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Datenschutzrichtlinie

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WAVE ENGLISH, eine vereinfachte Aktiengesellschaft mit einem einzigen Aktionär, mit einem Aktienkapital von 10.000€, mit Sitz in 10 rue de la Paix, 75002 Paris, eingetragen im Pariser Handels- und Gesellschaftsregister unter der Nummer 988 380 598 (im Folgenden: die“Firma„), hat eine Website entworfen und veröffentlicht, die insbesondere unter dem Domainnamen zugänglich ist“http://www.wave-english.com„(im Folgenden die“Standort„) und möchte seinen Mitgliedern versichern, dass ihre personenbezogenen Daten gemäß der Verordnung (EU) 2016/679 (Allgemeine Datenschutzverordnung) auf transparente, vertrauliche und sichere Weise erhoben und verwendet werden.

Die Datenschutzrichtlinie des Unternehmens beschreibt, wie die personenbezogenen Daten von Besuchern und Mitgliedern (im Folgenden die „Mitglieder“) beim Surfen auf unserer Website verarbeitet werden. Wir laden Sie ein, sie sorgfältig zu lesen.

Diese Richtlinie informiert die Mitglieder auch über die Verfahren zur Erfassung und Verwendung ihrer personenbezogenen Daten und die ihnen diesbezüglich zur Verfügung stehenden Optionen. Es wird davon ausgegangen, dass diese Richtlinie einen integralen Bestandteil der Allgemeinen Nutzungsbedingungen der Website darstellt. Sie gilt für die Website sowie für alle Variationen davon auf verschiedenen Medien.

Das Unternehmen achtet ständig auf die Daten seiner Mitglieder. Dementsprechend kann die Datenschutzrichtlinie geändert, ergänzt oder aktualisiert werden, um insbesondere regulatorischen, rechtmäßigen, redaktionellen und/oder technischen Änderungen Rechnung zu tragen. Wir bitten Sie, regelmäßig und vor jeder Navigation auf der Website die neueste Version der Richtlinie zu lesen, die auf unserer Website abrufbar ist. Wenn größere Änderungen vorgenommen werden, werden wir Sie per E-Mail oder online informieren, damit Sie diese Änderungen überprüfen können, bevor sie in Kraft treten.


Artikel 1: Welche personenbezogenen Daten werden gesammelt?

Personenbezogene Daten sind definiert als“alle Informationen, die sich auf eine identifizierte oder identifizierbare natürliche Person beziehen; eine „identifizierbare natürliche Person“ ist eine natürliche Person, die direkt oder indirekt identifiziert werden kann, insbesondere durch Bezugnahme auf eine Kennung wie einen Namen, eine Identifikationsnummer, Standortdaten, eine Online-Kennung oder auf einen oder mehrere spezifische Faktoren, die Ausdruck ihrer körperlichen, physiologischen, genetischen, geistigen, wirtschaftlichen, kulturellen oder sozialen Identität sind„.

Die auf der Website gesammelten personenbezogenen Daten sind:

  • Ihr Nachname, Vorname, Geburtsdatum, E-Mail-Adresse, Telefonnummer, Login-ID, Postanschrift, Beruf;
  • Ihre Standortdaten, abhängig von den Berechtigungen Ihres Handy- oder Computerbetriebssystems, basierend auf GPS-Daten, IP-Adresse und WLAN;
  • die Informationen, die als Teil der Nachricht übermittelt wurden, die über das“Kontakt„Tabulatur“;
  • Informationen über Ihre Nutzung der Website, die mithilfe von Cookies oder anderen Trackern aufgezeichnet wurden: Ihre IP-Adresse, Ihr Internetdienstanbieter, der verwendete Browsertyp, das Betriebssystem, die besuchten Seiten der Website, Datum und Uhrzeit des Zugriffs sowie Verhaltensdaten im Zusammenhang mit der Analyse der auf der Website getroffenen Aktionen und Entscheidungen.

Es wird darauf hingewiesen, dass ein Mitglied keine anderen personenbezogenen Daten angeben muss, als die, die für die Verbindung mit der Website und die Nutzung der Dienste erforderlich sind.


Artikel 2: Was sind die Zwecke der Erfassung Ihrer personenbezogenen Daten?

Die Zwecke der Erhebung und Verarbeitung personenbezogener Daten durch das Unternehmen lauten wie folgt:

  • Anzeige der Website und ihrer Dienste
  • Mitgliederkonten erstellen und verwalten
  • Erstellung von Statistiken über den Besuch von Artikeln und Seiten der Website
  • Datenanalyse im Rahmen der Entwicklung von Algorithmen für künstliche Intelligenz, die unsere intelligenten und interaktiven Datenvisualisierungsdienste unterstützen sollen
  • Verbesserung Ihrer Erfahrung auf der Website und der Nutzung der Dienste
  • Versand von Informations- und Werbe-E-Mails über die Website und ihre Dienste
  • Anonyme Erstellung von Statistiken über die Aktivität der Website, um insbesondere die Zufriedenheit und Qualität der Dienste zu messen und so die Verbesserung und Optimierung der Website zu ermöglichen
  • Verwaltung der Sicherheit der Website


Artikel 3: Wer verarbeitet und sammelt Ihre personenbezogenen Daten?

