Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

The privacy of visitors to our website is very important to us, and we are committed to protecting it. This policy details how we handle your personal information at Université Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne.

2. Collection of Personal Information

The following types of personal information may be collected, stored, and used:

  • Adresse IP

Personal information may be collected through:

  • Cookies

3. Use of Your Personal Information

The personal information provided to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or in relevant pages of the site. We may use your personal information to:

  • Finalités liées à l'amélioration du site internet : les données sont collectées pour analyser et améliorer le site internet, par exemple pour personnaliser l'expérience de l'utilisateur.

Before disclosing personal information about another person, you must obtain that person’s consent to both the disclosure and processing of their personal information in accordance with the terms of this policy.

If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and use that information in accordance with the permissions you grant us.

Without your explicit consent, we will not provide your personal information to third parties for their direct marketing or the direct marketing of other third parties.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also known as a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible next to your comment.

If you are a registered user and upload images to the website, we recommend avoiding images that contain embedded GPS location data (EXIF data). Visitors to the website may download and extract location data from these images.

4. Disclosure of Your Personal Information

We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company, and all its subsidiaries) insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information:

  • To the extent that we are required to do so by law;
  • In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
  • To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction);
  • To the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling;
  • To any person we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such a court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.

Except as set out in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.

5. International Data Transfers

Information that we collect may be stored, processed, and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.

The information we collect may be transferred to the following countries, which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area: the United States, Russia, Japan, China, and India.

Personal information that you publish on our website or submit for publication may be available worldwide via the internet. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by third parties.

You expressly agree to the transfer of personal information described in this section.

6. Retention of Your Personal Information

Personal information that we process for any purpose shall not be kept for longer than necessary for that purpose.

Without prejudice to this section, we will usually delete personal data of these categories:

  • Data retention period:

We will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:

  • To the extent that we are required to do so by law;
  • If we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
  • To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction).

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users who register on our website (if applicable), we also store the personal information they provide in their profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except for their username). Website administrators can also see and edit this information.

7. Security of Your Personal Information

We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information.

We will store all the personal information you provide on secure servers (password- and firewall-protected).

All electronic financial transactions made through our website will be protected by encryption technology.

You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

You are responsible for keeping your password confidential; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).

8. Your Rights Over Your Data

If you have an account or have left comments on the site, you can request a file containing all the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request the deletion of your personal data. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

For any requests regarding your data, you can contact our Data Protection Officer (DPO): Crane Rogers via the contact form on our website or by post: Université Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne - 10 RUE TREFILERIE 42100 SAINT-ETIENNE

9. Third-Party Websites

Our website contains hyperlinks to, and details about, third-party websites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor had visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction if you have an account and are logged into that website.

10. Cookies

Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) sent by a web server to a web browser and stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be either "persistent" or "session" cookies. A persistent cookie is stored by the browser and remains valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date. A session cookie expires at the end of the user session when the browser is closed. Cookies usually do not contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

We may use cookies to:

  • Recognise a computer when a user visits the website
  • Track users as they navigate the website
  • Enable the use of a shopping cart on the website
  • Improve website usability
  • Analyse website usage
  • Administer the website
  • Prevent fraud and improve website security
  • Personalise the website for each user
  • Send targeted advertisements that may be of interest

For this purpose, we may use the following services:

Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you may not be able to use all the features of our website.

11. Changes to the Privacy Policy

We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging system on our website.