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Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is dedicated to MEDIA 3D’s policy regarding the collection and use of your data while browsing our websites (including our mobile applications) or using our services.
It explains (i) the origin and nature of the data we collect, (ii) the reason for its collection, (iii) how we use it, and (iv) the rights you have regarding this data in accordance with the modified Law No. 78-17 of January 6, 1978 (commonly referred to as the “Data Protection and Freedom Act”).
This Privacy Policy is important for you, as you seek a positive and secure experience while browsing our websites or using our services, and for us, as we aim to provide precise and complete answers to your questions regarding the collection and use of your data.
Reminders
Cookies
Cookies are small files that help us remember your login information, count site visitors, and display content, ads, or events that are most relevant to your profile, consumption habits, etc.
Password
Your password protects your account and personal data. Choose it carefully! It must contain at least 8 characters, including one lowercase, one uppercase, and one number or special character. You can change it anytime from your profile.
Email Address
Your email address allows you to log in to 3DVF and retrieve your password if you forget it. With it, you can also subscribe to 3DVF newsletters!
Date of Birth & Gender
Your date of birth and gender help us get to know you better, allowing us to tailor our services and content to your profile for a unique experience!
How do we collect your data?
When you visit our websites or use our services, we collect data about you in two ways:
1. Information collected without your direct communication (Cookies and similar technologies)
These are covered in Section I of this Privacy Policy. They relate to your device’s browsing information (computer, tablet, smartphone, etc.) that we may collect without you directly providing it when you visit our websites or use our services. These are referred to as “Browsing Information.”
2. Information you directly provide to us
This is covered in Section II of this Privacy Policy. It refers to personal information you provide (such as your name, email address, or date of birth) when you visit our websites and register or use our services. This is referred to as “Personal Information.”
To make this Privacy Policy as clear as possible for you, and if you are unfamiliar with some of the terms used in this document (for example, “IP Addresses,” “Advertisers,” etc.), please refer to their definitions in Section III of this Privacy Policy.
Section I: Cookies on our websites and services
1. What is a cookie, and what is it used for?
A cookie is a text file placed in a dedicated space on your device’s hard drive (computer, tablet, smartphone, etc.) when you visit, through your browser, a piece of content or an advertisement on our websites or services. The information contained in this file can only be read or modified by its issuer.
A. Cookies we issue on our websites and services
When you log in to our websites or use our services, we may, subject to your preferences regarding cookies, which you can change at any time, install various cookies on your device to:
- Collect Browsing Information about your device.
- Identify and recognize your device during subsequent browsing sessions on our websites or services, or any other website or service where we also issue cookies, for a limited validity period.
The details of the Browsing Information we may collect and process are outlined in Section III of this Privacy Policy. Note that we may collect certain Browsing Information automatically, without using cookies, such as your device’s IP address when you visit our websites or use our services. These details are also provided in Section III of this Privacy Policy.
Purposes of the cookies we issue on our websites or services (subject to your choices)
These cookies allow us to:
- Implement security measures (e.g., asking you to log in again to your Member Account after a certain period of inactivity).
- Improve your browsing experience by granting access to specific features that enhance fluidity and customization, such as:○ Adapting the display of our websites or services to your device’s display preferences (language, screen resolution, etc.).
○ Remembering Personal Information you provided in a form when registering for one of our services, saving you time by eliminating the need to re-enter the same details when you return to access our services.
○ Keeping track of products or services you ordered as part of one of our services until you reach the order confirmation page.
○ Benefiting from caching of the pages of our websites or services for faster access to these pages.
Deleting these cookies does not prevent browsing on our websites, but it may significantly degrade the browsing experience. However, deleting these cookies may prevent the normal use of our services.
Audience measurement and analytical cookies
These cookies allow us to establish statistics regarding traffic volumes on our websites and services (number of visits, unique visitors, page views) and statistics on the usage of the various components (visited sections and content, navigation paths).
These cookies help us improve the relevance and ergonomics of our websites, services, and various components. They are also used to offer you editorial content tailored to your interests. Lastly, they help us detect potential navigation issues.
Deleting these cookies does not affect your ability to browse our websites or use our services. However, refusing these cookies will result in non-tailored editorial content being displayed based on your interests.
Retention period: These cookies have a maximum lifespan of 13 months from their first deposit on the user’s device.
Advertising cookies
These cookies are used to present advertisements relevant to your interests on our websites, services, and third-party websites and services where we issue cookies. Advertising cookies also help limit the number of times you see an ad and measure the effectiveness of an ad campaign.