Ihre personenbezogenen Daten werden vom Unternehmen erfasst und verarbeitet, wenn Sie eine Verbindung zur Website herstellen und die Dienste nutzen. Unter bestimmten Bedingungen werden diese Daten auch an Subunternehmer und Vertragspartner (Dritte) weitergegeben.

3.1 The Company

The Company collects your personal data as defined in Article 1 for the purposes described in Article 2.

The Company will only proceed with this collection if it obtains your informed consent to process your personal data. Otherwise, the Company will not use this personal data for the above purposes. It is however specified that a lack of consent from a Member may lead to limited use of the Site and its Services.

With your consent, the Company may aggregate personal data concerning you, in particular all or part of your personal data and information collected through cookies. This aggregated information will only be used for the purposes described above.

3.2 Third parties

3.2.1 The Company's third-party partners

The personal data concerning you collected on the Site is intended for use by the Company.

The Company may only communicate the data necessary for processing your requests and/or its services to its contractual partners involved in the execution thereof (in particular to intermediaries for the payment of subscriptions).

The list of these third parties may be sent to you upon simple request to the following address: contact@wave-english.com.

The Company only transmits your personal data to third parties:

  • when you have given your prior consent to share this information;
  • when the Company must share said information with its service providers to provide the services you have requested; and
  • when the Company receives a request from a judicial authority or any administrative authority authorised by law, seeking the communication of this information in accordance with the legislative provisions in force, under the conditions of Article 3.2.2 hereof.

These third-party partners are responsible for processing your personal data once your consent for processing has been communicated to them. It is therefore up to them to comply with the law in force (and in particular with the GDPR) as well as to take into account your requests and rights.

3.2.2 Third parties authorized by law

Your personal data may be transmitted when the Company is required to do so, in particular in the cases described below.

  • To respond to any claim against the Company
  • To comply with any judicial request, to enforce any contract entered into with our Members, such as the General Terms and this personal data protection policy
  • In an emergency involving public health or the physical integrity of a person
  • As part of inquiries and investigations carried out by a public authority
  • To guarantee the rights, property and security of the Company, its members and more generally any third party
  • If the Company is compelled to do so by a governmental authority or regulatory body, in the event of a judicial requisition, subpoena, or any other similar governmental or judicial requirement, or to establish or defend a legal claim
  • To your Internet service provider in the event of a legitimate request
  • To a third party issuing a cookie stored on your terminal


Article 4: Is your personal data transferred outside the European Union?

We transfer and store your personal data in the European Union. Upon simple request, we can provide you with the list of countries where we store your data and those where it occasionally transits.


Article 5: How is your personal data protected?

The Company applies the technological and organisational security measures generally recognised so that the personal data collected is neither lost, misappropriated, accessed, modified nor disclosed by unauthorised third parties, unless its communication is required by the regulations in force, in particular at the request of a judicial authority or any other authority authorised by law.

The security of personal data also depends on the Members. Members undertake to maintain the confidentiality of their login and password. Members also undertake not to share their account and to notify the Company of any unauthorised use of said account as soon as they become aware of it.


Article 6: How long is your personal data retained?

The personal data communicated by Members of the Site is retained only for the time necessary to carry out the purposes pursued in accordance with legal requirements.

At the end of this period, and at the latest after a period of 2 years from the termination of the Member's account, your personal data is deleted by the Company.

However, to allow Members to recover their account in the event of forgetting their password after a prolonged period without connection to the Site, your email address is retained for security purposes.

Certain data may be retained (invoices, credit notes) for a commercially reasonable period, for backup, archiving, or auditing purposes. The mandatory retention period is in particular ten (10) years for invoices.


Article 7: Are you a minor?

Our objective being to make English accessible to everyone, minors may access the Site to read articles and learn the language.

Before accessing the Site, the consent of minors under 16 must be given by the holder of parental authority. You must read this personal data protection policy with your parents or legal representative to ensure that you, and your parents or legal representative, understand it.

You may request that personal data concerning you be deleted from our databases in accordance with Articles 8 and 9 of this data protection policy.


Article 8: What are the rights of Members?

