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Privacy Policy

ARTICLE 1: PREAMBLE

The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform users of the site:

How their personal data are collected. Any information that identifies a user is considered personal data. As such, it can be: its first and last names, age, postal or email address, location or IP address (non-exhaustive list);
The rights they have with regard to such data;
The person responsible for the processing of personal data collected and processed;
The recipients of this personal data;
On the website's cookie policy and similar technologies.

This policy supplements the legal information and the General Terms of Use available to users at the following address:

Terms & Conditions

ARTICLE 2: PRINCIPLES RELATING TO COLLECTION AND PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA

In accordance with Article 5 of European Regulation 2016/679, personal data are:

Treated in a lawful, fair and transparent manner with regard to the data subject;
Collected for specified purposes (cf. Article 3.1 of these Rules), explicit and legitimate, and not subsequently treated in a manner incompatible with those purposes;
Appropriate, relevant and limited to what is necessary for the purposes for which they are treated;
Exact and, if necessary, kept up to date. All reasonable measures must be taken to ensure that personal data that are inaccurate, having regard to the purposes for which they are processed, are deleted or rectified without delay;
Saved in a form allowing the identification of the data subjects for a period not exceeding that necessary for the purposes for which they are processed;
Treated in such a way as to ensure appropriate security of the data collected, including protection against unauthorized or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage, using appropriate technical or organisational measures.

Treatment is lawful only if and to the extent that at least one of the following conditions is met:

The data subject has consented to the processing of his personal data for one or more specific purposes;
Treatment is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is a party or for the execution of pre-contractual measures taken at the request of the data subject;
Treatment is necessary to comply with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject;
Treatment is necessary to safeguard the vital interests of the data subject or another natural person;
The processing is necessary for the performance of a public interest task or for the exercise of the public authority entrusted to the controller;
Processing is necessary for the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party, unless the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require the protection of personal data, in particular where the data subject is a child prevail.

ARTICLE 3: COLLECTED PERSONAL DATA AND TREATIES IN THE USE OF APPLICATION AND SERVICES

Article 3.1: Data collected

The personal data collected as part of our activity are as follows:

geolocation when sending an alert (mandatory because essential to the essential features of the application)
geolocation in real time, no history is kept except for the last geopoint, with each change in position erasing the preceding one (not mandatory, but necessary to be able to be notified of a nearby alert and to be able to assist another user)
phone number (not mandatory, but necessary to use the "prevent my loved ones" feature as well as to claim possession of an account already attached to a phone number)
phone numbers of relatives (not mandatory, necessary to use "prevent my loved ones")
surname and first name (optional)

The collection and processing of such data shall meet the following purpose(s):

allow users to contact other users in the perimeter around them so that they can call for help in emergency situations
authenticate accounts in order to improve the reliability of exchanges for rescue services as well as for other users
improve application security

Article 3.2: Method of data collection

When using our application, the following data are automatically collected:

geolocation
random identifier attached to the smartphone

Other personal data is collected when you perform the following operations on the platform:

when you provide your profile information, such as your phone number
when you register your loved ones' numbers

They are kept by the controller under reasonable conditions of security for a period of: 60 days

The company is likely to retain certain personal data beyond the time limits announced above in order to fulfil its legal or regulatory obligations.

Article 3.3: Data hosting

Alerte-Secours services are hosted free of charge by:

DevTheFuture, informal brand, owned by Jo Gottfreund.

Article 3.4: Transmission of data to third parties

None of the data collected is transmitted to third parties. Since physical servers are on French soil, only French law can apply to request access to data.

Article 3.5: Cookie Policy and Similar Technologies

These technologies are small files or identifiers temporarily stored on the User's mobile device through the application or website. They are necessary for the use of the Alerte-Secours app and the website. These elements do not contain personal information and cannot be used to directly identify a user. They can include a unique identifier, generated randomly and therefore anonymous. Some of these files or identifiers expire at the end of the application use, others may stay longer.

The information gathered by these technologies is essential to the essential features of the Alerte-Secours application.

ARTICLE 4: RESPONSIBLE FOR DATA PROCESSING AND DELEGATED FOR DATA PROTECTION

Article 4.1: The data controller

Personal data are collected by Alert-Secours, SASU with a capital of €1,000, whose registration number is 830273363.

The controller of personal data may be contacted as follows:

By email : rgpd@alertsecours.fr

Article 4.2: The Data Protection Officer

The data protection officer of the company or manager is Jo Gottfreund.

If you feel, after contacting us, that your rights "Informatique et Libertés" are not respected, you can send information to CNIL.

Article 5: THE RIGHTS OF THE USER IN DATA COLLECTION AND PROCESSING

Any user concerned by the processing of his personal data may avail himself of the following rights, pursuant to European Regulation 2016/679 and the Data Protection and Freedom Act (Law 78-17 of 6 January 1978):

Right to access, rectification and erasure of data (as set out in Articles 15, 16 and 17 of the GDPR respectively);
Right to data portability (Article 20 GDPR);
Right to limitation (Article 18 GDPR) and opposition to data processing (Article 21 GDPR);
Right not to be the subject of a decision based exclusively on an automated process;
Right to determine the fate of data after death;
Right to apply to the competent supervisory authority (Article 77 GDPR).

To exercise your rights, please send your mail to rgpd@alertsecours.fr

In order for the data controller to comply with his request, the user may be required to provide him with certain information such as his first and last names, his e-mail address and his telephone number.

Visit cnil.fr for more information on your rights.

ARTICLE 6: CONDITIONS FOR AMENDING THE CONFIDENTIALITY POLICY

Alerte-Secours reserves the right to amend this Policy at any time to ensure that users of the application and services comply with the applicable law.

Users are invited to read this Policy whenever they use our services, without the need to formally notify them.

This policy, published on 01/01/2024, was updated on 01/01/2024.