Tech Impact’s is committed to respecting your privacy. We ensure that the collection and processing of personal information are carried out in accordance with the EU Regulation No. 2016/679 of the European Parliament and Council of April 28, 2016, regarding the protection of individuals concerning the processing of personal data and the free movement of such data, hereinafter referred to as “GDPR,” and in compliance with all applicable French regulations.

Data Controller:

Tech Impact’s is responsible for the processing of personal data.

Data Collected:

Your personal data is collected and processed on the following legal bases: as part of the contract execution, for legitimate interest purposes, based on your consent through a personal data collection form and checkboxes, and to ensure compliance with our legal and regulatory obligations.

In general, your data is collected directly from you during the creation and management of your account, your subscription to our newsletter, when submitting your reviews and comments, participating in promotions or contests, registering or attending our events, participating in our studies and surveys, when you interact with our communications, share on social media, browse the site, or exercise your rights concerning personal data.

We may collect and process the following personal data: identification data, connection data, communication data, and browsing preference data.

Cookies or similar technologies may be installed and/or accessed in your browser when visiting the site. See the Cookies Policy section at the bottom of the page.

Our products and services are primarily intended for adults capable of entering into contractual obligations. If the user is a minor, they must obtain the consent of their legal guardian before providing any personal data.

Purpose of Processing:

We use the data mentioned in the previous section for the following main purposes:

Operations necessary for providing products or services:

• Manage your account
• Manage your newsletter subscription
• Record your reviews and comments
• Update your personal information
• Manage your participation in contests
• Manage your registration or participation in our events
• Send promotional and advertising emails
• Customer relations
• Conduct studies
• Automatic collection through cookies
• Manage your rights related to personal data

Marketing and Commercial Prospecting Operations related to publications, products, and services:

• Send marketing offers
• Organize contests
• Conduct prospecting activities
• Compile statistics

Data Retention Period:

Your personal data is retained for a period compliant with legal provisions or proportional to the purposes for which it was collected. However, your data may be retained for a longer period when required by legal and regulatory obligations.

Recipients of Your Personal Data:

Your personal data may be shared internally within the company and may also be stored in our secure CRM and email or SMS software.

Tech Impact’s commits to not selling, renting, transferring, or providing access to your data without your prior consent, except for legitimate reasons.

Your Rights:

Under the aforementioned legal and regulatory provisions, you have the right to query, access, rectify, erase, limit the processing of your data, and, to a certain extent, the right to data portability. This means you can receive the personal data you provided to us in a structured, commonly used format and have the right to transmit that data to another data controller. You also have the right to object to the processing of your personal data, particularly for commercial purposes, and to marketing profiling. If you object, you may still receive commercial solicitations, but they will be less targeted and relevant to your interests. Additionally, you can set general or specific guidelines regarding how your personal data should be managed and your rights exercised after your death. In the event of a reported death, your data will be deleted unless it needs to be retained for a specified period due to legal and regulatory obligations and/or legal prescription periods, and after potentially being communicated to a third party designated by you.

You can exercise your rights by contacting the company via email. To ensure confidentiality and the protection of your personal data, the company must verify your identity before responding to such requests. Therefore, any request to exercise these rights must be accompanied by a signed copy of an identity document.

Cookies Policy:

Cookies may be placed on your computer, smartphone, or tablet (hereinafter “Device”) during your visit to our website.

Cookies are small text files placed on your device, detailed below with their purposes. Cookies are managed by your internet browser, and only the issuer of a cookie can read or modify the information it contains.

The cookies placed on the site primarily ensure the site’s functionality. These are essential cookies for navigating our site, enabling you to use the site’s main features and secure your connection. The placement of these cookies does not require your prior consent.

Next, we use functional cookies that are strictly necessary for the site’s operation. The placement of these cookies does not require your prior consent and allows, for example, the establishment of statistics.

We use various tools to measure site traffic, including Matomo Analytics.

We also use advertising cookies placed on your device, which are used to offer you ads tailored to your interests based on the articles you’ve read and your browsing on our site.

Finally, third-party cookies may be placed on your device, as well as social media sharing cookies.

The placement of a cookie on a device primarily depends on the user’s preferences, which can be expressed and modified at any time and for free through the browser’s settings.

If you accept the placement of cookies on your device, the cookies embedded in the pages and content you have viewed may be stored temporarily in a dedicated area on your device. They will be readable only by their issuer.

If you refuse the placement of cookies on your device, or if you delete those already stored, you may no longer be able to use certain functionalities of our site. This could happen if you try to access our content or services, or if we or our providers cannot recognize, for compatibility purposes, the type of browser your device uses, its language settings, display settings, or the country from which your device appears to connect to the internet.

In such cases, we disclaim any responsibility for the consequences related to the degraded functioning of our services resulting from our inability to store or access the necessary cookies that you refused or deleted.

Several options are available to manage cookies. Any configuration you may undertake could affect your internet browsing and your access conditions to certain services that require the use of cookies. You can choose to express and modify your preferences regarding cookies at any time by configuring your browser.