Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions of Use

Last updated: December 8th, 2023

The integrity of your personal data is very important to us, so we strive to handle it in the most secure and transparent way possible.

This Privacy Policy is intended to describe how we process your personal data in connection with your use of the Preligens website and Preligens cloud-based Demonstration Platform.

The Privacy Policy and Website Terms and Conditions is entered by and between PRELIGENS, French société par actions simplifiée with its registered office at 49/51, Rue de Provence – 75009 PARIS, with a share capital of 198,925.30 euros, registered with the Register of Trades and Companies of Paris under number 818 503 146 (hereinafter referred to as “PRELIGENS”), and each natural person browsing and/or using the website https://www.preligens.com/ (hereinafter referred to as the “Website”) or cloud-based Demonstration Platform (hereinafter referred to as the “Demo Platform”) (hereinafter all referred to as a “Data subject”).

PRELIGENS reserves the right to change its Privacy Policy and Website Terms and Conditions, in particular to comply with the laws and regulations in force. In the event of significant changes to this Privacy Policy and to the way we use personal data, we will post those changes on this Website. We therefore invite you to visit this Website regularly and to read this Privacy Policy. By browsing the Website on or after that date, the Data subject is deemed to have accepted the changes.

PRELIGENS suggests the regular consultation of the Privacy Policy and Website Terms and Conditions.

• PRIVACY POLICY

PRELIGENS collects data about the Data subject when browsing the Website. This privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”) applies to all Data subject browsing the Website.

PRELIGENS collects data about the Data subject when accessing and using the demonstration services available on the Demo Platform.

The terms used in the Privacy Policy and beginning with a capital letter shall have the following meanings:

“Parties” means jointly PRELIGENS and the Data subject.

“Personal Data” means the personal data as defined in the Personal Data Protection Legislation.

“Personal Data Protection Legislation” means the legislation in force regarding Personal Data, namely (i) the French Data Protection Act no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978, in its version in force on the date of this agreement, and (ii) European Regulation no. 2016-679 on data protection, known as the “GDPR”.

•  Information related to Personal Data processing

PRELIGENS is responsible for processing Data subject's personal data and acts in compliance with the Personal Data Protection Legislation.

The Personal Data collected are the Data subject's surname, forename and email address, user identification code, password. Data about its use of the Website or Demo Platform may be collected automatically through its actions on the Website, particularly through the collection of cookies and other trackers as detailed in the Cookie Policy which can be accessed via this link.

PRELIGENS processes Data subject’s personal data with the following purposes and legal basis:

• Purposes

Processing of Data subject requests (contact, downloading of documentation available on the Website, etc.) : Data subject consent

Sending of newsletter: Data subject consent

Access and use of the Demo Platform: Data subject consent

Improvement of its operating and data analysis solutions, using artificial intelligence: PRELIGENS’ legitimate interest

• Recipients and hosting conditions of Personal Data

PRELIGENS processes Data subject’s Personal Data confidentially and with the greatest level of care, limiting their access to employees authorised to process them as part of their duties.

Preligens use technical and organisational security measures in order to protect the data we have under our control against accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction and against access by unauthorised persons.

Preligens ‘s  security procedures are continually enhanced as new technology becomes available.

PRELIGENS may disclose Data subject’s Personal Data with:

• third party service providers hired by PRELIGENS to execute subcontracted tasks (“Processors”), which the Data subject expressly accepts. In any event, these service providers are only authorised to use its Personal Data in for the service they provide on behalf of PRELIGENS, and only for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. Also, when we do so, we ensure that we only work with companies that safeguard and protect your personal data and comply with applicable law in the same manner as we do;
• where applicable, any future buyer of PRELIGENS in case of assignment of business or assets;

• Location and storage period of Data subject’s Personal Data.

PRELIGENS shall make its best efforts to keep Data subject’s Personal Data on the European Union territory.

Data subject’s Personal Data collected through the Website and the Demo Platform are hosted on the territory of the European Union with a service provider whose identity and contact details are specified in the Legal Notices of the Website.

In the event where the Personal Data communicated are stored on servers located in non-Member States of the European Union, PRELIGENS guarantees that the State(s) in which they are stored will provide an adequate level of protection within the meaning of the Personal Data Protection Legislation.

PRELIGENS only keeps Data subject’s Personal Data for the purpose for which they were collected and for the period necessary to process Data subject’s access, use, test, request and/or newsletter’s subscription. Data subject’s Personal Data may be kept for marketing purposes for a maximum period of three (3) years from Data subject’s last communication with PRELIGENS. Upon expiration of this period, Data subject’s Personal Data will be archived for the period of the statute of limitations corresponding to criminal and administrative actions, notwithstanding Data subject’s right to have its data erased upon request.

• Data subject’s rights

Each Data subject may, at any time and upon simple request accompanied by an identity evidence (First name, last name, data subject number, online account and exceptionally in case of reasonable doubt on the identity of the person his/her identity card) :

• require its Personal Data to be communicated, supplemented, updated or erased;
• withdraw its consent to processing its Personal Data, which will not infringe the legality of the processing based on consent before its withdrawal;
• benefit from the right to data portability and the right to define instructions about what happens to its Personal Data if the Data subject dies; and/or
• request limitation or object to the processing of its Personal Data for legitimate reasons.

Requests must be sent to the PRELIGENS Data Protection Officer (DPO) at the following address: dpo (at) preligens.com.

PRELIGENS undertakes to make every effort to respond within a period of one (1) month from receipt of Data subject’s request. This period may be extended by two (2) additional months regarding the complexity and number of requests. PRELIGENS will keep the Data subject informed in this case.

The Data subject may also file a complaint with the CNIL if it feels that protection of its Personal Data has not been assured during the processing implemented by PRELIGENS.

• WEBSITE TERMS AND CONDITIONS

The purpose of these terms and conditions is to define the conditions of access to and use of the Website https://www.preligens.com/.

• Conditions related to the Data subject

Each Data subject undertakes to browse the Website and act loyally towards PRELIGENS and third parties.

• Intellectual property rights

The Data subject acknowledges and accepts that PRELIGENS is the sole holder and/or beneficiary of all intellectual property rights applicable to all elements of the Website (among which the databases, downloadable documents, graphics, trademarks, designs, texts, sounds, etc.), and that these Website Terms and Conditions do not entail any assignment of rights or division of ownership to the Data subject’s benefit.

In particular, PRELIGENS is a registered trademark. Any unauthorised use and/or reproduction will lead to legal proceedings for infringement.

PRELIGENS grants the Data subject, over all elements of the Website, and more specifically over any document that the Data subject may download from the Website, a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable and non-assignable right to use, view, and where applicable download, to the exclusion of any reproduction, worldwide, and for the duration of its use of the Website.

All rights of access to and use of the Website are limited to personal use and to acts exclusively necessary to use of the Website.

• Hypertext links

PRELIGENS has no control over and is not responsible for pages linked through the hypertext links present on the Website. In particular, PRELIGENS cannot be held responsible for the personal data processing carried out by the websites accessible from a hypertext link.

PRELIGENS suggests the consultation of the terms and conditions of use or sale, as applicable, and the privacy policy of each website accessible from a hypertext link.

Any third party can create a link to a page of the Website without the express permission of PRELIGENS.