This confidentiality and data use policy applies to all GVA sites, applications and services.

Since protecting your personal data is essential to us, GVA commits to the following:

  • We don’t collect or use data unless there is a precise, limited purpose
  • We collect and use data only if it is necessary to execute the requested services or if collected with your express, informed consent
  • We retain data only for a limited time, in line with the services provided
  • We ensure the security of collected data at all times
  • We transfer data only if necessary, in compliance with the law and security rules
  • We ensure respect for your rights to access, rectification, deletion and portability of your data

Why do we collect your personal data?

GVA collects and uses your personal data only for precise, limited purposes.

Main purposes

Collecting your personal data is essential for us to provide services. If you refuse to share your data with us, we may not be able to provide you with the corresponding services.

  • Answering your questions and addressing your needs:
    • To answer the questions you send us by e-mail via the form available on our website or by phone
    • To send you useful informative documentation and/or to enable you to download such documentation
  • Registering for an event:
    • To sign up for and confirm your attendance at an event
    • To give you practical information about the event
    • To notify you of any cancellation
  • Sending you publications you have subscribed to:
    • To send you our newsletters as well as any future publications

Secondary purposes

In addition to the requested services, you may accept or refuse that your data be used for the following purposes:

  • Offering you information about our new products, news and events:
    • GVA regularly suggests new events and organises seminars, lectures, one-day sessions and webinars. You can receive information and news from us if you tick the Accept box when your personal data is collected
    • GVA may open community spaces focussing on current events and offer you the opportunity to sign up on dedicated platforms
  • Asking for your opinion about our services:
    • To improve our services, GVA regularly conducts studies, surveys and questionnaires to meet your needs better. You can agree to participate if you expressly choose this option when your personal data is collected

What data do we collect? How do we collect it?

GVA makes sure that it collects only the data that is strictly necessary for the services you request and for the purposes described in the section above. The data is collected directly from the user of the website, application or service, with the exception of data collected when browsing through our website.

As a function of the requested services, we collect the following personal data:

  • Identification or contact data (name, e-mail address, mailing address and, if applicable, phone number and company name): we need this data to answer your questions. This data is communicated to us when you submit your request by filling in a form, for example.
    When you make a service request, data may be collected about your professional sector, job title and the size of your company. This data is used in order to respond optimally to your requests and needs.
  • Browsing data (IP address, searches, number of visits, visit date): This data is used exclusively for statistical monitoring of traffic on our website and is collected by using cookies.

We may also obtain your contact details and other personal data from our subsidiaries, partners and other third parties, including:

  • Social networks, when you grant permission to access your data on a social network
  • Publicly accessible sources
  • Companies with which we offer shared services and/or
  • Data providers from which we obtain data and which guarantee that they have obtained this data lawfully

Editor Cookie Finality
Google test_cookie Used to check if the user’s browser accepts cookies.
Youtube CONSENT Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is required for website compliance with GDPR.

Editor Cookie Finality Expiration
Google
Google Tag Manager		 _ga [x4] Registers a unique identifier used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the site. 2 years
Google Tag Manager _ga_# [x2] Used by Google Analytics to collect data on the number of times a user has visited the website and the dates of the first and most recent visit. 2 years
Google _gat [x4] Used by Google Analytics to drastically decrease request rate 1 day
Google _gid [x4] Registers a unique identifier used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the site. 1 day
Clarity _clck Stores the Clarity user ID, unique to this site, on the browser. This ensures that behavior on subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. NC
Clarity _clck Connects multiple page views by a user into a single Clarity session recording. NC
Clarity CLID Identifies the first time Clarity saw this user on a site using Clarity. NC
Clarity ANONCHK Specifies whether MUID is forwarded to ANID, a cookie used for advertising. Clarity does not use ANID and is therefore always set to 0. NC
Clarity M Specifies whether or not to refresh the MUID. NC
Clarity MUID Identifies unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. These cookies are used for advertising, site analytics and other operational purposes. NC
Clarity SM Used to synchronize MUID between Microsoft domains. NC
Hotjar _hjAbsoluteSession InProgress This cookie is set to allow Hotjar to know if a visitor is included in the data sampling defined by the site’s page view limit. NC
Twitter personalization_id Cookie containing information on how the end user navigates the website and on any advertisements the end user was exposed to before visiting the website in question. 2 years
Youtube yt-player-headers-readable Collects data on the visitor’s interaction with video content on the website – This data is used to make the video content on the website more relevant to the visitor. NC

