Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us, and we are committed to protecting it. This policy details what we do with your personal information at Université Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne.

2. Collection of personal information

The following types of personal information may be collected, stored and used:

Personal information may be collected via:

3. Use of your personal information

The personal information you provide to us through our website will be used for the purposes described in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information to:

  • Purposes related to website improvement: data is collected to analyze and improve the website, for example to personalize the user experience.

Before disclosing any personal information about another person to us, you must obtain that person’s consent to the disclosure and processing of that personal information in accordance with the terms of this policy.

If you submit personal information on our website for publication, we will publish and may use that information in accordance with the permissions you grant us.

Without your explicit consent, we will not provide your personal information to third parties for their direct marketing, or that of other third parties.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible next to your comment.

If you are a registered user and upload images to the website, we advise you to avoid uploading images containing EXIF GPS coordinate data. Visitors to your website can download and extract location data from these images.

4. Disclosure of your personal information

We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors to the extent reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries) to the extent reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information:

  • To the extent that we are legally required to do so; ;
  • In the context of any ongoing or future legal proceedings; ;
  • To establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction); ;
  • To the buyer (or potential buyer) of any business or asset in our possession that we wish (or intend) to sell; ;
  • To any person whom we reasonably believe to be an integral part of a court or other competent authority for the disclosure of such personal information if, in our opinion, such court or authority would be likely to request the disclosure of such personal information.
  • Unless otherwise stated in this policy, we will not share your personal information with third parties.

5. International Data Transfers

The information we collect may be stored, processed and transferred in all countries in which we operate, in order to allow us to use the information in accordance with this policy.

The information we collect may be transferred to the following countries, which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area: the United States of America, Russia, Japan, China and India.

The personal information you publish on our website or submit for publication may be available worldwide via the internet. We cannot prevent the use, whether good or bad, of this information by third parties.

You expressly agree to the transfer of personal information described in this section.

6. Storage of your personal information

The personal information we process for any purpose is not kept longer than necessary for that purpose or those purposes.

Without prejudice to the article, we will generally delete personal data from these categories

The data retention period is

We will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:

  • To the extent that we are legally required to do so; ;
  • If we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or potential legal proceedings; ;
  • To establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction).

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows subsequent comments to be automatically recognized and approved instead of being held in the moderation queue.

For users who register on our site (if this option is available), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except for their username). Website administrators can also view and edit this information.

7. Security of your personal information

We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.

We will store all personal information you provide to us on secure servers (protected by password and firewall).

All electronic financial transactions carried out through our website will be protected by encryption technologies.

You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and that we cannot guarantee the security of your data sent over the internet.

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password you use to access our website; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).

8. Your rights regarding your data

If you have an account or have left comments on the site, you can request to receive a file containing all the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request the deletion of your personal data. This does not include data stored for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

For all requests concerning your data, you can contact our Data Protection Officer (DPO): Guillaume Millet via the contact form on our website or by mail: Université Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne - 10 RUE TREFILERIE 42100 SAINT-ETIENNE

9. Third-party websites

Our website contains hyperlinks to third-party websites and information about them. We have no control over these sites and are not responsible for their privacy policies or practices.

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor had visited that other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking tools, and monitor your interactions with this embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to their website.

10. Cookies

Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie is stored by the browser and remains valid until its expiry date, unless deleted by the user before that date; a session cookie expires at the end of the user session, when the browser is closed. Cookies generally do not contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

We may use cookies to:

  • Recognizing a computer when a user visits the website
  • Track users as they navigate the website
  • Enable the use of a shopping cart on the website
  • Improving the usability of a website
  • Analyze website usage
  • Administer the website
  • Prevent fraud and improve website security
  • Customize the website for each user
  • Sending targeted advertisements that may interest certain users

To achieve this, we can use the following services:

Most browsers allow you to refuse or accept cookies:

  • With Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies using the cookie handling override settings available by clicking on "Tools", "Internet Options", "Privacy" and then "Advanced";
  • With Firefox (version 24), you can block all cookies by clicking on "Tools", "Options", "Privacy" then selecting "Use custom settings for history" from the drop-down menu and unchecking "Accept cookies from sites";
  • With Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the "Customize and control" menu, then clicking on "Settings", "Show advanced settings" and "Content settings", then selecting "Block sites from setting data" in the "Cookies" heading.

Blocking all cookies will negatively impact the use of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features of our website.

You can delete cookies already stored on your computer:

  • With Internet Explorer (version 10), you must delete the cookies file manually (you can find instructions on how to do this). here );
  • With Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking on "Tools", "Options", and "Privacy", then selecting "Use custom settings for history" and clicking on "Show Cookies", then on "Remove All Cookies";
  • With Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by accessing the "Customize and control" menu, then clicking on "Settings", "Show advanced settings" and "Clear browsing data", then "Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data" before clicking on "Clear browsing data".

Deleting cookies will negatively impact the use of many websites.

If you visit the login page, a temporary cookie will be created to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and will be automatically deleted when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will set several cookies to save your login information and screen preferences. Login cookies last for two days, and screen option cookies last for one year. If you select "Remember me," your login cookie will be stored for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookie will be removed.

When you edit or publish a post, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie contains no personal data. It simply indicates the ID of the post you just edited. It expires after one day.

11. Changes to the Privacy Policy

We may update this policy from time to time by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page regularly to ensure you are aware of any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging service on our website.