Data protection
When you browse this site, the French Tunnelling and Underground Space Association (AFTES), in its capacity as data controller, collects and uses personal data relating to you.
- Purpose of processing your data
- Nature of data collected or potentially collected
- Legal basis for processing your personal data
- Recipients of your personal data
- Retention periods for your personal data
- Your rights in relation to your personal data
- Use of cookies
1. Purpose of processing your data
The data collected is used to send you information when you subscribe to our email alerts, answer your questions submitted via our contact form, organise events and working groups, perform statistical analyses, and ensure smooth operation of the site.
2. Nature of data collected or potentially collected
The following types of information may be collected on this site:
- Identification data (including surname, first name and member number)
- Contact data (including postal and/or email addresses)
- Connection data (including your computer's IP address, connection and usage logs)
- Financial data (means of payment and transaction history)
- Sales data (list of products and services provided to you)
- Location data
- Browsing data
- Content data
3. Legal basis for processing your personal data
The legal basis for processing personal data collected on our website stems from:
- Your consent, for example regarding the depositing of analytical cookies, contact requests and event registrations.
- The pursuit of legitimate interests when depositing and managing functional cookies intended to ensure smooth operation of the site.
4. Recipient of your personal data
Your personal information is intended solely for the French Tunnelling and Underground Space Association (AFTES). It will not, under any circumstances, be transferred to third parties without your consent, unless required by law.
5. Retention period for your personal data
We retain your personal data for no longer than the period of time necessary for the purposes stated in this document or required under applicable law.
6. Your rights in relation to your personal data
In accordance with applicable regulations, you have the right to access, rectify, delete and transfer your data.
You may also object to or limit the processing of data concerning you, and file a complaint with the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL).
To exercise your rights, you may send an express request accompanied by valid proof of identity to the data protection officer of the French Tunnelling and Underground Space Association (AFTES):
- By post: 42 rue Boissière, 75116 Paris Cedex, France
- By email: contact@aftes.fr
7. Use of cookies
A cookie is a small text, image or software file that is placed and stored on your computer, smartphone or any other device able to browse the Internet when you visit a website or view an advertisement. Its purpose is to collect information about your browsing activity and to provide services appropriate to your terminal (i.e. PC, smartphone or tablet).
The information stored by cookies, for a limited period of validity (specifically, cookies must be stored for no longer than 13 months from the first visit), relates in particular to the pages visited, the advertisements on which you have clicked, the type of browser you use, your IP address, and information you have entered on a site (thereby avoiding the need for you to enter it again). Cookies are managed by your web browser.
The www.aftes.fr website uses:
- audience measurement cookies. These cookies are used to monitor the activity of Internet users on the site, with a view to improving its operation.
- third-party cookies intended to enhance the interactivity of the site and to enrich it with multimedia content (from YouTube, etc.).
With regard to third-party cookies, we may include third-party computer software on our website that enables you to share content from our site with other people or inform them that you have consulted or expressed an opinion regarding content on our site. This applies, for example, to the “Share” and “Like” buttons, which come from social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Google +, etc.
These social media platforms may collect data relating to your browsing on our site and link it with personal data already in their possession.
Feel free to consult the data protection policies of these social media platforms to learn about the advertising and other uses made of browsing information collected via these software buttons. Said data protection policies should in particular allow you to exercise your choices by configuring your user accounts on each of these social media platforms.
When you browse the site, by default you agree to install these cookies on your browser. To reject them, you can configure your browser preferences as follows:
For Mozilla Firefox: Choose the “Tool” menu and then “Options” / Click on the “Privacy” icon / Find the “Cookie” menu and select the options that suit you.
For Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 to 10.0: Open the “Tools” menu, then choose “Internet Options” / Click on the “Privacy” tab / Move the slider to set the desired level.
For Chrome: Go to the Settings menu > Advanced settings > Privacy and security, then choose your preferred option in “Content settings” and then in “Cookies”.
For Safari: Go to the Preferences > Privacy menu and choose your preferred configuration.
For Opera: Go to the Settings menu > Privacy and security > Cookies and choose your preferred configuration.