Editor Cookie Finality Expiration
Youtube PREF This cookie stores your preferences and other information, such as your choice of language, the number of searches performed or whether you have accepted the Google SafeSearch filter. 10 years from the date of creation / update
Youtube VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE A cookie that YouTube places to measure your bandwidth and thus determine whether you have the new or the old interface. Up to 3650 days
Youtube use_hitbox The use_hitbox cookie increments the counter indicating the number of views of a Youtube video. At the end of the session
Youtube YSC This cookie is set by YouTube video on pages with embedded YouTube videos. At the end of the session
Clarity _clck Stores the Clarity user ID, unique to this site, on the browser. This ensures that behavior on subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. NC
Clarity _clsk Connects multiple page views by a user into a single Clarity session recording. NC
Clarity CLID Identifies the first time Clarity saw this user on a site using Clarity. NC
Clarity ANONCHK Specifies whether MUID is forwarded to ANID, a cookie used for advertising. Clarity does not use ANID and is therefore always set to 0. NC
Clarity M Specifies whether or not to refresh the MUID. NC
Clarity MUID Identifies unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. These cookies are used for advertising, site analytics and other operational purposes. NC
Clarity SM Used to synchronize MUID between Microsoft domains. NC
Facebook _fbp Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertising products such as real-time offers from third-party advertisers. 3 months
Facebook fr Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertising products such as real-time offers from third-party advertisers. 3 months
Facebook tr Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertising products such as real-time offers from third-party advertisers. 3 months
Sendinblue uuid Progress tracking for customizing notifications 1 month
Sendinblue sib_cuid Progress tracking for customizing notifications 1 month
Twitter i/adsct The cookie is used by Twitter.com to determine the number of visitors reaching the website through Twitter advertising content. NC

Who are the recipients of the processing operations involving your data?

GVA employees responsible for marketing, communication and/or sales as well as contractors and partners of GVA, Groupe Alpha and its subsidiaries, of which GVA is one, in strict compliance with your IRP, for the purposes of accessing the requested services and responding to your requests for advice or information or for prospecting purposes.

Cookie policy

To ensure that GVA’s websites work properly, we sometimes place small data files known as ‘cookies’ on our users’ devices.

Please read our cookie policy by clicking on the link on our website’s home page.

How long is your data kept?

The data is kept for only as long as is strictly necessary for the purposes for which it was collected and retained in accordance with the legal retention periods, notably for tax and accounting purposes.

What means are implemented to ensure the security of your data?

GVA cares greatly about the security of your data. For this reason, it devotes significant human and technical resources to ensure data protection.

GVA is committed to taking data protection into account when designing new products, applications and services.

Our processes, internal organisation and the guarantees we demand from our contractors, such as technical protection rules, are all aimed at ensuring the protection of your personal data.

In case of a breach of your personal data, GVA is committed to informing you as soon as possible and taking all effective measures to minimise the risks related to this breach.

For example:

  • Only staff authorised to process your requests have access to your data
  • Technical and organisational security measures are implemented and updated by means of patches, antivirus and anti-spam software, vulnerability management, peripheral security by means of a firewall, intrusion detection and prevention systems, user account and authorisation management, and risk analysis
  • Use of contractors and transfer of data to these contractors for processing on GVA’s behalf is strictly limited to the management and routing of subscriptions and events. When they provide services on our behalf, contractors must guarantee the security of the data entrusted to them by GVA and commit to providing a security level comparable to GVA’s
  • GVA does not use contractors based outside the European Union, in any geographic area where the rules ensuring personal data security are less strict than those in force in France.
  • Therefore, GVA does not transfer your data outside the EU
  • GVA does not sell your data

What are your rights and how can you exercise them?

In compliance with the provisions of EU regulation 2016/679, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the following rights as regards your data:

  • Right of access and consultation: You may contact us in order to know what data GVA has about you
  • Right to rectification and erasure: You can ask for your personal data to be corrected or deleted
  • Right to object to processing: You can object to GVA’s use of your data if you have a legitimate reason. The consequences of objecting will depend on the reasons given. In certain cases, your objection may mean that we’re no longer able to provide you with the requested service
  • Right of data portability: Vous avez la possibilité de demander à GVA de récupérer vos données personnelles afin d’en disposer sous un format électronique.

You can ask GVA to retrieve your personal data in order to make it available in an electronic format : admin@gva.fr

Note

To enable you to exercise your rights as a data subject, GVA may request a copy of your ID card for security reasons. If requested by GVA, this copy will be destroyed as soon as your identity is verified and, at the latest, after your request has been processed.

For any other questions or information, please contact us by e-mail at contact@gva.fr