Deleting advertising cookies does not impact your ability to browse our websites or use our services. However, refusing these cookies will not stop advertisements from being displayed on our websites or services. It will only display ads that are not tailored to your interests.
Retention period: These cookies have a maximum lifespan of 13 months from their first deposit on the user’s device.
Combining your Browsing Information and your Personal Information
We may combine the Browsing Information we collect (or that third-party partners provide us with, subject to your consent with these third parties) and the Personal Information you provide to us when you register or use our services, for the following purposes:
For services accessible via a Member Account:
- To offer you personalized content based on your interests and service ergonomics tailored to your browsing habits, regardless of the device you use to access our services via a Member Account.
- To present you with advertisements tailored to your expectations, regardless of the device you use when accessing our services via a Member Account.
For our email marketing activities:
- To send you targeted promotions that may personally interest you.
Transfer and processing of your Browsing Information outside the European Union
Your Browsing Information may be transferred to the United States for hosting and processing as part of the purposes outlined above. In this case, the transfer of your Browsing Information is governed by the standard contractual clauses of the European Commission, which the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) has previously recognized as ensuring an adequate level of protection for privacy and fundamental rights.
Recipients of your Browsing Information
By default, the Browsing Information we collect through the cookies we issue on our websites and services is intended for the company MEDIA 3D, in accordance with the conditions and terms of this Privacy Policy.
B. Cookies issued on our websites by third parties
Third-party cookies may be included in third-party applications integrated into our websites or services, in advertising content (graphics, animations, videos, etc.) displayed in our advertising spaces integrated into our websites or services. They may also be issued by third parties as part of advertising partnerships, allowing them to collect non-personally identifiable Browsing Information related to the content viewed on our websites or services to adapt their advertisements based on age categories, gender, etc., in compliance with the amended Law No. 78-17 of January 6, 1978 (the “Data Protection and Freedom Act”).
We remind you that you can, at any time, simply and for free, choose to refuse the storage of cookies on your device, so that neither we nor our partners can collect Browsing Information via cookies (Section I.2 of this Privacy Policy).
The issuance and use of cookies by third parties are subject to the privacy policies of these third parties. We inform you of the purpose of the cookies we know of and the means you have to make choices regarding cookies.
Due to third-party applications integrated into our websites or services
We may include third-party applications on our websites or services that allow you to share content from our websites or services with others or let others know about your visit or opinions regarding the content of our websites or services. This is the case for “Share” or “Like” buttons from social networks such as “Facebook,” “Twitter,” “LinkedIn,” etc.
The social network providing such a button may identify you through this button, even if you did not use it during your visit to our websites or services. This is because your social network account was activated on your device (open session) during your browsing on our websites or services.
We have no control over the process used by social networks to collect information about your browsing on our websites or services and associate it with personal data they possess.
Combining your Browsing Information and your Personal Information
We may combine the Browsing Information we collect (or that third-party partners provide us with, subject to your consent with these third parties) and the Personal Information you provide to us when you register or use our services, for the following purposes:
For services accessible via a Member Account:
- To offer you personalized content based on your interests and service ergonomics tailored to your browsing habits, regardless of the device you use to access our services via a Member Account.
- To present you with advertisements tailored to your expectations, regardless of the device you use when accessing our services via a Member Account.
For our email marketing activities:
- To send you targeted promotions that may personally interest you.
Transfer and processing of your Browsing Information outside the European Union
Your Browsing Information may be transferred to the United States for hosting and processing as part of the purposes outlined above. In this case, the transfer of your Browsing Information is governed by the standard contractual clauses of the European Commission, which the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) has previously recognized as ensuring an adequate level of protection for privacy and fundamental rights.
Recipients of your Browsing Information
By default, the Browsing Information we collect through the cookies we issue on our websites and services is intended for the company MEDIA 3D, in accordance with the conditions and terms of this Privacy Policy.
B. Cookies issued on our websites by third parties
Third-party cookies may be included in third-party applications integrated into our websites or services, in advertising content (graphics, animations, videos, etc.) displayed in our advertising spaces integrated into our websites or services. They may also be issued by third parties as part of advertising partnerships, allowing them to collect non-personally identifiable Browsing Information related to the content viewed on our websites or services to adapt their advertisements based on age categories, gender, etc., in compliance with the amended Law No. 78-17 of January 6, 1978 (the “Data Protection and Freedom Act”).
We remind you that you can, at any time, simply and for free, choose to refuse the storage of cookies on your device, so that neither we nor our partners can collect Browsing Information via cookies (Section I.2 of this Privacy Policy).
The issuance and use of cookies by third parties are subject to the privacy policies of these third parties. We inform you of the purpose of the cookies we know of and the means you have to make choices regarding cookies.
