In accordance with European regulation 2016/679 of April 27, 2016

This personal data protection charter (below: the “Charter”) describes the commitment of BLANCAFORT www.chateaublancafort.com published by its Manager as data controller with regard to respect for privacy and to the protection of the personal data of its users. This Charter has been drafted to enable you to become aware of the practices and conditions under which BLANCAFORT collects, uses and stores your personal data (below: the “Data”).

(known as the “General Data Protection Regulation” or GDPR)

You will find there the description of the different Data that we may collect and process or that you may transmit to us when you access and/or use the site www.chateaublancafort.com (the “Site”) on which our products are sold. The term “Site” refers only to the site www.chateaublancafort.com.

Given the constant evolution of laws and regulations in terms of technology and the protection of personal data, it is likely that this Charter will be updated. If you are a user of the Site, you will be informed of any changes by email.

If any of the clauses of this Charter should be declared null or contrary to the regulations, it will be deemed unwritten but will not invalidate the other clauses of this Charter.

This Charter applies to the Data collected:

By simply browsing the Site

Via the emails exchanged between BLANCAFORT and you or any other electronic messaging tool

It does not apply to information collected by any third parties or through sites managed by them, including through applications or content (including advertisements) redirecting the user to the Site. We thank you for carefully reading the Charter concerning the processing of your Data and we inform you that browsing our Site necessarily entails the acceptance of this Charter. If the latter does not obtain your membership, we invite you to leave our Site. It is your responsibility to check that the Data communicated to BLANCAFORT is compliant. If necessary, you have the possibility to correct and update them from your “My account” space.

1. WHAT DATA IS COLLECTED BY BLANCAFORT?

   Depending on the nature and purpose of your interaction with BLANCAFORT (training of contact forms, as well as during any telephone exchanges) we may collect the following Data:

   You will necessarily be asked for your email address if you wish to create a user account, communicate with us via the contact forms and/or receive our Newsletter

   Data relating to your identity such as your surname, first names, e-mail address, postal addresses and telephone numbers may be requested.

   Data relating to navigation: this is Data relating to the way in which you use the Site including: the IP address, the browser used, the duration of navigation, the history of searches, the operating system used , language and pages viewed

   Data about your visits to the Site, including traffic data, log files and other data or communication resources you use while accessing the Site

   HOW IS YOUR DATA COLLECTED?

   Data may be collected in different ways on the Site. The Data may be collected directly when you transfer it to us using the contact forms available on the Site and/or communicated when you contact us by telephone. When you contact us using these different means, a copy of your exchanges with BLANCAFORT, including email addresses, may be made and archived. BLANCAFORT also collects certain Data indirectly by means of cookies/tracers. We invite you to read our Cookies Charter, intended to help you better understand these technologies and the use we make of them on the Site and within the framework of our services, applications and tools.

3. WHY IS YOUR DATA COLLECTED?

   If you are a simple user, we collect your Data to:

   – Send you our Newsletter and/or personalized commercial offers if you have consented

   – Send you information about your account (including purchase invoices, order history)

   – Manage your requests sent via the contact page

   – Respect our rights and obligations stipulated in the contracts concluded with the users as well as for any other legal purpose.

   We may also use cookies or tracers:

   – To secure your browsing and improve your user experience, in particular by recognizing the username and password that you have already provided so that you do not have to enter them on each page of the Site where these are required. The refusal of these will prevent any order on the Site (Identification impossible).

   – analyze traffic and data on the Site in order to measure the number of users of the Site, to make it easier to use and to ensure its ability to respond quickly to your requests.

   Refusal to correctly complete the form(s) on the Site may block access to certain pages, in particular those concerning the ordering of products or services.

6. WHO PROCESSES YOUR DATA?

   Your Data is processed by BLANCAFORT staff and collaborators in charge of:

   – Site management

   Furthermore, in the context of our activity, and for processing purposes, your Data may be communicated to subcontractors, service providers or other third parties, and in particular:

   – Accounting services

   – Google Analytics (if used)

   – Facebook and other social media advertising providers

   Each of its actors respecting a confidentiality commitment concerning the use and processing of personal data.

   All of the aforementioned subcontractors, service providers, Partners or other third parties are bound by contractual obligations to respect the confidentiality and protection of Data and to process it only for the purposes for which we transmit it to them.

   Your Data may be transmitted to any buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, assignment, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or other sale or transfer of part or all of the assets of BLANCAFORT due to uncertainties or bankruptcy, liquidation or other processes where BLANCAFORT User Data is one of the transferred assets.

