Privacy Policy of colonelle™
Linkedin Data Disclosure
colonelle's use and transfer of information received from Linkedin adhere to Linkedin's User Agreement, including the Rights and Limits policies.
General points
We value the trust that you place in us by sharing your personal data with us. In that aspect, the most fundamental privacy principle we follow is that by default, any information that you provide with us is private.
colonelle.com takes your privacy seriously and is committed to handling your personal data in a way that is fair and worthy of that trust. We will take all reasonable steps to protect your information from misuse and keep it secure. We believe it is important to inform you about how we will use your personal data, what rights you have relating to your personal data. Therefore, we encourage you to read this privacy policy carefully.
The colonelle service is made available to you by colonelle.com, registered and established in France as an EURL (limited liability company).
The colonelle service allows you to connect with your target audience by providing customized content tailored to your audience's needs.
Colonelle Services are designed to help Users (e.g. entrepreneurs, independents, HR professionals, B2B partners) find new audiences in order to expand their business.
We encourage you to read the Privacy Policy carefully and use it to make informed decisions. By using the Services, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and your continued use of the Services constitutes your ongoing agreement to this Privacy Policy.
Payment data
We collect the data necessary to process your payment if you make purchases, such as the number of your payment method (for example, a credit card number) and the security code associated with your payment method.
All payment data is stored by Stripe. You will find the link(s) to their privacy policy here.
Personal data we collect
We ask you for certain information that may include your personal data to provide you with Service. The list of the personal data we collect depends on your personal status.
If you are the USER, read the following:
We collect Personal Data from you when you submit web forms or interact with our Browser Extension and Website.
In particular, we collect your email address, first and last name, location and other similar business information.
Automatically Collected Information. When you use the Service, we may automatically record certain information from your device by using various types of technology, including cookies and local storage. This “automatically collected" information may include IP address or other device address or ID, web browser and/or device type, the web pages or sites visited just before or just after using the Website.
Non-personal information. We may collect non-personal information about you. You cannot be identified from this information and it is only used to assist us in providing an effective service. We may disclose aggregate statistics about our Users to prospective partners, advertisers and other reputable third parties, but these statistics will include no personally identifying information. Also we may use non-personal information for research purposes.
Non-personal data
colonelle.com allows Users to gather and collect Contact’s information. This information may include Personal information such as: first and last name, job title, email address or other information that may be used for person’s identification.
colonelle.com gathers information only in a legal way and from public sources. Our algorithms process this information contained in the database in order to identify the most up-to-date information related to each profile. colonelle.com database includes information which is shared with us by our Users when using our Plugin. For example, we use open web services and APIs to complete and update the information we have about Contacts and enrich it (e.g. by adding the country code to Contacts’ profiles), in order to allow our Users to find relevant Business Profiles.
We may use and share Contact’s personal data with our Users when they use our Plugin or website for the purpose of finding relevant data related to specific individuals. If you prefer that we will not disclose your data with our Users, vendors or business partners, you may opt-out by filling in your relevant details here.
colonelle.com does not control the scope and content of the information that Users gather, store and use via Service and Website. We store and process User’s databases that may include Contact’s Personal information on service provider’s servers as processors according to the User’s instructions and Data processing agreement.
Why and how do we use your personal data?
The legal basis for processing USER’S Personal data is art. 6(1)(a) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
We will use personal data only after we have received your consent. You can withdraw your consent at any time, see the section Your Rights below.
Our use of your personal data is limited to what is reasonably required in order to enable your use of the Database, to provide our Service to you and also to make improvements to our Service which benefit both us and you. We do not use your personal data for any reasons not stated in this Privacy Policy and never use it in an excessive manner that is disproportionate to our aims of providing and improving our service or in a way that is contrary to your interests.
We use the information that we collect for the following purposes:
To provide the features of the Service you request.
When you use our Website, we will process your personal data to provide the requested Service.
If you decide to become a User and get access to Database, we need to process your data to identify you as a user of the Service and grant you access to its various functionalities. We only process the personal data that are strictly necessary to manage or resolve your request based on the Service functionalities.
To improve our Service.
We may use personal data about how you use our Service to enhance your user experience and to help us diagnose technical and service problems and administer our Service.
To communicate with you.
If you contact us with a problem or question, we will use your information to respond to that request and address your problems or concerns. We may send you service and administrative emails. We may also contact you to inform you about changes in our services, or our service offerings. These messages are considered as part of the service and you may not opt-out of them. In addition, we sometimes send emails to our users about new product features or other news about GetProspect. You can opt-out of these at any time.