Due to third-party applications integrated into our websites or services
We may include third-party applications on our websites or services that allow you to share content from our websites or services with others or let others know about your visit or opinions regarding the content of our websites or services. This is the case for “Share” or “Like” buttons from social networks such as “Facebook,” “Twitter,” “LinkedIn,” etc.
The social network providing such a button may identify you through this button, even if you did not use it during your visit to our websites or services. This is because your social network account was activated on your device (open session) during your browsing on our websites or services.
We have no control over the process used by social networks to collect information about your browsing on our websites or services and associate it with personal data they possess.
We invite you to consult the privacy policies of these social networks to learn about the purposes of use, including advertising, of the browsing information they may collect through these buttons. These privacy policies should allow you to exercise your choices with these social networks, including setting your account preferences for each network.
To learn about the privacy policies of the aforementioned social networks, visit the URL of your preferred social network:
○ https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/
○ https://twitter.com/fr/privacy
○ https://www.google.com/intl/fr/policies/technologies/cookies/
Through third-party content displayed in our advertising spaces
The advertising content (graphics, animations, videos, etc.) displayed in our advertising spaces may contain cookies issued by third parties: either the advertiser behind the relevant advertising content, or a third party to the advertiser (e.g., a communication agency, audience measurement company, or targeted advertising provider) that has associated a cookie with the advertiser’s content.
If applicable, the cookies issued by these third parties may allow them, during the cookie’s validity period, to:
- Display advertisements in all the reserved spaces for third-party advertising.
- Count the number of times advertising content is displayed in our advertising spaces, identify the displayed advertisements, and count the number of users who clicked on each advertisement, allowing them to calculate amounts owed and produce statistics.
- Collect Browsing Information about devices visiting our websites and services.
- Recognize your device during subsequent browsing on any other website or service where these advertisers or third parties also issue cookies and, if applicable, adjust these third-party websites and services, or the advertisements displayed, according to your device’s browsing history that they may be aware of.
The issuance and use of cookies by third parties are subject to the privacy policies of these third parties, which we invite you to review.
2. Your Choices Regarding Cookies
The storage of a cookie on your device is subject to your choice.
Through the links we provide, industry platforms, or the settings of your browser, you can, at any time, simply and for free, choose whether or not to accept the storage of cookies on your device.
Audience measurement cookies and analytical cookies
Audience measurement and analytical cookies are placed by Google Analytics on our websites and services. If you do not want our websites and services to store cookies in your browser for audience measurement purposes, you can click on the following opt-out links, which will store a cookie in your browser solely for the purpose of disabling them:
○ Google Analytics Cookies: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Advertising Cookies
We invite you to visit the website https://www.youronlinechoices.com, a platform offered by digital advertising professionals brought together within the European Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA), and managed in France by the IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau) France.
Through this platform, you can learn about the companies registered on it and decide whether to accept or refuse the cookies used by these companies to tailor the advertisements displayed on your device based on your Browsing Information: https://www.youronlinechoices.com/fr/controler-ses-cookies/.
This European platform is shared by hundreds of online advertising professionals and provides a centralized interface that allows you to express your refusal or acceptance of cookies that may be used to adjust advertisements to your device’s browsing behavior. Please note that this procedure will not prevent the display of advertisements on the websites you visit. It will only block the technologies that allow advertisements to be tailored to your interests.
Some cookies are placed by third-party partners for the purpose of behavioral advertising.
Choices Offered by Your Browser Software
You can configure your browser software so that cookies are stored on your device, or, on the contrary, that they are rejected, either systematically or depending on the cookie issuer. You can also configure your browser software so that the acceptance or rejection of cookies is offered to you from time to time, before a cookie is likely to be stored on your device.
A. Consent to Cookies
If your browser is set to accept the storage of cookies on your device, the cookies embedded in the pages and content you have viewed will automatically be stored on your device.
B. Refusal of Cookies
You can configure your browser to:
■ Offer you the option to accept or refuse cookies each time, before a cookie is likely to be stored on your device;
■ Systematically refuse the storage of cookies on your device.
Warning: Any settings you make in your browser regarding the refusal of technical and functional cookies may affect your browsing experience on our websites or even prevent the use of certain services that require the use of these cookies.
In such cases, we decline any responsibility for the consequences related to the degraded functioning of our websites and services due to our inability to store or access the necessary cookies for their operation, which you may have refused or deleted.
C. How to Make Your Choices Based on the Browser You Use
Each browser has a different configuration for managing cookies and your preferences. This configuration is described in the help menu of your browser, which will guide you on how to modify your cookie settings.