In accordance with the regulations in force, Members of the Site have the following rights:

  • Right of access to their personal data
  • Right of rectification of their personal data
  • Right to update their personal data
  • Right to block or delete personal data, when it is inaccurate, incomplete, equivocal, outdated, or whose collection, use, communication, or retention is prohibited
  • Right to withdraw consent at any time
  • Right to limit the processing of personal data
  • Right to object to the processing of personal data
  • Right to the portability of personal data that Members have provided, when such data is subject to automated processing based on their consent or a contract.

To submit a request concerning one of the rights listed above, Members must follow the procedure set out in Article 9 hereof.

In the event of deletion of your personal data, it is understood that one consequence may be the inability to access the Services offered by the Site.

For promotional emails, you may at any time withdraw your consent by clicking on the unsubscribe link provided in each of our communications or by contacting us.


Article 9: How to contact the Company about your personal data?

If you have questions or complaints, if you wish to share recommendations or comments with the Company aimed at improving our personal data protection policy, if you wish to know how the Company uses this personal data, if you wish to request its rectification or object to processing or exercise one of the rights provided for in Article 8 hereof, you may send an email to the following address:

privacy@wave-english.com

or send a letter to the following address:

WAVE ENGLISH
10 rue de la Paix
75002 Paris

Your requests will be processed within 30 days. In addition to your request, we will ask you to attach a photocopy of proof of identity so that the Company can verify your identity. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a personal data protection supervisory authority. The French authority is the CNIL (Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés).

Article 10: How does the Company use cookies on its Site?

Depending on your cookie settings, you accept that the Site stores information concerning your browsing, in particular to ensure the proper functioning of the Site, to establish traffic statistics and to optimize its conditions of use and the services offered therein.

10.1 Definition of the term cookie

A cookie is a small text file placed on your hard drive. It contains some data relating to your connection, in particular the name of the server that wrote it, most often an identifier in the form of a unique number and, possibly, an expiration date. This identifier can allow the Site to recognise your computer, browser, mobile or tablet at each visit. Cookies are managed by your internet browser.

10.2 Use of cookies

We use cookies on our Site for the purposes of your browsing, the optimisation and personalisation of our Services on the Site by storing your preferences. Cookies also allow us to see how the Site is used. We automatically collect your IP address and information relating to the use of the Site.

The Site can thus remember your identity when a connection has been established between the server and the web browser. Information previously provided in a web form can thus be retained. Some cookies are necessary for the operation of the Site. They allow you to use the main features of the Site (for example access to your account). Without these cookies, you will not be able to use the Site normally.

10.3 The different types of cookies used on our Site

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Functional cookies

They improve the quality of your browsing on the Site, in particular by saving the preferences you have expressed during your visit to the Site. The information collected via these cookies is anonymous and does not allow the Company to identify you.

Audience measurement cookies

These cookies are used by the Site to produce anonymous statistics. They allow us to recognise visitors, count them, and identify how they move around the Site when they use it. This allows us to improve the functioning of the Site, for example by ensuring that users easily find what they are looking for. You can disable this type of cookies here [INSERT UNSUBSCRIBE LINK].

Targeting cookies

Subject to your prior acceptance, these are cookies used to present you with advertisements or to send you information tailored to your interests on our Site or outside our Site when you browse the internet. They are particularly used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign. Refusal of these targeting cookies has no impact on the use of our Site. However, refusing targeting cookies will not stop advertising on our Site or on the internet. It will only have the effect of displaying advertising that does not take into account your interests or preferences. These cookies are mainly third-party cookies. These cookies mainly depend on advertising agencies. You can disable this type of cookies here [INSERT UNSUBSCRIBE LINK].

Cookies allowing third parties to provide social sharing tools

Subject to your acceptance, when you use one of the sharing buttons on the Site, a cookie may be installed by the relevant social network in order to share the content instantly on the social network. Our Site does not block cookies from these third-party sites and has no control over their implementation. The Company invites you to consult the policy of its social networks regarding cookies for more information.

You can disable this type of cookies here [INSERT UNSUBSCRIBE LINK].

10.4 Use of third-party cookies

We may use third-party partners, such as Google Analytics, to track the activity of Site Members or to identify your interests and personalise the offer addressed to you. The privacy policies of these third parties provide additional information on how cookies are used.

We ensure that third-party partners agree to process the information collected on the Site exclusively for our needs and in accordance with our instructions, in compliance with European regulations, and undertake to implement appropriate measures to secure and protect data confidentiality.

10.5 Disabling cookies

You have the choice to refuse cookies on the Site through the links inserted above, as well as by setting your browser or via the link below:

If you wish to disable all cookies on our Site: [INSERT UNSUBSCRIBE LINK].

If you wish to modify your preferences regarding cookies, you may do so at any time on our Site as well as by configuring your browser settings as follows: simply go to your browser's help menu to find out how to change your cookie preferences.

Depending on your settings, your browsing will be modified and access to our services more or less limited. In particular, disabling so-called functional cookies will impair, or even make it impossible to visit, our Site.