To protect our or others' rights, property or safety.
We may also use your personal data about how you use our Service to prevent or detect fraud, abuse, security incidents, and other harmful activity.
For general research and analysis purposes.
We use data about how our visitors use our Service to understand User preferences. In addition, we can use your anonymized data for scientific purposes concerning Service.
The legal basis for processing your Contact's Personal data is art. 6(1)(f) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
colonelle.com has legitimate interests for processing Contact’s Personal Data for commercial reasons.
Your rights as of a Data Subject
We undertake to keep your personal data confidential and to ensure that you may exercise your rights. In that aspect, you may exercise your rights free of charge by writing us an e-mail or using the form, simply informing us of the reason for your request and the right that you wish to exercise.
In particular, you have the right to:
- To request access to your personal data that we hold. We remind you that you can realize this right through the relevant section of the Dashboard or using the form.
- To request that we rectify the personal data that we hold. Please bear in mind that you may also change or update your personal data in the relevant section of Service. In any case, please take into account that you guarantee that your data is true and accurate and you undertake to notify us of any change or modification of your data. Please remember that, as a general rule, you must provide us only with your own data, not with those of third parties.
- To request the portability of your personal data. This means that you will have the right to receive the personal data that you made available to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-legible format, to be able to transmit them to another entity directly without impediments on our part.
- To request that we cancel or limit the processing of your personal data, which entails that in certain cases you can request us to temporarily suspend the processing of the data or that we keep them longer than necessary.
- To erase (also known as the right to be forgotten). We erase your personal data to the extent that it’s no longer necessary for the purpose for which we need to keep processing it or when we are no longer legally permitted to process it or if you withdraw consent. If you are a Contact, you can exercise this right either by contacting us or by clicking on the «Remove and restrict processing» on Website. Please, pay attention that we may delete your Personal Data from the Database but it still may be stored by User’s in external files that we do not control. In any case, we will inform Users about your realization of the right «to be forgotten». If you are a User, you can exercise this right either by contacting us or by clicking on the «Delete account» through the relevant section of Service. All data that could not be deleted will be anonymoused.
- Rights relating to automated decision-making and profiling. We do not, however, use your personal data in the way, based on automated decision-making which produces legal effects on the User.
In addition, User has the right to withdraw the consent for processing personal data at any time. To do so please contact us by email: elias.ousghir@colonelle.com.
Finally, we inform you that you have the right to file a claim before the responsible data protection regulatory authority:
https://ec.europa.eu/justice/article-29/structure/data-protection-authorities/index_en.htm
Data security
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. We maintain Service with appropriate administrative, technical and physical safeguards to protect Personal Data against accidental or unlawful destruction, accidental loss, unauthorized alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access, misuse, and any other unlawful form of processing of the Personal Data in our possession. We use technology to encrypt data during transmission through the public internet.
However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. We cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk. We also cannot guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards. If you believe your Personal Data has been compromised, please contact us via elias.ousghir@colonelle.com.
We may also share Business Profiles stored in our database with the following recipients:
How long do we keep your personal data?
We will retain your information for as long as your account is active (not deleted) or as needed to provide you services or until your consent is not withdrawn. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.
If you wish to delete your account, you can do so using the «Delete My Account». Please, take into account that your data will be finally removed nine days later. During this time, you can restore your account.
Please note, that after a 3 year period of non-use of the Service, your data should be deleted, even if you don’t take any action to do so by yourself. Instead of deletion, we may also choose to irreversibly anonymise data. Anyway, we will inform you before taking such actions.
Children’s privacy
Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important. Our Service is not directed to children under the age of 18, and we do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under the age of 18 without obtaining parental consent. If you are under 18 years of age, then please do not use or access the Service at any time or in any manner. If we learn that Personal Data has been collected from persons under 18 years of age and without verifiable parental consent, then we will take the Serviceropriate steps to delete this information. If you are a parent or guardian and discover that your child under 18 years of age has obtained an Account, then you may alert us and request that we delete that child’s Personal Data from our systems.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may change our Privacy Policy from time to time. This may be necessary, for example, if the law changes, or if we change our business in a way that affects personal data protection. All changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted here.
How to contact us
If you have any questions regarding the processing of your personal data or this Privacy policy, please contact us by email: elias.ousghir@colonelle.com
Date of last revision: February 06, 2024.