■ For Internet Explorer / Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/fr-fr/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
■ For Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411?viewlocale=fr_FR&locale=fr_FR
■ For Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=fr&hlrm=en
■ For Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/fr/kb/activer-desactiver-cookies-preferences
■ For Opera: https://help.opera.com/opera/Windows/2393/fr/controlPages.html#manageCookies
Section II : Your Personal Information
1. Your Consent
We may create a file containing the Personal Information you provide to us, particularly when creating a Member Account or registering/using certain services available on our websites (such as contest participation, newsletter subscription, etc.). You are informed of the collection and processing of your Personal Information, and by accepting this Privacy Policy, which is accessible through the form where your Personal Information is collected, you consent to the creation of this file and the processing of your Personal Information under the conditions and terms specified in this Privacy Policy.
In this regard, we invite you to consult simplified standard No. 48 issued in Deliberation No. 2012-209 of June 21, 2012, by the CNIL (French Data Protection Authority), concerning the simplified standard for the automated processing of personal data related to the management of customers and prospects. This serves as the basis for our CNIL declaration, which you can view here:
https://www.cnil.fr/fr/declaration/ns-048-fichiers-clients-prospects-et-vente-en-ligne.
2. The Personal Information We Collect
The Personal Information we collect directly from you, particularly during your registration or use of our services, may include the following data:
- Your first and last names, email address, date of birth, and phone number;
- Your usernames and passwords;
- Information related to your family, economic, and financial situation (such as your profession);
- Dates of your participation and answers provided in our contests;
- Your opinions about our services (and the content/products available via our websites or services).
Data collected through third-party applications
When registering or using certain services provided on our websites (such as contests), you may be offered the option to link your Facebook and/or Twitter accounts to these services to facilitate your registration or use of those services. Note that access methods may vary depending on the version of the services offered on our websites and the devices you use.
Similarly, when creating or using a Member Account, you may be offered the option to link your Facebook and/or Twitter accounts to your Member Account for easier registration, navigation, and use of the service accessible through this Member Account. Note that access methods may vary depending on the version of the services offered on our websites and the devices you use.
In all cases, some additional features may be reserved for users who log in via their Facebook and/or Twitter accounts.
You are informed that when logging in using third-party service credentials (such as Facebook and/or Twitter) to one of the services offered on our websites (e.g., contests) or to a Member Account, some of the personal data you provided to these third-party services (basic information, email address, etc.) may be transmitted to us by the publishers of these third-party services. When installing the corresponding application and linking it to the services offered on our websites (such as contests) or to your Member Account, you are invited to review and, if necessary, adjust the restrictions related to the transmission of your personal data.
We commit to respecting the confidentiality of the information you provide regarding your identification with third-party services, in line with the rules you set during your registration, which you can modify at any time on the third-party services. You are informed that the use of your Facebook and/or Twitter credentials is done at your own initiative and that the privacy policy governing information associated with your accounts is determined by the publishers of these third-party services, not by our company. Therefore, we encourage you to inquire with the publishers of these services about their privacy policy and the privacy settings they offer.
In any case, you remain solely responsible for the privacy and information-sharing settings associated with your Facebook and Twitter accounts. Our liability cannot be engaged on this matter.
The Personal Information you provide to us through your third-party service credentials (such as Facebook and/or Twitter) when registering or using one of the services offered on our websites (such as contests) or when creating or using a Member Account is not communicated to the publishers of these third-party services.
3. Purposes of Collecting Your Personal Information
The Personal Information we collect directly from you, particularly during your registration or use of our services, may be processed for the following purposes:
For customer management operations, including:
- Monitoring the customer relationship (such as conducting satisfaction surveys, handling complaints, etc.).
For prospecting operations, including:
- Managing technical prospecting operations (which includes technical operations such as standardization, enrichment, and deduplication of your Personal Information);
- Compiling business statistics;
- Carrying out solicitation operations (under the conditions and terms specified in Article 5 below);
- Selling, renting, or exchanging our files containing your Personal Information (under the conditions and terms specified in Article 5 below);
- Profiling for loyalty, prospecting, surveying, and targeted promotional activities. It is noted that our profiling operations will never involve sensitive data (such as racial or ethnic origins, philosophical, political, union, or religious opinions, sexual orientation, or health).
The Personal Information we collect directly from you, particularly during your registration or use of our services, may also be processed for the following purposes:
- To conduct promotional activities (such as organizing contests);
- To manage your requests for access, correction, and objection rights;
- To handle unpaid bills and disputes;
- To manage your feedback regarding our services (and the content/products made available via our websites or services).
