This English version is a courtesy translation. In the event of any discrepancy, the French version prevails.

1. Introduction

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

2. Collection of personal information

  • Surname
  • First name
  • Email
  • Telephone number
  • Delivery address
  • Billing address
  • Contact forms
  • Registration form
  • Cookies

3. Use of your personal information

  • Purposes linked to the performance of a contract: the data is collected for the performance of a contract or the implementation of pre-contractual measures at the user’s request.
  • Purposes linked to the company’s legitimate interest: the data is collected to protect the company’s legitimate interests, such as the management of customer relations, the handling of complaints, the security of systems, etc.
  • Purposes linked to a legal obligation: the data is collected in order to comply with a legal obligation, such as keeping records for accounting purposes or complying with data protection laws.
  • Purposes linked to obtaining the user’s consent: the data is collected with the user’s consent, for example to send newsletters or special offers.
  • Purposes linked to the improvement of the website: the data is collected to analyse and improve the website, for example to personalise the user’s experience.

Before disclosing to us personal information concerning another person, you must obtain that person’s consent to the disclosure and processing of that personal information in accordance with the terms of this policy.

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

Without your explicit consent, we will not supply your personal information to third parties for their direct marketing, or that of other third parties.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to check whether you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy terms are available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment has been approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible next to your comment.

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

4. Disclosure of your personal information

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

We may disclose your personal information:

  • To the extent that we are required to do so by law;
  • In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
  • In order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);
  • To the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset in our possession that we are selling (or are contemplating selling);
  • To any person whom we reasonably believe to form an integral part of a court or other competent authority for the disclosure of that personal information where, in our opinion, such court or authority would be likely to order disclosure of that personal information.
  • Except as otherwise provided in this policy, we will not pass your personal information on to third parties.

5. International data transfers

The information that we collect may be stored, processed and transferred in all the countries in which we operate, in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.

The information that 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.

The personal information that you publish on our website or submit for publication may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use, good or bad, of that information by third parties.

You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this section.

6. Retention of your personal information

The personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes is not kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.

Without prejudice to article, we will generally delete personal data falling within these categories

The data retention period is equivalent to the statutory period in France.

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

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

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This makes it possible to recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in the moderation queue.

For users who register on our site (if this is possible), we also store the personal data provided in their profile. All users can see, edit or delete their personal information at any time (with the exception of their username). The site administrators can also see and edit that information.

7. Security of your personal information

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

We will store all the personal information you provide to us on secure servers (protected by password and firewall).

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

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 keeping the password you use to access our website confidential; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).

8. Your rights over your data

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

For any requests concerning your data, you can contact our Data Protection Officer (DPO): JUNG Emmanuel via the contact form on our website or by post: OCPARTS – 4, Impasse de la Rabine Verte, 22100 Saint-Samson-Sur-Rance

9. Third-party websites

Our website contains hypertext links to third-party websites and information about them. We have no control over those sites, and are not responsible for their privacy policies or their practices.

Articles on this site may include embedded content (for example videos, images, articles, etc.). Content embedded from other sites behaves in exactly the same way as if the visitor had visited that other site.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking tools, and monitor your interactions with that embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to their website.

10. Cookies

Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is 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 may be “persistent” or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie is stored by the browser and remains valid until its expiry date, unless deleted by the user before that expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, expires at the end of the user session, when the browser is closed. Cookies do not generally contain any information that personally identifies a user, but the personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

We may use cookies to:

  • Recognise a computer when a user visits the website
  • Track users as they navigate the website
  • Enable the use of a shopping basket on the website
  • Improve the usability of a website
  • Analyse the use of the website
  • Administer the website
  • Prevent fraud and improve the security of the website
  • Personalise the website for each user
  • Send targeted advertisements that may be of interest to certain users
  • Google Analytics

Most browsers allow you to refuse or accept cookies:

  • in Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies using the cookie handling override settings available by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy” and then “Advanced”;
  • in Firefox (version 24), you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options”, “Privacy”, then selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the drop-down menu and unticking “Accept cookies from sites”;
  • in Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the “Customise and control” menu, then clicking “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Content settings”, and then selecting “Block sites from setting any data” under the “Cookies” heading.

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

You can delete cookies already stored on your computer:

  • in Internet Explorer (version 10), you must delete the cookie files manually (you can find instructions for doing so here );
  • in Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options” and “Privacy”, then selecting “Use custom settings for history”, clicking “Show Cookies” and then “Remove All Cookies”;
  • in Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by accessing the “Customise and control” menu, then clicking “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Clear browsing data”, then “Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data” before clicking “Clear browsing data”.

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

If you visit the login page, a temporary cookie will be set to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. It contains no personal data and will be deleted automatically when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will set a number of cookies to save your login information and your screen display preferences. A login cookie lasts for two days, and a screen options cookie lasts for one year. If you tick “Remember Me”, your login cookie will be kept for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookie will be removed.

When you edit or publish a post, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie contains no personal data. It simply indicates the ID of the post you have just edited. It expires after one day.

11. Changes to the privacy policy

We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page regularly to make sure you are aware of any changes made to this policy. We may notify you of changes made to this policy by email or through the private messaging service on our website.