about the use of cookies and restrict it to the minimum possible.

For more information on how we handle Data Protection, you can also view our Privacy Policy.

This Cookie Policy applies to the personal information we gather from our Website (whatever the Device it is accessed from), and social network websites, via cookies or other similar tracking technologies. It does not apply to data obtained through the realization of services subject to specific contracts, and for which you would have to refer to the corresponding Confidentiality Clause mentioned in the contracts.

This Cookie Policy provides you with some general information about the different existing types of cookies; it describes which types of Cookies we use and for which purposes, as well as how you can exercise your right to make choices concerning the cookies.

Finally, this Policy reminds you of your rights in terms of Right to Access your Personal Data, and indicates to you how to contact us if needed.

2. What are Cookies and Other Similar Tracking Technologies?

Cookies are alphanumerical format small text data files which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website if you have agreed to it. These files are generated by the server of the visited website or by a third-party server (analytical web service, etc…). They can be accessed from your device when you visit the website, but only by the emitter of the cookie. They allow to recognize your device on which it is stored, when you are returning to the same website during its validity period. Cookies are designed to characterize the use you make of the website, they store certain preferences and information, also to facilitate your navigation. They will not steal any data stored on your computer.

Other tracking technologies work the same way as cookies and place small data files on your devices or monitor your website activity in order to collect information about how you use a website.

The information provided below about cookies also applies to these other tracking technologies.

If you are interested by more information about cookies, you can visit the following websites:

3. What kind of Cookies are used when visiting VStrat Consulting Website

VStrat Consulting’s website uses “Cookies” and Other Tracking technologies.

We can also contract with third party service providers to help us administer our website or to assist us by providing certain statistical and analytics information, to measure Website performance, utilization, and user activity. This allows to ensure the Website is meeting the needs of users and help us make improvements for navigation, User experience, and Website content. We primarily use Google Analytics for this.

When you access our Website, unless otherwise set in your device settings or preferences, VStrat Consulting or Third-party service providers will collect and store certain information, such as:

The device you use
The exploitation system and platform
The domain name and host from which you access the Internet,
The identification of the device (the Internet protocol (IP) address of your computer for instance)
The Internet address of the site from which you directly linked to VStrat Consulting’s Website
The way you interact with our website, ie the browsing information: the pages accessed or visited on the Website, duration of the search, the terms you have searched for, etc…
Your browser’s country setting.

Cookies can be session cookies or persistent cookies.

Session cookies are temporary, used only during the browsing session and are deleted from your device when your web browser closes.

Persistent Cookies remains on your device a longer time or until you delete them; they are meant to recall your preferences and improve your experience of using the Website.

Some cookies we use require your consent, while others are exempt of it.

Strictly necessary/ essential cookies are exempt from your consent: this consent is deemed as automatically granted by Users, ie if you browse our Website, which implies your full acceptance of our Cookie Policy and Terms of Use.

Strictly necessary/ essential cookies guarantee functions without which you would not be able to use the Website as intended. Such cookies are session cookies. They recognize your device to help you navigate efficiently to obtain the information and services you have requested: for instance, they allow remembering previous actions (e.g. entered text) when navigating back to a page in the same session. Cookies of this type also store your decision/ your choice regarding the use of cookies on our Website. Without these cookies, services you have asked for cannot be provided. Once you close your browser though, the cookie disappears.

All other cookies that are not strictly necessary to use the Website require your consent. They still fulfil important tasks.

Without these cookies, functions intended for your convenience on our Website, such as your personal settings or automatic filling in form functions could not be retained and would therefore have to be re-entered on every page.

Non-essential functional cookies enable the Website to save information which has already been entered (such as user names, languages choices, and your location), so that it can offer you improved and more personalized functions. Functional cookies are also used to enable features you request such as playing videos. These cookies collect anonymous information and cannot track your movements on other websites.

Performance cookies are persistent cookies enable to analyze how our website is used and how it performs. For instance, they allow to track the number of unique visitors to our Website and information such as the number of views per page, how much time a user spends on a page. These cookies do not save information that would allow the user to be identified. The collected information is aggregated, and therefore made anonymous. These cookies are used exclusively to improve the performance of the Website, and with it the user experience. These Cookies include, for example, some of Google Analytics cookies.

