privacy policy
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Pearltrees
Please carefully read this privacy policy in order to
understand how your personal data is gathered, processed and stored when you
use the Platform accessible at the following address: http://www.pearltrees.com
(the “Platform”).
For the purposes of this privacy policy, the data
controller in charge of the gathering your personal data is Pearltrees (hereinafter
“Pearltrees”, “we”,
“our” and “us”)), a French Joint
Stock Company with a share capital of 743 031,80 euros registered in Paris,
France under no. 504 599 267 with a registered address at 129 Boulevard Saint-Germain, 75006 Paris, France.
Pearltrees
can be contacted on its e-mail address: privacy@pearltrees.com.
1- When do we gather
your personal data?
We receive and process a number
of elements of information that may include your personal data when you access
and use the Platform, and in particular when:
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you fill in any form providing information on the Platform, such as upon
registration or when you update the information of your user account,
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you link your account on the Platform to an account opened on a third party web
site or social network (e.g. Facebook, Google, Twitter), within the limits
permitted by the confidentiality parameters that you shall have defined on the
third party web site involved.
2- What personal data do we process?
a- The User’s contact details
When you register on the Platform, you will be asked
to input a number of elements of personal data that are needed for the creation
of your user account, including:
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Login
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Email
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Password
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Name / Surname (Optional)
When you decide to subscribe to a "premium"
offer on the Platform, your banking information will also be collected. In such
situation, Pearltrees will however not directly collect your credit card data which will be processed and encrypted by a payment
services provider specialized in online payments and acting on behalf of
Pearltrees.
b- Usage and connection data
When you use the Platform, we process
data about your connection, i.e. information that is automatically recorded by
our servers when you access or use the Platform, whether or not you are
registered on the Platform or connected to your user account.
This
connection data are your IP address, the date and time when you accessed or
used the Platform, your operating system, your connection
type, your mobile terminal type.
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Information processed
via cookies and other tracking technologies
We use cookies and other similar tracking technologies on the Platform, such as mobile application identifiers. Cookies are tiny files that are inserted onto the computers of visitors and Users of the Platform in order to facilitate their browsing and personalise the services on offer via the Platform.
When using Pearltrees, certain
information about your browsing on third-party sites will also be collected
only when you enable the Pearltrees plug-ins registration feature on your web
browser.
For more details about the cookies
used and how to deactivate them, please see our cookies Policy.
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Social
network data
When you
decide to link your account on the Platform to an account opened on a third
party web site or social network (e.g. Facebook, Google, Twitter), we will
collect the minimum information in order to create an account on the Pearltrees
Platform: email, name and image.
When you
decide to import files from a third party web site or social network (e.g.
Google Drive, Dropbox), a read-only access is granted
only for the time necessary to import your files into Pearltrees.
When you
decide to use a social network to find people you know on the Plateform (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Google) or you want to
share content to people outside the Plateform, we
will access temporarily your contacts to perform the desired action but these information won’t be collected by Pearltrees.
3- For which purposes we process your personal data?
We process
and store your personal data for the following purposes:
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When you use
the Platform and set up a user account, your personal data is processed and
stored in order to enable the creation of your user account and for the purpose
of administering the services offered by the Platform, in accordance with the terms and
conditions of our Platform. The processing of your personal data is thus based
on compliance with our contractual commitments.
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For the
proper administration of our Services, we may also gather your personal data in
order to send you messages concerning technical notifications, updates,
security alerts, in accordance with the commitments of our general terms of use.
In this respect, the processing of your personal data
is thus also founded on compliance with our contractual commitments.
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We also gather data concerning your
connection to and use of the Platform, in order to operate, protect, improve and optimise the
Platform, our services and our Users’ experience, even if they do not have a
user account, for instance to perform analyses and searches, personalise or
otherwise adapt the user experience on the Platform. The
processing of this usage and connection data is in this respect founded on our
legitimate interest to provide and improve our services. We are also required
to keep your connection data in application of French law "LCEN" n °
2004-575 of June 21, 2004.
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We may also
use your personal data in order to send you information that might be of
interest to you, concerning the Platform and our services, or to send you
marketing or commercial information about new services similar to
those that you already use on the Platform. This
processing of your personal data is thus in this respect founded on our
legitimate interest to communicate about our services to already registered
users.
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Under what circumstances may we disclose or
share your personal data?
Your personal
data will only be accessible by Pearltrees authorized persons and for the
purposes strictly necessary for their respective roles. This could include
members of the following teams: Customer Services, Support Service and
Technical Support.
We may also
share your personal data in the following situations:
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Your personal
data may be transmitted to our hosting provider, allowing us to provide access
to the Platform in accordance with the contractual conditions signed between this
hosting provider and Pearltrees which cannot derogate
from the terms of this privacy policy.
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Your personal
data may also be communicated to the police (if required by law) or to any
person legally authorized to receive this information (by order of the judge).
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How your data are hosted?
We
endeavour to secure the personal data of the Users appropriately and have taken
all useful precautions in order to preserve and ensure that our hosting
subcontractors preserve the security and the confidentiality of this data, and
in particular prevent it from being distorted, damaged or disclosed to
unauthorised persons.
However, no method of transferring data over the
Internet and no method of storing data electronically is 100% reliable. We
therefore cannot guarantee the security of the data that is sent to us nor that of the personal data that we hold. Any security
breach shall however be notified to you in strict compliance with the
applicable regulations.
All
of the personal data that we gather is hosted in France. We do not transfer any
personal data to third parties that are based outside of France.
6- How long do we keep your personal data?
Your personal data is destroyed immediately when your
user account is closed.
Your personal data will also be destroyed if you do
not access your user account for over five (5) years.
7- How to unsubscribe from the Platform or to request a modification/erasure
of your personal data?
You may unsubscribe from the Platform
at any point in time by following the appropriate procedure, as described
below:
You can also
review, update, correct or delete your personal data directly within your user
account on the Platform, at any point in time.
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Which external APIs are used by Pearltrees?
In order to facilitate
the search of videos, Pearltrees uses YouTube API Services whose Terms of Use are accessible
here. This API is allowed to serve content
such as advertisements. You should also be aware of the Google Privacy Policy that you can read by clicking on this
link.
In order to facilitate editing of documents created
with Microsoft Office, Pearltrees uses Office Online services.
Files and related metadata (document URL and anonymous identifier) live inside Office server
memory during document edition and are deleted afterwards.
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Right to access, rectify, erase, port and challenge the processing of
your personal data
You
have the right to access, object to, rectify, request portability, erase and oppose
to the processing of your personal data for personal reasons. You also have the
right to set guidelines regarding your personal data after your death.
These
rights may be exercised immediately upon receipt of a written request sent to:
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Broceliand, 129 boulevard
Saint-Germain, 75006 Paris, France
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Or by electronic mail to privacy@pearltrees.com
Complaints
about the use of your personal data may also be addressed to the CNIL, 3 Place
de Fontenoy - TSA 80715 - 75334 PARIS CEDEX 07.