   Finally, we are also likely to disclose your Data:

   – to comply with any warrants required by applicable laws, including governmental and regulatory requests

   – if we believe that disclosure is necessary or required to protect the rights, property or safety of BLANCAFORT, its customers or other stakeholders.

   This potential disclosure includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud and counterfeit protection.

   The Site may contain links to various social media sites and platforms operated on third-party servers by persons or organizations over which BLANCAFORT has no control. Therefore, we can in no way be held responsible for the way your Data will be stored or used on the servers of these third parties. We advise you to read the applicable personal data protection charter of each third-party website that you access via the Site in order to assess how your Data will be used.

7. HOW LONG ARE YOUR DATA RETAINED?

   BLANCAFORT only keeps your Data for the duration necessary for the purposes set out in Article 3. This retention period is not the same depending on the Data in question, the nature and purpose of the collection being likely to vary this duration. . Similarly, certain legal obligations impose a specific retention period.

   When you contact BLANCAFORT using the contact form or communicate with us by telephone, your data may be stored:

   – Up to one (1) year from the last contact if you do not have a customer account or an order placed on the Site.

   – up to ten (10) years (Legal term) from the last order made on the Site, if this information concerns this order.

   – In all other cases, the retention period for this exchanged Data may not exceed one (1) year.

   With regard to your user account, all of your billing data is kept for ten (10) years from the date of purchase even in the event that you have made a request to deactivate your user account. .

   If you request the deletion of Personal Data, your Site user account will be deactivated and anonymized, then completely deleted at the end of the aforementioned periods from the day you made the request. Finally, with regard to the Data collected by means of cookies or trackers, they will be kept for up to six (6) months for cookies or trackers measuring the audience and up to thirteen (13) months for the others. Beyond the aforementioned storage periods, your Data will be anonymized to be kept for exclusively statistical purposes.

8. HOW IS YOUR DATA PROTECTED?

   Your Data is stored on a secure server protected by a firewall and antivirus. We have implemented technical and organizational measures intended to guarantee the security and confidentiality of your Data against any accidental loss and against any unauthorized access, use, modification and disclosure. Given the particularities inherent to the Internet, it is however impossible for us to guarantee the optimal security of the exchange of information on this network. We strive to protect your Data, but we cannot guarantee the absolute security of the information transmitted to the Site. You agree that you transmit your Data at your own risk. We cannot be held responsible for failure to comply with the privacy settings or security measures in place on the Site. As such, you agree that the security of your information is also your responsibility. For example, you are responsible for keeping the password allowing you to access your user account secret. Do not disclose it to third parties under any circumstances. Likewise, be careful when disclosing information in the public sections of the Site, which can be viewed by any user of the Site.

   WHAT ARE YOUR RIGHTS ?

   You can choose how the Data you transmit to us is used:

   – You can browse the Site without providing any Data. If necessary, you will not be able to use certain features of the Site and in particular, make purchases (if you are a simple user) and/or downloads on the Site.

In any case, you have the possibility of accessing your user account at any time to consult or update your Data and unsubscribe from our Newsletter if you were registered there. In accordance with the provisions of the regulations applicable to the protection of personal data, in particular European regulation 2016/679 on data protection (the “GDPR”) as well as the law of January 6, 1978 n ° 78-17 known as “Informatique et Libertés” and its modifications, you have a right of access and a right of rectification on your Data.

In addition, subject to the conditions provided for by said regulations for the exercise of these rights, you benefit from:

– A right to the erasure of your Data (Excluding accounting data whose retention for 10 years is required by French law – article L123-22 of the Commercial Code)

– A right to limit the processing of your Data

– A right to object to the processing of your Data for legitimate reasons, in accordance with Article 21 of the GDPR

– A right to portability of the Data you have provided (for automated processing based on consent or the performance of a contract)

– The right to withdraw consent, when it has been requested. When the processing of your Data is carried out on the basis of your consent, you can withdraw it at any time.

However, you acknowledge that the processing carried out before the revocation of your consent remains perfectly valid. You also have the right to object without reason to BLANCAFORT analyzing your Data to share it for marketing purposes.

However, in accordance with Article 12.6 of the GDPR, for the exercise of these rights, BLANCAFORT, as responsible for this processing, reserves the right to ask you to prove your identity. We inform you that the data used to prove your identity will be deleted once we have responded to your request. You can exercise these rights by sending an email in French to the postal address of the château:

Domaine de Blancafort 18 bis rue Pierre Juglar 18410 Blancafort – Cher France

We have one month to respond to any request relating to the exercise of your rights. This period may be extended by two months, due to the complexity or the excessive number of requests.

STORAGE OF COLLECTED DATA

The Data collected as part of the use of the Site is stored exclusively on a server located in Europe.