Customization cookies: they can be used third-party service providers to analyze your preferences and help personalize the content for you: For instance, they allow our site to remember your preferences such as language selection, and potentially help you to view information that is most relevant to your interests.

Social Networks cookies: they are downloaded to your devices via the use of the “Share” buttons of the Social Networks you may use, according to the Cookie Policy of these Social networks, that we invite you to review.

4. What are cookies used on our Website used for

Data gathered is used to know how users navigate and utilize our website, to identify the users and their interests, to potentially remember their preferences, so as to improve our website’s functionalities and the user experience. They are also useful to process the users’ requests.

To know more about the specific use we make of your personal data : Detail of data processing by type

The list of our third-party service providers is as follow:

Google Analytics – We use Google Analytics to provide us with information about how you use our Website. We use this information to compile statistics and to help us to improve our website and the services we offer. Google uses cookies as part of this process to collect anonymous information, including the number of visitors to the Website, where they have come to the Website from, the pages they visit and the length of time they have spent on the Website.

For more information on how third-party companies collect and use information, please refer to their privacy policies as indicated below.

To know more about Google’s practices and Privacy Policy, you can visit:

https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en

5. Making Cookie Choices

The download of a cookie on a device solely depends on the consent of the device’s user, ie decision he has made and preferences he has set on the browser(s) he uses, meaning that providing us with personal information is voluntary on your part.

If you have accepted the download of cookies, the cookies integrated in the pages and content you are visiting will be stored on your device and can only be red by the emitter.

If you have refused the download of cookies or restricted the utilization of cookies, please note this may impact our ability to offer you certain services, and you may not be able to access certain features of our Website.

Yet this is your lawful choice, and you have certain options relatively to the personal information we can collect from you via Cookies and Other Similar Tacking Technologies.

You can modify your settings at any time through the choices offered to you in your Internet Browser as described below:

By changing the corresponding setting of your internet browser, Blocking all or some of the cookies (third-party cookies, or certain categories of online cookies (analytical cookies, Performance cookies, Social Network cookies, etc…)

Please note that if you use your browser settings to block all Cookies (including strictly necessary Cookies) you may not be able to access or use all or parts or functionalities of our Sites.

By requesting an alert when a Cookie is placed on your device

By erasing browsing data: If you want to remove previously-stored Cookies, you can manually delete the Cookies at any time. However, this will not prevent the Site from placing further Cookies on your device unless and until you adjust your Internet browser setting as described above.

You may see the list of VStrat Consulting and selected partner cookies on our website and make choices about those cookies at any time by clicking on “Cookies” at the bottom of the page to access this Cookie Policy and by managing your preferences on the Cookie Choice Tool. Please note we will have to place a cookie on your device to allow your choices to be respected.

Whatever your preferences are at a given time, you also have the right to withdraw at any time your consent where this has been provided.

In order to help you make your own choices regarding Cookie acceptance on the web, and for further information about how to do so, knowing that this could adversely impact your browsing on our Website and the access to all our services and functionalities, you can refer to the ‘help’ / ‘tool’ section of your browser or also visit the following links:

Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-protection-firefox-desktop

Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies

Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en

https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en

Opera: https://help.opera.com/en/latest/web-preferences/#cookies

Safari: https://support.apple.com/lv-lv/HT201265

6. Right to access personal information

Under the data protection laws, you have rights in relation to the handling of your personal data. The processing of your personal information is protected by the GDPR, and under these regulations, you may request amongst other things access, correction, or deletion to our record of your personal data. You may also object to processing, request restriction of processing or request data portability. Finally you can at any time withdraw consent you have previously provided.

If you want to know more about these rights, please refer to our Privacy Policy, or if you want to exercise any of these rights, please to not hesitate to contact us a described in the corresponding section.

7. Contact

If you have any questions or comments about this Cookie Policy or our privacy practice and treatment of your personal data, or if you wish to ask you to update or suppress data or preferences that you provided to us, please contact the person responsible of data protection:

via e-mail at: vstrat-consulting@xxx
using the Contact Form on the Contact page, indicating in the Object field of this form: Other/GDPR
or directly writing to the person responsible for VStrat Consulting website redaction and publication: Valérie Argaut – 524 Chemin de la Croix Rouge – 38370 Saint Prim – (+33) (0)6 75 89 39 38 -valerie.argaut@xxx