Privacy Notice

Privacy notice
Purplemet SAS (referred to as “our”, “us” and “we” in this notice) is a french company. We have developed and hence offer a SaaS based web technology detection solution. We believe that the responsible use of data support business growth and credibility and builds reliable and durable relationships between brand, clients and consumers. As a business, we are committed to respecting and protecting the privacy of all individuals we come into contact with, in accordance with applicable privacy and data protection laws. This Privacy Notice explains how we may collect and use personal information gathered when you use our website www.purplemet.com

This Privacy Notice explains the following:

  • What personal information we collect on this website;
  • How we use this information;
  • How we store your personal information;
  • How we secure your personal information;
  • Whether we disclose or share your personal information;
  • Your choice regarding the personal information you provide to us;
  • Our responsibility for website links;
  • How to contact us.

In the Supplementary Information section of this Privacy Notice, we explain what is meant by “personal information” and other terms used in this notice.

What personal information we collect on this website
We collect information about how you use our website We also collect information about you if you make use of any of the interactive features within our website that relies on a personalized response, or where you ask us to respond to a query you have, or add your details to one of our alert or subscription services. The information we collect is limited to the details we need to provide the specific service you have asked for. We do not collect sensitive information, such as your political or religious beliefs, ethnic background, sexual preference, health or any other sensitive information. We do not actively seek to collect information about children aged 16 or under.

How we use this information
Except where required by law, we only use the personal information you provide for the following purposes: to deliver the specific information or services you have requested. For example, if you have requested further information on our services or content, or wish to subscribe to our service, or submit an enquiry through this site. We will only use the email address, together with your name and the name of your company, you provide to us to respond to that request. Without your express consent, we will not use your contact details for any other purpose.

How we store your personal information
We are committed to ensuring your personal information is kept secure and confidential and not kept for longer than is necessary. From time to time we may ask other members of our group, or third party service providers, to help us manage our information technology systems. Some of these systems may be located in countries overseas. We will only transfer your information to a third party service provider or overseas, where we are satisfied that adequate levels of protection are in place to protect the integrity and security of any information being processed and compliance with applicable privacy and data protection laws.

How we secure your personal information
We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent unlawful or unauthorized use, access or accidental loss of personal information. We also seek to ensure our service providers do the same.

Information Sharing and Disclosure
We do not sell or rent any personally identifiable information about you to any third party. We may disclose personally identifiable information in response to legal process, for example in response to a court order or a subpoena, or in response to a law enforcement agency’s request, or where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, and as otherwise required by law. Our agents and contractors may have access to personally identifiable information to help carry out the services they are performing for us.

Your rights regarding the personal information you provide to us
If you wish to stop receiving marketing communications from us then please click on the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of the relevant mailing. If you wish to opt-out completely then please contact us at using the details provided below.

  • If you would like us to delete your information from our records, please contact us using the contact details below and we will respond within a reasonable time. Please note that we may be required to retain certain information by law and/or for our own legitimate business purpose.
  • If you wish to object to our processing of your personal data, including profiling. You can object at any time and we shall stop processing the information you have objected to, unless we can show compelling legitimate grounds to continue that processing.
  • If you wish to access your personal data. If you make this kind of request and we hold personal data about you, we are required to provide you with information on it, including a description and copy of the personal data and why we are processing it.
  • If you wish to request erasure of your personal data in certain circumstances Erasure rights do not apply where the data is processed for historical research purposes or statistical purposes.
  • If you wish to request correction or updating of the personal data that we hold about you and that is inaccurate.
  • If you wish to request the restriction of our processing of your personal data in some situations. If you request this, we can continue to store your personal data but are restricted from processing it while the restriction is in place.
  • If you wish to withdraw your consent to our use of your personal data. When you use our website you may have been asked to consent to the dropping of a cookie. You may withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal data that has been derived from cookies. If you do withdraw consent, that will not affect the lawfulness of what we have done with your personal data before you withdrew consent;
  • If you wish to complain to your local data protection authority about our collection or use of your personal data. For example, in France, the local data protection authority is the Commission Nationale de L’Informatique et des Libertés (https://www.cnil.fr) .

If you exercise the rights above and there is any question about who you are, we may require you to provide information from which we can satisfy ourselves as to your identity. If you are from the European Economic Area and would like to exercise any of these rights in relation to any information we hold about you via this website please contact us using the contact details provided below. We will consider and respond to your request in accordance with the relevant law.

Our responsibility for website links
This Privacy Notice is limited to the personal information which we collect and use via this website. We do provide links within this site to other websites, including social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

If you follow these links, you should use these sites in conjunction with their applicable user and privacy notices as their data practices fall outside the scope of this Privacy Notice. Further, we can have no responsibility for or control over the information collected by any third party website and we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you may provide on such websites.

Updates
This Privacy Notice may be updated from time to time to reflect changes in law, best practice or a change in our practices regarding the treatment of personal information. If you do not agree to the changes, please do not continue to use our website. You should check this notice frequently for updates. This notice was last updated 05.12.2019

Contact us
If you have any questions about our approach to privacy or you would like to exercise any of the rights mentioned in this Privacy Notice you can contact our Data Protection Officer in any of the following ways:

Address:
Data Protection Officer
Purplemet
5, Avenue Ingres, 75016 PARIS
France
Email: dpo@purplemet.com

Supplementary information
In this Supplementary Information section, we explain some of terminology used in this Privacy Notice.
“personal information” - any information that relates to you (or from which you can be identified).
“profiling” - automatically using personal data to work out certain things about people, like analysing or predicting their performance at work, reliability, economic situation, personal preferences, interests, behaviour, location or movements.

Cookies policy

How we deploy “cookies”
Cookies are small packets of information stored by your web browser when you visit certain websites, including our website. Cookies are generally used by websites to improve your user experience by enabling that website to ‘remember’ you, either strictly for the duration of your visit (using a “Session” cookie which is erased when you close your browser) or for repeat visits (using a “Permanent” cookie). We do not use cookies to store any personally identifiable information about you.

Our site uses the following types of cookies

Strictly necessary cookies

We deploy cookies to help us to identify how users navigate to and around our website and to enable some of the features within the site that may be beneficial to you (for example, language preferences, or print page features). This helps us deliver an effective online service to you. These are known as “First Party” cookies.

Performance cookies

We may also use cookies issued by third parties (“Third Party” cookies) to track the websites you visited or search terms you used immediately prior to visiting this site, or to collect information about how visitors use the site. We use Google Analytics for this purpose. Google Analytics uses its own cookies. These cookies don’t collect information that identify a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how the site works. You can find out more about Google Analytics cookies here: https://developers.google.com/analytics/resources/concepts/gaConceptsCookies. You can avoid the use of Google Analytics relating to your use of our site by downloading and installing the Browser Plugin available via this link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB.

The performance cookies are listed below:

Cookie name Purpose
_gid This cookie name is associated with Google Analytics. This cookie used to distinguish users. It expires after 24 hours.
_gat This cookie name is associated with Google Analytics, according to the documentation it is used to throttle the request rate - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 1 minute.
_ga This cookie name is associated with Google Analytics. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners.

How to reject cookies
If you don’t want to receive cookies, you can alter your browser settings. The procedure for doing so varies from one browser application to another. If you wish to reject cookies from our site, but wish to accept those from other sites, you may choose the option in your browser settings to receive a notice before a cookie is stored on your device. Please consult the “Help” section of your browser for more information. To find out more, please consult the following: https://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/ and http://www.youronlinechoices.com/.

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