Finally, the Personal Information we collect directly from you, particularly during your registration or use of our services, may also be processed for the following purposes:
- To recognize you during your browsing on our websites or services (when you are logged in via your Member Account) and, if applicable, to adapt our websites and services, as well as the content and advertisements they display, (i) to the characteristics you provided and of which we may be aware (age, gender, etc.) and, if applicable, (ii) to your previous browsing activity of which we may be aware;
- To allow you to benefit from certain services (such as participating in one of our contests, receiving our newsletter, etc.).
4. Recipients of Your Personal Information
Your Personal Information is accessible to:
- External services of MEDIA 3D responsible for oversight (such as auditors);
- MEDIA 3D personnel in charge of marketing, sales, customer relationship management, prospecting, administrative services, internal control procedures, logistics and IT services, as well as their supervisors;
- Our subcontractors, under signed contracts that (i) specify their obligations concerning the protection of data security and confidentiality, and (ii) clearly define the security objectives to be achieved;
- Our business partners (under the conditions and terms specified in Article 5 below).
5. Your Choices Regarding Email Prospecting
When creating your Member Account and/or registering for or using certain services provided on our websites (such as participating in contests), you may be presented with the following options:
- Receiving information about MEDIA 3D’s products and/or services;
- Receiving information about MEDIA 3D partners’ products and/or services;
- Receiving newsletters dedicated to specific topics.
If applicable, you will need to answer yes or no to each of the three options by ticking the appropriate checkboxes provided for this purpose.
In accordance with Law No. 2004-575 of June 21, 2004, on Confidence in the Digital Economy, if you have subscribed to a newsletter or agreed to receive direct marketing emails from MEDIA 3D (or its partners), you should be aware that you have the right to oppose the receipt of any new newsletters or direct marketing emails from MEDIA 3D (or its partners).
Regarding newsletters:
- Either by clicking on the hyperlink included in the header of each received newsletter, reproduced as follows: “if you no longer wish to receive emails, you can unsubscribe.”
Regarding direct marketing emails:
- By clicking on the hyperlink provided for this purpose, located at the bottom of each solicitation email you receive.
If you have not expressly consented to the use of your Personal Information for marketing purposes, and in accordance with Article L. 34-5 of the Postal and Electronic Communications Code, you may still receive direct marketing emails from us concerning products or services similar to those we have provided to you through our websites or services. In such cases, you can still express, at no cost, your opposition to any new solicitation via the hyperlink provided for this purpose.
6. Your Rights
In accordance with Law No. 78-17 of January 6, 1978, as amended (known as the “Data Protection and Freedom Act”), we have declared the processing of your personal data to the CNIL (French Data Protection Authority) under declaration number: 1423320.
We inform you that you have several rights concerning all your personal data:
- Right to information
- Right to access
- Right to object
- Right to rectification, objection, and deletion
You can exercise these rights by writing to the following address:
MEDIA 3D
1 Passage des Acacias
75017 Paris
In accordance with Decree No. 2007-451 of March 25, 2007, issued for the application of the Data Protection Act of January 6, 1978, your requests must be submitted in writing, signed, and accompanied by a photocopy of an identity document bearing the holder’s signature. The request must specify the address to which the response should be sent. We will have two (2) months to respond following the receipt of the request.
Section III : Glossary
“Browsing Information”: Refers to information related to the connection of a device to an electronic communication service at a given time. We may process Browsing Information under the conditions outlined herein, even if we do not necessarily know which device you are using or who you are at a given time. This browsing information includes, in particular:
- The identifier and content of a cookie file stored by us on your device;
- The IP (Internet Protocol) address of the device connected to the internet;
- The date and time of connection of a device to an electronic communication service;
- The internet address of the referring web page (“referrer”) of the device accessing an electronic communication service;
- The type of operating system used by the device (Windows, MacOS, Linux, Unix, BeOS, etc.);
- The type and version of the browser software used by the device (Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, etc.);
- The language used by the browser software used by the device.
“Personal Information”: Refers to data that pertains to you alone at a given time, regardless of the device you use.
“Advertiser”: Refers generally to any company or organization that uses various communication techniques to promote its brand, image, products, or services.
“Targeted Advertising”: Refers to the ability to tailor advertising content based on Browsing Information or Personal Information.
“Member Account”: Refers to a member account that you are invited to create during your navigation on our websites in order to benefit from certain services. During the creation of your Member Account, you must choose a personal identifier and a password. During this registration, you are also invited to provide us with Personal Information (such as, for example: name, first name, email address, phone number, mailing address, etc.) which will be processed under the conditions defined in this Privacy Policy. On this occasion, you are informed about whether the information requested is mandatory or optional.