Privacy Policy for Avec Plaisir

At Avec Plaisir, we are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Notice explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your personal data when you visit our website https://www.apathens.com ("Website") and when you voluntarily submit your personal information via our contact form or email.

 

1. Data Controller

Avec Plaisir is the data controller responsible for your personal data collected via our Website. If you have any questions about this notice or the way we handle your personal data, you can contact us at:

Email: team@apathens.com 

2. Personal Data We Collect

 We may collect and process the following types of personal data:

  • Contact Information: When you voluntarily fill out the contact form on our Website or email us directly, we collect your full name and email address.

  • Automatically Collected Data: This Website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this Website, including:

  1. Information about your browser, network and device

  2. Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  3. Web pages you view while on this website

  4. Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

  • This Website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  1. Information about your browser, network, and device

  2. Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  3. Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this Website, including: 

  1. Clicks

  2. Internal links

  3. Pages visited

  4. Scrolling

  5. Searches

  6. Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, and Google Search Console to learn about site traffic and activity.

  • This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:

  1. Information about your browser, network, or device

  2. Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it

  3. Your IP address

 

3. How We Use Your Personal Data

We process your personal data for the following purposes:

  • To respond to inquiries: If you use our contact form or email us, we will use your name and email address to respond to your inquiries.

  • Improving Website performance: We use Squarespace and Google Search Console to analyze traffic and improve our Website’s functionality and user experience.

 

4. Legal Basis for Processing

We process your personal data under the following legal bases:

  • Consent: By voluntarily submitting your personal information through the contact form or email, you consent to the processing of your data for communication purposes.

  • Legitimate Interest: We process technical data to ensure the proper functioning of our Website and improve its performance. We share this data with our Website’s host Squarespace.

 

5. How We Store Your Personal Data

We store your personal data in the following ways:

  • Contact Information: Data collected via the contact form or email is securely stored in Squarespace and our Google Workspace account.

  • Hosting Provider: Our Website is hosted by Squarespace, which may also store some of your technical data as part of its website hosting services.

 

6. Data Sharing

We do not sell or share your personal data with third parties, except in the following circumstances:

  • Service Providers: We may share your personal data with service providers such as Squarespace and Google to help us operate our Website.

  • Legal Obligations: We may share your personal data if required by law.

 

7. Data Security

We take the security of your personal data seriously and use appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect it from unauthorized access, loss, or misuse. However, please note that no transmission of data over the internet is completely secure.

 

8. Your Rights

As an EU data subject, you have the following rights under the GDPR:

  • Right to Access: You can request access to the personal data we hold about you.

  • Right to Rectification: You can request that we correct or update any inaccurate personal data.

  • Right to Erasure: You can request that we delete your personal data under certain conditions.

  • Right to Restrict Processing: You can request that we limit how we use your data.

  • Right to Data Portability: You can request a copy of your personal data in a machine-readable format.

  • Right to Object: You can object to the processing of your personal data in certain situations.

  • Right to Withdraw Consent: You can withdraw your consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

 If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at team@apathens.com.

 

9. Data Retention

We will retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

We do not have any control over third-party providers such as Squarespace and Google.

 

10. Changes to this Privacy Notice

We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page.

 

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Notice or your personal data, please contact us at:

Email: team@apathens.com

 

This Privacy Notice has been drafted in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679.

Last Updated: 16th of September 2024